His first "real" job was as
a stagecoach driver. About 1849 he may have been hired from that to drive
someone's second wagon. How far? He made it to Missouri and the next we
know he was running a hotel in Keokuk, the southernmost town in Iowa.
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William
Harvey Tuggle, the son of James Mickleborough and Margaret Elizabeth Morgan
Tuggle was born February 29, 1824 in Fayette County, Kentucky. He was the
oldest child and thus learned to work early.
His first "real" job was as
a stagecoach driver. About 1849 he may have been hired from that to drive
someone's second wagon. How far? He made it to Missouri and the next we
know he was running a hotel in Keokuk, the southernmost town in Iowa.
In Clark County, Missouri, April
6, 1848 he married Melinda Ferrel Johnson, a widow with two sons, Ferrel
and Wesley Johnson. The couple had four children while they lived in Keokuk:
| Charles | ---- | d. 1890 | |
| William
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b. Mar.15, 1855
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d. 1921
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m. Mary Hammans
m. Julia Etta Barney |
| Emerette
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b. Apr 2, 1858
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m. Gerald Keegan
m. Helmuth Wrage |
| Cora
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b. Nov 12, 1859
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d. 1925
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m. Sylvanus Leach
m. Edward Dietz |
When the Ferrel family wrote to
tell Melinda of Henry Clay Ferrel's marriage to Angeline Dinsmore, their
picture of California was so glowing that the Tuggles decided to move.
They came by wagon train past Honey Lake, Badger Flat, Old Station and
Mt. Lassen into Shasta County.
Not only had family encouraged
them to come west, but Dinsmore and Ferrel hired William to run the livery
stable they had built in Red Bluff. (It was a good place for a stable because
it was the last year-round river port) William and Melinda had four more
children in Tehama County:
| Eunice | b. Sept 5, 1863 | d. Apr 15, 1890 | m. Isaiah Garrison |
| Addison | b. Aug 25, 1866 | d. Noy 17, 1916 | m. Carrie Barnes |
| George | b. Feb 25, 1870 | d. Jan 10, 1955 | m. Maude Turner |
| Gerald | b. Oct 10, 1871 | d. Oct 16, 1937 | m. Leta Mae Moore |
Sometime after Gerald's birth the
family moved to Shasta County and at various times lived at Shingletown,
Parkville and Balls Ferry. The children enjoyed living in all three areas
because they loved the open space. In later years, most of them enjoyed
hunting, fishing and camping.
William Harvey Tuggle died May
16, 1900. As so often happens with marriages that come close to a Golden
Wedding, Mary died in less than a year on March 17, 1901. Both are buried
in Parkville Cemetery.
Source: Shasta Historical Society - May 2003
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William Merriman Tuggle, second
son of William Harvey and Melinda Ferrel Tuggle, was born March 15, 1855
while the family still lived in Keokuk, Iowa. His mother had two sons by
a previous marriage so he was the youngest of four boys. They came to Shasta
County by covered wagon in 1862.
The family settled in Red Bluff
where William H. ran a stable. Later they moved to Shasta County. Following
their father's work, at various times they lived at Shingletown, Parkville
and Balls Ferry. The children enjoyed all of them because they loved the
outdoors and later fishing and hunting.
Mary Elizabeth Hammans, daughter
of Henry Sr. and Hannah Moss Hammans was born February 3, 1859 in Johnson
County, Iowa. Arriving in Shasta County in 1863, the Hammans family was
one of the families who came during the Civil War.
A year before his marriage to
Mary Elizabeth, William was living in Shingletown. On August 26, 1877,
Justice of the Peace Joseph Darrah officiated so they were married somewhere
near Millville. At seventeen, Mary had to have her mother's permission.
The couple had six children:
| Carrie | b. June 18, 1879 | d. July 12, 1960 | m. Charles Bland |
| Cora | b. June 17, 1880 | d. Dec 5, 1964 | m. Joseph Branham |
| Lucy
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b. Feb 16, 1882
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d. Jan 11,1960
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m. Arthur Litzenburg
m. George Algalbright m. Muir |
| Otto | b. Dec 7, 1886 | d. Feb 19, 1956 | m. Cora Sutton |
| Harry | b. April 20, 1889 | d. Jan 11, 1924 | m. Wanda Hammans |
| Homer | b. Aug 12, 1896 | d. Jan 14, 1982 | m. Vera Underwood |
After Homer's birth, the couple
separated. About 1910 Mary and three of her children were living in Corning
but little more is known of her life. She died February 25, 1937 and is
buried in the Redding Cemetery.
In the first decade of the Twentieth
Century, William was living in Centerville; in 1909, he married another
resident of that place, Julia Etta Barney Tuggle. A 1920 Census shows them
living in Igo. William died in 1921 and is buried in Parkville Pioneer
Cemetery in the Tuggle family plot. Julia survived him by seven years;
she died November 20, 1928 in Shasta
County, but the place of burial is unknown.
Source: Shasta Historical Society - May 2003
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