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Name: Josette Wahwasuck <josetteks@yahoo.com> Date: 2008-03-10 How did you like this website? very much Do you have a Story about San Quentin? no Comments:
I liked the site very much, it was very informative.
Name: Jim Faulkner <jfaulkner003@yahoo.com> Date: 2007-03-23 How did you like this website? it is great Comments:
My Gandmother-Fannie O,Connor was born at San Quentin about 1880. My greatgrand father was a guard at the prison. I also understand the had a farm in that area.
I am looking for information on the O'Connors.
Also, my dad, Nelson Faulkner, use to tell me about the Great Walter Mails. It was fun reading about him.
Jim Faulkner
Fayetteville, NC
Name: Betty Monson <winterck@comcast.net> Date: 2007-01-16 How did you like this website? nice Do you have a Story about San Quentin? trying to find records Comments:
Trying to locate records of my father's incarceration
Name: Esther <mooney4284@aol.com> Date: 2006-01-21 How did you like this website? Great Do you have a Story about San Quentin? No Comments:
Found a picture of Great Aunt Edna Ellis.
Name: Jim Price <price.jim@comcast.net> Date: 2006-01-19 How did you like this website? Great Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Many Comments:
Phil -
I wanted to check the page and give the URL to Tony Loftin.
Jim
Name: Mark W Cassidy <dog2209@mindspring.com> Date: 2005-03-03 How did you like this website? Very interesting Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes Comments:
Our G Grandfather William J Danford,(24942) rec.29March 1911,dis. 29July 1912.WJD, stated in his pardon app. that he saved the life of Mr.Moulton, steward & Ocf. Cramer, in a 9June 1912 riot & was commended by Mr, Duffy. Quest:
Did this take place ? Our Wm looked to be a bit of a egoist.(Con man?).
Name: Deb Cullars <mrsmarkt5@comcast.net> Date: 2005-02-16 How did you like this website? very informative Comments:
am researching the AA meetings at San Quentin - found a lot of information on Warden Duffy
Name: Karen Hunter Haggerty <KarenatTheMoneyTree@yahoo.co> Date: 2005-01-19 How did you like this website? I am facinated with it! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? no Comments:
i'm not sure why, but am quite facinated with San Quentin
and stories of the people who lived there and were in
Prison there.....I loved the stories about some of the
inmates.....Thank you so much for them......I often
wonder "where are they now"? How many are alive to
tell stories? Thank you so much!
Karen
Name: Tony Loftin <HikingTony@earthlink.net> Date: 2004-04-06 How did you like this website? Great!!! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Many Comments:
Phil, you have done a fantastic job. It is great having a source to record the history of our home. I love seeing the old photos and reading the stories.
Name: Sally Ballard Staley <smotorhomer@aol.com> Date: 2003-10-24 How did you like this website? OK Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes Comments:
When Duffy was at the Prison, I split my chin open while visiting my Uncle Walon Ballard. He stitched it up.
Name: D.J. $ BILL <originalfunkyone@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-08-22 How did you like this website? very informative Do you have a Story about San Quentin? no Comments:
Would love to find out more information about Bill Sands(Wilbur Power Sewell).He was a former inmate that was greatly influenced by Warden Clinton T. Duffy.I have read his books and would love to find out the rest of the story.I know Bill Sands passed away in the late 60's but was wondering if his wife Elenor Black or step daughter Bonnie are still living or if he had other children.As well I have been trying to find out if his 7th step program is still running in Canada or the U.S.
Name: Sherri McDannold <proprintsm@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-24 Comments:
I would like to know when the barbed wire cyclone fence was built that is located along the open space ridge denoting the property line between the prison and private propery of the homes on Main Street.
Please contact me at
P.O. Box 173
San Quentin, CA 94964 or
by pone, (415)-459-2460.
Thank you,
Sherri McDannold
Name: Sherri McDannold <proprintsm@aol.com> Date: 2003-06-24 Comments:
I would like to know when the barbed wire cyclone fence was built that is located along the open space ridge denoting the property line.
Please contact me at
P.O. Box 173
San Quentin, CA 94964 or
by pone, (415)-459-2460.
Thank you,
Sherri McDannold
Name: Sherri McDannold <print@proprintmarin.com> Date: 2003-03-26 Comments:
I am trying to find historic photos (circa 1900-1950) of the private houses in San Quentin Village (outside of the east prison gate).
