Lisa, Your message has somehow gotten away from me -- but I do thank you for taking the time to write and to let you know that I made another boo-boo -- the diary only says that he died Feb. 11, 1847 -- it doesn't say he was killed, as I had originally written. "My father, Stephen Chase, died Feb. 11, 1847. Buried on Indian land about 40 miles from Council Point, six miles north of the Missouri line, about 12 miles above the ferry on Niskorabotna river called Huntsucker's ferry, on the ridge road about one half mile north of a stream called Camp Branch, 210 feet northwest of the boiling spring, our cabin standing about 120 feet above the head of the spring. The names of the brethren that built the coffin and buried my father are as follows: Samuel Gates, Martin Bushman, Aaron Dolph, Wm. Crazier, Wm. Redfield, Wm. N. Rowe." Sorry to mislead everyone again. I suspect also that Council Point is Council Bluffs. My Dad was adopted into this family, so it isn't priority that I dig around a whole lot. However, it is interesting. I will be going thru the area again in the Spring and I just may look for the points of interest in that area. Thanks, Lisa. Shirley