Spring Hill Cemetery

TITUS, TOWNER, WARD, WELCH, WHITCOMB, WHITE, ZILHART

Inventory and Photos by Susan Zeni

TITUS, Amanda M.

Photo by Susan Zeni

Map site #42

 

 

7/16/1836
4/5/1898
Age 61y 8m 19d

 

 

 

 

Source: 1934 DAR list.

Sonoma County Death Book 42:134

Shared headstone with Charles Alfred Titus.

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

TITUS, Charles Alfred

Photo by Susan Zeni

Map site #42

 

 

1/5/1861
5/13/1886
Age 25y 4m 8d

 

 

 

Had been listed as Charles Albert Titus

Shared headstone with Amanda M. Titus.

 

Cleaned marker on 8 February 2008:

Photo by Susan Zeni

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TITUS, Embert Milo

 

4/10/1874
3/31/1942
Age 67y 11m 21d

 

 

Son of George W. and Samantha Titus.

 

 

 

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. Marie Titus, O'Leary, 11:161.
Information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

 

 

TITUS, George W.

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #43

 

 

7/4/1835
3/4/1895

 

Son of Isaac Titus

Husband of Samantha Titus

 

 

Information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

We shall sleep but not forever

 

 copy from Susan Zeni

 

TITUS, George W.

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #44

 

 

11/20/1836
7/2/1908

 

Son of DeWitt Titus

 

 

Source: 1934 DAR list and Sonoma Searcher Vol. IX #3 March 1982, "Additions and Corrections to Sonoma Co. Cemetery Records, 1846-1921". Sonoma Searcher correction gives age 71, D. 7-2-??? .

Military headstone. A member of Company I, 4th Michigan Calvary.

Information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

 

 

TITUS, Mary A.

 

Febuary 1813
1/3/1902
Age 89 yrs

 

Daughter of Harcourt
Wife of DeWitt Titus

 

 

 

 

Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society; inf. March; b. Canada, d. Freestone, CA O'Leary.
Sonoma County Death Book 42:135

 

TITUS, Mary Asenath

Photo by Susan Zeni

Map site #65

 

 

3/14/1824
4/18/1908

 

Daughter of Crawford
James Nathan Titus' 3rd wife.

 

 

Information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

copy from Susan Zeni

 

TITUS, Robert H.

Photo by Susan Zeni

Map site #42

 

 

4/28/1833
1/7/1890
Age 59y 8m 3d

 

 

Son of James Nathan Titus and Mary Ann Bowen
Husband of Amanda M. Titus

 

 

Source: Index to Sonoma County (California) Cemetery Records 1846-1921, Third Edition, Sonoma County Genealogical Society.
Information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

From Susan Zeni (taken from NewspaperAbstracts.com 1Jun07):

Died at Santa Rosa, Jan. 7, 1890 of paralysis, Robert H. TITUS, 50y 9m 9d.

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

TOWNER, Benjamin

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #53

 

 

d. 11/6/1878
Age 3m 19d

 

 

Son of A. C. and M. F. Towner

 

 

Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni 2005.

 

From Susan Zeni (taken from NewspaperAbstracts.com 1Jun07):

At Sea, 12 miles off Bodega Port, March 5, 1875, by Rev. Abraham TOWNER, the double wedding of Thomas TOWNER, Green Valley to Miss Ida PITT, Petaluma, and Abram TOWNER to Miss Eva HIGGINS, both of Sebastopol.
Married in Analy, Dec. 23, 1869, Abraham TOWNER and Mrs. Mary ASHLEY.

 

 

WARD, Luther L.

Map site #55

 

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

 

1827
3/18/1902
Age 76 yrs

 

 

Husband of Lydia Titus

 

Source: 1934 DAR list.
Sonoma County Death Book 42:150

A resident of Freestone.
Additional information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

WARD, Lydia A.

Photo by Susan Zeni

Footstone Map site #57

 

 

1835
4/22/1904
Age 69 yrs

 

 

Daughter of James Nathan Titus and Mary Ann Bowen

Wife of Luther L. Ward

 

Source: 1934 DAR list.
Sonoma County Death Book 43:151

Born in Canada.
Additional information from Jerry Lites, 2007.

 

Copy from Susan Zeni

 

 

WARD, William H.

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #56

 

 

1850
5/12/1875
Age 24 yrs

 

 

Child of L. L. and L. A. Ward

 

 

Source: Headstone recorded by Susan Zeni from visits to Spring Hill Cemetery.

 

WELCH, William

 

d. 12/14/1866
Age 32 yrs

 

 

 

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

WHITCOMB, Daniel H.

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #12

 

 

Apr 1900
6/29/1917

 

 

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

 

 

California recruit, Gen Service Infantry.

 

 

 

 

 

WHITCOMB, Martin Harin

 

d. 1865

 

 

d. 1902

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

 

From Susan Zeni (20 November 2015 Newsletter):

"Hiram Martin Whitcomb was born in Mendocino County in 1865, the eldest of 6 children. He was a farmer as was his father. He and his father migrated down to Sonoma County where Hiram Martin married a local girl, Elsie Irene Shuster, around 1895. In the 1898 California Great Register, Daniel and his father, Orrin, were farming in the Freestone area - and his father listed his occupation as minister. Elsie and Hiram Martin had two children, Ora May born in 1897, and Hiram Daniel, born in 1899. In the 1900 Sonoma County Census, Elsie and the two small children were listed in the household with Elsie's parents in Vallejo township, perhaps for help with her very young children? I have been unable to find Hiram Martin Whitcomb or his father in the 1900 census. Hiram Martin Whitcomb's headstone is no longer visible in the cemetery, but according to the DAR records, Hiram Martin died in 1902 and was buried in Spring Hill Cemetery. Now comes the connection to the Lowrey line - Hiram Martin Whitcomb's widow, Elsie, married George Washington Shuster - son of John Shuster and Sara Emeline Lowrey. Elsie married thirdly Elisha Henry. Elsie had multiple children from all three of her marriages. Hiram Martin and Elsie's son, Hiram Daniel Whitcomb, is considered to be the first Sonoma county WWI soldier to die. "

 

WHITE, James

 

d. 1858

 

Husband of Sarah Cunningham

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

 

Information for Cheney plot: plus two unknown "White-Cheney" children

 

WHITE, John

 

1857 - 1867

 

Son of Jas. and Sarah C. White

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

 

 

Information for Cheney plot: plus two unknown "White-Cheney" children

 

ZILHART, Hattie D.

Copy from Susan Zeni

Map site #41

 

 

d. 3/8/1877
Age 3y 8m 15d

 

Daughter of Wm. H. & M. A. Zilhart

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

Her headstone is shared with her sister.

 

ZILHART, Lulu M.

 

d. 3/10/1877
Age 6y 9m 10d

 

Daughter of Wm. H. & M. A. Zilhart

 

Source: 1934 DAR list

Map site #41

 

Her headstone is shared with her sister.

 

Hattie's and Lulu's mother was Martha Ann Gaulden whose sister married James McRenolds.

Their father, William Henry Zilhart, was the diarist of the Ledger of My Travels from Missouri to California April to October 1853.

 

             

 

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