Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

ROLAND HENRY HAWLEY

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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Another interesting man of affairs in Sutter County is Roland Henry Hawley, who 
resides about four miles to the northwest of Sutter City.  A native son of the 
Golden State, he was born at Potter Valley, in Mendocino County, on December 21, 
1880, the son of Charles and Anna (Getty) Hawley.  The latter was really a 
daughter of Mr. Kindall, who had come to California in early pioneer days and 
was a partner in farming and stock-raising with Moore Getty.  Mr. Kindall was 
accidentally killed, no one knows exactly how; but it is assumed that as he was 
about to open a gate an ox-team gored him to death.  After his demise, Moore 
Getty married the widow; and the children all took the name of Getty.  Charles 
Hawley was a native of Vermont, and came to California long ago around the Horn, 
with his mother and younger brother, his father and two elder brothers having 
already sailed hither over the same route.  Charles Hawley settled at Sutter and 
married Anna Getty in the Sutter Buttes.  Later they moved to Mendocino County 
and were there engaged in sheep-raising; but after eight years they moved back 
to the old Getty ranch in Sutter.  Charles Hawley died in Sutter County at the 
age of forty-five, leaving an unblemished reputation; Anna Getty Hawley is still 
living, the center of a circle of devoted friends at San Jose.  They were the 
parents of four children: Maude, in San Jose; Josephine, Mrs. O�Banion, of Yuba 
City; Roland Henry, our subject; and Herbert, of San Jose.
Roland Henry Hawley attended the Brittan school in Sutter County, and for a 
while was a student at the Sutter Union High School, eventually continuing and 
completing his studies at the high school in San Jose.  Returning to the home 
place, he was married on November 2, 1904, at Sutter, to Miss Ethel Haynes, a 
native of Sutter County, where she was born on the Haynes ranch south of Sutter 
City, the daughter of James and Frances (White) Haynes.  James Haynes came to 
California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, in 1868, and both he and his wife 
were natives of Ohio.  They settled near O�Banion Corners for a few years, and 
later removed to the neighborhood of Sutter City.  Mr. Haynes died at the age of 
sixty-eight; and Mrs. Haynes lived to be sixty-seven.  They had four children: 
Alice became Mrs. C. F. Farington, and is deceased; Norman is in Sutter City, as 
is also James L.; while the youngest of the family is Mrs. Hawley.  Mr. Hawley 
bought 300 acres of the old Moore-Getty ranch, six years ago, and there built 
his home.  Since then he has devoted the place to stock-raising.  He takes an 
active and influential interest in civic affairs, and is at present one of the 
trustees of the Brittan grammar school.  Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have three 
children, Harold, Verde and Juana.

History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 606