Footstone Map site #60
9/21/1890
Age 90 yrs
Sister of Anna C McReynolds
Source: 1934 DAR list
10/17/1838
2/24/1905
Age 67
Wife of James Marion Moss
Daughter of John Hastings
Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society and Sonoma Searcher Vol. IX #3 March 1982, "Additions and Corrections to Sonoma Co Cemetery Records, 1846-1921".
Born Mississippi (b. TX on Worldconnect post ). Grave moved to Sebastopol Cemetery Section "C", East 1/2 Lot 26, Grave #7, (Nichols Lot) Bill J. Moss 4/23/1995.
Map site #61
d. 11/24/1866
Age 2y 4m 14d
Daughter of D. P. V. and L. F. Ogan
Source: 1934 DAR list
Mother Francis Leah McReynolds was the daughter of John McReynolds and the Granddaughter of Jacob McReynolds.
Map site #62
d. 5/25/1867
Age 1y 1m 15d
Daughter of D. P. V. and L. F. Ogan
Source: 1934 DAR list
Mother Francis Leah McReynolds was the daughter of John McReynolds and the Granddaughter of Jacob McReynolds.
Map site #63
d. 12/23/1870
Age 9m 7d
Son of D. P. V. and L. F. Ogan
Source: 1934 DAR list
Mother Francis Leah McReynolds was the daughter of John McReynolds and the Granddaughter of Jacob McReynolds.
Map site #64
Stone by Shafer& Co Napa City Monument
d. 6/6/1872
Age 44y 9m 10d
Source: 1934 DAR list
His wife was the daughter of John McReynolds and the granddaughter of Jacob and Anna C. McReynolds.
Map site #11
11/27/1879
7/20/1966
Source: 1934 DAR list
Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. Dolores Quaini d. Petaluma O'Leary 23:3154, Phyllis Welsh's Grandfather's aunt.
Map site #70
d. 11/16/1871
Age 8 yrs
Son of John and Lavinia Parmeter
Source: 1934 DAR list
Map site #5
d. 5/20/1883
Age 40 yrs
Wife of John Parmeter
Source: 1934 DAR list
Daughter of W. R. Robertson
Email from Richard John Parmeter to Susan Zeni (7 July 2006):
I ran into the Spring Hill Cemetery website about a month ago. Just after I had come back from visiting Napa and Sonoma Counties. I actually was at the cemetery the first week of June. I had gone there to find the grave of Lavinia Robertson Parmeter daughter of William Riley Robertson. Lavinia is my great great grandmother. Every Parmeter in Sonoma County is related directly to her and my great great grandfather John Spencer Parmeter. Sadly to say, I found the condition of the cemetery deplorable as you have noted on the website...
The Parmeter family has been in Sonoma County since the early to mid 1850's. I do not know the year John Spencer came to California. He was born in Athens Ohio in 1832 and left home at an early age. He is listed in the 1840 Ohio census as living with his family and then listed separately away from his family in the Athens County census in 1850. He is then listed in the 1860 census in Sonoma County with Lavinia and if I remember correctly, Harriet Alice. I do not know why he left Ohio. From word of mouth of my relatives, John Spencer did not come to California the same way Lavinia did. He took a boat to New Orleans, then a ship to Panama. Crossed the Isthmus of Panama on a donkey and then took another ship to the San Francisco area. This manner of travel was not unusual at that time. One reason he may have left Ohio is because of slavery. Athens Ohio is very close to the Ohio River which was the dividing line between the north and the south.
Two of his children have interesting southern names, Jefferson Davis and James Lee. I also have records of two of his younger brothers, Samuel B. and James W. who fought for Ohio in the Civil War. However, this is all conjecture.
John Spencer was one of ten children of James Parmetar and Charity Gibbs. Note the spelling of the name. In a document from James to both John and Lavinia, the last name is spelled in this manner. It is also spelled in this manner on the grave stone of Charity which is located in Athens. A plaque on the outside of the cemetery has the names of both Samuel and James W. as Civil War veterans along with many other veterans. James was born in Pennsylvania in 1793 and Charity in 1799 in Vermont. From my memory they were married in 1818. Their first child Caroline was born in 1819 in Pennsylvania. Charity died in 1861. There is an old gravestone next to hers but it is totally unreadable. I have assumed it is James'. Her two sons, Samuel and James W are buried close by. There are no dates on their gravestones. Based again on relatives' word of mouth, James' father came from the south of France. My uncle in Napa believes that the Parmeter's were part of the Huguenots which fled France due to religious persecution.
Map site #4
9/5/1861
1/2/1887
Source: 1934 DAR list; Email from Richard John Parmeter.
d. 11/25/1866
Age 4y 11m 16d
Daughter of E. C. and L. J. Riggs
Source: 1934 DAR list
