Posted by Adrienne on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 18:21:27 :

In San Francisco a person known for the past twenty-five years as "Charlie PARKHURST" who had led the life of a stage driver and farmer during that time in California, died near Watsonville, when it became known for the first time that the deceased was a woman.

Source: The Reading Daily Eagle (PA) January 1, 1880, page 1