Individual Details

From archives at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ca/ca-land.htm
Mendocino County, CA - Index to Federal Land Patents

MERIDIAN TOWNSHIP RANGE SECTION DOCID DATE NAME

MD 0180N 0140W 027 6550 1879/10/01 ENGLISH WILEY
MD 0180N 0140W 034 6550 1879/10/01 ENGLISH WILEY
MD 0170N 0120W 032 8660 1883/05/15 ENGLISH WILEY
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The Mendocino Co. Museum collection contains a portrait of Wiley English.

Newspaper excerpts mentioning Wiley English -

"...sold 1391 acres, sec. 35, $7,000. 29 Apr. 1881
1898 Great Register lists Wiley English, living in Capella, 52 years of age.
"W. English...sold 93 acres, T24, R19 for $10.00." -URP 6 Jan 1899
"...two carloads of cattle shipped." 20 Cot. 1899
"...wife was 70 on 29 June 1906."
"...wife (Hala Neece) died in Ukiah last Tuesday." 22 Dec. 1913

San Francisco Chronicle, Tuesday, September 12, 1911.
MENDOCINO PIONEERS CELEBRATE THEIR GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
AGED COUPLE CAME TO CALIFORNIA IN FIFTIES ----------
MR. AND MRS. WILEY ENGLISH ENTERTAIN RELATIVES--------
Special Dispatch to the "Chronicle"
Ukiah, September 11.--Mr. and Mrs Wiley English of this city celebrated their golden wedding at their home yesterday. English was born in Missouri in 1838, and came with his widowed mother and his brothers and sisters across the plains to California in 1852, driving their ox teams and herds with them. He first went to Bear river and Grass valley, where he engaged in timbering and mining for five years. He then moved to Mendocino county, where he has been for more than fifty years engaged in farming and stock raising.
Mrs. English's maiden name was Hala Neece. She is also a native of Missouri, and came with her parents and twelve brothers and sisters to California by way of the plains in 1860, and on September 11, 1861, she and English were united in marriage at Ukiah by Rev. J. D. Bonner.
At the golden wedding Sunday the children of the contracting parties were all present. They are Mrs. C. C. Toney of Imperial, Mrs. E. D. Warren of Los Angeles, and Mrs.J. R. Thomas, George, William, Haney and Robert English of Mendocino county. Two of Mrs. English's sisters, Mrs. Kate Cox and Mrs. John Higgins; thirteen of the grandchildren, a number of other relatives and a few intimate friends of the bride and groom were also present to extend congratulations and wish them bon voyage through life.

Birth	18 Aug 1838	Missouri, United States
Census	21 Jun 1860	Calpella, Mendocino, California, United States
Marriage	11 Sep 1861	Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States - Mahala E "Hala" Neece
Census (family)	15 Jul 1870	Calpella, Mendocino, California, United States - Mahala E "Hala" Neece
Property	1 Oct 1879	Mendocino, California, United States
Census (family)	1880	Calpella, Mendocino, California, United States - Mahala E "Hala" Neece
Property	15 May 1883	Mendocino, California, United States
Description	1898	4' 2", medium complexion, gray eyes, auburn hair - Mendocino, California, United States
Census (family)	14 Jun 1900	Calpella, Mendocino, California, United States - Mahala E "Hala" Neece
Census (family)	19 Apr 1910	Ukiah Township, Mendocino Co., California, United States - Mahala E "Hala" Neece
Death	5 Apr 1923	Los Angeles, California, United States
Burial		Ukiah Cemetery, Ukiah, Mendocino, California, United States

Spouse	Mahala E "Hala" Neece (1836 - 1913)
Child	Nancy Tennesee "Nannie" English (1863 - 1943)
Child	Mary T. English (1865 - )
Child	George Wiley English (1867 - 1915)
Child	William M English (1867 - )
Child	Sophronia English (1871 - 1918)
Child	Charles Haney English (1874 - 1921)
Child	Della R English (1876 - 1906)
Child	Robert Marion English (1879 - 1961)

Father	Rev. Charles English (1805 - 1848)
Mother	Nancy Wallis (1809 - 1888)
Sibling	Calvin Henderson English (1830 - 1903)
Sibling	William Preston English (1834 - 1908)
Sibling	Temperance Elizabeth "Tempe" English (1835 - 1856)
Sibling	Rebecca "Biddy" English (1845 - 1925)

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