Today while searching for the jobaneria ford crossing of the san gabriel. I came across another name for it and followed that trail which has, through the guidance of the man who wrote the article that i had contacted, narrowed down the area of the soap factory. He also is putting me in contact with the archivist who is related to the dominguez and portifino families. Yes it is about time I got some breakthrough. I am pretty happy about this.

I have just found a site put out by USC that has coies of the Los Angeles Star from the very first printing. I spent around three hours looking through them for anything relating to the obituary of Lemuel and found a small 2 liner. The photo will be in here soon.  The date was Nov.12, 1859.