Anita Alvarez

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Anita married (Male) Williams. (Male) was born about 1931. [Group Sheet]

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Luis married Ila Horr in 1929 in Bankhead Springs, San Diego Co, California, USA. Ila (daughter of Albert Horr and Anna Frank) was born on 20 May 1910 in Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co, California, USA; died on 15 Jun 2003 in Country Hill, , California, USA; was buried in El Camino, Tehama Co, California, USA. [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1920
• Education: San Diego State

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Calif Births (at) http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/
Alvarez, Ila Mary Horr

Transcribed as Hora
Living with parents in 1920.
1920 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Ila M. Horr, dau, age 9, bp CA

Obituary published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 6/29/2003.


[[ALVAREZ, ILA MARY HORR 1910 to 2003 A descendent of Hezekiah Horr, who sailed from Devon, Ireland on the "Recovery" and landed at the port of Weymouth Massachusetts in 1634, Ila Mary Horr ' s grandfather, Riley Horr, started the first post office in California on the Tuollumne River. Her parents met and married at Clearlake in northern California. Ila was born in Santa Rosa in 1910, where the family lived just around the corner from famed horticulturist Luther Burbank. Ila loved plants all her life. At age two, she won the "Prettiest Baby in Santa Rosa" contest. Ila and her family moved to Dixieland in the Imperial Valley where her father, Bert Horr, homesteaded farmland. Ila ' s mother, Anna Barbara Frank Horr, found the desert heat intolerable, so in 1916 the family leased Jacumba from Titus Spreckles. Bert ' s father, Riley Horr then homesteaded Bankhead Springs, named for Senator Bankhead, promoter of the new transcontinental highway. At Bankhead, Bert built a hotel and a new home for his family. As a youngster, Ila explored surrounding mountains and collected Kumeyaay Indian artifacts near her home. She also took archaeologist Malcolm Rogers to meet Kumeyaay potter Rosa Lopez (Owas Hilmawa) and showed archaeologist Julian Hayden the rock art near Bankhead. Ila ' s extensive Kumeyaay collection is on display at the Heritage of the Americas Museum near Cuyamaca College. Ila attended one-room Clover Flats school (now the Wisteria Candy Cottage) in Manzanita (now Boulevard). Under the oaks outside the school window Ila used to see Kumeyaay women in long skirts gathering and winnowing acorns. Graduating with honors from San Diego ' s "Old Russ High School", Ila turned down an opportunity to model bathing suits and began studying art and business at San Diego State. But the following summer, at a dance in Jacumba, she met a handsome Mexican businessman, Luis Alvarez Garza. They married at Bankhead Springs on a great granite outcrop (since known to the family as the "wedding rock") in 1929 taking up residence in Calexico, where their daughter Anita was born in 1931. They then moved to the residential area of a cotton gin complex in Mexicali. Their son Luis was born in Calexico in 1941. Ila became president of the Calexico Women ' s Club, and, when the family moved north, president of the Brawley Women ' s club. In Brawley, Ila sang for radio station KROP and for the Sacred Heart Church choir. The family moved briefly to Lake Arrowhead and then to a house designed by Ila and built by Jackson and Scott in Pacific Beach. By the time Ila was widowed in 1968, she had amplified her already extensive collection of books on the Californias by purchasing the library of San Diego historian and editor Philip Rush. By then she had organized the first international meeting of the long-lived Asociacion Cultural de las Californias, an annual symposium dedicated to Baja California. First woman member of the San Diego Corral of the Westerners, in 1984 Ila won their prestigious "Old Joe" award, writing for them about mapmaker Jacobo Blanco, explorer Godfrey Sykes and astronomer Chappe D ' Auteroche. She also wrote for the Pacific Coast Archaeological Society Quarterly and for the Cabrillo Monument, serving for a time on their board of directors. Having visited much of Mexico, Ila continued traveling by plane, yacht, mule and off-road-vehicle throughout Baja California. She often camped in Baja, sometimes caravanning with other Baja enthusiasts such as Roscoe "Pappy" Hazard and Erle Stanley Gardner, always raising clouds of dust and glory as she tore along in her dune buggy. She drove the length of the peninsula twice before the road was paved. Ila loved her family fiercely, and after that she loved people, and plants. She designed and made pretty clothes and interesting jewelry and gave big parties famous for her tamale pie. In her nineties, Ila told one of her granddaughters "if you don ' t learn something new every day -- even one small thing -- you ' re wasting your time". At 93 Ila responded to a bit of new information "Huh! I learned something new today!" Ila died June 15 at Country Hills, and was buried at El Camino June 18. Ila ' s passing was marked by an affectionate gathering of her family at her graveside, drumming in Jacumba, Masses said in Mexicali and the continued loving prayers of family and friends. Published in the San Diego Union-Tribune on 6/29/2003.
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Transcribed as HERR, town mistranscribed, the name is Calpella
1900 Census: Calnella, Mendocino Co, California
Bert Horr, Mar 1868, age 32, m 4 yrs, bp NY, m's bp NY, Farmer
Annie Horr, 1 birth, personal info left blank
Walter Horr, son, personal info left blank
Fred J. Horr, brother, July 1878, age 21, bp WI, bp's bp NY, Day laborer
Svid T. McChinlock, boarder, Day laborer
John H, Williams, boarder, Day laborer

