My grand parents on my mothers side traveled from Joplin Missouri to Littleton, Colo in 1895. One of their 9 children was born enroute. I attended their 50th wedding anniversey in 1940 with my parents.
This is something that I have wondered for many years, and wish that I had asked my mom and dad about. My dad’s family came to north Idaho from Iowa in 1902, and my grandmother was expecting my dad at the time that they made the trip. They probably either came by some sort of stage coach or possibly on the train when they traveled out. There are earlier records of some of my dad’s relatives coming out to Iowa, and the story is about the two boys herding the cattle and driving the wagon on the way out; but this was in the mid 1800’s . I will see if I can find that story and post a link if I can find it. My grandmother went to the Colombian Exposition at the Chicago World’s Fair , and Robin has the commemorative coin that was from the Chicago fair that my grandmother saved, and my dad had after she passed away. I think that she might have been living in Iowa at that time, and would have probably gone on the train to Chicago.
Yes,sir, some of the boggs clan traveled from Winchester county Kentucky to a land grant in Texas. I understand there were several wagons of them and not all had covered wagons only some of them. But pioneers all..
Also, one of the stories that my mom used to tell me was about traveling to school in a buckboard. Not exactly the same as a wagon train, but of the same era. It might have been in Texas, or it might have been in Arizona. My mom was born in Texas, but at some point they had moved from there to Arizona, and I am not sure how old she was when they made the trip. My grandfather was an Indian Agent on the Navajo reservation in Arizona, and that is where it seems the most likely that she and the other children would have been taken to school by buckboard. It must have been a long enough trip that they were out in the prairie somewhere, because the scary part of her story was that the longhorn cattle would chase the buckboard, and they would go as fast as possible, while the wagon driver would try to fight the attacking longhorns off with his bullwhip. The kids would all be huddled down in the bottom of the buckboard, hoping that it would not be overturned, and they would not be trampled to death by the charging cattle. I remember my mom telling me this story when I was a little girl, and my daughter Robin said that she remembers her grandmother telling her the same story. No wonder both of us are terrified of cows…….
My ex wife's mother's mother came from Tennessee to Texas in a wagon and told us of an attack by Indians I was literally glued to listening to her.
No, my family came here from Sweden and settled in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where I grew up. My dad farmed and logged with horses, but no wagon trains.
Nope. My father's parents came here from Germany. My mother came here from England. Many of the people here in rural Virginia can trace their roots back to the original colonists. I like being around them for that reason, even though I am jealous of their knowledge of their ancestry.
I don't believe mine did, but not sure. Apparently my ancestors arrived in Georgia before it was a state and settled there (English/Irish). On my mother's side, I have relatives in Utah for generations but I never wondered how they got there.
Same with my family, to the best of my knowledge. Only in the 1910's did some start moving, and only as far as northern Ohio.