Eighth Generation2946. John Edward FOLSOM737,741,742,743,1254,1255,1256 was born on 19 May 1824 in Maxfield, Penobscot, Maine.737 He appeared on the Washington State census in 1887 in Whitman County, Washington.737,1257 male, married, age 63, stockman He appeared on the Washington State census in 1889 in Whitman County, Washington.737 John died on 24 May 1897 at the age of 73 in Sprague, Lincoln, Washington.737 He was buried in Lamont, Whitman, Washington.737,1258 Sometimes called Swannack Cemetery or Gresham Cemetery. He was a Sailor.737 As a young man he had much experience in the whale fishing industry in the South Sea Islands. He kept a "record book and daguerreotype of all the whales caught on each four-year voyage. He went to San Francisco with a cargo of wheat from some of the South Sea Islands when he heard of gold mines being discovered in California, but could hardly get enough for it to pay for the sacks --no mills to grind it. He fell in with his bro. Moses and they both went to Oregon, John to Oregon City and Moses to Pendleton, Umatilla County. He m. and raised a large family." (Gilman Nathaniel Folsom). John Edward FOLSOM and Margaret Ann WARNOCK were married on 6 May 1855 in Oregon City, Clackamas, Oregon.737,1259 Margaret Ann WARNOCK737,1259, daughter of unknown WARNOCK and unknown , was born on 9 January 1834 in Milford, Clermont, Ohio.737 She died on 20 May 1930 at the age of 96 in Chewelah, Stevens, Washington.737 She was buried in Whitman County, Washington.737,1258 Gresham Cemetery John Edward FOLSOM-55177 and Margaret Ann WARNOCK-55204 had the following children:
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