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Captain Ayers started out as the Health officer/Dog catcher. He worked for the Police Dept. 1945-1946. Picture was taken May 1946.

Dick Ayers was the Health officer/Dog catcher. He later joined the police department. He is standing with the Chief of Police Frank Mechalis.

Constable Jeanne Peterson talking to a gentleman. Mrs. Peterson was the first woman constable in California according to the local paper.

Workers working on the new Carnegie Library. Man at back in black shirt is Leland Stanford Beamon.

Dr. Mountford was an avid outdoorsman who fished and hunted. He is shown here at a duck hunt on Tulare Lake on 2-17-1916.

Dr. Mountford was a doctor in Coalinga for many years.

Dr. Mountford was a doctor in Coalinga for many years.

K.W. Jones homesteaded his ranch in the 1800's. He lived, worked & died on Garces Creek. He cut down a Cottonwood tree and made his coffin, polished it by hand. Mr. Jones dug his grave and placed rocks and petrified wood around the lot in…

K. W. Jones homesteaded his ranch in the 1800's. He lived worked & died on Graces Creek in the Kettleman Hills. Mr. Jones made his coffin from a cottonwood tree, polished it by hand. He dug his grave and placed rocks and petrified wood around the…

L-R Gail Cox, twin of Bryson, worked for Public Health; Dr. J. Emmitt Cox, family doctor and school doctor in Coalinga ; Dr. Edward Cox worked with father in Coalinga ; Dr. Bryson Cox practiced in Coalinga and Fresno with his father.