Death Of A '49ER
Richard Horton Bittan a pioneer of Sonoma County, is dead at that place. The deceased was born in Knox County, Kentucky, on January 9, 1826. He came to California across the plains in '49. There were seventy-three kindred spirits in the party, men, who like himself, had come to the great west to seek their fortunes in the newly discovered, rich gold fields. At the time he was twenty-three years old.
For several years after his arrival, he and other members of the party mined with success on the Feather River. In this state, he married in 1855 to the devoted wife who survives him.
The twelve children surviving the deceased are: Norris, Leonard, Harvey, Walter, Samuel, and Richard Brittain, Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Miss Lena Brittain, Miss Sadie Brittain, Mrs. Marietta Barrett, and Mrs. Grace Founder.
Richard Horton Bittan a pioneer of Sonoma County, is dead at that place. The deceased was born in Knox County, Kentucky, on January 9, 1826. He came to California across the plains in '49. There were seventy-three kindred spirits in the party, men, who like himself, had come to the great west to seek their fortunes in the newly discovered, rich gold fields. At the time he was twenty-three years old.
For several years after his arrival, he and other members of the party mined with success on the Feather River. In this state, he married in 1855 to the devoted wife who survives him.
The twelve children surviving the deceased are: Norris, Leonard, Harvey, Walter, Samuel, and Richard Brittain, Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Miss Lena Brittain, Miss Sadie Brittain, Mrs. Marietta Barrett, and Mrs. Grace Founder.
Death Of A '49ER
Richard Horton Bittan a pioneer of Sonoma County, is dead at that place. The deceased was born in Knox County, Kentucky, on January 9, 1826. He came to California across the plains in '49. There were seventy-three kindred spirits in the party, men, who like himself, had come to the great west to seek their fortunes in the newly discovered, rich gold fields. At the time he was twenty-three years old.
For several years after his arrival, he and other members of the party mined with success on the Feather River. In this state, he married in 1855 to the devoted wife who survives him.
The twelve children surviving the deceased are: Norris, Leonard, Harvey, Walter, Samuel, and Richard Brittain, Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Miss Lena Brittain, Miss Sadie Brittain, Mrs. Marietta Barrett, and Mrs. Grace Founder.
Richard Horton Bittan a pioneer of Sonoma County, is dead at that place. The deceased was born in Knox County, Kentucky, on January 9, 1826. He came to California across the plains in '49. There were seventy-three kindred spirits in the party, men, who like himself, had come to the great west to seek their fortunes in the newly discovered, rich gold fields. At the time he was twenty-three years old.
For several years after his arrival, he and other members of the party mined with success on the Feather River. In this state, he married in 1855 to the devoted wife who survives him.
The twelve children surviving the deceased are: Norris, Leonard, Harvey, Walter, Samuel, and Richard Brittain, Mrs. Jennie Tomlinson, Mrs. Elizabeth Ford, Miss Lena Brittain, Miss Sadie Brittain, Mrs. Marietta Barrett, and Mrs. Grace Founder.
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