A Hundred Years of Rip and Roarin Rough and Ready By Andy Rogers (1952)(Hathitrust) (117 pages)

and took it to him at the jail house each week. She frequently said that her husband would never hang. when they put Frank in the death cell a couple of nights before he was to hang, be said to one of his guards, "Dick, bring me my milking stool." The guard took it to him the morning Frank was to be hung. Jenny was there, and when they went to get Frank, he was dead. In the botton of the stool was a small cavity in which was some strychnine. Jenny had placed the poison between the white pleats of Frank's laundered shirt, which he kept under the stool, and covered it with candle grease. In those days candles were used for lights. “So Frank died on his feet." When Mrs. Meyler was a child about five years of age, she was taken to visit her grandfather in Grass Valley. To entertain her, he took her to a creek and gave her a pan of dirt. He told her to wash it out, and they discovered three dollars worth of gold in the pan. At sixteen, she was taken down a mine one thousand feet, on a flat car, and reaching the bottom, she chiseled a piece of quartz off the wall. In Rough and Ready, the Chinese lived very near, and they were extremely kind and attentive. After heavy rains, they would go out prospecting, and find nuggets washed down by the rain. Her mother was born in 1846 at Moskow, Maine, and moved to Binham; moved to California.when eight years of age, in the year 1854 ~there were all kinds of bad people. Mother standing outside of the stage with my grandmother, saw two ruffians trying to steal their trunks. She told the driver, who scared them away. No rooms at the Hotel. One large room divided by a sheet, unsafe to sleep in. Mr. Peobert came east from California, married, and took Sophia and her two daughters on a trip to the West coast. Took Steamer, John Stephens, to New York to Panama; here they crossed the Isthmus on backs of Natives, mostly naked, baggage was carried by Camel backs. Jobn Heammeson and another man, now of Stockton, traveling with him, reaching San Francisco, they took stage up through Marysville, Smartville, to Rough and Ready. Father Gephard was a merchant before he married mother. He had two dry-goods stores in Rough and Ready, and fire burned hin out, and he went to Smartville, below Rough and Ready, as Secretary of a Water Company. Mr. David Boyer, Deans or Beans, of San Jose, were other members of the Company. Mary Francis married Graves, of Grass Valley. George Gephard owned the toll house at Rough and Ready. Francis Gephard married Captain James Meyler of the U.S. Army, who mapped, or designed, and put in the San Pedro Harbor. Francis used to row the boat in the harbor. . Mr. and l'rs, George Gephard visited Rough and Ready in 1849. In year 1849, George Gephard left Buffalo at the age of nineteen, for St. Louis, early in 1850, to join a party of 250 for California, meeting up with hardships, that only four of the 250 reached California. Grandfather Graves came out with a pardner, leaving their family in Maine, in 1851. A coin was tossed up as to who Google 58 should go back to get the families. The perdner went back. among those were fouryear old francis Gephard. They came this time via Panama. Delano "Old Block," banker, miner, handler of gold slugs, writer, store clerk, farm hand, political meddler, and Captain. Delano led the remnant worn wretched Dayton Company to the promised land over the Sierra Nevadas. His trip across the plains was “A cure or kill" with the Indians several months, when "01d Block" opened his store at Dawlytown. In need of supplies, took his team of oxen and purchased a wagonload of supplies. On the return trip, winter rains began flooded rivers, Bear and Yuba, and turning plains into mud. after weeks of trying to pull the wagons out of. the mud, finally mired down completely, near where Ophir was later established, Delano set up a tent on what he called "Mud Flat.® Miners at Dawlytown, running out of supplies, walked to Mud Flat, and carried pack supplies on their backs. Delano walked to Long's Bar to see a sick friend, Chipman, from Ottawa, Il1. William Taylor, Z. Merchant, S.V. BlakeSlee, rode or walked to town, to hold meetings. Many instances of California pioneers suffering, hardships, and terrible experiences. Delano had to go to Marysville on business, and left Gray in charge, who had located near Delano's store. Gray, on sell~ ing liquor to the Indians, than in turn refused to sell them liquor. This started to make trouble, but Delano returned and averted Indian trouble. On August 20th, Delano was to go with Brinkeroff of Marysville, to start a trading post at Gold Lake, and purchased twelve mules, and had lots of mule trouble. On another occassion, when Delano went to Marysville on business, he left an Indian Chief in charge. On returning, the Indian gaid, “You gone thirteen sleeps." His door was piled with limbs and brush, which was an Indian sign "No one home." Steamboat arrived at Delanots. Wah Ne Nah Indian. at Grass Valley he was Express Agent. Ah Chee called Duck Egg his faithful cook. Alozo Delano, uncle to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. His grave marked in Grass Valley “Freed from all care and sorrow Forever with the blest.* Munson Bernard Church's parents came to California in 1850, and settled on the Buckeye Ranch, which became a stopping place. John Brown came across the plains in 1849, as captain of a wagon train for the Churches. Brown brought government supplies to Fort Laramie. Enroute the wagon train passed the Downey family overland. Mr. Downey had died on the way and was buried on the plains. Mrs. Downey was assisted by Brown, to reach Rough and Ready. Mrs. Downey made a fortune from gold out of Squirrel creek, and bullt near Spenceville and Rough and Ready hotels. ANOTHER EMIGRANT STAR John Bidwell, if he had been a few months earlier, would have been honored as the first California gold discoverer, and the founding point of gold Would not have been at Sutter's. Bidwell had the chance. A Mexican led Bidwell to a spot in 1844, where gold could

