Kelly - are you still looking for family information on the Lone Pine residents in 1872?

My G-G-Uncles were Albert and Rockwell Loomis who were both living in Lone Pine when the earthquake struck in 1872. Many of the accounts tell the story of Rockwell Loomis' rescue from the rubble of their store - supposedly with powder kegs close to igniting. He was injured - and according to accounts lost an ear and part of his scalp. He was rescued by a William Covington. I only know what I have found in the papers and on-line accounts about their experience in the earthquake.

The Loomis brothers were from Ashtabula, Ohio and came to California sometime in the early 1850's. Their parents, Harry Welles Loomis and Nancy Wright Loomis, and sister, Annie Loomis Avery, also came later - sometime between 1852 and 1855. The mother supposedly died in Georgetown, in El Dorado County, in 1855. The father returned to Ohio where he died in 1866. Annie Loomis Avery was one of the first female homeopathic physicians in California.

The Loomis brothers, Rockwell and Albert, had been in Inyo at least as early as 1868 when I find them there in the voter registers.

Also living in Lone Pine was the Clark M. Joslin family - wife Caroline, daughters Laura, Carrie, Lucretia, and son George. In the earthquake their home was destroyed and the son, George, was killed and the mother injured. Father and daughter Lucretia are still living in Inyo - at Georges Creek - in the 1880 census - although his name in the census is given as Clinton M. Joslin (maybe not same family but ages and birth states match for father and daughter).

Albert Marshall Loomis married Laura Joslin on May 8, 1872 in Lone Pine - just weeks before the earthquake. I don't find any information on them regarding the actual earthquake except that one newspaper account says that an "Andrew Lumas" was injured. I have been unable to find any additional information on an "Andrew Lumas" and wonder if this should have read "Albert Loomis". When they married he was age 34 and she was only 16!

Albert moved to San Luis Obispo, California where I find him in the 1873 voter information. He remained in San Luis Obispo until 1881 when he moved to El Paso, Texas. He died in San Diego, California March 10, 1901.

Rockwell remained in Lone Pine through 1875 and then also removed to San Luis Obispo. He married Carrie Joslin in San Luis Obispo, California on December 27, 1876. (So both he and his brother married Joslin sisters - Carrie was 13 at the time of the earthquake in Lone Pine and she was 17 when they married). He died March 26, 1912 in San Luis Obispo. I haven't yet found when she died - but she is not buried with him in San Luis Obispo. I know she died prior to 1921 when their daughter Helen is living with her aunt in El Paso, Texas.

Early on in San Luis Obispo the two brothers were involved in establishing a water works and later they were involved in real estate.

Also living in Cerro Gordo during the earthquake was
F.K. (Ferdinand) Miller. He is listed there in the 1870 census. He married Annie Loomis Avery (sister to Rockwell and Albert Loomis)on June 14, 1872 in Lone Pine. She had been living in San Francisco and I am assuming that she came to Lone Pine to care for Rockwell after his injury. This marriage was a little over 2 months after the earthquake. They also ended up in San Luis Obispo and later in San Francisco. He was a lawyer and she was a physician.

Hope this information is of some benefit to you. If you know of any other information regarding these families in regards to the earthquake or other life in Lone Pine - I'd very much appreciate hearing from you.

Thanks.

Pam Parsons