The Arkansas Wagon Train

The Arkansas Wagon Train. Site 1 Overlook Memorial. , The Arkansas emigrants were members of respectable families. The lists to the right and left include information about heads of household in the group. More is known about some families than others, and these are not exhaustive lists of names. A more complete list of names is etched in the memorial wall in front of you. , About 140 people were in the caravan that arrived at Mountain Meadows in early September 1857., About 10 of those people were murdered in the initial attack and siege. About 110 were murdered in the final massacre. Of those 110:, 35 were children ages 17 and younger (at least 20 were ages 12 and younger). , 13 were women ages 18 and older, 11 of whom were mothers. , 33 were men ages 18 and older. , The identities of the others are uncertain or unknown, 17 children, ages 6 and younger, survived. They were distributed among local Mormon families including families of some of the men who had carried out the massacre. The children were held by those families until 1859, when the United States government returned them to relatives in Arkansas.