Lake County Obituaries

George W. Piner

Submitted by Mike & Lois Jordan

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GEORGE W. PINER, A PIONEER CITIZEN CALLED HOME 
George W. Piner, whose death we noted last week, was born in Missouri November 
26, 1848, and was brought to California in 1849 by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles A. Piner, who came overland and were six months on the way. He lived one 
year in Napa county, two years in Calaveras county, and then in Sonoma county 
till 1861, when he came to Lake county, where he has resided continuously. 
In 1870 he married Miss Sarah Stonebraker, and to them were born five children, 
one, a son, Fred, having died in infancy. 
About a year ago he had an attack of measles, from which he never seemed to 
fully recover, and lately a seige of grip-later developing into plurisy-and at 
the last erysipelas, and he passed away at 6 o'clock Sunday morning, May 5, 
1907, aged 58 years, 5 months and 9 days. The funeral was held Tuesday afternoon 
at 2 o'clock at the home on Third street, the services being conducted by Elder 
Levi McCash, pastor of the Christian church, of which denomination Mr. Piner had 
for many years been a member. The interment was at Odd Fellows' Cemetery, and a 
very large procession of friends followed the remains to their last earthly 
resting place. 
He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. James Price, William A. Piner, George 
W. Piner and Mrs. E. E. Hillyer, an aged mother and several brothers and sisters 
to mourn his loss. 
The youngest son, George, is in London studying music and Mr Piner grieved that 
he could not see him once more, before passing to the Great Beyond. 
An unusual feature of Mr. Piner's married life was the fact that he had never 
moved by once in the nearly 37 years since that event, he having set up 
housekeeping with his bride in the house across Kelsey creek near the 
foot-bridge,, and living there 25 years, moving from there to the home on Third 
street, where he died. 
Mr. Piner followed merchandising for a few years, but devoted most of his time 
to farming and pear-growing, being very successful along these lines. He was a 
prominent and substantial citizen, honest and reliable, and will be greatly 
missed in the community.