This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Gemecker, Greenwood Classification: lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7407/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There is at least one source that states that Caleb Greenwood, guide for the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy wagon train to California in 1844, took James Case Greenwood, a son born in the Half Breed Farms neighborhood (near what is now Thurman) in 1841, with him on this wagon train. THIS I CANNOT BELIEVE: 1. It seems incompatible that a guide for a wagon train would try to take a 3-year old boy with him while he -- the father -- was acting as a guide. 2. The diarist for the trip names the men, women and children who were part of this 1844 wagon train. HE NAMES ONLY THE TWO OLDEST SONS OF CALEB as having been along. 3. The County Court Records of Atchison county, Missouri, say that Andrew Gemecker was keeping the children of Caleb Greenwood in 1846. 4. The maternal aunt of 3-year old James Case Greenwood says she was staying with Rufus Hitchcock (who lived south of what is now Sidney) during the 1840's. 5. In 1845, Caleb Greenwood is known to have been a member of a military force in California. (This doesn't suggest that a small boy was depending upon him.) Just how much faith should one put on the memory of a person who years later "remembers" what happened when he was three or four years old? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.