Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 2
Died
In this city, Nov. 23d, of typhoid fever, Hon. Jonathan Whealdon, aged about 32 years.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
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Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 3
A Good Man Gone - Hon. Jonathan Whealdon died of typhoid fever yesterday at his residence in this city. Deceased was a native of the State of Ohio, aged about thirty-two years; was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and was buried in the cemetery of that order. For a number of years he resided in Yuba county, California, and represented that county in the Legislature of 1859, and was much respected by a large circle of devoted friends, who mourn him as a brother, and as one whose spotless moral character and kindness of heart made him doubly dear to them.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, December 8, 1863
Masonic Resolutions - We copy from the Marysville Appeal the following resolutions passed by the Masons of Marysville on the death of a much respected citizen of this city:
At a special meeting of the Forbestown Lodge, No. 50, F.&A.M., held at Masonic Hall, Dec. 2d, 1863, the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master to call our beloved brother, Jonathan Whealdon, from labor here on earth to everlasting refreshment in the eternal paradise above; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Whealdon this Lodge has lost a beloved member, Masonry a good Mason, and society at large a good man,
Resolved, That this Lodge returns to those who extended to him the last rites their most sincere thanks.
Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with his bereaved relatives in distant States.
Resolved, That the furniture of this Lodge be draped in mourning, and that the members wear the formal badge for thirty days, and (---) page of our record be devoted to a memorial of his death.
Resolved, That these resolutions be sent to his relatives in Ohio, and also to the Marysville papers for publication.
--
Senior Deacon and Senior Warden in Forbestown Masonic Lodge, No. 50
--
Birth date from Ann Knight Bible
--
Mined for gold and silver in California, Idaho and Nevada. California
representative in the first California State legislature.
4 Feb 1854 - about 12 o'clock last night our ship was safely anchored in the
port of San Francisco. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we will take the
steamboat for Sacramento. Crossed the isthmus of Panama. Hopkins Creek,
California 5 Aug 1854 (postmarked Marysville) letter from Sacramento, California
dated 1857 Forbstown 12 Oct 1855 Forbstown, Calif 29 Mar 1858
Ohio Flat 17 Jul 1858-22 Dec 1858
Marysville 27 Dec 1858, I leave in three days for Sacramento as the legislature
meets on the first monday in January. Sacramento Jan 2, 1859, letter to go
out by steamer. Left Orleans Flat 7 May 1854, travelled north to Downeyville
that day,
a distance of 20 miles. Went the next day to Eureka and staid there two weeks.
--
St.Lewis, Sierra Co., California 21 May 1859. alive 16 Aug 1863
--
Returned from the northern mines to Alfred's about the first of November 1862,
was there about two weeks then returned to Cal., got a letter from him since,
he was at Virginia City, Nevada territory,
--
Went to California in 1853 in search of gold, arriving in San Francisco on 4 February 1854 via the isthmus of Panama. During the crossing of the isthmus three of the company were murdered. From San Francisco he took a steamboat directly to Sacramento. He went from there to Orleans Flat where he mined until early May, then went through Downeyville on the South Yuba to Eureka where he stayed two weeks. After trying his luck on Canaca Creek with little luck, in late May he moved up to St. Lewis, Sierra Co., California, mining for wages between the north Yuba and Feather river. He stayed at St. Lewis for two weeks, and then went to Hopkins Creek where he bought into a claim, where he was still working as of August 5, 1854. His next available letter is posted from Forbestown, Butte Co. on October 12, 1855, in which he says he still hasn't found anything. In March 1858 he says he had an offer the previous fall of a seat in the legislature of California, but would not then accept it for the reason that he had worked during the fore part of the convention against an older man from the same township that he lived in and defeated him without trying for himself but because he was not a good man. After he was defeated they gave him the offer and went so far as to write out tickets for a ballot, but he would not accept it because he was so much younger and might make enemies by so doing, but if another chance came when he was prepared he might accept it. In a July 1858 letter from Ohio Flat he says that he will be before the convention for the nomination on the 26th of July. He belonged to the party opposed to the administration and with Douglas and Broderick. In a July 31, 1858 letter he tells of getting his nomination for the legislature. A December 22, 1858 letter shows him about to leave from Ohio Flat for Marysville and on to Sacramento for the legislature, which was to start on the first Monday in January. He served in California State legislature in 1859. Jonathan went to the Idaho mines on the Salmon River in January 1862. On November 1, 1862 he returned from the northern mines and stayed with Alfred Whealdon for two weeks before going on to California, and then Virginia City, Nevada late in 1862. He was a member of the Forbestown California Masonic Lodge. He stayed with a friend named H. M. Eddy in Ohio Flat, and died at his home in Virginia City, Nevada. There may be a tombstone for Jonathan in Virginia City, as Eddy talks of buying one if he can get Jonathan's date of birth.
