Fremont County to the Montana Gold Fields to   ?????

Part II

Submitted by Danette Hein-Snider <dheinsnider@yahoo.com>
  In Part I of Montana Gold we found our group of Fremont County young men were headed to Virginia City, Montana  gold mines.  What happened to them? Did they make it to Montana? Did they find the gold they were going in search of? Did they return to Fremont County? 

 

Just to refresh our memories ...... Except from Part I....

  

 

   .... Most all of the neighbors on Walnut Creek in Fremont County, IA, were gathered at the Chambers' farm, on the West side of Singleton's Grove to bid good-bye to the boys going to the mines in Virginia City, Montana. The small party of nine consisted of: Harlow C Chambers, William A. Chambers, Jonathan Welty, John W. Singleton, E. B. Gray, Andrew Johnson, Henry Clem, Samuel Clem, and Israel Clem.  
 

 

A letter from Israel Clem, 3 July 1908.

  
     
  Do you have information on what happened to William A. Chambers, Jonathan Welty or E. B. Gray?  Did they stay in Montana or Colorado?  Did they return to Iowa?  Did they go to California??