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From: Gail Howard <>
Subject: Re: Lewis GOULD -1867 in Stockon CA
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 21:01:12 -0500


Hi Jackie,

Have you connected with the person who placed the query for Sally Gould
on this page?
http://www.evansville.net/~gschmitt/wqery97.htm

There may be more information there.

Gail in Maine

> > You wrote:
> > >
> > >Hi Sandra,
> > >I am doing some important family genealogy
> > >work and I need some help. Any assistance you could give me would be
> > greatly appreciated.
> > >This is what I know to this point.
> >
> > >Lewis Gould, born in Maine, traveled from Indiana to the Gold Rush. The
> > exact
> > >date of his arrival in California is not known. He was last seen in the
> > >Indiana census in 1850.
> > >According to other family members I have been able to locate, his wife,
> > Jane
> > >Keith Gould, died in Indiana, as did some of his children. The Gold Rush
> > and these losses precipitated his move to California. The family story is
> > that he then sent the children to live with other family and friends in
> > Indiana.
> > >Census records in Indiana in 1850 show the family intact and then in 1860,
> > >the children are separated and living with other family or friends. In
> > Indiana Lewis Gould was a Free Will Baptist Minister.
> >
> > >A distant cousin, another of his descendants, that I have found while
> > >researching, said that many years ago she found his name in a census taken
> > in the gold fields, but his name may have been spelled slightly different.
> > >In 1867, Lewis Gould died in a hospital in Stockton, California.
> > >According to family, he was in an accident, quicksand, mudslide,
> > avalanche, or something like that.
> >
> > >There was also a little more to the story my family has. When Lewis Gould
> > >went west to the Gold Rush, he somehow got involved with some Indian
> > people.
> >
> > >The story is unclear whether he either married or had a child with an
> > Indian woman or he adopted a child. In any case, this child is my great
> > grandmother.
> >
> > >Her name is Mary Gould Sage. Our family story was that he sent her back
> > to Indiana from the Gold Rush where she was raised by friends and then by
> > her sister Sallie Gould Justis in Indiana.
> >
> > >I am requesting your help in searching for any information about my great
> > >great grandfather, Lewis Gould, and my great grandmother, Mary Gould Sage.
> > >Can you help me?
> >
> > >Thank you for your consideration.
> > >
> > >Jackie Mercer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >

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