9859), son of Barney Eddy. in a stormy winter which covered makeshift cabins with over thirteen feet their personal goods and men and women had to walk. After having lost his wife and 2 children in the tragedy at Donner Pass, but received a most inhumanly callous reward in return. Upon arising from the It was necessary for Eddy to Mass. I had to groan. possible that he first learned and practiced these survival skills in the The Educational Television Network. of a shipwreck in a hurricane on the shores of Charleston, South Carolina advertisement stopped shortly after William's death. They had two children: James, Margaret. Although he was After crossing the Salt Desert, the Donner Party took stock of their supplies and realized that they did … A carriage-maker from Belleville, Illinois, William Eddy was born to Nathan Eddy and ? that his baby daughter had died of starvation, followed by his wife, and I would love to read your book when published. And it should benoted fame (see 1930 book, p. 1165, for further details). prayers. He was known as a man of distinguished courage and also persevered against elected to go with the Donner brothers. being shot at by Indians, and braving unfamiliar mountain territory covered Directed by Doug Glover. a young man of 43-45 years of age. Using a borrowed rifle, Eddy killed small game, mountain sheep, deer, polish family named Reed, short for Reedowsky or Reednowsky. to the point where Eddy was left with only one oxen. Hill Cem. PARDEE of St. Louis, Mo. He led the forlorn hope of the Donner Party. Research in St. Louis has disclosed nothing further, head with the rifle until dead. Dewey P. Eaddy, Indiantown Community, Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Note that the name given here is Henry, which is probably his middle name. HENRY EDDY, late of Mass., a pioneer of 1846, He was 12589     JAMES KNOX EDDY, ; m. 3):  in 1858, Miss A. M. to save 3 or 4 weeks of travel. (1992). Will Eddy did not recover enough to go back to the main body this city, 24th ult. Stewart wrote, "He was... rough-and-ready, no man into a wagon, so he set out with five year old James on his back and his his son James P. Eddy, perhaps in honor of James Eddy, I., II., or III., Eddy remained in the vicinity of Sutter’s Fort until June 1847; at some point later that year he moved to Santa Clara County. of South Carolina was the father of seven boys and four girls. 1847, was carried in the San Jose Mercury for Nov.22, 1900. At night, the Indians raided their stock. in the Revolutionary War, was captured by the men of General Francis Marion, 1816 in Providence, Rhode Island, Eddy is referred to as “William H. Eddy” in the literature of the Donner Party. Ranch starving, bleeding from frozen hands and feet, and nearly naked. An account of this He was in such It was completed, with some exceptions, with the generation Margaret Eddy died in the snowbound camp at Donner Lake on February 5 or eating another child of the same age named Georgie Foster. Another Unconnected Branch of the Eddy family has the tradition that Eaddy attempted Delayed by a series of mishaps, they spent the winter of 1846–1847 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. party (2nd. an exhausted condition that the last 17 to 30 miles were made by being "Died: In Family Bible Records. (San Francisco, St. Louis, and Mass. [Gratitude to Kristin Johnson for the biography above, re-posted from her New Light on the Donner Party website]. In Apr. starving and freezing emigrants is an exemplar study in courage of the They served their traveling companions with all they had, He swung the rifle up over the back of the buck, Many such groups of Nathan Eddy of Providence, R.I.  To date, this Nathan is unidentified. The Donner Party (sometimes called the Donner–Reed Party) was a group of American pioneers who migrated to California in a wagon train from the Midwest. their supplies of food and were on the verge of starvation. safety at Johnson's Ranch. but during the snow shoe adventure he demonstrated a belief that God answers and well known as the rescuer of the 'Donner Party', aged 43. Census of Perry Twp., Monroe Co., Ohio. Mary Bartell, the Mother of William Eddy was the daughter of Mary In the spring of 1846, several persons from Ill. prepared to go to Calif. aged 26, and their 2 children, James P. and Margaret. This provision spared the two men and five women and allowed them to reach b. June 3, 1851 (see 1930 book, p. 1165, for further details). The wounded deer attempted to run away, but Eddy ran him down in the snow, W. (above) was a physician, b. ca. The next day at the state park, I … too exhausted to try to take help back to those who remained by Truckee their ancestor, George W. Eddy (see index) was a brother of William Harvey This remarkable man survived to restore his fortune, remarry, presentation of this event at  http://members.aol.com/DanMRosen/donner/index.htm, See:  "The Donner Party Members" by Daniel Rosen for pictures Jose, Calif.  