CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH LETTERS



Tyrrell and Related Families
of
Jo Daviess County, Illinois



Compiled by Ray W. Justus October 27, 1998

Table of Contents



Letter written to Jonas R. Partrige

Head Quarters of the Enterprise Company - 1849

Fort Larmie - August 26th, 1849

Headquarters of the Enterprise Company, at the crossing of Bear River - 80 miles from Salt Lake - October 12th, 1849

October 13th, 1849     This is a postscript added to the Oct. 12, 1849 letter

October 18, 1849     This is also a postscript added to the Oct. 12, 1849 letter

Stocktown, California - May 9th, 1850

California - Sept. 15th, 1850

California - Rough and Ready Digings - Nov. 2nd, 1850

Nevada - Nov. 2nd, 1851

Shasta, California - Jan. 23rd, 1852

Ward's Grove, Jo Daviess Co., Ills. - Jan. 23rd, 1852

Dear Arthur

Jan. 23rd, 1852

Wards Grove - Jan the 30th, 1852

Respected Son

A fiew lines more as there is yet room

Shasta City - May 24th, 1852

Canyon Creek, Trinity Co., Cal. - July 30th, 1852

Jo Davis Co., Ill. - Oct. 1, 1852

Weeverville, Trinity Co., Cal. - Oct. 20th, 1852

This is to you Eliza - Oct. 23rd   (near bottom of page)

Santacruz - No. the 19, A.D. 1852

Shasta, Cal. - Dec. 17th, --52 - Friday noon

Jo Daviess Co., Ill. - January 2nd, 1853

Stockton, Jo Davis Co., Ill. - April 5th, 1855

Unfinished Letter - written by Arthur Tyrrell to his cousin Nathan Tinney


Our thanks go to Ray Justus, for donating these letters to the Jo Daviess Co., IL USGenWeb site.