The journal begins with the brothers taking leave of the family and describes their journey by coach, railroad, and streamer from Griffith, Georgia to New Orleans. He describes New Orleans, Havana, the journey by foot across Panama, and records his th...
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John C. Simmons, a Methodist minister, and his brother (also a minister) were appointed by the Georgia Conference to churches in Marysville and Grass Valley, California. They sailed from New Orleans to San Francisco by way of Panama in 1851.
