Emily (sometimes known as Emeline) was the daughter of Sanford and Catherine (Gayer) Ramey. She married Gabriel Smith in Muskingum County, Ohio , September 23, 1845. She and her family joined up with her sister and brother-in-law, James Alexander and Edith Mariah (Ramey) Nickel, at their home in Bates County, Missouri.
In the spring of 1852, the two families left Missouri to seek new opportunities in California. They took a branch trail which angled up diagonally from Ft. Scott in the Indian Country (now Kansas) to where Topeka is today. It joined there with the main California Trail from Independence, Missouri at the crossing of the Kansas River. Emily's daughter, Lucy, died of fever on this branch trail and was buried in the Ottawa Baptist Mission Cemetery alongside members of the Ottawa Indian tribe.
John Nickel died the same day as Emily and was buried near her. Gabriel Smith and son John Emmett Smith survived the trip to California.
In the spring of 1852, the two families left Missouri to seek new opportunities in California. They took a branch trail which angled up diagonally from Ft. Scott in the Indian Country (now Kansas) to where Topeka is today. It joined there with the main California Trail from Independence, Missouri at the crossing of the Kansas River. Emily's daughter, Lucy, died of fever on this branch trail and was buried in the Ottawa Baptist Mission Cemetery alongside members of the Ottawa Indian tribe.
John Nickel died the same day as Emily and was buried near her. Gabriel Smith and son John Emmett Smith survived the trip to California.
Emily (sometimes known as Emeline) was the daughter of Sanford and Catherine (Gayer) Ramey. She married Gabriel Smith in Muskingum County, Ohio , September 23, 1845. She and her family joined up with her sister and brother-in-law, James Alexander and Edith Mariah (Ramey) Nickel, at their home in Bates County, Missouri.
In the spring of 1852, the two families left Missouri to seek new opportunities in California. They took a branch trail which angled up diagonally from Ft. Scott in the Indian Country (now Kansas) to where Topeka is today. It joined there with the main California Trail from Independence, Missouri at the crossing of the Kansas River. Emily's daughter, Lucy, died of fever on this branch trail and was buried in the Ottawa Baptist Mission Cemetery alongside members of the Ottawa Indian tribe.
John Nickel died the same day as Emily and was buried near her. Gabriel Smith and son John Emmett Smith survived the trip to California.
In the spring of 1852, the two families left Missouri to seek new opportunities in California. They took a branch trail which angled up diagonally from Ft. Scott in the Indian Country (now Kansas) to where Topeka is today. It joined there with the main California Trail from Independence, Missouri at the crossing of the Kansas River. Emily's daughter, Lucy, died of fever on this branch trail and was buried in the Ottawa Baptist Mission Cemetery alongside members of the Ottawa Indian tribe.
John Nickel died the same day as Emily and was buried near her. Gabriel Smith and son John Emmett Smith survived the trip to California.
Gravesite Details
She was buried a few rods off of the CA Trail along the north side of the Platte, at a place called Blue Stone Bluffs, a little below some rocks. This was about 30-35 miles downstream from Ft. Laramie; now about a mile east of Henry, Nebraska.
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