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 . --eight years. He was a member of theMethodist Episcopal Church South, a prominentman in all public aflfairs, and a citizen whosought zealously to uphold the common weal ofthe community. His wife was formerly MissLettie Lamb, a native of Tennessee. They the parents of six sons and two daughters:Nellie, Mrs. Hicks, who died in Fresno; Mar-garet, ]\Irs. Swagert, who died in El Monte in1864; Frank, who died in El Monte; Ephraim,
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 . --eight years. He was a member of theMethodist Episcopal Church South, a prominentman in all public aflfairs, and a citizen whosought zealously to uphold the common weal ofthe community. His wife was formerly MissLettie Lamb, a native of Tennessee. They the parents of six sons and two daughters:Nellie, Mrs. Hicks, who died in Fresno; Mar-garet, ]\Irs. Swagert, who died in El Monte in1864; Frank, who died in El Monte; Ephraim, died in Tuolumne countv in 1852; Monroe,a resident of Pon-iona: Stephen D.; Alexander,a resident of Burnett, Los Angeles county, andJohn, a resident of Downey, same county. Stephen Decatur Thurman was born in Bled-soe county, Tenn., December 25, 1843, was takenby his parents in childhood to Arkansas, thence. /^@ CL^^^ HISTORICAL AND BIOCRAPHICAL RECORD. f)07 in 1852 crossing tht plains to California, duringmost of which trip he walked. They were three(lays and nights crossing the desert, a portionof their journey which J\lr. Thurman will neverforget because of its hardships. Following theirarrival in Los Angeles county was the trip toTuolumne county, where the father mined, whilethere they were all ill with smallpox, and a visitfrom a physician just across the street cost them$50. After their return to El Monte Mr. Thur-man attended the public schools and alternatedthis witli his home studies as the son of a first employment in young manhood was onthe old Briggs ranch, where he put in twenty-oneyears, engaged in general farming and dairying,receiving a commission on his work during theentire time he was thus employed. With his em-ployer he planted the first orchard ever set out inEl Monte, one tree of which is still standing. In1868 he purchased a ranch of eighty acres
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