This is Sarah “Sally” Brown Goodell, my #greatgreatgreatgreatgrandmother. She was born in 1802 and died in 1864 in Illinois. Her son John Brown Goodell left in 1846 on a #wagontrain heading for Oregon. He lived at #Champoeg, where the first provisional government of Oregon was organized, and was buried in the cemetery there. I grew up not far away, in Salem, the current state capital. I am descended from another son, James, who served in the 55th Illinois Infantry during the #CivilWar.

61 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S5E26: The George B. Hanrahan Story
Ousted medicine man predicts future of wagon train passenger. Is it a hoax or real?
Airdate: 1962-03-28
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/5/episode/26
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64 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S2E25: The Sister Rita Story
Leaving the safety of their village, a group of nuns set out to help those Indians in need at a mission. Now Flint must try to help them fight some Ute Indians who don't seem to know the nuns are just there to help them.
Airdate: 1959-03-25
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/2/episode/25
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #Television

63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E24: The Christine Elliott Story
Her father on his deathbed, Christine Elliot decides to fulfill his dream of a boys school and joins the wagon train. A good start: the eleven boys he already has. One man is determined to stop her unless he collects his pound of flesh.
Airdate: 1960-03-23
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/24
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #Television

62 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S4E26: The Tiburcio Mendez Story
Bill Hawks is leading four wagons through to California when they are stopped by Tiburcio Mendez and his band of renegades, who demand they turn back. Mendez and his group claim that California is their land and that it was stolen by the later settlers. A judge traveling with Hawks' group believes t...
Airdate: 1961-03-22
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/4/episode/26
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #tvshows

61 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S5E25: The Baylor Crowfoot Story
A teacher traveling with the wagon train encounters conflict when he become attracted to the daughter of a medicine man who has just joined the train. The man despises cowards and sees the teacher as one.
Airdate: 1962-03-21
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/5/episode/25
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62 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S4E25: The Christopher Hale Story
Flint meets Chris Hale alone on the prairie. Hale has just found his entire family massacred by Indians, and Flint asks him to join the wagon train. However, the company that owns the wagon train has hired a new wagonmaster, Jud Benedict. Benedict is a ruthless and brutal tyrant who puts time above ...
Airdate: 1961-03-15
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/4/episode/25
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #TV

65 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S1E24: The Bernal Sierra Story
Revolutionary Bernal Sierra joins the train finding the wife of his dead friend married to Casey Reardon who sold guns to the Mexican revolutionaries. Bernal is suspicious of Casey, his brothers, and Perdita over missing gold.
Airdate: 1958-03-12
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/1/episode/24
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #ClassicTV

64 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S2E23: The Vivian Carter Story
Getting set to leave the wagon train, Vivian Carter finds out a friend she knows from the train hoped for more than that. Heading to a new life and her first marriage, she's given some options and even at her age has its surprises.
Airdate: 1959-03-11
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/2/episode/23
#WagonTrain #NBC #ABC #ClassicTV

63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E22: The Tracy Sadler Story
David Forest always believed his father to be as he claimed. When Tracy Sadler joins the wagon train his beliefs are altered when he slowly and painfully learns the truth about his past.
Airdate: 1960-03-09
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/22
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63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E21: The Tom Tuckett Story
Ever since he was young, Tom Tuckett has been sent to good schools and looked after by an unknown benefactor. When he joins the wagon train he feels he's about to find out who that is but it isn't who he imagined.
Airdate: 1960-03-02
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/21
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64 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S2E21: The Annie Griffith Story
Flint, seeking safe passage through the mountains, is shot and losing consciousness is dragged to a cabin. Nursed back to health, his saviour finds the man who shot him was her husband and Flint had to kill him or be killed.
Airdate: 1959-02-25
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/2/episode/21
#WagonTrain #ABC #NBC #ClassicTV #TV #Television #tvseries #tvshows

63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E20: The Ricky and Laurie Bell Story
Laurie and Ricky Bell uproot and go West, leaving their comforts in Baltimore. When she announces she is pregnant, he is less than happy as he feels she has just made their lives more complicated especially where it concerns his needs.
Airdate: 1960-02-24
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/20
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64 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S2E20: The Old Man Charvanaugh Story
Flint escorts a wagon, leaving the train, to their new home. When they meet an old man with a wagon load of uncured buffalo skins he's trying to sell, they invite him along as he appears friendly enough. But Flint feels he's too friendly.
Airdate: 1959-02-18
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/2/episode/20
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63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E19: The Benjamin Burns Story
One dry water hole is normal but when the wagon train has two, Flint and Ben Burns lead a party to find a legend that only the Indians speak of, Shining Water. Troubles await them but the worst may be a too green city boy.
Airdate: 1960-02-17
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/19
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61 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S5E20: The Jeff Hartfield Story
Jeff Hartfield becomes concerned when his sister Jenny begins dating Dallas who threatens him with an orphanage at journey's end. Jeff takes off but Dallas follows with deadly intent, believing Jeff knows the location of $30,000.
Airdate: 1962-02-14
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/5/episode/20
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64 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S2E19: The Last Man
Scouting for a better pass, Flint finds a mountain man, hungry and half out of his mind. With no memory, his strange behavior may endanger the entire wagon train especially when everyone feels they know who he is.
Airdate: 1959-02-11
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/2/episode/19
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63 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S3E18: The Clayton Tucker Story
Taking a dangerous route through the desert to join up with the wagon train, a small band of settlers take a turn for the worse when they lose the one man leading them, their scout, and now differ on where they need to go now.
Airdate: 1960-02-10
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/3/episode/18
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62 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S4E20: Path of the Serpent
At a Rocky Mountains fort , a wounded soldier asks his old friend Ruddy Blaine to bring his daughter to him before he dies. With the Ute Indians on the warpath, Blaine will have to take a dangerous route known only to him and the Shoshone.
Airdate: 1961-02-08
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/4/episode/20
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61 years ago today:
Wagon Train
S5E19: The Lonnie Fallon Story
Cowboy Lonnie Fallon is in love with Kathy Jennings---but her strict father forbids the relationship.
Airdate: 1962-02-07
https://themoviedb.org/tv/6081/season/5/episode/19
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