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Information card from the Tuolumne Historical Museum:
GURNEY, Elisha
Born: 29 Jan 1840 Maine
Hotel Keeper
Died: 16 Dec 1919
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sonora
Deaths 1915-1924 Book 4 Tuol. Co. page 193
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Elisha Gurney (28363864)
Suggested edit: Would you kindly add the following to his bio -thank you! (the stone is wrong!!)
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Fri 31 Aug 1917, p10c3
Elisha Gurney came down from Camp 24 Monday and left the same evening for Jamestown to spend a few days with his son, William Gurney.
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wed 18 Dec 1918, p8c2
ELISHA GURNEY, PIONEER HOTEL MAN, IS DEAD
Boniface at Sugar Pine for Many Years and Resident Since '61 Buried Today
Sonora Office Stockton Record, Dec 18 - Elisha Gurney, a resident of the county since the year 1861, passed away Monday morning in Tuolumne at the age of 78 years.
The deceased came to Tuolumne county from Maine, his native state. For a long time up to about twenty years ago, he conducted a hotel at Sugar Pine, which in those days of horse-drawn was a favorite stopping place for tourists, campers and teamsters. Prior to that time he was for a number of years in the employ of the late S S Bradford as teamster, hauling lumber with ten, twelve and fourteen horse teams from the mountains to Sonora.
Five sons and two daughters survive him. They are Ed Gurney of Jamestown, William Gurney of Jamestown, James Gurney if Valley Springs, Lou and Marion Gurney of Tuolumne, Mrs W J Hanlon of Tuolumne and Mrs C P Herst of San Francisco.
The funeral was held today, internment being in the IOOf cemetery in Sonora.
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Information card from the Tuolumne Historical Museum:
GURNEY, Elisha
Born: 29 Jan 1840 Maine
Hotel Keeper
Died: 16 Dec 1919
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sonora
Deaths 1915-1924 Book 4 Tuol. Co. page 193
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Elisha Gurney (28363864)
Suggested edit: Would you kindly add the following to his bio -thank you! (the stone is wrong!!)
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Fri 31 Aug 1917, p10c3
Elisha Gurney came down from Camp 24 Monday and left the same evening for Jamestown to spend a few days with his son, William Gurney.
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wed 18 Dec 1918, p8c2
ELISHA GURNEY, PIONEER HOTEL MAN, IS DEAD
Boniface at Sugar Pine for Many Years and Resident Since '61 Buried Today
Sonora Office Stockton Record, Dec 18 - Elisha Gurney, a resident of the county since the year 1861, passed away Monday morning in Tuolumne at the age of 78 years.
The deceased came to Tuolumne county from Maine, his native state. For a long time up to about twenty years ago, he conducted a hotel at Sugar Pine, which in those days of horse-drawn was a favorite stopping place for tourists, campers and teamsters. Prior to that time he was for a number of years in the employ of the late S S Bradford as teamster, hauling lumber with ten, twelve and fourteen horse teams from the mountains to Sonora.
Five sons and two daughters survive him. They are Ed Gurney of Jamestown, William Gurney of Jamestown, James Gurney if Valley Springs, Lou and Marion Gurney of Tuolumne, Mrs W J Hanlon of Tuolumne and Mrs C P Herst of San Francisco.
The funeral was held today, internment being in the IOOf cemetery in Sonora.
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
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Information card from the Tuolumne Historical Museum:
GURNEY, Elisha
Born: 29 Jan 1840 Maine
Hotel Keeper
Died: 16 Dec 1919
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sonora
Deaths 1915-1924 Book 4 Tuol. Co. page 193
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Elisha Gurney (28363864)
Suggested edit: Would you kindly add the following to his bio -thank you! (the stone is wrong!!)
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Fri 31 Aug 1917, p10c3
Elisha Gurney came down from Camp 24 Monday and left the same evening for Jamestown to spend a few days with his son, William Gurney.
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wed 18 Dec 1918, p8c2
ELISHA GURNEY, PIONEER HOTEL MAN, IS DEAD
Boniface at Sugar Pine for Many Years and Resident Since '61 Buried Today
Sonora Office Stockton Record, Dec 18 - Elisha Gurney, a resident of the county since the year 1861, passed away Monday morning in Tuolumne at the age of 78 years.
The deceased came to Tuolumne county from Maine, his native state. For a long time up to about twenty years ago, he conducted a hotel at Sugar Pine, which in those days of horse-drawn was a favorite stopping place for tourists, campers and teamsters. Prior to that time he was for a number of years in the employ of the late S S Bradford as teamster, hauling lumber with ten, twelve and fourteen horse teams from the mountains to Sonora.
Five sons and two daughters survive him. They are Ed Gurney of Jamestown, William Gurney of Jamestown, James Gurney if Valley Springs, Lou and Marion Gurney of Tuolumne, Mrs W J Hanlon of Tuolumne and Mrs C P Herst of San Francisco.
The funeral was held today, internment being in the IOOf cemetery in Sonora.
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Information card from the Tuolumne Historical Museum:
GURNEY, Elisha
Born: 29 Jan 1840 Maine
Hotel Keeper
Died: 16 Dec 1919
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Sonora
Deaths 1915-1924 Book 4 Tuol. Co. page 193
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
Elisha Gurney (28363864)
Suggested edit: Would you kindly add the following to his bio -thank you! (the stone is wrong!!)
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Fri 31 Aug 1917, p10c3
Elisha Gurney came down from Camp 24 Monday and left the same evening for Jamestown to spend a few days with his son, William Gurney.
Stockton Daily Evening Record, Wed 18 Dec 1918, p8c2
ELISHA GURNEY, PIONEER HOTEL MAN, IS DEAD
Boniface at Sugar Pine for Many Years and Resident Since '61 Buried Today
Sonora Office Stockton Record, Dec 18 - Elisha Gurney, a resident of the county since the year 1861, passed away Monday morning in Tuolumne at the age of 78 years.
The deceased came to Tuolumne county from Maine, his native state. For a long time up to about twenty years ago, he conducted a hotel at Sugar Pine, which in those days of horse-drawn was a favorite stopping place for tourists, campers and teamsters. Prior to that time he was for a number of years in the employ of the late S S Bradford as teamster, hauling lumber with ten, twelve and fourteen horse teams from the mountains to Sonora.
Five sons and two daughters survive him. They are Ed Gurney of Jamestown, William Gurney of Jamestown, James Gurney if Valley Springs, Lou and Marion Gurney of Tuolumne, Mrs W J Hanlon of Tuolumne and Mrs C P Herst of San Francisco.
The funeral was held today, internment being in the IOOf cemetery in Sonora.
Contributor: Anne Shurtleff Stevens (46947920)
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