"John G Ray, pioneer of 1846, was another lucky prospector. Early that year [1848] he had completed a small frame house near the southeast corner of what is now the intersection of Second Street East and Spain Streets. To this cottage, after a successful search for gold at Rose Bar, he returned with his family. Merchant Lewis Adler, a pioneer of 1847, remembers visiting their cottage and seeing the family sitting on the dirt floor of the original frame dwelling, admiring pickle jars full of gold dust. So successful had Ray been that he was able to hire Indian laborers to expand his small house into a two-story adobe building, still standing at 205 East Spain St."

Here is John Ray and family in 1850:
1850 Sonoma Co, California
Dwelling 77, Family 78
Ray John 38 M Farmer 15,000 Kentucky
Ray Harriett 28 F Kentucky
Ray Wm. 17 M Farmer Missouri
Ray Verlinda 14 F Missouri
Ray John 13 M Missouri
Ray Jas. 12 M Missouri
Ray Mary 4 F Nebraska Ter.
Ray Thos. 1 M California

"Ray...like so many of those who for the first time now had large sums of money available to them, moved away with his family, opening a resort on the wagon route to the geysers in northern Sonoma County." (Robert Parmalee "Pioneer Sonoma")