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A Bakersfield group calling themselves the Foxtail Rangers removed the bark from the Lebec Oak in 1889 and found the previously-obscured inscription regarding the death of Peter Lebec. In 1890 they found a body,assumed to be Peter Lebec, in the same location, and reburied it.Lady in front of first tree with sailor collar is Bertha Moulty;the children in the picture are Louise and Nita Mills, Bessie Houghton, and Gertrude Borgwardt;the cook was Jose Peralta.
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