Fifth Generation

20. George Edgar Lovejoy^94,95,96 was born on 1 September 1870 in USA, Maine, Penobscot Co., Charleston.⁶ He owned on 31 December 1904 in USA, California, Mendocino Co..⁹⁷ Names

Patentee: GEORGE E LOVEJOY

Survey

State: CALIFORNIA
Acres: 160
Metes/Bounds: No

Title Transfer

Issue Date: 12/31/1904
Land Office: Assigned For Automation
Cancelled: No
U.S. Reservations: Yes
Mineral Reservations: No
Authority: May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)

Document Numbers

Document Nr.: 8601
Accession/Serial Nr.: CACAAA 031173
BLM Serial Nr.: CACAAA 031173


Legal Land Description
E½NE 20/ 22-N 16-W No Mount Diablo CA Mendocino
N½NW 21/ 22-N 16-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 SEC DOCID DATE NAME

MD 0220N 0160W 020 8601 1904/12/31 LOVEJOY GEORGE E
MD 0220N 0160W 021 8601 1904/12/31 LOVEJOY GEORGE E

He appeared in the census on 8 April 1930 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Round Valley Indian Reservation.⁹⁸ Living with his daughter and son-in-law Bill & Hattie Clarke, working as a house carpenter. George died on 14 June 1962 at the age of 91 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Covelo.⁶ He was buried at Valley View Cemetery in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Covelo. From Rena Lynn Moore's articles-
" George was only five when his family came to California in 1875. George worked with his brother Lori in the mills and in the woods falling trees while his father was head sawyer at DeHaven. When his family moved to the Fox Creek/Eel River homestead, George took over the freight wagon and team from middle brother Charles, hauling the shakes, fence posts and splits they were producing with Cole over to Round Valley. George was also the blacksmith for the family, doing all the necessary work, horseshoeing and machinery repairs.
In 1891 George laid claim to the 160 acres adjoining his parent's property. During this time the Lovejoys and Lockharts became regular visitors in one another's homes, and the two pretty Lockhart daughters, Annie and Lou, had caught the eye of the Lovejoy brothers. In 1894, two years after Lori married Lou, 24 year old George married 18 year old Annie Lockhart. They, as had Lori and Lou, moved into the family complex at the foot of Fox Creek.
Immediately after they were married, George went to work improving his own homestead adjoining his father's and brother's land. First, the road was extended back to his place, which was about one mile down the South Fork of the Eel. Next, following the usual pattern of early homesteads, a barn was built for the stock and only then was the small two room cabin built.
By the time the cabin was underway, Annie was expecting their first child, but she pitched in to help with laying out the garden and planting fruit tees and flowers. When the baby was due George took Annie to Usal, where Annie's parents had moved. Annie stayed there until after the baby's birth, with Dr. Oscar Sherwood in attendance. The baby, a girl, was named Harriet after George's mother. She would always be known as Hattie. When the baby was six months old, George moved his family into their new home.
Since it was located near the bend in the South Fork commonly referred to as Horseshoe Bend, that was the name by which George and Annie referred to their home and it was by that name it was always known and indicated on the early maps of the area. Young (Cousin) Fred Warren moved from the other Lovejoy home in with Annie and George. He was a great help to George in the work of continuing the building of pens and fences, plowing the big pasture in front of the cabin and planting it to corn and grain. Along with the work of cutting shakes, ties, and stakes, the Lovejoys also trapped and sold furs to the ready market for skins back East.
In 1899 Annie's second child and only son, Bob was born. Shortly after his birth, an accidental meeting with a man named P.J. Tormey caused the decision to build a large house which is today known as The White House, but which the Lovejoys always called "Horseshoe Bend Lodge". Tormey, founding president of the Owl Drug Stores, was on a camping and fishing trip with a friend. An early winter storm forced the men to go for help. At daybreak they came to Horseshoe Bend. The two cold, soaking wet men were welcomed into the warm Lovejoy kitchen and Annie set about cooking one of her huge country breakfasts for them while George entertained them with tall tales. The soft spoken, twinkle-eyed woodsman and the wealthy businessman from the Bay Area apparently struck it off immediately and Tormey asked if he could come back and bring his young son.
That was the beginning of a long friendship and a steady stream of visitors who came to hike, hunt, fish, explore or just camp out along the edge of the river on the Lovejoy property. George put up some small cabins and tents with wooden floors across the river, and many guests brought their own tents or cots to set up out under the stars. Tormey kept telling the Lovejoys they should build a lodge and make a full time career out of taking in guests, so plans began to take shape for Horseshoe Bend Lodge.
During the time his brother Lori lived in the Sherwood area to work at the new mill in Willits, George started driving his buggy or wagon down to the Sherwood Inn to pick up guests coming up from the Bay Area by train to Ukiah, and from there by stage coach. The rail line to Willits would not be completed until 1902 and to Sherwood in 1904. Hattie Lovejoy remembers riding with her father to Sherwood Inn, always an exciting event as the trip took several hours each way and the road went over some particularly precipitous terrain, especially over Strong Mountain. It was uphill on the return trip so the trip home took a full day. The horses used to get so tired pulling the loaded buggy or wagon up Strong Mountain that Hattie says she has seen them just lie down in the road, unable to go any further.
The Inn was run by Edith Lloyd at the time, the lady who would later become Edith Murphy. The Lloyds had a daughter named Margaret, the same age as Hattie, and Hattie remembers their standing in front of the Inn watching the stage as it approached in great clouds of dust, the horses straining to reach the end of the run and food and water. There would be a basin of fresh water set out on a bench on the back porch where the dusty travelers would wash up, using a towel on a roller nailed to the wall. Everyone went to bed early, getting up at daylight for breakfast before starting out on the long trip back to Horseshoe bend.
As business picked up, and more and more guests began coming in from all over the State, Lori Lovejoy decided he was overlooking a good bet himself and gave up his logging job to return to Wilderness Lodge and begin his own building program to prepare for paid guests. One small ad was placed in a family type magazine of the day, the name of which no one now recalls, and that one ad brought such a response that from then on both Lovejoy families had a full house of visitors during the summer months, and a few regulars like the Tormey family who came up during the winter when the pace of life slowed and long hours of companionship could be spent outdoors on the snow, or indoors around the fire and a table laden with good food.
Although the big house at Horseshoe Bend (Hattie says that none of the family ever called it a "Lodge") was not actually completed until the fall of 1905, the housewarming party to celebrate its construction was held in the late summer of 1904. The party was held in the upstairs section of the house, where the five bedrooms had not yet been walled in, but the floor had been laid and the staircase put in. Downstairs there was a big parlor, a dining room and two bedrooms. The original cabin, which was 24 feet long, was left where it was with a connecting wall to the big house so it could be used for the kitchen. At the back door there was a wooden platform surrounding an apple tree and adjoining a one and a half story structure that served as a woodshed and laundry room downstairs, with a storage loft above. On the wooden deck there was a long sink with water piped in from the springs. Steps from the outside went down to the root cellar under the old house, and it was there that the family kept perishables like butter, milk and cheese. In the kitchen there was a long table which could seat 30 people, but on the day of the housewarming, additional tables were set up there and in the dining room."

