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On Friday evening last week , says the Elko Independent of the 18 inst., the westbound accommodation train had two passenger cars attached, one of which was filled by a family named Wilson, from Fayette County, Mississippi. The old gentleman and lady, sixty five and sixty years respectively, with their sons and daughters, wives and husbands, and children to the third generation, were on their way to join a brother who is a large landholder in Los Angeles, California . It was an interesting sight to see this family of thirty five persons, of all sizes and ages, ranging from three months to sixty years, thus moving across our continent so quietly and comfortably compared to what the trip was a few years since. The old patriarch and his wife were as smart as any of them. [The Owyhee Avalanche, (Ruby City, ID) Saturday, March 25, 1871 - Submitted by Janice Rice]