In 1859, Major James H. Carleton interviewed Mrs. Rachel Hamblin, who lived a few miles north of the massacre field, and she recounted that on September 11, 1857, after the surviving children had witnessed the murder of their parents, a wagon arrived at her home carrying seventeen children, most of them crying. She recalled hearing heavy firing between sundown and dark on the last day, when the last of the victims were killed. Among the children were a girl about a year old, Sarah E. Dunlap, shot through the arm, and another girl about four years old, Sarah Frances Baker, wounded in the ear, with their clothes bloody. The child shot through the arm could scarcely be moved, and her two sisters, Rebecca and Louisa, recorded elsewhere as ages six and four, were greatly attached to her. Rachel Hamblin persuaded John D. Lee not to separate the three sisters, and he agreed to let her keep them. The children stayed with her, and she nursed the wounded girl, who permanently lost the use of her arm. The next day Lee and the others took the rest of the children away in a wagon, and the Indians scattered off.