FOURTH GENERATION

10. Sullivan Holloway OSBORN ⁽⁴²⁾ (photo) was born on 9 Nov 1830 in St. Albans, Somerset, ME. He died on 4 Nov 1912 in Flournoy, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Newville, CA. "... went to common school and at twelve went to high school ... At fifteen he attended the Milton Welch School and at sixteen went to Charleston (ME) and passed the teacher's examination... He taught his first school in Charleston at the age of seventeen. He went to Ripley near St. Albans to teach the next year. Then after one year's vacation and at the age of nineteen he taught in Clinton on the Kennebec River.
In 1850 at the age of twenty Sullivan went to New York to work in a tannery for Walt Gillman 110 miles up the Hudson River. But after two months he returned to Maine to work in a store for James Dunning at Bangor. He stayed six months and then went to Canaan and worked for Hiram Burrill until Fall....
By now sleepy, dreamy a Latin California was being transformed as huge throngs raced to the gold fields... In October, 1851 Sullivan, probably in company with several other Down-Easters, started for California... They chose to take the more perilous two month trip via the pestilential Nicaragua Route, catching the steamer 'Daniel Webster.' After crossing the Isthmus (where Sullivan turned twenty-one at San Carlos, Lake Nicaragua) they took the 'North Star' for San Francisco. On arrival Sullivan went directly to Auburn, Placer County, and began mining near the town of Ophir ... on the Auburn Ravine.
In the spring of 1852 Sullivan was taken sick and laid off all summer.... The following summer he went back to mining and took up a claim near Frytown and worked through the summer of 1854.... It was during this time that his sister, Eunice, came to California to be with her husband, William Ransom Burrill. During her transit she also contracted the fever (as many gold-seekers did) and two months after her arrival she died of typhoid fever (1853).
In the Fall of 1854 Sullivan started for home on 'Yankee Blade' of the Nicaragua Route. The steamer was wrecked ... off Point Arguello, below Monterey. The passengers were taken by a casting steamer, 'Goliah,' to San Diego. Many of the passengers were taking gold back with them. Most of them lost their gold, but Sullivan saved his. The passengers stayed in San Diego for two weeks and then the steamship company sent down 'Brother Jonathan,' an old steamer and took them back to San Francisco. Sullivan went back to the mines at Gold Hill, below Ophir ... and stayed there in 1855 and 1856. His Diary begins 1 January 1855... On February 17, 1856 Sullivan sold his last claim in the gold fields, and headed for 'home' which he now considered Six-Mile House (north of Sacramento) where W. 'Ran' Burrill and his new wife, Carolyn (Oaks) lived.... In fall of 1856 Sullivan bought a team and started freighting. Next Spring (1857) he sold the team and bought twenty head of Oregon heifers and went to Newville in Colusa County. He came in company with Butler N. Scribner and took up a place of 160 acres... In March 1860 Sullivan's Diary ends, but several references to J.B. give evidence that on January 27, 1861 he would marry Joan Beach.... In Newville he raised his family and continued to expand his farm, buying a place of 160 acres, and then 160 acres of the railroad until he had about 600 acres....
During this period Sullivan was active in the developing county being elected Justice of the Peace for the Newville area in 1865, 1869, and 1877. He was an active Mason first traveling to Tehama to attend meetings, and helped set up the Good Templars Lodge in Newville March 9, 1878....
In 1889 Sullivan sold out to his partner, Butler N. Scribner, for $7000 and moved to the S.A. Gyle ranch on the Nome Lackee Indian Reservation (located at the end of Osborn Road) as a renter.... In 1900 he and his son, Joseph, bought a ranch of Beckman's of the People's Savings Bank. He and his wife, Joan, had lived there three years when she died. Sullivan then lived with his son, Joseph and his wife, Mary, on the same place until Sullivan's death...."
1860 Census indicates that Sullivan, age 28, was a "farmer" and living in Newville with Wm. R. Buriell (?), also a farmer and from Maine. The 1878 - Appeal Directory for Colusa Co. listed him as a farmer with 480 acres in the Newville area.
He was married to Joan BEACH on 27 Jan 1861 in Colusa Co., CA.

