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Note that the location is reported “At White River”, probably Sunnyside, definitely not Bristol.

At the time, Victoria’s mother, Martha C. (Tucker) Lewis, widow of George Lewis, was still living

on the Lewis ranch at Sunnyside in the White River valley [see Notes 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, in Part I].

Were Stewart and Victoria living at the Lewis ranch? Or, did Victoria go ‘home’ to have her baby?

And, despite the fact that this birth occurred after the 1887 Nevada law [see Note 15.a.], it was not

recorded in any of the three counties (not Lincoln County, nor Nye County, nor White Pine County).

Two years later, in July 1895, Stewart and Victoria had a second son, Lester Bailey, and there is

also no Nevada record of his birth either (not in Lincoln County, nor Nye County, nor White Pine

County). Lester can be found in the 1900, 1910, and 1920 census records [Notes 35, 36, 37].

Stewart has become a rancher, and, in 1896, Stewart purchased the 160-acre Wilson Creek Ranch

for $1150, about 10 miles east of Bristol, and about 30 miles north of Pioche [32, 33].

Presumably, Stewart and his family lived at the Wilson Creek Ranch, but, for only three years.

In May, 1899, Stewart sold the Wilson Creek Ranch, for $1700 [34], and went north to Oregon.

1900 was the last year that Victoria’s mother, Martha C. (Tucker) Lewis, widow of George Lewis,

was listed on the Nye County Tax Lists [Note 16, in Part I], so, it is possible that Martha might have

died in the year 1900. Martha’s health could have been an influence on Stewart and Victoria, and on

their decision to sell the Wilson Creek Ranch and leave Nevada, but, that’s just one possible reason.

Stewart and his family moved north to the dry range land of eastern Oregon, out near Idaho, and

settled at La Grande, Union County, Oregon, where they can be found in the 1900, 1910, and 1920

federal census records [35, 36, 37]. Stewart and Victoria had their third child in Oregon, daughter

Emma McAnish, born 11 Nov. 1905 [38]; later, son Lester Bailey McAnish died in Union County,

Oregon, in 1927, and Stewart McAnish, age 79, died there on 14 June 1930 [39].

The 1900, 1910, and 1920 census records give some important information about Stewart --

1. born December 1850 [1900 census, 35], born in Ireland [35, 36, 37], “Irish English” [1910, 36];

2. immigrated to the United States in either 1867 [1910 census, 36] or 1868 [1920 census, 37],

3. and, Stewart became a naturalized citizen in 1878 [1920 census, 37].

There is a possible match in the 1870 census, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, that could be the same

Stewart McAninch / McAnish [40]. There are two McAninch’s in the same household, Stewart, 20,

and Matilda, age 19, and nothing more is known about Matilda. They are probably related, but how?

(brother and sister? cousins? probably not husband and wife, but, that’s not impossible either).

And, if this is the same Stewart, did he become a naturalized citizen in Bucks County in 1878?

Somewhere else in Pennsylvania? Or naturalized in another state entirely, somewhere on his travels

west to Nevada? All questions open to further research, to be reported here if anything is found.

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McAninch Family History NL v.XV n.2 / April 2009 / Copyright Frank McAninch / page 2009-11