The Mardens of Aurora
Subtitle: A Gold Rush Family
Edition: 1st edition edition
Publisher: Mountain N' Air Books
Published: May 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781879415478
Subjects: History / Americas
Description: Picture a ghost town with nothing left but a cemetery. In 
that cemetery, a tall, four-sided column engraved with the names of four children aged 2,4, 6, 8, who died in February 1878. Nearby, 
another marker for the eldest son of Horace and Lizzie Marden, who 
had died at 7 years in 1865. Still another marker for a son who died 
in 1884 at 18 years.

         Genealogist Peggy Knudsen Lee was so touched she jotted down 
the names and dates, to realize later that she had to know more about 
this family. Three years later this lovely and fascinating book is 
the result of that day.

         It is a treasure trove of abundant family photographs, maps, 
original writings of Horace Marden, genealogy charts and reports, 
California and Nevada history, and mining and logging in that 
area.  The book traces Horace's journey from Maine to Nicaragua, 
across the isthmus then on to San Francisco. As well as his future 
wife's trip from Arkansas to Stockton, California..

         What a wonderful example of how history and family history 
can be combined to create a fascinating picture of life in the 
mid-nineteenth century and beyond!