Ox-drawn wagon train drawn by Roger Arno, husband of Kathleen Thompson Arno whose great-grandfather would have been on such a train coming from Texas. Although we don't know if the wagons were ox-drawn, we know it also symbolizes the train taken by the Pedigo and Hendrix families across the Oregon Trail in 1854.

All the families listed on the front page, or families descended from them, found their ways to California. We know definitely that the Thompsons came to California from Texas by ox-drawn wagon (with their mother, Nancy Bacon Thompson Burns, her second husband, Uriah Burns and their son, Coke Burns). Nancy and her first husband, William Thompson, were the grandparents of Walter Coke Thompson, my grandfather. (Maybe you can help me identify the Mystery Photo that was found among his belongings.) We also know that the Pedigo and Hendrix families came across the Oregon Trail in 1854. Walter Scott Reynolds, his wife Alice Grace Boyles Reynolds, and their eight children were living in the state of Washington near Spirit Lake when one of the daughters (my grandmother) met and married the grandson of that same Hendrix family (my grandfather). Note: This Reynolds page also contains a small section about Walter's half brother, Charles Alexander Reynolds, who was a frontiersman and scout. Charley was killed at the Little Bighorn with Custer's troops. My mother was one daughter of the Thompson/Reynolds marriage, Dorothy Dell Thompson. Click here for her family and narratives.

California Pioneer Project Cyndi's List of genealogical sites on the internet Exploring Our Roots MSNBC's new, very helpful genealogy site. Lineages Little Bighorn Association   Monterey County Obituaries Thompson obituaries being added to Genweb by Norm Atkins, descendant of Pleasant Thompson. Oregon-California Trails Association (OCTI) Home page and genealogy of my friend Susan Stockbridge Bellomo USGenWeb Project Western History Association

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