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Member of General Stephen W. Kearny's company, June 22, 1847 News of the Donner Party's fate was spread eastward by journalist Samuel Brannan, who ran into the salvage party as they came down from the pass with Keseberg. Accounts of the ordeal first reached New York City in July 1847. Reporting on the event across the U.S. was heavily influenced by the national enthusiasm for westward ...
Family/Group Sex Age Date of death Location of death Cause of death Disposal of remains 1 Sarah Keyes: Reed family: F: 70: May 29, 1846: Kansas: Old age and illness: Buried 2 Luke Halloran: Taken in by Donner family at Little Sandy: M: 25: August 25, 1846: Nr Grantsville, UT: Tuberculosis: Buried 3 John Snyder: Graves teamster: M: 25: October 5 ...
The Nikki Catsouras photographs controversy concerns the leaked photographs of Nicole "Nikki" Catsouras (March 4, 1988 – October 31, 2006), who died at age 18 in a high-speed car crash in Lake Forest, California, after losing control of her father's Porsche 911 Carrera and colliding with a toll booth. Photographs of Catsouras's badly ...
Don Henry and Kevin Ives, two Arkansas teenagers, were killed and their bodies placed on railroad tracks on August 23, 1987.At the time, the boys' deaths were controversially ruled accidental, but after Kevin Ives' body was exhumed and a second autopsy performed, the original examiner's ruling was overruled and the cause of death for Kevin Ives and Don Henry was changed from accidental to ...
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
Death. Paul Warner Powell (April 13, 1978 – March 18, 2010) was an American who was executed for the murder of his friend Stacie Reed, 16, in 1999. He also raped, strangled, and stabbed the girl's sister Kristie, 14, who survived. Following the vacation of his capital murder conviction on appeal, Powell wrote letters boasting about his crimes ...
Double reed. A double reed[1] is a type of reed used to produce sound in various wind instruments. In contrast with a single reed instrument, where the instrument is played by channeling air against one piece of cane which vibrates against the mouthpiece and creates a sound, a double reed features two pieces of cane vibrating against each other.
Businessman. Known for. Donner Party. Spouse. Margret Wilson Backenstoe (née Keyes) Children. 6. James Frazier Reed (November 14, 1800 – July 24, 1874) was an Irish-American businessman, soldier and pioneer in the American West, notable for being an organizing member of the ill-fated Donner Party emigration to California in 1846.