April 3, 2021
with some edits from the back of photos, At the end I have added the image of a page about the cemetery, possible copied from the Allen James book about the family history. If there are errors, they are mine. edit: December 10, 2024
Lynn, Steve and I visited the cemetery at the site of Haupt Ranch east of Stewart’s Point in 1990. In 1991 or 92 Steve and I returned to visit the property with Loretta (“Minnie”, we called her Aunt Bobbie) and Anna, her childhood friend, who grew up on the Olson ranch on the hill to the south. These are scans of the photographs I had taken of the gravestones on that second visit. My comment are taken from notes I made during a conversation I later had with Elsie, Steve’s mother, and her memories of the ranch from childhood.
Steve places flowers on the grave of his Swedish grandfather, John A. Engstrom.
Elsie’s great grandparents:
Charles Haupt, d. 4.11.1903, 76 years “Native of Germany” b. circa 1827
His wife Mary, d 7.26.1901 62 years, Kashiya Pomo b. circa 1839, from Fort Ross.
Elsie’s Grandparents:
his son Charles W. Haupt d. 11.11.1919 age 52 b. circa 1867.
Julia Haupt “Mother” b. 1872- d. 1936. Kashia Pomo mother (Mary)/German father (Charles).
on the side of Charles and Mary’s monument- baby John, b 2.28.1895, d. 4.7.1896, age 1 year, 5 weeks
Elsie’s brother Charles, b. 1909, d. 1918 age 9 1/2 years. a sad winter.
Elsie’s father John Engstrom, native of Sweden. born circa 1894
d. 4.30.1925 age 31. Elsie’s mother said she heard his horse-cart come down the road, and went to look, but he was not there. Later that day she found out he had been killed by a falling redwood he was logging.
“my old friends J.L. Shuhart; Jacob Jacobsun, Natives of Germany”
Travels With Stevie 