Eliza Martha Hartsough

ELIZA MARTHA2 WILLARD (Alexander1 )  was born on 21 Jul 1814 at Missouri Territory.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8  She married 1st John Echstein Jones  circa 1832 at Iowa county, Michigan Territory.9,10  She married 2nd Austin Storres  in 1838 at Wisconsin Territory.11,12  She married 3rd Rev John B  Hartsough on 1 Jul 1858 at Cottonwood, Yolo county, California.13,14,15  She died on 1 Mar 1911  at James K. Giles home, Balls Ferry, Shasta county, California, at age 96.16,17,18

John Echstein Jones died sometime before 1838.

1850 Census: Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza Stores, appeared on the census enumerated 6 Sep 1850 living in Belmont Village, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, with 4 children; Eliza is 37, born "Pennsylvania"[?!].19

Eliza and Austin went to California by ox team in 1850 with a company of gold seekers. Eliza's daughter Rosena stayed behind with Alexander & Elinor Willard and came west with them in 1852. Eliza and Austin's first home was in Hangtown (modern Placerville).20,21

Eliza Martha Willard was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.26 The oldest church in El Dorado County, a Methodist Episcopal Church established in 1851, is being restored and was moved to the bluff above Cedar Ravine, next to the Federated Church of Placerville, on 1031 Thompson Way, Placerville, CA. In 1862 the Methodist Episcopal church was on the corner Main street and Cedar Ravine; Rev. J. W. Ross, Pastor.22,23

Here Eliza was again left a widow, and supported herself by keeping a boarding house.

1856: "Like nearly all towns in California, Placerville has not been exempt from the ravages of the fire-fiend. From this cause it suffered terribly in 1856. On the fifteenth of April, in that year, the lower portion was laid in ruins by fire, which broke out in Sacramento street, reducing to poverty, in the course of a few hours, many who had before been rich. The victims were nearly all hotel keepers... But, on the sixth of July, of the same year, the town was completely laid in ashed by fire; scarcely a house was saved, and lives were lost."24,25

Eliza Martha Willard had earlier purchased land next to land bought by Austin James Willard on 14 Apr 1860 alongside Cache Creek, Yolo county, California, and is mentioned in his land record: (a part of the Gordon Grant originally granted by the Mexican Government to Gordon and confirmed to him by the U.S. Government) commencing at the NE corner of this piece which is in the center of Cache Creek (being the NW corner of a piece of land formerly sold by said Gordon to the widow Storrs) running thence due south up the center of the ditch to the head of the ditch thence due south to the Gordon Grant line being also the corner of the piece of land sold to widow Storrs, thence west along south line of grant a sufficient distance to a stake so that a line drawn due north from thence to the center of Cache Creek and thence along the center of said creek to the point of beginning will embrace 52 acres of land for $500.27

1860 Census: Rev John B Hartsough, called J. B. Hartsough, and Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza M. Hartsough, appeared on the census enumerated 5 Jul 1860 at Knight's Landing Post Office, Cache Creek Township, Yolo county, California, with two children; J. B. is 49, a farmer, with $1200 real estate and $1400 in personal estate; Eliza M. is 49, born Missouri.28

1870 Census: Rev John B Hartsough, called John Hartsuff, and Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza Hartsuff, appeared on the census of 10 Aug 1870 living in the area that used the Martinez Post Office, Township Three, Contra Costa county, California; John is 59, a Clergyman, with $1,000 real estate and $725 personal estate; Eliza is Keeping House. They live alone.29

1880 Census: Rev John B Hartsough, called John B. Hartsouth, and his wife, Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza Hartsouth, appeared on the census enumerated 28 Jun 1880 living in Orland Township, Colusa county, California, in the home of James & Honora McGarry; John is a Minister, age 68, born Michigan; Eliza is 65, Keeping House, born Missouri.30