Herman Miller's oral history mentions "They (Lovejoy's) owned places below, down on the river below Branscomb. Larry Lovejoy and his family and George Lovejoy and his family, they lived at a place called Horseshoe Bend. They made their living by taking in tourists in the summertime. They used to haul'em from Sherwood Valley, the train, from there down to their places. With horses and wagon. Well, people from San Francisco they used to -- guys used to come up, go on hunting trips, just like they do now."

Also Mark Walker remembers that "... at Elder Creek they (school teachers) always boarded at Lovejoy's. The teachers over at Elder Creek had to walk a mile an half to home and back every day."

"...of Branscomb was in Ukiah Tuesday." UT 5:3 30 July 1912

"...case up for trial. Argument over right of way over a much traveled road crossing Keiffer's land." DD 1:4 21 Dec. 1917

"Sold property to Mrs. L.A. Toney, 29 Nov. 1930. Property in Covelo." DD 3:1 12 Dec. 1930

"Jackson Valley resident in Ukiah en route to San Francisco where he was called as a witness in a land suit." DD 4 June 1948 (12 June 1908)

A celebrated bear, old Twotoes, so-called from having lost part of his foot in a trap, was killed by G. E. Lovejoy and E. G. Bigelow, September 30, 1907. He measured six feet in length, and his spread of forelegs was even greater. Such a bear works havoc with stock. Sheep will return to their sleeping place though routed out night after night by bear (Carpenter 101).
Anna Laurie Lockhart and George Edgar Lovejoy were married in 1894 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Elder Creek. They appeared in the census in June 1900 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Long Valley Township.⁹⁹ 190, 190 Lovejoy, Loriston H, Head WM, May 1863, 37 yrs, Married 7 yrs, ME ME ME, Farmer, own free farm.
Lulu M. Wife WF, Sept 1873, 26 yrs, M-7, blank, CA ME NY,
Bessie M. Daughter WF, Sept 1893, 6 yrs, single CA ME CA
Chas E. Son, WM, Feb 1895, 5, single CA ME CA
Lucile M. Daughter, WF, May 1896, single CA ME CA
Abial, Father, WM, Aug 1824, 75 yrs, Married 42 yrs, ME ME ME farm laborer
Harriet W, Mother, WF, Feb 1837, 63 yrs, M-42, 4 child born 3 living. ME ME ME

191, 191 Lovejoy, George E, Head, WM, Sept 1870, 29, Married 5 yrs, ME ME ME, Farmer, own free farm
Annie E, Wife, WF, Oct 1875, 24, M-5, 2 child born & living, CA ME NY
Hattie M, Daughter, WF, Nov 1895, 4, single, CA ME CA
Robert T, Son, WM, Oct 1899, single, CA ME CA
Warren, Fred H, B-in-law, WM, Dec 1881, 18 single, CA ME IL, trapper
Leland S, B-in-law, WM, Aug 1887, 12, single, CA ME IL, farm laborer
They⁹⁹ appeared in the census on 20 April 1910 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Long Valley Township.¹⁰⁰ Long Valley Township, (Jackson Precinat) ED 62 sheet 3A
Eel River Road, house 27
Lovejoy, George E. Head 39, married 15 yrs., Maine, Maine, Maine, General farming
Annie L. Wife 34, married 15 yrs., California, Maine, New York.
Harriet M. Daughter, 14, California
Robert T. Son, 10, California
Davidson, Peter R. Hired man
Presley, Royal V, Boarder

