Journal of Homer Brown
April 1850 - March 1858
Transcribed by his great-great grandson
Keith Franklin Larsen
Film #MS 2181 1
Historians Office
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Foreward
by Keith F. Larsen
I like to compare a family historian to a detective. A detective searches for pieces to a crime puzzle to
reconstruct what happened at the scene of the crime and who was involved. A family historian searches
for pieces to a person's life to reconstruct a record of that life. My puzzle of Homer Brown contained
few pieces until one day when I was in the Historian's Office searching for puzzle pieces to the life of
another ancestor of mine. On a whim, I decided to search the computer index for many of my pioneer
ancestors, among whom happened to be Homer Brown. I was astounded to discover a journal by Homer
Brown. Previous to this discovery, I only had a short three page history about him. This journal has
added significantly to the puzzle picture.
The journal is a handwritten document damaged severely in places. Some pages are missing and others
are torn or otherwise effaced by the ravages of time. The surviving fragment of Homer's journal covers
the years from 1850 to 1858. In the pages of this journal, Homer mentions several times that he has
enlisted the services of Gustave Henriod to copy this journal to his new journal. The new journal, along
with any additional volumes, were apparently burned in a fire that destroyed the home of Homer Manley
Brown, his son. According to family sources, Homer kept a daily journal virtually all his life. This
portion of his journal appears to be the earliest that he kept. I am sad that we do not have the later
entries. What we do have is a colorful record of a pioneer who endured all the hardships of crossing the
plains and the early famine years in the Salt Lake Valley. The journal ends just about the time when
Johnston's Army comes to Utah.
I relate well with this man. Recorded in the pages of this journal are the joys and sorrows of a young
man, scarcely 20 years old. He loved to dance and sing, as do I. He wrote a number of poems which
reflect a romantic side to his character. He was frustrated with the selfishness of the rich and the
pettiness of those unwilling to give service. Above all, he was mortal and human. Looking back in time
to the days of the pioneers, we tend to whitewash their lives and place them on pedestals of perfection
which we ourselves would not dare to stand. But he and they were imperfect children, just as we are,
striving towards the perfection of eternity.
Homer Brown was privileged to see the foundations of Zion laid, whereas we and future generations
enjoy the fruits of his labors and add our widow's mite to the sum. He lived next to and rubbed
shoulders with some of the greatest men in church history, including Joseph Smith, Parley P. Pratt,
Orson Pratt, Brigham Young, Orson Spenser, William W. Phelps, Heber C. Kimball, Ezra T. Benson,
Indian Walker and others. He had many friends, including Harrison Sperry (father of Sydney B. Sperry),
who later took the place of Homer's father as bishop of the Salt Lake 4th Ward. Homer even worked for
the famous (or infamous?) Jim Bridger. Simple things were important in his life such as the arrival of
the U. S. mail (something we take for granted every day), the weather (mentioned in nearly every journal
entry), and everyday farming activities. We complain about inflated prices in our day, but Homer notes
at one point that flour was selling for $1.00 per pound!
From Homer Brown, I learn of things beyond my knowledge such as lime kilns, scythe snaths, wheat
cradles, cotillions, scallions, phonography, and polysophical societies. I shiver and groan when he says
it is "Cold enough to shave a man and a dull instead of a merry Christmas." I yearn to rediscover and
read books he read such as The Life and Travels of Colonel James Smith and The Captivity of the
Oatman Girls. I would like to see the salt caves he discovered, ride the wagon with the women on their
way to the warm springs for a bath, dance with the ladies, shout the Hosannah Shout, and march in the
parades on the 24th of July. I ache with him when he has a toothache and am grateful when my dentist
performs a root canal and places a cap on my tooth whereas Homer's tooth was pulled. I marvel at how
quickly he picks up other people's trades and learns to make brooms in an afternoon. I try to slow down
the pace of life when I read how he spent the whole day just searching for a heifer. I am amazed when I
read that Mr. Loomis was sentenced to a two year sentence working on public works for stealing
watches and pantaloons. I dream of Spring and carefree days when Homer and his friends go on a May
picnic up in the canyons. I think of my dating years when he writes of the dances and parties he attended
that lasted until two or three in the morning. I love his doodling in the margins and his poetry of love
and humor.
