A Rutherford Farm

By Cecelia Elkington Setty

In July of 1864, a month before her seventeenth birthday, Elizabeth Ann Yount was given 1,000 acres of land in the northern portion of her grandfather's Caymus Rancho. He had given his two daughters Frances and Elizabeth, and their husband,s each 1,000 acres in 1851. Elizabeth Ann was the only child of George Yount's only son, Robert. Another three years passed before Elizabeth Ann would marry Thomas Lewis Rutherford in San Francisco. The handsome San Francisco flour merchant undoubtedly courted her for several years. According to Richard Henry Dana Jr., author of "Two Years Before the Mast," on his visit with "old John (George) Yount," Elizabeth was a "handsome, bright and intelligent young lady, with many suitors."Thus the Rutherford name became well known in Napa County, although Thomas Rutherford had been buying wheat for several years from the Napa Valley for his prosperous San Francisco grist mill. He most likely met his future bride when she was a young teenager living with her grandfather on the Caymus Rancho during negotiations for the Caymus wheat crop.

• Format: Unknown Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976337894
• ISBN13: 9780976337898
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Cecelia Elkington Setty
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.