Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett — ‘Lonnie’ — was born March 29, 1848, in Iowa, and crossed Panama as a small boy in 1852. On the coast he became the family’s miner-in-chief of the Los Burros district: the Plaskett Bros. Mining Company’s claims — the Ocean View, the Lilac, and the Blackberry on Plaskett Ridge — passed to L.M. Plaskett in 1912, and the family credited those workings with close to $100,000 in gold. He died June 21, 1918.
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · William E. Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Married: Nancy Elizabeth Summers Plaskett
Children: Cora F. Plaskett Mahoney · James William Plaskett · Annie Irene Plaskett Williams · Jesse H. Plaskett · Charley Leroy Plaskett · Leonidas B. Plaskett Jr · Arley A. Plaskett · Sadie M. Plaskett Coy · Hallie W. Plaskett · Nellie Leotta Plaskett Lavay · Lewis L. Plaskett
Brothers & sisters: Byron Gianavil Plaskett · Persey Plaskett · Reason Alpha Plaskett · Francis Marion 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: Samuel Plaskett (1784-1858) · Maria Rush Plaskett · Elizabeth Barnett · William Lucas Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett · James A. Barnes
Great-grandparents: Elizabeth [--] Plaskett · William Plaskett Jr. · Thomas Barnett · Nancy Price · Ann (Nancy) Price Barnes · Sarah Barrett · Samuel Plaskett (1784-1858) · Maria Rush Plaskett · Elizabeth Barnett · Leonard Barnes · James A. 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
place history
Before Big Sur: The Mendocino Years
Fifteen years before Pacific Valley, William Lucas Plaskett rehearsed his dream in Anderson Valley — where the family named a daughter Mendocina, left their name on a mountain meadow that still carries it, and stopped twelve feet short of a different life.
gold mines
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.
- residence 1850 · Isthmus of Panama — As young boy, crossed Panama isthmus on back of mule led by Indian guide with brother Byron
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