Sultana bonanza

Christie Sleeter (her Wikipedia page calls her Christine) is a high school and church youth group friend from our olden days in Medford, Oregon, in the 1960s. Christie lives in California, and she is a descendant of a survivor of the steamboat Sultana disaster that occurred April 27, 1865, in the Mississippi River. What is left of the Sultana now lies buried under a bean field on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River. Her great-great-grandfather was Dewitt Edwin Harris. That day he was