11. Joan BEACH ^{(4)(12) (43)} (photo) was born on 23 May 1845 in Saline, MI.⁽⁴⁴⁾ Some confusion existed over Joan's birth year with some evidence suggesting the year 1840; 1850 Census records of Adamsville, Ontwa Township, Cass County, Mich., indicate she was then 5 years old, therefore the birthyear of 1845 is currently accepted. The birth year of 1845 is inscribed on her grave stone. She died on 13 Aug 1903 in Flournoy, Tehama Co., CA. She was buried in Newville, CA. Described by Doris Carter in 1982 as "a red headed girl; she was rough & tough and went barefooted, broke horses, herded cows, and swore. She was Irish. She married when only 15 years old... died at 56 of 'sugar diabetes."
The following is from a paper written by her great granddaughter, Clair Wheeler Johnson: "... a wagon train passed through Placer County. In the train was a couple who joined the wagon train sometime after 1850. In the 1850 census they were living in Cass County, Ontwa Township, Michigan. His name was Joseph Beach, age 37. His wife was Ann Ballard Beach, age 25. They had a young child, five years old. Her name was Joana. They were no longer in Michigan (in) the 1860 census so they must have left prior to that time. As they were not mentioned in the Placer County census of 1860 in California, they must have arrived after June of that year it was taken. Somewhere along the road Sullivan met Joana, now 14 or 15. She had bright red hair. There were two prosperous families of Beeches that lived in Placer County at that time. The two young people would soon be married and live in Newville, Colusa County (later Glenn Co.). The 1860 census shows Sullivan Osborn living with a family by the name of Burrill in Newville. It lists him as a farmer. The 1870 census lists Sullivan and Joan married with five children. The oldest was born when she was seventeen. They had fourteen children and raised twelve to adulthood." Joan was described as being "very outgoing" and a close friend of her neighbor, Harriet Robinson Cushman despite their differences in temperament. (Eventually Joan's grandson, Harry St. Clare Wheeler, would marry Harriet's granddaughter, Doris Birch.)
Children were:

i. Eunice Alfreda OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 23 May 1862 in Newville, Colusi, CA. She died on 1 Jul 1943 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. She was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Daniel Mosier HULL. "Aunt Eunice was a white-haired, matriarchal, serious person. I can remember my first Osborn reunion at her house. ... In the family history was the story that a Hull was a constable in Red Bluff and had his ear bit off by a prisoner he was taking in to a state prison." (Claire)
ii. Joseph Beach OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 19 Apr 1864 in Newville, CA. He died on 24 Feb 1928 in Corning, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married (1) Lulu SAYLOR; (2) Mary Margaret CURRY ("Aunt Mary" b.19 May 1879 Yolo Co., d. 21 Aug 1970 Red Bluff) "Uncle Joe ... had a daughter by a previous marriage before he and Aunt Mary were married. Aunt Mary kept in touch with her and wrote to her all her life. Uncle Joe died in Grandma's (Wheeler) house when we were there." (Claire) (See notes for wife Mary for additional family information.)
iii. Alfred Hilton OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 23 Jul 1865 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 5 Apr 1949 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Corning, Tehama Co., CA. Married Mollie MARKHAM. "Uncle Al was married to Aunt Mollie and lived in Corning for their older age. I know they had several children including a set of twins. I never met them (the children), but always visited with Uncle Al and Aunt Mollie. They were very nice, lived in a small house on the side street across from the Memorial Hall." (Claire)
5 iv. May Belle OSBORN.
v. John Jackson OSBORN^{(13) (45)} (photo) was born on 11 Jun 1869 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 14 Jun 1938 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Harriet Evelene WILLIAMS; they had 4 children, one of which was Melvin S. Osborn; Melvin married Myrtle I. BUTLER and they had 2 living children: Janice Irene & Delbert Melvin. For a short period during WWII Myrtle and her 2 children lived with Doris (Birch) WHEELER and her two children Janice M. & O. Keith. Delbert Osborn compiled and authored the "Osborn Genealogy."
