Santa Clara-San Luis Obispo-Tulare County CA Archives Obituaries.....Van Gorden, Jerome December 14, 1918
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Sausalito News, December 21, 1918
"MAN DIES; BLAZED SIERRA TRAIL IN 1846 

Mayfield [Santa Clara County].—Jerome Van Gorden, a member of the first party 
of pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains by way of the Sierra Nevadas 
[sic] and Truckee, is dead at Mayfield, aged 77 years and 2 months. Van Gorden 
was a child in 1846 when his parents [Ira and Rebecca (Harlan) Van Gorden] and 
grandparents [George and Elizabeth (Duncan) Harlan] decided on the long trip to 
this State. They went by ox team as far as Sacramento [Sutter’s Fort], where 
they arrived October 1, 1846. Captain Sutter sent them on to San Francisco by 
boat, which he was sending for supplies, and from San Francisco they went to 
Alviso by another boat, settling at Mission San Jose. 

They resided at the mission until the discovery of gold and then the family 
moved to the mines at Coloma and finally went to Tulare county in 1851. In 1866 
the family moved to Cambria, thence to Visalia, later to Watsonville and five 
years ago to Mayfield. 

Mr. and Mrs. Van Gorden celebrated their golden wedding here in 1911. He was a 
member of the Board of Town Trustees. 

Van Gorden leaves his widow and three children - Mrs. C[harles] J[ames] Evans 
[Clara] and G[eorge] E[dwin] Van Gorden of Mayfield, Fred Van Gorden of 
Visalia, and six brother, George Van Gorden of Danville, Gilbert Van Gorden of 
Palo Alto, Ira of San Luis Obispo, Sherman of Mayfield, Vine and Earl of 
Cambria, and one sister, Mrs. Walter Murray [Sarah] of Los Angeles." END

Additional Comments:
Sausalito News, December 21, 1918 (Saturday), Page 2, Column 1.  [Last name 
sometimes spelled Van Gordon.]  He is buried in Alta Mesa Memorial Park, Palo 
Alto.

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