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About Margret Wilson Backenstoe Reed
Survived, the Reeds were one of only two families to survive without loss.
Of the 83 members of the Donner Party who were trapped in the mountains, only 45 survived to reach California.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Reed
He married Margret Keyes Backenstoe, a widow with a baby daughter, in 1835. The couple had four more children in Springfield: Martha Jane (called Patty), James F. Reed, Jr., Thomas Keyes, and Gershom Francis, who died as an infant. Reed never formally adopted Margret Reed's eldest daughter, Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe, but she went by the name Virginia Reed.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
Margret Wilson Keyes Reed
BIRTH
31 Mar 1814
Union, Monroe County, West Virginia, USA
DEATH
25 Nov 1861 (aged 47)
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, USA
BURIAL
Oak Hill Memorial Park
San Jose, Santa Clara County, California
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10951090/margret-wilson-reed
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Margret Wilson Backenstoe Reed's Timeline
1814 |
March 31, 1814
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Union, Monroe County, WV, United States
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1833 |
June 28, 1833
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Springfield, Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
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1838 |
1838
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Sangamon Co., IL
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1841 |
March 26, 1841
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Sangamon Co., IL
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1843 |
April 2, 1843
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Sangamon County, Illinois, United States
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1844 |
December 29, 1844
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1848
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1861 |
August 25, 1861
Age 47
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San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, United States
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