They made their home in Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Their first child
"Mary Ann" was born April 27, 1852. After about a year and a half they both
became afflicted with GOLD FEVER then running rampant throughout the
country. They started for New York but made a necessary side trip to Winalin Pa.
where their 2nd child, Catherine Eliza, was born January 25, 1854. As soon as
Sarah Jane had sufficiently recovered they resumed their journey with Sarah
Jane's two brothers William and Henry D. (Harry) Angle traveling with them. At
New York they boarded a ship for Colon, Panama, crossed the Isthmus and caught
a steamer for San Francisco.

To quote from William Angle "The San Francisco of 1854 was quite different from
the San Francisco of today. San Francisco was mostly sand hills and was crowded
with miners from the Mother Lode of California. One big booze miner put a gold
nugget on the sidewalk in front of small Mary Fehely and said 'if you can pick it up
you can have it.'" Unfortunately he did not say whether or not she was able to pick
it up. From San Francisco they took a boat to Stockton where Patrick bought a
team of horses and a wagon then headed for the gold fields. By the time they had
arrived in California all of the easy-to-locate mines had been taken up, however
rumors flew about good diggings up north and sb they went north to Redding then
over the mountains to Lewiston. They arrived in the fall of 1855 and it was here
their first son, John Little Fehely, was born March 29, 1856. This is notable as he
was the first white child born in Lewiston.

While in Lewiston Patrick and his two brother-in-Yaw's took a contract to build a
bridge across the Trinity River. It was on this job that Patrick fell from a trestle
and fractured his skull. A silver plate was used to cover it and it took a long time
for him to recover. While in Lewiston the three Patrick, William and Harry joined
the North Star IOOF Lodge and Sarah Jane joined the Rebbecas. Their second son
William Angle Fehely was born in Lewiston January 7, 1858.

In 1859 they again moved on North to Jacksonville, Oregon. They appear in the
1860 and 1870 census record of Jackson County. Patrick's occupation in 1860
was listed as farmer but in 1870 it is listed as brick maker. Patrick built a large
brick home in Jacksonville which still stands and is still occupied. They had several
more children while living in Jacksonville, Elizabeth Jane, born February 12, 1860
and Patrick Francis born September 26, 1863 and last James Owen Elmer born
September 12, 1865.

While his family lived in Jacksonville the older boys ran the brickyard as soon as
they were able. Many of Jacksonville's buildings are from his bricks, among them
the Court House (which now houses the museum of Jackson County). He also
took out a homestead near Seattle Washington and there was raising a good crop
of wheat when Sarah Jane became ill and sent for him to come home. She
recovered and bore him one more child, Charles Thomas on August 26, 1869.
Also during the month of August their second daughter Catherine died of diphtheria
on August 5, 1869. Sarah Jane died on October 22, 1871, probably of scarlet
fever. She was buried in the Catholic section of the historic Jacksonville Cemetery
beside her daughter Catherine. A low brick wall has been lovingly placed around
their graves.

After Sarah Janes death Patrick moved his family to Holland, Oregon and then
back to Jacksonville in 1880. In 1882/3 they moved again, this time to Crescent
City California. Patrick had been operating a freight line from Jacksonville to
Crescent City over the McGraw Road. Apparently he liked the country around
Crescent City as he was to spend the remainder of his life in Del Norte County.
He located a homestead on the Klamath River near Requa. Mary Ann, who had been
teaching school in Kerby, Oregon, when her term was finished she and Frank
(Patrick Francis) also moved to Crescent City. John and James Elmer were already
there. Charles was to join them later. Elizabeth had married Samuel Eggar and they
settled in Waldo, Oregon. William had married Ernestine Woodcock and he too
settled in Southern Oregon. Charles was 15 when he went to Crescent City. He
had driven a freight wagon over the recently built Wimos, wagon road. The
children all stayed in the Crescent City area. Charles went to school for a while
but one day his father came to the school and told him he had obtained a job for
him at the Hobbs Wall Box Factory. It was a job requiring eleven hours a day at
work and the pay was $15.00 per month plus room & board. When the spring
rains started the mill was closed until late spring during which time Charles would
help his father clearing the Requa homestead. In his writings Charles recalled the
women of Crescent City. I have a warm place in my heart for those fine pioneer
women of Crescent City. There were 13 saloons in town and a brewery "Jake
Marhaffer" on the corner of Front and D streets. A 5 gallon keg cost $1.25 - but
there wasn't any recreation center for teen-agers, so the women rented a dwelling,
(about 100 feet north of the present Bank-of-America), they furnished it with a
big heating stove, tables, chairs, literature, cards, games and a billiard table. Hours
were from 1 PM to 9 PM daily. Mary Ann operated a store at Requa and also
became the first Postmaster of Requa. She lived in a split-board addition to her
fathers house. In January of 1890/91 she married Christian C. Russ of San
Francisco. They lived for awhile in Crescent City, awhile in Waldo, Oregon but
eventually made their home in Oakland, California. She had been a school teacher
in Oregon however after her mothers death she raised her younger brother and
sister. She died at Fresno California in April 1930.

John Little Fehely worked in a hydralic gold mine for a C. D. Lane at Big Flat.
He also tended bar for a Jim Duffy in Crescent City and had other jobs around
Crescent City. Jim Duffy disappeared on one of his mining trips and it was a
common belief around Crescent City that his partner had murdered him. Nothing
was ever proven. Jim's wife then closed the saloon and opened a bakery with
Mary Fehely. John went to Orleans California (on the Klamath River) where he
met and married Martha Brundin. Martha lived long enough to bear him three
children, Berniece, Frank and Prudence. After his wife's death John left his three
very young children in the care of his sister Mary Ann and started working for P.
L. Young. Mr Young had done quite well in the mines especially with the help of
a San Francisco clairvoyant. This clairvoyant suggested he go to the gold fields
in South Africa, which Mr. Young did and he took with him John Fehely who
was to build quartz mills and provide timber needed for the mines. John didn't
stay very long before returning to America. He died in San Francisco in 1911 of
cancer and was buried in San Mateo, California.

William Angle Fehely was a prospector and miner all his life. In his later years
he was superintendent for the Red River Hydraulic Mining Company in Oregon.
As mentioned before, he married Earnestine Woodcock and lived most of his life
in Josephine County, Oregon. He died at the Holland Hotel, Holland Oregon in
1913. He was buried in Kerby, Oregon. The grave marker is especially interesting.
It is a large piece of quartz with a gold pan and a pick and shovel carved in the
face of it.

William Angle Fehely. had one son, Ralph who resided in Arcada, California area
in his later years.

Elizabeth Jane Fehely (Lizzie) was married when she was 19 to Samuel Eggar, a
native of Bern Switzerland. They had a homestead in Waldo Oregon and had a
family of six children "Catherine, John, Edmond, Frances, Hector and (-----?).
Most of her decendents are still in Southern Oregon. She died in her home in
Waldo, July 9, 1914 of a heart attack and is buried next to her husband in the
Kirby cemetery.

Patrick Francis (Frank) went to Crescent City at an early age. His first job was
dragging timbers, with a four horse team, for the new "Hoggs & Will Wharf. While
working there he again met and married his childhood sweetheart "Fannie Crystle".
They lived in Stumptown on the Smith River Road. They had seven children,
"Crystal, Blance, Vivian, Fay, Frank Jr., Herbert and Glenn". All of the children
have passed on. After a while at Stumptown he moved to Medford, Oregon but
eventually he sold-out and resettled his family at his father's homestead in Requa.
Frank had to take outside work to help support his family, however he eventually
built up herd of 33 Jersey cows and had a good dairy. In 1918 the flu epidemic
took a heavy toll. He lost four of his children either during the epidemic or as a
direct result of it. His son Herbert lived in Klamath and Regua, California. Glen
lived in the Arcada California area, Blance in the Oregon City, Oregon area and
Frank in the Portland Oregon area. (Died in Portland in 1949).

James Owen Elmer Fehely spent most of his life in the mining district of the lower
Klamath River in Siskiyou County, California. He married Catherine A. Wood
(Kate) in 1899 they had seven children, Elmer, Edith, Frances, Margaret, Violet,
William and Charles. He took out a homestead at Tims Creek, about a mile up
river from Thompson Creek on the Klamath River, California in the early 1900's.
Kate, his widow, at age 95 died on the property. He hunted and trapped as well
as working in the gold mines. The story is told of a time when he was about 8 or 9
his father took him along on one of his mining trips. He left young Elmer in camp
with instructions to shoot a deer if one happened to come alonq. One did, and
when Patrick returned to camp Elmer had done just what his father had said to
do, to his father's surprise. Elmer was badly afflicted with arthritis, painfully so,
and spent much time trying to be cured. He died in 1931 and is buried in the Fort
Goff Cemetery, Klamath River, California. The youngest son, Charles Thomas,
never married. He traveled all over California and Oregon. The winters were spent
in the sunny climate of Southern California. The summers he spent mining and
visiting with his family. He had a very interesting life. He was in San Francisco
during the 1906 earthquake, served in the Navy, was in the Spanish-American
War. He went from one mining district to another searching for mines, for lost
gold and writing his memoirs. We are very indebted to him for taking the time to
write down the many stories of his family and in giving a very good picture of
what life was like in Southern Oregon and Northern California some 80 years ago.
He was a carpenter by trade, a trade he followed when he was not in the mines.
He died in Yreka, California June 18, 1961 at the age of 91 and was the last of
his family to pass on. He too is buried at the Fort Goff Cemetery.