Part II: Those Who Separated from the Baker and Fancher Companies before the Mountain Meadows Massacre
Most individuals and families in this section traveled with the Baker and Fancher companies, but then separated from them before or at Salt Lake City and took the northern route to California.
The lists are arranged alphabetically by family name and then by age within each immediate family group. Children’s names are indented after the names of their parents. Listed after each name is the person’s age at the time of the massacre. Ages are approximated from federal census records and other available family history resources. Letters at the end of each entry indicate which individuals were memorialized as victims of the massacre on monuments in Harrison, Arkansas, and at Mountain Meadows, as well as in a program published for the 1999 memorial service at Mountain Meadows. H designates the Harrison, Arkansas, monument, dedicated in November 1955; M the Mountain Meadows monument, dedicated September 15, 1990; and MS the program for the memorial service held when some of the victims’ remains were re-interred at Mountain Meadows on September 10, 1999.
Boen, James Frederick, 26. Brother of William Boen and Mahala Boen Callahan. Upon reaching California, he settled in San Joaquin County and then in Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties.1
Boen, Nancy Holt, 27.
Martha, 4.
George W., 1.
Boen, William Carroll, 28. Brother of James Frederick Boen and Mahala Boen Callahan.2
Boen, Nancy Harp, 25. Sister of William Bohannon and Thomas David Harp, and sister-in-law of Francis Marion Poteet, by his first wife.
Sarah E., 10.
Martha J., 8.
Mary E., 6.
William C., 5.
Malinda E., 3.
Callahan, Stephen W., 37. The Callahans left from Newton County, Arkansas, and settled first in San Joaquin County, California.3
Callahan, Mahala Boen, 32. Sister of William Carroll Bowen and James Frederick Boen.
Martha, 11.
Andrew J., 8.
Stephen, 5.
Mary J., 2.
Campbell, Peter Calmus, 19. Uncle of Peter Henry Campbell and future brother-in-law of Alf Smith.4
Campbell, Peter Henry, 31. Nephew of Peter Calmus Campbell.5
Campbell, Catherine Hefley, 24.
Nancy Ann, 4.
Lucinda Ellen, 3.
Richard C., 2.
Cecil, Joseph, 35. Son of Sarah “Sally” Cecil. He and his family were members of the Basil Parker company, which took the main trail into northern California. The Cecils eventually settled in Tulare County.6
Cecil, Mary Houston, 28.
George, 10.
Margaret, 8.
Sarah, 5.
Nancy, 3.
Angeline, 1.
Cecil, Sarah “Sally” Hatfield, 53. Born in Kentucky, she was the widow of Benjamin S. Cecil. She and her family were members of the Basil Parker company and eventually settled in Tulare County, California.7
James, 25.8
Samuel, 20.
Granville, 18.
Cecil, William, 22. Son of Sarah “Sally” Cecil. His family joined the Basil Parker company and settled in Tulare County, California.9
Cecil, Ellen, 19.
Mary, infant. She was born near Fort Bridger. Her birth delayed the Parker company and factored into their decision to take the main California trail rather than catch up to and continue with the Baker and Fancher companies.10
Chrisman, Gabriel, 24. Brother of Henry Tyler Chrisman and related by marriage to the Cecils. He was a member of the Basil Parker company and was a cattle drover during the journey west.11
Chrisman, Henry Tyler, 27. Brother of Gabriel Chrisman and related by marriage to the Cecils. He was a member of the Basil Parker company. In 1860 he married Elizabeth Parker, niece of Basil Parker.12
Duck, William B., 23. From Stark County, Ohio, the Ducks were married a few months before they went west. Duck led a company from Ohio and other north-central states that included Paxton Jacoby, Ephraim Matthias, and Joseph Ware. They separated from the Baker and Fancher companies at Fort Bridger. Their separation apparently resulted from an argument with the Arkansas emigrants over slavery. They settled in Marysville, Yuba County, California, where William worked as a confectioner.13
Duck, Rebecca Jacoby, 19. Sister of Paxton Jacoby.
Dunn, Squire, 48. Born in Tenessee, he later settled in Arkansas. He was married first to Sarah Henderson and later to Mathilda Kelly. He was a member of the Basil Parker company.14
Dunn, Mathilda Kelly, 37. Widow of Anderson Parker, who was a brother of Basil Parker. Squire Dunn was her second husband, and their large, combined family traveled with them to California. Mathilda was a sister of Malinda Kelly Parker, Greenberry Kelly, Hezekiah Kelly, and Samuel Kelly.
