Alameda-Contra Costa County CA Archives Obituaries.....Harlan, Joel March 28, 1875
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Contra Costa Gazette, April 3, 1875
"A PIONEER CITIZEN GONE.  Mr. Joel Harlan, who died at his residence, in Amador
Valley, last Sunday [March 28, 1875], was one of the early, as he has been also
one of the prominent residents of this county, and one of the early actual
pioneeers of the State, having arrived here in 1846, prior to the discovery of
gold, and was living at or in the vicinity of Sutter's Mill when the famous
discovery was made.  We are not certain, indeed, but he was one of the persons
comprising the party employed or engaged there, with Marshall, in the mill
enterprise. [Joel Harlan was probably not at Sutter's Mill when gold was
discovered his his brother-in-law Peter Wimmer and his family were there.]  Mr
Harlan, with his father [George Harlan], two sisters and younger brother,
Elisha, were living near the San Jose Mission when the first Legislature
provided for the county organizations, and his residence fell within the
territorial limits of Contra Costa county as then established.  A year or two
subsequently, he purchased a tract of land and erected his house in the Amador
Valley, and when the County of Alameda was created, mainly from the original
territory of Contra Costa, one of the points defining the boundary line between
the two counties was the "house of Joel Harlan."  The house, however, was always
considered on this side of the line, and in Contra Costa county, but was removed
or demolished in 1857, when Mr. Harlan removed to his more recent purchase on
the Norris tract, where he has since resided up to the time of his death.  Mr.
Harlan was an energetic, upright and genial man, greatly respected and liked. 
And his neighborhood, extending far in both counties, will deeply sympathize
with the sorrow which his death, in the prime of years, brings to the wife and
large family of children he leaves behind him.  A post mortem examination, made
by Dr. La Baree of Livermore, assisted by Doctors Cutler, Smith and Pratt,
disclosed a large medullary cancer, involving the lower part of the stomach and
upper part of the duedenum, as the cause of Mr. Harlan's long, painful illness
and death.

The remains of the deceased were interred at the Livermore Cemetery [Oak Knoll],
on Tuesday last, under the auspices of the Danville Grange, of which he was a
member, and were attended to their resting place by almost the entire people of
the San Ramon and Amador Valley districts." END

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"Contra Costa Gazette" published in Martinez, California.  April 3, 1875 [Saturday]

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