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Donner-Hill Family

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MC18. Donner-Hill Family Papers, 1890-1982

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MC-18
Scope and Contents A Sangamon County family based in Loami. Descendants of the historically significant Donners whose 1846 emigrant trip to California ended tragically in the Sierra-Nevada Mountains.Photographs, news clippings, memorial books, correspondence, recipes, a scrapbook, and a diary documenting family relationships, reunions, trips, personal events, and group activities in the lives of the Donners descending from Irven and Emma Martin Donner, and of the Hill family, as related to this...
Dates: Created: 1890 - 1982; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1982