Posted by SFgenealogy on Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 16:35:05 :

TRAVES--Yesterday the body of Martin TRAVES, engineer for a stevedore's engine at Vallejo street wharf, was found floating in the bay near North Point. Deceased was a native of Ireland, and leaves a wife and 4 children to mourn his loss.

Source: Stockton Daily Independent, 23 Mar 1869. Transcribed by Dee Sardoc.