Ida Eliza Reid and James Harvey Rowe

JAMES HARVEY ROWE was born February 18, 1866 in California,^{456, 250} and died September 9, 1941 in Monterey County, California.^{456, 250} He is buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California.¹⁷⁴⁵

He married IDA ELIZA REID on June 24, 1900 in San Jose, Santa Clara, California,¹¹⁶⁴ daughter of ANN ELIZABETH GREGSON and ROBERT MORISSON REID. She was born November 18, 1869 in San Luis Obispo County, California,^{250, 1205} and died December 7, 1952 in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California.^{250, 1205} She is buried in Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California.^{1205, 1745}

• Descendant Reports
  • William Scott Descendant Report (Ancestor of Ida E. Reid)

Children of IDA ELIZA REID and JAMES HARVEY ROWE:

1. RHEA REID ROWE, b. October 25, 1906, Santa Cruz County, California;^{100, 250} m. KARL RAYMOND KURZBIN on June 25, 1929 in Del Monte, Monterey, California¹⁰⁸¹⁶; d. July 22, 1991, Santa Cruz County, California.²⁵⁰

Obituaries

Register-Pajaronian, September 10, 1941¹²⁹⁹

Funeral For Father Of 4-H Clubs Thursday

Funeral services will be held at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the White's mortuary chapel at Watsonville for James Henry (Jim). Rowe, 75, known as the father of California 4-H clubs.

He died at 6 a. m. Tuesday at at his home near Watsonville. He had been ill only a short time.

He founded the Aromas Pig club, which later became the first 4-H club in the state, it is understood. For 17 consecutive years Rowe sponsored ham dinners at Aromas for the benefit of the club and had been interested 20 years in rural youth work. He was a member of a pioneer Pajaro valley family.

Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 11, 1941¹²⁹⁸

ROWE—At his home on the San Juan road, September 9, 1941, James Harvey (Jim) Rowe, aged 75 years, native of Watsonville. Survived by wife, Mrs. Ida Rowe; son, William Myron Rowe of Alhambra; daughter, Mrs. Karl Kurzbin of Monterey; brothers, Frank and Charles Rowe of Watsonville; grandchildren, Patricia and William Leal Rowe of Alhambra.

San Jose Mercury, December 9, 1952¹²⁰⁵

Ida E. Rowe, Daughter Of Pioneer, Dies

WATSONVILLE—Mrs. Ida E. Rowe, 83, widow of the late Jim Rowe, died here Sunday morning. She was a member of a pioneer California family and her mother, born at Sutter's Fort, was accepted as the first Anglo-Saxon child born in California.

Mrs. Rowe was a native of San Luis Obispo, the daughter of Robert and Anne Reid. She came here in early childhood and went to local schools, eventually becoming a school teacher in the old Union School of Santa Cruz County. Later she taught at Carrolton and Carneros Schools.

Her grandfather, James Gregson. was a member of the second emigrant party which came across the plains to California, arriving at Sutter's Fort Octo. 20, 1845. Her mother was born there Sept. 3, 1846.

She leaves one daughter, Mrs. Rhee Kurzbin of San Jose; a son, William Rowe of Alhambra; five sisters, Mrs. Alice Cox of Watsonville, Dr. Letitia Oaks, Redwood City, Mrs. Bertha Seely, Los Gatos, Lea Reid, Redwood City, and Mrs. Robert Lipton of Aromas; two brothers, Robert M. Reid of Watsonville and William Reid of San Jose; and two grandchildren.

Funeral Services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at White's Mortuary.

Cemetery Pictures



Pioneer Cemetery, Watsonville, Santa Cruz, California

Census Records

Date	Location	Enumerated Names
June 10, 18801147	Monterey County, California	Robert Morisson Reid Ann Elizabeth Gregson Frank Sutter Reid Daniel Webster Reid Mary Ann Reid Hercules Reid Ida Eliza Reid Alice Curry Reid William Scott Reid John Gregson Reid Letitia Scott Reid
June 4, 19001148	San Jose, Santa Clara, California	Ann Elizabeth Gregson Ida Eliza Reid Alice Curry Reid Letitia Scott Reid Bertha Patterson Reid Robert Morrison Reid Lea Jane Reid Olive Frances Reid Samuel Warren Richards Harmon Lester Richards
May 2, 19101150	Pajaro, Monterey, California	Ida Eliza Reid James Harvey Rowe Rhea Reid Rowe
January 2, 19201149	Pajaro, Monterey, California	Ida Eliza Reid James Harvey Rowe Rhea Reid Rowe
April 26, 19301151	Pajaro, Monterey, California	Ida Eliza Reid James Harvey Rowe
May 10, 19402546	Pajaro, Monterey, California	Ida Eliza Reid James Harvey Rowe Thelma Ann Reid Kean