1910 Census: Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co, California
Bert W. Horr, age 42, married 14 yrs, bp NY, Manager- Sawmill
Anna B. Horr, age 38, 3 births 2 living, bp Russ- German
Walter R. Horr, son, age 11, bp CA
Emily G. Horr, dau, age 8, bp CA
Kate Downey, servant, age 20, bp CA

Transcribed as Hora
1920 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Bert Horr, age 51, bp NY, p's bp NY, Laborer- state highway
Anna Horr, wife, age 49, RUS, p's bp RUS
Grace E. Horr, dau, age 18, bp CA
Walter R. Horr, son, age 20, bp CA, Truck Driver- state highway
Ila M. Horr, dau, age 9, bp CA

1930 Census: Jacumba, San Diego Co, California
Bert W. Horr, age 62, bp NY, p's bp NY, Manager- farm resort
Anna B. Horr, age 58, bp So RUS, p's bp So RUS

Albert married Anna Frank about 1896 in Clearlake, Lake Co, California, USA. Anna was born on 26 Nov 1871 in Russia; died on 19 Apr 1973 in . [Group Sheet]

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• Census: 1850 [1860] 1870 1880 1900 1910

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1855 census Watertown, Jefferson Co, New York
[Riley, born in Jefferson Co, married, one yr in Watertown, occupation, voter]
Horr Riley 22 M Jefferson X 1 Carpenter X
Horr Louisa 27 F Wife Jefferson X 21
Horr Warren 47 M Jefferson X 1 Carpenter X X [owner of land]
Horr Lovica 41 F Wife Lewis X 1
Horr Leonard 12 M Child Jefferson

Previous household was parents.
Riley's written as HORN
1870 Census: Richfield, Adams Co, Wisconsin
Riley J. Horr, age 37, bp NY, Farmer
Louisa Horr, age 35, bp NY
Frank Horr, age 13, bp NY
George Horr, age 11, bp WI
Burt Horr, age 2, bp NY
[Note George always states WI as his bp.]

1880 Census Place: Unity, Clark Co, Wisconsin
Household:
Name Relation Marital Status Gender Race Age Birthplace Occupation Father's Birthplace Mother's Birthplace
Rily J. HORR Self M Male W 47 NY Farmer NY NY
Loisa L. HORR Wife M Female W 46 NY Keeping House CT NY
Frank J. HORR Son S Male W 24 NY Laborer NY NY
Bert W. HORR Son S Male W 12 NY At School NY NY
Benjaman S. HORR Son S Male W 7 WI NY NY
Fred J. HORR Son S Male W 1 WI NY NY
Louisa HORR Mother M Female W 66 NY RI MA
Note the gap between Frank & Bert, suggesting other children.

