THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: David Jonathan "Dave" Cheney
           Born: 13 FEB 1832 in Cheney's Grove, McLean County, Illinois
        Married: 30 MAY 1870 in San Francisco, California
           Died: 18 JUN 1899 in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, CA
         Buried: in Sebastopol Cemetery, California.
         Father: Thomas R. Cheney
         Mother: Susan Maxwell
        Spouses: 
     Occupation: Operated a threshing machine (1)
           Wife: Helen Rebecca Connell
           Born: about 1844 in Indiana
           Died: after 1910
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses: Sanderson Linton
Children
01          (F): Louisa Catherine Cheney
           Born: 13 MAY 1871 in California
           Died: 1924 in San Rafael, Marin County, CA
        Spouses: Martin E Phinney; Jonathan O. Meeker
02          (F): Sara Elizabeth Cheney
           Born: 25 JUN 1873 in California (2)
           Died: 19 NOV 1965 in Capitola, Santa Cruz County, California (3)
        Spouses: John Trevelic Banfield
03          (M): William Haines Cheney (4)
           Born: 28 NOV 1875 in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California
           Died: 10 NOV 1929 in San Francisco, CA
        Spouses: Ima Hicks Sullivan
04          (F): Helen Cheney (5)
           Born: 18 JAN 1878 in Vallejo, California (6 7)
           Died: 28 DEC 1955 in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California (8)
        Spouses: Emil B. "Ed" Gunther
05          (F): Elsie Cheney
           Born: 11 JUL 1881 in California
           Died: 18 AUG 1952 in Orange County, California (9)
        Spouses: John Elton Thomas
06          (F): Ethel Cheney
           Born: after 1881 (10)
           Died:
        Spouses:

Additional Information

David Jonathan "Dave" Cheney:

Notes:
David did not marry until 1870 when he was thirty-eight years old. He, like his brother Return, had to have remembered a Cheney's Grove young woman because he waited until she was a widow before he married.

Listed in the 1880 census for Sonoma County.

In the 1890 "Great Register of Sonoma County", David is listed as a farmer in the Analy Township.


Helen Rebecca Connell:

Notes:
Helen Rebecca Connell married Sanderson Linton ten years after David Cheney left Illinois. She was only ten when David moved to California. Sanderson died in late 1869 in Illinois. By May 1870, Helen married David. Over the next sixteen years they had six children together. Helen was said to be a great beauty as were her children.

In March of 1910, Helen made the trip to Coalinga, California to attend the 50th Wedding Anniversary Celebration of R.J. and Martha Cheney. She was listed as living in Sebastapol, California. (From the Daily Coalinga Times, March 9, 1910)

Footnotes

  1. Sonoma County Genealogical Society, The Sonoma Searcher, Volume 27, No 1, Fall 1999, page 8.
  2. EMAIL from Verne Peterson.
  3. California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, RootsWeb.com (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi), Banfield, Sarah E.
  4. McNear.ged.
    Date of Import: 5 Jun 2000.
  5. Ibid.
    Date of Import: 5 Jun 2000.
  6. Petaluma Argus.
    25/01/1878.
  7. McNear.ged.
    Date of Import: 5 Jun 2000.
  8. California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section, RootsWeb.com (http://userdb.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi).
    Gunther, Helen.
  9. Ibid.
    Roberts, Elsie C.
  10. Sonoma County Genealogical Society, The Sonoma Searcher, Volume 27, No 1, Fall 1999, page 8.

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