Mary entered California overland with her family from Missouri as the oldest child in 1846. After the conquest of California, Mary and her family were early hotelkeepers in old Monterey. She became acquainted with John L. Tanner from Virginia who served with her father and brother in the California Battalion and were married in Sonoma County in 1848 by former Missouri Governor and current Sonoma District Magistrate Lilburn Boggs who may have been a party to the original California wagon train.
The new couple became partners with her father in the construction of the two-story Green Springs House, a hotel and freighting stop, at Green Springs in Tuolumne County on the way to the southern Gold Mines. The couple produced four children while remaining as successful farmers in Petaluma before John's death in 1858 from consumption.
Within a year, Mary remarried to the widower, Joshua Bailey, of Missouri. Another six children were born to the union besides those added from previous marriages. Scraping together a living as a farming family meant continual movement from Sonoma County to Tulare County, to Jackson County in Oregon, and back into California.
Upon her death from cancer of the duodenum, Mary was the first buried in her father's burial plot on 14 Jul 1891.
The new couple became partners with her father in the construction of the two-story Green Springs House, a hotel and freighting stop, at Green Springs in Tuolumne County on the way to the southern Gold Mines. The couple produced four children while remaining as successful farmers in Petaluma before John's death in 1858 from consumption.
Within a year, Mary remarried to the widower, Joshua Bailey, of Missouri. Another six children were born to the union besides those added from previous marriages. Scraping together a living as a farming family meant continual movement from Sonoma County to Tulare County, to Jackson County in Oregon, and back into California.
Upon her death from cancer of the duodenum, Mary was the first buried in her father's burial plot on 14 Jul 1891.
Mary entered California overland with her family from Missouri as the oldest child in 1846. After the conquest of California, Mary and her family were early hotelkeepers in old Monterey. She became acquainted with John L. Tanner from Virginia who served with her father and brother in the California Battalion and were married in Sonoma County in 1848 by former Missouri Governor and current Sonoma District Magistrate Lilburn Boggs who may have been a party to the original California wagon train.
The new couple became partners with her father in the construction of the two-story Green Springs House, a hotel and freighting stop, at Green Springs in Tuolumne County on the way to the southern Gold Mines. The couple produced four children while remaining as successful farmers in Petaluma before John's death in 1858 from consumption.
Within a year, Mary remarried to the widower, Joshua Bailey, of Missouri. Another six children were born to the union besides those added from previous marriages. Scraping together a living as a farming family meant continual movement from Sonoma County to Tulare County, to Jackson County in Oregon, and back into California.
Upon her death from cancer of the duodenum, Mary was the first buried in her father's burial plot on 14 Jul 1891.
The new couple became partners with her father in the construction of the two-story Green Springs House, a hotel and freighting stop, at Green Springs in Tuolumne County on the way to the southern Gold Mines. The couple produced four children while remaining as successful farmers in Petaluma before John's death in 1858 from consumption.
Within a year, Mary remarried to the widower, Joshua Bailey, of Missouri. Another six children were born to the union besides those added from previous marriages. Scraping together a living as a farming family meant continual movement from Sonoma County to Tulare County, to Jackson County in Oregon, and back into California.
Upon her death from cancer of the duodenum, Mary was the first buried in her father's burial plot on 14 Jul 1891.
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