*Surname is also spelled Babcook in some Butte County records.
1850 census T8N, R6W, Henderson, IL: Henry Babcock, aged 55, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 53, bp VA; Milman aged 33; Worley aged 23; Jacob aged 28; Abram aged 21; Elisha aged 18; Alfred aged 16 -- all born OH.
1860 census Grand Island, Colusa, CA: Jacob Babcock, aged 32, farmer, bp OH; Martha A. aged 24, bp TN; F. P. aged 4; Martha F. aged 2 -- both born IL; Benj Gideons, aged 30, laborer; Henry Babcock, aged 70, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 56, bp VA; Augustus Ingerson, aged 21, laborer, bp IL; Alfred Babcock, aged 24, laborer, bp OH.
1880 census Ophir Twp, Butte, CA: Jacob W. Babcock, aged 59, farmer, bp OH, father OH, mother VA; Martha F. aged 48, bp TN, both parents TN; mother, Nancy aged 84, bp VA, both parents VA; son Frank P. aged 24, farmer, bp IL.-census research from the files of Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
"Babcock, Nancy L. - white, married, age 101 yrs., 7 mos 21 da., b. Virginia, d. 29 Nov 1894 Butte Co. Inf." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 3, No. 3, pg 7.
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** Date of newspaper is not always the date of the incident - this was a weekly, and stories were written, set, and the printing was done after the facts were typeset, often days later.
Chico Weekly Chronicle-Record, Saturday, December 8, 1894, pg 1 col 6: Over a Century. Death of Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, Abed 102 Years. At Honcut, Friday, Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, passed away. She was born in 1792 and was therefore 102 years of age. Her death was caused simply by the weight of time. Mrs. Babcook was probably the oldest resident of Butte county, if not Northern California, and had lived in the county for many years. She was highly respected and leaves several sons who are now old men, grand children who are nearing middle life and great-grand-children who are grown.
She was born during the administration of President George Washington and was seven years old when he died; she was a young woman of 20 when the war of 1912 broke out and was 56 when the American army marched to the City of Mexico, and at the outbreak of the Civil War had reached the allotted three score and ten. What memories must have crowded around her closing days for she had seen this country grow from a handful of weak States to a nation the grandest and most powerful the world has ever seen. She was almost as old as the nation itself.
The funeral for the aged lady took place Saturday, the services being held at Honcut, interment in the Oroville cemetery – Oroville Mercury.
1850 census T8N, R6W, Henderson, IL: Henry Babcock, aged 55, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 53, bp VA; Milman aged 33; Worley aged 23; Jacob aged 28; Abram aged 21; Elisha aged 18; Alfred aged 16 -- all born OH.
1860 census Grand Island, Colusa, CA: Jacob Babcock, aged 32, farmer, bp OH; Martha A. aged 24, bp TN; F. P. aged 4; Martha F. aged 2 -- both born IL; Benj Gideons, aged 30, laborer; Henry Babcock, aged 70, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 56, bp VA; Augustus Ingerson, aged 21, laborer, bp IL; Alfred Babcock, aged 24, laborer, bp OH.
1880 census Ophir Twp, Butte, CA: Jacob W. Babcock, aged 59, farmer, bp OH, father OH, mother VA; Martha F. aged 48, bp TN, both parents TN; mother, Nancy aged 84, bp VA, both parents VA; son Frank P. aged 24, farmer, bp IL.-census research from the files of Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
"Babcock, Nancy L. - white, married, age 101 yrs., 7 mos 21 da., b. Virginia, d. 29 Nov 1894 Butte Co. Inf." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 3, No. 3, pg 7.
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** Date of newspaper is not always the date of the incident - this was a weekly, and stories were written, set, and the printing was done after the facts were typeset, often days later.
Chico Weekly Chronicle-Record, Saturday, December 8, 1894, pg 1 col 6: Over a Century. Death of Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, Abed 102 Years. At Honcut, Friday, Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, passed away. She was born in 1792 and was therefore 102 years of age. Her death was caused simply by the weight of time. Mrs. Babcook was probably the oldest resident of Butte county, if not Northern California, and had lived in the county for many years. She was highly respected and leaves several sons who are now old men, grand children who are nearing middle life and great-grand-children who are grown.
She was born during the administration of President George Washington and was seven years old when he died; she was a young woman of 20 when the war of 1912 broke out and was 56 when the American army marched to the City of Mexico, and at the outbreak of the Civil War had reached the allotted three score and ten. What memories must have crowded around her closing days for she had seen this country grow from a handful of weak States to a nation the grandest and most powerful the world has ever seen. She was almost as old as the nation itself.
The funeral for the aged lady took place Saturday, the services being held at Honcut, interment in the Oroville cemetery – Oroville Mercury.
*Surname is also spelled Babcook in some Butte County records.
