Posted By:	Florence Merritt
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	Subject:	Re: Search for WILLIAM A. ADEN in CA in 1859
	Post Date:	August 13, 2007 at 05:40:07
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/aden/messages/79.html
	Forum:	Aden Family Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/aden/

Thank you for posting the newspaper abstract concerning Dr. Sidney Aden's search for his son William Allen Aden. Those of us who are researching the Aden family had not seen this particular document before and are most appreciative for the additional insight it provides into our family history. In case you or anyone reading this are curious as to William Allen Aden's fate, he was not kidnapped by the Indians as his father mistakenly believed at the time, but instead was killed on Wednesday evening, September 9, 1857, in southern Utah at the site known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre. It is thought that he was trying to go back to Cedar City to seek help for the beseiged emigrant party when he was shot. The rest of the members of the wagon train were not killed until two days later on September 11, 1857.