Sacramento County Biographies

MRS. R. A. G. GOURLIE

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP
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	is a native of Germany; born August 24, 1819. Left for 
the United States in 1845, and found a home in Missouri, where, with her first 
husband (J. Newbauer) and children, she remained four years. In 1849 they 
started for California. When only three weeks out, Mr. Newbauer died with the 
cholera. His wife dug his grave and buried him. Her friends tried to induce her 
with her children to return, but to no purpose, for she was brave enough to come 
to California, and she came. She was one hundred and eighty-five days in 
reaching Sacramento. Here, by keeping a boarding-house, she managed to support 
herself and four children and to accumulate some property. In 1854 she was 
married to R. A. G. Gourlie, since which time she has been living at the present 
home, on the Sacramento River, eleven miles below Sacramento City. No children 
by the second marriage. A view of their home may be seen in this book. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.