Family Group Sheet
Family Group Sheet
NameGeorge William Bothwell952,1513
Birth7 Jul 1848, Galena, Jo Daviess Co., IL, USA
Census1850, USA, IL, Jo Daviess Co., Galena Age: 1
Census1860, USA, IA, Dubuque Co., Dubuque Age: 11
Census1870, USA, CO TER, Huerfano Co., Huerfano River & Tributaries Age: 21
Census1880, USA, CO, Custer Co., Silver Cliff Age: 31
Census1910, USA, CA, San Bernardino Co., Ontario Age: 61
Census1920, USA, CA, San Bernardino Co., Ontario Age: 71
Census1930, USA, CA, San Bernardino Co., Ontario Age: 81
Death19 Nov 1932, Ontario, San Bernardino Co., CA, USA2365,4, San Bernardino (CA) Sun 11-22-1932 Age: 84
Burial22 Nov 1932, San Bernardino Co., CA, USA
MemoBellview Cemetery
OccupationFruit Farmer In 1920971
Occupation1880, Mining Broker
FatherWilliam Bothwell (1808-1885)
MotherDinah Manson (1812-1895)
Marriage24 Oct 1880, Denver, Arapahoe Co. (now Denver Co.), CO, USA1870
SpouseLillie D. Danforth
Birth1852, IL, USA799
Census1860, USA, KS TER, Linn Co., Mound City Age: 8
Census1870, USA, KS, Crawford Co., Crawford Age: 18
Census1880, USA, CO, Arapahoe Co., Denver Age: 28
Census1900, USA, CA, Monterey Co., Pacific Grove Age: 48
Census1910, USA, CA, San Bernardino Co., Ontario Age: 58
Census1920, USA, CA, San Bernardino Co., Ontario Age: 68
Death21 Jan 1926, San Bernardino Co., CA, USA2365,4, Pomona (CA) Progress Bulletin 1-22-1926 Age: 74
Burial23 Jan 1926, Ontario, San Bernardino Co., CA, USA
MemoBelleview Cemetery
MotherRuth Unknown (1835-1911)
No Children
Notes for George William Bothwell
A George Bothwell married a Lilly Danforth in Arapaho Co., CO, 10/24/1880 and she later (1907) filed under her maiden name for a Civil War pension in CA. Unable to decipher the unit on the Civil War Pension Index information online but it did not appear to be anything close to the third Wisconsin Infantry. However, on the 1920 census, it appears the name given for George’s wife was Lilly D. Bothwell.

George was listed as a farmer in the silver mining area of Custer Co., CO, in the 1870 and 1880 census. Shows up next in the 1910 and 1920 census in Ontario, San Bernardino Co., CA, just east of Los Angeles.

In 1880, a G.W. Bothwell is listed in the Colorado State business directory as an attorney and a mining and real estate agent in Silver Cliff.

1896 listed as registered to vote in the Hedges Precinct pf San Diego County. Described as 5’10, gair, with light grey hair and grey eyes, occupation mining superintendent.

1892 was registered to vote in 7th precinct, 40th Assembly district of San Francisco Co., eye color listed there as blue, occupation miner, residence 1604 O’Farrell, date of registration Oct. 14, 1892.

In 1915, was named on a patent for a heater. (LAT7/11/1915)
Research notes for George William Bothwell
In 1930, listed fathers birth as Northern Ireland.
Notes for Lillie D. Danforth
Lillian and her mother, Ruth, were secretary and president (respectively) of the Daughters of the Good Shepherd in San Francisco. It was a part of the “Temperance” movement and argued against “ladies entrances” for places that sold liquor.
Name spelled Danford in 1880 census, Danforth in 1910.

In 1902, she was a trustee of the newly founded Pacific Bible College in Los Angeles, affiliated with the Nazarene Church. The following year she was elected to the general missionary board of the church. In 1908 she was a trustee of the Nazarene University and Deet’s Pacific Bible College (Now Point Loma Nazarene University) of the Church of the Nazaarene.
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