The victims were nearly all hotel keepers. On the fifteenth of April, in that year, the lower portion was laid in ruins by fire, which broke out in Sacramento street, reducing to poverty, in the course of a few hours, many who had before been rich. From this cause it suffered terribly in 1856.
Here Eliza was again left a widow, and supported herself by keeping a boarding house.ġ856: "Like nearly all towns in California, Placerville has not been exempt from the ravages of the fire-fiend. In 1862 the Methodist Episcopal church was on the corner Main street and Cedar Ravine Rev. Eliza and Austin's first home was in Hangtown (modern Placerville).20,21Įliza Martha Willard was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church.26 The oldest church in El Dorado County, a Methodist Episcopal Church established in 1851, is being restored and was moved to the bluff above Cedar Ravine, next to the Federated Church of Placerville, on 1031 Thompson Way, Placerville, CA.
Eliza's daughter Rosena stayed behind with Alexander & Elinor Willard and came west with them in 1852. John Echstein Jones died sometime before 1838.ġ850 Census: Eliza Martha Willard, called Eliza Stores, appeared on the census enumerated living in Belmont Village, Lafayette county, Wisconsin, with 4 children Eliza is 37, born "Pennsylvania".19Įliza and Austin went to California by ox team in 1850 with a company of gold seekers.
Giles home, Balls Ferry, Shasta county, California, at age 96.16,17,18 ELIZA MARTHA2 WILLARD (Alexander1 ) was born on at Missouri Territory.1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 She married 1st John Echstein Jones circa 1832 at Iowa county, Michigan Territory.9,10 She married 2nd Austin Storres in 1838 at Wisconsin Territory.11,12 She married 3rd Rev John B Hartsough on at Cottonwood, Yolo county, California.13,14,15 She died on at James K.
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