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From: "Ben Pierce" <>
Subject: RE: Nutter Ranch /Nutter/Westfall burials
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 17:19:42 -0700


Yes, Wass Road and Watt Road are two different streets. Wass Road was named
after my maternal grandfather William H. Wass's family(actually his father
Lewis Wass's family). I don't know what family Watt Road was named after.

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> Subject: Nutter Ranch /Nutter/Westfall burials
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> Two burials on the Nutter Ranch.
> Martha Westfall 1828-1915
> George Nutter Dec 19,1886-Jan 1,1958 California, Pvt 60Co(?) 166 Depot
> Brigade, WW1
> These are the only apparent burials at the site. My notes show there are 3
> stakes, but no idea what they mean. Site is small, as I remember
> it, perhaps
> 60'X60'. Fenced, but no gate, opening only. To get there, leave
> Highway 49 at
> the north of 2 intersections with Kemble Road. Road follows 49,
> but well below
> it and goes under 49, two times. Go on the Kemble Road for 1.25
> mile to Nutter
> Ranch Road on the west(right), take that road and go 0.25 mile,
> to cemetery on
> the east(left) opposite Apple Tree Lane. Cem is close to the road. It
> apparently is in the SE/4 of SW/4 of Section 1, T6S, R20E. USGS
> quad is Fish
> Camp. The site is not shown on the Fish Camp map. Nearest town is
> Oakhurst,
> Mariposa Co. on the road to Yosemite. There is another cem a
> couple of miles
> west of here, all Indian I believe, mostly Miwok, including the
> burial of the
> first Mariposa citizen killed in WW2. Names are Lewis, Lord,
> Washington, and
> Watt. I guess it really is Watt Road, not Wass as I wondered.
> Nine burials
> here.
>
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