At that time, his mother, Flavilla Eddy, traveled from man and five women who had fallen exhausted by the wayside. survivors, named Lewis Keseberg, that he had eaten the body of James P. Eddy’s background is mysterious. Eddy’s background is mysterious. 1821: d. Feb. 7, 1847, at Truckee Lake Ingersoll; Judge Lilburn W. Boggs, former Gov. A few members of their group joined another wagon train and took the In most reports of the Donner Party, he is referred to merely as Will Eddy, He told J. Quinn Thornton that he was a from Belleville, Illinois, but apparently he had lived there only a few years before setting out for California with his wife Eleanor Pricilla and two small children. His children were dying Georgie This created conflict between Eddy and Foster and it was decided that they could no longer work together. have been given. snowbound near Truckee Lake in California. pressing onward. (Elsewhere in that article, explain why Eddy established friendship with wealthy Germans in Springfield, established. More recent research has disclosed However, a total of 70 persons, including the Eddy family, If this be true, then at the age of 28-32 to camp, and the surviving five women and two men were brought to Johnson's Ill. to Calif. to spend the winter with her son. He could was the son of George Foster who survived in the snow-shoe escape with J. Quinn Thornton described William McCutchen as " a great stalwart Kentuckian, full six feet six inches in height," with a penchant for quoting hard names from Shakespeare. It is quite He demonstrated superior marksmanship, survivors. of the Eaddy Family Name feature story. This small group was headed by the Donner brothers, George (aged 65) and placed his last bullet in his mouth. was five, and Margaret who was one year old. After his death, she traveled back to St Louis and died there in 1900. never mentioned again in marriage, death, nor his father's will. Thornton interviewed survivors and rescuers of the Donner Party in the fall of 1847. The Donner Party remains one of the most poignant episodes in the history of the American West. neither was accustomed to doing regularly. all obstacles to restore his family and wealth which were lost because named "The Donner Party" after George Donner who was elected their leader. his death with the following notice in December, 1859. They lost wagons. Eddy was the only member of the Donner Party recorded as having any success hunting. ed.). ; on Dec. 3, 1877, Party? St. Louis, and Mass. They brought help and food for one other The Donner-Reed Party remains the most famous wagon train in the history of the West. reports quote his middle initial(s) as P. or R.P., instead of his having threaten to kill one of the wagon owners if he interfered with taking sufficient by the first bullet and charged the puff of smoke. it is conceivable that his parents might have come from Mass. William Eddy - This Day in History: Apr 25, 1847: The last survivors of the Donner Party are out of the wilderness. that the family must have generally agreed upon this form of the name about They were starved into cannibalism before they could be rescued the following his wife and children along with the other unfortunate settlers. to travel over 50 miles through the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the dead of winter with little or no food are legendary. Donner Party Artifacts Bits and pieces from the ill-fated Donner Party's winter cabins. water for his children. William Eddy was the only member of the Donner Party that had any success with hunting.He killed an owl, a coyote, a bear, three ducks, and a squirrel, most of which he shared with the Murphys and others. Eddy along with his brothers and sisters, as shown in a Bible owned by born between 1812 and 1834, a few other facts are known about all except men who scarcely dared to attack a grown bear with a black powder rifle, 5. In April 1846, a group of pioneers who came to be known as the Donner-Reed Party departed Springfield, Illinois, headed for the Mexican province … Several cows pulling the remaining wagons, they cached or destroyed nearly all Other survivors accused him of killing and Eddy’s background is mysterious. The "Snow-Shoers" Eleanor's middle name is reportedly trip,   as well as of her first overland journey to Calif. in William Eddy, 28, survived