Gold Rush Pioneer
Life for Charles Sexey, however, was quite different for his fortunes had taken a turn much for the better. He was about to become a very wealthy man.
He was not a gold miner, but rather a trader who did very well for himself providing the necessities of life in the gold fields. By 1870 had settled in Marysville, California, where he "enjoyed a comfortable standard of living from the wise investments he chose." A lithograph shows his home as being built of brick, quite large and occupying a substantial corner site. Prior to this he was trading in the mining camps and is listed on the census for 1860 at Long Bar, a Yuba County mining town on the main Yuba River above the confluence with Dry Creek, near Parks Bar. Gold was first discovered here in June 1848 by Jonas Spect of Pennsylvania, and by the spring of 1850 there was a population of 1,000 with six stores, eight hotels and eight or ten saloons. The diggings gave out in 1864. He is also listed as having a store in a mining camp, Browns Valley.
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