Newsletter  (Feb 2017)  Page(s) 15.  Includes photo(s).
 
[From "We the Fairies Bylthe and Antic", Part II, by Stephen Hoy, pp. 15-22]
In 1857 several families banded together to depart from their Arkansas homes and travel west to California. The Abbott, Burns, and Epperson expedition encountered many hardships and endured the loss of family members, livestock, and personal possessions. Suggesting something of its intrinsic value, a tiny pink China rose was among the belongings that survived the arduous journey. One of the Abbott daughters, Catherine, married young Jesse Burns the day after their arrival in California. The little rose, an Abbott family keepsake, survives to this day nurtured in the historic rose garden located in the Sacramento Historic City Cemetery known as the “Abbott and Burns Family Rose.”

Newsletter  (Mar 2012)  Page(s) 27.  
 
[From "the Sacramento Historic Rose garden", by Anita Clevenger]
“The Abbott and Burns Family Rose” is a miniature China which is said to have been passed down through the generations by a family who brought it across the prairies in a covered wagon in 1858.