Spouse: Ruth Fulkerson Married on March 8, 1846 in Davis County, Iowa. Other children were Mary M, Maria, Amanda, Albert and Thompson Mize. He traveled the California trail with his family, likely as a result of hearing about the peak of the California Gold Rush in 1852.
Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery was established as the result of an accident. In November of 1854 a young father, who had arrived from Iowa only a matter of weeks before, drowned in a pond near the center of town. He was buried on land that was part of a Mexican grant given to one of the earliest settlers of Santa Rosa, Doña Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo" Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery History. First burial in Cemetery.
"Thompson Mize (died 21 Nov 1854, at 31 years, 7 months, 25 days) was the first known burial in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. After packing up his family and making the long trip from Iowa, just 48 days later, he got drunk, fell into a small pond near Santa Rosa Creek south of present-day Court House Square and drowned.
Burial Location: Rural Cemetery, Eastern Half Circle #44
~by Sandy Frary, Rural Cemetery Archivist"
Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery was established as the result of an accident. In November of 1854 a young father, who had arrived from Iowa only a matter of weeks before, drowned in a pond near the center of town. He was buried on land that was part of a Mexican grant given to one of the earliest settlers of Santa Rosa, Doña Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo" Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery History. First burial in Cemetery.
"Thompson Mize (died 21 Nov 1854, at 31 years, 7 months, 25 days) was the first known burial in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. After packing up his family and making the long trip from Iowa, just 48 days later, he got drunk, fell into a small pond near Santa Rosa Creek south of present-day Court House Square and drowned.
Burial Location: Rural Cemetery, Eastern Half Circle #44
~by Sandy Frary, Rural Cemetery Archivist"
Spouse: Ruth Fulkerson Married on March 8, 1846 in Davis County, Iowa. Other children were Mary M, Maria, Amanda, Albert and Thompson Mize. He traveled the California trail with his family, likely as a result of hearing about the peak of the California Gold Rush in 1852.
Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery was established as the result of an accident. In November of 1854 a young father, who had arrived from Iowa only a matter of weeks before, drowned in a pond near the center of town. He was buried on land that was part of a Mexican grant given to one of the earliest settlers of Santa Rosa, Doña Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo" Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery History. First burial in Cemetery.
"Thompson Mize (died 21 Nov 1854, at 31 years, 7 months, 25 days) was the first known burial in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. After packing up his family and making the long trip from Iowa, just 48 days later, he got drunk, fell into a small pond near Santa Rosa Creek south of present-day Court House Square and drowned.
Burial Location: Rural Cemetery, Eastern Half Circle #44
~by Sandy Frary, Rural Cemetery Archivist"
Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery was established as the result of an accident. In November of 1854 a young father, who had arrived from Iowa only a matter of weeks before, drowned in a pond near the center of town. He was buried on land that was part of a Mexican grant given to one of the earliest settlers of Santa Rosa, Doña Maria Ignacia Lopez de Carrillo" Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery History. First burial in Cemetery.
"Thompson Mize (died 21 Nov 1854, at 31 years, 7 months, 25 days) was the first known burial in Santa Rosa Rural Cemetery. After packing up his family and making the long trip from Iowa, just 48 days later, he got drunk, fell into a small pond near Santa Rosa Creek south of present-day Court House Square and drowned.
Burial Location: Rural Cemetery, Eastern Half Circle #44
~by Sandy Frary, Rural Cemetery Archivist"
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Thompson Mize
DIED
Nov. 21, 1854
AGED
31 yrs. 7 mos. 25 d.
Partial Transcription of history marker: "Established in 1854 with the burial of Thompson Mize on Oliver Beaulieu's property."
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