<A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randolphroots/index.html">Index </A> <A HREF="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~randolphroots/index.html">Index </A> NAMES OF RANDOLPH COUNTY MEN WHO EMIGRATED TO CALIFORNIA IN THE GOLD RUSH OF 1849,AND 1850 G W TAYLOR JOHN TAYLOR E T OWEN THOMAS H B OWEN JAMES MURPHY JOSEPH MURPHY H LASSITER THOMAS J GORHAM R T GORHAM ABRAHAM LASSITER TONY FORT DR G T FORT A J FORT A G LEA JAMES P DAMERON JAMES COLLINS GRANVIL WILCOX JERRY TAYLOR E B CONE GEORGE HUNT MILTON HUNT J B HUNT F M HAMMETT DANIEL HUNT MAJOR HUNT WILLIAM HUNT CHARLES HUNT JOHN GAINES JOHN DAMERON WILLIS DAMERON JEPTHA BAKER CHARLES FLETCHER F M MCLANE WILLIAM DUNN J V DUNN JOHN CALLAHAN JOHN TILLOTSON WILLIAM HARDISTER CAPT W T AUSTIN J H AUSTIN FELIX AUSTIN HENRY AUSTIN SR JAMES ATTERBERRY URASMUS ATTERBERRY ASA FIDLER J A BROWN HENRY AUSTIN JR JOSEPH YOWELL JAMES EMERSON SR JAMES EMERSON JR RUFUS EMERSON GEORGE POOL J C BONEY HUGH MCCANNE CHARLES RAGSDALE JULIUS RAGSDALE JOHN MAUPIN Z P GRAY WILLIAM GLADWELL WILLIAM ALVERSON ROBERT BROWN BAN HUTCHISON ROBERT SKINNER SAMUEL SKINNER RANDALL SEARS JAMES SUMMERS DOC SUMMERS FRANK SUMMERS JAMES HEAD CHARLES TURNER JESSE SUMMERS JOSEPH YOWELL MARTIN SHRIVER GABRIEL AUSTIN WILLIAM AUSTIN LEWIS AUSTIN (COLORED WAS GIVEN FREEDOM IN CALIFORNIA The following information was contributed by Matt Mckinsey James McKinsey and his wife Lucy (Hume) from Moberly had two sons that went to the gold rush but died on the way there. Thomas Jefferson McKinsey b. December 27, 1832 d. August 28, 1850 in Carson Valley, Nevada William P. McKinsey b. 1827 d. November 7, 1850 Diamond Springs, California This is cited in the book Old Families of Randolph County and in a newspaper article for the Moberly paper written by Nora Deskin(years ago) Donna Percer descendant of Andrew Jackson Summers b. 1851, M. Amy E. Brown, died 1946, Macon Co, MO>