Well ok ,but they had a farm or should I say farms. I don't know one part from another.My direct line in this came from N C .One from TN the rest I don't know.But it seemed they all came from warmer climates. Linda,they had more courage than I .I would have stayed in NC .Traveling in those days was no piece of cake. Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: *paula* <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 19:41:56 To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] The Lost Wagon Train./Indiana......continues yello.... I don't imagine Indiana was so bad back in those days. Even now southern Indiana is pretty - with hills and trees. I was talking about NW Indiana - land of the steel mills and refineries. If Indiana had been left as nature had intended, I'm sure it would have been a great place to live - except in the winter here in the NW where it's likely to snow at any moment without warning. Most of this area would not have been good for growing because of the sand. When the glaciers carved out the Great Lakes,,,,all that sand had to go somewhere. So, all depends on which part of Indiana anyone is talking about. I still prefer Florida. xoxoxo *paula* ----- "Linda Rogers" <[email protected]> wrote: | All that is left in this story is the names of the contributors ,the land | claims they recieved and such like that .So I don't think you want me to go | on with it .Suffice it say they got there alive albeit barely.They lost two | children during the trip .One child was born during the trip .They recieved | their land .One of the original cabins is some kind of history marker ,I | visited it when I was a child .There is family still there , I think it's | better than Indiana where they set off from .I'm just thinking this from | what Paula has said abt Indiana . | Linda a happy ending | | On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 7:33 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: | | > I read that ,abt eating her own flesh if she knew how .I thought if I was | > that hungry I would just start biting and chewing. | > Your right we don't know abt being hungry and such.I had to wonder abt | > the children and how they survived and if it affected them in any way later | > on in life. I know that the baby that was born on the trip died at a early | > age. | > Linda,in Ca | > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T | > | > -----Original Message----- | > From: jkaywojack <[email protected]> | > Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 20:41:52 | > To: <[email protected]> | > Subject: Re: [SOUTHERN-CHAT] The Lost Wagon Train........continues | > | > Interesting story. My generation doesn't don't know what hardship is, | > can't imagine being hungry enough to eat your own flesh. I thing of how we | > say we are starving when a meal is a little late. Kay | > | > | > | > In a message dated 02/02/10 18:41:52 Central Standard Time, | > [email protected] writes: | > We were in the mountains with no food.They were weak,exhausted and almost | > dead. Two scouts went out looking for someone to help them and they were | > found by a herdsman . | > News spread quickly in the valley, and a massive rescue effort was | > underway immediately . People back in the mountains were also at the point | > of starvation. Catherine (Kime) Rickard told her grandaughter that she | > could | > have eaten her own flesh if she had known how to do it. | > The scouts who had started over the mountains heading for the three | > sisters were still not heard from, so a search was made, and their plight | > was even more pitiful. This area was so rugged that the Indians had always | > crossed the cascades by other routes. The young men came across the lava | > flows to the headwaters of the Mckenzie. They werenear death from | > exhaustion | > and starvation, having eaten their horses when they gave out. The stronger | > ones had gone ahead until they could not continue. When someone eventually | > found them, one man had to be cared for for three days before he was able | > to | > travel. | > Even with all of the help by the rescuers, the way down the Middle Fork | > of the Willamette River was rough and dangerous. In two days of travel, the | > river had to be crossed twenty times.Water was high, swift, and cold.One | > woman lost her life when her wagon was overturned. | > The arrived in the vicinity of Eugene in 1853, and passed through the | > town without knowing it. At this time Eugene consisted of one store and a | > blacksmith shop. Bran was substituted for flour. At this time apples could | > be secured for any price, a nd a flour sack of potatoes were .25.**** The | > Rickards wintered north of Skinner"s Butte spring and made (fence) rails of | > fir to get them through the winter. In spring they went on down the valley | > looking for homesteads. Uncle Sib Barclay saw the smoke of their campfire | > and helped them find homesteads.******The three Rickard brothers and George | > Shultz took up contiguos land claims between the emigrant road (now Highway | > 99 west) and the Williamette River, north of the present town of Monroe. | > -- | > Linda Rogers, more to come | > | > ------------------------------- | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | > quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | > ------------------------------- | > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to | > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the | > quotes in the subject and the body of the message | > | | ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message