WWII US Army Veteran~Father Leo Flood, Mother Nelle Rowe, 2 sons, 4 step-sons, 1 daughter, 1 sister
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Flood Ranch A Century Club Member
The Colusi County Historical Society area boasts several ranches that have been accepted as members of the California Exposition One Hundred Year Club. To be eligible a ranch must have been in a direct family line for a hundred years. The Flood Ranch of Newville was awarded membership in this club in 1970.
The ranch has been in the possession of the Flood family since 1856, a period spanning five generations. The original owners, John and Mary Flood united the talents of the Irish and the English to master the new land. John emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1849 as a young boy. Four years later he crossed the plains to California with John James, helping to drive the latter's cattle. Mr. Flood built the first cabin in what was later Henleyville and ran a blacksmith shop with John Simpson in Tehama.
In 1856 he took up a claim of 160 acres in the Newville area where he built a house and blacksmith shop – the first one in the district.
Mary Williams Flood was a native of Liverpool, England coming to the United States with her parents as a young girl. In 1853 the Williams family crossed the plains, settling in 1858 three miles north of the Newville site, where they engaged in the dairy business.
On Sept. 6, 1860 John and Mary
were united in marriage. The young couple established a home on the acres which have continued to be the home place to this day. (The original house was washed away in a flood in the early years. The present home was built about 1868.) Gradually adding to his acreage by purchase Mr. Flood sold his black smith shop in 1866 to devote all his attention to his agricultural and stock raising interests. Known as 'the mule ranch' emphasis in early days was on mule production. Wheat and barley was raised up and down the flats.
The Floods became the parents of nine children. One son Lester of Paskenta still survives. After the death of John Flood Nov. 22, 1898, the ranch was operated by sons John Thomas and Lester.
In October 1934 Leo, son Louis, and Minnie Millsaps Flood, moved to the home ranch with his family to take charge of operations. He continued to do so until during the last four or five years because of failing health he turned the operation over to his son Lyle. The ranch now grown to 1,725 acres produces sheep and hogs together with barley, oats and hay.
An interesting feature on the ranch is the Flood Museum started about 1965 by Leo and son Lyle to house hundreds of items of historical interest ranging from a mouse trap and cheese cutter from the old Henleyville store to a John Deere tractor. Some thousand visitors have visited it, a particular attraction to school children.
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"Wagon Wheels" Volume XXIII Number 1 February 1973 -transcribed by A. Canon 27 Sep 2008
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"Orland Press" (Orland, California), Friday, 14 June 1991
Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood, 67
Funeral services will be held for Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood at 10 a.m. Saturday at the F.D. Sweet & Son chapel in Orland.
Mr. Flood died Tuesday, June 11, 1991.
He was born April 22, 1924 in Orland. He attended Maxwell and Newville elementary schools and graduated from Elk Creek High School. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a former Glenn County sheriff's deputy.
He created a private museum at the Flood Ranch which displays antiques and unique items. Many local schools have visited the museum. Recently, he donated the Chrome School bell for exhibit to the Glenn County Fair.
Mr. Flood is survived by his wife Evelyn of Newville, six sons Rodney and Chris Flood of Orland, Larry, Joel, and Kevin Donnelley of Orland and Lewis Bambauer of Orland, a daughter, Cayrol Flood of North Bend, Ore., his mother Nelle Flood of Orland, a sister Margarie Murphy of Paskenta, and 18 grandchildren.
The Rev. Mike Bryan of First Christian Church of Orland will officiate. Burial will follow at Newville Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyle Flood Family Museum Memorial Fund in care of F.D. Sweet & Son or Tri-Counties Bank in Orland. - Transcribed by M.
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Flood Ranch A Century Club Member
The Colusi County Historical Society area boasts several ranches that have been accepted as members of the California Exposition One Hundred Year Club. To be eligible a ranch must have been in a direct family line for a hundred years. The Flood Ranch of Newville was awarded membership in this club in 1970.
The ranch has been in the possession of the Flood family since 1856, a period spanning five generations. The original owners, John and Mary Flood united the talents of the Irish and the English to master the new land. John emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1849 as a young boy. Four years later he crossed the plains to California with John James, helping to drive the latter's cattle. Mr. Flood built the first cabin in what was later Henleyville and ran a blacksmith shop with John Simpson in Tehama.
In 1856 he took up a claim of 160 acres in the Newville area where he built a house and blacksmith shop – the first one in the district.
Mary Williams Flood was a native of Liverpool, England coming to the United States with her parents as a young girl. In 1853 the Williams family crossed the plains, settling in 1858 three miles north of the Newville site, where they engaged in the dairy business.
On Sept. 6, 1860 John and Mary
were united in marriage. The young couple established a home on the acres which have continued to be the home place to this day. (The original house was washed away in a flood in the early years. The present home was built about 1868.) Gradually adding to his acreage by purchase Mr. Flood sold his black smith shop in 1866 to devote all his attention to his agricultural and stock raising interests. Known as 'the mule ranch' emphasis in early days was on mule production. Wheat and barley was raised up and down the flats.
