Joseph Crawford Buffum was born 17 July 1874 at the family Ranch on Santa Rosa Creek Road near Cambria, the second born and eldest surviving son of James Monroe Buffum (1824-1889) and Jane Ellen "Jennie" (Crawford) Buffum (1844-1921). He attended the nearby one-room Santa Rosa School, taught by Ellen Dill, an old friend of his mother's who had also come from Nova Scotia. Joseph was 15 when his father died, and from that point on, he and his mother operated the ranch together.
As a young man, Joseph had a sweetheart in Cambria, a young lady named Mabel Bright, and the two were planning to be married as soon as their family responsibilities permitted as they were both caring for and helping to support widowed mothers. As things turned out, Mabel's mother outlived Joseph himself, and so the marriage never took place.
After operating the Santa Rosa ranch with his mother for 23 years, the two sold the property in 1912 to the Marquart family and moved to Lemoore, in the San Joaquin Valley, where they bought property across the road from the ranch of Charles Julian and Mary Grizzella "Zella" (Buffum) Russell, one of Joseph's younger sisters and her husband. There they ranched for half a dozen years, until Joseph's mother Jennie developed cancer. At that point the Lemoore property was sold, and Joseph and Jennie returned to Paso Robles, where Jennie lived in a sanitarium until her death.
Joseph lived out his days in San Luis Obispo and died there in 1933. His body was returned to Cambria for burial in the old Pioneer Cemetery, where he shares a plot with his mother, father, two brothers and a sister-in-law.
As a young man, Joseph had a sweetheart in Cambria, a young lady named Mabel Bright, and the two were planning to be married as soon as their family responsibilities permitted as they were both caring for and helping to support widowed mothers. As things turned out, Mabel's mother outlived Joseph himself, and so the marriage never took place.
After operating the Santa Rosa ranch with his mother for 23 years, the two sold the property in 1912 to the Marquart family and moved to Lemoore, in the San Joaquin Valley, where they bought property across the road from the ranch of Charles Julian and Mary Grizzella "Zella" (Buffum) Russell, one of Joseph's younger sisters and her husband. There they ranched for half a dozen years, until Joseph's mother Jennie developed cancer. At that point the Lemoore property was sold, and Joseph and Jennie returned to Paso Robles, where Jennie lived in a sanitarium until her death.
Joseph lived out his days in San Luis Obispo and died there in 1933. His body was returned to Cambria for burial in the old Pioneer Cemetery, where he shares a plot with his mother, father, two brothers and a sister-in-law.
Joseph Crawford Buffum was born 17 July 1874 at the family Ranch on Santa Rosa Creek Road near Cambria, the second born and eldest surviving son of James Monroe Buffum (1824-1889) and Jane Ellen "Jennie" (Crawford) Buffum (1844-1921). He attended the nearby one-room Santa Rosa School, taught by Ellen Dill, an old friend of his mother's who had also come from Nova Scotia. Joseph was 15 when his father died, and from that point on, he and his mother operated the ranch together.
As a young man, Joseph had a sweetheart in Cambria, a young lady named Mabel Bright, and the two were planning to be married as soon as their family responsibilities permitted as they were both caring for and helping to support widowed mothers. As things turned out, Mabel's mother outlived Joseph himself, and so the marriage never took place.
After operating the Santa Rosa ranch with his mother for 23 years, the two sold the property in 1912 to the Marquart family and moved to Lemoore, in the San Joaquin Valley, where they bought property across the road from the ranch of Charles Julian and Mary Grizzella "Zella" (Buffum) Russell, one of Joseph's younger sisters and her husband. There they ranched for half a dozen years, until Joseph's mother Jennie developed cancer. At that point the Lemoore property was sold, and Joseph and Jennie returned to Paso Robles, where Jennie lived in a sanitarium until her death.
Joseph lived out his days in San Luis Obispo and died there in 1933. His body was returned to Cambria for burial in the old Pioneer Cemetery, where he shares a plot with his mother, father, two brothers and a sister-in-law.
As a young man, Joseph had a sweetheart in Cambria, a young lady named Mabel Bright, and the two were planning to be married as soon as their family responsibilities permitted as they were both caring for and helping to support widowed mothers. As things turned out, Mabel's mother outlived Joseph himself, and so the marriage never took place.
After operating the Santa Rosa ranch with his mother for 23 years, the two sold the property in 1912 to the Marquart family and moved to Lemoore, in the San Joaquin Valley, where they bought property across the road from the ranch of Charles Julian and Mary Grizzella "Zella" (Buffum) Russell, one of Joseph's younger sisters and her husband. There they ranched for half a dozen years, until Joseph's mother Jennie developed cancer. At that point the Lemoore property was sold, and Joseph and Jennie returned to Paso Robles, where Jennie lived in a sanitarium until her death.
Joseph lived out his days in San Luis Obispo and died there in 1933. His body was returned to Cambria for burial in the old Pioneer Cemetery, where he shares a plot with his mother, father, two brothers and a sister-in-law.
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Burial 3/30/1933
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