Jennie Young (Baker) - <Rollin> A given name introduced to Indian Valley

My interest in this topic originated with an effort to gain a better appreciation of the story of the lives of
Rollin Wilson Hough
&
Charles Hough, outlaw
&
the man who shot Charles dead, Sheriff Charles Christopher Rachford

naming histories are alway of interest to me. Consider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Almanor

Named for three daughters..
Herbert Young and Walter Shirley Hickerson , both of Plumas Co. worked for Great Western in 1930....Going back to the 1800s: Hickersons, Houghs, Coffees, Bakers, Youngs, Waterworths, etc. all lived together in the Immediate Indian Township locales.

I remember too that Walter Shirley Hickerson's great grandmother Julia Ann Augusta Hickerson is the sister-in-law of Sheriff Charles Christopher Rachford , the man who killed the young Hough "half-breed".

The ties of work, family and hardship are many.

==marriage==
After decades of marriage Kate and Rollin split. It happened quite quickly, so much so that her youngest daughter who Kate had left with Rollin could not recall what her mother looked like. As the story goes, one day this daughter was playing in the yard and a wagon pulled up with three women in it. They called to the young Hough girl asking if she was indeed a Hough girl. When the girl answered affirmatively, Kate replied, "I am your mother".

Kate went on to advise her to always be proud of her Native American heritage. ~• a story passed down through the family.

William Robert Young's wife told this story to me yesterday.

WiIliam Robert Young (1940-1977)

going back to the first post : Michael M.van Beuren © C
1/24/2019 at 7:27 AM

I wonder if Rollin Baker's grandfather John McKinney is a brother of Kate Hough? John is a N/A born in 1848. Kate was born c. 1840.

Both families used the given name Rollin... not a common one at all.