Re: California Gard Family Anna Mary KUPSER
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California Gard Family
Barry Foster 10/19/09
This was found under Yuba County biographies:
MRS. ANNA MARY KUPSER
The fitness and capability of women to discharge their duties with efficiency is amply demonstrated in the case of Mrs. Anna Mary Kupser, who since the death of her husband in 1916 has operated the ranch of 600 acres located eight miles northeast of Marysville in the Hallwood district in Yuba County.Anna Mary Gard was born in Prussia, on December 15, 1856, a daughter of Jacob and Katherine (Langendorfer) Gard, natives of Prussia.Jacob Gard was a farmer in Prussia, who came to California in 1864 via Panama and after mining in Plumas County for four years returned home in the spring of 1868.In the fall of 1868 he returned to California again, bringing his daughter Charlotte and two nieces with him and finally locating on a ranch in Browns Valley.In April, 1872, he received word that his wife had passed away, and he returned home and later brought his five remaining children, Kate, Anna (of this review), Jacob, Elizabeth, and Peter, back with him to California and located on his ranch.He died in 1898, aged seventy-six years.
The marriage of Anna Gard occurred on May 6, 1877, in Sutter County, and united her with Bayott Kupser, a native of Berne, Switzerland; and of this union there were four children:Francis B., of Marysville, where he is in the garage business; Oscar, who died in infancy; Herbert M., who served for eighteen years as revenue officer for the United States Government, but who recently has returned to the home place to assist his mother in the management of the large ranch; and Ernest Charles, in partnership with his brother Francis.The parents of Bayott Kupser, John and Maria Ursula Kupser, were both natives of Switzerland, where they owned a small farm.In 1844, with their two children, Bayott and Mary, they came to the United States and located in Iowa.In 1849 they started overland to California, owning a part of the outfit.At Fort Laramie the party fell out, and one man in anger sawed the wagon owned by himself and Mr. Kupser in two.Mr. Kupser took the two hind wheels, with which he made a conveyance, and with two yoke of oxen they set out once more for the Pacific Coast.They experienced many hardships, but finally arrived at Bidwell’s Bar in November, 1849. In Yuba City, Mr. Kupser bought a house and began work as a carpenter.He put out seven acres to vineyard and made his home there until 1869, when he sold out and took up 160 acres near Live Oak.He followed ranching here until 1877.His wife died on February 14, 1877; and he passed away in 1891, at the age of seventy-six years.Bayott Kupser was the eldest son of this pioneer couple.He was born in Switzerland, on January 18, 1840, and was but four years old when he was brought by his parents to America, and but nine when he made the trip across the plains, the greater part of the way on foot.In 1884, Mr. and Mrs. Kupser located on the present ranch; and here Mr. Kupser passed away on March 10, 1916,at the age of seventy-six years.Since her husband’s death, Mrs. Kupser has continued to reside on the home place, which she devotes to the raising of grain.She is a member of the Hallwood Center of the Yuba County Farm Bureau.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1115-1116
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Re: California Gard Family Anna Mary KUPSER
Barry Foster 7/27/10