SEVENTH GENERATION

112. Isaac Slover was born in 1777 in PA. He died on 15 Oct 1854 in Base of Slover Mt., San Bernardino, CA. He has reference number 3M85-JN. He was buried in Buried Twice, 2D Time, Agua Mansa Cem.. Burial: Isaac Slover was buried twice. The first time was at the base of Slover Mt. in San Bernardino County, CA. The second time was in the Agua Mansa Cemetery.

Extracted from the Slover Family history 1682 - 1941 - first draft issued September 1941 Lived either at Henderson, Ky. or in Indiana until 1818. After his wife died, he moved westward, taking the older children with him, but leaving the twin baby boys with a brother, until he settled near Ft. Smith, Ark. When the twins, Enos and Enoch, were about ten years old an older brother took them to Arkansas. Isaac married (2) Maria Barbara Aragon near San Bernardino, Cal. He is buried at the base of Slover Mt. named for him. His grandson, Enoch A. Slover of Los Angeles, visited the place several years ago, and drank from the old well, saw the old adobe house but could not locate the grave, as it had been marked with a wooden cross, which had been destroyed by a grass fire. About 1850, six prospectors came to Isaac's home, almost starved after being lost on the Mohave desert. They wanted something to eat and he had nothing to give them but salt pork and squash, for which they were thankful. Isaac asked them to sit down while his wife prepared the meal but they insisted on doing it themselves. They hardly warmed the food before they started eating and all six died within three hours. "So, Grandfather, instead of having six hungry men to feed, had six dead men to bury." His wife went to the mission priest, being a strict Catholic, to get permission to bury them in the Catholic Cemetery, but he could not permit them to be buried on consecrated ground. So they buried them on an elevation near their home. About 1928, the city of Colton built a large public school and in excavating for the foundation, they uncovered six skeletons. The Cal. Pioneers' Soc. took the skeletons and gave them a place among their pioneer dead at San Bernandino.

In 1828, Isaac accompanied James Ohio Pattie on his exploration of the Colorado River. In fact, he moved westward as soon as he could hear the barking of his neighbor's dogs. Joseph J. Hill in "History of Warner's Ranch and Environs" says "In Feb. 1824, Ewing Young, Wm. Woldshill, Slover and others fitted out a trapping party at Taos to trap on the San Juan and other tributaries of the Colorado or Rio Grande of the West, as it was then called. The party was numerous at first, but as it made around the foot of the west side of the Sierra Madre, the various members, one after another, took down the different stream that suited them for hunting, till there were only left Mr. Wolfskill, Slover, and Young, whose object was to get outside of where trappers had been. They remained until the beaver season was over and arrived at Taos in June..." Grant Foremans "Pioneer Days in the Old Southwest" refers to that part of the journal of the English naturalist, Thomas Nuttall, where he describes his travels in the neighborhood of Fort Smith Ark., saying "On the 17th, Nuttall went with two men in a canoe up Grand River for a visit to the salt works near the site of the subsequently located Union Mission. On the 18th, they arrived at the home of a Mr. Slover, a hunter, who had a good farm on a fine elevaton two miles below the Saline. The next day, he walked with Mr. Slover to see the salt works..." From Ingersoll's "Century Annals of San Bernardino County " John Frown, Sr. thus related the story of the death of Christobal Slover; Slover near Colton, derived its name from Christobal Slover, who settled there about 1842. "A party of free trappers of whom I was one, erected an adobe fort on the Arkansas River in Colorado, for protection and as headquarters during the winter season. We called it 'Pueblo" and the city of Pueblo now stands on that ground. Into this fort Christobal Slover came one day with two mules loaded with beaver skins. He was engaged to help me supply the camp with game and during the winter we hunted together, killing buffalo, elk, antelope and deer. "Slover was a quiet, peaceable man, very reserved. He would heed no warning and accept no advice as to his methods of hunting. His great ambition was to kill grizllies--he called them "Cabibs". He would leave our camp and be gone for weeks at a time, without anyone knowing his whereabouts, and at last he did not return at all and I lost sight of him for several years. "When I came to San Bernardino County in 1849, I found him in his cabin at Slover Mt. His head was now white but his heart was full of affection and he took me to his home and made me welcome to all that he had. He had married a Mexican woman and with her, he seemed happy, but his chief pleasure in life was still the pursuit of the grizzly. When no one else would go with him, he went alone into the mountains, although his friends warned him of the danger. "One day he went with a companion up the left fork on the Cajon Pass, almost to the summit. There they came across a large grizzly and Slover fired at close range. The bear fell, but soon rose and walked away and lay down in some bushes. Slover, after re-charging his rifle began approaching the monster, in spite of the objections of his friend. As the old man approached the animal it gave a sudden full spring upon him. That ended the bear hunting. The other man came down the mountain and told the tale and a party went back. They found Slover still alive but insensible. He was carried down to Sycamore Grove on a rude litter and there died. The bear had done its work thoroughly. The scalp was torn from his head, his legs and one arm broken, the whole body bruised and torn. He was taken to his home and buried, but the spot of his burial was not marked, and now, I have never been able to find it, although I have taken great pains to locate the grave. Like the tomb of Moses, the place is forgotten." Copied by Frances Slover Wilson He was married to Peggy LOWDER on 20 Mar 1800 in Logan Co., KY.

113. Peggy LOWDER was born about 1779 in Kentucky or Indiana.⁽⁶⁶⁾ She died about 1817 in IN. She has reference number 3M85-KT. Children were:

i. John Slover died in 1851. He has reference number 3M86-4Q. He was born in KY. From GEDCOM 2 DATE BETW 1800/1810
ii. Clarissa Slover was born in 1802 in KENTUCKY, USA. She has reference number 3M86-3K.
iii. James Ira Slover was born in 1805 in IL. He died in 1851 in CA. He has reference number 3M85-D0.
56 iv. Samuel M. Slover.
v. Margaret "Peggy" Slover was born about 1815 in VIRGINIA. She has reference number 3M86-63.
vi. Enos Slover (TWIN) was born on 10 Oct 1816 in IN. He died on 16 Jun 1867. He has reference number 3M86-78.
vii. Enoch Slover (TWIN) was born on 10 Oct 1816 in INDIANA, USA. He has reference number 3M86-8F. FROM GEDCOM 2 DATE BETW 1860/1870