Naomi Levina (Pike) Schenck (1843 - 1934)

Born 13 Nov 1843 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States

Ancestors

Died 3 Apr 1934 at age 90 in The Dalles, Oregon, United States

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

Biography

Naomi (Pike) Schenck was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

This profile is part of the Pike Name Study.

Naomi Levinah Pike was born November 13, 1843 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of William M. Pike and Harriet F. (Murphy) Pike. She was the sister of Catherine Pike. She was the half-sister of Harry Nye.

Naomi's family was part of the infamous Donner Party that was trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by snow in 1846 while emigrating to California. Naomi was just two years old at the time.

Naomi and her mother Harriet were rescued in March 1847 and brought to Sutter's Fort at Sacramento. In June 1847, Harriet married Michael C. Nye and Naomi was frequently referred to as "Naomi Nye." The Nye family moved to Marysville (named for Mary Murphy) in Yuba County, California, by the time of the 1850 U.S. Census.

Naomi married Benjamin Mitchell, a physician, in Marysville in 1864, and soon after they relocated to The Dalles, Oregon. Benjamin Mitchell died after 1870, and about 1877 Naomi married John S. Schenck. John was an agent of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Schenck. He later became President of The Dalles First National Bank. When Schenck died in 1913 he left Naomi a wealthy widow, but she was impoverished by the stock market crash of 1929. She had no children by either of her husbands.^[1]

Naomi died April 3, 1934 and was buried at Odd Fellows Cemetery, Dalles Wasco County Oregon, USA.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Donner Party - The Murphy Family
2. ↑ Find a Grave Naomi Levina Pike Schenck - Burial -Odd Fellows Cemetery ,The Dalles,Wasco County, Oregon, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 38442394.

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