Talk:List of members of the Fancher party

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[edit] Mitchell Family?

On December 31, 1857, WM C.Mitchell (I believe a State Senator from Carrol County) sent a letter to AR US Senator Wm. K. Sabestian, Chairman of Indian Affairs. In the letter he says two of his sons were killed. His son,Charles, had an infant son and that the Mormons took 15 children to San Bernadino. Is that the Mitchell infant on the list? see message of the President. December 31, 1857. http://www.archive.org/details/messageofpreside00unitrich Tinosa 14:35, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

See numberr 48-52 in murdered at mountain meadows section. The infant is believed to have been killed accidentally during the massacre (the child never made it to "San Bernadino" (sic - ie santa clara, cedar city), however, at least one account I read said that the child died in Wyoming territory. It seems, if I remember right, that tradition says that this infant was being hidden by one of his parents who was shot and killed. The account was brought up during the trial of John D. Lee, as one of the things he protested the militia leaders about during the killings. However, although the infant shot and the mitchell child are often tied together, there is no evidence that the two are the same. i believe the Jones family says that it was an unknown daughter recently born, and the trial account leads the readers to believe that the child was very recentnly born, but it is imposible to determne for sure. Here is the list of mitchells who were on the train - all killed (incidentally, I've fixed the footnote to read properly):

1. Mitchell, Charles R., 25
2. Mitchell, Infant (possible)[4]
3. Mitchell, Joel D., 23
4. Mitchell, John,
5. Mitchell, Sarah C. Baker, 21

-Visorstuff 22:44, 28 March 2007 (UTC)