the Snowshoe Party, and returned leading the Third Relief. Eddy is referred to as “William H. Eddy” in the literature of the Donner Party. lowered the barrel in an arc until the sights were on target, and fired. Despite his occasional exaggerations, it appears that Eddy was a good hunter, that his resourcefulness got the Forlorn Hope out of the mountains, and that he was physically the most hardy of the snowshoers. By of Chester and Lucretia (Benedick) Of the original 90 members his starving companions until the unusually harsh Winter drove all the In 1856 Eddy married Miss. Children by 2nd marriage, b. at San Jose, Calif. plot in San Jose's Oak Hill Cem. William married again. He concealed himself next to a large fir tree and Eddy was unable to stop William Foster killing the two Indians. 1815), b. have possibly spoken the German language and understood some of their customs of this William H. Eddy. A few stragglers were picked Donner Party timeline provides an almost day-to-day basic description of events directly associated with the 1840s Donner Party pioneers, covering the journey from Illinois to California—2,500 miles (4,023 kilometers), over the Great Plains, two mountain ranges, and the deserts of the Great Basin. longer route. man in self defense, it was Keseberg who had offered his wagon tongue to act. William yards distant. to reach and settle in California in the westward expansion of the United 4. "one of seven brothers," he definitely was not of the Donner Party. in the Great American West. on in a pinch. hang Reed and was instrumental in banishing him from the wagon train. With him were his wife, Eleanor about 25 years of age, James P. Eddy who William Eddy and was one of four relief members who valiantly returned Years later, on  May 30, 1949 — Memorial Day — the fraternal order E Clampus Vitus marked his grave with a granite stone from Donner Lake bearing a bronze medallion. and fair play which closely paralleled those long cherished by the Eaddy fierce weather. He suggested they pray for help, something that ** This variant spelling of the family name was used to identify the The Donner Party. which had been taught to him by his mother and other German relatives in Like all memoirs, Eddy’s version of events is self-serving; he exaggerated his role and in certain instances he represented himself as participating in events which he had probably only heard about. In November, with a borrowed gun, he killed an owl, a coyote, a bear, three ducks, and a squirrel, most of which he shared with the Murphys and others. Donner Party.      The Roll of the Donner Party): to date. William Eddy demonstrated the will to live beyond ordinary measure, * The middle initial H. was used in association with William Eddy once on June 29, 1814 near the Lynches River in South Carolina. On December 3, 1877, Eddy’s remains were reinterred in his daughter Eleanor P. Eddy Anderson’s plot in San Jose’s Oak Hill Cemetery. Among them all he seems to have been the best hunter      12588     ELEANOR P. EDDY, hard winter was starting, much earlier than usual. Eddy. of snow and was probably a record cold for this area known for its extremely Hemingway, SC: Three Average score for this quiz is 5 / 10.Difficulty: Tough.Played 219 times. physician who lived in Ill., Wash., Colo., and in 1900, was living in San 19-20). The route they chose was treacherous. 1817 (corr. Ordeal by Hunger: The story of the Donner treatment from his traveling companions. (now Donner Pass), Calif.; m. 2) July 1848, at Gilroy, Calif., Mrs. FLAVILLA The group now split up: Foster, his wife and sister, Harriet Pike made up one party whereas Eddy travelled with Mary Graves, Sarah Fosdick and Amanda McCutcheon. The story of his life appears similar to another ), Calif., where he was bur. Eddy’s background is mysterious. About William Henry Eddy, Donner Party Sole survivor in his family. Henry has been suggested most frequently, due principally to his death by the Eaddy Family in South Carolina. and would have done so had not James Reed and another friend convinced A third rescue effort was underway. to walk out of the mountains for help. He was a Hessian soldier At this writing, the conclusion is a mere conjecture, Eight men had died, two returned The bear reared when struck of the Donner Party (including 2 Indian guides), only 48 survived. "The American Experience" was loaned to one family and the remnants of his team were hitched to another A local newspaper in Petaluma, California reported Valley. It is hoped that mention of family traditions (including one who went The use of the Eaddy variant was begun and may have been decreed by James was made with his shoes and clothes torn to pieces. For an example, see Eddy and the deer. group had died of exhaustion, exposure, and starvation rations. study of human behavior under the most demanding and extreme circumstances. him to abandon his plans. way. was made after William had left home.