Can you help me?
thank you,
Sherri McDannold
6 Main Street
San Quentin Village, CA
Tel: 415/459-2460
Name: Steve Abbott <slabbott74@earthlink.net> Date: 2003-02-02 How did you like this website? Google Search Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes Comments:
My mothers father, Julian Alco, was acting warden of San Quentin for a period of time after the prison break in 1935 when Warden Holohan was almost killed. Clint Duffy was my grandfather's assistant during that period. I would love to know if you or anyone else you know have any info on my grandfather. Thanks for all the info you have made available. I look forward to hearing from you. Steve
Name: Jim Albanese <jalbanes@salinas.gannett.com> Date: 2003-01-22 How did you like this website? Lots of interesting stuff Do you have a Story about San Quentin? See e-mail of George Suesser Comments:
I've also sent an e-mail on this: I'm looking for execution date of George Seusser, sentenced to hang at San Quentin for the 1899 murder of Monterey County Sheriff Henry Farley. A Salinas jury convincted him and he was sentenced Dec. 7,1899. But I never found an execution date.
Thanks,
Jim
Name: Thomas <heringer95820@hotmail.com> Date: 2003-01-02 How did you like this website? Web Search Comments:
I have already left a previous message, but have found some more information. It seems that both my uncle and father were born inside the gates at the prison hospital. A house was built for my grandfather, and for sometime afterword was known as "Heringer House". He was born there about the same time that one of the future wardens was born there. He kept in touch with him for sometime afther word. My father passed away in 1975. I am very intrested in knowing if this house is still standing and would like a picture of it if possible.
Name: Thomas Heringer <heringer95820@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-12-30 How did you like this website? The Web Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Very Short Comments:
My father was born inside the gates of San Quentin in 1898, he passed away in 1975. My understanding from him was that they built a house on the prison grounds for my grandfather. I suppose that means at San Quentin Village? My grandfather was commissary officer at the prison, sometime between 1895 and 1900, because my Uncle was born before my grandfather went to work for the prison. I am intrested in any information about the prison from that period and any pictures of the house where he was born that I might find. My grandfather was a very colorful figure and was also quite sizable. After he worked for the prison he bought a hotel in Rio Vista which he operated until sometime after 1908, this is also an area that I have very little information about. Before he worked at the prison he worked for the railroad in Sacramento, both as a painter and an engineer.
Name: Thomas Heringer <heringer95820@hotmail.com> Date: 2002-12-22 How did you like this website? Searching the Web Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes Comments:
just happened accross this web site when I was doing some research on my family. My father, deceased, was born in 1898 inside the gates of San Quentin Prison. My grandfather was commisary officer at the time. My understanding is that they built a house for him and his family there and that it is still standing. One of the things I have been unable to establish is the exact dates he was there and which Govenor appointed him? After he left the prison he owned a hotel at Rio Vista. My grandfathers name was Peter Fredrick Heringer
Name: Mark C. Noon <n00ner1@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-10-14 How did you like this website? Very Much!! Comments:
Enjoyed reninscing about family members who have passed on...I was born in San Francisco, and grew up in San Anselmo...A great deal of the information you provide on your site sounds familiar to me...My Father, William Noon, has shared with me many stories about his childhood growing up at San Quentin...This site has rekindled a lot of those memories...Thank you for all your effort in constructing, and maintaining this website...
Mark C Noon
Grandson of: Mark E Noon, former clerk of the State Board Of Prisonb Directors. San Quentin Prison
Name: Maek C. Noon <n00ner1@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-10-13 How did you like this website? Very much Comments:
Gransdon of Mark E. Noon: Clerk
Name: Janice McNabb <WILLOWPECK@AOL.COM> Date: 2002-09-21 How did you like this website? GREAT Do you have a Story about San Quentin? NO Comments:
I got this site from the Walter Mails site. I have a baseball signed by him in 1936 May 21st. Just wondering if you know anything about the worth? It was given to us by a friend whom has now passed. It was signed To Leland Conrad From Walter Mails. It is in excellent condition. The box is pretty tattered. Can U tell me anything about it?
Name: C. Grandbois <Grandbois@jps.net> Date: 2002-09-06 How did you like this website? liked it Do you have a Story about San Quentin? lived there Comments:
I used to live in the big house right inside the main gate. Used to be a duplex, center walls knocked out and was used as one house for us. I still keep in touch with other kids who lived there in 1977. I feel like I'm a member of a very special society.
