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Peter Mathison

Birth
Hydesville, Humboldt County, California, USA
Death
1907 (aged 31–32)
Humboldt County, California, USA
Burial
Garberville, Humboldt County, California, USA Add to Map
Plot
Row 5
Memorial ID
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Death year was found on his headstone photo in Billiongraves.Peter was born July 28, 1875, in Hydesville and was carried by his mother (Mary Magdalene Peterson) horseback when the family moved to Blocksburg where Nis (his father) had filed on a homestead. This is according to a newspaper article written about his mother for a Mother's day column when she was 99 years old called " A mother's courage in early day Humboldt".

Peter and four of his siblings Ellen, George, Frank and Fred, all had taken advantage of that astonishing pioneer phenomenon, peculiar only to America, the Homestead Act, and were busy proving up on ranches of their own.
Death year was found on his headstone photo in Billiongraves.Peter was born July 28, 1875, in Hydesville and was carried by his mother (Mary Magdalene Peterson) horseback when the family moved to Blocksburg where Nis (his father) had filed on a homestead. This is according to a newspaper article written about his mother for a Mother's day column when she was 99 years old called " A mother's courage in early day Humboldt".

Peter and four of his siblings Ellen, George, Frank and Fred, all had taken advantage of that astonishing pioneer phenomenon, peculiar only to America, the Homestead Act, and were busy proving up on ranches of their own.


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  • Created by: Dee G.
  • Added: May 21, 2020
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/210308142/peter-mathison: accessed ), memorial page for Peter Mathison (28 Jul 1875–1907), Find a Grave Memorial ID 210308142, citing Garberville Cemetery, Garberville, Humboldt County, California, USA; Maintained by Dee G. (contributor 48325163).