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Margarette Dunlap

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Margarette Dunlap

Birth
Arkansas, USA
Death
11 Sep 1857 (aged 10–11)
Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah, USA
Burial
Mountain Meadows, Washington County, Utah, USA Add to Map
Plot
Mass Grave
Memorial ID
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Margarette (or Margaret) Dunlap was the fifth daughter of Jesse Dunlap, Jr. and Mary M. Wharton, born abt. 1846 in Arkansas. She, along with her parents, and of 6 of her 9 siblings, were killed on 11 September 1857 in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Margarette Dunlap was 11 years old when she died.
Margarette (or Margaret) Dunlap was the fifth daughter of Jesse Dunlap, Jr. and Mary M. Wharton, born abt. 1846 in Arkansas. She, along with her parents, and of 6 of her 9 siblings, were killed on 11 September 1857 in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Margarette Dunlap was 11 years old when she died.

Inscription

IN MEMORIAM

IN THE VALLEY BELOW BETWEEN SEPTEMBER 7 AND 11, 1857, A COMPANY OF MORE THAN 120 ARKANSAS EMIGRANTS LED BY CAPT. JOHN T. BAKER AND CAPT. ALEXANDER FANCHER WAS ATTACKED WHILE EN ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA. THIS EVENT IS KNOWN IN HISTORY AS THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS MASSACRE

MARGERETTE DUNLAP, 11

*Please note that the names of the victims of the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre that appear here are those who we have personally researched and verified as actual victims. In some cases this list will differ from the names that were inscribed on the 1990 Monument on Dan Sill Hill.



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