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Mary Brown decides to move to California in 1863
Mary Brown decides to move to California in 1863
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Mary Brown arrives in Red Bluff, California
Mary Brown, widow of John Brown, arrives in Red Bluff, California. She will live in California for the remainder of her days. (By Don Sailer)
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Mary Brown, Overview of California Trip (Libby, 1989)
Jean Libby, "John Brown's Family and their California Refuge," The Californians 7, no. 1 (1989): 16.
After a severe Iowa winter, when Annie and Sarah returned from their last formal schooling, 47-year-old Mary, her four surviving children and two small grandchildren joined a wagon train for California. Their journey, begun in April of 1864, would take six months, fraught with not only the normal dangers that plagued westerning families but also hazards unique to the family of abolitionist John Brown.