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Note: David Franklin Parrish was born in Geneva New York September 25, 1838. By the time he was 12 years old both parents had died and he was living with other families as per his own oral history. Neither natural parent is known at this time. The next history we have of Davidis when he worked on the Erie Canal where he was dubbed "Baby Driver" because of his young age.
When gold was discovered in California, he traveled west [although a decade later] and settled for a while in California. We have no knowledge of how he made the journey to California but it can be surmised he came over the California Trail or Oregon Trail before 1860. He married Sarah Elizabeth Linebaugh in 1865 in Sonoma County, California. She had come over the California Trail as a child in 1852. They had three or four children (confusion in census places of births) in the Sonoma area. The 1870 Census shows them in Anally Township, Sonoma, California. In 1873 the family had moved to Sams Valley, near Medford, Oregon. His family is recorded in the 1880 census [on 7 June 1980 Jackson County Oregon; Table Rock Percinct] This included seven of the eventual ten children.
No mention is made of the Parrish family in the 1990 census in Jackson County, Oregon and later records show son, Mark, born in 1885 in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. By 1895 the family had again moved. This time to Fort Bragg, California where he lived for 26 years in a house which he built with property adjacent to the cliffs of the Pacific Ocean. The house is still standing and both the house an the property are now the home of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens. Sarah died March 12, 1922 and David was buried next to her in the family plot on their property after his death July 15, 1924. The graves were relocated to the Rose Memorial Cemetery at a later date.
David Franklin Parrish and Sarah Elizabeth Linebaugh were married in Sonoma County, California --probably in Bluchar Valley where Sarah's parents owned a large
ranch-- 30 March 1865. They lived in Sam's Valley, Oregon for a while where my fraternal grandfather was born in 1877. I believe they returned to the Santa
Rosa area of Sonoma County, California before their final move in 1893 to just south of Fort Bragg, Mendocino County, California. The home that they built is still standing; my father was born in this house, and it is now part of the Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, a non profit organization...
Both of my great grandparents died in Fort Bragg; Sarah 12 March 1922 and David 15 July 1924. They are buried in the Parrish family plot along with my grandparents in Rose Memorial Park of Fort Bragg.
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