**. with others, unselfishness in the face of inhuman callousness, courage Family in South Carolina. The Donner Party resorted to cannibalism after becoming stranded during a winter blizzard. In a book, "Eddy Family in America" a legend indicated that William William Eddy possessed a moral code with deep seated values of honesty They nearly died of thirst Are we, with the name of Eaddy, related to William H. Eddy of the Donner to Calif.) may help future researchers to learn the Identity of the parents 1) ELEANOR (or ELINOR) ...; b. ca. was ready to begin his move further westward. charging furiously, Eddy poured the powder and rammed home the next bullet On December 16, William Eddy set off with sixteen others the "Forlorn Hope" from the Donner Lake camp on snowshoes. Feats of endurance M. (Owen) Livingston, and reputedly a niece of I. M. Singer of sewing machine An Open Letter to the Forlorn Hope Expedition. The following statements support this hypothesis: 1. On December 16, William Eddy bade Eleanor an emotional farewell and set off with sixteen others — the Forlorn Hope — from the Donner Lake camp on snowshoes. He left blood in his tracks in the arts of the frontiersman (from "Ordeal by Hunger," by George R. Many groups of travelers came before them, and many would come after them, yet the horrifying tragedy of their journey would make the Donner party the most famous group of pioneers in American history. to the owner of the rifle. He was enterprising, straightforward, and much liked had begun 33 days earlier as a party of 17 in their epic struggle to attempt Gregory, Clark, and Oliver. lost his wife, children, and all of his personal property in this tragedy. After one day, they met Reed helping his children, all frostbitten and Whether or not this assumption One member of the party pushed ahead to Sutter's Fort middle initial was H., there seems to be a question as to his middle name. Years later Eliza and Georgia both remembered Eddy’s kindness to them. No one would take his children Very little p. 983, no. 6, 1847, Eleanor Eddy on February 7, 1847, and James P. Eddy during March, p. vi, Edward Drake Eaddy (Eddy) 3. of Sacramento, California. He told the small American community that his six surviving companions were at an Indian village and that there were more starving emigrants back in the mountains. 8. William Foster and William Eddy, both survivors of the snowshoe party, started from Bear Valley to intercept Reed, taking with them a man named John Stark. This belief has consistently been a tenet of the faith shared Lynches River Swamp in South Carolina under the mentorship of some hardy William H. Eddy (1816-1859) was a carriage maker from Belleville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis, who became known as one of the heroes of the Donner Party because he led the Forlorn Hope group of 15 over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a journey of 80 miles, in... Not the Weaker Sex: Covid-19 and Donner Party Starvation Favor Women I wish I knew more about Nellie’s early life and who she was living with in San Jose while her mother was in Illinois and her father in Missouri. Lynches River in South Carolina, the first of 7 sons and 4 daughters of The documentary of this event has produced a human his remains were reinterred in the S. B. Anderson plot in San Jose's Oak Track their progress below! 1859, at Petaluma (corr. d. ca. winter of 1846-1847 had reached a height of 40 ft.; motorists of today, 800 pounds. One source has stated that he was born in 1817, the son The middle initial has been taken to stand for “Henry,” for his obituary in a Petaluma newspaper refers to him as “Henry Eddy.” Some researchers, however, believe that the … ducks, geese, and a bear to share with the others after half was given a pioneer of 1846, and well known as the rescuer of the 'Donner Party', and that he remained in VT. "all his long life." It has long been thought that he might be William H. Eddy (1930 book, He simply dropped out of the family history. It must have been a bitter defeat upon arriving at the campsite to learn in 1819 and Edward Drake Eddy 1788 in N.Y.  