Yolo County Biographies


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Mrs. Jane Elizabeth PAUL
 
Among the most enterprising and highly respected citizens of Winters is Mrs. 
Paul, a horticulturist who is making a success of her undertaking and a woman of 
sterling qualities and courageous optimism, who has been a resident of this 
ranch for twenty-eight years.  During this time she has seen it develop from a 
cow pasture to a full-bearing orchard, a part of which she has set out a second 
time.
 
In maidenhood Mrs. Paul was Miss Hill, born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, July 20, 
1852, the daughter of William and Esther (Cunningham) Hill, who were natives of 
England and Ireland, respectively, and who settled in Canada in an early day.  
Jane E. Hill received her education in the schools of Guelph and at an early age 
became the wife of James Haynes, who was born in Lower Canada, and who, five 
years after their marriage, passed away in Guelph, where he was laid to rest.  
Mr. and Mrs. Haynes were blessed with three children, as follows:  William H., 
of Sacramento; Minnie, who became the wife of O. E. Fuller, of Sacramento, and 
has five children, Wesley, William, Eveline, Ruth and Mary; and Maud, the wife 
of A. H. Blanchard, of Sacramento, and the mother of one child, Laurena J.  Mr. 
Haynes was a carpenter by trade and a broad-minded Democrat, interested in all 
public enterprises of worth.  After Mr. Haynes� death in 1884 his widow came to 
Yolo county and located on the ranch she now occupies, consisting of twenty 
acres and located one mile west of Winters.  Not a tree was on the place at that 
time, but since then it has all been set out to orchard, principally to peaches 
and apricots, and five acres have been reset to Muir peaches, the last mentioned 
land having been in peaches for the past twenty-seven years.  The balance of the 
land is in full bearing, the crop either being dried or shipped to the cannery.
 
In Woodland Mrs. Haynes was married to Joseph H. Paul, who was born in Canton, 
Mo., February 9, 1851.  Of the five children born of this marriage four are 
living.  Joseph F., the eldest, married Miss Emily Hardy, and they and their 
son, Joseph L., reside in Sacramento; the other children, Cornelius, Rudolph and 
Lauretta J., make their home with their mother.
 
Joseph F. Paul is a member of the Woodmen of the World, and his brothers, 
Cornelius and Rudolph, are members of the Independent Order of Red Men and the 
Foresters.  All of  the brothers are Republican, intelligently interested in 
both civic and national political developments.  Mrs. Paul is a member of St. 
Anthony�s Catholic Church of Winters.  She is a woman of indomitable energy and 
perseverance and in her horticultural efforts is ever forging onward to success. 
 She is much esteemed by those who know her for her many acts of kindness and 
her universal good nature. 
 
Transcribed by Bea Barton
Source:  �History of Yolo County, California� by Tom Gregory.  Published by the 
Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, California, 1913, pages 587 � 588.