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John Beatie was born December 19, 1861 in Hampshire, Illinois after his parents, Daniel and Aurora Priscilla Baldwin Beatie, had moved there from Vermont. A change of climate was suggested to improve his health so when he was sixteen, John took the train west; his first job in California was herding geese in Lincoln. He liked what he saw of the State and persuaded his parents to join him. By the time they arrived he was working for a large terra cotta firm in Lincoln. They came north and bought land on Cow Creek; soon after that John followed them to work for his father on the ranch.
Alice Ellen Hawes was born October 17, 1864 on the Hawes Ranch near Anderson to William Henry and Rebecca Elizabeth Foster Hawes. She and her six siblings all learned the hard work of ranch life, but she did have a special dress for the party at the Disney Ranch, the night she met her future husband.
John Beatie and Alice Hawes were married October 2, 1884. They, then,
filed for adjoining eighty acre homesteads up on a plateau west of the
family ranch. They built a house on/between the two claims and John supplemented
their income working for his father. When the claims were established they
moved to the Beatie ranch and shared the house with John's parents. They
had twelve children:
Henry William | b. September 16, 1885 | d. October 29, 1954 |
Daniel Webster | b. December 8, 1886 | d. November 1, 1982 |
Helen Alice (Fraser, Gritton) | b. June 4, 1888 | d. January 1, 1984 |
Blanche Ellen | b. December 11, 1889 | d. May 26, 1974 |
Harry Bradford | b. May 13, 1891 | d. December 1, 1965 |
Jennie Elizabeth (Dranga, Robinson) | b. January 3, 1893 | |
John Silas | b. August 10, 1894 | d. December 29, 1970 |
Charles Baldwin | b. March 14, 1896 | d. December 7, 1991 |
Albert McKinley | b. November 20, 1897 | d. June 5, 1926 |
Emma Mabel (Milligan) | b. November 4, 1899 | d. February 5, 1987 |
Ralph Roosevelt | b. September 25, 1901 | d. February 13, 1962 |
Florence Aurora (Milligan) | b. September 23, 1903 | d. June 17, 1955 |
Alice adjusted to city life and remained in Stockton to be near most of her children; Henry returned to Anderson and Jennie was the only one to leave California. Alice died April 22, 1943 and was buried in Stockton.
Source: Shasta Historical Society
May 14, 1994
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