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In The Begining ...
We begin our history in England with the Burgess family as we have information back the farthest on them. John Burgess was born the ninth child in a family of 10, on June 23, 1816. in Marshfie1d, Gloucester, England. His parents were Michael Burgess and Rebecca Scott. His father Michael Burgess, was born in1767, in Allcannings, Wilshire, England. His Grandfather Michael was born approximately 1738/39, and his Great Grandfather Michae1 was born in 1715.
John Burgess married Mary Ann Baker in Marshfield, England. Mary was born March 4, 1817 in Marshfield, Glouscester, England, to Isaac & Rebecca Baker. John's brother Michael married Mary Ann's sister Elizabeth in 1842 in Marshfield.
We do not have any information on John until his baptism into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) on January 28, 1849 in Gloucester, England, when he was 33 years old. His wife Mary Ann Baker Burgess was baptized a year before him on her 31st birthday, March 4, 1848. Less than a year after his baptism, he and his wife came to America on the ship Zetland which left Liverpool November 10, 1849 and arrived in New Orleans. We have no arrival date but it probably took about 6 weeks to get here.
In 1852, they joined with the pioneers and came across the plains in the 2nd company of Capt. James J. Jepsen. This company left Kanesville, Ohio, May 29, 1852 and arrived in Salt Lake on September 10, 1852. They had a small house situated at about 3rd east & 5th south and were members of the 10th ward of Salt Lake.
Shortly after coming to Utah, his brother Thomas and his family came to Utah. Thomas and his family stayed with John in their small house in Salt Lake until they could get a piece of ground. Thomas and his wife Elizabeth (Isaacs) Burgess had three children before they left England. John baptized Thomas and his wife Elizabeth and their children in April 1855. John and Mary Ann were very active in their Church.
Their daughter Mary Ann Scott Brigeton Burgess was born July 13, 1854. John died in the Great Salt Lake Basin October 28, 1856 at the age of 40. Weeks before their daughter Rebecca Charlotte was born on December 9, 1856. This was about 6 weeks before their daughter Rebecca Charlotte was born on December 9, 1856.
Mary Ann and her two young daughters stayed in Salt Lake until 1860. Then went to Southern Utah and married William Fream. He possibly had a cattle ranch as he had a brand recorded with the State of Utah. It was the EF brand (which stands for Eva Fream), January 18, 1868 in Washington, Washington County, Utah.
Mary Ann and William died in Southern Utah, but we have no dates. (They were probably married between 1860 & 1870. William Fream died October 26, 1881 and is buried at Gunlock Cemetery, Washington County~ Utah. Mary Ann died December 25, 1872 or 1891 and is also buried at Gunlock Cemetery.)
Mary Ann's 2nd daughter Rebecca Charlotte married Frank Melvin Taylor and had 5 daughters and 1 son. She lived in Silver Reef, Utah for a few years but spent the remainder of her life in Eureka, Utah, where she died June 18, 1941.
Their first daughter and our ancestor, Mary Ann Scott Brighton Burgess married Charles Henry
De Witt about 1870 in Southern Utah and had 6 children: Charles Henry, Sylvia, Lenora, Charlotte Rebecca, Martin Addison, and Suphronia. Her husband Charles died when he fell into a mine shaft in 1883-85. Charles Henry DeWitt was a miner and their children were born in the mining towns of Silver Reef and Iron City, Utah.
Now we go to Scotland for our MacInnis family. "Mac" has become part of a great many Scottish surnames and simply means "son"-i.e. Mac Innis meaning son of Innis. It is sometimes spelt "M" or Mc" but is pronounced just the same as "Mac".
Donald McInnis was born in Isle of South Vist, Scotland. He married Mary McDonald January 24, 1775 in Kilninian and Kilmore, Argyel, Scotland and came on the ship named Polly to Prince Edward Isle, Canada on August 7, 1803. Their son Patrick was with them. Many other MacInnis' came to the island. They were of Catholic faith. We don't know the actual movements of the family, but it appears that from Belfast, where the ship landed, Patrick made his way across to St. Peters Bay where he acquired and settled on 300 acres. Patrick married Catherine Morrison in St. Peters Bay. Mary died March 13, 1871. Patrick's father, Donald, died October 15, 1881 and his mother Mary, January 27, 1882.
