Fancher–Baker party

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The Fancher–Baker Party or Baker's Company was the name used to collectively describe the American western emigrants from four northwestern counties in Arkansas who departed Carroll county April 1857 and "were attacked by the Mormons and Santa Clara tribe of Indians near the rim of the Great Basin, and about fifty miles from Cedar City, in Utah Territory, and that all of the emigrants, with the exception of 17 children, were then and there massacred and murdered."[1] the Mountain Meadows massacre. Sources estimate that between 100 and 140 men, women and children were killed on September 11, 1857 at Mountain Meadows, a rest stop on the Old Spanish Trail, in the Utah territory.

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[edit] Emigrants associated with the ill-fated company in 1857

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People the Fancher party left by the wayside along the way ended up traveling to their destinations in safety. If Missourians reportedly had ever been these trains' fellow travelers,[2][3] none are known to share these Arkansans' fate.

(Various Arkansas trains associated with the Fancher party while on their journeys westward yet that did not perish with them include the Poteet-Tackett, Crooked Creek, Campbell, Parker, and [John S.] Baker—as distinct from the [John Twitty] Baker—trains.)[4]

[edit] Families leaving party before reaching Utah territory

  1. Smith
  2. Morton
  3. Hudson
  4. Basham
  5. Haydon
  6. Reed
  7. Stevenson
  8. Hamilton
  9. Farmer
  10. Lafoon and/or Laffoon
  11. Poteet

[edit] Families leaving in Utah territory

There is some dispute on whether young women from party left with them (ie Tackitt and Dunlap women) listed below.

  1. Eaton, William M.
  2. Edwards, Silas
  3. Rush, Milum L., 28
  4. Stallcup, Charles, 25

The Page family from Madison County Ark. left the train in Utah and took the Northern route safely to California, settling in Eldorado County. John Robert Page born-1819, his wife Frances (Ralston) Page born-1823, their children Elizabeth Emley Page born-1841, Clarisa Jane Page born-1843, James K. Page born- 1844, Moses Caleb Page born- 1848, John Robert Page born-1849, Lewis Johnson Page born-1851, Sarah Frances Page born-1853, Samuel M. Page born-1855 and Henry Towel Page born -April 1857 just before they left Ark.

[edit] Members of the ill-fated Baker-Fancher wagon train

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The Fancher party's constituent trains left from four northwestern Arkansas counties.

  • From Benton county left the original Fancher train—as did the Huff—
  • while from Johnson county left the Cameron, the Miller, and (a trio of cousins) the Poteet-Tackett-Jones trains;
  • from Marion county left the Mitchell, the Dunlap, and the Prewitt trains
  • while from Beller's Stand near Harrison in Carroll county (today Boone county) left the (John Twitty) Baker train—the wagon-master/captain historians reference when they call the grand company the "Baker-Fancher trains". [5][6]

[edit] Believed murdered at Mountain Meadows

  1. Aden, William Allen, 19
  2. Baker, Abel, 19
  3. Baker, George W., 27
  4. Baker, John T., 52
  5. Baker, Manerva A. Beller, 25
  6. Baker, Martha Elizabeth, 11
  7. Baker, Mary Lovina, 7
  8. Baker, Sarah Frances, unknown
  9. Baker, William Twitty, unknown
  10. Beach, John, 21
  11. Beller, David W., 12
  12. Beller, Melissa Ann, 14
  13. Cameron, Henry, 16
  14. Cameron, Isom, 18
  15. Cameron, James, 14
  16. Cameron, Larkin, 8
  17. Cameron, Martha, 11
  18. Cameron, Martha, 51
  19. Cameron, Tillman, 24
  20. Cameron, William, 51
  21. Cameron?, Nancy (William Cameron's niece), 12
  22. Deshazo, Allen P, 20
  23. Dunlap, Amanda (possibly America) Jane, 7
  24. Dunlap, Ellender, 18
  25. Dunlap, Georgia Ann, unknown
  26. Dunlap, James D, 15
  27. Dunlap, John H, 16
  28. Dunlap, Lorenzo Dow, 42
  29. Dunlap, Louisa, 4
  30. Dunlap, Lucinda, 12
  31. Dunlap, Margarette, 11
  32. Dunlap, Mary Ann, 9
  33. Dunlap, Mary Wharton, 39
  34. Dunlap, Nancy, 10
  35. Dunlap, Nancy M., 16
  36. Dunlap, Nancy Wharton, 42
  37. Dunlap, Susannah, 12
  38. Dunlap, Talitha, 11
  39. Dunlap, Thomas J, 17
  40. Fancher, Alexander, 45
  41. Fancher, Christopher, 5
  42. Fancher, Eliza Ingrum, 32
  43. Fancher, Frances "Fanny" Fulfer,
  44. Fancher, Hampton, 19
  45. Fancher, James Mathew, 25
  46. Fancher, Margaret A., 7
  47. Fancher, Martha, 10
  48. Fancher, Mary, 15
  49. Fancher, Robert, 19
  50. Fancher, Sarah G., 7
  51. Fancher, Thomas, 14
  52. Fancher, Triphenia D, unknown
  53. Fancher, William, 17
  54. Huff, Elisha,
  55. Huff, Peter, unknown
  56. Huff, Saladia Ann Brown,
  57. Huff, William
  58. Huff, Possible unknown son[7]
  59. Jones, Eloah Angeline Tackitt, 27
  60. Jones, John Milum, 32
  61. Jones, Newton
  62. Jones, Possible unknown daughter[8]
  63. Jr., Jesse Dunlap, 39
  64. McEntire, Lawson A., 21
  65. Miller, James William, 9
  66. Miller, Josiah (Joseph), 30
  67. Miller, Matilda Cameron, 26
  68. Miller, ?, 12 (possibly 14)
  69. Mitchell, Charles R., 25
  70. Mitchell, Infant (possible)[9]
  71. Mitchell, Joel D., 23
  72. Mitchell, John,
  73. Mitchell, Sarah C. Baker, 21
  74. Prewit, John, 20
  75. Prewit, William, 18
  76. Tackitt, Armilde Miller, 22
  77. Tackitt, Cynthia, 49
  78. Tackitt, Emberson Milum, unknown
  79. Tackitt, James M, 14 (It is possible that this was Jones M, and that he was 12, but they are most likely the same person.)
  80. Tackitt, Marion, 20
  81. Tackitt, Matilde, 16
  82. Tackitt, Sebron, 18
  83. Tackitt, Pleasant, 25
  84. Tackitt, William Henry, unknown
  85. Valentine, Vincent, 21
  86. Wood, Solomon R., 38
  87. Wood, William Edward, 26

