1853 Relatives on the Oregon Trail

Yesterday I wrote about my 3rd gt-grandfather, Seth Hayes, who traveled the Oregon Trail in 1853. In March I wrote about his daughter, Huldah (Hayes) Bond, my 2nd gt-grandmother who was in that same wagon train. It was in February when I wrote about Seth's wife, Lydia (Jewett) Hayes, who naturally was also on that wagon train.

I feel very fortunate to have had access to a printed transcription of a diary kept by my 2nd gt-granduncle, George W. Bond from that trip from Iowa to Oregon in 1853. I made a digital transcription of the diary and posted it on my genealogy website: http://www.joanneskelton.com/e198.htm He used an account book and wrote one line per day. It mentioned only a few people, but many geographical features. I took his diary and maps of the known Oregon Trail and created my own 1853 Trail Map on a modern day map. I added quotes from the diary on the map also. I was also fortunate in that an agent along the trail at the Umatilla Agency made a listing of the people on the wagon trains who passed that way in 1853. Then it was printed in the Oregonian newspaper from Portland Oregon in October of 1853. The list has not been found, but the newspaper article is still available and an Oregon Trail researcher has published that list in a more easily read format. It gives the name of the head of household, if there was a wife and how many sons and how many daughters. The date showing my family's train, August 28, matched the entry in the diary. I was glad to find that the names also matched the family research I had done.

Here is a listing of the family members who traveled in that wagon train showing their name, year and state of birth and relationship.

Name	Born	Relationship
John Bond	1797 - Kentucky	3rd gt-grandfather
Sarah (Chastain) Bond	1797 - Virginia	3rd gt-grandmother
William Bond	1816 - Kentucky	2nd gt-granduncle
Hannah (Hayes) Bond	1821 - Ohio	2nd gt-grandaunt
Seth Hayes Bond	1845 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
James Monroe Bond	1847 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Ebenezer Bond	1850 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Emma Augusta Bond	1853 - Oregon Trail	1st cousin 3 times removed
George W. Bond	1818 - Kentucky	2nd gt-granduncle
Elizabeth (Stillwell) Bond	1821 - Kentucky	1st cousin 4 times removed
William Harrison Bond	1841 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Benjamin Franklin Bond	1842 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Sarah A. Bond	1845 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Amanda J. Bond	1847 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
James Madison Bond	1849 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Solomon Bond	1819 - Kentucky	2nd gt-grandfather
Huldah (Hayes) Bond	1827 - Ohio	2nd gt-grandmother
Lydia Ann Bond	1843 - Iowa	gt-grandaunt
William Henry Bond	1847 - Iowa	gt-granduncle
Mary Louisa Bond	1849 - Iowa	gt-grandaunt
Susan Augusta Bond	1852 - Iowa	gt-grandaunt
Isaac Silas Davis	1827 - Tennessee
Rebecca (Bond) Davis	1823 - Indiana	2nd gt-grandaunt
James Nelson Davis	1849 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Laura Ann Davis	1850 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Martha Luella Davis	1852 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Nelson Davis	1826 - Tennessee
Elizabeth (Bond) Davis	1830 - Illinois	2nd gt-grandaunt
Rebecca Ann Davis	1847 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
William A Davis	1849 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Albert Daniel Davis	1851 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Susan Olive Davis	1853 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Seth Hayes	c1785 - New York	3rd gt-grandfather
Lydia (Jewett) Hayes	1793 - New Hampshire	3rd gt-grandmother
Ebenezer Hayes	1829 - Ohio	2nd gt-granduncle
Sybil Ann Hayes	1831 - Ohio	2nd gt-grandaunt
Priscilla Hayes	1837 - Indiana	2nd gt-grandaunt
Reuben Jewett	1824 - Ohio
Lydia L (Hayes) Jewett	1824 - Ohio	2nd gt-grandaunt
Fernando Jewett	1852 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Seth Whipple Hayes	1825 - Ohio	2nd gt-granduncle
Polly (Stillwell) Hayes	1832 - Indiana	1st cousin 4 times removed
Daniel James Hayes	1850 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Seth Stephen Hayes	1852 - Iowa	1st cousin 3 times removed
Peter Wycoff	1831 - Ohio
Jane (Stillwell) Wycoff	c1830 - Indiana	1st cousin 4 times removed