Solano County Biographies

J. C. WELLS

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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born in Tyler county, West Virginia, November 15, 1819.  At the age of twelve 
years moved with his parents to Monroe county, Ohio, where he received his 
education.  He resided here until 1855, and in April of the above year moved to 
Linn county, Iowa, and followed farming until 1864, when he emigrated to 
California, crossing the plains with a horse team, and landed in Vacaville 
August 15th of the same year, and settled on the plains southwest of Elmira, 
where he resided for two years.  He then purchased a farm near Dixon, where he 
resided for one year; he then located on his present farm, one mile west of 
Elmira, comprising 160 acres.  April 26, 1873, Mr. Wells and son Bazzleel took a 
trip to Ohio, and returned in about six weeks, since which time he has resided 
upon his ranch.  Married March 4, 1852, Miss Accia Wells.  She was born October 
1, 1833, in Tyler county, West Virginia.  Eliza J., Charles T. (deceased), 
Temperance V., Bazzleel, and Florence B. are the names of their children.
 
Wait not till my hands are at rest
Ere you fill them full of flowers;
Wait not for the crowning tube rose
To make sweet the last sad hours.
 
Wait not till my eyes are closed
For the loving look and phrase,
But while you gently chide my faults
The good deeds kindly praise.
 
The words you would speak beside my bier
Fall sweeter far on the living ear,
O fill my life with sweetness,
Ere I should die to-night!
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp 480-481