Gold Rush Emigrants
NAMES OF RANDOLPH
COUNTY MEN WHO
EMIGRATED TO
CALIFORNIA IN THE
GOLD RUSH OF
1849,AND 1850

G W TAYLOR
JOHN TAYLOR
E T OWEN
THOMAS H B OWEN
JAMES MURPHY
JOSEPH MURPHY
H LASSITER
THOMAS J GORHAM
R T GORHAM
ABRAHAM LASSITER
TONY FORT
DR G T FORT
A J FORT
A G LEA
JAMES P DAMERON
JAMES COLLINS
GRANVIL WILCOX
JERRY TAYLOR
E B CONE
GEORGE HUNT
MILTON HUNT
J B HUNT
F M HAMMETT
DANIEL HUNT
MAJOR HUNT
WILLIAM HUNT
CHARLES HUNT
JOHN GAINES
JOHN DAMERON
WILLIS DAMERON
JEPTHA BAKER
CHARLES FLETCHER
F M MCLANE
WILLIAM DUNN
J V DUNN
JOHN CALLAHAN
JOHN TILLOTSON
WILLIAM HARDISTER
CAPT W T AUSTIN
J H AUSTIN
FELIX AUSTIN
HENRY AUSTIN SR
JAMES ATTERBERRY
URASMUS
ATTERBERRY
ASA FIDLER
J A BROWN
HENRY AUSTIN JR
JOSEPH YOWELL
JAMES EMERSON SR
JAMES EMERSON JR
RUFUS EMERSON
GEORGE POOL
J C BONEY
HUGH MCCANNE
CHARLES RAGSDALE
JULIUS RAGSDALE
JOHN MAUPIN
Z P GRAY
WILLIAM GLADWELL
WILLIAM ALVERSON
ROBERT BROWN
BAN HUTCHISON
ROBERT SKINNER
SAMUEL SKINNER
RANDALL SEARS
JAMES SUMMERS
DOC SUMMERS
FRANK SUMMERS
JAMES HEAD
CHARLES TURNER
JESSE SUMMERS
JOSEPH YOWELL
MARTIN SHRIVER
GABRIEL AUSTIN
WILLIAM AUSTIN
LEWIS AUSTIN
(COLORED
WAS GIVEN FREEDOM
IN
CALIFORNIA

The following information
was
contributed by Matt
Mckinsey

James McKinsey
and his wife Lucy (Hume)
from
Moberly had two sons that
went
to the gold rush but died
on
the way there.

Thomas Jefferson
McKinsey
b. December 27, 1832
d. August 28, 1850
in Carson Valley, Nevada

William P. McKinsey
b. 1827
d. November 7, 1850
Diamond Springs,
California

This is cited in the book
Old Families of Randolph
County
and in a newspaper article
for
the Moberly paper written
by
Nora Deskin(years ago)