Ishom Johnson, 20.
Clarinda F., 19.
Claiborn T., 18.
Nancy Clark, 16.
Sophia A., 15.
Sarah, 14.
Elizabeth Malinda Parker, 13. Daughter of Anderson Parker and Malinda Kelly. She married Henry Tyler Chrisman in 1860.15
William Jasper, 13.
James Wilson, 12.
John Lockward, 11.
Nancy Caroline Parker, 11. Daughter of Anderson Parker and Malinda Kelly.
Susanna, 9.
Mahala Adeline, 7.
Samuel A., 1.
Farmer, Tom, adult, age unknown. He probably took the main trail north after Salt Lake City. He returned with Peter Calmus Campbell and Alf Smith to Newton County, Arkansas, in 1859.16 M,MS
Harp, Thomas David, 32. Brother of Nancy Harp Boen and William Bohannon Harp, and brother-in-law to Francis Marion Poteet. He had experience crossing the plains in 1850. In 1857 Thomas left Newton County, Arkansas, and led a group of other close family members, including the Boens, Callahans, and possibly the Poteets. Although the Harp company was considered a separate group, they traveled near the Baker and Fancher companies before separating in Salt Lake City. The Harps went north out of Salt Lake to take the main California trail, where along the Humboldt River they incurred trouble with Indians in the area, who stole some of their cattle. Thomas eventually settled in San Joaquin County, California, and served in the California State Senate between 1891 and 1893.17
Harp, Elizabeth Henderson, 21.
James David, 11.
William Bachner, 10
Martha A., 8.
Sarah Catherine, 3.
Harp, William Bohannon, 38. Brother of Nancy Harp Boen and Thomas David Harp and brother-in-law of Francis Marion Poteet.18
Harp, Malinda T. Grace, 38.
Sarah Jane, 13.
Salina Amelia, 10.
William Bohannon Jr., 6.
James Anderson, 4.
Permelia, 1.
Hudson, William Carroll, 22. Member of the Basil Parker company.19
Hudson, Mary Jane Dunn, 22. Daughter of Squire Dunn and his first wife, Sarah C. Henderson.
Ruben, 1.
Jacoby, Paxton King, 21. Brother of Rebecca Jacoby Duck. In California he became a miner in Nevada County and then served a number of years as a San Francisco policeman. He later moved to Los Angeles.20
Kelly, Greenberry Marion, 22. Brother of Hezekiah Kelly, Samuel Kelly, Mathilda Kelly Dunn, and Malinda Kelly Parker. Joined the Basil Parker company and settled in Tulare County, California.21
Kelly, Sarah Jane Henderson, 17.
Nancy E., 1.
Kelly, Hezekiah Monroe, 34. Brother of Greenberry Kelly, Samuel Kelly, Mathilda Kelly Dunn, and Malinda Kelly Parker. Joined the Basil Parker company and settled in Tulare County, California.22
Kelly, Nancy Cecil, 25. Daughter of Sarah “Sally” Cecil.
Anderson, 7.
Paralee Jane, 5.
Jeptha M., 4.
William, 1.
Kelly, Samuel Williamson, 31. Brother of Greenberry Kelly, Hezekiah Kelly, Mathilda Kelly Dunn, and Malinda Kelly Parker. Joined the Basil Parker company and settled in Tulare County, California.23
Kelly, Celethia Hudson, 27.
Samuel Anderson, 1.
Kelly, Thomas, 15. Nephew of Greenberry Kelly, Hezekiah Kelly, Samuel Kelly, Mathilda Kelly Dunn, and Malinda Kelly Parker. Joined the Basil Parker company and settled in Tulare County, California.24
Kelsey, Eli B., 37. A Mormon who traveled with the train between Ft. Bridger and Salt Lake City.25
King, Francis Eaton, 22. He and his wife joined at least some of the ill-fated emigrants at Pacific Springs near South Pass in modern-day Wyoming. He separated from the train at Emigration Canyon just outside Salt Lake City. The Kings would later become Mormons and eventually settle in Marysvale, Piute County, Utah. He was called as a witness in John D. Lee’s first trial. He later gave information to Josiah Gibbs for his account of the massacre.26
King, Marcia Frances Bessey, 19.
Louisa, 1.
