YUBA COUNTY Biographies
FRANK D. POOLE
A very enterprising and experienced rancher, whose success continues a steady, progressive tradition of an interesting pioneer family, is Frank D. Poole, who was born at Smartville on April 20, 1868, the son of Francis and Mary Ann (Keals) Poole, the well-known settlers and developers. Frank D. attended the Smartville and Lone Tree Grammar Schools; but seeing no prospect for further educational advancement there, he commenced to work for a living when in his fourteenth year. He was always associated with his parents, and need offer no apology for what he did to repay them for their sacrifices for him. His father bought 360 acres of hill-land three miles to the southwest of Smartville; and there he raised stock. He was ninety years old when he closed his useful and eventful career; and Mrs. Poole is still living, at the fine old age of eighty-three, the center of a group of devoted friends. This parental ranch out subject now owns, and there he continued the stock-operations of his father; and he has just built for himself and family a new, modern bungalow dwelling.
Near Birchville, in September, 1902, Mr. Poole married Miss Mayme Skehan, a native of Birchville and the daughter of William and Mary Ellen Skehan; her father being a native of Ireland who came to America when a lad, and was one of the pioneer miners here. Besides Mrs. Poole, there were three other daughters in the family: Katherine, Teresa and Celia. There were also a half-sister, Mrs. James Walsh of Auburn, and a half-brother, Thomas D. Ryan, late of Marysville, deceased. Mrs. Mayme Poole was reared in the Birchville school district. She had two children, Harry A., who is at Auburn, and Clarence, who is now in the employ of the Bank of Italy at Marysville; and when she died, in October, 1908, she was greatly mourned. Mr. Poole married a second time, at Fairfield, in Solano County, on August 17, 1922, when he took for his life companion Mrs. Daisy Reader, nee Cook. She was born in Missouri, and came to California as a five-year-old girl, with her parents. In national political affairs, Mr. Poole is a Democrat, but in local affairs, he is ready to co-operate with his fellow citizens seeking to get only the best men and the best measures.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1167
DAVID N. JONES
Fortunate both in the exceptionally choice acres of his Waldo district ranch, and also in an invaluable experience enabling him to get the best results in the quantity and the quality of his farm products, David N. Jones, the well-known citizen of Yuba County, has been able to contribute something definite and worth while to the advancement of California agriculture. He was born in Yuba County, seven miles to the southwest of Smartsville, on the old Jones ranch, on July 14, 1873, the son of David N. and Elizabeth (Young) Jones. His father, a native of Brandon, Vt., came out to California in the early fifties and mined at Buena Vista, near Grass Valley, where he did not make good; and then he shifted to Randolph Flat, and was successful. Later, he worked at logging in Nevada County; and about 1856 he came into Yuba County, and with his brother-in-law, John Young, operated the place now known as the Jones ranch. Elizabeth Young was born in Burlington, Ill., and came to California in the late fifties; and here in the Golden State they were married. Mr. and Mrs. Jones lived on the Jones ranch for a number of years, and Mr. Jones also bought the large stock ranch and summer resort known as Bucks Ranch, in Plumas County, and on the latter ranch, after having spent their declining years, Mr. Jones died, in 1906, esteemed by all who knew him, having been preceded to the grave by his devoted wife. Mr. Jones had acquired 2200 acres in Yuba and Nevada Counties, and 1700 acres in Plumas County. There were six children in the Jones family: Lillie E., who became Mrs. Welch of Waldo; Eva C., who married W. J. Sanford, and died on July 1, 1915; Ida E., Mrs. Carter; and Minnie B., who became Mrs. Caine and resides at 316 C Street, Marysville; David N. and Willard L.
David attended the Lone Tree school, and then he became associated with his father, remaining on the home ranch as assistant until 1906, and then taking charge of the estate until 1909, when the parental property was divided. David Jones has 560 acres on the Spenceville-Wheatland stage route, called the Round Tent Ranch; and that became a stage-stand, and also a stopping off place for teamsters, who hauled freight from Sacramento to Virginia City, Nev. He is a Republican, and he has been a clerk of the board of trustees of the Waldo school district; in fact, he is the one that started the Waldo school, named after Waldo R. Johnson.
At Oroville, on April 7, 1900, Mr. Jones was married to Miss Elbie Louise Rutherford, a native of Wyandotte, Butte County, and the daughter of James and Geraldine (Enslow) Rutherford, early pioneers, who came to California in 1852. He was a stock-raiser and a farmer, and Elbie Louise was reared and educated in Butte County, and enjoyed life in a home erected far back in 1856, and still standing today, in excellent condition. James Rutherford was a native of Arkansas, and Geraldine Enslow was a native of Ohio. They had seven children: Charles T., Elmore H., Florence M., Mills M., Ruby E., Harriet J., and Elbie L. Rutherford. Mrs. Rutherford died at the age of sixty-three; while Mr. Rutherford lived to be seventy-eight. Four children blessed this union of Mr. and Mrs. Jones. David R. is the eldest of the family; and then come Willard E., Gerald Allen, and finally Geraldine Elizabeth. Mr. Jones belongs to the Masonic Lodge of Smartsville; and he and his wife are members of the Eastern Star of Wheatland.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1171-1172
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