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 . ed to Oregon, and settled atMyrtle Point. After lives, respectively, of ninety-three and seventy-eight years, Mrs. De Vaul passed away in their northern home. They had twelve children,eight boys and four girls, among whom Jasper N. was the fourth in the order of birth. He attended the little log schoolhouse of his native district, and in 1863, duringthe Civil War, served for fiv


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 . ed to Oregon, and settled atMyrtle Point. After lives, respectively, of ninety-three and seventy-eight years, Mrs. De Vaul passed away in their northern home. They had twelve children,eight boys and four girls, among whom Jasper N. was the fourth in the order of birth. He attended the little log schoolhouse of his native district, and in 1863, duringthe Civil War, served for five months in the state militia. In 1864 he crossed theplains with an ox-team train, driving a four-mule team, and taking five months forthe iourney. He stopped at , eighteen miles north of Stockton, and thereworked on a ranch. He was married in San Jose to Miss Wary Meadows, and byher had three children—Nettie, Emma and William. He was married a second time,in 1880. to Miss Marv Holt, a native of Nova Scotia, and the daughter of J. W. andNancy (Peel) Holt. Nova Scotians of English blood. The father went to sea untilhe was twenty-five, when he married and took up farming; and in 1868 they came.


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