SLD7546@aol.com wrote: > Subj: Surnames of Tehama Cemetery > Date: 12/10/99 11:05:56 AM Pacific Standard Time > From: LMGerke > To: SLD7546 > > Donna, > > I noticed the name Gerke in your post, the same as ours. I'm not familiar > with Tehama Cemetery at all, what part of the U.S. is it in? > > I do know that my husband's family has relatives buried in Connecticut. We > also have traced several generations back to Rhode Island. > > Any information that you may have, I do appreciate. By the way, we have at > least 4 generations of the name Henry Gerke in our family tree. > > Thanks again, > > Lucyna Gerke > LMGerke@aol.com > > Dear Lucyna: > Tehama Cemetery is in the small town of Tehama. On a map of California, look > north of Sacramento following I-5. Find Corning and Red Bluff. Tehama would > be closer to Corning than Red Bluff. This area saw lots of people come west > for the Gold Rush in and around the year of 1849. > There are excellent Pioneer records available for Tehama County at this > address: > Http://www.csuchico.edu/lbib/spc/lingenfelter/mtoc.htm > > Let me know if this helps! > Donna --