Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

WILSON BLEAKNEY

Submitted by Maryann Little

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        Wilson was the youngest member of William and Mary Akey family. At the 
age of seventeen Wilson left home with Noah Clark, a neighbor boy, and went to 
California.  The rough and tumble times of the far west as told by the returning 
miners was so thrilling that the two boys could not resist the lure. 
        They first worked in the California wheat fields. By this time wheat 
growing had started. Wilson contracted typhoid fever and medical care being 
impossible to secure, he did not recover. When his boyhood companion, Wilson, 
was gone the Clark boy lost interest in California and came home to Pennsylvania 
and spent the rest of his life on the farm on which he was born. This farm 
eventually joined the Bleakney land on the North.
        In 1935 a niece, Margareta Patton Miller, visited Marysville cemetery 
and drew a picture of the headstone, which was white marble but the picture was 
lost.