On June 24, 1990 Lynn, Steve, and I drove in the Mothership up the coast to search for Steve’s ancestral lands, around Stewart’s Point and Fort Ross, where the Kashiya Pomo tribe lived (some married and left with Russians) in the 1800’s.

Kashiya Haupt family circa 1924

Kashiya Haupt family circa 1924

We found the site of Haupt Ranch where his mother Elsie was born, and where the family portrait was taken in 1924.  Steve’s mother is the little blond girl on her mother’s lap on the far right.  The cemetery still has many old stones from his German Great Great Grandfather Charles Haupt on through the early 1900’s.

The old schoolhouse where Elsie went as a child is still standing just south of Stewart’s Point.

Haupt family cemetery in 1990

Haupt family cemetery in 1990

Steve and Lynn at Haupt Ranch site

Steve and Lynn at Haupt Ranch site