Recollections, ca. 1860.

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Recollections, ca. 1860.

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Typescript copy of reminiscences by Catherine Sager Pringle regarding her family's 1844 overland journey west from Missouri and the death of both her parents along the trail, her three years at the Waiilatpu Mission, and her eye-witness account of the Whitman Massacre; excerpt (1 p.) from Lorinda Bewley Chapman's diary concerning the massacre also included.

85 p.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Sager, Catherine, 1835-1910

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The Sager orphans (sometimes referred to as Sager children) were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager. In April 1844 Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, the children were orphaned a second time, when both their n...

Bewley, Lorinda

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