Charles Tyler Stanton (1811 - 1846)

Born 1 Mar 1811 in Pompey, Onondaga, New York, United States

Ancestors

Died 23 Dec 1846 at age 35 in Sierra Nevada Mountains, Nevada Territory

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Westward Ho Project WikiTree [send private message]

Charles Stanton was involved in the westward expansion of the USA. Westward Ho! Join: Trails and Wagon Trains Project Discuss: wagon_trains_and_trails

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

Biography

Charles Stanton was a member of the Donner Party. See Donner Party.

Charles Stanton was part of the infamous Donner Party in 1846. They were trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by snow for 111 days, he was a bachelor traveling with the Donner Family.

Charles Tyler Stanton was born March 1, 1811 in Pompey, New York, the son of Issac Stanton and Elizabeth Smith Stanton. He was the brother of Permelia Stanton Warner and Sydney Stanton.

Stanton was a single man with no relatives among the Donner Party. He became the greatest hero of the tragedy by his selfless sacrifice.

Charles Stanton, 35, left the Party with William McCutchen on about September 12, 1846. They rode ahead from Relief Springs, Nevada, to Sutter's Fort for supplies. Stanton returned with seven mules loaded with provisions, and two Indians from Sutter's Fort. He rejoined the Party the last week of October, 1847, along the Truckee River. He piloted the Snowshoe Party until he became too weak to keep up. About December 21, 1846, he failed to come up to the Snowshoe Party's camp near Sixmile Valley. His body was lost or destroyed.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial.

See also:

• Donner Party Teamsters
• 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