Transcribing this journal was a bittersweet experience. I laughed with Homer when he teased Sarah Ann
and when Josephine Mumford teased him. I was shocked at the miles and miles of devastated fields
Homer rode through during the grasshopper plague. I felt exhausted when Homer and his family
struggled against the flooding from City Creek and I thought back to our own floods in May of 1984. I
got angry when Mr. Gregory kept Homer and Appy from retrieving Fanny's cow and I lashed out inside
when Homer took a swing at Mr. Gregory. I rejoiced when the court case was dismissed. I felt gratitude
for priesthood blessings when I read Homer's ordination to the office of Seventy. I cried when Henry
Coltrain's father and other family members died. I wept as I read of the death of Homer's son on the day
he was to depart to fight Johnston's army and shed bitter tears as he buried the baby alone. The tears
still come.
I have come to know and appreciate Homer Brown better than I ever could through reading a polished
autobiography. I hope that others will also read and enjoy this journal and gain a greater understanding
of and appreciation for him and our pioneer ancestors.
Homer Brown is my hero.
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Preface
Because of the condition of Homer Brown's journal, some editing symbols have been added to the
transcript to enhance readability. Ellipses (...) indicate that information is missing, usually because a
page was torn. Empty brackets ([]) indicate that some information is unreadable. Brackets enclosing
words (example: [Cold an]) are assumptions, additions or comments by the transcriber. These are
sometimes a guess at what the missing information might be. Footnotes have also been added to clarify
the text and add historical background. The spelling and punctuation used in the original journal have
been preserved. The transcriber takes full responsibility for any errors introduced by the transcribing
process. At times it was difficult to distinguish between commas and periods. The punctuation is not
consistent and at times not present at all. Any attempt to indicate misspelling of words as originating
from the original would have detracted from the readability. Hence, I have proofread the journal several
times to render this copy as accurate and faithful to the original as possible. As with all such efforts, "to
err is human."
Thanks are due to my sister Arlene L. Miller for obtaining a typed copy of the journal from Mary Mays.
That copy was used to assist in the data entry of the last 50 pages of the journal as I was unaware of the
copy before most of the work was already completed. Thanks also to my sister-in-law Carol C. Watts
for doing the data entry. And last, thanks to my wife, Ann, and my children Weston, Jonathan, and
Gregory, without whom I could have never accomplished this task.
Keith F. Larsen.
Table of Contents
Apr 1850 - Journal begins 6 April; Spring planting . . . . . . . . . 1
May 1850 - 4th ward members baptized; Dinner with an Indian; Trip to Utah Valley2
Jun 1850 - Trading horses; Lime kiln business begun; Flour at $1.00/lb2
Jul 1850 - Flag falls to ground; Concerts; Tooth pulled; Lime kiln fired3
Aug 1850 - Hauling wood; Birthday; Universalist preacher; Lorenzo hooked by an ox5
Sep 1850 - Kiln sold; Conference; Perpetual Fund officers; John Crosby arrives6
Oct 1850 - Canyon work; Nauvoo Legion; Woodruff's Co. arrives; Battalion members return7
Nov 1850 - Building the house; Sick with fever; Josephine Mumford making tails; Hunting cattle8
Dec 1850 - Trading for a bear skin; Hunting for old Darb; Parties; Emigrant trial9
Flash Back to 1848 - Winter Quarters; Devil's Gate; Buffalo Hunt; Work for American Fur Co.10
Dec 1848 - Storm in the mountains; Uinta Fort; Trip to Ft. Bridger with Frenchmen11
Jan 1849 - Pilot disappears in the snow; back to Uinta Fort; trips between forts; poem to Mary11
Jan 1851 - Wedding parties; Emigrants cut off; Reformation; Trials; Governor Young13
Feb 1851 - Hatch writing school; Goldsmith teaches lettering; Noble funeral; Orson Spencer school
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Mar 1851 - School; Mary Mosley begins work; Many sick in city; Printing curtains; Poetry16
May 1851 - May excursion; Severe wind; Work on university; Mr. Coltrin dies; Poem23
Nov 1851 - Legion drills, no champaign; Destruction predicted; Opposition to teacher; Bath25
Dec 1851 - Trip to Provo; Stayed at Woolf's; Gladden Bishop's book; Wedding at the bath house;
