was Anna Lathrop, sister of Mrs. Leland Stanford. Married in 1889, they also travelled overseas and additionally to Europe they spent parts of their eighteen months in the Orient and Mid-East. Anna died soon after in August 1892. Hewes first started what arguably was his greatest accomplishment - the Hewes ranch near El Modena in Orange County when he moved there with Matilda. Called Anapauma, "a place of rest", it was a massive sheep ranch over with a large portion eventually converted in vineyards which later died off from blight. Hewes restored the ranch as a citrus farm which was one of the noted orange groves that stayed with the estate until 1920 when it was sold for $1,000,000. Hewes' art collection of pictures, statues and frescos was presented to the Leland Stanford Jr. University. He also created Hewes Park on what was once a barren hilltop. Hewes died in Orange, California in 1915 at the age of 93 and is buried at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland. Hewes became very interested in his family genealogy, especially his ancestor Lt. Joshua Hewes who had emigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1633. He commissioned Eben Putnam, a California genealogist, to collect and edit material for a Hewes family genealogy. This volume, privately published in 1913, includes a biography of David Hewes (pp. 191-205), an autobiography (pp. 225-264), an appendix with a transcription of the memorial booklet for Anna Lathrop Hewes, and an appendix with letters from his mother, as well as many photographs and paintings of Hewes and his family members, his house in Tustin, and advertisements and labels for the fruit produced by his ranch. References Further reading Samuel Armor, History of Orange County, California: with biographical sketches of the leading men and women of the county who have been identified with its earliest growth and development from the early days to the present, Part 1, pages 222-225, Historic Record Co., 1921 (original at the New York Public Library) Benjamin F. Arrington, Volume 1 of Municipal History of Essex County in Massachusetts: A Classified Work, Devoted to the County's Remarkable Growth in All Lines of Human Endeavor, More Especially to Within a Period of Fifty Years, page 218, Lewis historical publishing company, 1922 (original from the University of Virginia) External links Camron-Stanford House website People from Tustin, California 1822 births 1915 deaths People from Lynnfield, Massachusetts People