Jessica W.'s second great-grandfather made the trek from the midwest to Sonoma County, California in the 1850s, but why weren't his parents on any censuses? Was he an orphan? It turned out he was living with his mother all along-- she had remarried after her husband died on the Oregon Trail. Jessica W. had arrived at a genealogy brick wall with James Doty, her second great-grandfather. James' mother, Mary, set out with her husband in 1850 for the west from Kentucky. Pregnant