I9: Ruth FULKERSON (2 Mar 1829

Ruth FULKERSON

2 Mar 1829 - 21 Jul 1887

BIRTH: 2 Mar 1829, Hardin Co., KY
DEATH: 21 Jul 1887, Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co., CA
BURIAL: July 1887, Fulkerson Cemetery, Sonoma Co., CA

Father: Richard FULKERSON
Mother: Sally Shepherd CLAWSON

Family 1 : Thompson W. MIZE

MARRIAGE: 8 Mar 1846, Bloomfield, Davis Co., IA

MARRIAGE: 19 Nov 1857, Petaluma, Sonoma Co., CA

                                                _John FULKERSON __
                           _Fulkard FULKERSON _|
                          |                    |_Margaret BRUNER _
 _Richard FULKERSON ______|
|                         |                     _Theodore DAVIS __
|                         |_Sarah DAVIS _______|
|                                              |_--- (DAVIS) _____
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|--Ruth FULKERSON 
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|                                               __________________
|                          ____________________|
|                         |                    |__________________
|_Sally Shepherd CLAWSON _|
                          |                     __________________
                          |____________________|
                                               |__________________

Notes:

Date and place of birth and death listed by Welma Perin and Nancy Miller (1998)
Date of birth and death listed in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery, 1853-1997.
Place of birth listed as Bloomfield, Davis Co., IA by James Harmon (nomrah38655@hotmail.com) in "Descendants of James Mize and Patsy Ingram" (4 Nov 03).

Listed in the 1850 Census for Davis County, Iowa, living in Perry Township, with her husband as Ruth, age 21 months born in Kentucky.
Listed living with her daughter, Amanda Moore, in the 1870 Census for Sonoma County. Also listed in this census are Maria, Thompson, Francis B, and Richard B. No husband listed. Though George Moore is listed as the head of the household, she was probably the owner of the property. Value of her Real Estate in 1870 was $4000, and her personal property, $1000.
She is listed in the 1880 Census as "at home" with her son, Thompson Mize (enumerated right before George and Amanda Moore), the "Widowed/Divorced" category is checked. She was involved in an intense divorce suit with her second husband.

A will for Ruth Barnes was recorded April 16, 1883, in Sonoma County Wills, Book D, Page 481, #1662.
The original handwritten will is in the Santa Rosa Genealogical Library. Also attached to it is a "Testimony of Subscribing Witness on Probate of Will" by Thomas Rutledge, that he knew Ruth Barnes on the "16 day of April 1883 and on the 9th day of July, 1883" and that she published her will on July 9, 1883, at which time she was fifty years old. Wm. E. McConnell and S. B. Wright are also listed as witnesses.
These records also includes a "Testimony of Applicant on Probate of Will" by Ruth's son-in-law, L. A. Murdock on July 30, 1887, and a "Certificate of Proof of Will" by a John G. Preseley, Superior Court Judge on August 15, 1887.

The Will begins with:
	In the name of God Amen. I. Ruth Barnes (widow) being of sound mind and memory but realizing the uncertainty of life do make publish and disclose this my last will and testament in manner following.

To her son Richard O. Barnes, she wills a tract of land:
	...being a portion of the Cabeza de Santa Rosa Grant commencing at a point in the centre of the road leading from Sonoma to Healdsburg via the Santa Rosa Cemetery....

A very long and tedious description of this parcel follows. Its northern boundary is the land acquired by her father, Richard Fulkerson from Nancy Lucas. The southern boundary is the "County Poor Farm."
	It being understood that the life estate of my father and those portions of the above described tract that have been by me deeded to my sons Thompson Mize and Albert Mize are excepted from this foregoing diverse... I have already given Thompson and Albert Mize their portion of my estate of at least as much as I think they are entitled to and hence no provisions for them in this my will... I have already made advancements out of my estate to my beloved daughter Mrs. Amanda Moore amounting to seventeen hundred dollars and to make the division equal, I now give and bequeath to my beloved daughters Mrs. Mary Murdock and Mrs. Mariah Hawkins each the sum of seventeen hundred dollars....

She bequeaths an additional 600 dollars to Richard O. Barnes. All that remains of the estate is to be split equally among Amanda Moore, Mary Murdock and Mariah Hawkins.
	I nominate and appoint my son-in-law Mr. L. A. Murdock executor. In case of his death then my son-in-law L. J. Hawkins as executor without bonds. .

There is a codicil from July 9, 1883:
	My beloved daughter Mrs. Mariah Hawkins having died since I made my ?word will bearing date April 16, 1883....

Everything that was to go to her now goes to her children, Maud Hawkins, Mamie Hawkins and Mark Hawkins:
	...they are to take the same but no greater interest in my estate..
She died July 21, 1887. Her real estate was assessed with having a value of $10,000 and it had been acquired by gift. The annual rents on the estate were $250.00.

This page created on 07/22/99 15:32. Updated 11/09/03 20:14.