Father: Obadiah Haight HOAG
Mother: Lurana Elizabeth COCKRILL
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_Charles HOAG ______________|
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_Obadiah Haight HOAG _______|
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| |_Susan HAIGHT ______________|
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|--Aletha HOAG
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| _Anderson COCKRILL _+
| _Larkin Davenport COCKRILL _|
| | |_Rebecca VENABLE ___+
|_Lurana Elizabeth COCKRILL _|
| _Timothy STAMPS ____+
|_Didamia Sarah STAMPS _____|
|_Millicent DODSON __+
Notes:
| The last
inhabitant of the Hoag House on 2nd Street in San Rosa, before it was
moved. Aletha Hoag was also the last keeper of a typescript copy of the Ledger of My Travels from Missouri to California by William H. Zilhart, which was made from the original by Aletha's sisters Edith and Helen. From an interview with Jeanne Miller: |
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| I had several interviews with her[Aletha]... I was
going to buy this house [the Beaver House] -- I looked at this house and it
needed so much -- it needed a foundation, a roof, and everything in-between,
and I just couldn't quite face it, and so... a childhood friend of mine and I
were talking about it and she said, "Oh Jeanne, take it on, take it on, you can
do it! Let’s go over and see Aletha Hoag." So I had that interview with
Aletha Hoag and she showed me a whole bunch of things... Finally, after I
bought it, and got started on the restoration, which I hadn’t even
completed after ten years... I still had things to do. I went over one day and
said, "Aletha where did they come from?" She said, "I don’t know.
Somewhere from Missouri." And I said, "But where in Missouri?" Missouri had a
hundred and ten counties, and to find those people, I would have had... they
had no unified index at that time... I had no idea were to start. But she said,
"Well, you know it might be in that diary." I had been talking about that... I
am going to find a diary! And I said, "Let me see it!" So she brought it out --
it was just a roll of typewriter paper with a rubber band around it, and she
brought it out, and she said, "I’ve got to have that typed one day." So
after I looked at it, and saw what it was, and I said, "Well Aletha," I
didn’t call her that, I called her Miss Hoag, I said, "Why don’t you
let me have this typed for you? ...and so we will both have a copy." And she
said, that’ll be fine. So she gave it to me. And I took it to the Junior
College and had copies made and I was afraid to take it back to her because
that house was a fire trap, and she had lost it once, she didn’t even
remember that she had it. So I was afraid to take it back to her. I knew it
belonged to her but then by the time I wanted to see her about it... decided to
go see her about it. She never made any request for it. She was in a rest
home... Oh my golly! I have to do something with this! So that’s when we
took it down to the Bancroft Library. I just figured it had to be somewhere
safe and I knew it would be safe there. The original [Zilhart's handwritten ledger] was in the hands of Ellen Wells, she was a McReynolds -- she was sort of the inheritor of the McReynolds’ traditions. She was part of the McReynolds family... Jacob McReynolds... he had ten or twelve children... his wife was Anna Christina Miller... and I don’t know whether that was her maiden name or a previous marriage -- she had been previously married. She had the diary in her possession and when she died, she had instructed her granddaughter who was a friend of mine, to give it back to the son of... I guess he was a grandson, of Zilhart’s... I don’t know, I get these generations.... Anyway, C. F. Ward, I think his name was... So anyway, he had it... and he had a niece who was there at the time and said, "Oh I want to see that!" So he gave it to her. She took it home and she died -- very suddenly and it was thrown out in the garbage. |
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