Father: James MCGUIRE
Mother: Sarah WILLCOXEN
Family 1 : Thomas Gilbert Woolsey TROSPER
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Notes:
| Author of a
letter, "From Mrs. Elizabeth McGuire
Trosper to Mrs. Florence McGuire Burnett, 1904," containing several pieces
of information about the McGuire family. Cornelia and the Trosper family had a long relationship with the Rodgers family. According to Gary Rodgers: |
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| Cornelia Trosper helped raise my grandfather and his brothers. Drake Trosper made it possible for my Grandfather Harold F. Rodgers to become Cazadero's Postmaster and also employed him and my grandmother at the Trosper House. The Rodgers, including my dad and his brother, also lived in a cottage at the Trosper House Resort. We bought our ranch at a good price from Maruella after Drake died. We and 3 others also inherited the Trosper House property after Maruella died. The Resort was quite a complex: Trosper House, Rodgers' cottage, 3 cabins, 6 tent platforms, electric power house, dance hall, ice cream parlor and a barn. | ||
| Cornelia Trosper also kept several daily diaries between January 1, 1880 and January 4, 1907. They are now in the care of the Sonoma County Historical Society in Santa Rosa. Her diaries contain many details about life in the town of Cazadero during this time, as well as elements for a Trosper/McGuire family history. | ||
| Diary entry from April 5, 1889 (transcription from Gary Rodgers): | ||
| I am writing a little in my book. It will
soon be full.- I don't know what will become of it. Don't know if it will be
appreciated after I am no more or not.. It has been company to
me. |
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| Diary entry from May 3, 1896 Sunday: | ||
| Forty six years ago my parents started on
their journey across the plain to California in '49. We landed at Lassons ranch
the 18th of Oct. forty nine. We rested our teams & then moved on down the
river until we came to the fork of the Feather River and the Sacramento came
together. We wintered at the little town of Fremont. Staid there until spring
then moved twelve miles up the Sacramento river to Knights Landing. There we
stayed all summer. In the fall we moved down to Napa valley. Stayed there two
weeks - moved back to Solano, CA. - Settled in Vacaville. We built the first
house that was built in that valley or town. Father died there in fifty one
Jan. We lived there untill fifty three. In fall we moved down to Santa Rosa
valley. Lived untill fifty six. Then moved out near Occidental & lived
there, or the immediate vicinity, untill sixty four then moved up on Austin
Creek. Here it is 96. What a number of years we have traveled
through. |
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| Diary entry from June 1, 1899 (when her husband died on May 4th, 1899, Cornelia stopped writing in her diary for nearly a month, and then wrote this): | ||
| I must pull together and write in my book.
We have had deep sorrows and we must put them to one side and forget the past
and think of the present and the future. The work must go on just the same
until we lay our armor by. A lovely day. We washed out the clothes. The
Dr. went to
Caz..... |
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