Matthias, Ephraim, age unknown. Reportedly traveled in the same company as William B. Duck and Paxton Jacoby and eventually settled in Nevada.27
Martin, Samuel Lewis, 24. A biographical sketch of Martin noted, “On March 22, 1857, he started for the Golden West . . . After traveling a few days he overtook a large train westward bound and joined them, doing his share of the work in driving stock . . . here he met his future wife, Miss Ala Scott . . . As soon as they reached California [they] were married, in October, 1857. Some members of the train decided to choose the well-beaten trails, while others who were over anxious to reach California, took a shorter route and were murdered in the Mountain Meadow massacre.”28
Middleton, Wesley, age unknown. Member of the Basil Parker company. Died of mountain fever between Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City.29
Osborne, George, 32. From Fulton County, Arkansas, the Osbornes separated from the Arkansas emigrants at Salt Lake City and took the northern trail. George eventually became a miner and then a teamster in Calaveras County, California.30
Osborne, Rebecca Emma Cates, 29.
Samuel, 6. Later in life Samuel was the first in the family to attempt ranching.
John, 4.
William David, 2.
Page, John Robert, 39. The Pages left from Madison County, Arkansas; separated from the Arkansas emigrants at Salt Lake City; and settled in El Dorado County, California.31
Page, Frances Ralston, 34.
Elizabeth Emley, 15.
Clarissa Jane, 14.
James K., 12.
Moses Caleb, 9.
John Robert, 7.
Lewis Johnson, 5.
Sarah Frances, 4.
Samuel M., 2.
Henry Towel, infant.
Parker, Alvin, 64. Father of Basil Parker. He settled along the Buffalo River in northwest Arkansas in 1835 and later settled with his son in Tulare County, California.32
Parker, Basil Gaither, 31. Son of Alvin Parker. He first traveled to California in 1853. In the spring of 1857, he organized a group of his family and friends at Arkansas to settle in California. His group traveled in tandem with the train organized by John T. Baker before they fell behind at Fort Bridger. Parker took the main road into northern California and settled in Tulare County.33
Parker, Malinda Kelly, 32. Sister of Greenberry Kelly, Hezekiah Kelly, Samuel Kelly, and Mathilda Kelly Dunn.
Nancy, 10.
Elizabeth Matilda, 9.
Parker, Elmira Cecil, 28. Daughter of Sarah “Sally” Cecil, widow of William Hiram Parker, and sister-in-law of Basil Parker. She was a member of the Basil Parker company.34
Joseph Anderson, 8.
George Alvah, 7.
Benjamin Basil, 3.
Perry, Peter R., 24. The son of Samuel B. Perry and Elizabeth Cooper, he settled in Fresno County.35
Perry, Amanda Lowery, 18.
Perry, Samuel Baker, 48. Both Samuel and his wife and one of their children were born in North Carolina. The family also lived in Tennessee, Missouri, and Newton County, Arkansas, before going to California and settling in Fresno County.36
Perry, Elizabeth Cooper, 47.
Edward N., 22.
James Abner, 20.
Samuel Richard, 18.
Elizabeth Perilee, 14.
Elijah George, 11.
Amanda A., 6.
Virginia Caroline, 3.
Poteet, Francis Marion, 24. Family legend maintains that Poteet and his family escaped the train just before the massacre. The 1860 U.S. Census places them in Los Angeles. Given his close ties to the Harp family, however, he may instead have continued to California in Thomas D. Harp’s train, which traveled close to the Baker train as far as Salt Lake City. In 1850 Poteet married Salina A. Harp, sister of Thomas D. Harp. After Salina’s death in 1852, he married Thomas D. Harp’s niece, Mary Ann “Polly” Davis. He and other members of the Poteet family eventually settled in Texas.37 M,MS
Poteet, Mary Ann Davis, 22.
Matilda Melissa, 4.
Sarah Elizabeth, 2.
Washington Reed, 1.
Jasper Newton, infant. Born in Utah Territory en route to California.38
Poteet Brothers. Family historian Douglas McEuen claimed that Anderson J. and James Samuel Poteet traveled to California with their brother, Francis Marion Poteet. Anderson possibly traveled with his brother since he eventually settled in Tuolumne County, California. James, however, likely did not go west in 1857, since he was only about fifteen years old and in 1860 was still living with his parents at Piney Township, Johnson County, Arkansas.39 M
Scott, Allie (Ala), 22. Sister of Henry Dalton and Richard Thomas Scott. After she reached California, she married Samuel L. Martin.40
Scott, Henry Dalton, 26. Brother of Richard Scott and Allie Scott Martin. Was killed by someone in his own party after leaving Salt Lake City on the northern road.41
Scott, Malinda Cameron, 28. Daughter of William and Martha Cameron.
