Aged 82 years, 5 months, 7 days. Birth date was calculated from this age at death....................................
......The land that the cemetery occupies once belonged to William Daniel Canfield and his wife, Sallie Ann. The first burial was Sylvia Ann, their 11 year old daughter. Some of the Knowles family are buried there, in-laws of the Canfield family. William and his wife, Sallie Ann, along with their children, Ellen, Oscar, Albert, Clarisa and Sylvia Ann came by wagon train in 1847, along the Oregon Trail to Oregon Territory. After settling into a community which had been started by Marcus Whitman, William was working as a blacksmith. Soon after they arrived, the Cayuse Indians attacked the community and killed a number of people, but William and his family escaped. This has been referred to as the Whitman Massacre of 1857. William was able to book passage on a ship going to California in 1849 and settled in what is now Sonoma County. He purchased land in the area of what is now Sebastopol, created the cemetery when his daughter died, and lived on the rest of the land until his death at the age of 82. William and Sallie Ann celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1888, shortly before Sallie Ann died on April 3rd 1888. An article in The Press Democrat Newspaper of June 12th, 2016 describes a more detailed history of his life and times and the history behind the massacre.
......The land that the cemetery occupies once belonged to William Daniel Canfield and his wife, Sallie Ann. The first burial was Sylvia Ann, their 11 year old daughter. Some of the Knowles family are buried there, in-laws of the Canfield family. William and his wife, Sallie Ann, along with their children, Ellen, Oscar, Albert, Clarisa and Sylvia Ann came by wagon train in 1847, along the Oregon Trail to Oregon Territory. After settling into a community which had been started by Marcus Whitman, William was working as a blacksmith. Soon after they arrived, the Cayuse Indians attacked the community and killed a number of people, but William and his family escaped. This has been referred to as the Whitman Massacre of 1857. William was able to book passage on a ship going to California in 1849 and settled in what is now Sonoma County. He purchased land in the area of what is now Sebastopol, created the cemetery when his daughter died, and lived on the rest of the land until his death at the age of 82. William and Sallie Ann celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1888, shortly before Sallie Ann died on April 3rd 1888. An article in The Press Democrat Newspaper of June 12th, 2016 describes a more detailed history of his life and times and the history behind the massacre.
Aged 82 years, 5 months, 7 days. Birth date was calculated from this age at death....................................
......The land that the cemetery occupies once belonged to William Daniel Canfield and his wife, Sallie Ann. The first burial was Sylvia Ann, their 11 year old daughter. Some of the Knowles family are buried there, in-laws of the Canfield family. William and his wife, Sallie Ann, along with their children, Ellen, Oscar, Albert, Clarisa and Sylvia Ann came by wagon train in 1847, along the Oregon Trail to Oregon Territory. After settling into a community which had been started by Marcus Whitman, William was working as a blacksmith. Soon after they arrived, the Cayuse Indians attacked the community and killed a number of people, but William and his family escaped. This has been referred to as the Whitman Massacre of 1857. William was able to book passage on a ship going to California in 1849 and settled in what is now Sonoma County. He purchased land in the area of what is now Sebastopol, created the cemetery when his daughter died, and lived on the rest of the land until his death at the age of 82. William and Sallie Ann celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1888, shortly before Sallie Ann died on April 3rd 1888. An article in The Press Democrat Newspaper of June 12th, 2016 describes a more detailed history of his life and times and the history behind the massacre.
......The land that the cemetery occupies once belonged to William Daniel Canfield and his wife, Sallie Ann. The first burial was Sylvia Ann, their 11 year old daughter. Some of the Knowles family are buried there, in-laws of the Canfield family. William and his wife, Sallie Ann, along with their children, Ellen, Oscar, Albert, Clarisa and Sylvia Ann came by wagon train in 1847, along the Oregon Trail to Oregon Territory. After settling into a community which had been started by Marcus Whitman, William was working as a blacksmith. Soon after they arrived, the Cayuse Indians attacked the community and killed a number of people, but William and his family escaped. This has been referred to as the Whitman Massacre of 1857. William was able to book passage on a ship going to California in 1849 and settled in what is now Sonoma County. He purchased land in the area of what is now Sebastopol, created the cemetery when his daughter died, and lived on the rest of the land until his death at the age of 82. William and Sallie Ann celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1888, shortly before Sallie Ann died on April 3rd 1888. An article in The Press Democrat Newspaper of June 12th, 2016 describes a more detailed history of his life and times and the history behind the massacre.
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