Spelling, dancing, and parties; Spaniard's trial . . . . . . . . . .27
Jan 1852 - Spaniard Trial; Dixon's school; Dancing school in 4th ward; Work on tabernacle; Dream
about Judges and Soldiers; Spelled the school down; Dockstader dancing school; Opinion of a
young lady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Feb 1852 - Reading; Visiting the Hyder's home; Phonography school begins; Ten Tribes in North Sea;
Brown's grammar; Trip to Salt Creek and visit to Woolf's; Exploring with Harrison Sperry,
Mountain of plaster, salt caves and streams; land selected at Willow Creek32
Mar 1852 - Henry Coltrin visits Homer, Father gets upset; Homer visits Henry; Poem about Anna; Sarah
Hyder's birthday and poem; Daguerreotype taken by Mr. Cannon; Dancing; Drinking at distillery
and Blazzard's Brewery; Jumping at the mill. . . . . . . . . . . . .37
Apr 1852 - April Fools Party at the bath house; driving in the rain; Mr. John Preece fooled; Poem -
Farewell; Conference and mysteries; collecting silver for sacrament trays; Trip to Willow Creek,
wagon gets wet, ink well breaks; Exploring with Absalom Woolf. . . .41
May 1852 - Willow Creek renamed Clover Creek; Woolf family sick; Gold fever; Letters from home;
Elected corporal; President Young's expedition; Land surveyed. . . .45
Jun 1852 - Trip to Salt Lake, wagon upset, water very high;Provo bridge washed away; Poem about
Anna; Peeling bark for leather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Jul 1852 - Gathering bark at Emigration canyon, peddler's cakes, beer, and strawberries for food; Talk
with Mary Mosley; Storm with walnut size hail; Smallpox among the emigrants50
Aug 1852 - Gladdenite preaches; Sarah Ann gets picture taken; Sarah Ann returns to Nephi; harvesting
berries, hay and wheat; Poem to Mary Adaline Ewing . . . . . . . . .52
Sep 1852 - Trading goods; Poor fund co. arrives; Father leaves on mission; John Jones comes to work;
Trip to Clover Creek; Absalom gets sick; Trip back to SLC with Sarah Ann and Absalom54
Oct 1852 - First peach since Nauvoo; Arrangements made to build temple; Rioters at a party; Marriage
to Sarah Ann Woolf; Marriage of Harrison Sperry and Mary Mosley. . .57
Nov 1852 - Father Woolf comes to visit; Threatened by Frank Pullen; Mrs. Buel talks plain and makes a
visitation; Wood and potatoes scarce; John Jones to stay for the winter60
Dec 1852 - Broom making; 7th Ward picnic party; getting weighed; Heifer misbranded; Reading U.S.
history; Party at Dockstader hall; Work on school house to pay tax; 3rd Ward party63
Jan 1853 - Trouble with George Mattison at a party; Jinkins' clothes stolen; A bad party; Absalom
(Appy) visits; 3rd Ward party; Mr. Brim's dancing school; Mr. Hill leaves65
Feb 1853 - Misbranded heifer retrieved; Admitted to 2nd Quorum of Seventy; Temple ground breaking
missed; Sugar factory starts; Ordained a Seventy; Sarah Ann starts school; Work on Temple
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Mar 1853 - Hauling stone; Foundation of new home laid; Isaac Hatch shot by Bill Hickman; Gladdenites
preach; Wind storm; Plagued by a skin disorder . . . . . . . . . . .70
Apr 1853 - Sore throats and fevers;Temple cornerstones laid; Sealed to Sarah Ann; High water; Limits
on books; Brigham calls in Gladdenites; Governor orders Mexicans arrested; Indians rob mail;
Snake and Crow Indians die of smallpox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
May 1853 - Bath at warm springs; Governor returns from expedition; Joined Capt. Angel's Co.; Thomas
Mosley cuts foot; High Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Jan 1853 - City flooded; Brigham Young's birthday; Grasshopper plague; more flooding; Gold diggers
from States; Famine expected; Caring for an ox; Thomas Jinkins has a dispute with Mr. Gregory;
List of materials used for home. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Jul 1853 - Celebration of 4th; Helping an emigrant; Disturbances by Indian Walker; 7th Ward party;
Finding a lost yellow cow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Aug 1853 - Scythe mended; Appy visits; Trying to buy oxen from Bishop Biglar; Teasing cousin
Marion Beatie; Men fight the Indians; Fort Bridger captured. . . . .84
Sep 1853 - William Rudd comes to work; Threshing wheat; A dog in Lorenzo's bed; Shingling the
house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Oct 1853 - Selling goods to Mountaineers; Sarah Ann teased as she leaves for Clover Creek; Br.
