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Surnames: Chestnut
Classification: Biography
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nYI.2ACEB/44.49.61.78.82.89.91.1.2
Message Board Post:
Out of the Unknown
by Edna Irvine
"Picture three terrified children, the oldest only eight years of age, brutally bereft of parents and left on a lonely mountain in a perfectly strange locality! Just a few hours before they had been, perhaps wearily, but nevertheless happily, jogging along in a big covered wagon under the care of loving parents. No doubt, somewhere, friends and relatives often wondered why no word ever came from the little family that started for the California gold fields in 1849. All that can be told of the story is what has been gleaned from the older children. They were able to tell that their parents were William Albert and Johannah Chesnut. At any rate, before they entered Salt Lake Valley, the parents were murdered by teamsters and a like fate was about to be inflicted upon the children, but the oldest pleaded so hard that their lives were spared. They were tied to a cow and headed toward the settlement of the "Mormon" pioneers with threats of death if they told anyone of what had oc!
curred. All day the forlorn tots trudged behind cows down the rugged mountain. By nightfall they had reached the settlement and were found and cared for by the hospitable pioneers. When their story finally became known, too much time had elapsed for any attempt to be made to trace the murderers and with the meager information obtainable it was impossible to trace relatives of the little orphans. The children were given permanent homes, in good pioneer families and grew to be respected citizens in the community"
Out of the Unknown by Edna Irvine; 1931; Desert News 22 July 1931 B.Y.U. Film # D45d # 184; page 7; Copy in pos. for Chris R. Petersen, 1994: Deseret News, 22 Jul 1931, pg 14:
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I also have reseached the brother and sister of Ann Catherine Chestnut. This information is not in the above data base.
Chris Petersen
907-563-1911 WK
Alaska
This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
Surnames: Chestnut
Classification: Biography
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nYI.2ACEB/44.49.61.78.82.89.91.1.1
Message Board Post:
Out of the Unknown
by Edna Irvine
"Picture three terrified children, the oldest only eight years of age, brutally bereft of parents and left on a lonely mountain in a perfectly strange locality! Just a few hours before they had been, perhaps wearily, but nevertheless happily, jogging along in a big covered wagon under the care of loving parents. No doubt, somewhere, friends and relatives often wondered why no word ever came from the little family that started for the California gold fields in 1849. All that can be told of the story is what has been gleaned from the older children. They were able to tell that their parents were William Albert and Johannah Chesnut. At any rate, before they entered Salt Lake Valley, the parents were murdered by teamsters and a like fate was about to be inflicted upon the children, but the oldest pleaded so hard that their lives were spared. They were tied to a cow and headed toward the settlement of the "Mormon" pioneers with threats of death if they told anyone of what had oc!
curred. All day the forlorn tots trudged behind cows down the rugged mountain. By nightfall they had reached the settlement and were found and cared for by the hospitable pioneers. When their story finally became known, too much time had elapsed for any attempt to be made to trace the murderers and with the meager information obtainable it was impossible to trace relatives of the little orphans. The children were given permanent homes, in good pioneer families and grew to be respected citizens in the community"
Out of the Unknown by Edna Irvine; 1931; Desert News 22 July 1931 B.Y.U. Film # D45d # 184; page 7; Copy in pos. for Chris R. Petersen, 1994: Deseret News, 22 Jul 1931, pg 14:
What do you have on this family? How are you related to them?
Check out our genealogy data at:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=kerryap
I also have reseached the brother and sister of Ann Catherine Chestnut. This information is not in the above data base.
Chris Petersen
907-563-1911 WK
Alaska