--
Living in Noble Twp., Morgan, OH in 1850, page 7
--
1860 Yuba County, CA p. 726 New York Township
Census taken 21 Jun 1860
Jonathan Whealdon 28 Miner Ohio
George Neal 35 Miner Ohio
Ed Whitmore 35 Miner N York
--
Bancroft's Works Volume XXIII
History of California, Vol. VI 1848-1859, page 722 - Member of 1859 California State Assembly from Yuba
--
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/photos-index.htm
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/whealdon.htm
"History of Yuba County",
Thompson & West, 1879
WHEALDON Claims – property of E. C. Smith, J. J. Mc Chesney, S. M. Boyce - Ohio Flat, New York Twp.
Died
In this city, Nov. 23d, of typhoid fever, Hon. Jonathan Whealdon, aged about 32 years.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 3
A Good Man Gone - Hon. Jonathan Whealdon died of typhoid fever yesterday at his residence in this city. Deceased was a native of the State of Ohio, aged about thirty-two years; was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and was buried in the cemetery of that order. For a number of years he resided in Yuba county, California, and represented that county in the Legislature of 1859, and was much respected by a large circle of devoted friends, who mourn him as a brother, and as one whose spotless moral character and kindness of heart made him doubly dear to them.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, December 8, 1863
Masonic Resolutions - We copy from the Marysville Appeal the following resolutions passed by the Masons of Marysville on the death of a much respected citizen of this city:
At a special meeting of the Forbestown Lodge, No. 50, F.&A.M., held at Masonic Hall, Dec. 2d, 1863, the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master to call our beloved brother, Jonathan Whealdon, from labor here on earth to everlasting refreshment in the eternal paradise above; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Whealdon this Lodge has lost a beloved member, Masonry a good Mason, and society at large a good man,
Resolved, That this Lodge returns to those who extended to him the last rites their most sincere thanks.
Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with his bereaved relatives in distant States.
Resolved, That the furniture of this Lodge be draped in mourning, and that the members wear the formal badge for thirty days, and (---) page of our record be devoted to a memorial of his death.
Resolved, That these resolutions be sent to his relatives in Ohio, and also to the Marysville papers for publication.
--
Senior Deacon and Senior Warden in Forbestown Masonic Lodge, No. 50
--
Birth date from Ann Knight Bible
--
Mined for gold and silver in California, Idaho and Nevada. California
representative in the first California State legislature.
4 Feb 1854 - about 12 o'clock last night our ship was safely anchored in the
port of San Francisco. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we will take the
steamboat for Sacramento. Crossed the isthmus of Panama. Hopkins Creek,
California 5 Aug 1854 (postmarked Marysville) letter from Sacramento, California
dated 1857 Forbstown 12 Oct 1855 Forbstown, Calif 29 Mar 1858
Ohio Flat 17 Jul 1858-22 Dec 1858
Marysville 27 Dec 1858, I leave in three days for Sacramento as the legislature
meets on the first monday in January. Sacramento Jan 2, 1859, letter to go
out by steamer. Left Orleans Flat 7 May 1854, travelled north to Downeyville
that day,
a distance of 20 miles. Went the next day to Eureka and staid there two weeks.
