PADDLEFISH: I'm really sorry for thinking this way, but all I could think of when I read this statement was that would make for an interesting headstone for your grave.
Logistically, we should have made that decision before he's buried.
You better bring the potato salad and leave the main course to us. 8~)
So the story goes, Louis Keseburg(sp?) a member of the traveling party partook of one of the Donner's 'lights', claimed they were 'delicious.' Then, when he finally made it to California or wherever they were bound, he opened up a restaurant.
Don't know if chronicle was accurate, but it sure was an interesting read.