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2004.001.1185Scope and Content
This is a receipt from the Solano County Treasurer for the payment of taxes by Celia Lewis o $41.45. It is in relation to an inheritance from Samuel C. Clark. The San Francisco Call of 08/04/1894 says that the Schooner Theresa was willed to Celia Lewis by RR Engineer Sam C. Clark (see attached newspaper report). (The newspaper mentions that Mr. Clark was killed in a labor dispute when his train was derailed outside of Sacramento in 1893.) We know that Mrs. Lewis ran the company from Benicia based on the 1900 US Census. She lived in Benicia on "H" street with her sister Oceana Dillingham who also ran several freight carrying schooners with her second husband, Capt. Wallace Dillingham until his death in 1894 and by herself after that date. We also know that Mrs. Lewis died in 1903 and is buried in the Benicia City Cemetery.
