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- Local newspaper
Bakersfield, Nov. 20 - George H. Mecham, 70 years of age, a pioneer retired Kern county rancher and teamster of this county in the days when ox teams were used for the long hauls into the then thriving mining districts of the mountains north of here, died early today at the home of his son, James Mecham of 919 Twentieth street. Mecham a resident of this county for fifty-six years, died following an illness of about a year, and occured just seventeen days after that of his wife, Mrs. Martha L. Mecham who passed away here on the 13th inst.
Born in Missouri, he croosed the plains from his native state to the Kernville district with an ox team in the days when rairoads were unknown in the San Joaquin Valley. For several years, the young mnan engaged in teaming and hauling, first with a team of oxen, later with horses. Havilah was then the county seat and the principal city of the district.
For more than forty years Mecham engaged in farming and ranching in the Rosedale district, west of here. A year ago he retired because of ill health, and he and his wife moved to this city.
He leaves two children, the son James, and a daughter, Mrs. Mary McAllister.
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1849 - 1928 (79 years)
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