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Photograph shows portrait of Elizabeth Ann Stewart nee Ross. Born 4-20-1865, died 3-24-1947. Born in a ranch three miles north west of Dunnigan in Colusa County. Her father was Daniel Sanford Ross. She went to school in Dunnigan and rode horseback to and from school. She married Henry Webster Stewart on May 18, 1885 and lived in a house just north of the cemetery in College City. Here were born her first two children, Hila and Bob and in 1889 moved to Tehama County where four more children were born. Lena, Dan, Nora, and Rosa. From 1893 to the time of her death, she lived in the west side of Corning in the last house of the old town known as Riceville. She is buried in Sunset Hill Cemetery in Corning.
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