“Wagons Ho” from Lake County Ill – Letters Home from the California Diggin’s
PLACERVILLE, California (InEDC) Dec 15, 2022 — [Gridley Family letters from 1835 – 1859] Cris Alarcon, News@InEDC.com, Posted by Toni Mann
Miners from the Half Day (Lake County) area of Illinois 1850-1858
Name – Data – Location – Home
Anderman – 1854 – Northern mines – Long Grove
Thomas Ballard – 1851 Scotts River – Prairie View
*Behrisch – 1850 – Crosses Plains
Boyington
Burdick – 1851 – Rough & Ready – Half Day
Castle
Caswell – 1851 – Sacramento
Childs – 1851 – Goes Home
*Charles Clingman – 1850 – Nevada City/Dry Creek/Carson Creek – Prairie View (Died going home)
Clock – 1851 – Placerville – Indian Creek
– 1855 Goes Home
Corbin – 1855 – Half Day
L. Dana – 1851 – Crosses Plains – Gilmer
John Easton – Indian Creek
Russel Easton – 1850 – Dies – Indian Creek
George Fenwick – 1851 – Shipwrecked – Diamond Lake
Hartnett – 1850 – Crosses Plains
Hecox – 1850 – Dies in California – Prairie View
D. Hinsdale – 1852 – Placerville
*Chancy Hoffman – 1850 – Crosses Plains
– 1852 – Carson Creek/Rough & Ready/American House ”
– 1858 El Dorado
A. A. Howard – 1851-1880 – Placerville
J. Howard – 1850-1854 – Placerville
– 1856 Goes home w/Roses
Elijah Hubbard – 1851 – Carson Creek – Lake Zurich, IL
*Kieffer – 1850 – Crosses plains
– 1851 Goes home
Lathrop – 1850 – Crosses plains –
Linebeck – 1850 – Crosses plains/Dry Creek
1851 Dies in Sacramento
Frank Mason – 1851 – Rough & Ready/N. Feather River – Half Day
Myron Moore – 1852 – Sacramento – Lake Zurich, IL
Parsons – 1850 – Crosses plains
– 1851 Goes home
Penneman – 1854 – Whereabouts unknown
Rice – 1851 – Sacramento – Milburn – Goes home
‘Calvin B. Rose – 1850 – Crosses Plains – Prairie View
– 1851 Rough & Ready/Cason Creek
– 1852 Buys Railroad House
– 1853 American House/buys ranch @ Dry Creek
– 1856 Dies/buried at Railroad House
(Tong) Cern‘, – Clarksville, CA
‘Chance Rose – 1850 – Crosses Plains – Prairie View
– 1851 Rough & Ready
George Rose – 1852 – Crosses plans
– 1853 American House/Dry Creek
– 1856 Goes Home
Sanders – 1851 – Placerville
J. Sutherland – 1850/51 – Whereabouts unknown
Norman B Stevens – 1851 – Placerville – Half Day
M. Talcott – 1851 – Feather River – Half Day
Luman Washburn – 1852 American House
– 1853 Sacramento
– 1854 Nevada
John Wattles – 18S4 – Goes home
Wilcox – 1851 – unknown – Indian Creek
– 1852 Goes home
* Those who traveled to California in the original group with John and George Gridley.
IMG: Emigrant Party of the Road to California Emigrants Guide to the Golden Land 1850