Category Archives: Sandford

Great grandfather Edward Sandford was 79 at the time of his son’s wedding in 1921. Having started his second marriage at the late age of 48, he was always a generation out-of-step with the rest of his family. Edward had dealt with health concerns most of his life, beginning with his near-fatal battlefield wound inContinue reading “A Good Life Remembered”

The Sandford family lives were interrupted in April 1917 when President Woodrow Wilson, followed by the United States Congress, declared war on Germany, ending years of attempts to maintain neutrality. Grandfather Joe Sandford’s draft registration form is dated June 5, 1917. He was 25 years old. Signing up for the war was in line withContinue reading “Quarante Hommes / Huit Chevaux”

In 1911, his parents retired, our grandfather Joe Sandford was 18 years old and entering young adulthood with a promising career and social life. After a brief time working in the Ontario California bank of his future father-in-law Henry Swan, Joe went to work for George McCrea who had come to California from North DakotaContinue reading “Joe Sandford’s Young Adult Life”

Before we move on from great grandfather Edward Sandford’s time in Corona, California, there is a loose thread to deal with. Edward’s father, James Head Sandford (our grandfather’s grandfather) died on November 26, 1898 and is buried in Corona. From Edward’s story as we have told it so far, it is not clear that heContinue reading “Father and Son Reunited in Corona”

Leaving Vermont, great grandparents Edward and Annie Calderwood Sandford, with infant daughter Saada, made their way west. They passed through Cheyenne, Wyoming in the Spring of 1981, where Edward had found a temporary engagement with the Baptist Church, and settled in Northern California later that year. Edward became pastor of the Baptist Church in Eureka,Continue reading “Corona, The Crown Colony”

In 1888, great grandfather Edward had been the Pastor of the Baptist Church for 15 years and was revered by his parishioners and the Saint Johnsbury, Vermont community at-large. At age 48, he had already experienced more in life than most could imagine. It would be reasonable to predict he would continue in his positionContinue reading “Another new life for Edward Sandford”

After completing his studies in 1870 at Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland, Pennsylvania, great grandfather Edward Thomas Sandford began his lifelong career as a Baptist minister. The record shows that he preached in Jefferson Maine, a very small town 15 miles west of his home in Warren Maine, between 1872 and 1875, and that heContinue reading “A Revered Minister and Leading Citizen in Saint Johnsbury, Vermont”

Great grandfather Edward Thomas Sandford served as United States Consul to CheeFoo China for more than three years, beginning March, 1865. In the Spring of 1868, Edward was granted a leave-of-absence from the post due to the bad health of his wife, Sarah. He officially notified William Seward of his plans in a letter datedContinue reading “Edward Sandford finds his true calling”