Son of Abraham Hunsaker and Eliza Collins

History - February 23, 1856 the Indians attacked the Hunsaker family living at the south end of Utah Lake. Abraham was on his way to his family at the herd ground and realized there was trouble ahead. His team was tired, but he knew he must get his family and his stock away as soon as possible. When he arrived, he found no horses for the return journey. He sent Lewis back a couple of miles to get a horse he had seen grazing. He hurriedly sent Allen and Lemuel to gather the sheep. Lemuel then helped Allen drive in the cattle, from which they selected two to hitch to the wagon. By this time Lewis was separated from the family-never to be seen again. When darkness came, the family began to make their escape. Abraham wrote, "I drove two teams, without any road, and the boys and Harriet drove the sheep and cattle we could gather as we went along. Lemuel was chosen as rear guard as he could see in the dark better than any white man.

"Lewis had not returned. I feared he had been killed by Indians. We went in the direction he had gone. He came to where Lewis had found the mare, and we could see where his horse or some other animal was on the jump. We traveled with all possible speed. Some of our sheep gave out before we got to Carson's herd. I sent Allen on to Carsons to get a company to follow the Indians, but when He got there, he found the house had been plundered; and no one was there. He came back to meet us, and then we went on to the Carson cabin. Everything had been taken.

"It was very dark, so we decided to leave the cattle and sheep there and to on to Wixom's. I was driving the lead team with my gun on my shoulder. Allen drove the other team of oxen and had only an ax for protection. Harriet and the lesser boys rode in the wagon.

"We traveled about 300 yards when I saw a man lying on his back dead. I feared that it was my son Lewis, but when I got down and looked, it proved to be George Carson. We reached Wixom's cabin about one o'clock in the night."

Sunday, Feb. 24, by nightfall about twenty-five men had been gathered. The whole company started for the herd ground by way of Carson's. There they found two dead men, the men Abraham had stayed with on Friday night. At the Hunsaker herd ground they tried to trace what had happened.

Abraham had allowed to take a horse and three men to go on searching. They also found about 140 cattle. Then later, with Abraham and Allen still searching for Lewis, they could see that their stock had been drivn into two large groups and concluded the herd men had been trying to move them to a safer place.

He said, "As we moved toward the camp, we saw another man lying dead. We thought surely it was Lewis, but it was not. It was one of the herdsmen, and we found the other two also slain. It was after dark, and we crept back to the search camp. When we were sure who was there, we stood up. Captain Willis thought it was another surprise Indian attack. He had taken aim at me but could not pull the trigger.

"We reached our home in Salt Lake County on Monday, March 3rd, with the sad news about Lewis; Eliza and the girls lamented with me.