T NORRIS , J L PIPESTEM , Charles Lee Roy SHIRK

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[Note] Living Individual, details withheld

J L PIPESTEM

[17746]

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Father: E L PIPESTEM
Mother: J C DAWE

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 _E L PIPESTEM _______|
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|--J L PIPESTEM 
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|                                              _William Jesse METZLER _____+
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|                      _J D METZLER __________|
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|                     |                       |_Christine Margaret WALKER _
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|_J C DAWE ___________|
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                      |                        _Vernon Lester DUTTON ______
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                      |_Myrna Maureen DUTTON _|
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                                              |_Henrietta FOREST __________
                                                (1916 - 1980)

[Note] Living Individual, details withheld

Charles Lee Roy SHIRK

[NI04244]

8 Sep 1883 - 21 Jan 1961

BIRTH: 8 Sep 1883 [9420]
DEATH: 21 Jan 1961 [9421]

Father: William Henry SHIRK
Mother: Hannah Rose CROW

Family 1 : Rose (SHIRK)
Family 2 : Jarvais Cecillia (SHIRK)
Family 3 : Willa Mae HASBROOK

MARRIAGE: 15 Nov 1924, 1707 Hearst St, Berkeley, Alameda Co, CA [19706]

+J M SHIRK

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 _William Henry SHIRK _|
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|                                               _James Rankin CROW , Sr._+
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|                       _John Logan CROW ______|
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|_Hannah Rose CROW ____|
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                       |                        _Samuel MCABEE __________
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                       |_Susannah Jane MCABEE _|
                         (1834 - 1919) m 1853  |
                                               |_Margaret PITCHER _______
                                                 (1804 - 1844) m 1822

[Note] [According to his wife Willa (oral interviews, 1991 and 1992)]
Grew up on the ranch at Three Mile. The only other children near his age were his cousins Lila Shirk (born 1882) and Lawson (born 1883) who lived on the neighboring ranch belong to his Uncle David Shirk.
Roy and Lawson were good friends.

Growing up on the ranch he always kept pet dogs and kept a saddle horse. When his pet dog was shot, he mourned for it for weeks. He was educated by Maggie Street, the wife of Ben Street, one of the hired hands at the ranch. Maggie was a Normal School trained teacher. She taught Roy until he was ready for High School. When whe was about 16, he and his mother moved to Reno, Nevada each winter for four years, so he could attend High School. They had a house on Virginia Street.

He attended University in Reno for a few years, and then finished his schooling at the University of California at Berkeley.

Roy and his cousin occasionally herded wild horses to California, where they were sold to glue rendering establishments. One of the se trips was in 1906. Roy left the herd near Chico, and went into San Francisco to negotiate selling the herd. When he was there, staying at the Russ House (Hotel), the great S.F. earthquake of 1906 occured. As he told Willa, "All the furniture danced to the middle of the room." After teh worst of the shaking was over, he got up from bed, and tried to leave his hotel room. The door was jammed in its frame, and it took several minutes and considerable effort to prise it open to get out. On the street, there was utter pandemonium. He began to wander up Market Street, assessing the damge. By the ne, the fire s had started, and were raging uncontrolled, consuming block after block of houses.

On Market Street, he encountered a woman who was hauling a trunk up the street, attempting to flee the fire. The trunk had a parrot perched on top that "was swearing up a blue streak."

He wanted to find a place to eat breakfast, but couldn't find any stores or restaraunts open for business. Wandering the streets, he encountered a friend, a postmaster. After discussing the fire situation, they decided that their best hope was to cross the fire lines, in an attempt to get on a boat off the peninsula. Even though it was forbidden by the authorities, they crossed the fire lines and got to the waterfront, where they caught a boat to Berkeley.

Within a few days, Roy was able to sell the herd of horses at ten times the originally expected price. Instead of being sold for glue, they were sold to a stable that planned to break them for harness. This was because there was a tremendous demand for horses needed to haul the mass of rubble from the hundreds of collapsed buildings in San Francisco.

Worked in banking with his father (in Lakeview, Oregon)

He then moved to SanFrancisco, looking for work in banking. He had about $300 with him. He checked into the Palace Hotel and sent out letters stating that he was available for employment to several prospective employers. After getting no replies, he moved to a less expensive hotel sent out another round of letters to his "second choices." Since he was rapidly running out of money, he also became less particular about where he ate. He finally settled for a relatively low-paying position as a book-keeper with the Southern Pacific Railroad.

While waiting for his position with the arilroad to begin, he nearly ran out of money. He was eating a pastry for breakfast one day, and was asked by a burly stranger why he was having such a light meal. He explained thast he had just gotten a job, but was almost out of money. The staranger said that he could get himm a days work at the docks.

They went to the waterfront, where the stranger produced a spare (expired) union card, which Roy flashed when they walked in the gate. They spent the day unloading a converted passenger steamship loaded with 100 pound sacks of sugar. By the late after noon, Roy was completely exhausted. The beneficent stranger, who was used to heavy work, could see that Roy was "tuckered" and said that he would do the bulk of the rest of the unloading, and that Roy could just "go through the motions" for the rest of the day. After working for a while with the railroad, Roy moved to Taft, California, where he continued in banking.

Leased large tracts of land around Taft and Bakersfield. speculating in oil production, but went broke.

Moved to Stockton, where he met Willa Mae Hasbrook. (Met and started dating her one month before his divorce from Jarvais became final.) In Stockton, he was again involved in real estate and owned a vinyard. He was not particularly successful at either. Moved to San Francisco and married Willa (at The Shirk family home at 1707 Heast Ave, Berkeley on November 15, 1924. He and his wife went on several hunting trips near Klamath Falls, Oregon, as the guests of Joseph Logan Shirk and his wife Kitty. Moved to Berkeley in 1927.

[Source 9419] Family Tree, James Wesley Rawles

[Source 9420] Family Tree, James Wesley Rawles

[Source 9421] Family Tree, James Wesley Rawles

[Source 19706] Family Tree, James Wesley Rawles

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Charles Lee Roy SHIRK

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