Joel, 6.
Martha, 4.
George, 2.
Susan, infant. Born en route to California.42
Scott, Richard Thomas, 20. Brother of Henry Scott and Allie Scott Martin.43
Scott, Susan, 19.
Malinda, 2.
Smith, Alfred, 23. Brother-in-law of Peter Calmus Campbell.44 M
Stallcup, Charles, 25. Brother-in-law of William and Solomon Wood, who were killed at Mountain Meadows, and related by marriage to James Larramore. Several sources list Stallcup as a victim of the Massacre. In fact he actually reached California but did not return to his wife and family in Arkansas. This was probably because of an earlier fight he was involved in that ended in the death of his friend and neighbor George Coker by the hand of Jake Nave. Instead Stallcup went to his mother’s home in Missouri, where he remarried. He served in the Confederate infantry during the Civil War and later lived in Texas and the Indian Territory.45 M,MS
Turrentine, Thomas, 16. A neighbor of the Dunlaps in Johnson County, Arkansas, he traveled with Thomas Harp’s company. On the headwaters of the Humboldt, he was shot in the thigh during a fight with Indians over stolen cattle. Though he made it to California, he remained a cripple for the rest of his life.46
Ware, Joseph, age unknown. Reportedly traveled in the same company as William B. Duck and Paxton Jacoby and eventually settled somewhere in California.47
Warren, Nat, age unknown. Went to California with the Basil Parker company.48
Wasson, Abner Washington, 37. Although the Wasson family started west from Carroll County, Arkansas, they did not make it out of the state. They settled in Washington County after stopping to assist a friend and fellow traveler who had broken his leg in an accident.49
Wasson, Hannah Trotter, 32.
Artamissa Elizabeth, 12.
Josiah Hodge, 10.
William David, 7.
Alfred W., 5.
Richard “Dick” Parley, 4.
James Franklin, 2.
Notes
1. Edith Frances Nichols, “The Bowens,” n. d., typescript, family history, copy obtained from Janel Prince a granddaughter of Edith Francis Nichols; Janel Prince to Craig L. Foster, October 15, 25, 27, 2005, email; Arkansas, Newton County, Jackson Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 11B; California, San Joaquin County, Castoria Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 894.
2. “In March of 1857, Fred Bowen, his brother Carol, and sister Mahala Callahan and families decided to join a caravan of eighty-three wagons drawn by oxen to California. The leader of the train was a man by the name of Fancher.” Nichols, “Bowens”; Prince to Foster, October 15, 25, 27, 2005, email; Arkansas, Newton County, Jackson Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 11B; California, San Joaquin County, Castoria Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 892–93; Bill Jones, “Casbeer Jones Family Research,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=casbeerjones&id=I38320 (accessed June 19, 2008).
3. Nichols, “Bowens”; Arkansas, Newton County, Jackson Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 11; California, San Joaquin County, Castoria Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 894.
4. David Collins, “He Traveled with the Mountain Meadows Wagon Train,” in Newton County Family History (Jasper, AR: Newton County Historical Society, 1992), 38; Arkansas, Carroll County, Crooked Creek Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 159B; Carri L. Holt, “My Family,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cuzncarri&id=I03471 (accessed August 4, 2008). Peter Calmus Campbell is the son of Peter Henry’s grandfather through a second marriage. Pedigree chart for Peter Calmus Campbell found at Carri L. Holt, “My Family,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=cuzncarri&id=I03471 (accessed June 19, 2008); Pedigree chart for Peter Henry Campbell found at Carri L. Holt, “My Family,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=cuzncarri&id=I04003 (accessed June 19, 2008).
5. Ruth Peterson, comp., Across the Plains in ’57: The Story of the Family of Peter Campbell and a Train of Immigrants As Told by Nancy Campbell Lowell, a Member of the Party, pamphlet, June 1936, conveniently published in Carroll County Historical Quarterly 43 (June 1998): 60–62; Arkansas, Carroll County, Jefferson Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 165. Peter Henry Campbell died February 25, 1868 in Sylvan Corners, Sacramento County, California. He is buried at the nearby Sylvan Cemetery. Carri L. Holt, “My Family,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=cuzncarri&id=I04003 (accessed June 19, 2008).
6. A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region (Chicago: Goodspeed, 1894), 323; Shirley McFadzean and Ruth Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California,” undated manuscript, copy located in Mountain Meadows Massacre Research Files, LDS Church History Library; Arkansas, Newton County, Jackson Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 10; “Former Visalian Dies in Stockton,” Visalia Morning Delta, April 4, 1911; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 88. He and other members of his family were distantly related by marriage to the Harps.
7. Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, 323; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; Arkansas, Newton County, Van Buren Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 19; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 88; California, Tulare County, Visalia, 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule, 289.
8. Basil G. Parker, The Life and Adventures of Basil G. Parker, An Autobiography (Plano, CA: Fred W. Reed, 1902), 61.
9. Parker, Life and Adventures, 61–62; “Aunt Ellen Cecil Passes to Beyond,” Visalia Morning Delta, October 14, 1914; Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region, 323; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; Arkansas, Newton County, Van Buren Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 19; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 108.
10. Parker, Life and Adventures, 61–62.
11. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 2, 1860 census, population schedule, 20; Annie R. Mitchell, “Chrisman Family History Covers Entire Span of History of County,” Visalia Times-Delta, February 10, 1951; Tiffany Breen, “The Chrisman Family,” Visalia Lifestyle Magazine (February 2005): 46, 48; California, Tulare County, E.D. 62, 1900 U.S. Census, population schedule, 13A; Joan, “Lee’s Ancestors and Descendants,” Rootsweb’s Worldconnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=leecase&id=I23930 (accessed August 4, 2008).
12. Parker, Life and Adventures, 81; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 2, 1860 census, population schedule, 20; Mitchell, “Chrisman Family History”; Breen, “Chrisman Family,” 46, 48; Joan, “Lee’s Ancestors and Descendants,” Rootsweb’s Worldconnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=leecase&id=I23930 (accessed August 4, 2008).
13. “Lee’s Victims,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 23, 1877; Early Marriages of Stark County, Ohio (Alliance, OH: Alliance Genealogical Society, 1995), 3:65; Ohio, Stark County, Perry Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 222B (Rebecca Jacoby Duck only); California, Yuba County, 1st Ward, Marysville, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 846.
14. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 86–87; “Died–Dunn,” Visalia Weekly Delta, January 23, 1890; Jeff Edwards, 100 Year History of the Tule River Mountain Country (Fresno, CA: Panorama West Books, 1986), 216–17. Seven-year-old daughter Mahala’s name is listed as Mahalila in Edwards, 100 Year History, 216-17.
15. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; Mitchell, “Chrisman Family History”; California, Tulare County, Township 2, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 20.
16. Collins, “Mountain Meadows Wagon Train,” 38. The name on the 1990 Mountain Meadows monument is (Tom?) Farmer with “Other Names Associated with the Caravan.”
17. Parker, Life and Adventures, 21, 65–67; Nichols, “Bowens”; Arkansas, Johnson County, Spadra Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 156; California, Stanislaus County, Turlock Township, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 305B; J. Carlyle Parker, ed., Memorial and Biographical History of Merced, Stanislaus, Calaveras, Tuolomne and Mariposa Counties, California (1973), 198-99. Thomas D. Harp, and his family were living in San Joaquin County, California when his first wife Margaret Jane Kittrelle died on March 2, 1856. Thomas went back to Arkansas and was re-married to Elizabeth Henderson in January 1857. Shortly thereafter Thomas and his new bride returned to California with the Baker and Fancher wagon companies. It is unclear whether Thomas’s children James, William, Martha, and Sarah returned to Arkansas with their father or remained in California with other members of the Harp family who may have been living nearby. Dana Harp, “Descendant File,” RootsWeb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1783926&id=I07167 (accessed April 5, 2007); Dana Harp, “Descendant File,” RootsWeb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1783926&id=I07204 (accessed April 5, 2007). The 1857 Thomas D. Harp company apparently had more people than those listed in this appendix. When the Harp train had their cattle stolen from the Indians near the Humboldt headwaters thirty men pursued the Indians to recover the stock, four of whom were from Basil Parker’s train. Since Harp’s company had suffered the loss, one can assume most of the men sent to recover the stock were from his train, but their identities remain unknown. Helen Carpenter, “A Trip Across the Plains in an Ox Wagon, 1857,” in Sandra L. Myres, Ho for California! Women’s Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1980), 165–66; Parker, Life and Adventures, 65–66.
18. Nichols, “Bowens”; Arkansas, Johnson County, Horsehead Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 142B; California, Stanislaus County, Empire Township, 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule, 59; Dana Harp, “Descendant File,” RootsWeb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1783926&id=I07164 (accessed June 19, 2008); Bill Jones, “Casbeer Jones Family Research,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=casbeerjones&id=I38698 (accessed August 4, 2008). William B. Harp is identified as “Bill Hart” in Nichols, “Bowens.”
19. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 2, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 30; Edwards, 100 Year History of the Tule River Mountain Country, 211-17. Frank King named a Hudson as being with the Arkansas companies. It is possible that King remembered the name Hudson from the Basil Parker train. Josiah F. Gibbs, The Mountain Meadows Massacre (Salt Lake City: Salt Lake Tribune, 1910), 13. The name on the 1990 Mountain Meadows monument is (David?) Hudson, listed under “Other Names Associated with the Caravan.”
20. “Lee’s Victims”; Ohio, Stark County, Perry Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 222B; California, Los Angeles County, County Farm, 1900 U.S. Census, population schedule, 336; “1867 Great Register Nevada County—MeadowLake/Donner Lake—1867” as accessed at http://webpages.cwia.com/~mficklin/greattop.html; San Francisco City Directory, 1875–80, film no. 1000843, LDS Family History Library.
21. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 1,1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 83; “Samuel Kelly Was Pioneer Settler in Visalia Area,” Visalia Times-Delta, October 31, 1952; Mickey Ratten, “American (Mostly) Trees, Roots, Twigs and Branches,” Rootsweb’s WorlConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ratten&id=I3969 (accessed June 20, 2008); Genealogical charts obtained from family files at the Sequoia Genealogical Society in Tulare, California.
22. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 90; Ratten, “American (Mostly) Trees, Roots, Twigs and Branches”; Genealogical charts obtained from family files at the Sequoia Genealogical Society in Tulare, California.
23. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 108; “Samuel Kelly Was Pioneer Settler”; Eugene L. Menefee and Fred A. Dodge, History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California: With Biographical Sketches of the Leading Men and Women of the Counties Who Have Been Identified with Their Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present (Los Angeles: Historic Record, 1913), 408; Ratten, “American (Mostly) Trees, Roots, Twigs and Branches.” Sources vary on Samuel Kelly’s age.
24. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; Parker, Life and Adventures, 78, 81; California, Tulare County, Township 2, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 33.
25. C. F. McGlashan, “The Mountain Meadow Massacre,” Sacramento Daily Record, January 1, 1875; T. B. H. Stenhouse, The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from the First Vision of Joseph Smith to the Last Courtship of Brigham Young (New York: D. Appleton, 1873), 427–28; Fanny Stenhouse, Tell It All (Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington, 1874), 325; Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing, 1913), 2:983.
26. Frank King, testimony, United States v. John D. Lee, First Trial, Jacob S. Boreman Transcript, bk. 4, pp. 116–17, Jacob S. Boreman Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, CA; Gibbs, Mountain Meadows Massacre, 12–13; Ancestral File v4.19; Utah, Sanpete County, Fort Ephraim, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, p. 633; Utah, Piute County, Marysvale Precinct, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 533D; Linda King Newell, “A Web of Trails: Bringing History Home,” Journal of Mormon History 24, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 14–27. According to LDS Ordinance Index (IGI Main file) v1.02, film no. 183404, Francis Eaton King was baptized a member of the LDS Church on November 5, 1857.
27. “Lee’s Victims.”
28. Ala Martin, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 19, 1877, 45th Congress, 2nd Session, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy of transcript in LDS Church History Library; Malinda Cameron Scott Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 1459, October 15, 1877, 45th Congress, 1st Session, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy of transcript in LDS Church History Library; Malinda Cameron Scott Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 18, 1877, 45th Congress, 2nd Session, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy of transcript in LDS Church History Library; Thurston, deposition, May 2, 1911, Malinda Thurston v. The United States and Ute Indian, U.S. Court of Claims, no. 8479, in Selected Documents Relating to the Mountain Meadows Massacre, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy at LDS Church History Library; California, San Joaquin County, Elkhorn Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 963; California, San Joaquin, Elliott Township, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 167D; Rick Short, “Short,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3084889&id=I2818 (accessed December 5, 2006); George H. Tinkham, ed., History of San Joaquin County, California: With Biographical Sketches of Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified with Its Growth and Development from the Early Days to the Present (Los Angeles: Historic Record, 1923), 904.
