Lillian Anna Gravestock

1901 - 1997  (96 years)

• Name	Lillian Anna Gravestock
  Census	1901
  	In the USA.
  Birth	11 Apr 1901	Illinois, USA
  Gender	Female
  Census	1911
  	In the USA.
  Death	30 May 1997	Stanislaus, California, USA
  Notes	1910 US census - Chicago Ward 25, Cook, Illinois, USA Roll: T624_267; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 1035; FHL microfilm: 1374280 Thomas Gravestock aged 34 born England Anna K Gravestock wife aged 33 Born Indiana Lillian A Gravestock daughter aged 9 born Illinois Katheryn C Gravestock daughter aged 5 born Illinois 1920 US census - Pattison, Stanislaus, California Roll: T625_152; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 239; Image: 51 Thomas T Gravestock aged 44 born England Anna K Gravestock wife aged 44 born Indiana Lillian A Gravestock daughter aged 18 born Illinois Kathryn I Gravestock daughter aged 15 born Colorado Name: Lillian Anna Hatherell [Lillian Anna Gravestock] Social Security #: 565681910 Sex: Female Birth Date: 11 Apr 1901 Birthplace: Illinois Death Date: 30 May 1997 Death Place: Stanislaus Mother's Maiden Name: Lazarus Father's Surname: Gravestock (Excerpts from an article appearing in the Patterson Irrigator written by Maddy Houk.) Tom and Kate Gravestock lived with their two daughters, Lillian and Katheryn, in Rogers Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the early 1900s. Tom worked for the B&O Railroad there. Lillian's uncle, a shoe salesman who lived in New York, traveled around the country. "He found Patterson and fell in love with it," Lillian says. At the uncle's urging, the Gravestocks came West in 1912 settling on 20 acres on Apricot and Sycamore avenues, three miles out of town. The family had never lived - or worked - on a ranch. "It was a new experience for all of us. We had no experience in irrigation or that type of thing," Lillian says. "Somehow, Dad met someone from the Patterson Ranch Company, who offered him a job managing the Hotel." The family sold the ranch and moved into the Hotel in about 1913. "We lived in the area that is now the ladies' restroom and the bar. In those days they were bringing in carloads of farmers from the Midwest. (The Patterson Ranch Company) was selling a lot of property and there was a lot of business and work until it finally died down." Lillian remembers that the Hotel's front porch looked large to her, and that there was a huge fireplace in the Hotel. "But," she says, "I go back now and the porch doesn't look so big." The family entered the building on the Del Puerto Avenue side where the bar is now located. Lillian recalls that there was a beautiful fence there near the alley covered with roses. (This was removed in the late '50s when a small piece of the property was sold to Hazel Cronin for a dress shop and beauty parlor.) "Mother helped manage the Hotel, supervised the waitresses and made the beds. There were 18 rooms upstairs and also rooms downstairs on the Del Puerto Avenue side. Where the banquet room is now was an open space to park cars and to keep the logs for the big fireplace. "The first Hotel cook was a Norwegian who loved cats, and fed all the cats in the neighborhood. The next cook was Wong Sing, the father of Patterson businessman Hank Wong. When business from the Ranch Company customers started to dwindle, tradesmen took their place. "The tradesmen came in on the night train, stayed all night, and left at noon," Lillian recalls. They came from Stockton, San Francisco, Modesto and Los Banos. When better roads were built, the salesmen who lived near Patterson would go home and... once again business dwindled. The small room (now called The Library) located on the right as you enter the Hotel was where the drummers (traveling salesmen) displayed their wares and conducted much of their business. "The dining room had hardwood floors, and in one corner J.D. Patterson (a cousin of T.W. Patterson and one of the principle partners in the Patterson Ranch development) had a table reserved for him," says Lillian. Patterson, who lived at the Hotel, made a fuss over Lillian and her younger sister, Katheryn (now deceased). "On hot summer afternoons we would go for a ride sometimes along the ditches near the peach orchards." Lillian left Patterson after graduation to attend University of California, Berkeley in 1920. Her parents moved to Manteca around 1923 to be with their daughter. The Hotel was then managed by a Mrs. Quigbaum. Lillian met George Hatherell at Berkeley when she was a freshman. The couple spent most of their 61 years of married life in the Los Angeles area. She taught until 1960 when she retired to enjoy traveling. Lillian, who is 93 (in 1994), retired to the Covenant Village in Turlock in 1992, a few years after George's death. "Patterson has always held a very dear spot in my life," she says. "My life really started there."
  Person ID	I7164	Willingale One Name Study
  Last Modified	30 Mar 2017

  
  

  Father	Thomas Twyford Gravestock           b. 6 Feb 1876, Worcester, Worcestershire           d. 15 Jun 1957, Stanislaus, California, USA (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Anna Katherine Lazarus           b. 10 Aug 1876, Indiana, USA           d. 1974, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 97 years)
  Family ID	F2498	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	George Allen Hatherell           b. 21 Dec 1901, Wisconsin, USA           d. 19 Jul 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA (Age 88 years)
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2011
  Family ID	F2523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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