This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ReB.2ACE/2723.1.1.1 Message Board Post: The Beeves/Beaves family I am following lived in St. Michaels Parish, Madison County, MO during the 1800s. Louis (b.1809/11) m. Julye/Julie Caillote dit LaChance (b.1819/26) on 7 Feb 1832. Their second child, Nicholas (b. 1 Apr 1837) is the person I am interested in. I believe he m. Elizabeth Rebecca Childers/Childress about 1859. He is in the 1850 census in MO living with his parents (Madison Co. District 54, page 214, line 271). If I have the right guy he's in the 1860 census in Butte Co. CA with his wife Rebecca and a one-year old daughter. So, how and when did he get from MO to CA? The De-Guire family took several wagon trains west during the 1850s, but I haven't been able to get any more details. Any ideas?