29. Parker, Life and Adventures, 62; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California.”
30. “Services Held for Pioneer Plainsman,” San Andreas (CA) Calaveras Prospect, November 24, 1934; Edna Bryan Buckbee, Pioneer Days of Angel’s Camp (Angel’s Camp, CA: Calaveras Californian, 1932), 51–52; Arkansas, Fulton County, Franklin Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 168B; California, Calaveras County, Township 8, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 99; family group sheets and other family information obtained from Osborne file, Calaveras County Historical Society, San Andreas, California; Mary Matzek, “Osborn Ranch: Keeping a Family Tradition,” Calaveras Enterprise, October 7, 1987. A later account claimed that George Osborne’s family was warned by George’s Mormon cousin Pickney Fowler that the train he was in would be attacked. Accordingly the Osborne family with some others separated from the train and took the northern route. “Services Held for Pioneer Plainsman.”
31. “Descendants of David Page,” typescript, copy at LDS Church History Library provided by Gerrald Lynch of Rogers, Arkansas; Arkansas, Madison County, Kings River, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 273; Eileen Illum, “Ancestors of Peter Illum,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=eliaslankford&id=I48969 (accessed April 5, 2007). According to family tradition, John Page’s train was warned by Mormons in Salt Lake City not to take the southern route as it was dangerous.
32. McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 108; Suzanne D. Rogers, “Parker-Hickman Farmstead, Buffalo National River, Arkansas,” May 1987, pp. 42, 45, typescript in possession of Ron Loving, copy at LDS Church History Library; Barbara Goin and Pat Trask, Cemetery Records: Visalia, Tulare County, California, Deaths Before 1920 [n.p.: n.d.], copy at LDS Family History Library; “Parker Family DNA Project: Descendants of Thomas and Mary Bostin Parker,” as accessed at http://www.utk.edu/~corn/parkerdna/p27.htm (accessed October 10, 2007).
33. Parker, Life and Adventures; B. G. Parker, Recollections of the Mountain Meadow Massacre (Plano, CA: Fred W. Reed, 1901); McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 108; “‘Uncle Bass’ Parker Dead,” Visalia Daily Times, May 19, 1903; “Bassil G. Parker Dies in Tulare at an Advanced Age after a Short Illness,” Daily Visalia Delta, May 20, 1903; “A Mooney Memento—And More,” Los Tulares no. 179 (March 1993): 1-2; “Parker Family DNA Project: Descendants of Thomas and Mary Bostin Parker”; Ratten, “American (Mostly) Trees, Roots, Twigs and Branches.”
34. Parker, Life and Adventures, 81–82; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California”; California, Tulare County, Visalia, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 99; California, Tulare County, Visalia, 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule, 289; Shirley McFadzean, “Cecil and Hatfield,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2002912&id=I06 (accessed June 20, 2008); “Parker Family DNA Project: Descendants of Thomas and Mary Bostin Parker.”
35. [Myron Angle], A Memorial and Biographical History of the Counties of Fresno, Tulare, and Kern, California (Chicago: Lewis Publishing, 1891), 556; Paul E. Vandor, History of Fresno County, California (Los Angeles: Historical Record, 1919), 2427; Arkansas, Newton County, Prairie Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 2; California, Fresno County, Township No. 3, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 12; Ancestral File v4.19.
36. [Angle], Memorial and Biographical History, 556; Vandor, History of Fresno County, 2427; Arkansas, Newton County, Prairie Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 2–2B; California, Fresno County, Township No. 3, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 12 (Samuel B. Perry only); Nancy D. Jones, “Jones Brady Copeland Perry,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dotsicle&id=I3340 (accessed June 20, 2008).
37. Douglas McEuen, The Legend of Francis Marion Poteet and the Mountain Meadows Massacre—History of the Poteet Family (Pleasanton, TX: Zabava Printing, 1996), 58, 121, 122, 135; California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 377; Texas, Atascosa County, District 3, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 299D; Carpenter, “Trip Across the Plains in an Ox Wagon, 1857,” 161–69; Parker, Life and Adventures, 64–67; Bill Jones, “Casbeer Jones Family Research,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=casbeerjones&id=I38325 (accessed July 22, 2008). Referred to as Peteat and Pitteat in Francis M. Rowan and Fielding Wilburn, depositions, October 24, 1860, Papers Pertaining to Utah. The 1990 Mountain Meadows Monument lists the “Poteet Family” with “Other Names Associated with the Caravan.”
38. Census records indicate that Jasper Poteet was born in the Utah Territory about 1857. California, Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 377. Family records place his birth date on March 31, 1858, in Nevada. McEuen, Legend of Francis Marion Poteet, 122, 156.
