This memorial honors pioneer stage drivers and mail carriers of California, Oregon, and Nevada, especially Willianson Lyncoya Smith, who was born on August 6, 1830, on a plantation on the James River in Bedford County, Virginia, was named Lyncoya by President Andrew Jackson, moved with his family to Pike County, Missouri, in 1832, left for California with the McPike and Strothers Express Line on April 25, 1850, arrived in Placerville on August 6, 1850, remained continuously connected with the U.S. Mail until 1892, carried the first U.S. Mail on horseback from Jacksonville to Canyonville, Oregon, in July 1854, and died at his home in Redding, California, on May 31, 1902. It also recalls James E. Birch, the first stage driver in California and organizer of the California Stage Company, who was lost at sea on the mail steamer Central America on September 12, 1857; J.B. Crandall, a pioneer stage driver from 1849 who drove the first stage over the Sierra Nevada Mountains on June 11, 1857, and died on November 24, 1872, after being thrown from his stage near Los Angeles and kicked by the wheel horse; W.F. Hall and W.H. Hall, stage drivers from 1849; Marshall McCummings, who in August 1851 drove the first stage from Sacramento to Shasta; Daniel Masten Cawley, born in New Hampshire on July 14, 1852, who drove the first stage over the Siskiyou Mountains for the California Stage Company on September 1, 1858, drove the last stage over Siskiyou for the California Oregon Idaho Stage Company on December 17, 1887, and died in Yreka on October 15, 1901; and Andrew Jackson Bacon and Joseph Henry Bacon, along with many other named drivers.