Name: Isabelle ANDERSON 1,2
Sex: Female
Father:
Jacob
Anderson SLOGVIG (8 Jun 1807 - 6 May 1864)
Mother:
Serine
(Serena) Tormodsdatter MADLAND (Dec 1813 - 7 Jan 1898)
Individual Facts
Birth 18
Jul 1839 Fox
River, LaSalle Co., IL3
Death 19
Nov 1881 (age 42) Newville,
CA4
Burial Newville,
CA
Marriages/Children
1. David Carson (or Curry) OAKS
Marriage 9 Apr 1857 (age 17) Napa, Napa Co., CA
(Napa Co. Marriage Index, Book A, p. 23)
Children David
Jacob "Jake" OAKS (28 Sep 1859 - 29 Sep 1947)
Julia
S. OAKS (1 Aug 1861 - 29 Oct 1879)
Cynthia ? OAKS (abt 1862 - )
James
Albert "Ab" OAKS (1864 - )
Andrew
J. OAKS (19 Apr 1868 - 1 Nov 1879)
Itasca
OAKS (1875 - )
Jackson
OAKS ( - )
Maggie
May OAKS (7 Jan 1877 - 26 Oct 1879)
Notes (Individual)
Death: [Death date taken from grave stone in Newville
Cemetery. (OKW 5/99) Newspaper article
about the family states that she died in 1881. (Corning Observer, Corning, CA,
2 Jul 1982, p. 9) Tehama Co. Pioneers
& Hitchcock's "Leaves of the Past" have her death on 19 Oct
1887.]
General: Married David Carson Oakes 9 Apr 1857 in Napa Co.,
CA; their oldest son, David, was 1 yr. old on the 1860 census. Slooper book states that they lived
comfortably in the vicinity of Napa and Soscol. David "liked to buy land and his oldest
son would work it. One property was near
Paskenta, Tehama County." By 1866
she, her husband and their young family had settled in Newville, CA, where
David engaged in farming as well as teaming and freighting. They held property in south west Tehama Co.
near the community of Paskenta, CA, where some of their descendants live today.
The Slooper book states that Isabelle’s
husband was the "son of David Oakes and his wife, nee Tibbett,
a relative of Lawrence Tibbett, the opera star"
(the name of his father an apparent error based on other family information) and that he
"met Isabelle while she was with the wagon train on the way
west." This book further states
that Isabelle’s future husband "worked at mining in Amador
County. He had a pretty good claim, and
acquired enough money to by a ranch.
However he gave the money to a woman he supposed he was going to marry
and she skipped, so he lost the ranch.
He was a real pioneer and had many experiences with the Indians,
especially with his friends, the Numelacks." He must have been able to buy some land as he
sold "80 acres of swamp known as 'Green Island'" to Jacob Anderson
(Isabelle’s father) in 1861 (according to Napa Co. records). He "came from Maine (?) and Iowa (?) and met Isabelle while she "was with the
wagon train on the way west. He was with
a group of men driving cattle, and gave her a calf. ... David C. and Isabelle
Oakes lived in the vicinity of Napa and Soscol. ...
D.C. Oakes was a grain farmer but liked to go hunting. He and his oldest son would shoot bear and
deer, dry the venison, and sell it as jerky.
David C. liked to buy land and his oldest son would work it. One property was near Paskenta, Tehama
County." (Slooper book) Grant, in
quoting Hitchcock & Lingenfelter, indicates that
he resided in Newville, CA, in 1866 and that he held property in southwest
Tehama Co.
Notes (Family)
Marriage: [Marriage Certificate states, "By the consent
of parents and then at the Mtn. House in said
County." Witness: Jacob Anderson
& John Gage, Justice of Peace.]
Sources
1. Rosdail, J. Hart. The Sloopers; Their Ancestry and Posterity; The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower, The
Sloop, "Restoration.".
Broadview, IL: Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961. pp. 427, 472.
2. 1860 US Census. Napa Co., CA.
3. Rosdail, J. Hart. The Sloopers; Their Ancestry and Posterity; The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower, The
Sloop, "Restoration.".
Broadview, IL: Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961. p. 93.
4. Lingenfelter,
Keith. Tehama County Pioneers. Chico, CA: Spatial Ink, 1996.
Prepared by:
O. Keith Wheeler
Mad River, CA 95552
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