CLOSE LINK TO EARLY CALIFORNIA DAYS SEVERED WITH DEATH OF MRS. ALMON MEMBER OF PIONEER FAMILY OF STATE
A Californian intimately connected with the early history of this state will be laid to rest here Tuesday morning when funeral services are held for Mrs. Adriana Johnson Almon, 93, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Glafira Hawvichorst.
Mrs. Almon was born in 1850 in what was then the pueblo of Los Angeles, in a house which stood on the ground where the Los Angeles city hall now is. Her father, Frank Johnson, also was a native of Los Angeles, being the son of Captain James Johnson, a flag officer of the British navy who resigned his commission to settle in southern California.
Captain James Johnson had first glimpsed the California coast from the bridge of a frigate when British ships bombarded ports under the Spanish flag on the Pacific seaboard about 1812. In 1821 Captain James Johnson returned to the coast in the interests of the English government. Completing his mission, he resigned his government post and went into the merchant marine, taking hides from California to London and Boston, and bringIng back cargoes of shoes, woolen goods, silks and other commodities to trade. On one of his trips he was shipwrecked off the California coast but swam safely to store. Several of his crew drowned and he buried their bodies on an island in San Pedro bay afterwards known as Dead Men's Island.
Captain Johnson eventually bought large tracts of land at Sun Pedro and Los Angeles and also in the San Francisco district. He engaged in the hide, tallow and sheep business with Captain Foster, also a large land holder.
The wedding of Mrs. Almon's mother took place in the Los Angeles mission, and General Fremont's first cavalry band played at the ceremony. Among those present were the late Judge Collier; William Workman, a mayor of Los Angeles; and G. M. Mellows, first American consul at the port of Monterey and also an ex-mayor of Los Angeles.
An aunt of Mrs. Almon was the wife of Governor Downey, Civil War governor of California. She lost her life in the train wreck of 1871 when a passenger train rolled down the Tehachapi embankment.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Almon is survived by two sisters: Mrs. George Valpy of San Francisco and Miss Dalton of Azusa.
Father M. A. Abrantes will officiate at the funeral services here Tuesday morning. It is planned to hold the rites from the the local Catholic church. The Goble funeral parlors have charge of arrangements for the funeral. Burial will be in the Tulare cemetery. The funeral services will start at ten o'clock.
Tulare Advance-Register, Tulare, California
Monday, April 24,1933
A Californian intimately connected with the early history of this state will be laid to rest here Tuesday morning when funeral services are held for Mrs. Adriana Johnson Almon, 93, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Glafira Hawvichorst.
Mrs. Almon was born in 1850 in what was then the pueblo of Los Angeles, in a house which stood on the ground where the Los Angeles city hall now is. Her father, Frank Johnson, also was a native of Los Angeles, being the son of Captain James Johnson, a flag officer of the British navy who resigned his commission to settle in southern California.
Captain James Johnson had first glimpsed the California coast from the bridge of a frigate when British ships bombarded ports under the Spanish flag on the Pacific seaboard about 1812. In 1821 Captain James Johnson returned to the coast in the interests of the English government. Completing his mission, he resigned his government post and went into the merchant marine, taking hides from California to London and Boston, and bringIng back cargoes of shoes, woolen goods, silks and other commodities to trade. On one of his trips he was shipwrecked off the California coast but swam safely to store. Several of his crew drowned and he buried their bodies on an island in San Pedro bay afterwards known as Dead Men's Island.
Captain Johnson eventually bought large tracts of land at Sun Pedro and Los Angeles and also in the San Francisco district. He engaged in the hide, tallow and sheep business with Captain Foster, also a large land holder.
The wedding of Mrs. Almon's mother took place in the Los Angeles mission, and General Fremont's first cavalry band played at the ceremony. Among those present were the late Judge Collier; William Workman, a mayor of Los Angeles; and G. M. Mellows, first American consul at the port of Monterey and also an ex-mayor of Los Angeles.
An aunt of Mrs. Almon was the wife of Governor Downey, Civil War governor of California. She lost her life in the train wreck of 1871 when a passenger train rolled down the Tehachapi embankment.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Almon is survived by two sisters: Mrs. George Valpy of San Francisco and Miss Dalton of Azusa.
Father M. A. Abrantes will officiate at the funeral services here Tuesday morning. It is planned to hold the rites from the the local Catholic church. The Goble funeral parlors have charge of arrangements for the funeral. Burial will be in the Tulare cemetery. The funeral services will start at ten o'clock.