39. Francis M. Rowan and Fielding Wilburn, depositions, October 24, 1860, Papers Pertaining to Utah; McEuen, Legend of Francis Marion Poteet, 58; California, Tuolumne County, Township 1, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 233; California, Tulare County, Kaweah And Mineral King, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 14D; Arkansas, Johnson County, Piney Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 1036. The 1990 Mountain Meadows Monument lists the “Poteet Brothers” with “Other Names Associated with the Caravan.”
40. Ala Martin, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 19, 1877, 45th Congress, 2nd Session, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy of transcript in LDS Church History Library; Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 1459, October 15, 1877; Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 18, 1877; Thurston, deposition, May 2, 1911, Malinda Thurston v. The United States and Ute Indian; Tinkham, History of San Joaquin County, 904; California, San Joaquin County, Elkhorn Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 963; California, San Joaquin, Elliott Township, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 167D; Rick Short, “Short,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3084889&id=I2818 (accessed December 5, 2006).
41. Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 1459, October 15, 1877; Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 18, 1877; Thurston, deposition, May 2, 1911, Malinda Thurston v. The United States and Ute Indian; Richard Thomas Scott, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 19, 1877, 45th Congress, 2nd Session, National Archives, Washington D.C., copy of transcript in LDS Church History Library; Ala Martin, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 19, 1877; “Mrs. M. Thurston Has Passed Away,” Stockton Daily Evening Record, December 15, 1921; Arkansas, Carroll County, Crooked Creek Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 158B. Malinda remarried Hiram H. Thurston in California and is found with her children in California, San Joaquin County, O’Neal Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 940; California, San Joaquin County, Elliott Township, 1880 U.S. Census, population schedule, 167D.
42. According to Malinda Cameron Scott Thurston, Susan Scott was born just outside Salt Lake City, about four days after the death of Henry D. Scott. Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 1459, October 15, 1877; Thurston, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 18, 1877.
43. Scott, affidavit in support of H.R. 3945, December 19, 1877; Thurston, deposition, May 2, 1911, Malinda Thurston v. The United States and Ute Indian; California, San Joaquin County, Stockton, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 1079.
44. Collins, “Mountain Meadows Wagon Train,” 38; Arkansas, Newton County, White Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 3B; Carri L. Holt, “My Family,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cuzncarri&id=I03471 (accessed July 22, 2008). The name on the 1990 Mountain Meadows monument is (Alf?) Smith, listed under “Other Names Associated with the Caravan.”
45. Vicki A. Roberts and Mysty T. McPherson, Genealogies of Marion County Families, 1811-1900 (Yellville, AR: Historica Genealogical Society of Marion County Arkansas, 1997), 469; Earl Berry, History of Marion County (Little Rock, AR: Marion County Historical Association, 1977), 273; Betty Ramsey to Brian Reeves, June 3, 2002, Mountain Meadows Massacre Research Files; S. C. Turnbo, Ozark Frontier Stories, indexed by Carrie Basch (n.p., 1979), 1:288–90; S. C. Turnbo, “A Part of an Account of the Coker Family Biographical and Historical,” available at http://thelibrary.springfield.missouri.org/lochist/turnbo/V18/ST550.html (accessed July 22, 2008); Arkansas, Marion County, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 318B; Charles Stallcup is found listed in the household of his mother Jane Stallcup in Missouri, Jackson County, Blue Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 342; Missouri, Jackson County, Fort Osage Township, 1870 U.S. Census, population schedule, 240; Indian Territory, Chickasaw Nation, Township 7, 1900 U.S. Census, population schedule, ED 177, sheet 19B; Census record for Winnie Wood Stallcup, the wife of Charles Stallcup and sister of Solomon and William Wood, Arkansas, Marion County, Sugar Loaf Township, 1860 U.S. Census, population schedule, 668.
46. Parker, Life and Adventures, 66; Arkansas, Johnson County, Mulberry Township, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 129B; “A Boy Shot by Indians,” Stockton Daily Argus, October 10, 1857.
47. “Lee’s Victims.”
48. Parker, Life and Adventures, 61; McFadzean and Lancastor, “1857 Wagon Train Arkansas to California.”
49. Arkansas, Carroll County, Crooked Creek, 1850 U.S. Census, population schedule, 159B–160; Logan, “Wagon Train Kinships”; Wasson family file located at the Fayetteville, Arkansas Public Library; History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas (Chicago: Goodspeed Publishing, 1889), 902–3, 1035; Cyndee, “Cyndee’s Tree,” Rootsweb’s WorldConnect, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cyndeetut&id=I13765 (accessed July 22, 2008).