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“ In July 1849 my parents, with three girls between the ages of five and nine, and a baby boy of two months weight but 4 ½ lbs., started with a company of twenty-five families with ox teams to cross the plains in search of a better climate. We wintered in El Paso on the Rio Grande. We left there late in the summer and crossed the Rio Colorado at Fort Yuma, then deserted, and entered California. We reached Los Angeles Dec. 1850.
Our trip ended in the City of Angels where we continued to live for the next seven years and we found what we were looking for –—health and happiness. The little adobe town contained but few Americans, but we soon learned to speak the Spanish language and learned to love the generous light-hearted people who made us welcome to the dances and amusements. ”
Alida Wadhams Ferrill
arrived in 1850 from Wisconsin