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The 1850 Census shows:
Irwin Johnson, 32, M, Farmer, RE value $1,200, b. KY
Elizabeth Johnson, 30, F, b. MO
John Johnson, 10, M, b. MO
James A. Johnson, 8, M, b. MO
David Johnson, 6, M, b. MO
Charles F. Johnson, , M, b. MO
Nancy M. Johnson, 3, F, b. MO
Susan Maggard, 67, F, b. TN
This family--perhaps with grandmother Susan (Bright) Maggard--went west on the "Hope Wagon Train" about 1852 or 1853.
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According to Patricia King:
I thought they went [to California] in 1854-55. Joel or John Bradley who were married to Elizabeth and Jane Johnson, daughters of James A. Nancy Jane (Taylor) Johnson, died on the trail to CA in that wagon train. Susan (Bright) Maggard died either before they went or on the trail, as I understand it.
Adam Hope, or someone in his family, led the group. There is a statue of Kit Carson where they ended their trip. Both Hope and Carson have connections to the family.
Irvine and Elizabeth (Maggard) Johnson went to Sacramento, then up to Napa area before heading to Solono Co. and then to Downey, Los Angeles Co., California. They ended up in West Point, now Amador Co., California. One Mr. Briggs became the first teacher there and he was related too. I have a few notes from West Point Historical Society about their mining project.
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According to the late Jane Siebert, from 1984 correspondence with Patricia King's Aunt Diana:
The Johnsons came west on the Hope Wagon Train, arriving in California in 1852 or 1853. My great-uncle was born in 1852 in Iowa, so we know they had left Missouri by then.
... My great-grandparents were just married--July 1851--and their first son, Thomas Kearney was born en route [in 1852]. Apparently, they were not too far from Fort Kearney, Nebraska, as that is where he got his name.
But all the census records I have checked, the great Register, and his death record, all give his birth date as May 26, 1852. There could be two explanations for the different dates: My great-grandparents cou8ld have left Missouri in the fall of 1851 and wintered in Iowa (Iowa was his birth place) and the rest of them met there in the spring. Or they could have been on a later wagon train. But my mother told me that the Hope Wagon Train was one of the largest ever to leave Missouri, and there were lots of Johnsons, Briggs and Wallaces aboard.
... My mother always hear the train called "Hope." The Hope family were also from Scotland Co., Missouri. Aquillas Hope and my great-grandfather, Samuel Briggs, established the first school in West Point [California]. Later, Briggs was Supt. of schools in Amador County [California].
Note: The Johnson family was living in Mt. Pleasant Twp., Scotland Co., MO in 1
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