Ayers, Charles



BORN IN: England
DIED: 10/16/1891
AGED: 62
CAUSE OF DEATH: Pneumonia
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City

MEMBER OF: PIONEER

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  • 1836 Revolver (Samuel Colt)
  • 1845 Texas annexed into U.S.
  • 1846 Mexican-American War
  • 1849 California Gold Rush
  • 1850 California became the 31st State
  • 1860 The Pony Express
  • 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
  • 1861 American Civil War
  • 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
  • 1866 Ku Klux Klan
  • 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
  • 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
  • 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
  • 1876 Baseball's National League
  • 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
  • 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)

OBITUARY ---------------

CHARLES AYRES

Times & Gazette

Oct 17, 1891

Charles Ayres, for many years proprietor of the Tremont Hotel famous for its quiet family table and a pioneer of this county, died yesterday morning, Oct l6. His age was 62 years, 7 months, and 13 days. Mr, Ayres was born in England and by the time he arrived at maturity was in California. It is a matter of record that he and JG Prichard were purchasers of real estate 39 years ago. There are left to mourn him his wife, James Bicknell Ayres, Charles Jr., and Mrs. ML Brillan of San Francisco.

Interment at Union Cemetery. Plot 129

Times & Gazette Dec 4, 1886

After a separation of forty years, James Ayres and Charles Ayres, Sr. met last Tuesday at noon. James is the elder brother of the proprietor of the Tremont house and has lived for many years in Windsor, England and there he has been a gardener of Tower Cottage, Clewer Fields. He left London and reached Redwood City on the 30th. In England, Charles Ayres’ father was a confectioner and pastry cook and Charles learned that trade from him.

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