Oatman Massacre cemetery

cemetery #482654

created 2015-09-03 by daniel m. kelty

official name: Oatman Massacre cemetery?

assertion #3734111 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-09-03: confidence 0%.

occurred on: 19 Mar 1851

I wrote a paper about this incident in my research on the El Monte church members.

assertion #3734110 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-06-29: confidence 100%.

description: Prophet James C. Brewster called for a settlement of Brewsterites in the land of "Bashan," along the Colorado River in the southwest. Royce Oatman of Fulton Iowa and his family, Mary his wife, Lucy 16, Charity Ann 5, Roland 1, Olive Ann 12, Lorenzo Dow 15, Mary Ann Oatman 10, Royce Jr.11. At Maricopa Wells, AZ. They left the others of the wagon train and headed towards the Gila River by themselves. As they topped the ridge near the river they were attacked by Western Yavapai Indians. Lorenzo, Mary, and Lucy survived and Lorenzo and Mary united and went to El Monte California to stay with the Ira W. Thompson family.?

assertion #3734112 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-06-29: confidence 0%.

religion: Brewster

assertion #3734113 by daniel m. kelty on 2017-06-29: confidence 100%.

location: 33°0'13"N, 113°9'20"W

assertion #3720672 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-09-03: confidence 0%.

located at: Yuma County, Arizonia, United States

assertion #3714654 by daniel m. kelty on 2015-09-03: confidence 100%.