OUR CALIFORNIA BOYS
THE
SCHUYLER CITIZEN, MARCH
2, 1859
The
names of emigrants who left Schuyler county in 1849 for California, as
furnished by Jonathan D. Manlove, Esq., leader of the company. The
company left Rushville on the first of April and reached Feather River
on the twenty-second of October.
| John
Blackford |
Samuel
Boring |
Jacob
Brickman |
| John
Brickman |
William
Brickman |
|
| Stoel
Cady |
Barton
Carrick |
Dr.
Clarkson |
| Samuel
Clarkson |
William
Clarkson |
William
Clarkson |
| Francis
Dickson |
James
Doyle |
Simon
Doyle |
| John
Gapen |
George
Garrett |
|
| David
Hindman |
Samuel
Hindman |
Joseph
Hurley |
| Isaac
Lane |
John
Lambert |
William
Loudon |
| William
Lusk |
|
|
| Jonathan
D. Manlove |
Marion
Manlove |
Thomas
McCowan |
| John
G. McHatton |
John
McNeilly |
Elisha
Moore |
| L.
F. Moran |
|
|
| Augustus
Peters |
Marcellus
Price |
|
| Jackson
Reno |
Clay
Rogers |
Mr.
Rook |
| Mrs.
Rook |
Abram
Ryan |
|
| Thomas
Silvers |
Edward
Stevenson |
|
| H.
W. Taylor |
M.
J. Taylor |
James
Teel |
| Francis
Thorton |
Abram
Tolle |
James
Tolle |
| John
Tolle |
|
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| ______
Weaver |
William
Weden |
Charles
Wells |
| Newton
Witt |
Charles
Wolf |
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Of
the above, Dr. Clarkson died on a steamer on his return home and was buried
in the Pacific Ocean.
Samuel
Hindman, Jackson Reno, Mr. Rook, William Weden, Marion Manlove and Thomas
McCowan died in California.
Isaac
Lane died on the trip out and was buried on Pitt River, about 400 miles
this side of California.
Thomas
Silvers died at New Orleans on his return home.
Marcellus
Price died at Alton, having almost reached home.
Francis
Dickson and Edward Stevenson were murdered while out on a prospecting tour
I n 1851, by the Indians in California.
In
addition to the above names, 3 brothers, sons of Myron Gaylord of Round
Prairie, went out the same year. One of them died there, another was killed
by a grizzly bear while on a hunting excursion, and the other returned
home.
Also
Lemuel Sparks and son, Samuel Fisher of Brooklyn and probably others whose
names we have not obtained went out in 1849. Mr. Sparks has since
died.
Fourteen
of the above are now residents of the county, nineteen are still living
in California, the remainder are either dead or are now scattered in different
portions of the earth.
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