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Note: AGNES EWING VANTILBURG (1851-1944)
FRANK VANTILBURG (1868- --?--)
Born March 26, 1851 in Hensingham (Whitehaven) Cumberland, England to JAMES DAVIDSON EWING and MARY ANN ALLISON. Her father was an iron miner. Her parents emigrated in 1852 to Pennsylvania, United States. A brother, Paul, was born March 26, 1853. He died on July 28, 1884, age 1 year seven months.
Bill: Grandpa Ewing came over (to California) because of the discovery of gold. He was about the same age as Grandpa Gardner. He came out west to mine. Grandma didn't come right away--she stayed in Philadelphia with some relatives. She took a ship to Panama, then went by muleback across Panama. She had a baby, Aunt Agnes...a woman was sick and Grandma didn't want to nurse her because of putting the baby at risk.
Ruth: She came up through the Isthmus of Panama, to San Francisco to meet her husband. They did go to the mountains (Nevada City or Grass Valley, CA). He was a mining man and he must have had a partner. And they were mining, but the partner I think wanted to back out. And that mine that my grandfather wanted to have turned out to be one of the richest-very, very, very big, but of course, he lost it because he hadn't been able to complete it.
A brother, James Allison Ewing, was born August 9, 1856.
A sister, Mary Jane Ewing, was born June 9, 1858.
Another brother, Samuel Ewing, was born December 15, 1860.
Bill: Grandma Ewing, living in Napa, had a story about when the Ewings lived in Nevada City (before Jennie Ewing was born) and Grandpa was working in a gold mine according to Uncle Sam. This gold mine was near the center of town, I believe, and it would have been very shortly after they came to this country from Northern England.
Ruth: The little girl (Mary Jane Ewing) had gone into town to the stores and there were Indians around in the neighborhood, and one of the white men told the little girl that the Indians would get her and she better run home, so she ran home and she collapsed and before she died she was ill and when she was dying she said to her mother "it's very beautiful" and she just looked so happy as she was passing away...and grandma was always sorry she had not asked the girl what she saw because the little girl was so pleased and so happy when she died (on October 7, 1862)
Bill: I remember mother speaking about how her mother was always sorry. You thought the girl had been frightened to death?
Ruth: That's the way we were told, she was frightened and I think she stumbled on the way home. I think they had wooden sidewalks and she stumbled running to get home, yes they said that she was frightened to death.
A sister, Mary Ann, was born November 16, 1863. (Nevada Co.)
November 5, 1867 in Nevada County, CA-Agnes, age 16, marries Ira Van Tilberg, age 29. Ira was born in about 1838 in Ohio (Crawford County?).
From Bean's Directory: Nevada Township 1867:Ewing, J. D., miner, Selby Flat
November, 1868 in California--Agnes and Ira have a son, FRANK VANTILBURG
1870 US Federal Census -- August 13, 1870, Yount Township, Napa, California
James Ewing 41 Laboror $250
Mary Ann 41 Keeping house
James 13
Samuel 9
Mary Ann 6
Jennie 2
Next listing in the same census:
Ira Vantilburg 32 b. abt 1838, Ohio
Agnes Vantilburg 19
Frank Vantilburg 1
James George 39 b. Wisconsin, laborer
1880 US Census - Tiro, Crawford, Ohio
Ira Vantilburg 41 Merchant, ____?____ dealer
A. E. Vantilburg 28
Frank Vantilburg 10
Another Vantilburg family on the same page (Ira's brother?): B. S. VanTilburg 28 b. Ohio, Parents b. Ohio Selling Dry Goods
Elizabeth VanTilburg 27 b. Ohio Edith VanTiliburg 1 b. Ohio 1900 US Census - Minneapolis Ward 2, Hennepin, Minnesota
Frank Van Tilburg 31 b. Nov 1868, CA Boarder, Cashier in oil company
Pearl A. Vantilburg 30 b. Mar 1870, IN (parents born Ohio) Married 9 years
Noel Vantilburg (M) 7 b. July 1892, Minnesota
Francis Vantilburg (F) 5 b. Mar 1895, Minnesota
1910 US FEDERAL CENSUS -- Minneapolis Ward 2, Hennepin, Minnesota
F. E. VanTilburg 40 President, Oil Wholesale Co.
Pearl VanTilburg 39
Noel VanTilburg 17
Frances VanTilburg 15
Margaret VanTilburg 9 b.abt 1901, Minnesota
Hanna Johnson 11 servant
From Ruth Sandner reminiscences 1989:
We had been in Berkeley in 1917. We had rented a house on Hillegase Ave. That was when the van Tilburgs came out. That was Mrs. van Tilburg (Agnes Ewing, the baby who was brought over from England) and her two daughters*. And she had separated from her husband because she was going with some very rich man. And her husband, Mr. van Tilburg, told her he said to his wife "he'll never marry you." and surely, he didn't. After she had divorced her husband, the other one didn't marry her. Well, he's the one that Standard Oil broke. Took his business and broke him. (in Minneapolis).
*No record of Agnes and Ira having two daughters. Could these two have been her granddaughters, Frances and Margaret,
ages 22 and 16? 1920 US FEDERAL CENSUS -- Minneapolis Ward 2, Hennepin, Minnesota
Frank E. VanTilburg 50 President, Oil Company
Pearl A. VanTilburg 49
Frances VanTilburg 24
Margaret VanTilburg 19
1930 US Federal Census - St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota
Frank VanTilburg 61 Proprieter, Oil Station, divorced
Agnes VanTilburg 79
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