Lewis Keseberg (aft. 1846 - 1847)

Born after 3 Jun 1846 in Oregon Trail

Ancestors

Died 24 Jan 1847 before age 0 in Donner Lake, Sierra Nevada, California, United States

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Lewis Keseberg was born in the Donner Party wagon train to California that became snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in 1846.

Biography

Lewis Keseberg was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

Lewis was born in 1846. He was the infant son of Lewis Keseberg and Philippine Zimmermann. This baby was most likely given his father’s full name, but he is always referred to as "Louis (or Lewis), Jr."

His birth on the plains is inferred from a diary entry on June 3, 1846 by Edwin Bryant.

A wagon belonging to a German emigrant named Keyesburgh, whose wife carried in her arms a small child, and was in a delicate condition [i.e., pregnant], was upset, and the woman and child precipitated in to a pool of water... the woman and child escaped without material injury.^[1]

Lewis, Jr. would have been one of six nursing infants of the Donner Party. He died in the Murphy Cabin on January 24, 1847. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ What I Saw in California, Diary of Edwin Bryant.
2. ↑ Unfortuante Immigrants.

See also:

• Johann Ludwig Christian “Lewis” Keseberg, Jr (1846-1847) on Find A Grave: Memorial #58735751 retrieved 17 November 2018

• 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