In 1898 Eliza fell, beaking her hip.31

1900 Census: Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza Hartsough, appeared on the census of 5 Jun 1900 in the household of her son-in-law, James Kinnon Giles, and daughter, Rosena Echstein Jones, at Shingletown Township, Shasta county, California, age 85, a widow, the mother of 6 children, 2 living.32

1st SPOUSE: JOHN ECHSTEIN JONES was born at Kentucky.33 He died in 1835 at Michigan Territory.34

Land Buy: John Echstein Jones, called bought the West half of the NW quarter of Section 11 in T2N R1E containing 80 acres from Mineral Point General Land Office 1 Aug 1839 in Iowa county, Michigan Territory.35

It wasn't until November 1834 that the government finally opened a land office at Mineral Point, enabling the settlers to purchase lands in the lead region. Mineral bearing lands were withheld from sale - only farm lands (technically) could be sold.36

Known children of Eliza Martha2 Willard and John Echstein Jones both born at Michigan Territory (modern Wisconsin) were as follows:

   * +  2  i.   GEORGE3 JONES was born circa 1833.

* + 3 ii. ROSENA ECHSTEIN JONES was born on 1 Apr 1835. She married James Kinnon Giles, son of John Giles and Almira Avery, on 21 Jul 1853 at Hangtown (modern Placerville), El Dorado county, California.
2nd SPOUSE: AUSTIN STORRES was born at New York.37 He died after 1850 at Hangtown (modern Placerville), California.38

It may be Austin's family, James N. Stores, that lived between Austin Willard and John Crawford in 1842 in Iowa County, Wisconsin. James is still head of the household there in 1846 and 1847. James N. Storrs was a Justice of the Peace for Iowa county. See the land record for Eliza's brother Alexander Jr., dated 10 June 1844.

"The late Ogden Squires, of Placerville, had in his possession... a Day Book, kept at Sutter's mill, Coloma... from January 3d to April 22d, 1850. Among other survivors who are charged with lumber on this book we find the names of ...Storrs & Storer, the one now in Virginia City, the other of Truckee..."39

Known children of Eliza Martha2 Willard and Austin Storres were as follows:

   * +  4  i.   AUSTIN3 STORRS was born in 1841 at Wisconsin. He married Louisa Young, daughter of Thomas Young and Ann E. (--?--).

* + 5 ii. CHARLES HENRY STORRS was born on 29 Nov 1845 at Wisconsin.
* + 6 iii. JOSEPH STORRS was born in 1849 at Wisconsin.
* + 7 iv. LOUIS AUGUSTUS STORRES was born in 1851 at California.
3rd SPOUSE: REV JOHN B HARTSOUGH was born in 1811 at Detroit, Michigan Territory.40,41,42 He married Lucy Titus in 1838 (Lucy, John's 1st wife, was of Michigan).43 He died on 2 Feb 1899 at Redding, Shasta Co, California.44

1842 Census: Rev John B Hartsough appeared on the census of 1842 at Ranges 1 & 2, Western Division, Iowa county, Wisconsin Territory. There were 1 white male and 1 white female in John Hartsough's household. The census enumerator visited the household of "Austin J. Willard", then someone else, then "James N. Stores" then "John R. Crawford" then "Alexander Willard" then "Joshua Mcdonald" then "A. H. Willard" then "Martha Wakefield", then someone else, then "John Hartsough."45

Rev John B Hartsough was a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church.46

1853: Rev. J. B. Hartsough a local preacher of the M. E. Church, bought a place Mar 1853 located about 4 mi from Hutton's, near Germantown, Colusa county, California. "Mr. Hartsough's residence is near Germantown, Colusa county."47

"Rev. Sheldon was succeeded by Rev. Benham and then later by Rev. J. B. Hartsough, who purchased a home near Hutton's in 1853 and became permanently located here."48 "Rev.. Franklin G. Grey succeeded the minister Benham who was drowned."49

Land Buy: Rev John B Hartsough bought for $500 the city lot bounded on the east by Main St, on the south by the land of Mr. Henry, on the west by Church St, and on the north by Pilot Creek Crop Ditch, consisting of about 200 sq. ft. together with tenements from David B. Hartsough 14 May 1856 in Georgetown, El Dorado, California.50

