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From: "Colleen" <>
Subject: [CASTANIS] Mann in Oakdale, Stanislaus county
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 17:28:32 -0800

requested by Chris Havnar

Mann Andrew Jackson Oct 14.1909 from DAR reading pre 1957 & BP
Mann Angelina Apr 15,1853 Jun 03,1930 BK 24 Lot 4 owner Mrs. A. Mann
Mann Daniel Lewis Nov 10,1834 Jan 16,1919 BK 40 Lot 4 GR 2 Father, BP says
Dec 22,1919, d.Stockton CA,owner F. C. Martin
Mann Elizabeth Jane May 7,1842 Jan 30,1919 BK 40 Lot 4 GR 3 Mother, owner F.
C. Martin, d. Thalheim
Mann Ellen Jan 23,1906 BP, 58 y
Mann Martin Van Buren Oct. , 1915 from DAR reading pre 1957 & from BP,BP
dod Jun 10,1923, 87 y,


Copied from Cemeteries of Stanislaus County, California, Vol IX: Oakdale
Area Cemeteries
Published by Genealogical Society of Stanislaus County, 2000

Interview of Merle Graham Apr 31, 1977: Daniel L. Mann family in Oakdale

Daniel Louis Mann was born in Wakefield, Vermont, probably of French
ancestry. His wife was Elizabeth Jane Sothern who was born in West Liberty,
Iowa. He was born about 1832 and she was born May 7, 1842. When he was
young
he came West with two other friends in the early 1850's as far as Ft.
Laramie,
Wyoming. The two friends returned home, but D.L. Mann got a job as a
civilian
teamster with the army. He was in charge of two ambulances that went into
Salt
Lake City to pick up the children left from the Mt. Meadow massacre. The
entire wagon train had been killed with the exception of the children. In
Salt
Lake City, he saw Brigham Young's home and asked if he could camp on his
property but was told that he could not.
He must have gone to Iowa and eventually he met and married in West
Liberty, Iowa in 1860. Merle Graham's mother, Frances Ercel Mann was born
in
West Liberty in 1866 and it was after that when they came West. They had
five
daughters, probably all born in Iowa: Martha Mann, Elnora Mann, Frances
Ercel
Mann, Almina Mann, and Jennie Mann.
Merle Graham Apr 31, 1977: Daniel L. Mann family in Oakdale

Merle thinks the Mann family first settle in Dixon, Calfifornia, where
he
did well as a rancher and had a beautiful home there. He lost his home,
however, by co-signing with a friend on a note. The Mann family came to
Oakdale
in the early 1880's where he was a rancher until he got a job with the
Oakdale
Water Works. Eventually they lived on the West side of S. Third St. between
H
and I sts. It is still standing and is the only house with a tank house on
the
side. He worked as an engineer for the Oakdale Water Works and he also
worked
for Haslacher and Kahn in the mill where he operated machinery. His
expertise
was with machinery and he was once offered a job with Holt Manufacturing in
Stockton, but declined.
In Oakdale the Mann's raised Elmer Jesse. His father, Ed Jesse, was a
butcher who married Wilhelmina Walther, daughter of Peter Walther. She died
and
Elmer was taken by the Mann's and raised.
Merle Graham Apr 31, 1977: Daniel L. Mann family in Oakdale

From Oakdale the Daniel Mann and his wife went to Ripon about 1907 or
1908
and from there they moved to Campbell for a time. They returned to the
area
and bought a place on the Escalon-Bellota Road out by Farmington. One of
their
daughter's and her family lived on a ranch next door. Then they moved into
Stockton and died there but are buried in Oakdale Citizen's Cemetery.
Martha Mann married David Russell and went immediately to the Dakota
Territory. Frances visited them there when Martha had her first baby.
Elnora
Mann first married Frank Martin and they lived in San Francisco. They were
divorced and she married Nathaniel Christian and they North of Oakdale near
the
Woodward Dam. They are buried in Oakdale. Frances married Eugene Douglas
Graham in Modesto in 1888 and the moved to a place on the Waterford Highway
from
Oakdale. Their only child was Merle Graham. Almina Mann married Harry
Owens
and lived in Oakdale on East G st. Jennie Mann married Joseph F. Stuart, a
nurseryman. When Jennie died he married May Wheeler, the widow of William
Wheeler.



Interview of Tom Prowse, August 1966
Daniel Mann had a ranch up by the Hodgedon ranch near Keystone. He had a
daughter who married a Guernsey.


Unlabeled Interview
J.C. Laughlin purchased his acre from Daniel Mann. Mann owned ten acres
which went South to the railroad. Now the ten acres are all city lots.


Interview of Arthur Brady May 31, 1978: The Stuart family in Oakdale.

Daniel Shaw Stuart was the father of Augustus Stuart, James Everett
Stuart,
Arthur William Stuart, Emma Stuart Coleman, Martha Ellen Stuart Brady,
Joseph F.
Stuart, Lydia Ann Stuart, and Nancy S. Stuart Hunt.
Joseph Stuart came to Oakdale in 1887 after his parents and brother.
He
rented land from them and started in the nursery business which he
continued
all of his working years. He married Jennie Mann, daughter of Daniel Mann
and
they lived in a little house on the Stuart ranch. Their house stood where
Mary
Beth Webb's swimming pool is. Mary Beth is Art Brady's daughter and she and
her
husband built a new home on the ranch. It was the Joseph Stuart home where
Martha Stuart Brady lived when she came to Oakdale to take care of her
mother.
Joseph started a small nursery on the property but it was never very large.
There was a flume running down the hill which was used to irrigate his
trees.
Joseph's oldest son, Arthur Stuart was born in the house on the Stuart
ranch.
Later the family moved to Oakdale and lived on North St in a two story white
house near Laurel Crest Manor. The family moved to Ripon by 1912 where he
continued in the nursery business.

Interview of Arthur Brady May 31, 1978: The Stuart family in Oakdale.

Joseph and Jennie Mann Stuart had five sons and one daughter: Arthur
Lewis
Stuart, Ernest Franklin Stuart, Raymond Southern Stuart, Allen Edison
Stuart,
Wesley Martin Stuart and Evelyn Mae Stuart. After Jennie Stuart died,
Joseph
married Mrs. Wheeler. Ray and Wesley took over the nursery business in
Ripon
and moved it to French Camp where Wesley still operates it. Evelyn Stuart
married Lorin McMillan and then Lester Albertson.


Photograph File:
Daniel Lewis Mann family photographs. Obtained from Merle Graham

Mann-1 Daniel Lewis Mann.
Mann-2 Elizabeth Jane Sothern Mann, wife of Daniel L. Mann.
Mann-3 Daniel Lewis Mann & Elizabeth Jane Sothern Mann, Golden Wedding
Anniversary in 1910 with five daughters. L to R: Martha Mann Russell,
Elnora
Mann Martin Christian, Frances Mann Graham, Almira Mann Owens, Jennie Mann
Stuart.


Glenn Burghardt

http://oakdalemuseum.homestead.com/museum.htm

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