Search results
Daughter Eliza, 3, was rescued by the Third Relief, and remained with her sister Georgia at the Brunners and at her half-sister Elitha’s. In 1861, she married Sherman Houghton, widower of her cousin Mary.
22 gru 2023 · Wife of Sherman Otis Houghton — married 10 Oct 1861 in Sacramento, California, United States. [children unknown] Died 19 Feb 1922 at age 78 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.
Photos 2. Flowers 95. Author. Second wife of Sherman Otis Houghton and a Donner Party survivor. She chronicled the early years of the state on October 10, 1861 in Sacramento, California.
2 mar 2020 · At just four years old, Eliza Donner was one of the last survivors of the Donner Party to be rescued from Donner Lake. Donner and her surviving sisters raised each other in the San Francisco Bay Area until 1861 when she married Sherman Otis Houghton, the widower of another Donner Party survivor.
24 gru 2021 · Tamsen Donner, wife of the Donner Party leader, was dead. Accusations were rampant that Keseberg murdered and ate her.
Eliza, the youngest child of George and Tamsen Donner, was born in Sangamon County, near Springfield, Illinois, March 8, 1843. Romance, poignant with the thrill of "territorial days," and tragedy so d
27 kwi 2022 · Eliza married Sherman Otis Houghton, the widower of her cousin Mary. Sherman, a lawyer, was a prominent citizen of San Jose and served a term in Congress from 1871 to 1875. He, Eliza, and their family lived until in San Jose until 1886, when they moved to Southern California.
