... informed us that himself and wife and ex-Governor Boggs and family, of Missouri, were hourly expecting Alphonso Boone, grandson of DanielBoone; and that as soon as Boone and his family should arrive ... his wife and four children, and Mrs. Keyes, the mother of Mrs. Reed; Jacob Donner,his wife, and seven children; and George Donner, his wife, and five children; also their teamsters and campassistants, ... good-bye, and as we approached thebuilding of the American Tract Society, its agent came to our wagons and put into the hand of each child aNew Testament, and gave to each adult a Bible, and also...