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Benjamin Pomeroy (Franklin) Lockhart10,77,85 was born on 6 January 1842 in Canada, New Brunswick or USA, Maine.85,235,236 He appeared in the census on 8 June 1860 in USA, Massachusetts, Berkshire Co., West Stockbridge.236 With his father and Martha R., see note under John Alexander Lockhart. He appeared in the census in 1870. Could not find Ben and Mary in the CA census index, both the statewide and SF lists. The 1870 CA census index, which included all of CA except the city of San Francisco, did not have Ben and Mary. Neither did the San Francisco index.
Using search engine with 1870 census tried using Ben, Benjamin and B with age and Maine birthplace, again with Canada bp., no luck finding him. Tried Mary with age, and NY bp, nothing close to Lockhart found. There was a Mary Cullen, 23, b. NY in San Francisco working as a domestic, closest I found. Benjamin owned on 4 November 1899 in USA, California, Mendocino Co..80 Names
Patentee: BENJAMIN F LOCKHART
Survey
State: CALIFORNIA
Acres: 160
Metes/Bounds: No
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 10/3/1934
Land Office: Sacramento
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: Yes
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)
Document Numbers
Document Nr.: 029239
Misc. Doc. Nr.: 0
Accession/Serial Nr.: 1072528
BLM Serial Nr.: CAS 0029239
Comments: FORMERLY SAN FRANCISCO FINAL CERTIFICATE #7292 REISSUE NEW AND CORRECT REPLACING PATENT DATED 11-4-1899 TO CORRECT DESCRIPTION
Legal Land Description
W½NE 30/ 21-N 15-W No Mount Diablo CA Mendocino
E½NW 30/ 21-N 15-W No Mount Diablo CA Mendocino
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From archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/ca-land.htm
Mendocino County, CA - Index to Federal Land Patents
MERIDIAN TWP RANGE SECTION DOCID DATE NAME
MD 0210N 0150W 030 1072528 1934/10/03 LOCKHART BENJAMIN F
He died on 24 March 1929 in USA, California, Humboldt Co., Fortuna.85 Cause of Death: Bronchial Pneumonia (Susan Slade Grosl)
Story from Rena Lynn Moore's work -
Benjamin Pomeroy Lockhart , had been a seaman and spent his younger years working on his father’s three masted clipper ship, The Hungarian. Captain John Alexander Lockhart had been a sailing master nearly all his life and it was in his home port of New York that his young son Ben had been raised and attended school. At school in Brooklyn, Ben met a young schoolmate named Mary Lucretia Cull and they struck up a casual friendship, but when Ben went to sea, they lost track of each other.
Mary Cull, however, was to play an important part in Ben’s life. When 15 other young women decided to travel west seeking their fortunes, Mary accompanied them. The ladies
traveled down the East coast to Panama, crossed the dangerous Isthmus of Panama by mule, braving disease and other dangers to reach their goal. After the crossing, they booked passage to San Francisco where Mary parted company with her traveling companions and eventually found employment as a waitress in early day San Francisco. One day a surprised Mary found one of her customers to be none other than Ben Lockhart, her old school chum who was on leave from his father’s ship. Ben was working on his father's schooner which had put into the port of San Francisco. When the schooner sailed out, Ben remained behind, the two began dating once more and in 1869 he and Mary Cull, were married.
The couple worked at a variety of jobs together before settling down in Sacramento where Ben made his living as a teamster and Mary worked as a waitress. The industrious pair soon accumulated enough money to buy some land and three teams of horses with which Ben set up a drayage business. Eventually they had a fine two story home, filled with the noise and laughter of six children - Joe, born in 1870; Laura in 1871; Lulu in 1872; Annie Laurie in 1874; Ben in 1876 and Martha in 1879.
During one of those years there was a big flood which filled the first floor of the house with water. Mary took her children and the family cow, plus all the chickens and ducks she could round up, and herded them up to the second floor of the huse where they lived for the next several days. Ben, in the meantime, had taken one of his teams down to the levee to help with the sandbagging and ended up losing his dray, although he saved his team.
In 1878 there was an epidemic of diptheria, and all the Lockhart children became desparately ill along with their father. They were all sick with chills and fever (or possibly it was malaria, which we know now is caused by the mosquitoes which were bad at that time). Only Mary remained untouched, and worked days without sleep to nurse her family, all of whom pulled through. From then on, Ben was never well. One summer he suffered heat stroke and was unable to work for months, during which time Mary peddled eggs and butter from door to door to keep the family going.