Thompson hired; Thompson teased about wife; Widows searching for a place to stay88
Nov 1853 - U. S. Surveyors killed by Indians; Trip to Salt Creek; Changes in the land; Meeting like the
forefathers; Bishop's dress code for dancing; Return trip to SLC . .91
Dec 1853 - Encounter with Mr. Gregory over a cow; Bishop's trial with Mr. Gregory93
Jan 1854 - 7th Ward party; Notified to appear in court; A first rate time with Harry and Appy; Trial
before Judge Smith - Acquitted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Feb 1854 - Br. Maiben's dancing school . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Mar 1854 - Br. Love finally gets a wife; Susan Anthony in trouble. .97
Sep 1855 - Father returns from European mission. . . . . . . . . . .97
Oct 1855 - Moved into new home; U. S. Troops fight Sioux Indians; Sarah Ann has a toothache; Traded
saddle for goods; Rebaptized by Father in 4th Ward; Miloe Andruss' Co. arrives; Received
endowment with Sarah Ann; Keeping down the working class; Br. Harper's Co. arrives98
Nov 1855 - Br. Alred's Co. arrives; Barker family visits; Summary of discourses; Building a back house;
Patriarchal blessing; Sarah Ann and Lorenzo sick; Brigham requests work on canal and curbs
visits to his home; Working on canal with Br. Thorn. . . . . . . . 100
Dec 1855 - Sydney Beatie marries (again), Marion upset; Bad luck with ducks; Cleaning the clock; 4th
Ward school begins, but noisy; An Enigma not published; Homer's writing school commenced;
Colder temperatures if longer thermometers; Joined the Polysophic Society; Cold cotillion party
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Jan 1856 - Stenciling & wall painting trade learned; No New Years Day spree; 7th Ward party crowded;
Harry swears off whiskey; Making molasses, a cradle, and a chest; Absalom visits Harriet Wood;
Playing Chess for the first time; Tithing settlement; Metting for daily express107
Feb 1856 - Cotillion party; More on daily express; Heber preaches frugality; Trip to Nephi City; Woolf
family sick with Scarlet Fever; Dance with Eliza; Asking Father Woolf for Eliza's hand; William
Woolf dies; Brigham whips the lawyers and loafers; Lorenzo called on mission; Making a cheese
press. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Mar 1856 - Indian Squash Head suicide; Old man pretends poverty; Lorenzo wins shooting match;
Making a wheel barrow; Sarah Ann gives birth - a girl; Fainting at polysophic school113
Apr 1856 - Cattle died during winter; Missionaries called to Carson Valley; Fishing and swimming with
Harry; Prayer circle; An enigma in the news; Lorenzo leaves on mission to Las Vegas; O. P.
Rockwell chases thieves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
May 1856 - Bakery broken into; Governor buys cradles; Nethercott trades fish for food; Bishop Perkins
usurps tax work; Working on state rode; Tobacco, whiskey, and a bucking bronco117
Jun 1856 - Father & Mother Woolf sealed; Horse traded for steers; More canals to be built119
Oct 1856 - Relics from Carthage Jail; Request for teams to meet the handcarts; Attended conference
with Eliza; Married and sealed to Eliza; Baby girl blessed; Move to Salt Creek120
Nov 1856 - Trip to SLC, severe snow storm; Missionaries labor in wards; Indian Arapeen visits;
Handcart people stay for dinner; Sick with the Kine Pox. . . . . . 122
Dec 1856 - Jedediah Grant dies; Legislature convenes at Filmore; Making gloves; Talk about Celestial
Kingdom and waiting spirits; Sleigh riding . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Jan 1857 - Shoe making; Crisis misspelled; Discourse to apostates on Faith; Began work for Edcil
Elmer; Indian Migo begs; Sleigh riding and singing with Nephi choir; Catechism list;
Missionaries preach restitution; Family order when teachers come; Dinner at Cazier's; Love's
views on seven seals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Feb 1857 - Orson Hyde preaches on Celestial Marriage; Letter and lead from Lorenzo; Br Hyde preaches
on marriage relations; Dream about ten tribes; Catechised by Bishop; Trip to SLC; Father after
another wife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Mar 1857 - Little end of nothing whittled to a point; Apostates leave for California; James Woolf
marries; Tooth pulled; Lorenzo returns from Las Vegas mission; Appy hears rumor of Harriet
Wood marriage; Appy marries Lucy; Severe head ache . . . . . . . . 136
Apr 1857 - News received that Harriet is not married; Andrews & Burchall fight for a woman; Appy
starts for SLC to be sealed to Harriet & Lucy; Chief Arrapeen begins a farm; Poem to Harriet,
Appy, & Lucy; Gustave Henriod almost cut off . . . . . . . . . . . 138
May 1857 - Sore eye; Joseph Young & Co. arrive, preach; Trip to SLC; Sarah Ann sleep on ground for
first time; Little Manley wonders where house and fireplace are; Oxen take ill - Dependency on
