Hi; I already own my Brinks and enjoy readiing it often. HI; Can anyone tell me about the availability of NORTON'S MADSON COUNTY HISTORY? My cousin Joanne and I descend from Lemuel Southard and were recently made aware that his son Lemuel Jr, wrote a piece in that publication about the history of the Chouteau. Can you tell me if there is an existing list of the Madison County families that went to the Goldfields of California in the several wagon trains that left Madison Co IL? Did a local newspaper in the area record the event, probably July-August of 1852. We know, for instance, from his obituary that Lemuel Sr was one of those families, but we have lost track of Lemuel's sister Christine Southard Sparks, and a list of the other families on the wagon train could tell us if she was among the several families in the party not mentioned in her brother's obit of 1917. Thanks for any assistance you can offer. Shirley Southard Schach