Patrick & Mary had 6 sons, John, Donald, George, James, Martin & Peter. Their son Donald was born 1810 in St. Peters Bay. He married Anastasia McAulay on October 20, 1839 in St. Peters Bay. Anastasia was born 1820. They had Mary, Patrick, Sylvester, Corneilius, Sarah, Catherine, James Alfred, John Alexander, Sophia and Francis Daniel. Sylvester & Francis (Frank) came to California. Sylvester arrived about 1864. Frank arrived in the late 1890's and died on the train on the way to San Bernardino, California July 5, 1905 and is buried at the Catholic Cemetery in San Bernardino. Their father Donald, died July 26, 1898 and Anastasia died in September of 1886. Both are buried in St. Peters Bay.
Their son Sylvester was born March 24, 1844 in St Peters Bay, Prince Edwards Island. Sylvester came to Santa Monica, California, about 1864 on a freighter as a cabin boy. He later went to the Gold Rush in the Black Hills of South Dakota and then into Utah to do mining. It was in Utah that he met Mary Ann Scott Brighton Burgess. The 1900 Census said they were married in California around 1888.
Mary Ann couldn't write and was left-handed. The schoolteacher hit her with the ruler to try to make her write with her right hand. She would not write at all. She was a typical old English woman.
Mary Ann and Sylvester and all their children came to Los Angeles, California by the coast in covered wagons. They possibly visited with MacInnis relatives who lived near San Francisco. We understand there was a Helen MacInnis relative that Aunt Sarah visited in San Francisco probably in the early 1900's.
A little while before their arrival to Southern California, many new places were developing. The year of 1885 was cause for celebration in Southern California. The first train of the Southern California Railway, a Santa Fe subsidiary, had passed through the Cajon Pass from San Bernardino to Barstow. The coming of the railroad changed the Victor Valley. The boom was on. Towns blossomed along the railroad line where there had been only grazing land earlier.
In 1885 a signpost on the new railroad line read "Hesperia" a name possibly borrowed from the old Roman idiom "to the West."
Now in 1888, when their son Jim was 3 months old, Mary Ann and Sylvester decided to head back to Utah from Los Angeles. They traveled by horse and wagon through Cajon Pass. This pass had not been open to regular travel for very long. Coming into the Victor Valley they saw the Hesperia Hotel. They camped up by the old reservoir, which was near where the present ballpark and rodeo grounds are for a couple of weeks. They liked Hesperia so well they decided to stay. They bought a piece of land and Sylvester built them a house. It is the one that Aunt Grace had been living in up to the last few years. It has now been destroyed.
Hesperia was a small western town. It had Walter's General Store, and Hesperia Hotel both across from the Railroad depot, and a few other stores. The old school was built across the railroad tracks. Their children attended this school.
Sylvester and Mary Ann had 5 children. Martin, born March 4, 1886, in Silver Reef, Utah. James Sylvester born in EI Monte, California, Molly, Annastasia and Sarah born in Hesperia, California.
Sylvester had a wood business. He cut and shipped wood to Los Angeles. When Harry Nash, Sarah's husband, came to Hesperia May 15, 1921, the first person he saw was Sylvester. It is said that Sylvester was a mild and wonderful man. One f the children remembers how she use to like to sit on Grandpa Sylvester's lap when a young girl and listen to his watch tick. He had a big snow-white mustache. He would take candy away from her because he didn't believe in kids eating candy. Only one piece after dinner.
While growing up in Hesperia, Martin and brother Jim worked at the Verde Ranch in Victorville and their stepbrother Addison De Witt worked at the Los Flores Ranch. These two ranches are a part of the first settlements in the Victor Valley area, starting around the 1850's and 60's. They are both working ranches to this day. Martin's son Frank is working on the Los Flores at the present time.
Between 1912 and 1914 Mary Ann's son Jim homesteaded 80 acres at Deep Creek. There were other ranches along the river. The Rickaree Farm was owned by parents of the wife of Addison DeWitt.
Also a Charles Smith had a place and a few others.
World War I broke out in 1914 in Germany and many men joined up to protect their country. Jim MacInnis was one of them. When he went into the service, Martin and his mother Mary Ann bought the ranch from him and started a cattle herd. Mary Ann probably became interested in the cattle business while being raised by her mom and stepfather William Fream on a ranch in Southern Utah. They also used the EF brand for their cattle in California.
Sylvester was never much of a rancher and was afraid of horses. That wasn't true for Mary Ann. She rode horses and helped on the ranch. She was quite reserved and not as loving as Grandpa Sylvester. She used to get after the children for picking her fruit. They would get on top of the water tank and throw water at her. She sometimes chased them with her rake.
Sylvester died October 30, 1921 at the age of 77 in Hesperia of a heart attack. Mary Ann Scott Brighton Burgess MacInnis died March 13, 1927 at the age of72 at home on the ranch. She died of a stroke.