and took it to him at the jail house each week. She frequently said that her husband would never hang. when they put Frank in the death cell a couple of nights before he was to hang, be said to one of his guards, "Dick, bring me my milking stool." The guard took it to him the morning Frank was to be hung. Jenny was there, and when they went to get Frank, he was dead. In the botton of the stool was a small cavity in which was some strychnine. Jenny had placed the poison between the white pleats of Frank's laundered shirt, which he kept under the stool, and covered it with candle grease. In those days candles were used for lights. “So Frank died on his feet." When Mrs. Meyler was a child about five years of age, she was taken to visit her grandfather in Grass Valley. To entertain her, he took her to a creek and gave her a pan of dirt. He told her to wash it out, and they discovered three dollars worth of gold in the pan. At sixteen, she was taken down a mine one thousand feet, on a flat car, and reaching the bottom, she chiseled a piece of quartz off the wall. In Rough and Ready, the Chinese lived very near, and they were extremely kind and attentive. After heavy rains, they would go out prospecting, and find nuggets washed down by the rain. Her mother was born in 1846 at Moskow, Maine, and moved to Binham; moved to California.when eight years of age, in the year 1854 ~there were all kinds of bad people. Mother standing outside of the stage with my grandmother, saw two ruffians trying to steal their trunks. She told the driver, who scared them away. No rooms at the Hotel. One large room divided by a sheet, unsafe to sleep in. Mr. Peobert came east from California, married, and took Sophia and her two daughters on a trip to the West coast. Took Steamer, John Stephens, to New York to Panama; here they crossed the Isthmus on backs of Natives, mostly naked, baggage was carried by Camel backs. Jobn Heammeson and another man, now of Stockton, traveling with him, reaching San Francisco, they took stage up through Marysville, Smartville, to Rough and Ready. Father Gephard was a merchant before he married mother. He had two dry-goods stores in Rough and Ready, and fire burned hin out, and he went to Smartville, below Rough and Ready, as Secretary of a Water Company. Mr. David Boyer, Deans or Beans, of San Jose, were other members of the Company. Mary Francis married Graves, of Grass Valley. George Gephard owned the toll house at Rough and Ready. Francis Gephard married Captain James Meyler of the U.S. Army, who mapped, or designed, and put in the San Pedro Harbor. Francis used to row the boat in the harbor. . Mr. and l'rs, George Gephard visited Rough and Ready in 1849. In year 1849, George Gephard left Buffalo at the age of nineteen, for St. Louis, early in 1850, to join a party of 250 for California, meeting up with hardships, that only four of the 250 reached California. Grandfather Graves came out with a pardner, leaving their family in Maine, in 1851. A coin was tossed up as to who

Google 58 should go back to get the families. The perdner went back. among those were fouryear old francis Gephard. They came this time via Panama. Delano "Old Block," banker, miner, handler of gold slugs, writer, store clerk, farm hand, political meddler, and Captain. Delano led the remnant worn wretched Dayton Company to the promised land over the Sierra Nevadas. His trip across the plains was “A cure or kill" with the Indians several months, when "01d Block" opened his store at Dawlytown. In need of supplies, took his team of oxen and purchased a wagonload of supplies. On the return trip, winter rains began flooded rivers, Bear and Yuba, and turning plains into mud. after weeks of trying to pull the wagons out of. the mud, finally mired down completely, near where Ophir was later established, Delano set up a tent on what he called "Mud Flat.® Miners at Dawlytown, running out of supplies, walked to Mud Flat, and carried pack supplies on their backs. Delano walked to Long's Bar to see a sick friend, Chipman, from Ottawa, Il1. William Taylor, Z. Merchant, S.V. BlakeSlee, rode or walked to town, to hold meetings. Many instances of California pioneers suffering, hardships, and terrible experiences. Delano had to go to Marysville on business, and left Gray in charge, who had located near Delano's store. Gray, on sell~ ing liquor to the Indians, than in turn refused to sell them liquor. This started to make trouble, but Delano returned and averted Indian trouble. On August 20th, Delano was to go with Brinkeroff of Marysville, to start a trading post at Gold Lake, and purchased twelve mules, and had lots of mule trouble. On another occassion, when Delano went to Marysville on business, he left an Indian Chief in charge. On returning, the Indian gaid, “You gone thirteen sleeps." His door was piled with limbs and brush, which was an Indian sign "No one home." Steamboat arrived at Delanots. Wah Ne Nah Indian. at Grass Valley he was Express Agent. Ah Chee called Duck Egg his faithful cook. Alozo Delano, uncle to the late Franklin D. Roosevelt. His grave marked in Grass Valley “Freed from all care and sorrow Forever with the blest.* Munson Bernard Church's parents came to California in 1850, and settled on the Buckeye Ranch, which became a stopping place. John Brown came across the plains in 1849, as captain of a wagon train for the Churches. Brown brought government supplies to Fort Laramie. Enroute the wagon train passed the Downey family overland. Mr. Downey had died on the way and was buried on the plains. Mrs. Downey was assisted by Brown, to reach Rough and Ready. Mrs. Downey made a fortune from gold out of Squirrel creek, and bullt near Spenceville and Rough and Ready hotels. ANOTHER EMIGRANT STAR John Bidwell, if he had been a few months earlier, would have been honored as the first California gold discoverer, and the founding point of gold Would not have been at Sutter's. Bidwell had the chance. A Mexican led Bidwell to a spot in 1844, where gold could