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“ In company with my father and step mother and our little sister, we left Galena on the last day of April 1852. We arrived at Council Bluffs by boat. There we found our wagons and cattle waiting for us. There were one hundred wagons in our train, each one drawn by three yoke of oxen. We were seven months on the plains. When we arrived in Sacramento, we found the entire city under water. From Marysville, also flooded, we took the stage for Grass Valley. I was a little girl at the time but have never forgotten the trip. We had skirmishes with Indians and I delayed keeping with the train. When they camped for the night, I was not to be found. Twenty-five men on horseback came back after me. They found me hidden behind a lot of sage brush. Half an hour before they arrived, I saw a band of Indians pass by on the road near where I was hiding and was frightened nearly to death when my father found me. My father died the following year in Grass Valley, California. “
Cecilia Zenetta Dickson
arrived in 1852 from Illinois