Hi, I went and looked at the map again, there is an old road that goes from Balls Ferry (where the ferry used to be) just outside Anderson, to back across the country to where palaCedro comes out, that looks like the area it could be. Nice farming area. Janie At 12:30 AM 7/20/99 EDT, LolaGF@aol.com wrote: >I sent for my Greatgrandfather's John CHRISTENSEN'S land records and just >received them back today. Some months ago we discussed where Cow Creek was >located, because he still has a living daughter and all she can remember is >Cow Creek! >John's witness' were H.J. KAH, P.W. Arnold, J.W. CONLAN, J.J. KELLY, all from >Leighton. In these land records it had to be proven that John had lived on >the premises. It was ag. land, At one point someone had mispelled his last >name doing a sOn instead of sEn. So, just by a stroke of luck there is a hand >written document from the S.F. Court, that says Certified copy of act of >Naturalization. He had to prove that he was the one and only John >Christensen, because of the misspelling. The Affidavit from the land office >at Redding Cal. dated July 29, 1893, John CHRISTENSEN of Leighton, Shasta Co. >Cal, applying to enter file for a Homestead. He was living on the land in >1866. He had a total of 150 acres. He was 40 yrs. old at the time. > >If is not under water, how would a person now find out where the location of >this land be? > >Just to let everyone know, it took 60 days to get these records from the >National Archives. > >Thank you >Jean Hehn > > >