Gosh, Jill, this is an exciting find! I sure would love to read it, and I imagine others would too. I am so grateful to you for all you have shared on these lines, and I hope you can find the time to copy the diary to the list or your web site. Pat ---------- From: "Jill C." <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Hamrick Journal found! Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 13:45:26 -1000 WOW! A new cousin has found me from my websites and she has an overland trail journal written by George Hamrick, brother of my Jesse Calvert Hamrick, as he was travelling to California with their father in 1863!!! Her ancestor is George Hamrick, son of Nimrod and Mariah Hamrick. She is going to copy it and mail me a copy!!! It is about 15 pages, she sent me this excerpt! She says her cousin has the original penciled handwritten copy. Sooooo.......when I get it I will figure out what to do with it, maybe post it on a website or? Anyway here is an excerpt~ "Big Meadows Saturday August the 29th Resumed our journey and Traveled 25 miles over good road to Murphies at the sinks to Day we had the great Pleasure of meeting Brother Jesse and W. Prothero and an old neighbor who have been in California ever since 1850 we were verry glad to see them and hear from many of our old friends and neighbors We Camped at the Murphies house had no wood and verry poor Water and had little Grass Weather verry Pleasant" This is just wonderful! Jill O'Neall Ching