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Timotheus in Plato and Pythagorus regarding the power of music; “to whom when as Timotheus the great Musitianplayd the Phrygian melodie, it is said, that he was distraught with such unwonted fury, that straight way rising fromthe table in great rage, he caused himself to be armed, as ready to goe to warre (for that musich is very war like”.(43) Ref: The Eclectic magazine of foreign literature, science, and art, Volume 13: The following poem by theBirmingham poet, Go to the Fields was written by J.A. Langford.(44) Francis Parkman, in St. Louis on April 25th, remarked that he had found Ewing an “impulsive, unobservingardent Kentuckian, who lays open his character to everyone, and sees nothing of those about him,” and is speakingof him or his companion Hewitt when he says: “A young Kentuckian had come out to the mountains with Russell’sparty of California emigrants. One of his chief objects, as he gave out, was to kill an Indian; an exploit which heafterwards succeeded in achieving, much to the jeopardy of ourselves and others who had to pass through thecountry of the dead Pawnee’s enraged relatives. Having become disgusted with his emigrant associates, he left them,and had some time before set out with a party of companions for the head of the Arkansas.”Ref: Overland in 1846 by Dale Morgan, Note #142: “Robert Ewing has appeared frequently in these pages sincesettling out for California with Edwin Bryant and R.T. Jacobs, see …. The Mc Kinstry Diary, …. Etc.” & EdwinBryant… “With a son of Dr. Ewing, and a son of John I. Jacobs, etc.”Ref: The California and Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman: On April 25, Parkman says; “I have seen a strangevariety of characters......Dixon, the non-entity……Ewing, the impulsive, unobserving ardent Kentuckian, who laysopen his character to everyone, and sees nothing of those about him……the quiet, sedate, and manly Jacob(s), hiscompanion.” (They were then in company with Edwin Bryant.)(45) Ref: The Condor, March-April, 1949; article by Lois Chambers Taylor: Andrew Jackson Grayson was anAmerican ornithologist, born August 20, 1819 in NW Louisiana. He married Frances J. Timmons on July 21, 1842.Their only son was murdered in Mexico in 1867. They were with the Russell Company in 1846, and at Ft. Bridger,refusing to listen to Hastings’ about his shorter route, the Grayson’s stuck to the old and proven route. They safelyreached California where, in subsequent years, Andrew Grayson became known as the ‘Audubon of the West’.Grayson was the author of Birds of the Pacific Slope (1853-69), which he considered to be a completion of JohnJames Audubon’s Birds of America.(46) Dale Morgan says, “Labon Morain, son of Judge Morain, died on trail May 1846.”Ref: Emigrant Graves and Cemeteries, Pioneer Trails: May 28, 1846. “Emigrant graves. 2 children, (North side ofCottonwood Creek (14 m. from mouth of Alcove Spring Creek). A stone marker with date on one grave; a woodencross on the other. One was a son of Judge Josiah Morin, capt. of George Harlan's Party. Reported by Edwin Bryant,June 1, 1846. (Bryant, p.67).” was born May 16,1791 in Kentucky of Virginia parents and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.Eleanor ‘Ella’ Walker, May 20, 1868 at Sonoma Co., CA. On March 1, 1831 Josiah Morin married HarrietSandidge, who had two prior marriages. The Morin family lost one child (Richard) on the trail May 27, 1846, about14 miles northwest of Alcove Spring on the west side of the Big Blue River.Ref: My Southern Family Abt. 1694 – Abt. 1755 by Adam Banks: Harriet Sandidge born Jun. 22, 1799 VA died 1868CA; on Mar. 15, 1815 Harriet married (1) James V. Givens born c.1790 died 1819: Child: Larkin Sandidge bornNov. 4, 1816 died Jan. 13, 1860.