Lord; Sarah Ann afflicted with hives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Jun 1857 - Workers on temple like bees in hive; Sarah Ann stays for a visit; Return to Salt Creek;
Fishing on the Provo river; Meets Charles Rich returning from San Bernardino; Utah Chief
Ammon visits; Br. Kendall reports Lord's protection from grasshoppers; Appy and Sarah Ann
return; Hauling wood, other driver wouldn't wait; News of Parley P. Pratt's murder; Cave
discovered with James Woolf. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Jul 1857 - Celebration of 4th; News of death of uncle; Appointed to lead 12 married ladies in celebration
parade of 24th; Parade with banners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Aug 1857 - Work on farm; Excitement about U. S. Troops coming; Express from SLC to harvest crops
quickly; Harvesting in earnest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Sep 1857 - Harvesting and threshing; Bishop Bigler speaks on ignoring strange events; Apostates flee
city, brought back; Troops at Laramie; Eliza has a baby boy; Emigrants to California killed in
Iron Co. by Indians; Enoch Bowles comes to work; Alfred Gad quits a day early; Troops
determined to come in or die trying. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Jan 1857 - Troops approach Ft. Bridger; Obedience preached; Many people sick, son John Anthony
especially; Men selected to fight, Homer included; John Anthony dies; Report on war's progress;
Hauling coal; Trip to SLC; Father has two new wives. . . . . . . . 152
Nov 1857 - Return to Salt Creek; Letter from Appy at Ft. Supply - Troops fired on men; Gentiles leaving
Utah; Prisoner escapes barefooted from Troops; Spies from California apprehended
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Dec 1857 - Dispute about canyon wood; Seventies hold a feast; Another trip to SLC; Struck with
sickness while praying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Jan 1858 - James Woolf moves in; Israel Hoyt forgets to bring leather; Missionaries returning from
various missions; Another trip to SLC; Attended Provo theatre, gratis; Taken sick with distemper
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Feb 1858 - Joining army, Samuel Cazier's ten; Preparations for war; Trip to SLC with Father Cazier;
Dispute with Br. Johnson over inadequate hat; Return to Nephi; "Dr. Osborn" from Washington
arrives in big hurry to see Brigham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Mar 1858 - Trip to Filmore for a mare; Dr. Osborn none other than Thomas L. Kane; Sarah Ann gives
birth - boy; Read book about the Oatman family massacre; Amasa Lyman reports no fighting
likely in the spring; Gustave Henriod copies more of journal; Men sent to Salmon River to help
after attack by Indians; Journal ends. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
The Journal of Homer Brown
April 1850
[Apr 1850 - Journal begins 6 April; Spring planting]
[Page 1] ...
8th Home, conferance closed
9th ...d Windy, hunted cattle
10th ...nd pleasant, went after wood
11th ...warm, commenced plowing
12th ...warm
13th pleasant finished ploughing the city lots
14th pleasant, went to meeting. Sunday
15th warm and pleasant, sowed wheat
16th Cloudy and windy commenced ploughing the ten acre lot
17th about three inches of snow on the ground in the morning
18th warm and windy commenced ploughing again
19th cold and windy
20th cold and windy snowed in the afternoon, finished ploughing
21st pleasant in the forenoon snowed some in the after noon
22nd pleasant, commenced sowing wheat sowed about three pecks on one acre
23rd warm and pleasant sowed at the rate of a bushel on an acre and finished sowing
24th warm and pleasant in the fore-noon, but rather cloudy in the after-noon, sowed some carrots &
cabbage & peas etc.
25th cloudy, windy, & rainy all day
26th Considerable snow fell in the fore-noon, but quite pleasant in the after-noon
27th Warm and pleasant, sowed some peas and harrowed them in put old Brin in the pasture of the
4th ward
28th Sunday, warm and pleasant. W. Phelps preached in the fore-noon, P. P Pratt in the after-noon
and Mr. Bader also
29th Warm and pleasant planted some Potatoes
30th Warm and pleasant planted corn and melon seeds and ...
May 1850
[May 1850 - 4th ward members baptized; Dinner with an Indian; Trip to Utah Valley]
3rd [Page 2]... from Fort ...
4th Warm and pleasant.
5th Sunday warm and pleasant Orson Spencer ...
6th Began to plough for corn.
7th Finished ploughing.
8th Finished planting corn and potatoes on the ...
9th Hauled one large load of wood or brush. Only Mr ...es here visiting. Rained quite hard about sun
down.
10th Father & Lorenzo worked on tithing. I took a load of women to the warm spring.
11th Warm and pleasant hauled one load of wood from the dry kanyon.
12th Sunday warm and pleasant. The people in the 4th Ward were all baptized except me. by E T
Benson.
13th Warm and pleasant. hauled a load of wood from the dry kanyon.
14th Warm and pleasant. Worked some at carpenter work.
