“Apparently Joel M. Ware caught up with the Mississippi Saints soon after leaving Independence, and accompanied them through Pawnee country, the six wagons with which he traveled comprising the nervous Oregon contingent John Brown describes… they had taken heart and gone ahead after meeting some of the returning Oregonians…  Clyman encountered ‘J.M.Wair’ on July 1 just Wes of Ash Hollow, immediately after he separated from the Mississippi Saints.  As seen later in the present volume, the Oregon Spectator of October 1 reports his arrival in Oregon City, having accompanied Jesse Applegate from Fort Hall.  Ware is mentioned as having been present at the first claim jumping meeting in Oregon City, May 27, 1847.  Oregon Historical Quarterly, March 1918, vol., 19, pp. 69-71 contains a biographical sketch of Joel Ware, a pioneer of Lane County, a native of Ohio ‘who died in the spring of 1901 ages seventy-one years.’  Perhaps this man was a son of the Joel Ware to be remembered as the last emigrant to leave the frontier for Oregon in 1846.”

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Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, by Dale Lowell Morgan, 1993, page 454