Samuel Gann of Winchester Va Family

From Nina Graham, 806 S 3rd St, Odessa, MO 64076-1455 (816)633-4094 4/23/96.

The obituary for Isaac Wilson Gann, known as "Bud," gave this: '46 Pioneer Laid To Rest in Martinez. "Bud Gann," who settled in Contra Costa in 1850, was one of the eight oldest Odd Fellows, and went on to say that he crossed the Plains in a covered wagon back in 1846. He was a spectacular character, who feared neighter God, man nor the devil. He fought his way through the hordes of Indians that menaced the lives of all the hardy ones that attempted the overland passage by the ox train route and fought his way to success after reaching the California wilderness. Settling first in the Moraga Valley, after following mining a few years, he was one of several of the hardy pioneers that were forcibly ejected from the Moraga Grant by Horace W. Carpenter, who later in an Oakland court, when confronted by proof presented by D. M. Delmas, then a rising young attorney of San Jose, admitted that he had obtained fraudulently the ownership of that now beautiful land of homesites of the wealthy of the East Bay Regions. Delmas represented in the case Jesse D. Williams, who died 25 years after Carpenter had started proceedings to oust him from the property and six months before the court rendered a verdict in his favor.