Sutter County
Biographies
ROLAND HENRY HAWLEY
Another interesting man of affairs in Sutter County is Roland Henry Hawley, who resides about four miles to the northwest of Sutter City. A native son of the Golden State, he was born at Potter Valley, in Mendocino County, on December 21, 1880, the son of Charles and Anna (Getty) Hawley. The latter was really a daughter of Mr. Kindall, who had come to California in early pioneer days and was a partner in farming and stock-raising with Moore Getty. Mr. Kindall was accidentally killed, no one knows exactly how; but it is assumed that as he was about to open a gate an ox-team gored him to death. After his demise, Moore Getty married the widow; and the children all took the name of Getty. Charles Hawley was a native of Vermont, and came to California long ago around the Horn, with his mother and younger brother, his father and two elder brothers having already sailed hither over the same route. Charles Hawley settled at Sutter and married Anna Getty in the Sutter Buttes. Later they moved to Mendocino County and were there engaged in sheep-raising; but after eight years they moved back to the old Getty ranch in Sutter. Charles Hawley died in Sutter County at the age of forty-five, leaving an unblemished reputation; Anna Getty Hawley is still living, the center of a circle of devoted friends at San Jose. They were the parents of four children: Maude, in San Jose; Josephine, Mrs. O’Banion, of Yuba City; Roland Henry, our subject; and Herbert, of San Jose.
Roland Henry Hawley attended the Brittan school in Sutter County, and for a while was a student at the Sutter Union High School, eventually continuing and completing his studies at the high school in San Jose. Returning to the home place, he was married on November 2, 1904, at Sutter, to Miss Ethel Haynes, a native of Sutter County, where she was born on the Haynes ranch south of Sutter City, the daughter of James and Frances (White) Haynes. James Haynes came to California by way of the Isthmus of Panama, in 1868, and both he and his wife were natives of Ohio. They settled near O’Banion Corners for a few years, and later removed to the neighborhood of Sutter City. Mr. Haynes died at the age of sixty-eight; and Mrs. Haynes lived to be sixty-seven. They had four children: Alice became Mrs. C. F. Farington, and is deceased; Norman is in Sutter City, as is also James L.; while the youngest of the family is Mrs. Hawley. Mr. Hawley bought 300 acres of the old Moore-Getty ranch, six years ago, and there built his home. Since then he has devoted the place to stock-raising. He takes an active and influential interest in civic affairs, and is at present one of the trustees of the Brittan grammar school. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley have three children, Harold, Verde and Juana.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 606
WILLIAM ANDREW CLEMENTS
A busy, capable and energetic rancher is found in William Andrew Clements, who resides on his fine ranch home of 160 acres in the vicinity of Sutter City. He was born in Rhode Island, on July 5, 1855, a son of I. V. and Mary Jane (McClimon) Marsh. I. V. Marsh pssed away the same year our subject was born, and the mother, with her family, left soon afterwards for California, traveling via Panama and arriving in San Francisco on March 1, 1856. Subsequently Mrs. Marsh was married to E. H. Clements, a native of Georgia, and our subject took the name of Clements.
E. H. Clements was a veteran of the Mexican War. During the gold excitement of 1849 he came to California, and here mined on the Yuba River and also conducted a merchandise business at Long Bar. Their first home was on the Yuba River, where Mr. Clements had purchased land; the next was at South Butte, where Mr. Clements owned 720 acres of land, which he farmed successfully. There were eight children in the family: William Andrew, our subject; E. H., deceased; Ann, deceased; Joseph; Virginia, deceased; Mary E., who became Mrs. Rose and died in July, 1923; Elizabeth, now Mrs. Kennedy; and Robert James, deceased. Mr. Clements passed away in 1881, aged sixty years, and the mother passed away at the age of eighty years.
William Andrew Clements received his early education in the district school in the vicinity of his home, and attended two and one-half terms at Pierce Christian College at College City. There were 880 acres in the family estate, from which our subject received as his share 160 acres. He now lives in Sutter City with his sister, Mrs. E. S. Kennedy, upon whose land stands the house his stepfather built in 1872; a portion of this property he has developed to vineyard. For eleven years Mr. Clements was deputy county assessor of Sutter County. Fraternally, he belongs to the Masons of Yuba City; to the Chapter, Council and Commandery in Marysville; and to the Scottish Rite Consistory in Sacramento.
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p 607