When was catherine sager born

Nursing : obstetrics Visual 1 edition published in in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "Get an inside look at the emotionally charged world of obstetrics and neonatal intensive care nursing, where nurses navigate the many hazards of childbirth, including anxious families, delivery rooms that suddenly become emergency rooms and the emotional devastation when a newborn dies. Across the plains in by Catherine Sager Book 1 edition published in in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The Sager orphans sometimes referred to as Sager children were the children of Naomi and Henry Sager.

In April Henry Sager and his family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During their journey both Naomi and Henry Sager lost their lives and left their seven children orphaned. Later adopted by Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, missionaries in what is now Washington, the children were orphaned a second time, when both their new parents were killed during the Whitman massacre in November Catherine , the eldest of the Sager girls, married Clark Pringle, a Methodist minister and bore him 8 children.

They lived in Spokane, Washington. About , ten years after her arrival in Oregon, she wrote a first-hand account of their journey across the plains and their life with the Whitmans. This account today is regarded as one of the most authentic accounts of the American westward migration.

She hoped to earn enough money to set up an orphanage in the memory of Narcissa Whitman. She never found a publisher. The other transcript is of a letter written by Elizabeth Sager to an unidentified uncle, describing the same events in a few pages. Elizabeth Sager's letter was published in the Mitchell Nebraska Index. Skip to main content. Give Plan Your Visit About.

Guide to the Sager Family Papers. Descriptive Summary Title. Inclusive Dates. Call Number. Creator s Sager family. Restrictions on Access. Biographical Note. Processing Information. Personal Name Subject. Topical Subject. There, he engaged in farming and blacksmithing. Temporarily settling in St. Joseph , Missouri, a jumping-off point for the Oregon Trail, Henry almost immediately began to make plans to travel to Oregon. His wife, Naomi, was reluctant to go at first, but eventually agreed.

A month later, the family, including their six children: John 14, Frank 12, Catherine 9, Elizabeth 7, Matilda 5, and Louisa 3 years old, crossed the Missouri River and started out on the 2,mile journey along the Oregon Trail.

The wagon train included people in 72 covered wagons. After five weeks on the trail, Naomi would give birth to their seventh child on May 30, , in present-day Kansas. They named her Henrietta. Catherine recounted;. We were five girls and two boys, ranging from the girl baby to be born on the way to the oldest boy, hardly old enough to be any help. A couple of days later, they forded the South Platte River, where Henry Sager lost control of his oxen. The wagon overturned in the shallow waters along the bank and Naomi was injured, but the pioneers pressed on.

A number of other trails followed the Oregon Trail for part of its length. It was the reminder that the Great Plains were almost crossed and the Rocky Mountains lay ahead. Whitman failed to care for them as he did his white patients, but evidence of that possibility has been difficult to establish. There certainly was a clash of cultures, and today some revere the Whitmans as pioneer heroes, while others see them as white settlers who imposed their religious views on the Indians.

On that fateful day in , tribal members descended on the Whitman enclave and killed 14 people, including the Whitmans and two of the Sager orphans: John, 17, and Francisco, The remaining five Sager daughters were again orphans. During the several weeks the children were held captive, 6-year-old Hannah Louise Sager died of measles. Once ransomed, the remaining four Sager sisters were split up and grew up with different families. Rosanna, the baby born along the Oregon Trail, died at age 26, killed by an outlaw.

Both Matilda and Elizabeth married, had many children and lived into their 80s.