15th Very warm. layed the floor & planted some water-melon seeds
16th Very hot in the fore-noon. quite cool in the after-noon. made some stairs.
17th Very hot. Father made some dobie moulds for Mr. Wakely.
18th Warm & cloudy in the fore-noon. rained some about sun-down.
19th Sunday. warm & pleasant, a nice shower of rain last night. cloudy and windy in the afternoon.
John Young preached in the fore-noon. Indian Walkers brother eat dinner with me. Some teams
arrived here from Sanpitch yesterday
20th I started for the Utah Valley. Camped on Mill creek at night
21st Started again before sun-rise. Camped by some Cedars about 6 miles from the Utah Fort.
Camped about 9 Ocloc at night
22nd Arrived at the Provo creek about ten o'clock. President B. Young with some others crossed the
creek or river and held Council with the Indians. In the after-noon I got over. Stayed at the Fort
at night.
23rd [Page 3]...ndians to day.
24th ...
25th ... and windy
26th ... forenoon & horse raceing in the after noon.
27th ...t
28th ...about 11 Ocloc, arrived there sun about an hour high.
29th ... to work getting saw logs.
30th ...d most of the day and but few logs.
31st ... considerable in the after-noon.
June 1850
[Jun 1850 - Trading horses; Lime kiln business begun; Flour at $1.00/lb]
1st ... we started for home with a load of lumber. ...before we got home.
2nd ...s preached in the fore-noon. H. C. Kimball ... [ot]hers in the after-noon.
3rd ... pleasant in the fore-noon. a small shower of rain in the after noon. We took off the roof of the
house and put it on good.
4th Warm and pleasant. I traded horses with Mr. gardner.
5th Very hot. I put my horse in the pasture to day on Mr. Edwards account. I traded a little with the
emigrants and bought a sett of double harne s for four dollars. Father commenced working at the
lime busine s.
7th Hot and cloudy.
8th Hot and cloudy. Sprinkled a little in the after-noon. Thomas Williams arrived to day with the U
S mail.
9th Sunday. Very Warm in the fore-noon. quite a heavy gale of wind in the after noon.
10th I worked weeding wheat. Some ox teams arrived from Ft. Laramie.
11th Warm and pleasant.
12th Warm and pleasant. I made a pair of stirups
13th Cold and windy most of the day. I started to go to the Kanyon to bring lime, but did not go.
14th Raining most part of the day.
15th Cool and windy. A Nice shower of rain last night.
16th Sunday. The Utah people that is the Mormons at Utah ha...afternoon. Concert last night.
17th [Page 4] G. S. L. C. ... Cool and windy I com[menced] ...
18th Warm and pleasant ... and corn and done a great...
19th Warm and pleasant....
20th Warm and pleasant Lore[nzo] ...
21st Very warm. Flour is now selli[ng] ...
22nd Warm in the fore-noon. windy [in the after noon] ... [I worked] all this week helping make a
lime [kiln]...
23rd Sunday. Mr Day a Baptiste p[reacher]... and also P P Pratt. George A. Smit[h preached]... in the
after-noon. At six o-clock pm... President Young preached about a man... wife. He says that it is
printed in the state... wives and he says that if he has, it is none of ...
24th Very warm working at the lime kiln. Traded horses again.
25th A very hot day. got the oxen shod just at night. Flour is now selling for one dollar per pound.
26th Very warm. Father bought a waggon and harne s to day.
27th Very warm. I bought an axe for 25 cts
28th Hot and sultry worked at the lime kiln all this week
29th Warm and windy. Father cut some wheat to day for Mr. Miller
30th Sunday Orson Spencer preached in the fore-noon. W Phelps in the after-noon, also President B
Young
July 1850
[Jul 1850 - Flag falls to ground; Concerts; Tooth pulled; Lime kiln fired]
1st Very hot Ploughed and hoed potatoes
2nd Very hot worked at the lime kiln
3rd Very hot and sultry Mr Holiday opend his store to day.
4th General training. The Ensign was raised to day, but when it was unfurled to the breezze the cord
broke and it came to the ground.
5th Very warm, there was a concert last night.
6th The hardest gale of wind to day that there has been this ...[sum]mer.
7th Very windy. Orson Spencer preached in the f[ore noon]... four Emigrants were baptized...
8th [Page 5] G S L City I worked on the lime kiln. Mr. Knowlton began to work on the road.
9th Very warm and considerable windy.
10th Warm. I hauled stone all day. began to turn the creek in the lime kiln.
11th Very warm. Father hired an emigrant to work for him to day. I sold my saddle to a Mr Ramsey.
