This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HAYS HAYES ELLIOT ELLIOTT Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Xih.2ACEB/1358.3.1.1.3 Message Board Post: Re: Clara Elliot and her possible connection with the Donner Party: Milford "Milt" Elliott was a 28 year old bachelor in 1846, when he left Sangamon Co., IL, as a teamster for James F. Reed of the Donner Party. (See http://www.utahcrossroads.org/DonnerParty/Teamsters.htm ) Milt died in the disaster leaving no issue, but Clara Elliot might be a descendant of his brother Oliver, who was born about 1815 in Harrison Co., KY, married Mary Nellums, and died November 1873 in Moweaqua, Shelby Co., IL. This is mostly from John Carroll Power, History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois (Springfield: E.A. Wilson, 1876), p. 285 -- online at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilsangam/1876/elliott.htm Hope this helps! Kristin Johnson