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Frances Eustice (Donner) Wilder (1840 - 1921)

Frances Eustice Wilder formerly Donner
Born in Sangamon, Illinois, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Wife of — married 24 Nov 1858 in California, United Statesmap
[children unknown]
Died at age 81 in Byron, Contra Costa, California, United Statesmap
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Frances Eustis Donner was one of 81 pioneers in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.

Biography

Frances (Donner) Wilder was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

Frances Eustis Donner was born July 4, 1840 in Sangamon, Illinois, the daughter of George A. Donner and Tamsen Tamzene (Eustis) Donner. She was the sister of Mary Martha Donner, Georgia Ann Donner and Eliza Poor Donner. Frances and her family were part of the ill fated Donner Party that were trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains while emigrating to California. Members of the party were forced to eat human flesh to survive and yet many still did not. Frances was one of the few survivors of the Donner Party. She was saved in the third rescue at the age of six. [1][2]

Frances married William R. Wilder and they had two sons, James and Delmar.

Frances died November 21, 1921 in Byron, Contra Costa, California. She is buried at Union Cemetery. Brentwood, Contra Costa County, California, USA.[3]

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Donner Party.
  2. THE EXPEDITION OF THE DONNER PARTY AND ITS TRAGIC FATE BY ELIZA P. DONNER HOUGHTON.
  3. Find A Grave.
See Also:
  • Dixon, Kelly, Shannon Novak, Gwen Robbins, Julie Schablitsky, Richard Scott , and Guy Tasa (2010), "Men, Women, and Children are Starving: Archaeology of the Donner Family Camp". American Antiquity 75(3):627-656
  • McGlashan, Charles (1879). History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra Nevada: 11th edition (1918), A Carlisle & Company, San Francisco
  • McNeese, Tim (2009). The Donner Party: A Doomed Journey, Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 978-1-60413-025-6
  • Rarick, Ethan (2008). Desperate Passage: The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-530502-7
  • Rehart, Catherine Morison (2000), The Valley's Legends & Legacies III, Word Dancer Press, ISBN 978-1-884995-18-7
  • Stewart, George R. (1936). Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party: supplemented edition (1988), Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-61159-8
  • Unruh, John (1993). The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840–60, University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06360-0




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