Bass Hill

In Loving Memory to the These Pioneers
Who "Held the Ribbons" But Have
Turned the Bend in the Road
One of the Best Known
and Beloved Men in California
Willianson Lyncoya Smith
Aug. 6, 1830, born on a plantation on the James River, Bedford Co. VA. Named "Lyncoya: by President Andrew Jackson. 1832, family settled in Pike Co. Mo., Apr. 25, 1850, left Pike Co. Mo. with McPike & Strothers Express Line for California. Aug. 6, 1850, arrived in Placerville Calif. 1851. Continuously connected with U.S. Mail until 1892. Railroad between Sacramento & Portland was completed on Dec. 17, 1887. July 1854, carried the first U.S. Mail on horseback, from Jacksonville, to Canyonville, Ore. May 31, 1902, died at his home, West & Tehama Sts. Redding, Calif.

James E. Birch, first stage driver in California & organizer of the California Stage Co. Sept. 12, 1857, lost at sea on the mail steamer Central America.

J.B. Crandall, pioneer stage driver, from 1849, covering Calif. Ore. & Nev. June 11, 1857, drove the first stage over the Sierra Nevada Mts. Nov. 24, 1872, eight miles from Los Angeles, thrown from his stage, was kicked by the wheel horse, ending his life.

W.F. Hall & W.H. Hall
Stage drivers from 1849.

Marshall McCummings
Aug. 1851, drove the first stage from Sacramento to Shasta, Monroe & Feld proprietors.

Daniel Masten Cawley
July 14, 1852, born in N.H. Sept. 1, 1858, drove the first stage over the Siskiyou Mt. for the California Stage Co. Dec. 17, 1887, drove the last stage over Siskiyou for the California Oregon Idaho Stage Co. Oct. 15, 1901, died in Yreka, California.

Andrew Jackson Bacon
Joseph Henry Bacon
This Stage Driver's Monument marks the Sacramento road where it connects with U.S Highway 99
Erected by Mae Helene Bacon Bogge, niece of Willianson Lyncoya Smith,
Bass Hill, August 6, 1920, centennial of the birth of W. L. Smith.

List of Names
Adams, A.C. · Backman, Daniel · Baird, Albert · Bartle, Jack · Basham, Henry · Beard, George · Becker, Albert · Beaughan, N.T.J. · Bell, James · Blackburn, Jas W. · Bloomfield, Isaacs · Boyce, John H.· Bradley, Amos · Bradley, Mike · Brewster, L.L. · Bridcard, James · Buick, John · Burk, Harry · Burnette, Thomas · Burt, William · Camden, John · Carmer, Rube · Chadbourne, Dave · Chase, George L. · Chase, James V. · Clough, Joseph L. · Combs, Charles · Comstock, James · Cooley, M. Craddock, John · Creamer, Chas. N. · Crowell, Albert · Culverhouse, Jerry · Curtis, Dave · Curtis, Edward J. · Curtis, Thomas · Cushing E.S. · Davis, Perry O. Decker, Albert · Dockery, Lewis A. · Dow, Lorenzo · Driver, John R. · Drout, George · Dunnegan, William · Eddings, Nofton · Ellery, Elias · Finch, George W. · Finchley, Walter · Finnicum, James D. · Fiock, Charles · Frost, Geo · Garvey, Mike · Gaston, Jack · Gerard, Louis · Giddings, Ab · Giddings, Henry · Glenn, Robert M. · Goodwin, Joseph F. · Gordiner, C.W. · Graham, Edward · Hall, William · Hallick, John C. · Heath, Richard · Henry, W.J, · Hovey, Frank · Howe, John C. · Hughes, Charles W. · Hungerford, Z.N. Jenkins, W.R. · Kennedy, William · Kies, James Henry · Kies, John · King, Andrew G. · Laird, Charles · Lawrence, William · Lewis, Charles · Lewis, E.J. · Luce, James L. · Lynch, James · Mack, John B. · Major, John N. · Martin, John · Mason, Joe · Mathews, Milo · Mathews, William H, · Mayhew, William · McConnell, Charles · McGuffey, John · McGurie, Mike · McInerney, T.J. · McManus, Frank C. · Minthorn, Hiram P. · Montgomery, Zack · Morrison, Henry P. · Morse, Andy · Palmer, Herman C. · Parker, E.G. · Parks, Erskin · Pratt, Newton · Pratt, Warren · Pryor, Alfred L. · Quadlin, David · Reynolds, John E. · Richards, Green · Robbins, Dan · Robbins, Jared · Roberts, George · Rolfe, Charles H. · Scammon, Gus · Smith, A. · Smith, C.V. · Smith, Franck M. · Smithson, James S. · Spaulding, Asher D. · Spaulding, Melvin J. · Strauser, Joseph M. · Sullaway, John W. · Swatka, Harry · Talbert, William S. · Tice, Fred · Thompson, Frank R. · Thompson, James · Turner, Howard · Tyndall, Thomas F. · Vaughn, George W. · Ward, Henry G. · Weston, Harry F. · Williams, Charles · William, Horace · Wilson, James D. · Wolfley, John · Woods, Jerry · Wright, Joseph

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