♥ღ Fourth Great Grandfather ღ♥
Father: Luther Trumbull
Mother: Margere Huxley
Wife: Eluna
Children: 3 sons, 3 daughters
Note: When his daughter, Palmyra and her family were heading West she found his marker along the Oregon Trail. His grave was marked by a shoulder blade of a buffalo stuck in the ground with his name on it. Her father had left for Oregon a year before looking for land to farm. He was going to send for his family but they never heard from him.
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"On May 26, 1928, Fred Lockley published an interview with Carson C. Masiker in the Oregon Daily Journal (page 4). In part it describes Masiker's overland trip to Oregon in 1852/3.
Carson Masiker states that the Trumbull and Masiker families headed west in 1852 but were not in the same wagon train. The death of Solomon C. Trumbull (Mariah Louisa's father and George Brown's father-in-law) occurred May 30, 1852 on the Little Blue River in Nebraska while the family was en route to Oregon (which they reached later that year). The Masiker family, however, "wintered over" in Salt Lake and continued the trip to Oregon in 1853. It was on the second leg of the trip that the "Laura Brown" grave was discovered by George Masiker. Two facts suggest "Laura Brown" died in 1852, not 1853. 1) Leaving from Salt Lake in 1853 the Masiker family would have reached the Snake River early in the travel season, months before a party leaving from Illinois could have reached that area, so seeing an 1853 grave was extremely unlikely. 2) The party recognized the grave as being from the previous year and it had already been desecrated by wolves."
Contributor: Richard Rieck (47839312)
Father: Luther Trumbull
Mother: Margere Huxley
Wife: Eluna
Children: 3 sons, 3 daughters
Note: When his daughter, Palmyra and her family were heading West she found his marker along the Oregon Trail. His grave was marked by a shoulder blade of a buffalo stuck in the ground with his name on it. Her father had left for Oregon a year before looking for land to farm. He was going to send for his family but they never heard from him.
~~~~~~~~~
"On May 26, 1928, Fred Lockley published an interview with Carson C. Masiker in the Oregon Daily Journal (page 4). In part it describes Masiker's overland trip to Oregon in 1852/3.
Carson Masiker states that the Trumbull and Masiker families headed west in 1852 but were not in the same wagon train. The death of Solomon C. Trumbull (Mariah Louisa's father and George Brown's father-in-law) occurred May 30, 1852 on the Little Blue River in Nebraska while the family was en route to Oregon (which they reached later that year). The Masiker family, however, "wintered over" in Salt Lake and continued the trip to Oregon in 1853. It was on the second leg of the trip that the "Laura Brown" grave was discovered by George Masiker. Two facts suggest "Laura Brown" died in 1852, not 1853. 1) Leaving from Salt Lake in 1853 the Masiker family would have reached the Snake River early in the travel season, months before a party leaving from Illinois could have reached that area, so seeing an 1853 grave was extremely unlikely. 2) The party recognized the grave as being from the previous year and it had already been desecrated by wolves."
Contributor: Richard Rieck (47839312)
♥ღ Fourth Great Grandfather ღ♥
Father: Luther Trumbull
Mother: Margere Huxley
Wife: Eluna
Children: 3 sons, 3 daughters
Note: When his daughter, Palmyra and her family were heading West she found his marker along the Oregon Trail. His grave was marked by a shoulder blade of a buffalo stuck in the ground with his name on it. Her father had left for Oregon a year before looking for land to farm. He was going to send for his family but they never heard from him.
~~~~~~~~~
"On May 26, 1928, Fred Lockley published an interview with Carson C. Masiker in the Oregon Daily Journal (page 4). In part it describes Masiker's overland trip to Oregon in 1852/3.
Carson Masiker states that the Trumbull and Masiker families headed west in 1852 but were not in the same wagon train. The death of Solomon C. Trumbull (Mariah Louisa's father and George Brown's father-in-law) occurred May 30, 1852 on the Little Blue River in Nebraska while the family was en route to Oregon (which they reached later that year). The Masiker family, however, "wintered over" in Salt Lake and continued the trip to Oregon in 1853. It was on the second leg of the trip that the "Laura Brown" grave was discovered by George Masiker. Two facts suggest "Laura Brown" died in 1852, not 1853. 1) Leaving from Salt Lake in 1853 the Masiker family would have reached the Snake River early in the travel season, months before a party leaving from Illinois could have reached that area, so seeing an 1853 grave was extremely unlikely. 2) The party recognized the grave as being from the previous year and it had already been desecrated by wolves."
Contributor: Richard Rieck (47839312)
Father: Luther Trumbull
Mother: Margere Huxley
Wife: Eluna
Children: 3 sons, 3 daughters
Note: When his daughter, Palmyra and her family were heading West she found his marker along the Oregon Trail. His grave was marked by a shoulder blade of a buffalo stuck in the ground with his name on it. Her father had left for Oregon a year before looking for land to farm. He was going to send for his family but they never heard from him.
~~~~~~~~~
"On May 26, 1928, Fred Lockley published an interview with Carson C. Masiker in the Oregon Daily Journal (page 4). In part it describes Masiker's overland trip to Oregon in 1852/3.
Carson Masiker states that the Trumbull and Masiker families headed west in 1852 but were not in the same wagon train. The death of Solomon C. Trumbull (Mariah Louisa's father and George Brown's father-in-law) occurred May 30, 1852 on the Little Blue River in Nebraska while the family was en route to Oregon (which they reached later that year). The Masiker family, however, "wintered over" in Salt Lake and continued the trip to Oregon in 1853. It was on the second leg of the trip that the "Laura Brown" grave was discovered by George Masiker. Two facts suggest "Laura Brown" died in 1852, not 1853. 1) Leaving from Salt Lake in 1853 the Masiker family would have reached the Snake River early in the travel season, months before a party leaving from Illinois could have reached that area, so seeing an 1853 grave was extremely unlikely. 2) The party recognized the grave as being from the previous year and it had already been desecrated by wolves."
Contributor: Richard Rieck (47839312)
Gravesite Details
Buried on the Oregon Trail along the Little Blue River in Nebraska.
His grave was marked by a shoulder blade of a buffalo stuck in the ground.
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