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Subject: [PIATT] Wagons to CA
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 20:47:33 EST

>From the Norcal list: a volunteer checked the Rasmussen book on wagon trains
heading to the west. She says, The only one I find is a Richard Piatt/sic/,
of Piatt County.  He was on a wagon train known as "The Independent Compant"
from Illinois, was in St. Joseph, Missouri on April 27, 1849 and was
intending to leave for the plains in two days.  This unit consisted of three
wagons and eighteen mules.  Members composing the sompany were:
William Rea/ sic/ , of Macon County
R.G. Oglesby, of Macon County
T.L. Loomis, of Macoupin County
Jacob Hummell, of Macon County
George Matsler, of Piatt County
Richard Piatt/ sic/, of Piatt County
Henry Prather, of Macon County
Henry Sadorous, of Champaign County
N.W. Pendicord, of Dewitt County
 
Liz Branstead
Atlanta, GA

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