13 Facts About Sallie Fox

Sallie Fox was born in 1845, the second daughter of Aaron Moses and Mary Fox.

Sallie Fox's father, a farmer in Southeastern Ohio, died when she was an infant.

Several members of the party, including Leonard Rose, John Udell, and Sallie Fox carved their names into the stone.

Sallie Fox's screams, followed by the Mojave war cries and then gunshot, immediately brought Alpha Brown and the other cattle herders who had been further up the trail.

Sallie Fox later wrote of the journey back to Albuquerque:.

Sallie Fox had carried her youngest child, Orrin, on the family's only surviving horse.

Sallie Fox was buried in an unmarked grave outside the town.

Sallie's older sister Sophia Fox remained with the Allisons, while Sallie went to Placerville to live with her mother's other sister Lavinia and her husband Darwin De Golia.

Sallie Fox went with them and received her State Educational Diploma in 1869.

In 1913, Sarah Fox Allen died at the age of 67 in a Masonic nursing home in Napa, California.

Sallie Fox was the subject of the 1995 children's book Sallie Fox: The Story of a Pioneer Girl by Dorothy Kupcha Leland.

When Sallie Fox had first arrived at her aunt and uncle's ranch in Vacaville, she planted four walnuts that she had gathered along the Gila River while traveling with Edward Smith's wagon train.

Much of the published information about Sallie Fox's life is based on the papers of her daughter Edith Allen Milner, who collected and transcribed her mother's reminiscences.