Descendants of Columbus Frank Hedrick
Generation No.1
1. COLUMBUS FRANK HEDRICK was born 1879 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and died October 03, 1966 in
Hesperia, California. He married CHARLOTTE REBECCA DE WITT.
Notes for COLUMBUS FRANK HEDRICK:
COLUMBUS F. HEDRICK-October 3,1966 Columbus F. Hedrick, 87, 15809 E1 Centro Street, Hesperia, died Monday, Hesperia. Native of Raleigh Carolina, and a resident of Hesperia 66 years.
Survivors: One son, George Dewey Hedrick, one grandson, George Everett Hedrick and two grandchildren, Juli Ann and John William Hedrick. One sister, Mrs. Roberta Garver, Bakersfield, California.
Services: 3 :00 p.m. California. Friday, Mark B. Shaw Chapel, burial, Mountain View Cemetery, San Bernardino,
Notes for CHARLOTTE REBECCA DEWITT:
CHARLOTTE REBECCA DeWITT, HEDRICK-MARCH 27, 1941
Mrs. Charlotte Rebecca De Witt, Hedrick, 62 years old, a native of Silver Reef: Utah, died Tuesday near San Bernardino, California after a residence of two years. She resided in California 55 years.
Surviving are her husband, C. F. Hedrick, and a son, George Dewey, both of Hesperia; four sisters, Mrs. Sylvia O'Dell of Pomona; Mrs. Sarah Nash, Mrs. Stasia Spranger and Mrs. Fronie Steele, all of Hesperia; Four brothers, Addison DeWitt, James and Martin McInnis, all of Hesperia, and Charles DeWitt of Idaho, and one grandchild, George Everett Hedrick of Hesperia.
Funeral services were held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the Mark B. Shaw Memorial chapel. Interment will be in Mountain View cemetery, San Bernardino, California.
Two songs, "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "God Be With You Till We Meet Again" were played.
Pallbearers were Roy Walters, Urbon Stowell, John R. Mapstead, Jim McInnis, Harry Nash, and Everett Hedrick.
Child of COLUMBUS HEDRICK and CHARLOTTE DEWITT is:
2. GEORGE DEWEY HEDRICK, b. January 20, 1899; d. February 26, 1975, Victorville, California.
Generation 2
2. GEORGE DEWEY HEDRICK (COLUMBUS FRANK) was born January 20, 1899, and died February 26, 1975 in Victorville, California. He married MARGARET MARIE GILBERT October 27, 1923 in Hesperia, California, daughter of GEORGE GILBERT and SUDIE LOLLIS.
Child of GEORGE HEDRICK and MARGARET GILBERT is:
1. GEORGE EVERETT3 HEDRICK, b. December 20, 1940, San Bernardino, California.
Generation No.3
3. GEORGE EVERETT3 HEDRICK (GEORGE DEWEy2, COLUMBUS FRANK) was born December 20, 1940 in San Bernardino, California. He married NOMA JOAN SCROGGINS June 24, 1961 in Las Vegas, Nevada, daughter of EARNEST FLQYD and OMA BARRETT.
Notes for GEORGE EVERETT HEDRICK:
GEORGE EVERETT HEDRICK-December 20, 1940
In San Bernardino, California, December 20, 1940, at San Bernardino County hospital, to the wife of George D. Hedrick, Hesperia, California, a son.
Children of GEORGE HEDRICK and NOMA SCROGGINS are:
1. JULI ANN HEDRICK, b. January 29, 1964, Apple Valley, California
2. JOHN WILLIAM HEDRICK, b. June 04, 1970, Victorville, California.
Notes for JOHN WILLIAM HEDRlCK:
INTRODUCING JOHN WILLIAM, JUNE 4, 1970. A boy weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces was born June 4 to Mr. and Mrs. George E. Hedrick, 17532 Walnut, Hesperia, at Victor Valley Hospital. The boy measured 211/2 inches in length.
Generation No.4
4. JULI ANN4 HEDRICK (GEORGE EVERET, GEORGE DEWEY, COLUMBUS FRANK) was born January 29, 1964 in Apple Valley, California. She married RONALD EUGENE ABERNATHY March 19, 1987 in Apple Valley, California.
Notes for JULl ANN HEDRICK:
INTRODUCING JULI ANN-January 29, 1964
George and Joan Hedrick are proud parents of the lovely little lady who seems to be saying: "You don 't say!"
Juli weighed 7lbs. 41/2 oz. and measured 20 1/2 inches long at birth. Papa George is a native of Hesperia and is mill foreman for C. K. Williams & Co. (Chas. Pfizer & Co.)
