Mendocina May Plaskett was born September 14, 1856, in Anderson Valley — the first white child born in Mendocino County, and named for it; the family homestead there is still called Plaskett Meadows. She married Curnell H. Mansfield, the cattleman whose Pacific Valley holdings grew to four thousand acres, and was widowed in 1906 when a runaway team killed him in Pine Canyon. An inventive, practical woman, she patented a water trough of her own design in 1911. She died August 7, 1936.
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · William E. Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Married: Curnell H. Mansfield
Children: Edwin E Mansfield · Lillie Bell Mansfield · Sallie M Mansfield · Asa G Mansfield · Lula Frances Mansfield · Laura W Mansfield · Sarah Myrtle Mansfield · Jasper A. Mansfield · Dora Mansfield · Walter Mansfield · Curnell Louis Mansfield · Jane Mansfield · Minnie M Mansfield · Della Olive Mansfield · Sherman T Mansfield · Sherman Tecumseh Mansfield · Mary Bell Mansfield · Maud Mansfield · James G Mansfield · Gertrude Mansfield · William Alpha Mansfield · Horace Mansfield · David Mansfield
Brothers & sisters: Byron Gianavil Plaskett · Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett · Persey Plaskett · Reason Alpha Plaskett · Francis Marion Plaskett · 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
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.
- birth 1856 · Anderson Valley, Mendocino — First white child born in Mendocino County - born at Plaskett Meadows
- marriage — Mendocina Plaskett married neighbor Curnell Mansfield
- burial · King City
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