RE: pioneeers arriving in California (at Gold Run?) by wagon train on 20 Sept 1849 My 3rd great-grandfather, Rev. Thomas THOMPSON, came to California from Paris, MO, in 1849. In his company was his third wife, the twice widowed Mildred Bell (CAVE) WESTERFIELD LAINE THOMPSON, and their children by their previous marriages. Among them was a youthful Thomas Henry LAINE, who later became a lawyer, a California State Senator, and a framer of the California State Constitution. Thomas THOMPSON was a noted founder of the Disciples of Christ churches in northern California. Sadly, we have no family account (no journal or diary) recording their overland journey. All we know is that they were said to have left Paris on May 15th and to have arrived "in California" on September 20th, 1849. Exactly *where* they arrived on Sep 20th is unknown, but it is known that they spent their first year in California at Gold Run. They spent their next year at Coloma, then in 1851, moved permanently to Santa Clara, CA. But surely someone in that 1849 wagon train kept a journal. My aunt has checked the "California Wagon Trains" book, and our THOMPSONs are not in it. What I have found is a copy of: Allen, Walter C. 1948. The Society of California Pioneers: Centennial Roster, Commemorative Edition. (No publisher given, but presumed to be the society itself.) In the index, it gives the date that each member arrived in California, and while Thomas THOMPSON is not listed as a member of the society, his step-son Thomas Henry LAINE is (though his name is misspelled LANE). I have gone through this book and copied down the names of every member who gives their arrival date in California as 20 Sept 1849. I'm hoping against hope that one of them was in the same wagon train as our THOMPSON's and LAINE's and that somewhere out there is a journal of their trip. ADRAIN, William ANDERSON, John BURKE, Ethelbert DUNCAN, William L. FARISH, Adam T. FISCHER, Joseph GAGE, A.K. GOODWIN, Jesse O. GROAT, Richard V. HARKNESS, Martin K. HASKINS, Charles W. HAY, Henry LANE, Thomas H. McGLANAHAN, Thomas M. MORGAN, James H. PALMER, Noah RANDOLPH, W.C. STEVENS, Cornelius STORM, Cornelius STORY, William F. THORNE, Isaac N. Diana