A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . rs. ThePrater family is of German extraction, andJohn B. Prater, father of Mrs. Tweedy, wasborn and reared in Tennessee, whence he im-migrated to California in young manhood,about 1854. settling in the northern part of thestate. Both he and his wife were sinceremembers of the Christian Church. Of theireight children all but two are still living, andthe six survivors make California their religious affiliations Mrs. Tweedy holdsmemb
A history of California and an extended history of its southern coast counties, also containing biographies of well-known citizens of the past and present . rs. ThePrater family is of German extraction, andJohn B. Prater, father of Mrs. Tweedy, wasborn and reared in Tennessee, whence he im-migrated to California in young manhood,about 1854. settling in the northern part of thestate. Both he and his wife were sinceremembers of the Christian Church. Of theireight children all but two are still living, andthe six survivors make California their religious affiliations Mrs. Tweedy holdsmembership in the Baptist Church, to thework of which she is a contributor. By herformer marriage she had three children, name-ly : Fay W., who is married and resides in thislocalitv; Inez M., who married J. P. Carse;and l\fabel, who died at the age of three yearsand nine months. To the union of JamesTweedv and wife there were born four daugh-ters, of whom Delillah J. and Marie E. sur-vive. Mildred B. died at the age of threevears and nine months, and Alice May was tak-en by death at the age of seventeen at leisure from the cares of his ranch. ^^-^-^^^^^^^-^ HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 1005 Mr. Tweedy finds recreation in the society ofhis family and tlie perusal of current literaturewhich enables him to keep in touch with theworld of modern thought. In fraternal organ-izations he takes no part whatever, and theonly part which he takes in politics is in thecasting of a Democratic ticket at all elections. WILLIAM DAVIS WATKINS. The ear-ly history of the Watkins family is associatedwith the little country of Wales, where Thom-as Watkins was born and reared, and wherehe married Mary Davis, like himself a de-scendant of Welsh forefathers. Later hecrossed the channel to France, but soon re-turned to Wales by way of England, and in1846 crossed the Atlantic to the United States,settling at Youngstown, Ohio, and securingemployment as a miner and later as foreman ofmines.
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