“The Miners” from Lake County Ill – Gridley, 1850

John & George Gridley, [From original handwritten letters mailed home from “the diggins” between 1850-1859. George Gridley, aged 29 and brother John T. Gridley, age 21]. Transcribed: Daniel Ray / Toni Mann.

Name – Data – Location – Home

Anderman – 1854 – Northern mines – Long Grove

Thomas Ballard – 1851 Scotts River – Prairie View

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*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