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Note: !1. Samuel Reeder and his younger brother(s?) were traveling on the Fancher Wagon Train to California with the family of an uncle, Charles. A young scout, by the name of Zebulon P. Fawcett, age 21, who had joined the train in Iowa, became friends with the Reeders. He was traveling out ahead of the emmigration train locating water and promising camp sites when the massacre occured.
Returning to the Meadows, he found a few burned wagons and the bodies of those who had been with the train. He and his companion rode rapidly for California, eventually arriving in San Francisco where he was photographed a few months later. He apparently wrote to the relatives of the Charles Reeder family in Iowa to let them know what had happened to their family members. His daughter, Francis Fawcett Haynes of Riverside, CA, wrote to Jennie Hall Brush in 1939 to see if she could trace those letters. Documents in Church Historian's collection,[ MS d 4574] include a picture of Zebulon P. Fawcett. He and Samuel were about the same age.
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