The next house wa Charles and Princetta Elder.
Anna and George¹⁰⁰ appeared in the census on 14 February 1920 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Round Valley Township, Precinct 2.¹⁰¹ Lovejoy, George E. Head 49 rents house, Laborer of general work for wages.
Annie Wife 44
Frost, Frank W. Boarder 85
George born in Maine, Father and Mother both born in Maine.
Annie born in California, Father Maine, Mother New York.
Frank born in Maine, Father Dist Columbia, Mother Maine.

21. Anna Laurie Lockhart¹⁰² was born on 9 October 1875 in USA, California, Sacramento Co., Sacramento. She died probably of cancer, as she had a tumor, on 29 January 1929 at the age of 53 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Covelo.¹⁰² Obit from Loriston Lovejoys bible, no newspaper name listed or date (Grosl):

Mrs. Anna Lovejoy Passes at Covelo Mrs. Anna Lonnie Lovejoy died at her home in Covelo Tuesday morning. at 10:45. The funeral services were held yesterday under the auspices of Anker & Cleland of Willits. Mrs. Lovejoy was one of the best known residents of Round Valley and is survived by her husband, George E. Lovejoy, one daughter Mrs. Harriet Clark, and one son, Robert Lovejoy. She also leaves a father, three sisters and one brother.
She was buried at Valley View Cemetery in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Covelo.¹⁰³ Anna Lonnie Lovejoy 29 Oct 1875-29 Jan 1929 Valley View Cem., Covelo Annie was a photographer and an artist. She painted on china.

"Annie, Annie was a naturalist and a woodsman. Annie trapped all the time. _Trapped otters. She used to, long time ago when money was scarce, she used to make $100 every winter catching otters and taking _ right along where they lived. Annie was a, she wasn't a woman to go out, she wasn't a city woman. Anything in the country though, any kind of plant, growing this, growing that, trees or _, or animals, deer ... Annie knew."
(Mark Walker)

Children were:

	i.	Harriett "Hattie" May Lovejoy12,13,94 was born on 30 November 1895 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Usal.13 "Hattie, I'm not right sure about Hattie, she was born either at Wilderness Lodge or over at the Lockhart place, one or the other. She was born in '95, the 30th of Nov...." (Mark Walker) She died on 14 December 1996 at the age of 101 in USA, California, Mendocino Co., Covelo. cremated, ashed scattered in front pasture at the home ranch. Hattie was a superb horsewoman. As a girl she rode her horse to the Elder Creek School. A tree near the old school site still shows where her horse's hooves dug out a ring around its base where it was tethered, waiting for her during her eight years of elementary school. The pictures I have typically show her with her horse. One shows Mrs. Clarke winning the cowgirl race at the Covelo Rodeo held July 4th, 1924. "...My folks and the Lovejoy's associated quite a bit and I went to school with Hattie and Rob, Charlie and Bess, Lucille and _. .......I corresponded with Hattie during WWI. When you had your reunion down there I went over and stayed with Hattie! My nephew, he used to go and stay with Hattie for quite a while, for a week or two at a time and live on the ranch. So we got together on that day. We wanted to take Hattie out to dinner. She didn't like the idea of going out anywhere very much. So I says, Well, we'll just go out and buy a dinner someplace and we'll cook it on your table. How'd that go? 'Oh, that'll be fine, I like that much better than going out." "She didn't like to go out," agreed Marjorie. "No, well she's always been that way, more or less. She.. take her out in her environment though, and she knows what to do. But she's just not a town girl, not a city girl. You take her though on the ranch or the mountains and she'll show you anything you want to know about. She's one of those types and her mother was the same." ( Mark Walker) "Grandma Hattie died Sat. Dec 14, 1996. When it started getting close to her birthday, she decided she was going to make it to 101 and by golly she did! I'd forgotten that Aunt Bess died so close to when Bobby did. When Bobby died, Ken Lovejoy called Gr. H to tell her. She was standing next to the treadle sewing machine and started crying, I was so shocked, Grandma crying was totally beyond comprehension. Speaking of the treadle sewing machine (which my cousin Janet Clough Coleman has), Grandad (George) got it as a Christmas present for Grandma Lovejoy the year Grandma Hattie was 5 (1900) She could remember standing at the window and watching him carry it out of the barn and up to the house to surprise her mother, there was a light snow falling. Makes me wish I'd been there." Kathy Smith For more information on Lovejoys and the descendants of Harriet, email Kathy Smith at ksmith@pacific.net
10	ii.	Robert Tormey "Bob" Lovejoy.