Morgan J. Woolman was born about 1828 in NY. His father was Hirum Woolman born c. 1800 and his mother was Lydia Woolman b. ca 1796. They settled in Michigan where Morgan married Emily J. Irwin, b.18 Nov. 1837.
The Bio below was taken from the Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery Website at http://www.webpanda.com/WP_cemeteries/schellborne.html
Unfortunately it incorrectly lists Martin Woolman when it should be Marvin Woolman. My source for this information comes from "The History of Michigan, Volume 2 by Charles Moore which can be found at
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA761&lpg=PA759&dq=Herman+and+Lydia+Woolman&i
d=DH55AAAAMAAJ&ots=X7LSz3Uj5f#v=onepage&q=Herman%20and%20Lydia%20Wool man&f=false
I have corrected the name below.
Morgan and Marvin Woolman went west some time in 1864 and were on their way back from California with some half-breed horses (one account puts the number at 14) to take back to their Iowa homes. Traveling with the two brothers was a man known only as " Jim." All three men were murdered in June 1865 by Ransom Young, age 20, and James Wabb (aka Josiah Walton), age 19, at or near Schell Creek.
The two youthful murderers had met their victims at Ruby Valley or at some point east of the Sierras and traveled with the three men until they killed them using ax or hatchet blows to bash in their heads while they slept. Then, they mutilated the faces of the victims using sharpened cedar branches hoping Indians would be blamed for the deaths.
The killers loaded the dead men onto horses and led the animals up a nearby gulch about one or five hundred yards where the murderers concealed the bodies in tall sagebrush on the side of a hill away from where they had all been murdered.
Blood and brains found at the campsite and dropped on the way to where the bodies had been hidden led a man searching for stock to the corpses on 10 Jun 1865. He gave the alarm and the pursuit for the perpetrators began.
Wabb and Young had tried to burn the bloody clothing and blankets of the victims, but did not succeed in the attempt. A badly damaged daguerreotype was later found in the ashes which was thought to be a picture of a woman and a child, perhaps related to one of the murdered men.
While Young was arrested at Bed River, east of Schell Creek, by soldiers, Wabb escaped on a jaded horse. His horse gave out at Indian Springs and he continued his escape on foot. He was captured within four miles of Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd, UT?) by a Mr. Roberts and a second man who were pursuing him.
Wabb identified himself as being Josiah Walton of California and admitted to the killings. Mr. Roberts arranged to immediately transport him back to Schellbourne. Young was being held at Egan Canyon by the Justice of the Peace and he too had confessed.
Upon hearing of the capture and imminent arrival of Wabb, a large body of angry citizens forcefully took possession of Ransom Young from the Justice of the Peace and took him to Schellbourne to meet the arrival of Wabb and his captors.
Young showed regret for his part in the horrific murders but Wabb was indifferent and sullen.
The citizens constructed two tripods from poles and a carpenter's saw horse was placed beneath each. The prisoners were made to mount the sawhorses, cords were fastened to the apex of the tripods and snugly adjusted around the two prisoners necks. Then the saw horses were removed. Because there was very little fall for the bodies, the two died by strangulation.
Young and Wabb were executed without a trial at Schell Creek, (Schellbourne) at ten o'clock on the morning of 15 June 1865 over "the graves of their victims on a grassy hillside under a stately pine, near a beautiful spring." It is said they were buried near the spot where they had murdered the three men.
Young and Wabb were from near Mission of San Jose, California and had relatives there. One newspaper account concluded, "The swift retribution that overtook the murderers was but the just punishment of their crimes."
It is reasonable to assume that "Jim" and Morgan and Marvin Woolman were the first interments to be made in the Schellbourne cemetery.
More information can also be found in the entries for William D. Roberts in "Utah Since Statehood Volumes 1-4" and "The LDS Biographical Encyclopedia"
The Bio below was taken from the Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery Website at http://www.webpanda.com/WP_cemeteries/schellborne.html
Unfortunately it incorrectly lists Martin Woolman when it should be Marvin Woolman. My source for this information comes from "The History of Michigan, Volume 2 by Charles Moore which can be found at
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA761&lpg=PA759&dq=Herman+and+Lydia+Woolman&i
d=DH55AAAAMAAJ&ots=X7LSz3Uj5f#v=onepage&q=Herman%20and%20Lydia%20Wool man&f=false
I have corrected the name below.
Morgan and Marvin Woolman went west some time in 1864 and were on their way back from California with some half-breed horses (one account puts the number at 14) to take back to their Iowa homes. Traveling with the two brothers was a man known only as " Jim." All three men were murdered in June 1865 by Ransom Young, age 20, and James Wabb (aka Josiah Walton), age 19, at or near Schell Creek.
The two youthful murderers had met their victims at Ruby Valley or at some point east of the Sierras and traveled with the three men until they killed them using ax or hatchet blows to bash in their heads while they slept. Then, they mutilated the faces of the victims using sharpened cedar branches hoping Indians would be blamed for the deaths.
