William E. Plaskett was born December 28, 1866, and became the family’s man of deeds — literally: the county land books of the 1910s and ’20s are full of him. With his nephews he bought the 641-acre Westlake Ranch in 1916, sold Salinas lots for gold coin, traded quarter-sections along the Nacimiento, and in 1927 sold five hundred acres to the Piedmont Land & Cattle Company. He married Jessie Eunice Case; their daughter Violet’s story is among the family’s saddest. He died April 28, 1952.
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Children: Byron Gianavil Plaskett · Leonidas Hamlin Plaskett · Francis Marion Plaskett · Mendocina May Plaskett Mansfield · Laura F. Plaskett · Olive Flavilla Plaskett McLean · Mary Josephine Plaskett Patterson · Robert Lucas Cleveland Plaskett · James Samuel Plaskett
Brothers & sisters: Byron Gianavil Plaskett · Leonidas Hamlin 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 · James Samuel Plaskett
Parents: William Lucas Plaskett · Sarah May Barnes Plaskett
Grandparents: James A. Barnes · Samuel Plaskett (1784-1858) · Maria Rush Plaskett · Elizabeth Barnett
Great-grandparents: Elizabeth [--] Plaskett · William Plaskett Jr. · Thomas Barnett · Nancy Price · Ann (Nancy) Price Barnes · Sarah Barrett · Leonard Barnes
2× great-grandparents: William Plaskett (d. 1748) · Margaret Lucas Plaskett · Thomas E. Barnett · Mordecai Price · Arthur Barrett
3× great-grandparents: Bridget Stott Lucas · Edward Lucas · John Plascatt of Whitehaven · John Price · Rebecca MERRYMAN · Thomas Barrett, Quaker · Hannah Oldham
4× great-grandparents: Samuel Lucas · Mary · Robert Lucas · Elizabeth Cowgill · Bridget Scott
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The Piedmont Land and Cattle Company Sales
In 1921 the Plasketts signed away Township 23 land for ten dollars in gold coin — and 54 dollars in revenue stamps.
- — William Lucas Plaskett → Homestead Claim · 2000 acres · Homestead claim
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