1850 census T8N, R6W, Henderson, IL: Henry Babcock, aged 55, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 53, bp VA; Milman aged 33; Worley aged 23; Jacob aged 28; Abram aged 21; Elisha aged 18; Alfred aged 16 -- all born OH.
1860 census Grand Island, Colusa, CA: Jacob Babcock, aged 32, farmer, bp OH; Martha A. aged 24, bp TN; F. P. aged 4; Martha F. aged 2 -- both born IL; Benj Gideons, aged 30, laborer; Henry Babcock, aged 70, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 56, bp VA; Augustus Ingerson, aged 21, laborer, bp IL; Alfred Babcock, aged 24, laborer, bp OH.
1880 census Ophir Twp, Butte, CA: Jacob W. Babcock, aged 59, farmer, bp OH, father OH, mother VA; Martha F. aged 48, bp TN, both parents TN; mother, Nancy aged 84, bp VA, both parents VA; son Frank P. aged 24, farmer, bp IL.-census research from the files of Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
"Babcock, Nancy L. - white, married, age 101 yrs., 7 mos 21 da., b. Virginia, d. 29 Nov 1894 Butte Co. Inf." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 3, No. 3, pg 7.
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** Date of newspaper is not always the date of the incident - this was a weekly, and stories were written, set, and the printing was done after the facts were typeset, often days later.
Chico Weekly Chronicle-Record, Saturday, December 8, 1894, pg 1 col 6: Over a Century. Death of Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, Abed 102 Years. At Honcut, Friday, Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, passed away. She was born in 1792 and was therefore 102 years of age. Her death was caused simply by the weight of time. Mrs. Babcook was probably the oldest resident of Butte county, if not Northern California, and had lived in the county for many years. She was highly respected and leaves several sons who are now old men, grand children who are nearing middle life and great-grand-children who are grown.
She was born during the administration of President George Washington and was seven years old when he died; she was a young woman of 20 when the war of 1912 broke out and was 56 when the American army marched to the City of Mexico, and at the outbreak of the Civil War had reached the allotted three score and ten. What memories must have crowded around her closing days for she had seen this country grow from a handful of weak States to a nation the grandest and most powerful the world has ever seen. She was almost as old as the nation itself.
The funeral for the aged lady took place Saturday, the services being held at Honcut, interment in the Oroville cemetery – Oroville Mercury.
1850 census T8N, R6W, Henderson, IL: Henry Babcock, aged 55, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 53, bp VA; Milman aged 33; Worley aged 23; Jacob aged 28; Abram aged 21; Elisha aged 18; Alfred aged 16 -- all born OH.
1860 census Grand Island, Colusa, CA: Jacob Babcock, aged 32, farmer, bp OH; Martha A. aged 24, bp TN; F. P. aged 4; Martha F. aged 2 -- both born IL; Benj Gideons, aged 30, laborer; Henry Babcock, aged 70, farmer, bp NY; Nancy aged 56, bp VA; Augustus Ingerson, aged 21, laborer, bp IL; Alfred Babcock, aged 24, laborer, bp OH.
1880 census Ophir Twp, Butte, CA: Jacob W. Babcock, aged 59, farmer, bp OH, father OH, mother VA; Martha F. aged 48, bp TN, both parents TN; mother, Nancy aged 84, bp VA, both parents VA; son Frank P. aged 24, farmer, bp IL.-census research from the files of Carolyn Hackett Dowd.
"Babcock, Nancy L. - white, married, age 101 yrs., 7 mos 21 da., b. Virginia, d. 29 Nov 1894 Butte Co. Inf." Source: Earliest Death and Burial Records, in the Butte County Courthouse, published serially in the Paradise Genealogical Society's publication, The Goldmine, Vol 3, No. 3, pg 7.
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** Date of newspaper is not always the date of the incident - this was a weekly, and stories were written, set, and the printing was done after the facts were typeset, often days later.
Chico Weekly Chronicle-Record, Saturday, December 8, 1894, pg 1 col 6: Over a Century. Death of Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, Abed 102 Years. At Honcut, Friday, Mrs. Nancy L. Babcook, passed away. She was born in 1792 and was therefore 102 years of age. Her death was caused simply by the weight of time. Mrs. Babcook was probably the oldest resident of Butte county, if not Northern California, and had lived in the county for many years. She was highly respected and leaves several sons who are now old men, grand children who are nearing middle life and great-grand-children who are grown.
She was born during the administration of President George Washington and was seven years old when he died; she was a young woman of 20 when the war of 1912 broke out and was 56 when the American army marched to the City of Mexico, and at the outbreak of the Civil War had reached the allotted three score and ten. What memories must have crowded around her closing days for she had seen this country grow from a handful of weak States to a nation the grandest and most powerful the world has ever seen. She was almost as old as the nation itself.
The funeral for the aged lady took place Saturday, the services being held at Honcut, interment in the Oroville cemetery – Oroville Mercury.
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