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Need help to connect to Pennsylvania. Still working on ancestry for William J. Heffelfinger of PA. He married three times that we can document: Hannah J. Fowler, Louisa Simmons and Catherine Baum.
William James Heffelfinger
b. 24 Mar 1844 or 1848 Pa
1870 Census: in Salt Point, Califonria working as a Tanner
Jean:
It's hard to say how your great grandfather got to California.
Immigrants either came in wagons overland or went by ship (around the
Horn or by packing across Panama and catching a second ship). The
transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869, so it's possible that he came on the railroad.
His trade of tanner was unusual for that area...I'm not aware of any tanneries there, but there must have been a small one operating at the time. I looked at my census notes and checked Heffelfinger's census
entry. According to the way I interpret the 1870 Salt Point Township census, he actually was living in a settlement called Fisherman Bay, near present-day Stewart's Point.
Hope this is helpful.
Robert Douglass
dougtr@sonic.net
From George Gates, Rootsweb message board: I have a William Heffelfinger born in Cumberland Co. in 1818. He married Louisiana Bails (Lucy Anna Bayles) 1837. They had 7 children; Jane 1838, David 1840, Catherine 1841, William 1844, Joseph W. 1 Jan. 1847, Mary E. 1849, and John 1850.
4 of the children were born in Cumberland Co. Pa. I don't have a listing for the 3 others. Joseph married Alice Jane Rynard.
d. 2 Apr 1902 San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co Ca
Death result of “brain softening”; kicked in head by a horse.
Buried in San Bernardino Pioneer Cemetery, San Bernardino Ca
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