<<Doesn't the Museum at Utica have a display of clothing, vest, hat, etc., worn by the people who died? Don't remember whose clothes they were.>> That's the LaSalle Co. Historical Society museum in Utica...and yes, they have a bonnet worn by "Jennie" (Mary Jane Rebecca Williams Hall) and I think a vest worn her husband William Hall. There are holes and some bloodstains in both. Mrs. Hall was said to have been shot in the head and her husband in the chest. Both were supposed to have been scalped, as Rachel & Sylvia recognized the hair at a war dance held the night after the massacre. A lot of historians think that some of the Pottawatomi with a grudge against Davis took advantage of Black Hawk's uprising to settle some scores. Black Hawk insisted the few Sauk involved kept the Pottawatomi warriors from killing Rachel & Sylvia Hall until they were turned over to the Winnebago (a neutral tribe) in Wisconsin. No one really knows what happened or why the girls were spared. I have a transcript of William & Jennie Hall's probate papers from the summer of 1832 (original on file at the LaSalle County Genealogy Guild, can you believe it?) if anyone's interested in seeing what they owned and who got what at their estate sale. regards, Sandy