Greene Family - Ida Greene's Recollections - Pulaski Greene page 6

he was not cured of tuberculosis as he had hoped and thot that to live in California might cure him.
     He and my mother were married in the spring of 1852 and early in May started the long journey to California. With them were Mr & Mrs James Allen and another couple whose name I've tried to recall in vain. My fathers sister Sarah Hull and her two daughters Jerusha & Angeline came with them too.
     There were many young men in the party but only few of them I remember. My mothers brother Mahlon Bill [?] Barney Leonarad Wal[t]er and Jay Greene a distant relative of my fathers.
      The McTucker brothers, James and Nat came with my father too but I don[ot] know whether on the first or second trip.
     I dont know how long they were on the way but the[y] reached California befor[e] the fall rains came so my father and mother remained in the mountains with the cattle an[d] horses until there was feed in the valley.
     They brot both cattle and horses for breeding and had a ranch near the present site of Galt.

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Greene Family - Ida Greene's Recollections - Pulaski Greene - page 5

This letter was written by Ida Greene Triplett after she, Lewis, Shirley [Trip], and Harry Triplett moved to California. It is possible that she wrote it in Stockton, or even in Burbank. I will have to check on the street location.

My Dear Children
     I regret so much that I did not learn more of my parents history while there was still some one living to tell me especially about their trip across the plains and who came with them.
     The Barry Adage wrote about forty years ago published the history of that trip and I put the paper away for safe keeping but in the confusion of moving from the Disotel house to our home on 8th st it was lost.
     The few  facts I remember are that in 1849 my father with a small party of Barry men crossed the plains to California. Some of the men went into the mines but my father who was in poor health kept a store of miners supplies in a mining camp.
     He returned to Illinois in the fall of 1851 going by water, crossing the isthmus of Panama and on to New York and across country by rail and stage to Barry.
     His health was better but by spring he found

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