Craig, Thanks for the email. The description you've provided jibes with the information I had out of the History of Yolo County and from the NDWG. Certainly, there is a good chance that these are the same train. Although, I'm finding that at times the Oregon and California trails had very heavy traffic with trains only a few days behind one another. I would very much like to have a scanned copy of this, at your leisure of course. Where in Missouri was your great great grandfather from and do you know when in '57 they arrived? Thanks again. Regards Harry S. Hamilton [email protected] >From: "Craig A. Hahn" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Mountain Meadows Massacre Wagon Train >Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 06:39:11 -0500 > >Dear Mr. Hamilton--- > >I am writing you about the above subject as it came to me from the CAYUBA >Genealogy Mailing List I subscribe to. >Your letter and its' content caught my attention as it reminded me of >something I had read in a biographic article written about my great >grandmother in the book "History of Butte County". > >In this article written about when my great great grandfather came over >from Missouri (my great grandmother was born in California) it said: > >"Emerson Sligar removed to Missouri with his wife and three children, and >his mother and her family of eleven or twelve children, crossing the plains >in 1857 with the usual ox-team train. They camped with great care, using >the wagons to form a corral around the tents, and yet they were attacked by >Indians, escaping however without loss of life. Once the Indians stampeded >their stock and stole some of the animals. On their way they came upon the >dead members of a train attacked and partly massacred by Indians, and >stopped to bury the same. Among the unfortunates they found a woman who was >scalped, but was not dead; they brought her with them to California and she >recovered, when a purse was made she was sent back east to her friends. The >Sligar train left the Missouri with a hundred wagons, and came by way of >Salt Lake." > >Guessing from what you had written in your letter and what was written here >I would probably say this was the same ox-train your family came to >California on. I might be wrong though. > >I don't know if this helps you any, and I apolgize if it doesn't. I just >found it to be too much of a coincidence that I had something to do with an >Indian massacre in my research that some what had something to do with >someone elses research. > >If you wish for me to scan this piece of passage and send it to you I can >do so. Again I hope this helps. > >Yours truly > >Craig A. Hahn _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp