Many a times we hear of what pioneers, had to endure in the old
days in California. It is unnecessary to say that some of those
pioneers had a strong woman beside them. This cache is meant to
honor the memory of one of those women. On you quest to find this
cache you may learn a thing or two. I am placing this cache
inspired by the caches of a CVC cacher: Wildlife Guy. His series of
caches,SXXSLesser Know Americans, are really cool and
instructional. So here is my try. Cache contains Geonote and Log.
No space for trade items. FTF consists of just bragging rights.
Link to Clue you ca follow the link, if you want to learn more.
Some people have have reported problems with the link, so read
below to figure out who this Pioneer Woman is.
The Clapp family moved to California during the mid-1870s; by
traveling this late in the century, the family was able to cross by
the intercontinental railroad, which opened in 1869. This spared
them the hardships of traveling via the overland route or the sea
route, which went by way of Isthmus of Panama or around Cape Horn.
Traveling the overland route(most common during the worldwide rush
to California during the winter and early spring of 1849) took at
least three to four months. Traveling by way of Panama from New
York to San Francisco took three to five months in 1850, but was
later reduced to a six to eight week journey. Sailing around Cape
Horn took five to eight months. The Clapp family settled in the
Central Valley town of Manteca in San Joaquin County, south of
Sacramento, California. The two youngest daughters, Lucinda and
Mary Eleanor, married into New England families transplanted to
California. Mary Eleanor met Benjamin Goodwin from Woburn,
Massachusetts in Manteca, California. According to a descendant,
his parents, Noah and Darius Goodwin, knew the Clapp family in
Massachusetts, as Darius was a regular at the mill. Lucinda married
Nathaniel Howard Locke (b. 1859), who was born in the nearby town
of Lockeford, California. Nathaniel’s parents, Dr. Dean Jewett
Locke (1823-1887) and Delia Marcella Hammond Locke (b. 1836), and
his uncle, Elmer H. Locke, came west in 1849, taking the overland
route across the Plains. Dr. Locke served as the physician for the
Boston and Newton Joint Stock Company, taking six months to
complete the overland journey from Boston to Sacramento. Arriving
in Sacramento on September 16, 1849, the Lockes built and
maintained a ford across the Mokelumne River. The family acquired a
ranch and built a cabin in 1851—this was the first cabin in
Lockeford, California, located on what is now Pioneer Hill.
Disturbed by grizzly bears, they spent their first nights in oak
trees.xxiv Their son, Nathaniel Howard, was born eight years later
in 1859. He married Lucinda Clapp in 1884. The Clapp family
remained in the Manteca, California area. Noah Clapp died in
Manteca in 1905: he was eighty-five years old. Both he and his
wife, Louisa, are buried in Manteca’s East Union Cemetery.
The youngest daughter, Mary Eleanor Clapp Goodwin and her husband,
Benjamin Goodwin, visited Massachusetts in 1919. Their diary notes
that they “drove right by the old home place” and not much was
there.
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