Survivor of the infamous Donner Party and daughter of Captain George Donner and Tamzene Eustis; a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train, trapped by the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Survivors resorted to cannibalism, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness. Historians have described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in Californian history. Her father, Capt. George Donner, was the captain of the wagon train. Georgia Anne, 4 years old, was rescued by the Third Relief to reach the stranded, snow bound group. After her arrival in California, she was taken in by a Swiss couple at Sutter's Fort, Christian and Mary Brunner. Georgia moved to Sonoma with the Brunners. In 1855 she moved in with her half-sister Elitha and her husband. In 1863 she married Washington Alexander Babcock. Georgia Anne wrote often and frankly to historian C. F. McGlashan; she did not shy from revealing details about cannibalism at the camps. Georgia Anne was "a survivor who lived through into a calm and secure maturity" who "seems most at peace with the world, ready to admit her own cannibalism as a child of four, careful in her judgment of others, seeming to realize—as no one else in the party seemed able to do—that hard circumstance, and not perversity of character, was to blame."
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For a reason unknown to this F. A. G. member...Robert, F. A. G. Administrator, has rejected this memorial as a Famous Grave after 2 attempts to have it approved.
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For a reason unknown to this F. A. G. member...Robert, F. A. G. Administrator, has rejected this memorial as a Famous Grave after 2 attempts to have it approved.
Survivor of the infamous Donner Party and daughter of Captain George Donner and Tamzene Eustis; a group of American pioneers who set out for California in a wagon train, trapped by the winter of 1846–47 snowbound in the Sierra Nevada. Survivors resorted to cannibalism, eating those who had succumbed to starvation and sickness. Historians have described the episode as one of the most spectacular tragedies in Californian history. Her father, Capt. George Donner, was the captain of the wagon train. Georgia Anne, 4 years old, was rescued by the Third Relief to reach the stranded, snow bound group. After her arrival in California, she was taken in by a Swiss couple at Sutter's Fort, Christian and Mary Brunner. Georgia moved to Sonoma with the Brunners. In 1855 she moved in with her half-sister Elitha and her husband. In 1863 she married Washington Alexander Babcock. Georgia Anne wrote often and frankly to historian C. F. McGlashan; she did not shy from revealing details about cannibalism at the camps. Georgia Anne was "a survivor who lived through into a calm and secure maturity" who "seems most at peace with the world, ready to admit her own cannibalism as a child of four, careful in her judgment of others, seeming to realize—as no one else in the party seemed able to do—that hard circumstance, and not perversity of character, was to blame."
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For a reason unknown to this F. A. G. member...Robert, F. A. G. Administrator, has rejected this memorial as a Famous Grave after 2 attempts to have it approved.
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For a reason unknown to this F. A. G. member...Robert, F. A. G. Administrator, has rejected this memorial as a Famous Grave after 2 attempts to have it approved.
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DAUGHTER OF GEORGE & TAMSEN DONNER. A MEMBER OF THE DONNER PARTY OF 1846 - 1847. MARRIED TO W. A. BABCOCK IN 1863. SHE BECAME A PROMINENT PIONEER WOMAN, LOVING AND CARING FOR THOSE IN NEED IN OUR AREA.
HISTORICAL INSCRIPTION 1976
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