--
St.Lewis, Sierra Co., California 21 May 1859. alive 16 Aug 1863
--
Returned from the northern mines to Alfred's about the first of November 1862,
was there about two weeks then returned to Cal., got a letter from him since,
he was at Virginia City, Nevada territory,
--
Went to California in 1853 in search of gold, arriving in San Francisco on 4 February 1854 via the isthmus of Panama. During the crossing of the isthmus three of the company were murdered. From San Francisco he took a steamboat directly to Sacramento. He went from there to Orleans Flat where he mined until early May, then went through Downeyville on the South Yuba to Eureka where he stayed two weeks. After trying his luck on Canaca Creek with little luck, in late May he moved up to St. Lewis, Sierra Co., California, mining for wages between the north Yuba and Feather river. He stayed at St. Lewis for two weeks, and then went to Hopkins Creek where he bought into a claim, where he was still working as of August 5, 1854. His next available letter is posted from Forbestown, Butte Co. on October 12, 1855, in which he says he still hasn't found anything. In March 1858 he says he had an offer the previous fall of a seat in the legislature of California, but would not then accept it for the reason that he had worked during the fore part of the convention against an older man from the same township that he lived in and defeated him without trying for himself but because he was not a good man. After he was defeated they gave him the offer and went so far as to write out tickets for a ballot, but he would not accept it because he was so much younger and might make enemies by so doing, but if another chance came when he was prepared he might accept it. In a July 1858 letter from Ohio Flat he says that he will be before the convention for the nomination on the 26th of July. He belonged to the party opposed to the administration and with Douglas and Broderick. In a July 31, 1858 letter he tells of getting his nomination for the legislature. A December 22, 1858 letter shows him about to leave from Ohio Flat for Marysville and on to Sacramento for the legislature, which was to start on the first Monday in January. He served in California State legislature in 1859. Jonathan went to the Idaho mines on the Salmon River in January 1862. On November 1, 1862 he returned from the northern mines and stayed with Alfred Whealdon for two weeks before going on to California, and then Virginia City, Nevada late in 1862. He was a member of the Forbestown California Masonic Lodge. He stayed with a friend named H. M. Eddy in Ohio Flat, and died at his home in Virginia City, Nevada. There may be a tombstone for Jonathan in Virginia City, as Eddy talks of buying one if he can get Jonathan's date of birth.
--
Living in Noble Twp., Morgan, OH in 1850, page 7
--
1860 Yuba County, CA p. 726 New York Township
Census taken 21 Jun 1860
Jonathan Whealdon 28 Miner Ohio
George Neal 35 Miner Ohio
Ed Whitmore 35 Miner N York
--
Bancroft's Works Volume XXIII
History of California, Vol. VI 1848-1859, page 722 - Member of 1859 California State Assembly from Yuba
--
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/photos-index.htm
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/whealdon.htm
"History of Yuba County",
Thompson & West, 1879
WHEALDON Claims – property of E. C. Smith, J. J. Mc Chesney, S. M. Boyce - Ohio Flat, New York Twp.
Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 2
Died
In this city, Nov. 23d, of typhoid fever, Hon. Jonathan Whealdon, aged about 32 years.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 3
A Good Man Gone - Hon. Jonathan Whealdon died of typhoid fever yesterday at his residence in this city. Deceased was a native of the State of Ohio, aged about thirty-two years; was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and was buried in the cemetery of that order. For a number of years he resided in Yuba county, California, and represented that county in the Legislature of 1859, and was much respected by a large circle of devoted friends, who mourn him as a brother, and as one whose spotless moral character and kindness of heart made him doubly dear to them.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, December 8, 1863
Masonic Resolutions - We copy from the Marysville Appeal the following resolutions passed by the Masons of Marysville on the death of a much respected citizen of this city:
At a special meeting of the Forbestown Lodge, No. 50, F.&A.M., held at Masonic Hall, Dec. 2d, 1863, the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master to call our beloved brother, Jonathan Whealdon, from labor here on earth to everlasting refreshment in the eternal paradise above; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Whealdon this Lodge has lost a beloved member, Masonry a good Mason, and society at large a good man,
Resolved, That this Lodge returns to those who extended to him the last rites their most sincere thanks.
Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with his bereaved relatives in distant States.
Resolved, That the furniture of this Lodge be draped in mourning, and that the members wear the formal badge for thirty days, and (---) page of our record be devoted to a memorial of his death.
Resolved, That these resolutions be sent to his relatives in Ohio, and also to the Marysville papers for publication.
--
Senior Deacon and Senior Warden in Forbestown Masonic Lodge, No. 50
--
Birth date from Ann Knight Bible
--
Mined for gold and silver in California, Idaho and Nevada. California
representative in the first California State legislature.
4 Feb 1854 - about 12 o'clock last night our ship was safely anchored in the
port of San Francisco. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we will take the
steamboat for Sacramento. Crossed the isthmus of Panama. Hopkins Creek,
California 5 Aug 1854 (postmarked Marysville) letter from Sacramento, California
dated 1857 Forbstown 12 Oct 1855 Forbstown, Calif 29 Mar 1858
Ohio Flat 17 Jul 1858-22 Dec 1858
Marysville 27 Dec 1858, I leave in three days for Sacramento as the legislature
meets on the first monday in January. Sacramento Jan 2, 1859, letter to go
out by steamer. Left Orleans Flat 7 May 1854, travelled north to Downeyville
that day,
a distance of 20 miles. Went the next day to Eureka and staid there two weeks.
