Leave Monticello by going south to S. Allerton Road and go southwest all the way past Robert Allerton Park. Turn west on 1300 and follow that road as it jogs around and then goes straight again. Turn south (left) on Dunbar Road. Go 3 miles to Caleb Road. The Trail of Death marker is on the southeast corner of Dunbar and Caleb roads, near a house. This is known as the Sangamon Crossing (crossing of the Sangamon River).

Monday 24^th Sep, traveled 15 miles from Monticello to Sangamon Crossing in Illinois.

At 9 this morning we left Pyatt's Point and proceeded down the Sangamon River 15 miles. Physician reports "there have been 2 deaths since my last report, and the situation of several of the sick is much worse. I would recommend that 29 be left until tomorrow." At the suggestion of Dr. Jerolaman 29 persons were left behind with efficient nurses. They will join us tomorrow. We find a good deal of difficulty in procuring wagons for transportation - so many of the emigrants are ill that the teams now employed are constantly complaining of the great burdens imposed upon them in the transportation of so many sick. A child died during the evening.

Tuesday 25^th Sep stayed in camp. To allow the sick left at Pyatt's Point yesterday time to join us, and to give the emigrants generally a respite, and to bring up the business of the emigration, it was determined to remain in camp today. The baggage wagons were weighed and reloaded during the day and matters of the emigrants made more comfortable. Sometime in the afternoon the sick left at the encampment of yesterday arrived. Directly after their arrival a woman among the number died. The rest were but little if any improved. A child also died this evening. The farther we advance the more sickly seems the character of the country. It is sometimes very difficult to procure provisions and forage owing to the general prostration of the husbandry. Most of the Indian men were permitted to go on a hunting excursion today. They brought in a considerable quantity of game.