Shuffleton, Hugh H. {letter from}

SHUFFLETON

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Fairfield Ledger
Jan. 16, 1907
Page 9 col. 2

IN FAIRFIELD IN ’49. C. W. GAGE of this city is in receipt of a letter from HUGH H. SHUFFLETON, SR., of Gas Point, Cal., who left Fairfield in 1849. He was a clerk in the drug store of D. V. COLE, which occupied the site of the D. G. HIGLEY store of today and which has been used continuously for that business from that day to the present. MR. SHUFFLETON was here again in the winter of 1853-4, bought cattle with JOHN S. PAGE and drove them “Across the Plains.” He was a member of one of the prominent families of early Jefferson County, and is now 76 years of age. He asks a list of the people now living in Fairfield with whom he was acquainted in those pioneer days and MR. GAGE has given him the following names: C. W. GAGE, MRS. SARAH DAVID, MRS. CYNTHIA MCKEMEY, HENRY B. MITCHELL, S. F. STEVER, JOSEPH CLINKENBEARD, NIMROD DYER, J. W. MEESICK, ROBERT WATERS, JOHN W. MCLEAN.