Yolo County CA Archives Biographies.....Bemmerley, Agnes (Mrs.) 1824 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com February 3, 2007, 10:29 pm Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1891) MRS. AGNES BEMMERLEY, proprietor of a farm in Yolo County, is the widow of John Bemmerly, deceased, who was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1824, and came in 1852 to California, crossing the plains with oxen and settling in Yolo County in 1853. He died August 8, 1872, a man well and favorably known throughout a large community. He left to his wife and five children 6,000 acres of land. He was married in this county, October 14, 1860. The children are Mary E., John F., Jr., Agnes H., William A. and Ernest A., all natives of this county. Additional Comments: Extracted from Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California. Illustrated, Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the Earliest Period of its Occupancy to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Prospective Future; Full-Page Steel Portraits of its most Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and also of Prominent Citizens of To-day. "A people that takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendents." – Macauley. CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1891. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/yolo/bios/bemmerle648gbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/cafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb