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The Oregon Trail-
Who were the Simmons-Bush party?
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The Simmons-Bush party was a group of men, women, and children who arrived in Tumwater in 1845. They came from Missouri on the Oregon Trail. It took them a year and a half to make it all the way to Tumwater, their final stopping place. The members of the Simmons-Bush party were: |
- Michael and Elizabeth Simmons and their children George Washington, David Crockett, Frances Marion, and Macdonald
- George Washington and Isabella Bush, and their children William Owen, Joseph Talbot, Reilly Bailey, Henry Sanford, and Jackson January
- Gabriel and Keziah Jones, and their children Lewis, Morris, and Elizabeth
- James and Martha McAllister and their children George, America, Martha, and John
- David and Talitha Kindred (Elizabeth Simmons’ parents)
- Jesse Ferguson and Samuel Black Crockett, two single men who came along on the journey
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This is an artist's idea of what George Bush may have looked like. There are no known photographs of George Bush. |
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