Jeremiah George Foster (1844 - 1847)

Born 25 Aug 1844 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Died Mar 1847 at age 2 in Donner Lake Camp, California, United States

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Jeremiah Foster was one of 81 pioneers in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.

Biography

Jeremiah Foster was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

Jeremiah Foster was born on August 25, 1844 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. His parents were William Foster and Sarah Murphy.

He died in March 1847 in Donner Lake Camp.

His remains were consumed by Lewis Keseberg.

Sources

• Donner Party - The Murphy Family

• 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

• Find A Grave, database and images (accessed 02 December 2019), memorial page for Jeremiah George Foster (25 Aug 1844–Mar 1847), Find A Grave: Memorial #12765208, citing Donner Memorial State Park, Nevada County, California, USA ; Maintained by Nan (contributor 46795555) .