QUAIL LOWRY

John Eva Lowry was born 15 October 1840  in England. He died 04 August 1906 in San Francisco and is buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in San Mateo. He was a member of Unity Lodge No. 27 A.O.U.W. He was chief engineer at the Occidental Hotel and lived at 1617 1/2 Webster Street. He married Phinelia Griswold 02 July 1866 in Tuolumne County, California. He was naturalized March 1859 and worked as a Stationary Engineer. John was universally popular, always gave fine Cotillion Parties, and had a faculty of sending his patrons away perfectly satisfied. 

Phinelia was born in 1848 in New Orleans, Louisiana, died 13 November 1917 and is buried in Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, California.  Her mother was Margaret Griswold Daniels who was born in New York in 1823. She is one of Mark Twain's "peerless Chaparral Quails" immortalized in "Roughing It," Twain's account of his ramblings in the pioneer West. Phinelia lived with her sister May, mother, and step-father, Nehemiah J. Daniels, at French Flat, near Tuttletown, in Old Tuolume. The Daniels girls were belles of the region. Reared in the mountains, they were "finished" at St. Catherine's Covent in Benicia California. The Daniels home at French Flat became a center of happy young life. Billy Gillis of Jackass Hill brought Young Sam Clemens as a guest. Later, the author gave the "Chaparral Quails" (Phinelia and May) a lasting place in his writing. May worked as a teacher for Alameda School Department. 

Burt Lowry was born 08 June 1873 and died 01 April 1944 in Stanislaus County, California. He is buried in Modesto Pioneer Cemetery. A native f Jamestown, Tuolumne County, he was a sports writer in San Francisco and Oakland. He wrote articles in Alaska and Europe. He managed the Feather Entertainment and Athletic Club. He was in promotions and staged boxing events and other athletic events.  Lowry was a newspaperman and sportswriter who was straightforward in his business dealings, willing to take a chance, and his genial disposition.  He was considered one of the best judges of boxers in the country. He pioneered Oroville's First Automobile Show and staged the great "Happy Spirit Tree" party in 1919 where kids got to see Santa Claus. He was a veteran newspaperman and Modesto office manager for the Record. Bert Lowry's career took him to cities and far places. He built a weekend cabin on the Stanislaus River right in the town of Knight's Ferry where he created a "society on the Stanislaus."

Belmira Judy Medeiros Shepard Baddaky was born on 01 May 1897 in the Azores, Portugal. Her father was Manuel de Medeiros Gusmao (Feb 1849-02 Dec 1926), and her mother was Maria Julia Caetano (1856-1916). She traveled to the United States on the S.S. Abergeldie (British) 04 May 1883. On 25 June 1912, Belle filed for divorce from her first husband, John Carl Baddaky who she married in Hawaii in 1900. He was one of the big island's sugar pioneers. They were living in Havana, Cuba when Baddaky gave her $225 and sent her back to Honolulu. Baddaky refused to return to Hawaii or to send her any money to go to Cuba. She claimed that Baddaky owned property worth $5,000 of which she demanded half in addition to child support.  Baddaky traveled from Baden, Germany to Hawaii when just 14 years old. Belimira's second husband, Herbert Lowry died in 1944. She married Herbert V Shepherd. She died 23 March 1961 in Santa Barbara County, California.