David was of the town of Folsom, Sacramento county, California and John was of Cache Creek, Yolo county, California. Later in the year, on August 5, John sold the land back to David for $500. It looks like this was simply a loan of $500 to his brother with the land used as collateral. The 2nd transaction was notarized in Yolo county by Arch McDonald, county clerk of Yolo county.51

"The [state] constitution provided that a term in the Senate should be two, and in the Assembly one year..." Elected to the Assembly on September 2, 1863 with 841 of 1600 votes cast, J. B. Hartsough.52

1871: "Cacheville M. E. Church: A Methodist Class was formed in Cacheville in 1856, and that village became one of the points within the "Cacheville Circuit.' The travelling preacher made it his home there, the parsonage being at that place. It was afterwards sold by Rev. J. S. Corwin for $250 and the proceeds applied in the erection of the Woodland parsonage... In 1867 a Church building was erected in Cacheville at a cost of about $1,800... When these two organizations became independent of each other in 1871... the first pastor [of the Cacheville Church] was J. B. Hartsough."53

1884-85: J. B. Hartsough, minister and farmer, 160 acres is listed under Germantown in the Colusa County Directory for that year.

Germantown is now Artois in Glenn county, California. Germantown was "six miles north of Willows, on the line of the Northern Railroad. A thriving little village, giving promise of a great increase in size and population." Neal Kennedy relates that the town name was changed in World War I due to anti-German sentiment.54

"In 1884 he was again sent to Redding and was this time instrumental in building the first Methodist church there, completed about 1887..."

"In 1897 Rev. J. B. Hartsough attended the Methodist Conference at Pacific Grove in September, 1897.&quot.55

"John Benjamin Hartsough is a Forty-niner and one of the best known characters in Northern California. He is one of the oldest Americans born in the city of Detroit, Michigan. His birth occurred in the year 1811, twenty-five years before Michigan became a State. His father, Christopher Hartsough, was born in New Jersey. In the war of 1812 he was captured by the Indians, carried into Canada, pressed into the service of the English as an alien and drove a team for the English army. He married Delight Haskins, a native of Connecticut. Her father, Elisha Haskins, was a wealthy citizen of Connecticut who removed to Canada and settled in the London district, about the year 1825, the English government giving him lands for settling there. This worthy couple, Mr. and Mrs. Hartsough, were the parents of sixteen children. The subject of this sketch was the third of their five sons.

     He received his education at Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. While in Rock Run, Illinois, in 1837, he was converted and soon afterward began to preach. In six months he was licensed as a local preacher and went into his first work at Leadmine, Wisconsin, in the Apple River district... During Mr. Hartsough's preaching in Illinois and Wisconsin his ministry was blessed with numerous revivals. He labored in the vineyard of the Lord in those two States for ten years.

His health failed, and with the hope of securing a beneficial change, he came to this sunny clime, reaching California September 15, 1849. He engaged in mining until the first of May, 1850, with moderate success. Then he went over the mountains to carry provisions to the emigrants who were starving and took their poor stock in exchange. The stock was pastured for a month, after which it was driven over the mountains. At this work Mr. Hartsough made considerable money. In 1851 he opened a grocery and provision store near Nevada City, supplying the market with his own cattle. This business he continued two years, during which time he purchased the ditch stock of a broken-down company. He put the ditch in order and kept it four weeks. It, however, proved a perpetual Sabbath-breaking business, and because of that he sold it to his partner, who, in three years, realized nearly half a million of dollars from it....
Mr. Hartsough sold his store and shop and removed to Yolo County, where he engaged in farming and stock-raising. In 1863 he was elected to the State Assembly, and, being a staunch Republican, used his best endeavors to keep his State in the Union. At that time there was a strong force to take it out, and he became a power on the side of the Union... During a great deal of his ministry his work has been gratuitous and done for the love of the cause. He has rendered much efficient service in helping to build churches in Northern California. In Redding, where he now resides, he purchased the church site for $500 with his own money, and carried on the enterprise of building the church to its completion.
In 1864 he settled his business, put his land into money, and with some stock removed to Contra Costa county. From that time until 1890 he had regular work in the ministry. He is now in his 80th year and has retired from active ministerial labors. He owns a small farm in Colusa county and a home in Redding.
...In 1838 Mr. Hartsough wedded Miss Lucy Titus of Michigan. Their union was blessed with two children, one of whom died and the other, Christopher, resides in Oregon. After four and a half years of married life his beloved companion died of pleuro-pneumonia, and he was left with his two infant sons. In 1858, fifteen years after her death, he married Mrs. Eliza Stoirs [sic] a native of Missouri, reared in Wisconsin."56
There were no known children of Eliza Martha2 Willard and Rev John B Hartsough.

