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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Caroline Mary Holzhauser: Birth: 03 MAR 1853 in Belleview, Saint Clair Co., Illinois. Death: 27 DEC 1933 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California

  2. Charles Henry Holzhauser: Birth: 26 APR 1854 in St. Joseph, Buchanan Co., Missouri. Death: 14 NOV 1928 in Etna, Siskiyou Co., California

  3. Lucina "Lucy" Louisa Holzhauser: Birth: 18 DEC 1855 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 12 JAN 1933 in Silver Lake, Lake Co., Oregon

  4. Paulina "Polly" Marie Holzhauser: Birth: 12 MAY 1857 in Etna, Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: in Sacramento, Sacramento Co., California

  5. Franklin Frederick Holzhauser: Birth: 14 APR 1858 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 13 NOV 1868

  6. Mary Anna Holzhauser: Birth: 22 NOV 1859 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 26 JUL 1870

  7. Helen A. Holzhauser: Birth: 16 AUG 1862 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 17 APR 1868

  8. Amanda "Mandy" Frederika Holzhauser: Birth: 13 FEB 1864 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California.

  9. Ludwig "Louie" John Holzhauser: Birth: 01 MAY 1865 in Etna Mills, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 23 OCT 1953 in Ukiah, Mendocino Co., California

  10. infant Holzhauser: Birth: 22 JAN 1869 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California. Death: 22 JAN 1869 in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Frieda Holzhauser: Birth: JUN 1878 in California. Death: 1958 in Napa Co., California

  2. Marie "Mary" Holzhauser: Birth: OCT 1881 in California. Death: ABT 1975

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Notes
a. Note:   Immigrated to America when in his teens. Traveled often to Germany and back. Enlisted in the U.S. Army and served during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848). After receiving his discharge after the war, he married Anna Christina Yanke. After their first child, Caroline Mary was born, they headed out West, the following spring, in 1854. Their 2nd child, Charles Henry, was born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on their way out West. Because of Fritz's military training, he was elected Captain of the wagon train. Others in the group heading West were the Bradlocks, Stimmels & probably some of the Yankes. (Mrs. Bradlock helped take care of Charles & Caroline while on the trip). They had little trouble with the Native Americans, during their westward trip; however, two incidents caused much concern amonst the travellers. The first involved a young man, who vowed he was gonna kill the first Indian he saw and was ordered not to. However, he disobeyed the order and shot an elderly Native American woman, who was sitting, watching the wagon train go by. Almost immediately, the wagon train was surrounded by angry Indians, who demanded that the murderer be surrendered to them or else they would destroy the entire popultion of the wagon train. Nothing else would appease them and the youth was brought forth. The Indians stripped him of his clothing and then skinned him alive. When finished, they rolled the skin into a ball and took off with their trophy. The youth murmured, "I'm cold," and then died while they wrapped him in a blanket. I'm sure that some people will think the Native Americans were cruel and savage, but many of the atrocities were initiated by the white people and when the Indians retaliated with an eye for an eye, then the whites accused them of savagery. What the Native Americans did to white people (and usually to right a wrong), wasn't anymore inhumane and cruel than the way the people over in Europe, Britain, etc. did to their enemies in the old days. Just read about the torture methods in the medieval days...drawing and quartering, sawing asunder, impaling alive, disemboweling, flaying alive, thumb screws, the Iron Maiden, etc. Makes the Native Americans look pretty civilized. The second incident occurred as they were ascending a gentle rise.. Suddenly, a group of Indians appeared in front of them and one shot a heavy, stone-tipped arrow at the lead oxen, stunning it and stopping the wagon train. The white men started for their guns, but Fritz stopped them and went foreward to see what the Indians wanted. An Indian came foreward and spread a robe on the ground and indicated they wanted supplies. Each family put something onto the robe, the Indians gathered the things up and departed, much to everyone's relief. I have read that in actuality, of all the wagon trains that ever came west, only an extremely minute amount of whites were ever attacked and killed by Native Americans. Often times, the Indians would ride alongside the wagon trains, at a safe distance, mainly out of curiousity. Most of the time, when the Native American tribes would see a wagon train, they would go beg supplies from them, such as coffee, sugar, flour, trinkets, etc., then they would go about their merry way, after they bummed a few odds and ends off the people traveling through. In those days, the leader of a wagon train, if he was a wise man, would make sure that the people in his group started out with more supplies than they would use on their journey, as it kept them on good terms with the Native American inhabitants of the lands they were passing through. I read someplace (forget where) that it was John McLoughlin (aka "the Father of Oregon"), I believe it was, that treated the Native Americans with dignity and respect. John was a Scots-Canadian who moved to the Oregon City area of the Pacific Northwest. He was married to a Chippewa woman. The Native Americans never forgot John's hospitality and kindness. Word spread throughout the tribes from the Pacific Northwest, clear across the Great Plains of America. The Indians had a rule, that because John McLoughlin was a good white man, that anyone wearing plaid was not to ever be harmed in any way. Because of that, the Scots traveling in wagon trains were always spared (that is, if they were wearing plaid, as the Indians knew they were Scots). The Fritz Holzhauser wagon train arrived in Scott Valley, Siskiyou Co., California, in the fall of 1854. They probably came out West via the California Trail & the Applegate route to Yreka & Scott Valley. Fritz & Anna made their home that first winter in a log cabin on the Nentzell & Baxter Farm (later became the Dowling Brothers'), before moving across the valley to north of the Holzhauser Ranch in Scott Valley that he later homesteaded. Fritz ranched and farmed. In the early days, after the school (probably the Crystal Creek School) was built, Native Americans were plentiful around the area, and they would whoop and holler just to watch the kids run for the school or for home. At other times, they would ride around the schoolhouse and look in the windows, which scared the kids. LOL! He also sent his daughters to school in Santa Clara, California. Fritz had, at an early date, helped form the Union Flour Mill just north of Etna on the east side of Hughes Hill, and after his second marriage (to Marie Lerch), gradually bought out the other stockholders until he owned it. He and Marie and their children moved to the house by the mill. In later years, Fritz sold his ranch to Ernest Reichman and deeded the mill to his present wife, Marie. She later sold the mill and they moved to Sacramento and spent their remaining years there.


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