Thank you for the wonderful links for Joao Inacio de Sousa. He is not part of
my ancestors however myself and another member of our local genealogy society
have done a little research. While in Kern Co he used the name John Enas or
John Enos.
1890 Great Register Kern Co, John Enas, Age 38, lived New River, Farmer Nat
1886, Kern Co
1900 Census Kern Co, John Enas, Age 50, single, Farmer, Stockman, lists two
borders Jospeh Azevedo age 41 and Manuel Mideros age 39
1910 Census Kern Co, Road near Buena Vista Road, John Enos, age 60, single,
farmer and also lists Joseph Oliveras, nephew, age 22 and Manuel Goularte hired
man, age 25
1914 Morgan book lists John Enas as a widow.
1924 Death Record Kern Co John Enas as widowed, information by Mr. J.A.
Silverra of Oakland.
1924 Bakersfield Union Cemetery Records, Blk 722 Haven of Rest, John Enas aka
Ignacio Joao Sousa. He owns a block of six graves and he is the only one
buried in the block. His marker is a large cross with ENAS , no additional
engravings.
Does this sound familiar with anyone's research? Have not found a marriage
record, wife information, not found him on the 1870 or 1880 or 1920 census,
passenger arrival records, or naturalization records.
HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Wallace M. Morgan, 1914, page 529
Ref.979.488MOR
JOHN ENAS --- At St. George, Azores Islands, Portugal, John Enas was born
April 29, 1852, the son of John Enas, a farmer and builder in that country.
His wife, Marianna J. Bettencurt in maidenhood, died in 1911. John Enas, Jr,
attended school until fourteen years old. In 1866 he came alone to the United
States to earn his own way unaided. Settling first in Stanislaus county, Cal.,
he worked part of the time as sheep-shearer, and part as helper on a threshing
machine, being employed after this for a few years at different points in the
state, working for wages. In 1873 he came to Kern county and settled in
Delano, where he became occupied in sheep raising for himself, and he soon
became thoroughly familiar with all the details of that enterprise. He
remained in Delano until 1881, when he bought what is now his home place,
consisting of four hundred and eighty acres of land, located fifteen miles west
of Bakersfield on the old Headquarters road. Of this one hundred acres were
then planted in alfalfa, and the remainder was unimproved
Mr. Enas has since that time been extensively engaged in stockraising, handling
horses, mules, sheep and cattle. He has added to his original tract until it
now covers an area of over nine thousand acres; three hundred acres are under
cultivation and the remainder devoted to pasture land. He has spent most of
his time on his ranch, and it can be said of him that he is one of the most
extensive stockraisers in the county. He also owns a section of land in the
Kern River oil field, of which one hundred and sixty acres is proven oil land.
On this land are twenty wells, of which fourteen are producing at the present
time. In 1906 he accepted the office of vice-president and director of the
Portuguese-American Bank of San Francisco, and he was also a director in the
Bank of Bakersfield until it was dissolved. He is now a director of the
Security Trust Company in Bakersfield. He is a man highly successful, but he
has worked hard to gain the position he now holds, and has justly earned his
present prosperity. An expert in stockraising, his stock is considered the
best, and his business enjoys the most flattering recognition. He is a member
of the U.P.E.C. and the I.D.E.S. societies, while politically is an Independent
Republican
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