12th Very hot, Mother done some Baking for Mr. Ramsey from Hanible, Mo. Father hired two
Emigrants to work on the lime kiln for one dollar per day.
13th Very warm weather. I have worked 5 days on the lime kiln this week.
14th Sunday. Heber Kimball and Brigham Young preached in the fore-noon. I had the tooth-ache all
day.
15th I was quite sick last night and this fore-noon with the tooth-ache. It began to thunder and rain
some this morning, but it did not last many minutes. I had my tooth pulled this after-noon.
Lorenzo began to cut his wheat to day.
16th Very hot. I started for the kanyon to haul wood for the lime kiln
17th Very hot, still working in the kanyon
18th ---
19th Rained a little to day. I came home from the kanyon. took a load of wood to Mr. Jackman to pay
for a saddle
20th I harvested wheat for Mr. Free. Father bought a cow to day.
21st Sunday. Considerable of a shower of rain last night. Very windy this after-noon. Brigham
Young preached in the fore-noon.
22nd I got the oxen shod and got another saddle.
23rd Went and cut wheat for Mr. Free.
24th Celebration today. The Liberty pole broke and our Colors came to the ground.
25th I harvested wheat for Mr. Free. There was a concert last night and also a party at Mr Love's.
26th I went to the kanyon to haul wood. I hauled one load to the kiln.
27th I hauled one load of wood to the lime kiln and one home. Rained Considerable last night.
28th Sunday. Very warm.
29th I went to the kanyon to haul wood for the lime kiln. They finished filling the kiln and set it on
fire at night
30th I hauled two loads of wood to day
31st Very warm hauled wood to the kiln. I came home to night. Lorenzo and I picked some Service
berries to day.
August 1850
[Aug 1850 - Hauling wood; Birthday; Universalist preacher; Lorenzo hooked by an ox]
1st [Page 6] G S L City Finished burning the lime kiln this morning. Lorenzo and I went to the
kanyon again to haul wood.
2nd Came home to day with each of us a load of wood.
3rd Lorenzo and I hauled each of us another load of wood he sold his to Mr. Peneton.
4th Sunday. Very warm. Bishop Murdock preached.
5th I went up to the lime kiln to help open it. A great deal of it was not burned
6th I got the cattle shod. It rained some to day
7th I went to the kanyon after wood stayed there all night. A very hard storm of hail and rain a little
before sun-down.
8th Came home with a good load of wood. a very severe storm of wind & rain. Father began to cut
hay
9th This is my Birth Day. I sowed some turnips.
10th I went to the kanyon after wood. got home safe with a good load and got some service berries.
Father & Lorenzo hauled three loads of hay.
11th Sunday. A Universalist Preacher preached this fore-noon. P P Pratt in the after-noon. A Very
hard shower of rain fell about dark.
12th Lorenzo began to cut hay on his ten-acre lot. I hauled a load of hay home for him to night. He
got hooked by an ox, but I do not know whether he is hurt much or not. The ox belongs to Mr.
Alan.
13th I hauled some lime. Brigham Young got home from San-pete last night.
14th I went up to Mr. Hollbrooks in the Sessions Settlement to get some sand.
15th Worked for Lorenzo to day making hay.
16th Lorenzo & Father & me cut hay on Fathers five acre lot. got home one load.
17th Father & I worked in the hay field. got home two loads of hay. Mr. Bullards goods came in to
day.
18th Sunday. Orson Hyde preached in the fore-noon.
19th Father & Lorenzo began to cut the spring wheat. I got the oxen shod.
20th I worked about a half-day in the lime kiln with the team.
21st [Page 7] I worked at the lime kiln hauled one load of wood I went to a pic-nic party last night
at Mr. Williams New store.
22nd I worked making hay. hauled two good loads home.
23rd I worked making hay. hauled two good loads home and began to cut the wheat at home.
24th Very hot. finished cutting wheat. Father hired an emigrant to cradle.
25th Sunday, Orson Hyde preached in the fore-noon B Young in the after-noon
26th Cool and cloudy. I hauled a load of wood to the lime kiln. Rained considerable this after noon.
father got two loads of hay home.
27th I hauled one load of wood to the lime kiln.
28th I hauled a load of hay up to the lime kiln and hauled stone the rest of the day.
29th I hauled another load of wood to the lime kiln.
30th I hauled wood with Mr Knowltons cattle and our waggon to the kiln.
31st I hauled wood again with Mr. Kn.'s [Knowlton] cattle and our wagon to the kiln.
September 1850
[Sep 1850 - Kiln sold; Conference; Perpetual Fund officers; John Crosby arrives]
1st Sunday, Mr. Pulsifer preached in the fore-noon. Mr. Miloe Andrews preached in the after-noon
2nd I worked cutting wood at the lime kiln. we set the second lime kiln on fire to day. Very smoky
to day.
