Please help. I am trying to find out about a story that was told to my mom about a boy about 10yrs old lost from a wagon train going to the land rush about 1888 or 1889. They held the train up for 3 days to search for him and had to move on. They believe that the name of the boy might be James or John Moser.
His older brother was the Wagon Master for this trip.
Does any of this sound right to anybody. If so please let me know. Thank you for your time.

Mary, My Mom told me that same story. Who was your Mother? Mine was Ethel Moser, daughter of Josh and Mary Moser. Please contact me at valmehle@aol.com

That story sounds VERY familiar. My great grandparents took part in a land run in OK. I remember her talking about that and the things she was able to bring in a covered wagon. He was an early day attorney in Oklahoma first in Norman and later in Muskogee. His mane was John H. Mosier and her name was Myrtie Mae Landis Mosier. She died July 4 1961 and I was a young child and didn't ask enough questions.
There was a book printed about her side of the family The Holderman Book. but it doesn't go back any further into the Mosiers. I don't know John's sibliings or parentsbut I think his dad was William and his mother Louisa Thornburg. I know Gr. Grandmother Mosier lived in Val Paroso IN, Goshin IN (spelling are probably wrong on both) and Nebraska but I'm not sure of the years. I do have several teaching certificates for her in both Indiana areas in the late 1870 & early 1880's Apparently, they had to recertify every year or two.

I also heard the same story from my mother. This is what I remember apparently Sarah (Sally) Melvina Moser Ditzler was going through Oklahoma with 2 wagons, her children and one of her brothers. They stopped for the night. The next morning she sent out her brother to gather up the horses and he didn't return. They all went out hunting him. They could only stay for about 3 days before they started to run out of supplies. This story is a little different from yours but is in the same vein.

Sally Melvina Moser/Ditzler was my paternal great-grandmother.
Her daughter (Laura Catherine Ditzler) was my grandmother.
I have, within the past two weeks been in touch with some of my Moser relatives I knew nothing about. I was told that I have a large number of the Moser family in my part of Oklahoma.

Willis C. Jackson

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