And then a family they had known by the name of Woods moved away to a new community near the coast in Mendocino Co. The Woods wrote to the Lockharts, telling them they had found "God's Country here in this place called Jackson Valley. Big trees, water everywhere, and cool mountain air. The Lockharts needed no further urging to leave Sacramento and set out to join their friends.
When Ben and Mary Lockhart packed up their six children and all their belongings to make the move to Jackson Valley, their youngest Martha, was just a toddler. They made the move in two wagons, part of a wagon train from the Sacramento Valley to the coast which came up over the mountains east of Round Valley along the Tehama Trail and crossed the Eel River to the old Cahto Trail, the forerunner of today's dirt road berween Dos Rios and Laytonville.
When Ben and Mary came to Jackson Valley in 1880, there were already a dozen or so families scattered about the region. Although the area was heavily forested in virgin redwoods, most of the families looked for homesteads where there was open pasture land for stock and crops. Among those first famillies were the Atkinsons, Hotskins, Shimmins, Agnews, Branscombs, Hauns and of course the Woods who had urged the Lockharts to join them, and with whom the Lockharts stayed until they settled on their own 160 acre homestead, about three miles up Mud Creek. Ben selected that particular site because it had a "lot of good oak" and a minimum amount of redwood. He was refering to the vast amount of Tan Oak on it, which was in great demand at that time. His homestead is now known as the Middleton place
The first year Ben was busy clearing and plowing, building a house, and working at whatever job he could find to earn the few dollars necessary for buying staples. One of his first jobs was for Jonathon Wilson at his mill near Cahto, a distance of several miles from the Lockhart's place, but which Ben frequently covered on foot. Ben was a good millwright, and was also an experienced teamster who could handle either horses or the oxen used for hauling the big logs to the mill. He went to work at Usal driving an oxen team hauling logs. After Andy Haun's mill started operations in Jackson Valley along Mud Creek, Ben also worked there.
The Hauns and the Lockharts became close friends, and Mary Lockhart and her older girls sometimes worked for Mrs. Haun, as well as Mrs. Branscomb, who was known affectionately as "Grandma Branscomb" by all the children of those early families. The Branscombs had 200 acres in the area of the community which now bears their name, and old Ben Branscomb built his family the finest house in the area, a big two story dwelling which sat on the hillside overlooking the valley where the Harwood mill is today.
Sometime in the late 1880's Ben and some of his neighbors hiked over to the thriving new mill town of DeHaven on the coast and signed on for jobs in the mill or the woods. At the De Haven sawmill he worked tallying lumber. It was there that Ben met Steve Elder and the Lovejoys. Ben walked back and forth over the government trail from Westport about once a month. His daughter Laura worked in Westport at the Westport Hotel and often accompanied her father on his trips home over the hill.
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Notes from Susan Slade Grosl's research-
From the Great Register, Mendocino County 1894
Registered 8-11-1892
Lockhart, Benjamin, 48 years, 5’ 7 1/2", Med Complexion, Brown eyes, Brown hair.
Rancher, Maine, Residence Jackson Valley, Cahto Precinct, Cahto Post Office
From the INDEX TO THE ARGONAUTS OF CALIFORNIA:
Lockhart, Benjamin 479 Steamer Falcon From New Orleans, March 20, 1849
(the only trip the Falcon made to the West Coast)
? If this is this Ben, he was only about 7 years old?
From a book listing ships docking in San Francisco:
Ship: HUNGARIAN From: Panama
Type: brig Captain: Harwood
Passage: 46 days from Panama
Arrived: September 7, 1850
Cargo: 6 trunks clothing, pork in barrels, 500 lbs sugar, 400 lbs coffee, 5 sacks beans, 2 cases cigars, 5 cases matches.
Passengers: Mrs. C. Spear, Mr. A. Curtis, Miss Bruce, Mr. J.B. Manchester, Mrs. Wood, 18 unidentified in steerage.
A similar account of the story above was first written in the book: "Pioneering in the Shadow of Cahto Mountain" By Kate Mayo, First Centennial Edition 1874-1974. Lucille Lovejoy Voigts obtained this book, signed by the author. It is now in the collection of Mildred Voigts Miller of Nampa, Idaho.
