Sacramento Union, November 7, 1853 (the issue of the Sonoma Bulletin quoted here, appears to be no longer in existence):
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We are now attempting to complete a record of the actual personnel whose trip to California in 1853 was recorded by William Zilhart. As names were not given, we have been forced to many devious paths to identify the actual members of the party. We believe the following families and single men came together from Bates County, Missouri, to the Santa Rosa Valley, starting April 24th and arriving October 2nd of that year, and stopping on the Thomas Hopper Ranch, south of Santa Rosa, near Penngrove.
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According to Zilhart's diary, the group arrived at William Boyd Hagan's tent in Santa Rosa Valley on Octber 1, 1853. Though I am not clear about Jeanne's source, she believed that the members of the emmigration from Missouri, finally quit the trail at Hopper's ranch.
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Sacramento Union, November 7, 1853 (the issue of the Sonoma Bulletin quoted here, appears to be no longer in existence): |
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James William(m. Katherine Marie Connor) |
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Rebecca A. (m. Charles G. Shipman) |
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Amanda J. (m. Charles J. Friend) |
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Nancy E. (m. Edward R. Faneuf, m(2). --- Maddocks ) |
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John H. (m. Hattie M. Connor) |
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Francis Marion (m. Sarah E. Freeman) |
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David (a son of Jacob Beaver?) |
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Mary Elizabeth (m. Dudley E. Myers. She is David's twin sister) |
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Lucy Margaret (m. James E. Crane. She is David's & Mary's sister) |
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Susan (widow of Thomas, later married William Ray) It is unclear what their relationship was to the rest of the Beaver family. It is also dubious that they were part of this 1853 party, since both appear in the California 1852 Census for Sonoma County as Thomas Beavers (a. 25, bp. OH) and Susan Beavers (a. 23, bp. OH). |
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Nancy (Henry Beavers' twin sister) |
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Ellisif Arabella (m. Stephen Fowler) |
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Olivia Goldsmith (m. John McReynolds) |
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Helen Maria Scott (m. Wm. Demus Lake) |
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Lurena Elizabeth (m. O. H. Hoag) |
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Rebecca Louisa (m. Lewis Miller) |
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Ida Josephine (m. James K. Polk Cannon) |
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Susan Eliza, William's wife #2 |
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Rachel Matilda (m(1) John Guttridge, m(2). Sterling Coulter) |
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Thomas Jefferson (survivor of twins) |
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Ruhama (Doyle) ( m 2. Henry A. Grant) |
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Amanda Ellen (m. S. T. Fulkerson) |
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Lyde (born on the trail, m. J. J. McGuire) |
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Mary (m. A. J. Foster) |
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| HAGANS |
William Boyd (Col., m. Lucinda Cockrill) |
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John Smith (brother of Wm. B.) |
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| HARDIN (A large complex family who had arrived in California before 1853 and returned to the East several times. There appears to be no family and little social relationship between them and the Cockrills, however they were often in the same place at the same time) | |||||
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Julia (m. William Bradley) |
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James Allen (Col.) |
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Mary Jane (m. Rowland Hughes) |
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Ann Eliza (m. William T. Cox) |
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William Henry (nephew) |
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| HOPPER (Another large and complex family with an extensive early California history. A connection through the Davenport family might connect these Hoppers to the Cockrills. One could assume that since David and Larkin Cockrill shared the same middle name, they were also aware of the connection) |
David (son John and Mary Davenport H.) |
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Dicie (dau. John Young, cousin David) |
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Mary Catherine (m. Cunningham) |
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Sarah Eveline (m. John Truitt) |
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| GAULDIN |
Martha Ann (Hendricks), widow |
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Martha Ann II (m. Wm. H. Zilhart) |
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| MCREYNOLDS (Several other members of this family were believed to have participated in the 1853 trip, however most of this family had settled in Sonoma County the previous year) |
John (m 2. Olivia G. Cockrill) |
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Leah (child from John's 1st wife, m. D. P. W. Ogan) |
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Thomas (child from John's 1st wife, m. Ellen M. Harris) |
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George (child from John's 1st wife, m. Ellen M. Harris) |
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Talitha (Cooper), wife of Jacob. |
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| WEDDLE |
Elizabeth (others in family also, at least one child 4 years old) |
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| ADAMS |
John? |
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Martha (nee Jose or Hosea, m. Steward Faudre) |
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| COX |
William T. (m. Anne Hardin) |
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| LAKE |
William Demus (m. Helen Cockrill, believed to have joined train at Fort Kearney) |
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| MCKOWN |
Adam (spelling varies, family tradition says he came with the party) |
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| MYERS |
Dudley D. (m. Mary Elizabeth Beaver), brother of Mary M. Cockrill |
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Wesley W. (cousin, son John?) |
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| TRAVIS |
William (coincident biographical data) Travis is a common middle name among Cockrills.
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