1900 Census: Ukiah, Mendocino Co, California
Riley J. Horr, Oct 1832, age 67, widow, bp NY, Carpenter
Bemjaman Horr, son, Sept 1871, age 28, bp WI, Carpenter

1910 Census: Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co, California
Riley J. Horr, age 77, m 6 yrs, bp NY
Sarah A. Horr, wife, age 68, 2nd marriage, bp OH, p's bp OH

He had lived in Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co CA, near Luther Burbank's home.
Served in the civil War 08/18/62 to 06/23/65.

"...started the first post office in California on the Tuollumne River." from grand daughter Ila's obituary.

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From the Biographical History of Clark and Jackson Counties, published
by the Lewis Publishing Co., 1891 pages 184 & 185

Riley J. Horr, a prosperous farmer on section 5, Unity Township, was born
in Lorraine, Jefferson County, New York, October 6, 1832. His parents,
Warren and Lovisa (Stillman) Horr, were born in the same county, and were
reared and married there. The paternal grandparents were Israel and Joanne
(Haskins) Horr, natives of the State of New York. The maternal grandparents
were Benjamin and Pollie (Maxon) Stillman, early settlers of New York,
but natives of New England. Warren Horr removed with his family to Wisconsin
in 1868, and settled in Adams County, where he still resides, at the
advanced age of eighty-three years; his wife is aged seventy-six years. He has been a carpenter by trade, but a farmer by occupation, and has accumulated some
property. Three sons and one daughter were born to this worthy couple:
Riley J., Amanda, the wife of Hiram Brigam; Austin W. and Leonard..

Riley J., the eldest child, was reared to farm life in the counties of
Jefferson and Lewis, New York. He lived in the former county until 1869,
when he removed to Adams County, Wisconsin and in 1872 he came to Clark
County, Wisconsin; he purchased land in Green Grove Township and in 1877
located on his present farm; he owns 177 and a half acres, 100 of which
he has reclaimed from the wild state of nature and placed under cultivation.
He also owns 120 acres in Beaver Township, section 1. In addition to his
agricultural interests he has been largely engaged in the lumber business;
he has operated a mill for a good many years, and has done a considerable
amount of logging.

Politically he affiliates with the Republican party. He has represented
the people of his township in many of the public offices, but takes no
active interest in the movements of his party. In August, 1862, he enlisted
as a member of Company E, Tenth New York Heavy Artillery, and served until
the close of the war. He was with the army of the Potomac until the
declaration
of peace, when he was mustered out of the service at Petersburg, Virginia.
He was honorably discharged at Sackett's Harbor, New York, June 30, 1865.
He was in Virginia the greater portion of the time, and was garrisoned
in New York harbor for nearly a year.

Mr. Horr was united in marriage March 14, 1855, to Miss Louisa L. Ives,
who was born in Watertown, New York, January 21, 1834. Her parents are
Joel and Mary (Ingalls) Ives, natives of the State of New York. Five
children
have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Horr: Frank, George and Bert are all in
California, and Benjamin and Fred are at home.

Mrs. Horr's parents were born in Connecticut, but were early settlers of
Jefferson County, New York, where they lived some years, and finally passed
out of this life; the father died in 1871, at the age of sixty-four years;
the mother lived to be thirty years of age, and at her death left five
children: Erastus, Louisa, Amelia, Julia and Edward. Louisa is the wife
of Mr. Horr, and Julia is the wife of S.H. Hall, of Jefferson County, New
York. Jonathan Ingalls, the grandfather of Mrs. Horr, was a soldier in the war
of 1812, and died as an English prisoner of war.


Civil War Record
Name: Riley Horr ,
Enlistment Date: 18 August 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Union
State Served: New York
Unit Numbers: 1335 1335
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 29Enlisted in Company E, 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment New York on 11 September 1862.Mustered out Company E, 10th Heavy Artillery Regiment New York on 23 June 1865 in Petersburg, VA

Riley married Louisa Ives on 18 Mar 1855 in , Jefferson Co, New York, USA. Louisa (daughter of Joel Ives and Mary Ingalls) was born on 21 Jan 1834 in Watertown, Jefferson Co, New York, USA; died on 8 Nov 1896 in California, USA; was buried in Ukiah, Mendocino Co, California, USA (Ukiah Cemetery). [Group Sheet]

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