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Notes on "Franklin" vs. "Pomeroy" from Susan Slade Grosl's research - Everything I have says Franklin, but everything out of California says Pomeroy. His death certificate, signed by J. B. Karry son-in-law, says Franklin. By the time Auntie Bess, Grandma and Hat were interviewed for those articles they were old. Now, I know grandma had a good memory, but if one of them remembered the name wrong, maybe it "helped" the other two to remember it wrong also. I have Franklin in my files, but have notes in there also saying the name "might be" Pomeroy.
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"....those Lockhart girls... I knew them all. Do you know Ruby Branscomb? In Laytonville? She's right from the Lockharts. She's still living right in Laytonville. ... She married a Branscomb, Ruby. Laura, her mother, was a sister of Annie and Lou. There were four of those Lockhart girls. The oldest one married Lafe Middleton, and she raised her children. Annie had two, Hattie and Rob. Then the younger one, I don't think she had any of her own at all, I think maybe she adopted one or two. I think it was Karry she married, she married a man by the name of Karry, Jack Karry. I don't think they ever had any children, but the oldest one, one of her daughters is living in Laytonville now and she raise a family right in Laytonville. She married a Branscomb boy. Her name is Branscomb, Ruby Branscomb, and she lives right on this side of Laytonville."
(Mark Walker) Mary Lucrita Cull and Benjamin Pomeroy (Franklin) Lockhart were married in 1869 in USA, California.237 Not clear where they married.
"Mary went to San Jose where she was working as a waitress when she met an old schoolmate, Ben Lockhart, who was working on his father's ship. They married soon afterwards and he left the ship and they settled in Sacramento." (Mayo, Kate)
"Ben was working on his father's schooner which had put into the port of San Francisco. When the schooner sailed out, Ben remained behind, the two began dating once more and in 1869 he and Mary Cull, were married." (Moore, Rena Lynne)
They237 appeared in the census in 1880 in USA, California, Sacramento Co..148,238 Census Index
Lochardt, B 37 ME 194A
Benjamin 3 CA 194A
Emma 4 CA 194A
Joseph 10 CA 194A
Laura 8 CA 194A
Lulu 6 CA 194A
Marthia 10 CA 194A
Mary 34 NY 194A
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
B. LOCHARDT Self M Male W 37 ME Drayman ME ME
Mary LOCHARDT Wife M Female W 34 NY Keeping House ENG IRE
Joseph LOCHARDT Son S Male W 10 CA At School ME NY
Laura LOCHARDT Dau S Female W 8 CA ME NY
Lulu LOCHARDT Dau S Female W 6 CA ME NY
Emma LOCHARDT Dau S Female W 4 CA ME NY
Benjaman LOCHARDT Son S Male W 3 CA ME NY
Marthia LOCHARDT Dau S Female W 10M CA ME NY
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Source Information:
Census Place Sacramento, Sacramento, California
Family History Library Film 1254071
NA Film Number T9-0071
Page Number 194C
They148,238 appeared in the census on 1 June 1900 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Long Valley Township.239 5, 5 Lockhart, Benj F, Head WM, Jan 1842, 58, Married 30 yrs, ME ME ME, Farmer own free farm
Mary L, Wife WF, May 1844, 56, M-30, 7 child 5 living, NY England England,
Martha K, Daughter, WF, Aug 1881, 19, single, CA ME NY,
43. Mary Lucrita Cull77,85 was born on 12 May 1847 in USA, New York, Westchester Co., New Rochelle.85 She appeared in the census in 1910 in USA, California, Humboldt Co., Eureka.240 Living with her daughter Martha Karry. She died on 13 January 1920 in USA, California, Humboldt Co., Laribee, Dauphiny Creek.85 Died LOCKHART- Near Laribee, Calif., on January 13, 1920. Mrs. Mary L. Lockhart, beloved wife of Benjamin F. Lockhart, and loving mother of Joseph A. Lockhart of this city, Mrs. Laura J. Middleton and Mrs. Annie Lovejoy of Mendocino County, Mrs. Mary L. Lovejoy of Oregon and Mrs. Martha K. Karry of Dauphney Creek, Cal.; a native of New York, aged 72 years, 8 months and 1 day. Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Thursday, January 15th, 1920, at 1:30 o'clock p.m.., from the Pierce Funeral Parlors, No. 707 H St., Eureka, Cal. Interment in Ocean View Cemetery. (S.F. papers please copy.)
Mary was buried on 15 January 1920 in Ocean View Cemetery.85 The following story about Mary Cull is taken from Rena Lynn Moore's work. Susan Slade Grosl's research from "Pioneering in the Shadow of Cahto Mountain" by Kate Mayo simply says that "Mary Cull left New York by boat on a trip to the west coast with a group of women who wanted to make a home for themselves in the west." However, Susan's grandmother, Lucille Mildred Voigts nee Lovejoy, told the "Monkey Story" about Mary Cull and her Niece Ellen many times to Susan as she grew up.
"Mary Cull, a tiny bright blue eyed, red haired Irish colleen, was born in New York in 1847, the youngest of 18 children, all of whom died in childhood except Mary and three brothers. Mary's mother also died when she was very young. At the time, Mary's oldest brother Jim was a successful attorney who lived in a large house with a socialite wife who entertained extensively. Another brother named David was a widower with a girl named Ellen, a little younger than Mary. David and his father Michael decided to go west to the goldfields after their wives died, and they left their two small daughters in the care of Jim Cull and his socialite wife. It was an unfortunate move for the children, who were given the "poor relation" treatment by their aunt. The girls were not allowed to eat with the family but were relegated to the kitchen where they were also expected to work all day as scullery maids.
Feisty young Mary was sure that life had a great deal more to offer, and at night when she and Ellen fell exhausted into their beds she would dream aloud of plans to run away, to go west and find their fathers. At long last, the girls made careful, final plans. They had a small amount of money between them, possibly money which had been left to them by their fathers, and to this was added the sparse wages paid to them by their aunt, every cent of which was saved until they had enough to purchase two train tickets to New Orleans.
On the date selected for their departure, each girl donned her old everyday dress over her one good Sunday dress, and all other possessions of the pair were packed into the one bag they had between them. That evening, their aunt and uncle had a large group of dinner guests. Just as the guests filed into the dining room, Mary opened the parlor cage which held Uncle Jim's pair of pet monkeys and in the resulting pandemonium the two girls slipped out of the house and ran all the way to the railroad station just in time to catch their train. They were 14 and 16 years old.
At New Orleans, they shipped out on a boat to the Isthmus of Panama, where they joined a mule train across country through the dense tropical jungle of Panama, long before the canal was built. After the weeks long journey, during which several members of the party died, they reached the Pacific Ocean where they found berth on a four masted schooner heading up the coast to San Francisco. There was a big storm at sea during the voyage, and in later years Mary would tell her grandchildren of the terror she and Ellen experienced when the ship's crew locked them in their cabin without food for three days, during which time the ship rolled so heavily the tips of the masts dipped into the ocean.
No member of the family living knows the story of the next couple of years for the two young girls. They arrived in San Francisco and eventually made their way to Knight's Landing where Mary went to work as a waitress. Evidently, the girls parted there - Ellen perhaps found her father and joined him, but Mary never found her father, and made her own way, traveling from town to town, taking whatever job she could find.
Then one day, while working as a waitress, (some say she was in San Jose ) she ran into an old friend from home, a young man named Ben Lockhart who was working on his father's schooner which had put into the port of San Francisco. When the schooner sailed out, Ben remained behind and in 1869 he and Mary were married." They settled in Sacramento until 1880.
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Notes for MARY LUCRETIA CULL:
Grandmother Lucille Mildred Voigts nee Lovejoy told this version of the story about Mary Cull and her Niece Ellen:
When Mary was about fifteen or sixteen years old and Ellen was thirteen or fourteen, their fathers decided to go to California and try to seek their fortunes. Michaels wife Mary had died, as had David, his sons, wife. They left their daughters in the care of the elder brother James and his wife. James is said to have been an attorney in New York. After a while the girls decided to run away, due in part to the fact that James wife treated them like servants instead of neices. The girls saved all their money and waited for a day when there was going to be a big party at the house. After the guests arrived, the girls let two pet monkeys loose in the parlor. During the uprour they slipped out of the house, all they had is their good clothes on under their work clothes and what they could carry. They took a train to New Orleans, from there a boat to Panama, crossed the isthmus on mule back, and another ship to San Francisco. After hitting California the girls apparently looked for their fathers. Somewhere along the line they were seperated, with Mary settling in San Jose, where she met an old friend from New Rochelle, New York, Benjamin Franklin Lockhart.
