When Harriet Jane Gully was born on 30 April 1840, in Lawrence, Newton, Mississippi, United States, her father, Samuel S Gully, was 30 and her mother, Jane Jones Frilick, was 38. She married Jonathan Gleason Davis about 1853, in Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1849 and lived in California, United States in 1870 and Belleville, San Bernardino, California, United States in 1880. She died on 20 August 1888, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in San Bernardino, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
On January 24, 1848, gold was found at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, which began the California gold rush. In December of that same year, U.S. President James Polk announced the news to Congress. The news of gold lured thousands of “forty-niners” seeking fortune to California during 1849. Approximately 300,000 people relocated to California from all over the world during the gold rush years. It is estimated that the mined gold was worth tens of billions in today’s U.S. dollars.
The Fort Tejon earthquake, on January 9, 1857, registered at 7.9, making it one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded in the United States. Only two people were killed, largely due to the sparse population in the area where the earthquake occurred. As a result of the large scale shaking, the Kern River was turned upstream and fish were stranded miles from Tulare Lake as the waters were rocked so far from its banks.
English (southwestern): variant of Gulley .
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