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Leonidas Jackson Cralle

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Birth	:	12 Sep 1818 Campbell County, Virginia, USA
Death	:	6 Jan 1909 Conejo, Fresno County, California, USA
Burial	:	Grangeville Cemetery, Armona, Kings County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.3216518, -119.7090690
Description	:	Leonidas Jackson Cralle was the son of Beverly Lindsay Cralle and Ann "Nancy" Rosser. Ann Nancy Rosser Cralle died in White Sulphur Spring, Union County, KY. Beverly Lindsay Cralle died in Campbell County, VA. Leonidas was a member of the Virginia Bar before moving to Union County, KY. He was admitted to the Kentucky bar and was also a farmer. In 1849, he sold everything in Kentucky and went to California to look for gold. He arrived in California with about 31 cents. He prospered and eventually owned wineries. This note... Read More	Leonidas Jackson Cralle was the son of Beverly Lindsay Cralle and Ann "Nancy" Rosser. Ann Nancy Rosser Cralle died in White Sulphur Spring, Union County, KY. Beverly Lindsay Cralle died in Campbell County, VA. Leonidas was a member of the Virginia Bar before moving to Union County, KY. He was admitted to the Kentucky bar and was also a farmer. In 1849, he sold everything in Kentucky and went to California to look for gold. He arrived in California with about 31 cents. He prospered and eventually owned wineries. This note was information received from contributor Michael Gough #47048907. "Cralle, L. J. The subject of this sketch, whose portrait appears in this work, was born in Campbell county, Virginia, September 12, 1818. In 1836, he moved to Union county, Kentucky; thence in 1849, to California, crossing the plains with an ox-team as far as Salt Lake City, then with pack-animals over the mountains, arriving at Lawson's Ranch, September 6th, of that year. Not unlike others who came to this coast at that time, he commenced operations as a miner on the White Rock claim, in Butte county, prosecuting this business three years; then went to Oakland, where he engaged in farming five more years, then settled at King's River, Fresno county. In 1860 he again commenced mining at Mono and White Mountain, till 1864, when he settled near Petaluma, in this county, but in 1869 took a residence in Santa Clara county; thence in 1872 to his present home in Santa Rosa township, where he owns three hundred and twenty acres of land. At an altitude of several thousand feet above the sea, among the mountains, is the home of Mr. Cralle. It is one of the most lovely and picturesque places in the county. As we stood on one of the more prominent peaks a little beyond his house, what a grand panorama opened out to our view! Mountain after mountain rose in every direction, while the intervening valleys were covered over with trees and underwood of varied kinds and shades, and down which glide the creeks and rivulets, ripple after ripple, dancing in sunlight like ribbons of silver, as they hurry on to the mighty ocean. Then add the further fact that in the valleys, on the hills and over the mountains, six hundred and fifty Angora goats—the property of Mr. Cralle—are scattered here, there, and everywhere, giving the landscape an appearance of snow-balls among the evergreens, and the reader has the outlines of a picture which their imaginations must fill. We feel assured we will be pardoned by the reader for digressing from the events of Mr. Cralle's life to give a slight description of his home among the mountains, when we say no scenery, in Sonoma county, has impressed us so favorably as this. But to resume. Mr. Cralle married Mrs. Nancy J. Middleton, nee Farley, October 27, 1863. She was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania, February 18, 1833. She has one daughter, Lillie Middleton, by a former marriage, who was born February 12, 1857." Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, INCLUDING ITS Topooraphy, Mountains, Valleys and Streams, Author: Alley, Bowen & Co. (1880). Contributor: Rooty Poe (49278253) View Memorial

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Leonidas Jackson Cralle's memorial is located at: Grangeville Cemetery, Armona, Kings County, USA.
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Leonidas Jackson Cralle death on 6 Jan 1909 in Conejo, Fresno County, California, USA
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Latitude: 36.3216518
Longitude: -119.7090690

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