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From: "L. Frame" <>
Subject: Cherokee Trail Diaries
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 23:33:21 -0600

A correspondent of mine sent the following to me concerning Greathouse movement into Texas. This is not my particular line, but the information seems consistent with the movement of Henry Greathouse. Henry is shown on the 1870 Ada Co Idaho Census (Boise Valley) and afterward moved to Decatur, Wise Co TX. Henry is shown on 1870 Census as the prosperous proprietor of a stage line. According to Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Henry became a banker in Decatur, Texas. The three children mentioned on the wagon train should be George, William, and Ellen (acc. to the 1870 Ada Co Idaho Census). Henry, (2nd? ? wife Jane) J.L. Call, George, and William are all buried in the Dry Creek Oaklawn Cemetery. http://www.wf.net/~drycreek/oak-f-j.htm
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Volume III, page 351, Emigrants-Idaho to Texas, 1872
"Emigrant diarist Arabelia Fulton described an 1872 trip from Boise to Wise County, Texas. Mr. Greathouse, wife, three children joined the wagon train. Greathouse operated the stage line from Boise to the railroad at Salt Lake City He had disposed of his holdings."
(Arabella Fulton, Tales of the Trail, Montreal : Private Printing for Payette Radio Limited, 1965.)

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