Jack Howard Noble

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Birthdate: 4/19/1922
Place of Birth: Arroyo Grande, California
Date of Death: 12/21/1959
Place of Death: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Burial Place: Hope Cemetery, Texas Corners, Kalamazoo County, Michigan, USA

Biographical Information

Jack Noble as an infant

Jack Noble was born in Arroyo Grande, California, on April 19, 1922, to Mary Louise Branch and Clare Shipman Noble.

On his mother’s side Jack’s family went back to the very beginning of California. His great grandfather was Francis Ziba Branch, a fur trapper who came on foot to California in 1832 when California was still a part of Mexico. While living in Santa Barbara, California, Ziba married, Manuela Carlon, a Mexican woman, converted to Roman Catholicism, became a Mexican citizen and obtained a 20,000 acre Mexican land grant in former mission land which later became Arroyo Grande, California. Ziba and Manuela had 12 children including their first born Ramon Branch.

His grandfather was Ramon Branch, Ziba’s first child, born on August 12, 1836, while the family was moving from Santa Barbara to Arroyo Grande to establish their cattle ranch in Arroyo Grande. Ramon married Isabel Robbins (Carrillo) whose father Carlos Antonio Carrillo. Jack’s mother, Mary Branch, was a child of that marriage. Ziba gave his son, Ramon, a part of the ranch, and Ramon’s 12 children, including Mary grew up on the ranch. The ranch house still exists today and is part of the Talley Vineyard.

Jack’s mother, Mary Branch, was born on the ranch