Solano County Biographies

WILLIAM J. PLEASANTS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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born in Lincoln county, Kentucky, May 31, 1834.  His parents went to Missouri in 
1835 and followed farming until 1849, when they emigrated to California, 
arriving first at Bidwell�s Bar, in 1849, and, in 1850, they moved to Pleasants� 
valley, Solano county.  He married, December 3, 1857, Miss Nancy Hopper, by whom 
he  has eight children, four sons and four daughters:  Sarah Alice, born Nov. 
11, 1858; Ansal Putnam, born Feb. 6, 1861; Emma Belle, born Mar. 18, 1863; Lydia 
Tolitha, born Feb. 28, 1865; Wm. James, Jr., born June 30, 1867; Laura Frances, 
born Dec. 16, 1869; Thomas Royal, born Aug. 5, 1872; Russel Mason, born Dec. 18, 
1874.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 462