The Floods became the parents of nine children. One son Lester of Paskenta still survives. After the death of John Flood Nov. 22, 1898, the ranch was operated by sons John Thomas and Lester.
In October 1934 Leo, son Louis, and Minnie Millsaps Flood, moved to the home ranch with his family to take charge of operations. He continued to do so until during the last four or five years because of failing health he turned the operation over to his son Lyle. The ranch now grown to 1,725 acres produces sheep and hogs together with barley, oats and hay.
An interesting feature on the ranch is the Flood Museum started about 1965 by Leo and son Lyle to house hundreds of items of historical interest ranging from a mouse trap and cheese cutter from the old Henleyville store to a John Deere tractor. Some thousand visitors have visited it, a particular attraction to school children.
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"Wagon Wheels" Volume XXIII Number 1 February 1973 -transcribed by A. Canon 27 Sep 2008
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"Orland Press" (Orland, California), Friday, 14 June 1991
Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood, 67
Funeral services will be held for Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood at 10 a.m. Saturday at the F.D. Sweet & Son chapel in Orland.
Mr. Flood died Tuesday, June 11, 1991.
He was born April 22, 1924 in Orland. He attended Maxwell and Newville elementary schools and graduated from Elk Creek High School. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a former Glenn County sheriff's deputy.
He created a private museum at the Flood Ranch which displays antiques and unique items. Many local schools have visited the museum. Recently, he donated the Chrome School bell for exhibit to the Glenn County Fair.
Mr. Flood is survived by his wife Evelyn of Newville, six sons Rodney and Chris Flood of Orland, Larry, Joel, and Kevin Donnelley of Orland and Lewis Bambauer of Orland, a daughter, Cayrol Flood of North Bend, Ore., his mother Nelle Flood of Orland, a sister Margarie Murphy of Paskenta, and 18 grandchildren.
The Rev. Mike Bryan of First Christian Church of Orland will officiate. Burial will follow at Newville Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyle Flood Family Museum Memorial Fund in care of F.D. Sweet & Son or Tri-Counties Bank in Orland. - Transcribed by M.
WWII US Army Veteran~Father Leo Flood, Mother Nelle Rowe, 2 sons, 4 step-sons, 1 daughter, 1 sister
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Flood Ranch A Century Club Member
The Colusi County Historical Society area boasts several ranches that have been accepted as members of the California Exposition One Hundred Year Club. To be eligible a ranch must have been in a direct family line for a hundred years. The Flood Ranch of Newville was awarded membership in this club in 1970.
The ranch has been in the possession of the Flood family since 1856, a period spanning five generations. The original owners, John and Mary Flood united the talents of the Irish and the English to master the new land. John emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1849 as a young boy. Four years later he crossed the plains to California with John James, helping to drive the latter's cattle. Mr. Flood built the first cabin in what was later Henleyville and ran a blacksmith shop with John Simpson in Tehama.
In 1856 he took up a claim of 160 acres in the Newville area where he built a house and blacksmith shop – the first one in the district.
Mary Williams Flood was a native of Liverpool, England coming to the United States with her parents as a young girl. In 1853 the Williams family crossed the plains, settling in 1858 three miles north of the Newville site, where they engaged in the dairy business.
On Sept. 6, 1860 John and Mary
were united in marriage. The young couple established a home on the acres which have continued to be the home place to this day. (The original house was washed away in a flood in the early years. The present home was built about 1868.) Gradually adding to his acreage by purchase Mr. Flood sold his black smith shop in 1866 to devote all his attention to his agricultural and stock raising interests. Known as 'the mule ranch' emphasis in early days was on mule production. Wheat and barley was raised up and down the flats.
The Floods became the parents of nine children. One son Lester of Paskenta still survives. After the death of John Flood Nov. 22, 1898, the ranch was operated by sons John Thomas and Lester.
In October 1934 Leo, son Louis, and Minnie Millsaps Flood, moved to the home ranch with his family to take charge of operations. He continued to do so until during the last four or five years because of failing health he turned the operation over to his son Lyle. The ranch now grown to 1,725 acres produces sheep and hogs together with barley, oats and hay.
An interesting feature on the ranch is the Flood Museum started about 1965 by Leo and son Lyle to house hundreds of items of historical interest ranging from a mouse trap and cheese cutter from the old Henleyville store to a John Deere tractor. Some thousand visitors have visited it, a particular attraction to school children.
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"Wagon Wheels" Volume XXIII Number 1 February 1973 -transcribed by A. Canon 27 Sep 2008
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"Orland Press" (Orland, California), Friday, 14 June 1991
Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood, 67
Funeral services will be held for Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood at 10 a.m. Saturday at the F.D. Sweet & Son chapel in Orland.
