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• Hij is geboren op 23 februari 1912 in Lewis, Mariposa County, California., Verenigde Staten.
• Woonachtig: n/a
  Catheys Valley, California 95306, USA.
• Hij is overleden op 21 juni 1989 in Cathey's Valley, Merced, California, Verenigde Staten, hij was toen 77 jaar oud.

  Age:77

• Hij is begraven in Catheys Valley Cemetery, Catheys Valley, California, United States.
• Een kind van John Calvin WESTFALL en Lenora Adeline (Nora) PROBASCO (WESTFALL)
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 30 juli 2015.

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(Research):Cathys Valley,

My ancestors came to Mariposa County on both sides of the f amily in 1854. {They first came to California through Uta h where a son of Samuel Demoss and his wife Sarah Elizabet h Probasco DeMoss had a son in 1852 while staying in Salt L ake City with Bingham Young. They left there in 1852 and co ntinued to California staying in Eureka until spring of 185 4 when they came to Mariposa County.} The Probascos left from Illinois on a wagon train and cam e out arriving in Mariposa in 1854. My great-grandfather, J ohn W. {Workman} Probasco, had two sons, Henry and Jacob i n California. Jacob was my mother’s father. He raised his f amily on the old Probasco ranch in the Green Mountain area. In fact, when my grandfather left Illinois and came acros s by wagon train some place on the prairie, East of Califor nia, it was his duty one night to stand guard. The Indian s at that time, I don’t know which tribe was running in tha t part of the country. They would slip in at night and swip e the horses and supplies. So one night my grandfather wa s standing guard around the wagon train that had formed a c ircle. It was his duty to watch the stock as this night wa s the darkest nightever. He stood in a big wash and was lo oking up, when he saw little blips going over the rise. H e waited for a while and said he just let loose with his ol d double barrel shot gun, then the next morning they got u p when it was still dark and left camp. Later that day, a rider came through and wanted to know i f they had seen that big fight that they had last night. Th ey asked why, and he said, " Well there were 16 dead Indian s back there in the wash." Well, granddad would tell that s tory testifying to it’s truth only each time there were 14 , 17, or 16. The Chinese worked for 50 cents per man, per day, there i s a little difference between the wages those days and th e wages today. They camped under the big oak tree down by t he creek where our ranch was and built this rock wall fenc e which is still standing in places and being used. I remem ber the wall well. When I was younger, I used to run aroun d it hunting squirrels. Our ranch was just about 3 miles north of Green Mountain. I n fact, the road Darrah to Mariposa came right up the creek , pass the old place where I was raised. They tried at on e time to make it the main road, but my old Great Grandfath er put a stop to that. I remember our neighbors, Effie and Emmet Preston. They liv ed up the creek about a mile and we both had turkeys. {Effie Probasco was the daughter of Henry Probasco (son o f John Workman Probasco), Emmet Preston was the son of Nanc y Jane Chapman and Jefferson Preston. Effie and her husban d lived in the old Probasco home place in Oakvale. It get s more complicated here as Effie’s mother was the sister o f Jefferson Preston and Nancy was the daughter of Catherin e Probasco, the daughter of John Workman Probasco, and Jame s Chapman.}

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