Son of Stephen Isaac Easley &
Rebecca E. Cunningham
One of nine children;
6 sisters & 2 brothers

Married Mary Ann Blamey
May 1859 San Jose, Santa Clara, CA
Father of twelve children;
5 daughters, 6 sons & 1 unknown
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1861 Edward Everett
1863 Cornelia Rebecca "Nellie" (Rolston)***see below
1865 Sarah Elizabeth (Begg)***see below
1867 Susan Frances (Taylor)***see below
1870 Stephen Richard
1874 Emily Missouri "Minnie" (Thurman)***see below
1875 Pleasant Woodson
1877 Grace Marguerite (Haigh)***see below
1878 Warham Joshua "Worrie"
1881 John Jacob Astor d. 1937 CA
1889 Roy Blamey d. 1972 CA
18?? Unknown

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Ventura Free Press on the 8th Nov 1879
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S. M. W. Easley last week killed a wild hog which has been roaming in the hills for some years. Its tusks had grown to a length of twelve inches, and the hair on its sides was longer than ordinary wool. It weighed 375 pounds.
(Yes, that was news in those days)

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An Under-sheriff in Ventura Co, CA, he later became a Judge

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shared by JoAnnFoulk on 24 Jun 2010
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Mr. Samuel Miller Woodson Easley was an early settler who farmed bees in the Sycamore Canyon and his son Roy was the first white child born there. In 1873 Ventura County was set aside from being a part of Santa Barbara County and Mr. Easley was the first County Clerk of the new county.

Mr. Easley was well educated and hated to see his large family grow up without an education, so he did something about it. He established the first English speaking school in the valley. He was fortunate enough to find a man traveling through who could teach school and persuaded him to stay for a while and teach school. Lacking any equipment, the school was taught out-of-doors under a large Sycamore tree in the canyon where Mr. Easley lived.

Supers from beehives were used as desks. When Mr. Easley could persuade his first teacher to stay no longer, he procured a second teacher from a college in San Francisco to continue teaching the school he had started. Besides his own children, those from other families attended this first school.