Footnotes for Letters 1 - 3: 1849 – 1852 Revised 6/2006
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1. Albuquerque, in present day New Mexico.
2. James B. Yager (1809-1883) of Blue Twsp., Jackson Co., Missouri was John
S. Watts’ brother-in-law, married to his wife’s sister, Mary J.
Berry .
3. Elizabeth Ewing Berry Yocum Watts (1795-1876) of Cass Co., Missouri, John
S. Watts’ wife.
4. Santa Fe, New Mexico
5. Lafayette Co., Missouri
6. John S. Watts, Jr. (1827-after1995). His mother was Mary Schooling, John
S. Watts’ first wife.
7. Hugh H. Hamilton (1823-1883). His sister
was married to John S. Watts' wife's brother, Richard C. Berry. Hugh was a
successful gold
miner. When Richard and Rebecca Berry migrated to California in 1864 they all
went to Half Moon Bay where they farmed but not liking the area bought farms
in the Kings River area of Tulare Co., California. Hugh Hamilton bought a ranch
in the Yokohl Valley. "Mr. Big, Hugh Hamilton came to the Exeter area
during the Gold Rush days in a Covered Wagon with $20,000 worth of gold. With
the money he purchased 1,200 acres of land." Farmersville (CA) Herald,
10 June 1981.
8. Linville Hays (1821-after 1896)
of Westport, Jackson Co., Missouri. Linville left Missouri for California
in the Spring of 1849 in a party led by his father
Boone Hays. They followed the Oregon Trail across the plains.
9. The Boys are probably John S. Watts’ sons, Dewitt Clinton Watts
and Cleon Bolivar Watts. Jesse Yocum, Elizabeth Watts’ son may have
been with this group.
10. Rio Grande
11. Socorro, New Mexico
12. Might be Samuel H. Berry (1815-?),
Elizabeth Watts’ brother. His
wife was Eliza Wells (1818-?).
13. May be the John Reddick listed in
the 1860 San Jose, Santa Clara Co., CA Census, born about 1793 in Kentucky.
14. Alexander Jackson Majors (1814-1900)
of Kansas City, Missouri. A partner in the freighting company of Waddel,
Majors and Russell, he also had a meat
packing company in Westport, Missouri.
15. Isthmus of Panama. Ships sailing from
San Francisco, California would take passengers to Panama City, where they
would ride mules across the mountain
to Gorgona and then travel by boat down the Chagres River to Chagres. It
was a difficult and dangerous journey.
16. New Orleans, Louisiana
17. William Russel Watts (1789-1875)
of Washington Co., Kentucky, John S. Watts’ brother.
18. John S. Watts (1787-1860)
19. Probably William Russell Watts, Jr
(1836-1925)
20. San Francisco, California. In 1849
this was the only post office for the miners in the gold country. There was
no mail delivery. Anyone desiring
mail would go in person or hire someone to get their mail in San Francisco.
21. Mexicans
Letter 1a
1a. Letter
written by Judge Joseph Schooling to his niece Martha Dickerson, daughter
of his
half-brother John H. Schooling. Used by permission of Howard Edward Boswell
from his book “Descendents of Francis Schooling” 2002, page
9.
2a. Niece. Martha A. Schooling Dickerson (1821-?) was the wife of Beverly
James Dickerson, Jr., John S. Watts’ nephew.
3a. Margaret Wilson Schooling (1801-1864)
4a. John H. Schooling 1793-1845), Joseph’s half-brother
5a. Robert Schooling (1787-1863), Joseph’s half-brother.
6a. William Logan Schooling (1816-1850). Robert Schooling’s son-in-law’s
were Samuel E. Rowland and Thomas Clelland Rowland.
7a. Reuben Newton Ireland (1815-1852) the husbnd of Ruana Schooling (1815-1899)
8a. William Russell Watts or his son William Russell Watts, Jr. , brother
and nephew of John S. Watts.
9a. Beverly J. R. Dickerson (1820-1863) Martha’s husband and nephew
of John S. Watts. They lived in Washington Co., Kentucky.
10a. James P. Schooling (1798-after 1850). He lived in Marion Co., Kentucky.
11a. Mary Hardwick Schooling (1766-after 1850)
12a. Judge Joseph Schooling (1782-Dec 1850). The only child of his father’s
first marriage, he was a surveyor for Daniel Boone; in Indiana he served
as County judge, State Representative and State Senator; in Lawrence Co.,
Missouri he served as a Justice and Probate Judge. He was a veteran of the
War of 1812.
13a. Jane McKitrick Schooling (1794-after 1850)
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22. Cold Springs, El Dorado Co., California,
a mining camp to the east of Coloma in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
23. The area of northern Cass and southern
Jackson Counties , Missouri, south of Kansas City.
24. Probably Susan Chiles Riggs (1793-1868)
the wife of Samuel Riggs who lived in Jackson Co., Missouri in the 1840’s.
