The full name of the subject of this obituary is Job Edward Pettit. TPC subscriber, Radine Willis (P.O. Box 670, Angels Camp, CA 95222) is a descendant.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel, Tues., March 22, 1910
J.E. Pettit, a California pioneer and for 20 years a resident of Santa Cruz, died at his home, the Central lodging house on Pacific Av., Sunday evening, after an illness of several months.
The deceased was born in Lincoln county [probably Licking County - ed.], Ohio in 1828, and came to California via Panama in 1852 in search of gold, the fever being then at its height, and settled in Amador county.
He was one of the best known citizens of that mining region, being prominent in business, in the Masonic fraternity in which he took the third degree in 1850, and in early days a member of the Christian church.
Coming to Santa Cruz in 1890 he again married, his first wife having died a number of years previously. He married Mrs. Cole, who has been his constant companion during his illness. He was 81 years of age and during his life time was a staunch Democrat.
He was the father of seven children and is survived by a wife, two sons and a step-daughter. The oldest son, John C. Pettit, lives at Elmira, Or.; the younger, Asa F. Pettit, Angels Camp, Cal.