"Following is an account, copied word for word from notes made in pencil in his notebook, by my grandfather, George R. Hamerick, of travel by wagon train from Missouri to California in 1863. George M. Taylor"
Following are all the names of individuals included in the Hamrick overland trail journal:
Immigrants
George R. Hamrick
Celesta Hamrick
Bro. John Hamrick
M. Peterson
Billy Bleges or Pleges
J. Rigg (Bigg)
Hayley
John Jones
Cloumbus Thurlow
Katy Bleges
J Hodges
Bill Madison
Kitty Peterson
Joseph Kenedy
Elizabeth Wren and newborn son
LJ Ellege
Mrs. Kenedy
Melvin and Frank Peters
R. Thurlo
H. Thurlow
John Wren
M. Thurlo
C. Scott
Mr. Everet
B. England
Mr. Henry Ford
Smith Peterson
Martin
Pather
Martin Peterson
Those encountered along the trail:
Widow Holt
A. Perkinses'
Sharp (Frenchman)
Jesse Hamrick
W. Prothero
The last 2 in California at Murphies