Tulare Advance-Register, Tulare, California
Monday, April 24,1933
CLOSE LINK TO EARLY CALIFORNIA DAYS SEVERED WITH DEATH OF MRS. ALMON MEMBER OF PIONEER FAMILY OF STATE
A Californian intimately connected with the early history of this state will be laid to rest here Tuesday morning when funeral services are held for Mrs. Adriana Johnson Almon, 93, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Glafira Hawvichorst.
Mrs. Almon was born in 1850 in what was then the pueblo of Los Angeles, in a house which stood on the ground where the Los Angeles city hall now is. Her father, Frank Johnson, also was a native of Los Angeles, being the son of Captain James Johnson, a flag officer of the British navy who resigned his commission to settle in southern California.
Captain James Johnson had first glimpsed the California coast from the bridge of a frigate when British ships bombarded ports under the Spanish flag on the Pacific seaboard about 1812. In 1821 Captain James Johnson returned to the coast in the interests of the English government. Completing his mission, he resigned his government post and went into the merchant marine, taking hides from California to London and Boston, and bringIng back cargoes of shoes, woolen goods, silks and other commodities to trade. On one of his trips he was shipwrecked off the California coast but swam safely to store. Several of his crew drowned and he buried their bodies on an island in San Pedro bay afterwards known as Dead Men's Island.
Captain Johnson eventually bought large tracts of land at Sun Pedro and Los Angeles and also in the San Francisco district. He engaged in the hide, tallow and sheep business with Captain Foster, also a large land holder.
The wedding of Mrs. Almon's mother took place in the Los Angeles mission, and General Fremont's first cavalry band played at the ceremony. Among those present were the late Judge Collier; William Workman, a mayor of Los Angeles; and G. M. Mellows, first American consul at the port of Monterey and also an ex-mayor of Los Angeles.
An aunt of Mrs. Almon was the wife of Governor Downey, Civil War governor of California. She lost her life in the train wreck of 1871 when a passenger train rolled down the Tehachapi embankment.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Almon is survived by two sisters: Mrs. George Valpy of San Francisco and Miss Dalton of Azusa.
Father M. A. Abrantes will officiate at the funeral services here Tuesday morning. It is planned to hold the rites from the the local Catholic church. The Goble funeral parlors have charge of arrangements for the funeral. Burial will be in the Tulare cemetery. The funeral services will start at ten o'clock.
Tulare Advance-Register, Tulare, California
Monday, April 24,1933
A Californian intimately connected with the early history of this state will be laid to rest here Tuesday morning when funeral services are held for Mrs. Adriana Johnson Almon, 93, who died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Glafira Hawvichorst.
Mrs. Almon was born in 1850 in what was then the pueblo of Los Angeles, in a house which stood on the ground where the Los Angeles city hall now is. Her father, Frank Johnson, also was a native of Los Angeles, being the son of Captain James Johnson, a flag officer of the British navy who resigned his commission to settle in southern California.
Captain James Johnson had first glimpsed the California coast from the bridge of a frigate when British ships bombarded ports under the Spanish flag on the Pacific seaboard about 1812. In 1821 Captain James Johnson returned to the coast in the interests of the English government. Completing his mission, he resigned his government post and went into the merchant marine, taking hides from California to London and Boston, and bringIng back cargoes of shoes, woolen goods, silks and other commodities to trade. On one of his trips he was shipwrecked off the California coast but swam safely to store. Several of his crew drowned and he buried their bodies on an island in San Pedro bay afterwards known as Dead Men's Island.
Captain Johnson eventually bought large tracts of land at Sun Pedro and Los Angeles and also in the San Francisco district. He engaged in the hide, tallow and sheep business with Captain Foster, also a large land holder.
The wedding of Mrs. Almon's mother took place in the Los Angeles mission, and General Fremont's first cavalry band played at the ceremony. Among those present were the late Judge Collier; William Workman, a mayor of Los Angeles; and G. M. Mellows, first American consul at the port of Monterey and also an ex-mayor of Los Angeles.
An aunt of Mrs. Almon was the wife of Governor Downey, Civil War governor of California. She lost her life in the train wreck of 1871 when a passenger train rolled down the Tehachapi embankment.
Besides her daughter, Mrs. Almon is survived by two sisters: Mrs. George Valpy of San Francisco and Miss Dalton of Azusa.
Father M. A. Abrantes will officiate at the funeral services here Tuesday morning. It is planned to hold the rites from the the local Catholic church. The Goble funeral parlors have charge of arrangements for the funeral. Burial will be in the Tulare cemetery. The funeral services will start at ten o'clock.
Tulare Advance-Register, Tulare, California
Monday, April 24,1933
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