Notes for Israel BREYFOGLE

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Notes for Israel BREYFOGLE

In describing Joshua D. and Jacob Breyfogel (sons of Jacob D.) it is written:

"In separate companies, but sometimes traveling together on the trail, were their first cousins, all sons of Solomon; namely, Israel (born 1809, Solomon (born 1812) and Charles (born 1816)."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 28

In speaking of the diary of Joshua D. Breyfogle, first cousin of Israel, it is written:

"He does tell how my great grandfather, Israel, his first cousin born 1809, (See diary, Page 25) went to work on February 27, 1850 on building a mill at about $100 per week, a terrific sum in those days. (This was Sutter's mill, where gold was first discovered). This corresponds with out family tradition, and explains how my great grandfather did cash in on the 1849 Gold Rush in spite of the fact that he himself found little gold."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 29

Lewis continues:

"There is a family tradition that the company with whom Israel traveled to California largely died of cholera, or were killed and scalped by Indians, and that the three survivors of the party, including Isreal, were saved from death by thirst by the Boone brothers, descendants of Daniel Boone. We will never know the complete story, but we do know that he must have accumulated a substantial amount of money from working on Sutter's Mill "at about $100 per week", or about $1.30 per hour. Such labor in the eastern part of United States was paid about 10 cents per hour at the time, and that he reached home, probably in 1851, with a good portion of what he had earned. He returned home by ship from San Francisco to Panama, walked across the Isthums, and took a boat to New York. His return was a great relief to his family, as they had despaired of ever seeing him again."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 42

Lewis Breyfogle wrote extensively about his great grandfathers work, excerpts follow"

"It seems that he stayed in Berks County until at least 1834, as I have seen and copied a part of his old account book. He was engaged in part-time farming, and did woodworking on the side. He made everything in wood for the simple requirements of the times - from cradles to caskets."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 41

Flora Grumman includes a reference to the move from Ohio to Kansas:

[Soloman] located in Delaware, Ohio, in his youth, but later moved to Kansas City, Mo., or near there, where he died."

SOURCE: The Breyfogle Genealogy, Flora Breyfogle Grumman, About 1909, Page 4

Lewis Breyfogle describes his great grandfather family move from Ohio to Kansas as follows:

"The Breyfogles came to Kansas from Delaware, Ohio in 1866. The whole family came: Israel, Sr., and his wife; Israel, Jr. and his wife, and Mora (born 1844) and her husband, John Coe, a Civil War veteran. The bought land and lived for a while in what is now downtown Kansas City, Missouri, and later they purchased rich Shawnee Indian farmland within what is now the fast-growing suburban Johnson County, Kansas City of Overland Park. There, for about 40 years, until shortly after the turn of the century, the three children of Israel lived on their separate farms and raised their families."

SOURCE: What I know about the Breyfogle Family, Lewis W. Breyfogle, 1963, Page 43

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