Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

MRS. IDA E. SANDERS PEASE BERRY

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            A native daughter who is intensely interested in the preservation of 
pioneer history and early-day incidents, as well as the pioneer landmarks in her 
native State, is Mrs. Ida E. Berry, a daughter of the late William Sanders and 
his wife, Matilda A. (Longcor) Sanders.  Her father was one of the most 
prominent ranchers and financiers of his day in Sutter County, and was a very 
wealthy man at the time of his death, which came on January 8, 1905.  Her mother 
is still living, the center of  a large circle of devoted friends.
            Ida E. Sanders was born and reared on the William Sanders ranch in 
Sutter County, where she enjoyed the freedom of the great out-of-doors, becoming 
proficient in the saddle, and holding the ribbons over a span of fine roadsters. 
 Soon after completing the public school in the Live Oak (now the Encinal) 
district, she was married in 1891, at the home of her parents, being there 
united with Mark Pease, who came to California with his parents when ten years 
of age and was reared in Sutter County.  Immediately after their marriage, they 
began the development of a 190-acre ranch, setting it all out to vineyard and 
orchard.  Later on, they purchased the Grove ranch, which they also set to 
vineyard, thus becoming large producers of Thompson Seedless grapes, which were 
disposed of either as table grapes or as raisins.
            Becoming estranged, Mr. and Mrs. Pease were divorced, and she 
retained the home ranch, which she operated successfully until she disposed of 
it to advantage and removed to Oakland, where she purchased and still owns 
valuable residence property on Forty-second Street, between Broadway and 
Shafter.  She is now Mrs. Berry.  Having a longing for her native county, she 
returned hither and now makes her home in Yuba City, where Ralph Pease, her 
youngest son, who is still single, lives with her.  She has three stalwart sons 
of whom she may well be proud.  All are musical, and are very popular in the 
community.  Leroy Pease is a rancher and fruit-grower at Pease Station; he is 
married and has two sons.  Mark Pease, Jr., is a viticulturist and resides at 
Tierra Buena; he is also married and has a daughter.  Ralph Pease served in the 
army during the World War.  Entering the Aviation Section, he was sent over 
seas, and was a bugler until he was transferred to the Engineers Band as 
cornetist.  He served in that capacity until after the armistice, when he 
returned home and was honorably discharged.  He again enlisted, this time as a 
member of the Native Sons Band on the U.S.S. California, where he played 
baritone cornet with marked ability for two years, after which he was mustered 
out and returned again to Yuba City.
            Mrs. Berry is a woman of much business ability and enterprise.  She 
is deeply interested in the growth and improvement of Sutter County, and takes 
just pride of the part her parents, as well as the Pease family, have taken in 
its development.
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 783