Born: Ida Snell on 9 March 1856 in Pekin, Illinois
Parents: Richard Hackett Snell & Caroline App
Married: 1 May 1875 to Harvey Locke Sanborn in San Francisco
Children: Harvey Sanborn, Olive Sanborn, Caroline Sanborn McCaughern, Percy Sanborn
Grandchildren: Edith Rowley, Margaret Rowley
Great Grandchildren: Nancy Granrud, Karen Granrud, Judith Kerr, Robert K. Kerr
Died: 7 April 1951 in San Francisco at age 95
Inurned at Cyprus Lawn in Colma, CA - WS-Section G Mausoleum, R1.N4At age 8, Ida traveled to Northern California from Kansas in a covered wagon with her family, encountering Native Americans, soldiers and other pioneers. Their destination was Jamestown, south of Sacramento, where their uncle ran a quartz mine. Ida grew up in this and other gold strike towns of the western Sierras including Yankee Jims. She was on a Wells Fargo stagecoach with her young daughter, Olive, when it was robbed by a famous outlaw of the time, Black Bart. She also experienced the significant 1906 San Francisco earthquake.