The men walked much of the way because the horse was sick and the wagon’s load heavy. Its contents included the weapons Brown had collected in New York and Ohio, and the corpse of his four-year-old grandson, who had died en route to Kansas with his family the previous spring and been hastily buried. Brown stopped to disinter the child and bring his remains to Kansas, “thinking it would afford some relief to the broken hearted Father & Mother,” he wrote.
