respect whites. Three, the physical elimination of their perception of unfair economic and social advantages then enjoyed by ranchers and farmers who employed Indians. Four, the wish that local Indians would go away brought them the decision to kill and chase off Indians as the way to do this. [Sourse: American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, Benjamin Madley, Yale University Press, 2016; page 126-127] After recovering from malaria, Ben used his profits to buy sheep which he drove to the mines and used that money to set up a trading post in the Sacramento Valley but lost his investment when he became ill. In September 1850 Ben and his brother Samuel came to Union in Humboldt County. He purchased land there and built a house on it. His brother Samuel purchased property directly south of Ben and also owned a smaller parcel. However both eventually lost their properties, Ben to mortgage foreclosure and Samuel to a default on a note. Ben returned with his family to Sonoma for a short time, then moved to Oregon. In 1859, he moved his family to Mexico, and then to Texas in 1861. There his wife and children survived an attack by Comanche, one of his daughters survived being scalped but suffered mental illness afterward. In 1865 his family was back in California near Fresno, where his mentally ill daughter died. It was at this time he and his sons were accused of being members of the Mason Henry Gang. Suspicion may have fallen on him because his brother Samuel had been accused of being a leader among the secessionists in San Bernardino at the start of the American Civil War. In later years, he moved on to Inyo County during the time of the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake, working in the Cerro Gordo Mines, and finally lived in Los Angeles. Ben Kelsey died February 19, 1889, at the age 76, at Los Angeles. He was buried at Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles. References California pioneers American people of the Bear Flag Revolt People of the Conquest of California People of the California Gold Rush 1813 births 1889 deaths American emigrants to Mexico Foreign residents of Mexican California People from Kentucky