The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . rties can be heard almost lake forms the grandest skating park on the Pacific coast. Yet this same Donner Lake was the scene of one of the most thrilling, heart-rending trage-dies ever recorded in California history. Interwoven with the very name of the lake arememories of a tale of destitution, loneliness, and despair which borders on the incredible. Itis a tale that has been repeated in many a miners cabin, by many a hunters camp-fire, and inmany a frontiersmans home, and ever
The pioneers of '49 A history of the excursion of the Society of California pioneers of New England . rties can be heard almost lake forms the grandest skating park on the Pacific coast. Yet this same Donner Lake was the scene of one of the most thrilling, heart-rending trage-dies ever recorded in California history. Interwoven with the very name of the lake arememories of a tale of destitution, loneliness, and despair which borders on the incredible. Itis a tale that has been repeated in many a miners cabin, by many a hunters camp-fire, and inmany a frontiersmans home, and everywhere it has been listened to with bated breath. Although others traveled with them part of the way,— and some of these were not with themat the start,— the genuine Donner party, so far as its experience was peculiar, consisted ofGeorge Donner, Tamsen his wife, Frances E., Georgia A., and Eliza P., their children; alsoElitha C. and Leanna C, children by a former wife; Jacob Donner, brother of George,.Elizabeth his wife, George, Mary M., Isaac, Lewis, and Samuel, their children; also <?J zz oa o THE DOJfJ^EE PARTY. 193 and William Hook, children of Elizabeth by an earlier marriage; James Frazier Reed,Margaret W. his wife, Virginia E. (now Mrs. J. M. Murphy), Martha F. (called Patty, andnow Mrs. Frank Lewis), James F., Jr., and Thomas K., their children; also Mrs. SarahKeyes, mother of Mrs. Reed ; Baylis Williams and his half-sister Eliza, John Denton, MiltonElliott, James Smith, Walter Herron, and Noah James, the above all from Springfield, 111.;Franklin Ward Graves, Elizabeth his wife, Mary A., William C, Eleanor, Lovina, Nancy,Jonathan B., F. W., Jr., Elizabeth, Jr., and Mrs. Sarah Fosdick, their children, the lastaccompanied by her husband, Jay Fosdick, and a friend of Jay, John Snyder, all fromMarshall county, 111.; Patrick Breen, Margaret his wife, John, Edward J., Patrick, Jr., SimonP., James F., Peter, and Isabella M., their children, from Keokuk, la., a
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