The killers loaded the dead men onto horses and led the animals up a nearby gulch about one or five hundred yards where the murderers concealed the bodies in tall sagebrush on the side of a hill away from where they had all been murdered.
Blood and brains found at the campsite and dropped on the way to where the bodies had been hidden led a man searching for stock to the corpses on 10 Jun 1865. He gave the alarm and the pursuit for the perpetrators began.
Wabb and Young had tried to burn the bloody clothing and blankets of the victims, but did not succeed in the attempt. A badly damaged daguerreotype was later found in the ashes which was thought to be a picture of a woman and a child, perhaps related to one of the murdered men.
While Young was arrested at Bed River, east of Schell Creek, by soldiers, Wabb escaped on a jaded horse. His horse gave out at Indian Springs and he continued his escape on foot. He was captured within four miles of Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd, UT?) by a Mr. Roberts and a second man who were pursuing him.
Wabb identified himself as being Josiah Walton of California and admitted to the killings. Mr. Roberts arranged to immediately transport him back to Schellbourne. Young was being held at Egan Canyon by the Justice of the Peace and he too had confessed.
Upon hearing of the capture and imminent arrival of Wabb, a large body of angry citizens forcefully took possession of Ransom Young from the Justice of the Peace and took him to Schellbourne to meet the arrival of Wabb and his captors.
Young showed regret for his part in the horrific murders but Wabb was indifferent and sullen.
The citizens constructed two tripods from poles and a carpenter's saw horse was placed beneath each. The prisoners were made to mount the sawhorses, cords were fastened to the apex of the tripods and snugly adjusted around the two prisoners necks. Then the saw horses were removed. Because there was very little fall for the bodies, the two died by strangulation.
Young and Wabb were executed without a trial at Schell Creek, (Schellbourne) at ten o'clock on the morning of 15 June 1865 over "the graves of their victims on a grassy hillside under a stately pine, near a beautiful spring." It is said they were buried near the spot where they had murdered the three men.
Young and Wabb were from near Mission of San Jose, California and had relatives there. One newspaper account concluded, "The swift retribution that overtook the murderers was but the just punishment of their crimes."
It is reasonable to assume that "Jim" and Morgan and Marvin Woolman were the first interments to be made in the Schellbourne cemetery.
More information can also be found in the entries for William D. Roberts in "Utah Since Statehood Volumes 1-4" and "The LDS Biographical Encyclopedia"
Morgan J. Woolman was born about 1828 in NY. His father was Hirum Woolman born c. 1800 and his mother was Lydia Woolman b. ca 1796. They settled in Michigan where Morgan married Emily J. Irwin, b.18 Nov. 1837.
The Bio below was taken from the Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery Website at http://www.webpanda.com/WP_cemeteries/schellborne.html
Unfortunately it incorrectly lists Martin Woolman when it should be Marvin Woolman. My source for this information comes from "The History of Michigan, Volume 2 by Charles Moore which can be found at
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA761&lpg=PA759&dq=Herman+and+Lydia+Woolman&i
d=DH55AAAAMAAJ&ots=X7LSz3Uj5f#v=onepage&q=Herman%20and%20Lydia%20Wool man&f=false
I have corrected the name below.
Morgan and Marvin Woolman went west some time in 1864 and were on their way back from California with some half-breed horses (one account puts the number at 14) to take back to their Iowa homes. Traveling with the two brothers was a man known only as " Jim." All three men were murdered in June 1865 by Ransom Young, age 20, and James Wabb (aka Josiah Walton), age 19, at or near Schell Creek.
The two youthful murderers had met their victims at Ruby Valley or at some point east of the Sierras and traveled with the three men until they killed them using ax or hatchet blows to bash in their heads while they slept. Then, they mutilated the faces of the victims using sharpened cedar branches hoping Indians would be blamed for the deaths.
The killers loaded the dead men onto horses and led the animals up a nearby gulch about one or five hundred yards where the murderers concealed the bodies in tall sagebrush on the side of a hill away from where they had all been murdered.
Blood and brains found at the campsite and dropped on the way to where the bodies had been hidden led a man searching for stock to the corpses on 10 Jun 1865. He gave the alarm and the pursuit for the perpetrators began.
Wabb and Young had tried to burn the bloody clothing and blankets of the victims, but did not succeed in the attempt. A badly damaged daguerreotype was later found in the ashes which was thought to be a picture of a woman and a child, perhaps related to one of the murdered men.
While Young was arrested at Bed River, east of Schell Creek, by soldiers, Wabb escaped on a jaded horse. His horse gave out at Indian Springs and he continued his escape on foot. He was captured within four miles of Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd, UT?) by a Mr. Roberts and a second man who were pursuing him.
Wabb identified himself as being Josiah Walton of California and admitted to the killings. Mr. Roberts arranged to immediately transport him back to Schellbourne. Young was being held at Egan Canyon by the Justice of the Peace and he too had confessed.
