Six-Year-Old Sarah Finds Indian Baby on Trail
On the 1859 wagon train, six-year-old Sarah Ray found a baby abandoned by the river — and refused to leave it.
In 1859, James Ezekiel Ray led a wagon train of fourteen ox-drawn wagons to California. Six-year-old Sarah Ray found an Indian baby abandoned next to a river and brought it back to the wagon. Her alarmed parents immediately returned the child to the river to avoid potential Indian retaliation, fearing hostile Indians would come looking for their missing baby. Sarah later married Charles Sans.