Children of JULI HEDRICK and RONALD ABERNATHY are:
1. SAMUEL JASON ABERNATHY, b. October 09, 1.978
2. RUSSELL ALLON ABERNATHY, b. March 03, 1.984
3. COLTON JAMES ABERNATHY, b. July 04, 1.993
4. JACK EVERETT ABERNATHY, b. April 1.0, 1.995
Descendants of George Washington Gilbert
Generation No.1
1. GEORGE W ASHINGTON GILBERT was born in Indiana, and died about 1946 in Perris, California. He married SUDIE LOLLIS about 1900 in Vian, Oklahoma.
Notes for GEORGE WASHINGTON GILBERT:
George Washington Gilbert and Sudie Lollis were married in or near Vain, Oklahoma around the turn of the Century. They lived in several places, one being in a cove where you only saw the sun at high noon. The only way to get to this place was by a rowboat across a pond.
George did some farming. He also had a wagon he filled with patent medicines, notions and bolts of dress material. He would go through the country selling or trading for things they could use. He came home one time with some old chickens and an old wind broken horse. Four children were born while the family lived in Oklahoma, Clara, Earl, Margaret and Lizzie. Clara passed away when she was just an infant. They also lived on a little farm in a thicket about a mile north of Red Bird Smith's Stomp Ground. Many times they would attend the Indian Pow Wows. This place was not far from Box, Oklahoma or what they called the Mountain. Earl was in very poor health and their doctor advised them to take him to California.
They came to California in 1910. Their first stop was in Riverside. They only stopped there a week or so and then moved to a ranch about one and half miles South East of Perris. They lived and worked in several places in the valley, Romoland, Nuevo and the Bloomfield Ranch south of Perris. They then moved to the home they bought on 8th Street in Perris. After the move to Perris a dread disease hit the family and Lizzie passed away with spinal meningitis. Another child, a girl they named Gladys was born. When she was about five years old, they had a boy they named Howard.
George worked on farms and raised horses, which he sold or traded. He was very handy doctoring horses, cows and other animals. Many people came from near and far to get him to doctor sick animals. The Gilberts were well thought of in Perris and lived in the home place until their passing.
Notes for SUDIE LOLLIS:
Sudie Lollis, Gilbert Funeral Set for October 14, 1959.
Sudie Lollis, Gilbert, 79, died yesterday in a Riverside hospital after an extended illness. She resided at 146 East Eighth Street, Perris, California.
Born on November 18, 1879, in Arkansas, she had lived in Perris for the past 50 years. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday at the Evans-Brown Perris Chapel.
Rev. Charles Harvey of the Perris First Congregational Church will conduct the services. Interment will be in the Perris Valley Cemetery.
Mrs. Gilbert leaves two sons, Howard E. and Earl E. Gilbert of Perris; two daughters, Mrs. George Hedrick of Hesperia and Mrs. Ivan Burger of Shell Beach; ten grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two brothers and one sister.
Children of GEORGE GILBERT and SUDIE LOLLIS are:
1. MARGARET MARIE GILBERT, b. August 01,1903, Vian, Oklahoma; d. May 21,1983, Victorville, California
2. CLARA GILBERT
3. EARL GILBERT
4. LIZZIE GILBERT
5. GLADYS GILBERT
6. HOWARD GILBERT.
Generation No.2
2. MARGARET MARIE2 GILBERT (GEORGE WASHINGTON!) was born August 01, 1903, died May 21, 1983 in Victorville, California. She married GEORGE DEWEY HED Hesperia, California, son of COLUMBUS HEDRICK and CHARLOTTE DEWITT.
Child of MARGARET GILBERT and GEORGE HEDRICK is: GEORGE EVERETT3 HEDRICK, b. December 20, 1940, San Bernardino, California
3. EARL GILBERT (GEORGE WASHINGTON!). He married HELEN HARE
Children of EARL GILBERT and HELEN HARE are:
1. MAXINE GILBERT
2. PATRICIA GILBERT
3. ARLENE GILBERT
4. ROBERT GILBERT
5. CARL GILBERT.
Generation No.3
4. GEORGE EVERETT HEDRICK (MARGARET MARIE2 GILBER7; GEORGE DEWEY HEDRICK) was born December 20, 1940 in San Bernardino, California. He married NOMA JOAN SCROGGINS June 24, 1961, in Las Vegas, NV daughter of EARNEST FLOYD and OMA BARRETT.
