She, along with her ma, pa, and siblings, traveled west to California from Illinois. But because of arguments and disagreements, the wagon train slowly dissolved until it was just the Oatman family by themselves traveling to California. With limited protection, the whole family was killed by a renegade band of Yavapai Indians. Only 13-year-old Olive and her 7-year-old sister, Mary Ann, were spared but taken as captives and were slaves for the Yavapai Indians until the peaceful Mohave Indians rescued them. They lived with them until Mary Ann died of starvation because of a drought that occurred. Shortly after Mary Ann’s death, Olive received a message that her eldest brother, Lorenzo, had survived the attack and had been searching for her for years. Olive was reunited with her brother and eventually got married. She was at first afraid to speak in public because of a tattoo on her chin that symbolized that she was a member of the Mohave tribe (Olive later called it a “symbol of God’s deliverance”). Eventually, Olive faced her fears and started sharing her story! She and her brother later wrote a book called “The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians”. Olive eventually got married to John Brant Fairchild in 1865 and continued to live for God until her death on March 20, 1903. to be continued