"Sarah died in Kansas in 1846 ... she was the first to die on the ill-fated Donner Trip.
Her daughter Margret married James Reed and he is sometimes given credit for
forming the group. Margret, James and family were surviviors (non flesh eating).
Sarah wanted
to go on the trip even though she was in bad health - she wanted to see her
only living son before she died. Margret's daughter was born by her 1st husband, but James Reed adopted her." George W Carr More information about the Donner party: People of the American West, Blue Rapids, KS (where Sarah died), and "New Light on the Donner Party" |
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