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Note: One time when Caroline, was chopping kindling, as a young girl, her brother, Charles told her that he could put his hand on the chopping block and jerk it away before she could hit it. He almost did, but not quite, and she cut one of his fingers nearly off (never underestimate a Holzhauser woman or girl...LOL). He ran to the house with the finger dangling from a small piece of skin. Their father put it back where it belonged and wrapped it with his chaw of tobacco and bandaged it. Charles had the finger for the rest of his life. Attended a little school west of the Scott Valley Holzhauser Ranch, and then for a year, Caroline attended The Sisters of Mercy Convent school at Yreka. After Caroline and Frank were married, two of her sisters, Mandy & Lucy, lived with them, until they, too, got married. Lucy and her husband still lived with the Horns when their first child, Emil Egli, was born. Caroline had some of her babies without any outside help and was soon back out in the fields, working alongside the men. She helped deliver other women's babies. She was never too tired or too busy to help someone in need or to invite them in to visit or for a meal. At certain times, the local Native Americans would send drummers to certain places and they would drum all night long. Two of these places were on the Horn Ranch (later it was found out that these places were ancestral camping sites and burial grounds). The Horn children would lay in bed all night and fearfully listen to the steady drumbeats. Every fall the Native American women from the camps in Moffett Creek would come and ask to glean the wheat fields after harvest and pick up the stray heads that the scythes had missed. They were always given permission to do this. At other times, they would come to the house and ask Caroline for sugar, flour, tobacco or some other item, which was usually given them, if a supply was on hand and thus, friendly relations continued to exist between the Horns and the local Native American population. At one time, a soldier-escorted wagon train of Native Americans, enroute to a southern reservation, stopped by the house to give the Indians a drink of water and everyone was afraid of them, except for Caroline, who helped them draw water from the well. When the wagon road was finally completed over Salmon Mountain, Caroline decided to go over to Sawyers Bar to see her sister, Mrs. Polly Meyer. She took the spring wagon and with Louisa Holzhauser (Charles Holzhauser's wife), drove over, thus doing what many of the old teamsters said a woman couldn't possibly do (just like I mentioned before...NEVER underestimate the power of a Holzhauser woman. LOL!). Caroline sure sounds like she was one helluva unique woman and seems like her pioneering, toughness and self-sufficent characteristics and courage are evident in the generations of Holzhauser women down to the present day.
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