Return to Main Page Return to Family History Index Family History Stories Paraphrased Page 30 of 38 Mrs. Mary E. Burleson Mrs. Mary Ellen McMillan Mrs. O.S. Warren, Indians Mrs. Pinkie Bourne Skinner Mrs. Sara Bonney Mrs. Sarah Hughes Begin Family Histories: Mrs. Mary E. Burleson. By Edith L. Crawford Paraphrased by C. W. Barnum Counties: Colfax Surnames mentioned: Burleson, Chittenden, Boggs, Tipton, Stevens, Chittenden, Searcy The Government train we came to New Mexico in had about one hundred prairie schooners in it. Of this number four belonged to my family. My grandfather and grandmother Searcy, with six girls and one boy and my father, O. K. Chittenden, with my mother brother Tom and myself. I was five years old and my brother was about one year old. My grandfather and my father sold their farms in West Fort, Missouri. We brought all our supplies along with us. We had our flour in barrels, our own meat, lard and sugar. We were not allowed to stop and hunt buffalo on the way out here on account of the Indians. The women made the bread out of sour dough and used Soda. There was no such thing as baking powder in those … Continue reading Mrs. Mary E. Burleson