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Many died of starvation and exposure. Eliza’s father had suffered a hand injury while repairing a wagon, and his wound grew gangrenous. He spent the winter bedridden, lovingly tended by Tamsen.
22 sty 2020 · The youngest Donner girls, Georgia and Eliza were inside, crushed underneath the furniture and goods that had collapsed on top of them. They were both rescued, though Eliza Donner almost became the last casualty of the month, practically suffocating under the weight.
Jacob Donner, 56(?), died at the Alder Creek camp in mid-December, 1846. His wife Elizabeth, 45, died at the Alder Creek camp in early April, 1847. Their son George, 9, was rescued by the First Relief.
Eliza and her older sisters were rescued by relief parties that made their way to the stranded travelers at Donner Lake, but their parents perished, and the girls were left to make their way alone in the West.
On 14 April 1846, three-year-old Eliza Donner left Springfield, Illinois, and set out for California in a covered wagon with fifteen members of her extended family. The family name would soon go down in history for the tragedy that overtook them on the long trail to California.
24 gru 2021 · Obituaries did not record her cause of death, but called her “a woman of more than ordinary intellect, and possessed a kind, generous and noble disposition. All who knew her, loved her.”
Eliza Houghton (b. 1843) was the youngest child of George Donner, one of two Springfield, Illinois, brothers who organized the ill-fated California-bound emigrant party that bore their name. Eliza and her older sisters were rescued by relief parties that made their way to the stranded travellers at Donner Lake, but their parents perished, and ...
