History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . his daughterand conducted as the Kellogg Hotel by his grandson. Mr. Large was a Democrat inpolitics and a Mason. It was in Mendocino County that Miss Mary Large met and married, at Willits,on November 8, 1870, S. Toliver Toney, a native of Fayette County, Texas, wherehe was born on November- 17, 1846. His parents were Seth and Mary Adaline (Cox)?Toney, natives of Mississippi and Georgi
History of Orange County, California : with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present . his daughterand conducted as the Kellogg Hotel by his grandson. Mr. Large was a Democrat inpolitics and a Mason. It was in Mendocino County that Miss Mary Large met and married, at Willits,on November 8, 1870, S. Toliver Toney, a native of Fayette County, Texas, wherehe was born on November- 17, 1846. His parents were Seth and Mary Adaline (Cox)?Toney, natives of Mississippi and Georgia, respectively. When S. Toliver was eightyears of age the family came overland to California from Texas, during which timethe Indians were very troublesome, but the wagon train, of which Seth Toney wascaptain, managed to get through all right, due, perhaps, to the fact that the captainunderstood Indians, having fought as a volunteer from Texas in the Mexican in California, the Toney family stopped for a time at El Monte, then movedon to Mendocino County and built up a fine home place near Willits. The reason ofthe Toney immigration to California was that Mrs. Seth Toneys father, the HISTORY OF ORAXGE COUNTY 663 John Toliver Cox, and family had preceded them, having come by the Isthmus ofPanama in the early SOs, settling first at San Bernardino. Reverend Cox was aMethodist preacher, and was well known all over the state of California. He finallysettled near Santa Rosa, and when he died, about 1866, he had accomplished muchfor humanity during his span of life. He is buried at Mark West in Sonoma County,tie was a member of the Masonic fraternity. S. Toliver Toney was extensively engaged in the raising of sheep in MendocinoCounty, and Mrs. Toney lived for eleven years near Willitts. Then Mr. Toney soldout, and the industrious couple, feeling the need of rest, spent some time in , in 1884, he settled in New Mexico, where Mr. Toney purchased land ne
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