{"id":3768,"date":"2022-12-12T19:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T02:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2022-12-16T01:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T08:33:48","slug":"3768","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/12\/12\/3768\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wagons Ho” from Lake County Ill – Letters Home from the California Diggin’s"},"content":{"rendered":"
PLACERVILLE, California (InEDC) Dec 15, 2022 \u2014 [Gridley Family letters from 1835 \u2013 1859]<\/em> Cris Alarcon, News@InEDC.com, Posted by Toni Mann<\/pre>\n
Miners from the Half Day (Lake County) area of Illinois 1850-1858<\/p>\n
Name – Data – Location – Home<\/h3>\n
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Anderman<\/strong> – 1854 – Northern mines – Long Grove<\/p>\n
Thomas Ballard<\/strong> – 1851 Scotts River – Prairie View<\/p>\n
*Behrisch<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses Plains<\/p>\n
Boyington<\/strong><\/p>\n
Burdick<\/strong> – 1851 – Rough & Ready – Half Day<\/p>\n
Castle<\/strong><\/p>\n
Caswell<\/strong> – 1851 – Sacramento<\/p>\n
Childs<\/strong> – 1851 – Goes Home<\/p>\n
*Charles Clingman<\/strong> – 1850 – Nevada City\/Dry Creek\/Carson Creek – Prairie View (Died going home)<\/p>\n
Clock<\/strong> – 1851 – Placerville – Indian Creek
\n– 1855 Goes Home<\/p>\n
Corbin<\/strong> – 1855 – Half Day<\/p>\n
L. Dana<\/strong> – 1851 – Crosses Plains – Gilmer<\/p>\n
John Easton<\/strong> – Indian Creek<\/p>\n
Russel Easton<\/strong> – 1850 – Dies – Indian Creek<\/p>\n
George Fenwick<\/strong> – 1851 – Shipwrecked – Diamond Lake<\/p>\n
Hartnett<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses Plains<\/p>\n
Hecox<\/strong> – 1850 – Dies in California – Prairie View<\/p>\n
D. Hinsdale<\/strong> – 1852 – Placerville<\/p>\n
*Chancy Hoffma<\/strong>n – 1850 – Crosses Plains
\n– 1852 – Carson Creek\/Rough & Ready\/American House ”
\n– 1858 El Dorado<\/p>\n
A. A. Howard<\/strong> – 1851-1880 – Placerville<\/p>\n
J. Howard<\/strong> – 1850-1854 – Placerville
\n– 1856 Goes home w\/Roses<\/p>\n
Elijah Hubbard<\/strong> – 1851 – Carson Creek – Lake Zurich, IL<\/p>\n
*Kieffer<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses plains
\n– 1851 Goes home<\/p>\n
Lathrop<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses plains –<\/p>\n
Linebeck<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses plains\/Dry Creek
\n1851 Dies in Sacramento<\/p>\n
Frank Mason<\/strong> – 1851 – Rough & Ready\/N. Feather River – Half Day<\/p>\n
Myron Moore<\/strong> – 1852 – Sacramento – Lake Zurich, IL<\/p>\n
Parsons<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses plains
\n– 1851 Goes home<\/p>\n
Penneman<\/strong> – 1854 – Whereabouts unknown<\/p>\n
Rice<\/strong> – 1851 – Sacramento – Milburn – Goes home<\/p>\n
‘Calvin B. Rose<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses Plains – Prairie View
\n– 1851 Rough & Ready\/Cason Creek
\n– 1852 Buys Railroad House
\n– 1853 American House\/buys ranch @ Dry Creek
\n– 1856 Dies\/buried at Railroad House<\/p>\n
(Tong) Cern<\/strong>‘, – Clarksville, CA<\/p>\n
‘Chance Rose<\/strong> – 1850 – Crosses Plains – Prairie View
\n– 1851 Rough & Ready<\/p>\n
George Ros<\/strong>e – 1852 – Crosses plans
\n– 1853 American House\/Dry Creek
\n– 1856 Goes Home<\/p>\n
Sanders<\/strong> – 1851 – Placerville<\/p>\n
J. Sutherland<\/strong> – 1850\/51 – Whereabouts unknown<\/p>\n
Norman B Steven<\/strong>s – 1851 – Placerville – Half Day<\/p>\n
M. Talcott<\/strong> – 1851 – Feather River – Half Day<\/p>\n
Luman Washburn<\/strong> – 1852 American House
\n– 1853 Sacramento
\n– 1854 Nevada<\/p>\n
John Wattle<\/strong>s – 18S4 – Goes home<\/p>\n
Wilcox<\/strong> – 1851 – unknown – Indian Creek
\n– 1852 Goes home<\/p>\n
 <\/p>\n
* Those who traveled to California in the original group with John and George Gridley.<\/p>\n
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IMG: Emigrant Party of the Road to California Emigrants Guide to the Golden Land 1850<\/em><\/p>\n
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Emigrant Miners from the Half Day (Lake County) area of Illinois 1850-1858, including John and George Gridley<\/p>\n
IMG: Emigrant Party of the Road to California Emigrants Guide to the Golden Land 1850<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3773,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inedc.com\/22\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}