Diana,
If you will share the names of relatives in Modesto and Merced,
I'll check with my in-laws to see if any of them are familiar. (The Cahoon
was my father-in-law's mother). I research my husband's lines for my
children also. I'll check and see if anything rings a bell..
Pattee
Pattee
I too found the LONG name in both lines curious. Of course, I have no
proof
at this time that your CAHOON family is connected to mine, but my family
had
many relatives in the Modesto and Merced areas. My father, Charles
Elton
BUSBY rode with a group of Harley Davidson fans out of Merced in the
1950's.
I have been researching my family for only nine months and the CAHOON
line
is still mostly a stranger to me. I do know that it is not a common
name in
that area of California and was often misspelled in the Census as
CALHOUN or
CALHOON.
Hopefully information will come to light as I dig deeper and it would
help
if I knew the parentage of George CAHOON.
Let's keep in touch.
Diana Busby-Knight
Oregon