Yolo County Biographies


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MRS. AGNES BEMMERLEY
 
proprietor of a farm in Yolo County, is the widow of John Bemmerly, deceased, 
who was born in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1824, and came in 1852 to California, 
crossing the plains with oxen and settling in Yolo County in 1853.  He died 
August 8, 1872,  a man well and favorably known throughout a large community.  
He left to his wife and five children 6,000 acres of land.  He was married in 
this county, October 14, 1860. The children are Mary E., John F., Jr., Agnes H., 
William A. and Ernest A., all natives of this county.
 
Memorial & Biographical History of Northern California, The Lewis Publishing 
Co., 1891
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler