Tuolumne County Biographies

EDMOND PARSONS

Submitted by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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Was born in Greenville County, Virginia, on December 25, 1831. When about 
eighteen years old he went to Shelby County, Tenn where he completed his 
apprentice�ship to the carpenter�s trade. In 1852, he came to this State, via 
Memphis and the Isthmus, and arrived in San Francisco on the 23rd of December of 
that year. He went to Ione City, Amador County, where he commenced mining. After 
three months he moved to Volcano, in that county, where he followed the same 
occupation as before, together with that of his trade. Here he married Mary Jane 
Bradford, December 6, 1855. She is a native of Missouri. July 15, 1856, they 
moved to this county, settling on Woods� Creek, in Saw Mill Flat.  In 1861, he 
went to Mariposa County, but in the following year returned to the Flat. The 
Montana gold excitement took him to that coun�try in 1864, but he came back to 
his old home in the same year. In 1868, he located in Columbia, and in 1872, 
set�tled in Sonora, where he now lives. Mr. Parsons was twice elected Supervisor 
of this county, and was Deputy Sheriff under Sheriff David F. Baxter. He is now 
one of the �City Fathers� of Sonora Charles H., (now a resi�dent of Sacramento), 
Nettie, William D., Lottie, Mary, Lillie, and Edmond are the names of his living 
children.

�A History of Tuolumne County, California� Pub�d by B.F. Alley, 1882. Pg. 341.