Notes for GEORGE EVERETT HEDRICK:
GEORGE EVERETT HEDRICK-Born December 20, 1940 in San Bernardino, California, at San Bernardino County Hospital to the wife of George D Hedrick, Hesperia, California, a son.
Children of GEORGE HEDRICK and NOMA SCROGGINS are:
1. JULI ANN HEDRICK, b. January 29, 1964, Apple Valley, California
2. JOHN WILLIAM HEDRICK, b. June 04, 1970, Victorville, California
Notes for JOHN WILLIAM HEDRICK:
INTRODUCING JOHN WILLIAM, JUNE 4, 1970
A boy weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces was born June 4 to Mr. and Mrs. G. Hedrick, 17532 Walnut ST. Hesperia, at Victor Valley Hospital. The boy measured 21 1/2 inches in
Length.
Generation No.4
5. JULI ANN HEDRICK (GEORGE EVERE1THedrick, Noma Joan Hedrick, born January 29, 1964 in Apple Valley, California. She married RONALD EUGENE ABERNATHY, March 19, 1987 in Apple Valley, California.
Notes for JULI ANN HEDRICK:
INTRODUCING JULI ANN-January 29, 1964
George and Joan Hedrick are proud parents of the lovely little lady who seems to be saying, You dont say. Juli weighed 7 lbs. 4 1/2 oz. and measured 20 1/2 inches long at birth. Papa George is a native of Hesperia and is mill foreman for C. K. Williams & Co. (Chas. Pfizer & Co.)
Children of JULI HEDRICK and RONALD ABERNATHY are:
1. SAMUEL JASON ABERNATHY, b. October 09, 1978, Huntington Beach, California
2. RUSSELL ALLON ABERNATHY, b. March 03,1984, California
3. COLTON JAMES ABERNATHY, b. July 04, 1993, Apple Valley, California
4. JACK EVERETT ABERNATHY, b. April 10, 1995, Apple Valley, California
Descendants of Conce B. Barrett
Generation No.1
1. CONCE B.2 BARRETT (THOMAS!) was born November 01, 1881 in Parker County, Texas, and died January 2' 1963 in Ada, Oklahoma. He married DORA ESTELL DONER December 22, 1901 in Violet, Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, daughter of JOSEPH DONER and ALMIRIA BLAIR.
More About DORA ESTELL DONER:
Fact 1: December 22, 1901, Dora and her sister Gertrude had a double wedding.
Children of CONCE BARRETT and DORA DONER are:
1. EDITH BARRETT,
2. ETHEL BARRETT
3. ARTHUR WILLIAM BARRETT, b. August 17,1910, Sasakwa, Oklahoma; d. July 07, 1978, Konawa, Oklahoma
4. OTHA THOMAS BARRETT, b. February 06, 1912, Sasakwa, Oklahoma; d. April 03,1986, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
5. VERA FAYE BARRETT
6. LOUIS VERNON BARRETT, b. May 08,1917, Sasakwa, Oklahoma; d. July 02,1964, Binger, Caddo Count) Oklahoma
7. DESSIE MAY BARRETT, b. August 08,1919, Sasakwa, Oklahoma, d. July 19, 1997, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
8. WILMA LOIS BARRETT, b. February 24, 1926, Sasakwa, Oklahoma
9. MILDRED LORENE BARRETT, b. March 11, 1931, Sasakwa, Oklahoma
10. OMA LEONA BARRETT, b. December 19,1921, Sasakwa, Oklahoma
4. OMA LEONA BARRETT (CONGE B.2, THOMAS!) was born December 19, 1921 in Sasakwa, Oklahoma. She married EARNEST ROBERT FLOYD December 24, 1945 in Konawa, Oklahoma, son of ROBERT FLOYD and NOLA WILCOXSON.
Notes for OMA LEONA BARRETT:
Oma Leona Barrett's first marriage was to Marvin Rowland Scroggins. They had two daughters, Margo Ann Scroggins and Noma Joan Scroggins. Marvin Rowland Scroggins parents were George Thomas and Pearl Polk Scroggins, and he was born September 18, 1915.
Children of OMA BARRETT and EARNEST FLOYD are:
1. MARGO ANN4 SCROGGINS, b. September 16, 1940, Sasakwa, Oklahoma. 32
2. NOMA JOAN SCROGGINS, b. March 21,1942, Konawa, Oklahoma
3. LARRY EARNEST FLOYD, b. November 30, 1947, Holdenville, Oklahoma
4. JEFFREY KEITH FLOYD, b. December 21, 1957, Victorville, California
5. TOMMY ALAN FLOYD, b. July 05, 1955, Victorville, California.
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