A member of the Donner/Reed Party.
Lemuel was the son of Jeremiah Burns & Levinah W. Jackson Murphy. He set out with "The Forlorn Hope" in December of 1846. The boy was said to be full of courage, patient and "of the martyr type." He was feeble when the group started from the lake camp, but he was determined to go and bring back help. He perished about two o'clock in the morning under a bright moonlit sky.∼Younger brother of Sarah Murphy Foster, members of the ill-fated Donner Party who set out for California in the spring of 1846. She survived but he died of starvation during the early winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He was one of 35 to perish that winter.
Their story is told by Michael Wallis in "The Best Land Under Heaven".
Lemuel was the son of Jeremiah Burns & Levinah W. Jackson Murphy. He set out with "The Forlorn Hope" in December of 1846. The boy was said to be full of courage, patient and "of the martyr type." He was feeble when the group started from the lake camp, but he was determined to go and bring back help. He perished about two o'clock in the morning under a bright moonlit sky.∼Younger brother of Sarah Murphy Foster, members of the ill-fated Donner Party who set out for California in the spring of 1846. She survived but he died of starvation during the early winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He was one of 35 to perish that winter.
Their story is told by Michael Wallis in "The Best Land Under Heaven".
A member of the Donner/Reed Party.
Lemuel was the son of Jeremiah Burns & Levinah W. Jackson Murphy. He set out with "The Forlorn Hope" in December of 1846. The boy was said to be full of courage, patient and "of the martyr type." He was feeble when the group started from the lake camp, but he was determined to go and bring back help. He perished about two o'clock in the morning under a bright moonlit sky.∼Younger brother of Sarah Murphy Foster, members of the ill-fated Donner Party who set out for California in the spring of 1846. She survived but he died of starvation during the early winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He was one of 35 to perish that winter.
Their story is told by Michael Wallis in "The Best Land Under Heaven".
Lemuel was the son of Jeremiah Burns & Levinah W. Jackson Murphy. He set out with "The Forlorn Hope" in December of 1846. The boy was said to be full of courage, patient and "of the martyr type." He was feeble when the group started from the lake camp, but he was determined to go and bring back help. He perished about two o'clock in the morning under a bright moonlit sky.∼Younger brother of Sarah Murphy Foster, members of the ill-fated Donner Party who set out for California in the spring of 1846. She survived but he died of starvation during the early winter of 1847 in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. He was one of 35 to perish that winter.
Their story is told by Michael Wallis in "The Best Land Under Heaven".
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