Sandy and list subscribers: I visited you web site and the page with the information about the other trips the McCully's took to CA and OR reminded me of an old family story that my gggrandfather, Samuel T. Saint, went to CA gold rush in 1849 and returned "a year and a half later." Samuel T. lived in Tippecanoe Twp., Henry Co. at the time. This story was written down in some notes my parents took down when they talked to a great uncle in the 1970's Samuel T. Saint married Hannah Husted, 15 July 1848, at the house of her father, Peter Husted in Yellow Springs Twp., Des Moines Co., IA In HISTORY OF DES MOINES COUNTY AND ITS PEOPLE, By Augesine M. Antorobus there is a biographical sketch of William Husted, a brother of Hannah Husted. "William Husted has resided in Des Moines county since I842, save for a period of a year and a half spent in California." The wording of the legnth of the trip matches the story of my great uncle. >From your web site page, http://pweb.netcom.com/~symbios/wagntrn.html, you say that "David and Asa McCully joined a group from DesMoines and Henry counties bound for the California gold fields." So did the McCullys, Saints and Husteds go to CA on the same wagon train? I've look for evidence of this but haven't found any yet. I had a search for the Saint and Husted names done in California Wagon Train Lists, Vol 1, 1849-1852 with neither name in the index. If these families did go to CA together maybe this information might lead to you finding the answer. I have the disadvantage of not living in Henry Co., IA or CA. Keep us up-to-date on what you might find about 49ers from Henry and Des Moines Co. going to CA and OR. Thanks, Leslie W. Saint Sandy Wilbur wrote: In the spring of 1853, Asa McCully organized a wagon train from New London, Henry Co., IA, to Oregon. A list of possible participants, most of them from Des Moines and Henry counties, is included on my website at http://pweb.netcom.com/~symbios/asatrn.html If anyone recognizes any names, I'd be pleased to hear from you. Sandy Wilbur