Kick Ranch harkens back to an important pioneer history in Sonoma County.
An Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1889) records that Kentucky-born and raised Richard and Sally Fulkerson arrived in Santa Rosa on October 4, 1854 as one of the area’s first pioneer families. They crossed the plains from Perry, Iowa in an ox-drawn wagon.
Title records show that Kick Ranch was part of a larger Rincon Valley ranch owned by the Fulkersons’ son, Stephen, who at 18 married Amanda Cockrill, age 15, in Santa Rosa in 1858.
S.T. FULKERSON, of Rincon Valley, Santa Rosa Township, is the son of Richard Fulkerson, whose biography will be found in this connection. The subject of this sketch was born in Grayson County, Kentucky, July 7, 1840. His parents became pioneers in Davis County, Iowa, in 1844. There, in the new country, with its limited advantages, he was reared to his fourteenth year.
