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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. John George Best: Birth: 19 Jul 1855 in , Osage, Missouri. Death: 3 Feb 1940 in Chico, Butte, California

  2. William Henry Best: Birth: 11 Aug 1857 in Prob , Osage, Missouri. Death: 26 Apr 1926 in Nr Yuba City, Sutter, California

  3. MIRANDA Best: Birth: 7 Jan 1860 in Benton Twp, Osage, Missouri. Death: 19 May 1934 in Yuba City, Sutter, California

  4. Mary Elizabeth Best: Birth: 19 Dec 1862 in , Osage, Missouri. Death: 15 Jun 1946 in Yuba City, Sutter, California

  5. Charles Huntley Best: Birth: 10 Aug 1864 in , Linn, Missouri. Death: 24 Sep 1945 in Chico, Butte, California

  6. Louisa Best: Birth: ABT 1868 in Prob , Linn, Missouri. Death: 1 Oct 1917 in Napa State Hosp, Napa, California

  7. Ida Best: Birth: 9 Mar 1870 in Nr Yuba City, Sutter, California. Death: 3 May 1942 in Yuba City, Sutter, California

  8. Emily Jane Best: Birth: 4 Dec 1872 in Yuba City, Sutter, California. Death: 24 Feb 1924 in Nr Yuba City, Sutter, California


Notes
a. Note:   !BIRTH: BEST/STOKER Fam Bible in poss Minnie (Stoker) Stevens (dec), Yuba City, Sutter Co, CA (copied by Charles I. Davis, 31 Dec 1961) 3rd child in order; Parents, John George BEST & Tracy BURRELL.
  !MARR: Osage Co, MO, Marr Rec, comp by Mrs. Howard W. Woodruff: Bk A, Pg 215: Richard BEST md Nancy CORDRAY, 13 Jul 1854, by John Harris, J.P.
  !DEATH: Headstone, IOOF Sec, Baptist Sec 3, Orland (CA) Cem, County Rd P: "Richard BEST, Born May 22, 1826, Died June 9, 1873" Letter dated 17 Mar 1962 from Elvin R. BEST (dec 9 May 1978), Chico, CA: "I know that my gf, Richard BEST, d in late 1870's in Glenn Co, CA, and was bur in a little community cem at St. John. He was bet 45 & 50 yrs of age at the time of his death." NOTE: He died from erysipelas in a cabin nr Chico, Butte Co, CA.; his brother [unnamed] went for a doctor but Richard was dead by the time he returned; CONFLICT: Pedigree Resource File, Disc #5 gives place of death as Glenn Co, Calif.; CONFLICT: Sutter County Farmer; 19 Feb 1897; OBIT; BEST - Nr East Butte (Sutter Co, CA) Feb. 15, 1897, Mrs. Nancy BEST, a native of IA, age 64 years; ."deceased was a widow of Richard BEST who died about 20 years ago." This would put his death in 1877
  SOURCES: Ancestry.com; 1850 Fed Cen, Dist 29, Lee Co, IA, enum 23 Oct 1850 (Lived in home of William Nelson, 60, school teacher, 4th in order) Richard BESTE; 24, m, laborer, b OH [IBID] 1860 Fed Census, Benton Twp, Osage Co, MO: Richard BEST, 33, m, Farmer, Real estate $750, Person prop $300, b OH; Nancy BEST, 26, f, b OH; John BEST, 5, m, b MO; Henry BEST, 2, m, b MO; Malenda BEST, 8/12, f, b MO; Hariette BEST, 11, f, b MO; CONFLICT: Hariette poss dau of Brumfield BECKWITH, b 1827 & Margarett [BEST?], b 1834, living in Liberty, Stoddard Co, MO in 1850 [IBID] 1870 Fed Cen Sutter Twp, Sutter Co, CA: Richard BEST, 44, m, w, farmer, Real estate $4,000, Person prop $2,000, b OH; Nancy Best, 27, f, w, Keeping house, b OH; John BEST, 15, m, w, At home, b MO; Henry BEST, 13, m, w, At home, b MO; Miranda BEST, 10, f, w, At home, b MO; Charles BEST, 6, m, w, At gome, b MO; Francis BEST, 2, f, w, At home, b MO; Ida BEST, 6, f, w, b MO [neighbors] Samuel BEST, 42, m, w, Farmer, b OH; Daniel BEST, 31, m, w, Farmer, Person prop $400, b OH [IBID] 1880 Fed Cen, Sutter Twsp, Sutter Co, CA; Samuel BEST, head, Nancy BEST, f, 45, sis-in-law, wid, b OH Sutter Co, CA Voter Reg; 1872: Reg #153: Richard BEST, ae 44, b OH, res of Slough Prec, Reg 17 Apr 1871 / 1873 Reg; #151, Same as 1871 / 1877 Reg; #128, Same as 1871 Colusa Co, CA Voter Reg #1; Reg #2784: Richard BEST, 44, b OH, farmer, res Monroe #3, trans from Sutter Co, 30 Aug 1871; reg 1 Sep 1871 / Colusa Co, CA Voter Reg #2; Reg #2784: Same as above NOTE: According to Lula (Pinney) Laux, (dec 1970) Richard BEST & family came to CA in 1869 [reportedly] on the transcontinental railroad Probate Court Rec, Yuba City, Sutter Co, CA; Bk 3, Pg 637: Will of Samuel BEST, dated 15 Mar 1908 (I, Samuel BEST, leave to seven children of my dec bro Richard BEST) BLM Land Records, Richard BEST purchased 120 acres in Osage Co, MO, 10 Jun 1857 Nine Hundred Years of Cordrays: by Paul Cordray; 1989; Pg 178: Info from Irene Blake, 3209 NW 37th St, Oklahoma City, OK 73112 / IGI, Mar 1992: Pg 724; Batch #7609861, #19; [IBID] Marr, Batch #M515531, #0860 Ancestral File, v4.19, Sub #AF97-112705, Ina Carlson Corbin, 4117 Rushmore Dr, Arlington, TX 76016 History of the State of CA., & Bio. Record of the Sacramento Valley, by Prof. J.M. Guinn, Chapman Publ. Co, 1906, Pgs 655-56: Bio of William D. SULLENGER, md Mary E. BEST, dau of Richard & Nancy [CORDRAY] BEST, her father dying when she was very young


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