Mr. Flood died Tuesday, June 11, 1991.
He was born April 22, 1924 in Orland. He attended Maxwell and Newville elementary schools and graduated from Elk Creek High School. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a former Glenn County sheriff's deputy.
He created a private museum at the Flood Ranch which displays antiques and unique items. Many local schools have visited the museum. Recently, he donated the Chrome School bell for exhibit to the Glenn County Fair.
Mr. Flood is survived by his wife Evelyn of Newville, six sons Rodney and Chris Flood of Orland, Larry, Joel, and Kevin Donnelley of Orland and Lewis Bambauer of Orland, a daughter, Cayrol Flood of North Bend, Ore., his mother Nelle Flood of Orland, a sister Margarie Murphy of Paskenta, and 18 grandchildren.
The Rev. Mike Bryan of First Christian Church of Orland will officiate. Burial will follow at Newville Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyle Flood Family Museum Memorial Fund in care of F.D. Sweet & Son or Tri-Counties Bank in Orland. - Transcribed by M.
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Flood Ranch A Century Club Member
The Colusi County Historical Society area boasts several ranches that have been accepted as members of the California Exposition One Hundred Year Club. To be eligible a ranch must have been in a direct family line for a hundred years. The Flood Ranch of Newville was awarded membership in this club in 1970.
The ranch has been in the possession of the Flood family since 1856, a period spanning five generations. The original owners, John and Mary Flood united the talents of the Irish and the English to master the new land. John emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1849 as a young boy. Four years later he crossed the plains to California with John James, helping to drive the latter's cattle. Mr. Flood built the first cabin in what was later Henleyville and ran a blacksmith shop with John Simpson in Tehama.
In 1856 he took up a claim of 160 acres in the Newville area where he built a house and blacksmith shop – the first one in the district.
Mary Williams Flood was a native of Liverpool, England coming to the United States with her parents as a young girl. In 1853 the Williams family crossed the plains, settling in 1858 three miles north of the Newville site, where they engaged in the dairy business.
On Sept. 6, 1860 John and Mary
were united in marriage. The young couple established a home on the acres which have continued to be the home place to this day. (The original house was washed away in a flood in the early years. The present home was built about 1868.) Gradually adding to his acreage by purchase Mr. Flood sold his black smith shop in 1866 to devote all his attention to his agricultural and stock raising interests. Known as 'the mule ranch' emphasis in early days was on mule production. Wheat and barley was raised up and down the flats.
The Floods became the parents of nine children. One son Lester of Paskenta still survives. After the death of John Flood Nov. 22, 1898, the ranch was operated by sons John Thomas and Lester.
In October 1934 Leo, son Louis, and Minnie Millsaps Flood, moved to the home ranch with his family to take charge of operations. He continued to do so until during the last four or five years because of failing health he turned the operation over to his son Lyle. The ranch now grown to 1,725 acres produces sheep and hogs together with barley, oats and hay.
An interesting feature on the ranch is the Flood Museum started about 1965 by Leo and son Lyle to house hundreds of items of historical interest ranging from a mouse trap and cheese cutter from the old Henleyville store to a John Deere tractor. Some thousand visitors have visited it, a particular attraction to school children.
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"Wagon Wheels" Volume XXIII Number 1 February 1973 -transcribed by A. Canon 27 Sep 2008
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"Orland Press" (Orland, California), Friday, 14 June 1991
Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood, 67
Funeral services will be held for Lyle Elfworth [sic] Flood at 10 a.m. Saturday at the F.D. Sweet & Son chapel in Orland.
Mr. Flood died Tuesday, June 11, 1991.
He was born April 22, 1924 in Orland. He attended Maxwell and Newville elementary schools and graduated from Elk Creek High School. He was an Army veteran of World War II and a former Glenn County sheriff's deputy.
He created a private museum at the Flood Ranch which displays antiques and unique items. Many local schools have visited the museum. Recently, he donated the Chrome School bell for exhibit to the Glenn County Fair.
Mr. Flood is survived by his wife Evelyn of Newville, six sons Rodney and Chris Flood of Orland, Larry, Joel, and Kevin Donnelley of Orland and Lewis Bambauer of Orland, a daughter, Cayrol Flood of North Bend, Ore., his mother Nelle Flood of Orland, a sister Margarie Murphy of Paskenta, and 18 grandchildren.
The Rev. Mike Bryan of First Christian Church of Orland will officiate. Burial will follow at Newville Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Lyle Flood Family Museum Memorial Fund in care of F.D. Sweet & Son or Tri-Counties Bank in Orland. - Transcribed by M.
Inscription
US Army is on a brass plate.
Gravesite Details
On a flat piece of white sculpting clay adhered to the cement is Lyle E. Flood 1924 to 1991 Love Jeremy & Mike Flood & Jason D. - There are two brass vases also adhered to the cement. Quite an eloborate tribute.
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