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Wrote To Farther This Mail – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsLife in the Calaveras County gold fields continued to sustain life but not be very profitable for David Lewis Drew in June 1856. Summer had arrived and it was hot.... -
The Columbia Ratification Meeting – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s diary entries in July 1856 were brief. Apparently, he and his partners were not having much success in their quest for gold because he didn’t include a... -
Went To The Circus in Columbia – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s quest for gold and a bright future continued to dwindle by August 1856. The hard labor by he and his partners was not rewarded with few golden... -
Panned Out Today. Got Eleven Dollars. David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsThe season of placer mining in David Drew’s life was coming to a close by September 1856. He was barely making enough money to satisfy debts and sustain life. His... -
Went To Columbia. Got A Tooth Pulled. David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s diary entries for October 1856 continued to reflect the end of his career of exclusively looking for gold. His days were spent maintaining the claim, getting his... -
Voted The Republican Ticket – David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsNovember 1856 started with excitement of the Presidential Election. A life-long Republican by heart, David Lewis Drew voted for the Republican candidate,John C. Fremont, whose home state was California. The... -
Sold Out to Web Atwood ~ End of David Drew Diary
Posted on 1 April 2011 | No CommentsDavid Lewis Drew’s diary ends in December 1856. Earnings from placer mining had all but ceased. He was fortunate to find a buyer of his shares in the partnership. David... -
Navigator, Undertaker, Carpenter, Survivor
Posted on 31 March 2011 | No CommentsMy 2nd great grandparents, Charles Joseph Gordon Logie and Rosa Clara Friedlander Logie, were both born in England. Both lived in London as a child, yet they met for the... -
Abiel Chandler ~ Revolutionary War Veteran
Posted on 31 March 2011 | No CommentsAbiel Chandler was born on 20 October 1765 in Andover, New Hampshire to Timothy and Ellizabeth Copp Chandler. Too young to fight in the Revolutionary War at its start, he... -
The History of James and Emily Blacknell Hoggard
Posted on 31 March 2011 | No CommentsJames Hoggard was born 4 August 1823, at Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, England. He was the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Radford Hoggard and was the tenth child in the family. His...
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