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ID: I27382

Name: Eliza Martha Willard

_AKA: Martha Eliza

Sex: F

Birth: 21 JUL 1814 in , St Louis, MO

Death: 1 MAR 1911 in Balls Ferry, Clear Creek, Shasta, CA

Ancestral File #: 39DR-4S

_UID: 45B42AE7C492B64093B35CB2EF7770D454A9

Note:

!RESIDENCE: In 1898 Eliza fell and broke her hip, and so moved to the hom e of her daughter, Rosena.

Eliza was a native of Missouri, reared in Wisconsin.

Change Date: 31 OCT 2005 at 21:08:25

Father: Alexander Hamilton Willard b: 24 AUG 1778 in Charleston, Cheshire, NH

Mother: Eleanor McDonald b: 1774 in , Fauquier, VA

Marriage 1 John Echstein Jones b: ABT 1809 in , , KY

Married: 1832 in , , WI

Marriage 2 Austin Stoirs b: ABT 1809

Married: in , , WI

Marriage 3 John Benjamin Hartsough b: 1811 in Detroit, Wayne, MI

Married: 1858 in Placerville, El Dorado, CA

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Eliza Martha Willard Hartsough Memorial Photos Flowers Edit Share Learn about removing the ads from this memorial... Birth: Jul. 21, 1814 Death: Mar. 1, 1911

Eliza Martha Willard was born 21 July 1814 in Missouri. Her parents were Alexander Willard and Eleanor McDonald Willard. Alexander Willard served with the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Eliza M Willard married John Echstein Jones. They had at least 2 children: Rosena Echstein Jones and George Jones. The daughter married James K. Giles. Eliza M Willard Jones married a second time to Rev. John B. Hartsough, a Methodist minister. He built the first Methodist church in Redding. Following his death, Eliza lived with her married daughter and family at the Giles Ranch in the Balls Ferry area. Eliza died 11 March 1911 at the ranch and is buried in Parkville Cemetery with her daughter, son-in-law and her grandchildren.

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Parents:

 Alexander Hamilton Willard (1778 - 1865)

 Eleanor McDonald Willard (1790 - 1868)

Siblings:

 Austin James Willard (1808 - 1888)*

 George Clark Willard (1810 - 1836)*

 Alexander Hamilton Willard (1812 - 1870)*

 Eliza Martha Willard Hartsough (1814 - 1911)

 Roland Rudolph Willard (1816 - 1859)*

 Christiana D. Willard Crawford (1819 - 1857)*

 Joel Willard (1822 - 1879)*

 Nancy Adeline Willard Feathers (1824 - 1859)*

 Narcissa C. Willard Wakefield (1826 - 1852)*

 Ellen Christina Willard Downing (1828 - 1910)*

 Lewis Augustus Willard (1831 - 1911)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Parkville Cemetery Anderson Shasta County California, USA

THE GROTON AVERY CLAN, Vol. I, by Elroy McKendree Avery and Catherine Hitchcock (Tilden) Avery, Cleveland, 1912. p. 442