ADDENDA.

WHAT BECAME OF OUR TRAVELING COMPANIONS

 

Mr. Aaron Rose, after meeting with fair success in mining, returned to Sacramento, and became connected with the dairy business. At the end of two years, having a strong desire to see his parents, he went back to Martinsville, carrying with him about $3,000.00 in golddust. There he still resides.

Mr. William Johnson returned with Mr. Rose, and is now living at his old home in Morgan County.

Mr. Avery, who left our party on the Sweetwater River to finish the journey on foot, proved to be so good a traveler that he arrived at Sacramento two weeks in advance of us. But he was disappointed in California, became homesick, and, at the end of the first month, took passage on the Panama steamer for home.

The Carson brothers were quite successful in mining, but at length concluded to try something else. Locating in San Francisco, when a great deal of building was being done, they actively resumed their former trade as brick masons and plasterers, in which they succeeded well, and which they continued to follow for several years, finally returning to their old home in Cincinnati.

Mrs. Foshee, the favorite of fortune, was married, early in the year 1852, to a business man of Sacramento, Captain Edward Smith, and continued to reside there until her death, in 1892. Their son, Mr. Edward Smith, has for many years been secretary of the State Agricultural Society, and resides at the capital. Their daughter also resides in Sacramento.

Our friend Mr. Cole, with his daughter Patience, came through safely a little later than our own party. He settled on a farm in the beautiful lone Valley, and was joined in a few months by his wife and the remaining children, who came out by steamer. The daughter who accompanied him across the plains, married a Mr. Pardee, a substantial farmer residing near her father's home, thirty miles east of Sacramento.

Mr. William Bryant, one of the young men who befriended Mrs. Foshee at the Humboldt Meadows, by surrendering their ponies in exchange for a seat in the carriage for her, brought his pick through on his shoulders and engaged at once in mining at Salmon Falls, in El Dorado County. Many years after, I met him at Calistoga, in Napa County, where he was residing with his family. He became a minister of the gospel, and is now pastor of the Methodist Church in the city of Salinas, in Monterey County, where he resides.

Robert Parker, the plucky eleven-year-old boy who was determined to cross the plains with us, having reached man's estate, started out on his own account, and, having experienced his share of the vicissitudes of fortune common to life in California, settled in business in Sacramento, where he now resides with his wife and three children.

Mr. Thomas Wand, the Kentucky gentleman whose acquaintance and friendship we formed near the Ice Springs on the Sweetwater River, settled in Sacramento, where he became a prominent and prosperous merchant, and later a member of the California Legislature. He afterwards removed to San Francisco, and there established a large mercantile business, though he made his residence in Oakland, on the east side of the Bay of San Francisco, where he built a beautiful home. He died several years ago.

Ledyard Frink