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Sarah,
Your note last April in the Bludworth Family Genealogy Forum showed
interest in Charles F Bludworth, who "went to California and was never
heard from again." I've tried to write you privately but the messages bounced.
Actually Charles Bludworth was a very interesting character, a
member (called Bloodthirsty Charlie) of the California Rangers, set up
specifically to capture a notorious outlaw (they did), a Commissioner
who helped organize the new Merced County, and the county's first
sheriff. That was in the early 1850s.
He married on 13 May 1857 in the town of Snelling's Ranch (later just
Snelling), Merced County, California, my grandmother's first cousin
Frances B White, daughter of David White and Sarah Ann Snelling. In my
book on the Snelling family I have more than 11 columns of material
about the Charles, his family, and descendants, plus photos of both
Charles and Frances White. I don't know when Charles arrived in the
area; I don't remember him being in the 1850 census of Mariposa County,
but I think he was listed in the 1852 census. The Snellings were '49ers
who reached what became their ranch on the Merced River in the late fall
of 1850.
Charles Bludworth, who died in 1869, is buried with several Snellings at
the Snelling Family Cemetery, on a bluff overlooking the town of
Snelling. The town is about 20 miles north of the City of Merced on
State Hwy 59.
The Snelling book, THE FAMILY OF WILLIAM SNELLING AND SARAH SCOTT,
should you be interested, is 161 letter size pages, double column, fully
indexed, soft bound, and sells for $13 postpaid, just about my cost to
reproduce, bind, and mail it.
If you are not interested in the book, I will answer questions. Since I
put everything into book files, rather than genealogy programs, there is
no GEDCOM.
One question: do you know a Harry W Bludworth of California? Just
yesterday I received a copy of part of the Merced Express newspaper for
2 Jul 1881. It tells about a Harry W Bludworth who murdered a man in
Bakersfield about two weeks earlier. The article says that Bludworth had
been a resident of Snelling for several years. He was not a member of
Charles Bludworth's immediate family, though I guess he could have been
a brother or nephew, and I had never run across him before.
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