REDWOOD COUNTRY BY ALMA CLUVER

2222 September 2021

Below is Grandma's newspaper article in the Eureka paper.  The date isn't on it but it would have been in the 1960s -1970s.  Those are the years they lived / vacationed up at Pete Drees place near Honeydew & Petrolia.  

I know she wrote more articles but I am not local to look them up.

The 2 babies would be Roy & Douglass.  Mom was born in Fortuna in 1921, near Rohner Ville, as it was then.

Cousins will all know "the Man" is our grandpa  Harold, & Alma is the writer.  Wow they are so small. I'll post this and see if they enlarge if I click on them. If not I'll try enlarging them and post again.  Can't seem to write below them so will close out here

Happy Trails    Katie

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School boy Harold CLUVER

School boy Harold Cluver

Harold Cluver     looks to be a young teen 13? 12?  

Harold Cluver again    younger
Back says :
Francis Thompson 
2021  California Street    ( that would be in San Francisco )

Best Wishes, Katie

Sea Captain Cluver

Sea Captain Cluver

Henry Cluver from Germany. Our ancestor
His grandson, Harold identifies on the backs and previous post below grandaughter Bernice Linn also.
I would guess if this was taken at someones home when he is this older,  they did own a home on I st. Petaluma and later he lived in Oakland with daughter where he died. That home in Oakland is an area now full of Kaiser hospital.   
I think for any man who could Captain those old sailing ships, the stagecoach routes over old Mt. Tamalpais, unpaved dirt, would hold no terrors . I have read harrowing accounts of the stages and wagons that drove over the old mountain roads and the accounts of the hairpin turns out on nothing.  & that's not driving the vehicles we take for granted now, it was handling teams of 2-4-6 or more animals. I would be scared the whole way and gotten out and walked, as I have done even now in places.

Best Wishes   Katie

1000 Words

11 June, 2020      Family pics

Grandpa helping us see the way home - Ranch
2 Cluvers   Grandpa Harold & son, Doug - May 1970
Grandma Pinkie & Mom at our Napa place

Mom & her Dad at our place, Napa
Mom on Ranch porch
Bye Grandma
at Concord Cluvers     Pinkie & Harold

Petrolia front porch   & visitors playing Scrabble 1971
The wandering man 1971
Relatives all at Petaluma Green Mill Restaurant 1970
  Roy Evans, Virginia Evans Zimmerman, Gladys Evans (Roscoes wife), Barbara ( Roys 2nd wife), Harold & Alma Cluver

Grandpa was friends with Pete Drees, Petaluma. Pete's family had the Drees florists for years. Pete was a great hunter & traveled the world. He had a  place up at Petrolia, near Freestone on the Mattole River. Had cabins there and a museum of his trophys. Pete gave over one of the cabin homes for Grandpa & Grandma to live in whenever they wanted.  They loved it up there & went as much as they could.  

at Pats wedding St Marys Napa
  Barbara  Cluver- Grandma Alma "Pinkie" Evans Cluver  &                                              Douglas, her son

Dillion Beach camping - Cluver GMC pu & camper
  Our place Napa   Mom & her Dad,  Cluvers land rover                            Grandma taking Eva & Axel's pic   with Grandpa Harold.
Grandpa and Stuart Zimmerman at Stu's dairy ranch, 
Cockrill Road, Bloomfield California
   Cluver's GMC          
Stuarts Mother,  Virginia - sister of Alma Evans Cluver

I spent a lovely summer one year at Stuart & Clorinda's dairy ranch.
Grandma was a real picture nut. She took pictures of everything. I still have 2 box camera she used and they still work. Not sure where I could get film for them now or even develop it . Must be websites.  I used them years ago and they worked really well.  The negatives are about 3 x 5.  Fun to use

Happy Trails,  Katie

Catharina Margarethe Cluver

My Grandfather Harold Cluver's own Grandmother. Born in Germany & sailed to USA with husband & ship captain, Henry or Heinrich Cluver.  The back in Harold handwriting says 'my Grandma Cluver"

Henrys occupation on Cath's info says "kaufman" otherwise a merchant.  Several years ago I wandered about San Francisco and found the sidewalk area where his store was.  Located down near the wharves and piers.  A huge skyscraper now on the location.
After San Francisco they moved to Bolinas.  

Yes, Cath & Henry were cousins. Not uncommon, & our Evans family back in Ireland had cousin marriages.



Happy Trails,  Katie

Thursday  21, May 2020

Harold Henry Cluver

Born 21, May 1894

All the below photos are Harold Henry Cluver.

My Grandfather.

 I have 2 of these

I always heard it said that these were taken on his wedding day. I have no other wedding photos of Harold & Alma.  
They were married 22 June, 1917 at St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Petaluma.  They actually sort of eloped with the help of her brothers & sisters.  Somewhere I have the Argus Newspaper article and I will post it with it turns up.
 Harold was born in Petaluma.  Mother Alice Hinkston Cluver and Father Henry Augustus Cluver.  Their only child was Harold.  

Happy Trails, Katie

 Thursday  21, May  2020

There is a book, the Cluverii Chronica. It has a great deal about the Cluver in Germany. It has information about many lines and over into the United States.  My own particular Cluver line is not in it. But it has been many years since I looked at it and may have overlooked something.  These images are of various Cluver shields of Heraldry.  Altho each is different, there are common images in all.  If you cannot find this book to read, try the website WorldCat.org to find a close copy. I have personally using my own local library's inter-library loan system,  borrowed many books I wanted to use from across the USA.  I highly recommend it and it's easy to use.  Speak to the librarians at the reference desk in yours.

I used to have a great photo work app. that I used to clean up the images. I don't recall what it was but I'm searching for it again. 
As far as I know, nothing exists in my Cluver items that has any Heraldry images. Tho there is a great story of an old castle and old items. There was an enormous soup spoon about as long as my arm, & the bowl of it the size of my hand, I recall seeing as a kid but I have no idea where it is now.  There was an image on it but I don't recall what.

Well Happy Trails, Katie