--
St.Lewis, Sierra Co., California 21 May 1859. alive 16 Aug 1863
--
Returned from the northern mines to Alfred's about the first of November 1862,
was there about two weeks then returned to Cal., got a letter from him since,
he was at Virginia City, Nevada territory,
--
Went to California in 1853 in search of gold, arriving in San Francisco on 4 February 1854 via the isthmus of Panama. During the crossing of the isthmus three of the company were murdered. From San Francisco he took a steamboat directly to Sacramento. He went from there to Orleans Flat where he mined until early May, then went through Downeyville on the South Yuba to Eureka where he stayed two weeks. After trying his luck on Canaca Creek with little luck, in late May he moved up to St. Lewis, Sierra Co., California, mining for wages between the north Yuba and Feather river. He stayed at St. Lewis for two weeks, and then went to Hopkins Creek where he bought into a claim, where he was still working as of August 5, 1854. His next available letter is posted from Forbestown, Butte Co. on October 12, 1855, in which he says he still hasn't found anything. In March 1858 he says he had an offer the previous fall of a seat in the legislature of California, but would not then accept it for the reason that he had worked during the fore part of the convention against an older man from the same township that he lived in and defeated him without trying for himself but because he was not a good man. After he was defeated they gave him the offer and went so far as to write out tickets for a ballot, but he would not accept it because he was so much younger and might make enemies by so doing, but if another chance came when he was prepared he might accept it. In a July 1858 letter from Ohio Flat he says that he will be before the convention for the nomination on the 26th of July. He belonged to the party opposed to the administration and with Douglas and Broderick. In a July 31, 1858 letter he tells of getting his nomination for the legislature. A December 22, 1858 letter shows him about to leave from Ohio Flat for Marysville and on to Sacramento for the legislature, which was to start on the first Monday in January. He served in California State legislature in 1859. Jonathan went to the Idaho mines on the Salmon River in January 1862. On November 1, 1862 he returned from the northern mines and stayed with Alfred Whealdon for two weeks before going on to California, and then Virginia City, Nevada late in 1862. He was a member of the Forbestown California Masonic Lodge. He stayed with a friend named H. M. Eddy in Ohio Flat, and died at his home in Virginia City, Nevada. There may be a tombstone for Jonathan in Virginia City, as Eddy talks of buying one if he can get Jonathan's date of birth.
--
Living in Noble Twp., Morgan, OH in 1850, page 7
--
1860 Yuba County, CA p. 726 New York Township
Census taken 21 Jun 1860
Jonathan Whealdon 28 Miner Ohio
George Neal 35 Miner Ohio
Ed Whitmore 35 Miner N York
--
Bancroft's Works Volume XXIII
History of California, Vol. VI 1848-1859, page 722 - Member of 1859 California State Assembly from Yuba
--
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/photos-index.htm
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/whealdon.htm
"History of Yuba County",
Thompson & West, 1879
WHEALDON Claims – property of E. C. Smith, J. J. Mc Chesney, S. M. Boyce - Ohio Flat, New York Twp.
Died
In this city, Nov. 23d, of typhoid fever, Hon. Jonathan Whealdon, aged about 32 years.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, November 24, 1863, page 3
A Good Man Gone - Hon. Jonathan Whealdon died of typhoid fever yesterday at his residence in this city. Deceased was a native of the State of Ohio, aged about thirty-two years; was a member of the Masonic Fraternity, and was buried in the cemetery of that order. For a number of years he resided in Yuba county, California, and represented that county in the Legislature of 1859, and was much respected by a large circle of devoted friends, who mourn him as a brother, and as one whose spotless moral character and kindness of heart made him doubly dear to them.
http://206.194.194.211:2011/cdm/compoundobject/collection/VEB/id/579
--
Virginia Evening Bulletin, December 8, 1863
Masonic Resolutions - We copy from the Marysville Appeal the following resolutions passed by the Masons of Marysville on the death of a much respected citizen of this city:
At a special meeting of the Forbestown Lodge, No. 50, F.&A.M., held at Masonic Hall, Dec. 2d, 1863, the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased the Supreme Grand Master to call our beloved brother, Jonathan Whealdon, from labor here on earth to everlasting refreshment in the eternal paradise above; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Brother Whealdon this Lodge has lost a beloved member, Masonry a good Mason, and society at large a good man,
Resolved, That this Lodge returns to those who extended to him the last rites their most sincere thanks.
Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with his bereaved relatives in distant States.
Resolved, That the furniture of this Lodge be draped in mourning, and that the members wear the formal badge for thirty days, and (---) page of our record be devoted to a memorial of his death.
Resolved, That these resolutions be sent to his relatives in Ohio, and also to the Marysville papers for publication.
--
Senior Deacon and Senior Warden in Forbestown Masonic Lodge, No. 50
--
Birth date from Ann Knight Bible
--
Mined for gold and silver in California, Idaho and Nevada. California
representative in the first California State legislature.
4 Feb 1854 - about 12 o'clock last night our ship was safely anchored in the
port of San Francisco. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon we will take the
steamboat for Sacramento. Crossed the isthmus of Panama. Hopkins Creek,
California 5 Aug 1854 (postmarked Marysville) letter from Sacramento, California
dated 1857 Forbstown 12 Oct 1855 Forbstown, Calif 29 Mar 1858
Ohio Flat 17 Jul 1858-22 Dec 1858
Marysville 27 Dec 1858, I leave in three days for Sacramento as the legislature
meets on the first monday in January. Sacramento Jan 2, 1859, letter to go
out by steamer. Left Orleans Flat 7 May 1854, travelled north to Downeyville
that day,
a distance of 20 miles. Went the next day to Eureka and staid there two weeks.
--
St.Lewis, Sierra Co., California 21 May 1859. alive 16 Aug 1863
--
Returned from the northern mines to Alfred's about the first of November 1862,
was there about two weeks then returned to Cal., got a letter from him since,
he was at Virginia City, Nevada territory,
--
Went to California in 1853 in search of gold, arriving in San Francisco on 4 February 1854 via the isthmus of Panama. During the crossing of the isthmus three of the company were murdered. From San Francisco he took a steamboat directly to Sacramento. He went from there to Orleans Flat where he mined until early May, then went through Downeyville on the South Yuba to Eureka where he stayed two weeks. After trying his luck on Canaca Creek with little luck, in late May he moved up to St. Lewis, Sierra Co., California, mining for wages between the north Yuba and Feather river. He stayed at St. Lewis for two weeks, and then went to Hopkins Creek where he bought into a claim, where he was still working as of August 5, 1854. His next available letter is posted from Forbestown, Butte Co. on October 12, 1855, in which he says he still hasn't found anything. In March 1858 he says he had an offer the previous fall of a seat in the legislature of California, but would not then accept it for the reason that he had worked during the fore part of the convention against an older man from the same township that he lived in and defeated him without trying for himself but because he was not a good man. After he was defeated they gave him the offer and went so far as to write out tickets for a ballot, but he would not accept it because he was so much younger and might make enemies by so doing, but if another chance came when he was prepared he might accept it. In a July 1858 letter from Ohio Flat he says that he will be before the convention for the nomination on the 26th of July. He belonged to the party opposed to the administration and with Douglas and Broderick. In a July 31, 1858 letter he tells of getting his nomination for the legislature. A December 22, 1858 letter shows him about to leave from Ohio Flat for Marysville and on to Sacramento for the legislature, which was to start on the first Monday in January. He served in California State legislature in 1859. Jonathan went to the Idaho mines on the Salmon River in January 1862. On November 1, 1862 he returned from the northern mines and stayed with Alfred Whealdon for two weeks before going on to California, and then Virginia City, Nevada late in 1862. He was a member of the Forbestown California Masonic Lodge. He stayed with a friend named H. M. Eddy in Ohio Flat, and died at his home in Virginia City, Nevada. There may be a tombstone for Jonathan in Virginia City, as Eddy talks of buying one if he can get Jonathan's date of birth.
--
Living in Noble Twp., Morgan, OH in 1850, page 7
--
1860 Yuba County, CA p. 726 New York Township
Census taken 21 Jun 1860
Jonathan Whealdon 28 Miner Ohio
George Neal 35 Miner Ohio
Ed Whitmore 35 Miner N York
--
Bancroft's Works Volume XXIII
History of California, Vol. VI 1848-1859, page 722 - Member of 1859 California State Assembly from Yuba
--
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/photos-index.htm
http://www.yubaroots.com/photos/whealdon.htm
"History of Yuba County",
Thompson & West, 1879
WHEALDON Claims – property of E. C. Smith, J. J. Mc Chesney, S. M. Boyce - Ohio Flat, New York Twp.
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