- Date: March 1954
- Written at: Merced County Superior Court, Department No. Two
- Stationery: Typed court minute
- From: Hon. Gregory P. Maushart, Judge
- To: Mrs. Sharmer
- Condition: Complete — 1 page (date at top partly cut off)
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MINUTE
March 1, 1954 [partly cut off]
DEPARTMENT NO. TWO
Present: HON. GREGORY P. MAUSHART, Judge
Nina McDowell, Court Clerk
John Garrett, Bailiff
In the Matter of the Court Adjourning out of Respect to the Memory of E. G. ADAMS, County Clerk and ex-officio clerk of the Superior Court and JOSEPH A. [sic] SHARMER, Former Supervisor of District No. 2, Merced County.
The Court, on its own motion and in open Court this day, orders that when Court adjourns this date, it do so as a token of respect to the memory of the late E. G. Adams, County Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the Superior Court and the late Joseph A. [sic] Sharmer, former Supervisor of Merced County.
Judge Maushart orders the motion be entered upon the minutes and records of this Court and further ordered that a message of sympathy be forwarded to Mrs. Adams and Mrs. Sharmer.
Notes & context
The next day, 2 March 1954, the Merced County Board of Supervisors adopted its own resolution in his memory (A Friend Whose Memory Will Always Dwell with Us).
The name. The court typed him as “Joseph A. Sharmer,” but that is an error: he had no middle name. He was Joseph Sharmer II, and none of the Josephs in the family, from Joseph I to Joseph IV, has had a middle name. The transcription keeps the court’s wording, marked [sic].
Merced County Superior Court adjourned in Joseph Sharmer’s memory, together with that of County Clerk E. G. Adams. The date at the top of the sheet is cut off; what remains appears to read March 1, 1954.
