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2005.22, 2009.27
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Title: Helen Sturdivant Collection
Dates: 1903-1973
Collection Number: 2005.22, 2009.27
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 3 boxes
Repository:
Contra Costa County Historical Society
Martinez, California 94553
Abstract: The collection includes three boxes of material on the Sturdivant family of Somersville and related families including the
Crozier, Parsons, Gibbel, Belshaw, Wilkening and Mortimore families of Somersville, Nortonville, Pittsburg, Illinois and Australia.
The material was donated by Helen Sturdivant’s daughter Gloria Patten.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
Contact the Contra Costa County Historical Society for publication permission.
Helen Sturdivant Collection. Contra Costa County Historical Society
Scope and Content of Collection
Box 1
• Three wirebound volumes entitled “The Somersville Digs”, composed of information collected by Helen Lougher Sturdivant and
compiled into three volumes by her daughter Gloria Patten. The project was performed by Gloria for an archaeology class in
1981. Volume I is entitled “Helen Lougher Sturdivant,” Volume II is entitled “Edna Parsons Gibbel,” and Volume III is entitled
“Belshaw Family/Wilkening Family/Mortimore Family”. The material includes letters, family history, photographs and newspaper
clippings, from 1903-1973. Accession # 05-22.
Box 2
• File folders containing general correspondence, family photographs, letters of recommendation regarding one of the Sturdivants’
farm workers (Joe Castro), letters and memorabilia from the Sturdivants’ trip to Australia in 1968 to visit relatives, and
letters from Helen Sturdivant to relatives in Illinois regarding family history. Date range is 1944-1970. Accession # 09-27.
Box 3
• File folders containing general correspondence, photographs and newspaper clippings regarding Crozier and Lougher family
genealogies. Date range is 1948-1970. Accession # 09-27.
agriculture
archeology
mining
family history
correspondence, personal
Sturdivant, Helen Lougher
Patten, Gloria
Sturdivant
Cozier
Parsons
Gibbel
Belshaw
Wilkening
Mortimore
Somersville
Nortonville
Pittsburg
letters
newspaper clippings
photographs