"Grandma (Wheeler) and Uncle John were close. All I remember is he was a quiet man. Del's grandfather." (Claire)
vi. Sullivan Holloway OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 22 Jul 1871 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 20 Jan 1945 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Clara Alice RANDOLPH. "Uncle 'Sully' married Aunt Clara. She was the County Clerk in Oroville, Butte County. They never had children. What I remember is a double page spread in the S.F. Examiner, Parade Magazine, with her picture, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment for selling divorces. It was said Uncle Sully died of a broken heart. (I heard he drank a little!)" (Claire)
vii. Jennie Shelton OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 27 Oct 1873 in Newville, Colusi, CA. She died on 1 Mar 1952 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. She was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Frederick Lincoln OAKS. "Aunt Jennie was a regular visitor at Grandma's. She had one son, Francis. Grandma helped deliver him. His head was deformed. It was a hard delivery. Grandma worked and worked on him and he lived but she wished later she hadn't because he was not quite right. He used to sit in one of Grandma's leather chairs and talk to himself while Grandma and Aunt Jennie visited in the kitchen. Aunt Jennie and her husband were very poor and Francis was a hard chore. He finally married someone. Mom said he was very cruel to his parents." (Claire)
viii. Jesse Mason OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 6 Oct 1875 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 14 Dec 1946 in Berkeley, Alameda, CA. He was buried in Berkeley, Alameda, CA. Married Maude MITCHELL. "Uncle Jesse and Aunt Maude were quite prominent people in Red Bluff (I think). It seemed they moved to Oakland later and we went to see them a time or two (near Lake Merritt)." (Claire)
ix. Norman Stanley OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 23 Jan 1877 in Newville, Glenn Co., CA. He died on 24 Apr 1879 in Newville, Glenn Co., CA. He was buried in Newville, Glenn Co., CA. "Is buried between Joan Beach's (Osborn) mother and father in the same plot as she and great grandpa O." (Claire)
x. Earl Douglas OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 17 May 1879 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 13 Dec 1957 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married (1) Cora Edna PAGE; (2) Helen Elva PORTER. "Uncle Earl we knew well. Grandma mothered all her brothers and sisters. Uncle Earl had a daughter ... by his first wife. When he married Aunt Helen, they had Dan Osborn. They visited with us regularly even after Uncle Earl died. Aunt Helen was very close to Mom." (Claire)
xi. Selma Alma OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 22 Jan 1883 in Newville, Colusi, CA. She died on 9 Mar 1933 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. She was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Frank Delaney DOLLINGS. Aunt Selma lived in Red Bluff. Her children are listed in our Osborn genealogy. Aunt Mary always wanted the cousins to get together and talked about the 'Dollings' often. ... She died of breast cancer." (Claire)
xii. Stephen Munson OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 16 Aug 1884 in Newville, Glenn Co., CA. He died on 22 Mar 1938 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Never married. "'Munsy' Osborn was, as far as I knew, a quiet but accepted member of the family. I never heard one criticism or word against him." (Claire)
xiii. Mary Harriett "Hattie" OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 22 Jun 1886 in Newville, Colusi, CA. She died on 18 Nov 1940 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. She was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married John Augustus LEVERONEY; she had no children. "Aunt Hattie was a wonderful, outgoing, beautiful member of the family and a favorite of Daddy's. She and her husband lived out west of Red Bluff. It seemed a farm in the hills. She fed us strawberries. She was an accomplished artist. Grandma had several small paintings (Janice, I think, has one of a boat on a lake). Aunt Mary had many larger ones. It seemed she was exceptional as an artist." (Claire)
xiv. Benton Ashley OSBORN⁽¹³⁾ (photo) was born on 15 Apr 1888 in Newville, Colusi, CA. He died on 17 Jul 1957 in Red Bluff, Tehama Co., CA. He was buried in Oak Hill Cem., Red Bluff, Tehama, CA. Married Inga Gertrude STENBERG. "Uncle Ben was also a favorite friend of Daddy. He was the youngest and had two children ... her name was Lois and the boy was Norman.... Uncle Ben and Aunt Inga lived on the east side of the river out of Red Bluff. It seemed it was a ranch. I don't know whether he farmed or raised cattle." (Claire)
xv. Un-Named Baby OSBORN.

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