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Show 77 8 f:rom making the trip, but as before the latter paid not attention to the advice of Rockwe Il, and s ai d, "Pol"ter, ' perhaps the next thing r • I you will hea.r of me will be in my grave, but I It is apparent, ust go. 1t9 by all evidence available; that Babbitt was "l '1 sufficiently wazned about the hostile s avages of" the .Plains who were attacking and robbing the wagon trains and killing the pioneers; there fore, ... it cannot be said that he' entered the Plains not kno"ving what ' dangers lurked ahea,d. Babbitt was The Deseret News first reported him mis.sing on day is, unknown. the 1st of I , murded by the Cheyenne Indians, 'but the exact Octoberf 1856.10 'The sec1rtary, in all pl,*obability) met I., • l' ,. r • ' " his death' about the middle of September, 1856. Only remnants of his body were recovered. Mis burial Itound was the Plains which he had so frequently on , crossd William w. his many journey$ between Great Salt ,Drummond of lllinois, who was appointed one of the associate justices for the Territory of Uta.h by the Pierce admfni stration, in his :tesignation to Jeremiah S .. Sl,ack) Attorney-General 'it,; in Buchanan's admlni$tra.tion, Mar€h lO, 1857, charged that Almon 810urnal History, entry of October 4t 9Idem. lOpesejret News, October 1, 18,56. 1856. - |