Children were:
i. | Joseph Albert Lockhart85 was born on 23 March 1870 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento.241 March 23--Wife of Benjamin Lockhart, of a son He appeared in the census on 15 June 1900 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Westport Twp.242 SD 3 ED 80 sheet 11 B line 78 210, 210 ?Sour, Herman Head Germany Joseph Albert Lockhart of this city died early this afternoon at the St. Joseph hospital. Joseph Albert worked as a conductor between Eureka and San Francisco on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad most of his life. (Susan Slade Grosl) | |
ii. | Laura Ellen Lockhart was born on 22 August 1871 in USA, California, Sacramento Co..4,244 1871, August 22--Wife of B. Lockhart, of a daughter She died on 25 August 1956 in USA, California, Mendocino Co..4 Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN Age MIDDLETON LAURA ELLA 08/22/1871 HULL LOOKHART F CALIFORNIA MENDOCINO 08/25/1956 85 years It was in Sacramento that young Laura Ella contracted malaria, so prevalent in early Sacramento and they left for a drier, mosquito free environment. They settled in Mendocino County south of Mud Springs and near Branscomb when Laura was 16 years old and it was there that she and her three sisters and two brothers were raised. When Laura reached her 20’s, she moved to Westport and worked as a chambermaid in a large white two story house that still stands today. It was during that time that she met young Lafayette Middleton. Lafe and Laura moved to Usal where they were married on Sept. 25, 1895 when Lafayette was 30 and Laura 24 years old. Laura became pregnant in 1896 and she and her husband suffered the trauma of having a still-born child when little Rachel was born dead. When Laura became pregnant again, she decided to return to her aunt’s homestead in Laytonville to have her child since her aunt was a midwife and in the fall Charlotte was born. In 1900 Laura once again made the long trip from Usal back to her family, and at the Lockhart homestead, another healthy young baby girl was born who was named Ruby Irene. | |
iii. | Lucretia Mary "Lulu" Lockhart77 was born on 14 September 1873 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento.85 She died on 26 October 1936 in USA, Oregon, Baker Co., Baker City.85 Notes for LUCRETIA MARY LOCKHART: Mrs. Lovejoy, 65, Dies here today, Native of California is survived by Husband, Daughters, Son. Mrs Loriston H. Lovejoy, 65, died at 9:15 this morning at her home, 2445 Copy of obituary, sent to Susan D Slade Grossl by Mary Lou Paine, of Oklahoma. Presumed to be from the Baker City, newspaper. Services; Officiating Clergyman: Rev C.T. Croot, Song Selections: Beautiful Bearers: Harold Peet, Harold Wellingham, Mark Ellis, Carl Waltz, D. Cregger. Flowers: Mr. & Mrs. H.R. Grant; Dr. & Mrs. J.W. Huff; Mr. & Mrs. Godwin; Copy of memorial card from: Mary Lou Paine, Stillwater OK Copy of the Funeral Memorial, sent to Susan D Slade Grossl by Mary Lou Paine, Stillwater More About LUCRETIA MARY LOCKHART: | |
21 | iv. | Anna Laurie Lockhart. |
v. | Benjamin Lockhart10,77,85 was born on 4 May 1877 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento. He died on 25 December 1891 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Wilderness Lodge.10 From the articles by Rena Lynn Moore - "Ben died when he was only 14. He had gone out early Christmas morning to shoot squirrels for Christmas dinner. His boot came untied and he leaned down to retie it while holding his gun, which somehow discharged just as he leaned forward, killing him instantly. All the families in the area went to the services in the parlor of the Lockhart home" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Notes for BENJAMIN LOCKHART from Susan Slade Grosl: Out hunting rabbits, shoe lace came undone. He bent over to tie it and shot himself in the head. From the Ft. Bragg Advocate, 06 January 1892, researched by Kathy Clarke Smith | |
vi. | Martha Keith Lockhart85 was born on 4 August 1879 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento.85 She died on 31 May 1968 in USA, California, Humboldt Co., Fortuna.4,85 Last Name First Name Middle Birth Date Mother Maiden Father Last Sex Birth Place Death Place Residence Death Date SSN Age KARRY MARTHA K 08/04/1879 CULL F CALIFORNIA HUMBOLDT 05/31/1968 572-78-7546 88 years Notes for MARTHA KEITH LOCKHART from Susan Slade Grosl: Memorial Obituary KARRY, MARTHA KEITH - May 31, 1968. 454 12th St., Fortuna, Mother of Mrs. Copy from: Violet Whiteley, 25333 Connecticut Ave., Corning CA 96021-9412 More About MARTHA KEITH LOCKHART: | |
vii. | Edna Lockhart was born on 23 August 1883 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento.85 She died after 23 August 1883.85 Died as an Infant. |