Upon hearing of the capture and imminent arrival of Wabb, a large body of angry citizens forcefully took possession of Ransom Young from the Justice of the Peace and took him to Schellbourne to meet the arrival of Wabb and his captors.
Young showed regret for his part in the horrific murders but Wabb was indifferent and sullen.
The citizens constructed two tripods from poles and a carpenter's saw horse was placed beneath each. The prisoners were made to mount the sawhorses, cords were fastened to the apex of the tripods and snugly adjusted around the two prisoners necks. Then the saw horses were removed. Because there was very little fall for the bodies, the two died by strangulation.
Young and Wabb were executed without a trial at Schell Creek, (Schellbourne) at ten o'clock on the morning of 15 June 1865 over "the graves of their victims on a grassy hillside under a stately pine, near a beautiful spring." It is said they were buried near the spot where they had murdered the three men.
Young and Wabb were from near Mission of San Jose, California and had relatives there. One newspaper account concluded, "The swift retribution that overtook the murderers was but the just punishment of their crimes."
It is reasonable to assume that "Jim" and Morgan and Marvin Woolman were the first interments to be made in the Schellbourne cemetery.
More information can also be found in the entries for William D. Roberts in "Utah Since Statehood Volumes 1-4" and "The LDS Biographical Encyclopedia"
The Bio below was taken from the Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery Website at http://www.webpanda.com/WP_cemeteries/schellborne.html
Unfortunately it incorrectly lists Martin Woolman when it should be Marvin Woolman. My source for this information comes from "The History of Michigan, Volume 2 by Charles Moore which can be found at
http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA761&lpg=PA759&dq=Herman+and+Lydia+Woolman&i
d=DH55AAAAMAAJ&ots=X7LSz3Uj5f#v=onepage&q=Herman%20and%20Lydia%20Wool man&f=false
I have corrected the name below.
Morgan and Marvin Woolman went west some time in 1864 and were on their way back from California with some half-breed horses (one account puts the number at 14) to take back to their Iowa homes. Traveling with the two brothers was a man known only as " Jim." All three men were murdered in June 1865 by Ransom Young, age 20, and James Wabb (aka Josiah Walton), age 19, at or near Schell Creek.
The two youthful murderers had met their victims at Ruby Valley or at some point east of the Sierras and traveled with the three men until they killed them using ax or hatchet blows to bash in their heads while they slept. Then, they mutilated the faces of the victims using sharpened cedar branches hoping Indians would be blamed for the deaths.
The killers loaded the dead men onto horses and led the animals up a nearby gulch about one or five hundred yards where the murderers concealed the bodies in tall sagebrush on the side of a hill away from where they had all been murdered.
Blood and brains found at the campsite and dropped on the way to where the bodies had been hidden led a man searching for stock to the corpses on 10 Jun 1865. He gave the alarm and the pursuit for the perpetrators began.
Wabb and Young had tried to burn the bloody clothing and blankets of the victims, but did not succeed in the attempt. A badly damaged daguerreotype was later found in the ashes which was thought to be a picture of a woman and a child, perhaps related to one of the murdered men.
While Young was arrested at Bed River, east of Schell Creek, by soldiers, Wabb escaped on a jaded horse. His horse gave out at Indian Springs and he continued his escape on foot. He was captured within four miles of Fort Crittenden (Camp Floyd, UT?) by a Mr. Roberts and a second man who were pursuing him.
Wabb identified himself as being Josiah Walton of California and admitted to the killings. Mr. Roberts arranged to immediately transport him back to Schellbourne. Young was being held at Egan Canyon by the Justice of the Peace and he too had confessed.
Upon hearing of the capture and imminent arrival of Wabb, a large body of angry citizens forcefully took possession of Ransom Young from the Justice of the Peace and took him to Schellbourne to meet the arrival of Wabb and his captors.
Young showed regret for his part in the horrific murders but Wabb was indifferent and sullen.
The citizens constructed two tripods from poles and a carpenter's saw horse was placed beneath each. The prisoners were made to mount the sawhorses, cords were fastened to the apex of the tripods and snugly adjusted around the two prisoners necks. Then the saw horses were removed. Because there was very little fall for the bodies, the two died by strangulation.
Young and Wabb were executed without a trial at Schell Creek, (Schellbourne) at ten o'clock on the morning of 15 June 1865 over "the graves of their victims on a grassy hillside under a stately pine, near a beautiful spring." It is said they were buried near the spot where they had murdered the three men.
Young and Wabb were from near Mission of San Jose, California and had relatives there. One newspaper account concluded, "The swift retribution that overtook the murderers was but the just punishment of their crimes."
It is reasonable to assume that "Jim" and Morgan and Marvin Woolman were the first interments to be made in the Schellbourne cemetery.
More information can also be found in the entries for William D. Roberts in "Utah Since Statehood Volumes 1-4" and "The LDS Biographical Encyclopedia"
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