[edit] Children who were returned to live with relatives

Seventeen small children, all under the age of seven, survived the Mountain Meadows massacre. Two years after the Massacre, the orphans were returned to their families. These children were: Mary Elizabeth, Sarah Frances and William Twitty Baker, the children of George and Minerva Baker; Rebecca, Louisa and Sarah Dunlap, the daughters of Jesse and Mary Dunlap; Prudence Angeline and Georgia Ann Dunlap, the daughters of Lorenzo and Nancy Dunlap; Christopher and Tryphenia Fancher, the children of Alexander and Elizabeth Fancher; Nancy Sophronia Huff, the daughter of Peter and Saleta Huff; Felix Marion Jones, the son of John and Eloah Jones; John Calvin, Mary and Joseph Miller, the children of Josh and Matilda Miller; and Emberson Milum and William Henry Tackitt, the sons of Pleasant and Armilda Tackitt.[10]

  1. Baker, Mary Elizabeth, 5
  2. Baker, Sarah Frances, 3
  3. Baker, William Twitty, 9 months
  4. Dunlap, Georgia Ann, 18 months
  5. Dunlap, Louisa, 4
  6. Dunlap, Prudence Angeline, 5
  7. Dunlap, Rebecca J., 6
  8. Dunlap, Sarah E., 1
  9. Fancher, Christopher "Kit" Carson, 5
  10. Fancher, Triphenia D., 22 months
  11. Huff, Nancy Saphrona, 4 (Huff is prominently featured in the documentary Burying the Past: Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre)
  12. Jones, Felix Marion, 18 months
  13. Miller, John Calvin, 6
  14. Miller, Joseph, 1
  15. Miller, Mary, 4
  16. Tackitt, Emberson Milum, 4
  17. Tackitt, William Henry, 19 months

[edit] Fate unknown or evidence of survivorship in Utah Territory or Wyoming

  1. Dunlap, Lorenzo Dow, 42
  2. Dunlap, John H.,16
  3. Dunlap, Mary Ann, 13
  4. Dunlap, Talitha Emaline, 11
  5. Dunlap, Mary Ann, 9
  6. Dunlap, Thomas J., 17
  7. Dunlap, Nancy M., 16
  8. Dunlap, James D., 14
  9. Dunlap, Susannah, 12[11]
  10. Dunlap, Lucinda, 12[12]
  11. Dunlap, Margerette, 11
  12. Dunlap, Nancy, 9
  13. Dunlap, America Jane, 7
  14. Tackitt, Cynthia, 49
  15. Tackitt, Marion, 20
  16. Tackitt, Armilda Miller, 22
  17. Tackitt, Sebron, 18
  18. Tackitt, Matilda, 16
  19. Tackitt, James, 14
  20. Tackitt, Jones M., 12

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Uncle Dale's Old Mormon Articles: Misc. Southern States, 1845-1919
  2. ^ Bancroft 1889.
  3. ^ Gibbs 1910.
  4. ^ (Fancher & Wallner 2006).
  5. ^ Mitchell 1860. See also: http://www.mtn-meadows-assoc.com/arkansasemigrants.htm
  6. ^ (Fancher & Wallner 2006).
  7. ^ Likely a Dunlap child listed in fate unknown - evidence of guardianship by head of household
  8. ^ Likely a Dunlap child listed in fate unknown - evidence of guardianship by head of household
  9. ^ Unsure if child had died prior to massacre
  10. ^ Bagley pp. 239-242 Also see: Inscription on 1990 Mountain Meadows Monument [1]
  11. ^ May be same person as Lucinda Dunlap
  12. ^ May be same person as Susannah Dunlap