Alameda-Contra Costa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Harlan, Minerva Jane (Fowler) March 24, 1915
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Contra Costa Gazette, March 27, 1915 
"A PIONEER OF SAN RAMON HAS PASSED TO REST.  Mrs. Minerva Harlan Breathes Her
Last At Home of Her Daughter In Oakland - Funeral Held on Friday.  

Telling the members of her family that she was tired and would go to bed and to
sleep, Mrs. Minerva Jane Fowler Harlan, a pioneer of this state of 1846, died
Wednesday night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Frederick Stolp, in Oakland,
aged 82 years.

Mrs. Harlan came to California across the plains in a party of 80 wagons, headed
by her future father-in-law, George Harlan, from Independence, Mo., April, 1845
[actually 1846].  On the way they encountered the Donner party, from which they
separated at Truckee canyon [actually separated in Fort Bridger] Harlan
disapproving of the route taken by the party and saying that he would follow the
route pioneered by Henry Fowler in 1844 if he had to take his eighty wagons
there piece by piece.  The party arrived in San Francisco, [actually arrived at
Johnson's Rancho] then a village of 100 houses, called Yerba Buena, October 24,
1846.

In 1849 Mrs. Harlan married Joel Harlan, who died some thirty-four years ago at
Sonoma.  They afterward went to Contra Costa county where they purchased a
portion of the famous Amador grant from Amador himself, establishing their home
El Nido on a stretch of 2000 acres of the property in the San Ramon Valley.

This home was the scene of lavish hospitality and is still in the hands of the
family.  It was visited by Mrs. Harlan herself last Sunday.  The Harlans were
large property owners in San Francisco in former days, part of their holdings
having been Harlan Place, situated just back of the Palace Hotel.

Mrs. Harlan is survived by five children, Fred and Elisha Harlan, Mrs. Helen H.
Osborne, Mrs. Mary H. Llewellyn and Mrs. Frederick Stolp.  The funeral was held
Friday morning [March 26] at the home of the latter, 589 Vernon street, Oakland,
and interment was at Livermore, in the old family plot [at Oak Knoll Cemetery.]

Many friends of the family from Contra Costa motored to Livermore to attend the
burial." END

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"Contra Costa Gazette" published in Martinez, California. March 27, 1915 [Saturday]

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