Martha Roe Diary 1864 May 4-1864 September 8

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Martha Roe Diary 1864 May 4-1864 September 8

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The Martha Roe Diary traces Roe's journey from Grinnell Iowa on May 4 to Council Bluffs and the Platte River road. Roe arrived at Fort Laramie on July 2, Platte Bridge Station on July 12, and Independence Rock on July 25, 1864. The diary records routine daily activities and sketchy descriptions of fellow travelers. There is some description of encounters with plains Indians.

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MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections

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Loughridge, Martha A. (Martha Ann), 1843-1920

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Martha Ann Freeman Roe was born in Orange County, Ohio, on 3 July 1843. She moved with her family to Iowa where she attended Grinnell University in the early 1860s. She married Isaac Roe on 16 Apr. 1864, and the couple joined an immigrant train the next month bound for the gold fields of Montana. Isaac became a banker and died in 1873. Martha remarried in 1880 to Thomas Loughridge and had four children, eventually settling in Bozeman, Mont., where she died on 11 May 1920. From the de...

Roe, Isaac, -1873

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