Francis Marion Plaskett
Francis Marion Plaskett was born in November 1854 at the Cherokee mining camp. With his brother Reason he discovered and worked the Western Star, the first mine on Plaskett Ridge, hauling ore by mule sled to their father’s arrastra; with Reason and Robert he rode to Jolon to build St. Luke’s church. At the upper edge of Dempsey Flat he planted the orchard whose last gnarled apple tree became famous the length of the coast for fruit of impossible size. He died in 1906.
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · William E. Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Brothers & sisters: Byron Gianavil Plaskett · Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett · Persey Plaskett · Reason Alpha Plaskett · Mendocina May Plaskett Mansfield · Laura F. Plaskett · Olive Flavilla Plaskett McLean · Mary Josephine Plaskett Patterson · Robert Lucas Cleveland Plaskett · William E. Plaskett · James Samuel Plaskett
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett · William E. Plaskett
Grandparents: James A. Barnes · Samuel Plaskett (1784-1858) · Maria Rush Plaskett · Elizabeth Barnett · William Lucas Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Great-grandparents: Elizabeth [--] Plaskett · William Plaskett Jr. · Thomas Barnett · Nancy Price · Ann (Nancy) Price Barnes · Sarah Barrett · James A. Barnes · Samuel Plaskett (1784-1858) · Maria Rush Plaskett · Elizabeth Barnett · Leonard Barnes
2× great-grandparents: Elizabeth [--] Plaskett · William Plaskett (d. 1748) · Margaret Lucas Plaskett · Thomas E. Barnett · Mordecai Price · William Plaskett Jr. · Arthur Barrett · Thomas Barnett · Nancy Price · Ann (Nancy) Price Barnes · Sarah Barrett · Leonard Barnes
3× great-grandparents: Bridget Stott Lucas · Edward Lucas · John Plascatt of Whitehaven · John Price · William Plaskett (d. 1748) · Rebecca MERRYMAN · Margaret Lucas Plaskett · Thomas E. Barnett · Thomas Barrett, Quaker · Hannah Oldham · Mordecai Price · Arthur Barrett
4× great-grandparents: Bridget Stott Lucas · Samuel Lucas · Mary · Robert Lucas · Elizabeth Cowgill · Edward Lucas · John Plascatt of Whitehaven · Bridget Scott · John Price · Rebecca MERRYMAN · Thomas Barrett, Quaker · Hannah Oldham
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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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Alice Isabelle Plaskett Dies of Typhoid at 19
Typhoid took Alice Isabelle Plaskett at nineteen, at home, on an April evening in 1909.
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The Arrastra on Plaskett Creek
Built by William Lucas Plaskett about 1885 and turned by a water wheel on the creek, the family arrastra ground the Western Star's gold ore — and its timbers, iron and basin are still there.
- 1905 Francis Marion Plaskett → Byron G. Plaskett · $900
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