San Benito County CA Archives Biographies.....Bacon, Elizabeth L. 1827 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

MRS. ELIZABETH L. BACON, one of the earliest residents of Bear Valley, in San
Benito county, located here in 1866.

  Mrs. Bacon is a native of Ohio, having been born in that State, November 23,
1827. When she was about three years of age her parents emigrated to Illinois,
where she spent her girlhood, and in 1846 married Philip Shell, at Gilead,
Calhoun county, Illinois. In 1851 the young couple came overland to Oregon,
where they engaged in farming near Salem, and there Mr. Shell died in 1854. The
following are their children: Deborah, wife of Henry Melendy, of Bear Valley;
John, of Bear Valley was born May 3, 1848, married and died, leaving a son,
John, who was adopted and reared by his grandmother, the subject of this sketch;
Susan was born in Salem, Oregon, June 14, 1854.

  In 1856 Mrs. Shell married Myron A. Bacon, a California pioneer of 1849, who
came across the plains with an ox team. He engaged in mining, farming and dealt
in stock-raising. He returned to Illinois for a brief time, but returned to
California via the isthmus, and upon his return to California pursued farming
and fruit culture until his death. He was born in Ohio, January 25, 1821, and
died at San Jose in 1890. By this marriage Mrs. Bacon has three sons and one
daughter, namely: Oliver F., a farmer of Bear Valley, born October 13, 1856;
Horace G., born March 7, 1864; Benjamin, born December 12, 1866, and Mary, now
Mrs. David Churchill of Sumner, Kern county, California, born August 10, 1858.
All the children reside in California.

  Horace G. Bacon is by profession a school teacher. He completed his studies at
the State Normal School at San Jose, from which institution he graduated in
December, 1885. Upon graduating he embraced teaching as a profession, and taught
one year in Tulare county, three years in Contra Costa county, and two years in
San Benito county. He married at Alamo, in Contra Costa county, December 9,
1891, Miss Nettie, daughter of George and Annie (Truby) Smith. Mrs. Bacon was
born at Alamo, December 9,1869.

  The estate of our subject comprises 320 acres of titled land, fertile and
nicely located at the foot of Bear valley.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.



HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.


CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.


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