Name: n6nyk -- Ralph Cooper Family Tree

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. John Dawson ARDIS: Birth: 14 JAN 1849 in Russel County, AL. Death: 05 FEB 1915 in Pomona, CA

  2. Baby 1851 ARDIS: Birth: 24 FEB 1851 in Downey, CA. Death: 24 FEB 1851 in Downey, CA

  3. Baby 1852 ARDIS: Birth: JAN 1852 in Downey, CA. Death: JAN 1852 in Downey, CA

  4. Baby 1855 ARDIS: Birth: 25 APR 1855 in Downey, CA. Death: JUL 1855 in Downey, CA

  5. Martha Ella ARDIS: Birth: 18 JUN 1857 in Downey, CA. Death: 10 SEP 1857

  6. Issac L. ARDIS: Birth: 30 APR 1858. Death: 03 OCT 1903 in Downey, CA

  7. Sallie Aiken ARDIS: Birth: 24 AUG 1858. Death: 02 FEB 1947 in Glendale, CA

  8. Lida Tatum ARDIS: Birth: 27 MAY 1861 in Downey, CA. Death: MAR 1931 in Los Angeles, CA

  9. Julius Harris ARDIS: Birth: 11 MAY 1863 in Downey, CA.

  10. Bascom ARDIS: Birth: 30 JAN 1865 in Downey, CA. Death: 05 JUL 1878 in Eldorado, Russell County, AK

  11. Fannie Alabama ARDIS: Birth: 27 OCT 1866 in Downey, CA. Death: 27 APR 1894

  12. Wiley H. ARDIS: Birth: 28 JUN 1869 in Downey, CA. Death: 01 AUG 1869 in Downey, CA

  13. William M. ARDIS: Birth: 21 OCT 1870 in Downey, CA. Death: MAY 1933 in Downey, CA

  14. Julia ARDIS: Birth: 11 NOV 1873 in Downey, CA. Death: 28 JUL 1944 in Lakewood Village, CA

  15. B.D. ARDIS: Birth: 04 JUN 1874 in Downey, CA. Death: 06 OCT 1874 in Downey, CA


Notes
a. Note:   1868, when John Columbus Ardis sought a home in California. He was anative of Georgia and the descendent of an honored ancestry. Receivinghis education in Emory College, Georgia, he subsequently engaged inthe practice of law, but afterward entered the ministry of theMethodist Episcopal Church South. After his removal to Arkansas, whichtook place in 1857, he engaged in teaching and continued so occupiedfor a number of years. The close confinement gradually told upon hishealth, until he found it expedient to seek both a change of climateand occupation and in July, 1868, he came to California with theintention of making this state his home.
  1868 Two Historic Colleges Were Founded Here.
 Los Nietos College Institute, the first Protestant college in LosAngeles was on Paramount Boulevard at Alameda Street. The college wasfounded in 1868 when Methodist minister John C. Ardis bought the plotof land to found a private school.
 Ardis and his family had come west by covered wagon fromArkansas.
 A graduate of Emery College in Atlanta, Ardis had taught at ArkansasState College for several years. On arrival here he first establishedthe small Alameda School District which he ran for a year. But even ashe ran the small grade school, he recognized the need for a largerschool with more advanced grades.
 Luckily, the Methodist Church had decided to erect a collegesomewhere in the West. In line with the local need, the MethodistAssembly convened in what later came to be Downey on March 19, 1869.They laid the college's cornerstone and named former governor John G.Downey the school's chairman and Ardis his secretary.
 1876 A Methodist Church was erected on an acre-and-a-half of propertyat College (as Paramount Boulevard was then Called). William Steeldonated the land, and the church was considered a landmark because ofits 110-foot steeple.
Note:   The Ardis family has been represented in the vicinity of Downey since
b. Note:   Description: 54 Years of age.

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