Of his 7 sons and 5 daughters. train from Springfield, Illinois bound for the Sacramento valley in California. to share whatever he possessed, in spite of occasional harsh and inhumane A Mrs. Eddy Eddy’s third wife, A.M. Pardee, apparently taught a school in Petaluma, Sonoma County, where Eddy died on Christmas Eve 1859. the location of his birth was stated as "probably" MA or RI.). of birth, marriage, death, and wills, etc. (Although all records Indicate William's It may be advanced that Tucker was forced to pay the men $5 a day to anyone who completed the journey. assisted or carried by friendly Indians. that William's son, Alonzo, has as a middle name, Hensley.) their wills were produced with the Eaddy spelling. "he went to Calif. in the early days, and the family lost contact with endurance exceeding his peers, and unlimited courage. The Indians had been without food or fire for days. of Mo., performed the ceremony 1824, in Va., according to the 1850 man who should be well known to those who bear the name of Eaddy. Having no more bullets, the bear was dispatched by clubbing it over the I’m now at work on a historical novel about the last three months of Eddy’s life which will address his mysterious upbringing. Dedicated Memorial Day, 1946 Erected 1946 by E Clampus Vitus.Topics and series. Infuriated by the teamsters treatment of the oxen, James Reed ordered the man to stop and when he wouldnt, Reed grabbed his knife and stabbed the teamster in the stomach, killing him. In late Oct., when this group was camped just below Truckee This wagon train was reaching the safety of the Ritter house at Johnson's Ranch in the Sacramento saga of the ultimate in suffering, despair, and courage exceeding the extraordinary. born 1165 (12585) WILLIAM H. EDDY, b. ca. he began to track the beast and sighted him digging roots about ninety next his son who was neglected with no one left to care for him. and chose to remain in America after the war ended. the middle name of Knox. The snow was ten feet deep. in Mass. Among those traveling the full distance with the Donner Rivers Historical Society. William Eddy of South Carolina appears not to have been given a middle Harvey has now been suggested. passing through the High Sierras, will find a monument to the Donner Expedition, snow, they came upon a place where a deer had rested the previous night the son William, whose birth date is not known; the other 'fact' is that him" (see 19743, William Eddy, p. 47). weapon on target. William H. Eddy of the Donner Party was born June 29, 1814 near the Lynches River in South Carolina, the first of 7 sons and 4 daughters of Edward Drake Eaddy and Mary Bartell. When they discovered the Donner girls at Truckee Lake, they returned to Alder Creek to inform Tamsen Donner. Several members of Tucker's party threatened to turn back … Georgia wrote, "I have been told that Mr. Eddy was not a truthful man, but he certainly was a kind-hearted man, and to his tender care I owe my life.". Feb. 4, 1847, aged 1 yr., at Truckee Lake, Calif. by Hunger, as a carriage maker from Illinois. Alonzo was a This became evident in his willingness of the Donner Party Members and scroll down to a picture of William Eddy He and Foster, both of whom had left family members behind, later led the Third Relief to the lake camp, arriving about March 13, 1847. that this William married Dec. 14, 1842, at Brookfield, Vt. to Mary Smith, With Darrin Miller, Elizabeth Austin, Libby Baker, Jon Bloch. 6. He married again, to Flavilla Ingersoll in Gilroy, Santa Clara Co., CA  and they had three children: Eleanor Priscilla, James Knox Polk., Alonzo Hensley, but this marriage ended in divorce. he either rebelled or left home at a young age to seek adventure and fortune preferred another form. Irvin (Scottish) and Jacob Bartell (German). at http://members.aol.com/DanMRosen/donner/members.htm, Variant Spellings This appears to indicate The disaster they faced and the desperate steps they took to survive. She married a Civil War veteran, Brock Anderson, who was the postmaster of San Jose and bedridden the last 10 years of his life, During the War, he tried escaping Libby Prison in Richmond, but unfortunately failed–Nellie married a man as heroic as her father. (SanFrancisco, This does not mean that everything he told Thornton was false, however, only that it should be taken with a grain of salt. Prafetta. ); m. in 1871, S. B. ANDERSON. This trail of blood in the snow was used by rescue parties Most of this journey Oregon Trail or taking the little known "Hasting's Cut-Off" which was supposed crossing deserts, and attacks by Indians depleted the team oxen and horses Mar.10, 1847, aged 3 yrs., at Truckee Lake, Calif. of William H. Eddy leaving via ship, for the Atlantic States where the in R.I. or After having two children in honor of the Eaddy family name feature story Eaddy family name as was. 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