25. William Hudson Mitchell (1804-?) who
was married to Margaret’s
cousin Mary Head Berry (1801-1899)
26. Ships on the Sacramento River.
27. Margaret Jane Watts (1836-1923) of
Cass Co., Missouri, John S. Watts Jr.’s half-sister.
28. Dewitt Clinton Watts (1829-?) his
brother
29. Cleon Bolivar Watts (1831-?) his brother
30. Andrew Jackson Watts (1838-1894) of
Cass Co., Missouri, his half-brother
31. Mariah C. Duncan (1835-?). The Duncans
were neighbors of the Watts in Cass Co., Missouri. Mariah married a physician,
George W. Browing 11 Dec 1851
in Cass Co., Missouri.
32. Yuba River
33. Elizabeth Ewing Berry Yocum Watts
(1795-1876) his step-mother
34. John S. Watts (1787-1860) his father
35. Letty Stubblefield Watts (1821-1910),
his sister and her husband, George Washington Rowland (1816-1872) of Cass
Co., Missouri.
36. A Post Office opened in Sacramento,
California in November 1849.
37. Richard C. Berry (1810-1878), a brother
of his stepmother, Elizabeth Watts.
38. John S. Watts, Jr. (1827-after 1901)
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39. John S. and Elizabeth Watts
40. Probably Dr. Micajah Pendleton (1797-before
1880) He was a cousin of Margaret’s mother who had been a neighbor of John S. Watts in Washington
Co., Kentucky.
41. John Nathan Hays (1854-1918)
42. Nathan Simpson was a friend of Upton
Hays, Margaret’s husband.
43. Upton Hays (1831-1862)
44. Albuquerque, New Mexico
45. Richard Crump (1828-1900), Upton’s nephew, and his wife Eliza Jane
Hornbuckle (1828-?).
46. Mary Cunningham
47. Amazon Hays (1820-?), Margaret’s brother-in-law, was married to
Mary J. (Pap) Berry (1823-1901), her cousin.
48. Santa Fe, New Mexico
49. Amazon’s wife Mary B. Berry Hays (1823-1901), a daughter of Margaret’s
uncle Caleb Ewing Berry.
50. James B. Yager (1809-1883) was married
to Mary J. Berry, Margaret’s
aunt.
51. James Josiah Webb (1818-1889) Webb
and his partner John M. Kingbury had a large trading business in Santa Fe,
New Mexico from 1844 to 1861. (http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/nmu1%23mss232sc/)
52. Samuel Hays (1824-1872), Upton’s brother.
53. Rebecca Berry Hays (1828-1873), Samuel
Hays’ wife and a daughter
of Margaret’s uncle Caleb Ewing Berry.
54. Mary J. Berry Yager (1812-1883), Elizabeth
Watts’ sister.
55. Mary Rachel Yager (1844-?), Margaret's cousin.
56. Louisa Catherine Yager (1849-after
1930), Margaret's cousin.
57. Richard Francis Yager (1839-1864), Margaret's cousin.
58. John Berry (1803-1854)
59. Lt. James T. Berry (1833-1891?) served
in the Union Army in the Civil War.
60. Westminister College, Westminister,
Missouri.
61. Caleb Ewing Berry (1831-1861), Margaret's cousin.
62. Sgt. Robert M. Berry (1836-1902), John
D. Berry, Jr. (1843-1902), Samuel Berry (1849-?)
63. Margaret Galbreath Berry (1813-before
1880), John Berry’s widow.
64. Caleb Ewing Berry (1801-1883)
65. Virginia Fulkerson Berry (1804-1877)
66. Edward Gaither Berry (1807-1905)
67. Trachoma, an infection of the eyes, could cause blindness.
68. Samuel H. Berry (1815-?)
69. Margaret A. Berry (1852-?) and Mitchel
Berry (1854-?)
70. John A. Burt (1801-1854) was married
to Bathsheba V. Fulkerson, a sister of Uncle Caleb’s wife.
71. The children of John Burt were: Louisa
(1827), Margaret (1831), Isaac (1834), T. (1836), Mary (1838), Sam (1840),
Emily A. (1842), Rebecca (1845)
and Martha (1847)
72. Isaac Burt (1834-?) , a son of John
A. Burt and Bathsheba Fulkerson Burt.
73. Isaac Berry (1832-1928)
74. Bryan French (1826-?)
75. Bathsheba V. Fulkerson Burt (1808-?)
76. Callaway Co., Missouri
77. Elizabeth Ewing Berry Yocum Watts
(1795-1876) and John S. Watts (1787-1860)
78. John, Jr., Cleon, Dewitt and Andrew
Jackson Watts in Mariposa Co., California
79. Margaret Jane Watts Hays (1836-1923)
was born in Kentucky. Her family moved to Van Buren (Cass) Co., Missouri
in 1838. She married Upton Hays 4 Feb
1852 in Jackson Co., Missouri.