The Sager children traveled on with the wagon train until they reached the missionary settlement of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman in southwest Oregon. The Whitmans were Presbyterian missionaries who had established the mission in 1836. After losing their own child, the Whitmans saw the Sager children as the children they had always wanted. For the next three years the children lived with the Whitmans until 1847 when the mission was attacked by Cayuse Indians. Twelve people were murdered, including Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and all of Catherine's brothers.
Catherine Sager survived. In the new country, she managed to live to maturity, marry and raise her own family and even write about her horrendous childhood in "Across the Plains - 1844".
(Editor's Note: The Journal "Across the Plains - 1844" by Catherine Sager is available for Kindles at Amazon.com )
Next time...Miriam Thompson Tuller's Story
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Today in Pioneer History: On August 13, 1860, Annie Oakley, one of the greatest female sharpshooters in American history, is born in Patterson Township, Ohio.
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