My Simmons-Brown Ancestors left Missouri after 1853, and were in Sonoma, Calif. by 1859, when a chil
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Both Simmons and Brown appear in the records of Dade County, Missouri. In the mid 1850's there was a trek west led by Wick Morgan. Try shsmo.org and look for the manuscript journal of this trip.
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Wow! That was fast. Thanks a million.
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Thanks. They weren't listed in the journal. Maybe he only named workers, because there were so few people, and they made good miles and travelled fast. Didn't sound like a wagon train. They ended at Red Bluff. I know it well, and it is not close to Sacramento, which is where I think Simmons-Brown ended on the California trail, because reasonable close to Sonoma.
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