Person:Eliza Fink (1)

Peggy Whipple is a descendant of Eliza and supplied the Howard family info. She has much more detail on this family.

Nancy Weed is another descendant. Contact at nanweed@citlink.net or nanweed@gmail.com

Nancy says that Eliza is buried in the Fort Jones Cemetery which is the old I.O.O.F. cememtery, and that she died in Mugginsville, Siskiyou, CA.

The following was all kindly sent by Nancy Weed.

OBITUARY:

SCOTT VALLEY ADVANCE - JULY 8, 1909

A PIONEER WOMAN DEAD Old Lady Howard Of Quartz Valley Answers Call of Maker Monday Morning.

Again we are called on to record the death of one of the oldest pioneer women of Scott Valley, one who is well known throughout the entire county and was loved by all who knew her. Mrs. Eliza Howard, the beloved mother of Scott and Charles Howard and Mrs. David Jones, Mrs. Cassie Denure of Quartz Valley, past to her eternal rest Monday morning after a brief illness, old age being the cause of her death. The deceased was a native of Syracuse, New York aged 87 years and 12 days, who came to Scott Valley in the early 50's, crossing the plains with her husband and family in 1849. They kept a hotel and ranch in Quartz Valley for many years, where she lived with her son Scott, who is running the old home place. The funeral took place yesterday from the family home and followed to her last resting place in the Fort Jones cemetery by a large circle of sorrowing relatives and devoted friends.

THE COUNTY RECORDER - JULY 9, 1909

After a useful and extended mortal life, Mrs. Eliza Howard passed to her coronation from her home at Quartz Valley, July 5th, 1909, aged 87 years and 12 days. Mrs. Howard was born at Syracuse, New York, June 23rd, 1823. In the year following the close of the Mohawk War, while she was still in her teens, she moved with her parents to the then wild and unsettled state of Illinois, there among the pioneers she expended her efforts in making their home, and advancing civilization. There she grew into womanhood, among those hard-ships, that were instrumental in bringing out the noble traits of her character.

She was married to Asa Howard November 20th, 1841, she and her husband crossed the plains to California in 1853. In 1854 they came to Quartz Valley which was then but a wilderness. The life here then was that known only to the men of the frontier, the life of savages. Here with her husband she gave her noble efforts again to building a home. We today know little of the sacrifices, these brave pioneers endured to make possible the opportunities and privileges we enjoy today as a natural birthright.

Mrs. Howard has lived to see that wilderness magically transformed into the present civilization. Figures and incidents however, will not tell the story of her life. Her's was a life which was rich in those higher principles that make character. A life patterned after the image of the Creator. Her love radiated to all her home; a center of hospitality.

Many a pilgrimage has found rest and comfort at her fireside. She knew no social nor racial lines, the poor, the rich, the white man and the red men, all had a friend and a mothers care from Mrs. Howard. In all she was a queenly woman, a courageous heart, and all womanly graces made her an example of Gods own handiwork, love made her home beautiful, and love intensified the breaking up of the endeared household.

The funeral took place from the family residence in Quartz Valley July 7th, 1909, and interment, in the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Fort Jones. Mrs. Howard leaves five children, twenty one grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.

The sympathy of the whole community is extended to her loved ones. While she has gone to her reward but not to death, for such as she there is no death.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Peggy Whipple, (nwhipple@sisqtel.net) in email rec'd 9/23/00.
2. ↑ Mooty, Helene Kline & Peer, Marie J. Descendants and Ancestors of Andrew Wellington Fink & Susan Henrietta Beadle. (Name: self-pub.;).