A father (Lee) went overland to California at the time of the gold fever.

The evidence

• “J. and Sarah Lee, English people, were early settlers of Wisconsin. At the time of the gold fever in 1849, the father went overland to California, where he and his wife now reside. By this second marriage three children were born, viz. : Sarah, Charles and Fred, who are living at home.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/34e-biographical-5.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 556 / book p. 1040

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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