Here is a puzzler for you Snow Flakes: From two diaries kept by J. Elza Armstrong and John Edwin Banks on their way to the gold rush: p 7. May 19: <1849> [Armstrong] We came to the Big Blue River. We crossed without much difficulty. There were a great many wagons awaiting to cross. There was a grave on the bank of the river. It was a Catholic. The Independence road and the St. Joseph road come together. (7) [Banks] this day we crossed the Big Blue. p 8. Two big trains immediately behind us. The water is nearly three feet deep, the stream wide. Such whooping and yelling, "Who Whoy" is amusing. Today we passed the intersection of the Independece road. Saw two graves. The crosses: "I.H. Snow, her lies a Catholic," and John Graham, died March 27, 1847." The only old graves I have seen. They rest from their journey. Distance fifteen. From the Buckeye Rovers in the Gold Rush. Edited by Howard L Scamehorn, Ohio University Press. Athen Ohio 1965. The bold and underline is mine for emphasis. Anyone like to venture where our Isaac Snow, a Catholic hailed from???? The book is an interesting chronology of the these two's trip to the Gold Fields if this topic interests anyone. I found it gave a great flavor to life on the wagon trains. Ernie