Sacramento County Biographies W. H. THEOBALD Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm SAN JOAQUIN TOWNSHIP. Page 275. lives fourteen miles from Sacramento, and six miles from Elk Grove, his Post Office. Was born in Missouri, in 1850. He came to California in 1852, with his parents. They settled in this county, and he has lived here ever since. He owns three hundred and twenty acres of land, worth, with improvements, about $3000. His father died in 1860; his mother is still living. Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by Thompson & West.