Individual Details

1910 Census. Trinidad, Humboldt Co, CA, Hh 246
Dave F. Hufford, 29, married once for 6 years, b. CA, Dairy farmer
Emma, wife, 28, 1 child, b. CA
Wesley, son, 5, b. CA

1920 Census. Van Duzen, Humboldt, CA, Hh 32
David F. Hufford, 37, Farmer, Stock farm
Emma G., 34
Wesley R., 15
Jake Ready, hired man, Indian, 64

Indians of California, Census Rolls authorized under the Act of 1928, Amended, Approved 1933.
Final Roll #5999. Application #6294 Foster, Emma G. Head of household. age 37. Born 17 Dec 1891. 1/2 blood. Trinidad Tribe. Never allotted, enrolled at Hoops Valley. Post Office: Orick, Humboldt County. Land & house, value, $500. Husband is a white man.
#6000 Wesley R. Hufford, son, 21, b. 8 May 1907. 1/4 blood.
#6001 Lois J. Hufford, dau, 8, b. 17 Mar 1920. 1/4 blood.
Note: ages don't agree with the 1910 census, so I cannot place the enrollment in time/ Of Wesley was 5 in 1910, and now 21 - the year would be 1926.

Emma Grace was nee Emma Grace Bailey, daughter of Thomas Bailey, b. 1845 in England, and Elizabeth Billy. See her story later...

Wesley is buried Sunset Memorial Park, Eureka, Humboldt Co, CA. Parents listed on FindAGrave as David Frederick Hufford and Emma Grace Foster.

Wesley was also step-son of Mr. Sidney Gordon Foster of Blue Lake, CA. As a child Wesley was raised in Trinidad and lived for a time in Bridgeville where his uncle George Washington Hufford had a large ranch. Following his parent's divorce and mother's remarriage to Mr. Foster, Wesley and his sister Lois (later to become Mrs. Charles Bradley) lived in Eureka where Wesley graduated from the old Craddock Business College.

Wesley must have been married more than once:
1930 Census. Redding, Shasta Co, CA
Wesley J. Hufford, 36, married at age 29, Forest Ranger, state
Erma, wife, 36, married at 30
Carol F., dau, age 4 years

1940 Census. Union, Humboldt, CA, Hh 94
Wesley Hufford, 35, lived in rural Humbolt in 1935, farmer
Eva, wife, 26, b. Texas, lived in same house
Ione, dau, 6, b. CA

The grandmother of Wesley Hufford was Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Billy) Bailey Rieke. She is buried Trinidad Cemetery, Humboldt Co.
California had a Census of the Indian Population in 1910 and listed as a family in 1910 is Lizzie Rieke, age 45, Indian, married once for 12 years, has had 2 children, 1 living (she did not count her Bailey daughters) She spoke English, had no employement. Full Blood. Living with her was her son Fred, age 11, 1/2 blood.

FindAGrave Memorial # 81427969
An original member of the Trinidad Indian village of Tsurai, Lizzie was born anywhere from 1862 to 1865. Her tombstone shows she died in 1914 when in fact she died on July 7, 1915. No death certificate was filed but her obituary was published in a local newspaper in July 1915. Her father was Tsurai Billy and her mother was a woman from the Tolowa tribe (of Del Norte County). Her sister was Emma Aaw-Mae Billy who later married Jan-et Peters (also known as Trinidad Pete).

Lizzie lived her entire life in Trinidad. She had three daughters with Thomas Bailey*, a gold miner who came to Trinidad before 1880 - Amanda A., Emma Grace, and Jane Ione Bailey. After Thomas Bailey left to pursue gold mining in Siskiyou County she had two sons with Frederick August Riecke: Harvey (who died at 2 years of age) and Frederick Riecke (Jr.) who left Humboldt County in 1920, never to return.

At some point in her life she lost her sense of sight and then was known as "Blind Liz". She is buried next to her sister Emma and her son Baby Harvey. Next to them is her granddaughter and namesake, Elizabeth McDonald, the youngest child of Jane Ione Bailey and Edward McDonald of Big Lagoon.

*Thomas Bailey was travelling to Trinidad when he died under mysterious circumstances on April 11, 1905...
"Murder or Suicide?" The body of Thomas Bailey found in the Bald Hills with throat cut. Bailey died April llth during the night Tuesday). Source: Arcata Union, April 15, 1905, Page 5
Thomas Bailey.
Winifred Beach of Trinidad found the body of Thomas Bailey by a smoldering campfire beside the road between Arcata and Bald Hills last Wednesday (April 12). He was returning from Bald Hills on horseback. He had proceeded about 8 miles when a medium size dog met him; acting peculiarly. He followed it into some wild cuts. Dog stood over the body and would not permit him to touch it. He went to the home of Sherman Lyons -- got party of nine to return. Found pocket knife near. $15.90 on body. Took remains to home of Mr. Lyons. Beach telephoned Eureka from Trinidad. Mr. Skinner, deputy coroner, went out. Mr. Beach thinks he was murdered. He met two men, strangers, on his way to the hills and again when returning.
According to information at hand, the deceased was a man of about 62 years of age, and at one time had lived at Trinidad, but he had been absent from there for the past 20 years, and it is supposed was returning to pay a visit to his daughters. For the past score of years he had been mining and much of the long time had been spent in Siskiyou County. Where there he often communicated with his daughters: Amanda Bailey living at Orick, Mrs. Edward McDonald (formerly Jane Ione Bailey) of Trinidad, and Mrs. David Hufford (formerly Emma Grace Bailey), also of Trinidad. Source: Arcata Union, April 22, 1905, Page 8, Column 3.

CORRESPONDENCE - Blue Lake: Thos. Bailey, who committed suicide by the road side and whose body was found last week by Winfield Beach, was buried by Sherman Lyons at Elk Camp in the Bald Hills a few days later. Death reported in the Blue Lake Advocate, April 15, 1905 (copy found in the Susie Baker Fountain Papers, Volume 111, Page 207).

IS HE OF YOUR FAMILY?
In the Bald Hills above Orick, California about one-fourth mile above Elk Camp there used to be an old water stop for the stage coach. In 1900 Tom (or John) BAILY (sic) committed suicide two miles west of Elk Camp. He was buried 200 yards above the present Elk Camp fire station. About 1946 the young fire fighters of the camp found the grave and wooden marker. They dug up the skeleton to experiment on it, but the foreman of the camp made them return the body and marker. Since then bulldozers, etc., have knocked down the marker and scraped the grave at different times. Finally, sometime around 1950 the sheriff's office of Humboldt took the skeleton --- to where?

Birth	8 May 1904	Trinidad, Humboldt County, California
Death	15 Mar 1969	Grants Pass, Josephine County, Oregon
Marriage		Eva Legretta Keith

Spouse	Eva Legretta Keith (1915 - 1980)
Child	Living
Child	Living