Name: Chris <chris@masseyhome.com> Date: 2002-08-14 How did you like this website? great Comments:
My Great, Great Grandfather was "Captain of the Jute Mill" His name was Charles Whiting Stuart. I was wondering if you had any information about him?
My Grandfather spent quite a bit of time there. I think Mr. Stuart lived within the prison walls because his maid was a convicted axe murderer.
All of the furniture in my Great Grandparents home was made by the inmates.
Name: Sally Staley <SMotorhomer@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-11 How did you like this website? great Do you have a Story about San Quentin? yes Comments:
It really not a story: My uncle Walon Ballard and wife Frances and possibly another wife lived and worked for many years there. Walon work there in 1930'sm 40's, and left sometime in the 50's I think to run the workcamp at Crystal Lake in Redding, Calif.. When I was a child in the 30's I ran my tooth thru my lip and it was the doctor in San Quentin that stitched it up. As a child living in Tiburon we use to come over to San Quentin on May Day and have a May Pole Dance and things with the children from the school.
Sally Ballard Staley
Name: Sally Staley <SMotorhomer@aol.com> Date: 2002-08-11 How did you like this website? great Do you have a Story about San Quentin? yes Comments:
It really not a story: My uncle Walon Ballard and wife Frances and possibly another wife lived and worked for many years there. Walon work there in 1930'sm 40's, and left sometime in the 50's I think to run the workcamp at Crystal Lake in Redding, Calif.. When I was a child in the 30's I ran my tooth thru my lip and it was the doctor in San Quentin that stitched it up
Sally Ballard Staley
Name: sharon Ortiz <shrsshao@aol.com> Date: 2002-07-03 How did you like this website? I'm still checking it out Do you have a Story about San Quentin? not yet, my son is there List your URL aol Comments:
I am checking out the does/and do not dare cross the line at the prison.
Name: sharon Ortiz <shrsshao@aol.com> Date: 2002-07-03 How did you like this website? I'm still checking it out Do you have a Story about San Quentin? not yet, my son is there List your URL aol Comments:
I am checking out the does/and do not dare cross the line at the prison.
Name: Janice Lynnette Wright <dc2lalaw@gte.net> Date: 2002-06-12 How did you like this website? Very very informative Do you have a Story about San Quentin? I probably will when I visit Comments:
Please keep me on your guest list and send me updates. I am thinking about moving back to San Francisco - but not in the city - I want to move closer to San Rafael. Thanx much for your wonderful website. I love history.
Name: Janice Lynnette Wright <dc2lalaw@gte.net> Date: 2002-06-12 How did you like this website? Very very informative Do you have a Story about San Quentin? I probably will when I visit Comments:
Please keep me on your guest list and send me updates. I am thinking about moving back to San Francisco - but not in the city - I want to move closer to San Rafael. Thanx much for your wonderful website. I love history.
Name: Janice Lynnette Wright <dc2lalaw@gte.net> Date: 2002-06-12 How did you like this website? Very very informative Do you have a Story about San Quentin? I probably will when I visit Comments:
Please keep me on your guest list and send me updates. I am thinking about moving back to San Francisco - but not in the city - I want to move closer to San Rafael. Thanx much for your wonderful website. I love history.
Name: Diane <dishortt@getgoin.net> Date: 2002-03-26 How did you like this website? Interesting; wanting more Comments:
My grandfather William Patterson was a guard there. My mother Patricia Patterson and her sisters and brothers went to school there. The pictures and the information are great, I just wish there was more.
Name: Dorothy Cowan <JDCowan44@aol.com> Date: 2002-03-26 How did you like this website? Wonderful! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Oh yes, many. Comments:
Phil, I was just checking up on you. You are doing a great job. I need to get busy, too.
Name: Quentin Henderson <buzzzwords@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-03-22 How did you like this website? cool Do you have a Story about San Quentin? no..... Comments:
Greetings from the birth place of Alexander Hamilton my home now, and where i work as a beekeeper.Obviously my Christian name causes me to have some interest with San Quentin...although I have never been there. Hopefully one day!
I found it curious to note that in the long list of names of pupils at San Quentin school nobody (apparently) had the lovelly name of Quentin! a name i am very proud to carry through my life,enjoying its unusualness, though not the image of being posh that itis some times assumed the bearer of the name should be.This comes with greetings from Nevis, and Quentin the Beeman on Nevis.
