Edward Robert Plaskett
Edward Robert Plaskett was born in 1924 in Davis California. Edward Robert died in 1995 in Jolon Cemetery, aged about 71. Married Mabel Eva Sands at St. Lukes Church, Jolon.
This summary is assembled from the family record. If you know more about Edward Robert Plaskett — stories, photographs, corrections — the family would be glad to hear from you.
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The Buckboard Proposal — A Fifteen-Year-Old Bride
'Well Mabel, isn't it about time we got married?' She said her father would never allow it. She was wrong — and the family got its chronicler.
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Sale to Hearst — The End of an Era
Ten dollars on paper for 1,523 acres: the 1922 deed to Hearst's agent that scattered the families and ended 53 Plaskett years in Pacific Valley.
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The Los Burros Mining District and the Lost Town of Manchester
Organized 1876, transformed by Willey Cruikshank's Last Chance strike in 1887 — and gone by 1897, burned and grown over. The rise and fall of the coast's gold district, and the lost town of Manchester.
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Ed and Lawson Plaskett - Gold Mining Dreams
Ed and Lawson Plaskett chased the rumor every coast man heard — that gold waited in the home hills.
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Ed Plaskett the Daredevil Horseman
Ed Plaskett rode at a gallop along cliff edges that made grown men dismount and walk.
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The Mabel Plaskett Columnist
How a coast pioneer's wife became the beloved historian of the Big Sur country in the pages of The Land.
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Coast Road Opens - 1937
In 1937 the pavement finally reached the coast the Plasketts had settled 68 years earlier.
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The Postman Incident - Mabel Accused of Affair
Mabel loved chatting with the postman — and the valley's gossips made her pay for it.
- birth 1881-11-18 — Born at Gorda according to family records
- marriage 1911-09-28 — Married Mabel Eva Sands at St. Lukes Church, Jolon
- death 1973-03-10 — Died March 10, 1973 at age 91
- burial · King City Cemetery
- 1922 Edward & Mabel Plaskett → Joseph K. Barbree (agent for W.R. Hearst) · 1523.3 acres · $10
- 1925 Edward & Mabel Plaskett → Hearst Corporation
- 1926 Edward & Mabel Plaskett → Joseph K. Barbree · 1523.3 acres · $10
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