Sonoma-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Truitt, Roland K. 1841 - 
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Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880)

Truitt, Roland K. Was born in Montgomery county, Texas, August 23, 1841. When
but a child, his parents moved near Hannibal, Missouri, and there resided until
the Spring of 1849, in which year they emigrated to California, making the
journey by ox-teams across the plains, the time occupied being five months and
eighteen days. Their first location was Mormon Island, where they remained until
the Fall of 1851, when they returned to Texas and farmed until the Spring of
1856, at which time they came back to California and settled about seven miles
north from Petaluma, after which he left his parents and went to work for wages
and remained in Sonoma county until March, 1860, when, in company with an aunt
and family, went to Texas, and in the following September accompanied his uncle,
E. R. Moffett, to the State of Iowa to purchase horses, and returned the same
Fall to Texas; then the war breaking out, he enlisted as a private in the
Confederate cavalry. After serving two years in the Mississippi States, he put
in a substitute and started on his way to California via Mexico, and arrived at
Matamoras in October, 1863. After the surrender of Brownsville to the United
States army, he went there and applied for transportation to New Orleans, but
was refused. Being in destitute circumstances and sick he was necessarily
compelled to join the United States cavalry, in which he served until October
31, 1865, and was mustered out under General Custer, commanding the army at San
Antonio, Texas. He then returned to the place of his birth, Danville, Montgomery
county, and on December 26, 1866, married Miss S. G. Brooks, a native of
Mississippi. On May 10, 1868, he again started to California, accompanied by his
wife and one child, and arrived in Healdsburg, Sonoma county, the 23d day of
June, where he has remained since, being most of the time engaged in
stock-raising. He is now engaged in sheep-raising in co-partnership with John H.
Zuver. Their ranch is located on Big Pluton creek, near the celebrated Geyser
Springs; it comprises about ten thousand acres of grazing land. His family now
consists of four children, Eugene R, Emma S., Eliott and Charles E.

Additional Comments:
Mendocino Township

Extracted from:

HISTORY
—OF-
SONOMA COUNTY,
-INCLUDING ITS—
Geology, Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams;
—TOGETHER WITH—
A Full and Particular Record of the Spanish Grants; Its Early History and
Settlement, Compiled from the Most Authentic Sources; the Names of Original
Spanish and American Pioneers; a full Political History, Comprising the Tabular
Statements of Elections and Office-holders since the Formation of the County;
Separate Histories of each Township, Showing the Advancement of Grape and Grain
 Growing Interests, and Pisciculture;
ALSO, INCIDENTS OF PIONEER LIFE; THE RAISING OF THE BEAR FLAG; AND BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCHES OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
—AND OF ITS—
Cities, Towns, Churches, Schools, Secret Societies, Etc., Etc.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO:
ALLEY, BOWEN & CO., PUBLISHERS.
1880.


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