(Iam British by birth)
Name: Dorothy <rattlesbones@msn.com> Date: 2002-02-06 How did you like this website? very interesting Comments:
I would be interested in a list of employees. Supposedly Joshusa Wall was a Commissary Officer for the San Quentin Prison. I would like to be able to find him. Sometime after the mid 1860's.
Name: Dorothy <rattlesbones@msn.com> Date: 2002-02-06 How did you like this website? very interesting Comments:
I would be interested in a list of employees. Supposedly Joshusa Wall was a Commissary Officer for the San Quentin Prison. I would like to be able to find him. Sometime after the mid 1860's.
Name: Anna Coe <LostAngel3461@aol.com> Date: 2002-02-01 How did you like this website? I found it very interesting Do you have a Story about San Quentin? yes Comments:
My mother Patricia Patterson grew up and went to school there on the grounds. My grandfather was a guard there. I have vague memories of visiting there when I was 5 yrs. old.
I have a picture of my moms 8th grade graduating class. I also have a story she wrote called "The Three Roads to San Quentin" My mother passed away 26 yrs ago (she was only 42} Somehow visiting your site gave me a comforting feeling, I suppose it made me feel a little closer to her for a bit.
Name: Shirley A. Cowan Muth <rainboeladee@yahoo.com> Date: 2002-01-30 How did you like this website? It's great! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes! Comments:
First I would like to find my best friend from San Quentin Christine Dunbar. Does anyone have an address for her?
I am Charlie and Gertrude White's Granddaughter. I loved the time I spent at their home in San Quentin. I made good friends and used to go the beach playground by the front gate.
I remember they looked in the trunk of your car when you came in the gate.
I was able to visit there also when my Aunt and Uncle lived on the reservation.
Those were great days! Shirley
Name: Betty Cornell <betty1boop@webtv.net> Date: 2002-01-08 How did you like this website? wonderful Comments:
I happened to this website because my brother in law picked up a rather large padlock with the prison name on it and numbered 256 it also said death row. I was trying to find out about when it was used. I havn't found anything about it, but surely learned much from this site.
Thank you, Betty
Name: Bob Spenger <rspenger@adelphia.net> Date: 2001-12-12 How did you like this website? Good job, Phil! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? You know most of my stories. Comments:
I ran across the website when I was doing some ego search on my surname. The picture of the boat came up.
Name: George Rodriguez <geoholn192@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-12-09 Comments:
I was a c/o at San Quentin in 1985 and 1986. I was working the night Sgt. Burchfield was killed. what a shame
Name: KITTY "HINE" METTAM <MOMKITY@YAHOO.COM> Date: 2001-12-06 How did you like this website? GREAT Do you have a Story about San Quentin? YES Comments:
I WAS BORN AND RAISED AT SAN QUENTIN. MY FATHERS NAME WAS LLOYD HINE AND HE WORKED AT BOTH GATES.LOVED BY EVERYONE. HE RETIRED AFTER 32 YEARS.MY MOM IRENE WORKED AT THE POST OFFICE.IT WAS A BORING PLACE TO LIVE,UNTIL YOU GOT A CAR. I HAVE ALOT OF STORIES.1943 TO 1970
Name: KITTY "HINE" METTAM <MOMKITY@YAHOO.COM> Date: 2001-12-06 How did you like this website? GREAT Do you have a Story about San Quentin? YES Comments:
I WAS BORN AND RAISED AT SAN QUENTIN. MY FATHERS NAME WAS LLOYD HINE AND HE WORKED AT BOTH GATES.LOVED BY EVERYONE. HE RETIRED AFTER 32 YEARS.MY MOM IRENE WORKED AT THE POST OFFICE.IT WAS A BORING PLACE TO LIVE,UNTIL YOU GOT A CAR. I HAVE ALOT OF STORIES.
Name: Barbara J. Sears Callahan <barbmike@citlink.net> Date: 2001-11-30 How did you like this website? very nice Do you have a Story about San Quentin? no Comments:
Researching a relative that someone said died ?in San Quentin, CA. Just trying to locate info for Clemenza Elzina (Goss) Davis. I have her buriel in Vacaville.
Name: Richard Stewart <Richard.Stewart@BeringerBlas> Date: 2001-11-11 How did you like this website? good Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Yes Comments:
I lived in San Quentin as a child from 1962-1971. My father was a lietenant and my grandfather was a seargent. What an unusual and unique place to grow up. I remember how the guards at the gate would look in the trunk of your car everytime you went off the property and how when going to school on the bus a guard would walk the interior of the bus and another would be looking under the bus. I always felt safe in S.Q. until the events of August 1971. Any other Quentin kids out there?
