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1851? Emily marries Henry Willard Brizzee in Sacramento, Ca.
1852 Sept. 5 Charles Porter Brizzee is born.
1854 Apr. 29 Henry Willard Brizzee, Jr. is born.
1856 Emily and Henry Willard Brizzee divorce Marries William Andrew Woolsey (or runs off with)
1857 June 29 William Richard Woolsey born in Niles, Alameda, Ca. (near present day Oakland)
1860 Henry W. Brizzee marries Melinda McKenzie Haskell Woodbury in SLC
May 18 Lucy B. Woolsey born (also known as Lulu Tyrrell since she was adopted by Emily’s 4th husband, David Tyrrell)
Aug. 14 1860 census has listed for Washington township, Alameda Co. Vallejo Mills Post Office
Wm. Woolsey 26, farmer, $2,000.00, born in Ill. Emily Woolsey 26, born in Mo. Charles 8, born in Cal. Henry 6, born in Cal. William 2, born in Cal. Lucy 3/12 born in Cal.
(Notice that Emily’s first two sons are now going by the name of Woolsey. This may be a mistake on the part of the census takers or maybe the divorce from Brizzee was not amicable, or Emily ran off with Woolsey and there was no divorce).
1860-64 The following story is told to Reva Andreason, a descendent from this marriage: “Woolsey was apparently accused of horse thievery and a posse came to the house looking for him. Emily hid her husband and went to the door and told them he was not there. Then she dressed him up in her closes and he left the house disguised as a woman. That was he last they ever saw or heard of him—wither he made his escape and went into permanent hiding or met his demise via the lynching party, as that was the penalty in those days for horse thievery.”
There is a William A. Woolsey b. 1833 (right age) in Ill. Listed in the Utah Cemetery Inventory. d 8 Dec 1893 in SLC. Could this have been Emily’s husband who left (deserted) her and fled to Utah? There is a member of the Mormon Battalion, Thomas Woolsey, b. 3 Nov 1805, they are brother’s. |
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1865 Sept 10 Emily marries David Monroe Tyrrell at Donner Lake. They were both living in Gold Hill, Nevada (marriage records of Virginia city 1875)
1870 July 5 Census record of Gold Hill, Storey, Nevada Gold Hill Post Office indicates the following:
Tyrrell, D. M., 41, Miner, born in Scotland $9,000.00 real estate (more than all the rest) Tyrrell, Emily A., 33, KH. (keeping house) born in Mo. Woolsey, Charles, 18, born in Cal. Woolsey, Henry, 15, born in Cal. Woolsey, W. R., 12, born in Cal. Woolsey, Lucy, 10, born in Cal.
So the Brizzee boys were still going by the Woolsey name on purpose it seems to me.
1873 Feb Charles Porter Brizzee (b. 1852) marries Sarah Angeline Hall in SLC 1874 Mar 30 Maybell born in SLC 1875 July 30 Charles Porter Brizzee born in Point Lookout, Tooele, Utah Aug 3 Charles Porter Brizzee (b. 1876) dies. 1877 Sept 17 Henry Willard Brizzee born in Grouse Creek, Box Elder, Utah.
1898 Oct 11 Henry Willard Brizzee (b. 1877) marries Ruth Arnold in SLC
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