Name: Jayne Williams Newman <RockeMtHi@aol.com> Date: 2001-10-01 How did you like this website? Very good! Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Hmmm, have to think about it Comments:
Graduated in 1947. My father and uncles also attended the school - Ernest, Irven, Harold and Marion Williams.
Name: anne paxton <anne_paxton@hotmail.com> Date: 2001-09-22 How did you like this website? very informative Comments:
I am doing my family genealogy. I am trying to find out a story that has been passed down. My great great grandfather came to San Francisco before Civil War. He was from Germany.
He went the Union Army at San Francisco. Served duration of the War. After he got out, he came back to San Francisco.
However, the story goes, that he was a guard at San Quentin. Or, at least, worked there. I am trying to find some kind of record of this.
His name was John Hohn. His wife's name was Louisa. He is now buried in the National Cemetery at the Presidio. I was also told that my great grandmother (his daughter, Frieda)was born on the prison grounds. Her death certificate reads birth place is Marin county. She was born on April 12, 1872.
Is it possible for you tell me of resources where I might find out the facts about this. Even some records, primarily of he working at the prison.
Would deeply appreciate any assistance you may be able to give. It is part of my California heritage. I am quite proud of being a fifth generation Californian.
Thank you
Anne Paxton
Name: Dorothy Conley Cline <gran5grk@qwest.net> Date: 2001-09-09 How did you like this website? very interesting Comments:
Am searching for Joshua Wall who was a Commissary Officer for the prison back in the late 1800's = 1860 and later. Would like to find information of Joshua and his wife Lydia Conley.
Name: Hector Lechuga <hectorlechuga88@aol.com> Date: 2001-08-16 How did you like this website? OK Do you have a Story about San Quentin? Not right now Comments:
actually want to learn more about inmates's daily activities
Name: Gary Bond <gwbond@Lanset.com> Date: 2001-08-15 How did you like this website? interesting Comments:
I'll list a few of my relatives who lived and worked at San Quentin: Father Warren Bond Postmaster
Grandfather Pete Richardson guard
Mother Bernice Richardson Bond
Uncles Milt Richardson, Clair Richardson, Fred Bond
George Oakley
Aunt Eunice Richardson Oakley
Name: Greg McKinney <gregmckinneysq@yahoo.com> Date: 2001-07-30 How did you like this website? Its great! Very informative Do you have a Story about San Quentin? let me think of a good one Comments:
thanks for putting this website together :')
Name: richard thompson <richard.thompson9@ntlworld.c> Date: 2001-07-24 How did you like this website? thisis a very good site than Do you have a Story about San Quentin? johny cash Comments:
thisis a very good site it helps my daughters lessons
thank you
Name: Norman Nelson <nnelson@pacbell.net> Date: 2001-07-01 How did you like this website? could extend into the 50's Do you have a Story about San Quentin? many Comments:
My uncle worked at the prison from sometime in the 1940's until retiring in the late 1960's. I spent most of my early life on the reservation with my two cousins. The first house I remember was above the wardens on the circle drive. I learned on that hill that tricycles do not have breaks. I had to use both the short cement wall to stop my trike, it stopped but I continued down the hill. They next moved to the house next to the gas station just inside the east gate.
Great house, two stories with bay windows in which I would sit and watch the ships moving about on the bay. I watched the Richmond San Rafael Bridge being constructed from those same windows.
In those days there was a small playground at the waters edge just inside the main gate. We would play there for hours, sadly it we eventually filled in a made a parking lot. Every Halloween my cousins and I made the safe trek around the valley collecting candies. Towards the end of his career my uncle moved to a smaller house in the valley and the last time I visited was in 1968. I still remember the safe feelings we had as we ran free inside the gates.
The "Q" has a special place in my heart and it was such a large part of my early days.
Name: diane <d_bucatabaker> Date: 2001-06-18 How did you like this website? need more stuff Comments:
how do i find out if someone was once a prisoner there/
perhaps even died there/
Name: Heinz Zubler <zubisen@bluewin.ch> Date: 2001-03-28 How did you like this website? Great! Comments:
Hello Philip,
You did a lot of work! It was very interesting to surf on your websites.
Greetings from Switzerland
Heinz