3rd I worked cutting wood at the lime kiln. Smoky weather.
4th I came home this Morning. Father bought two yoke of cattle.
5th I hauled a load of hay home & Lorenzo hauled a load for Mrs. Mosely.
6th [Page 8] Friday. Conference commenced today.
7th Some Elders were appointed to go to Germany. Orson Hyde preached in the after-noon on
education.
8th Sunday. Thomas Grover was put out of office and John Parry, a Welshman, was put in his place.
All the rest of the officers of the church were sustained in their offices.
9th I hauled two loads of hay home & Lorenzo hauled two loads for him-self. Father cut hay.
10th I hauled one small load of hay. the wind blowed very hard all day. I began to break a yoke of
cattle this after-noon. Lorenzo went to Mill creek kanyon to day. two men came in from
California yesterday.
11th I hauled two loads of hay.
12th I began to make an ox yard. Father sold his part of the lime kiln to Mr. Winchester.
13th I hauled a load of poles from the kanyon. Lorenzo hauled a load of wheat.
14th I hauled a load of wheat. Very warm. Father worked some on the ox yard.
15th Sunday. There was a special conference called. The officers for the perpetual fund were elected.
President Brigham young was elected president of that company.
16th Very windy I hauled a load of wheat Father worked finishing off the House and turned old brin
away to Haytes herd.
17th Father and I hauled two loads of hay and I hauled a load of wheat.
18th I hauled a small load of wheat. there was a little frost last night.
19th Father and I hauled two loads of hay.
20th I went to the kanyon and hauled a load of poles.
21st [Page 9] I hauled one load of hay and one load of sand.
22nd Sunday. John Crosby arrived in the Valley this after-noon. Brigham gave the Bishops a
whipping this fore noon.
23rd I went to the kanyon and hauled a load of poles.
24th I went to the kanyon again and hauled a load of wood. Bishop Whitney died yesterday.
25th I went to mill and hauled a load of hay.
26th I hauled one load of adobies.
27th I hauled a load of stone. Quite a hard frost last night.
28th Training to day. I hauled a load of dobies. Frost last night.
29th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. Mr J Grant preached in the after-noon.
30th I went to mill creek kanyon to haul saw logs.
October 1850
[Oct 1850 - Canyon work; Nauvoo Legion; Woodruff's Co. arrives; Battalion members return]
1st I worked in the kanyon hauling saw logs.
2nd Still in the kanyon. A hard rain storm last night. I came home from the kanyon and hauled two
loads of wood.
3rd I turned two yoke of the cattle out to pasture. It was a very cold night last night but no frost I
believe.
4th I hauled 600 dobies today. There was a very hard frost last night.
5th [Page 10] I went to the kanyon and hauled a load of poles.
6th Sunday. warm and pleasant.
7th I hunted Cattle all day but did not find them. Rained a little in the after-noon.
8th I hauled a load of wood and sold it for four dollars.
9th Commenced raining about daylight and rained most all day. I hauled one load of stone.
10th Warm and pleasant. General muster to day.
11th The Nauvoo Legion was called out on a three days campaign to learn camp duty.
12th ---
13th Amasy Lyman preached in the fore-noon. Joseph Young preached in the after. I hunted up two
cattle that had been gone since last spring.
14th Very windy in the afternoon. I went hunting cattle again. Father sent the white steer away to
Haits herd.
15th Warm and pleasant in the forenoon. Cool and windy in the after noon. Snowed a very little in
the after noon. I went to mill and hauled one load of hay and also 350 dobies.
16th Froze quite hard last night. but warm and pleasant this forenoon. Began to Storm about
sundown. Snow. I hauled two loads of stone. Father sent the two heifers away to the tooele
valley to Mr. Willis herd. Mr. Woodruffs Company arrived the 14th inst.
17th Rained some last night. Father and me went up in Mill creek kanyon to haul in saw logs.
18th [Page 11] I worked in the kanyon. Warm and pleasant.
19th Father and I came home from the kanyon and hauled home two good loads of lumber.
20th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. H. S. Beatie, Joseph Henry and twelve others came in this fore
noon from the gold Mines.
21st Monday. Warm and pleasant. I hauled two loads of sand and one load of clay.
22nd Pleasant. I hauled a load of wood.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I hauled one load of sand and one load of clay.
24th I hauled a load of wood.
25th Very warm. I hauled a load of wood.
26th Warm and pleasant. I went to Mill creek and hauled a load of lumber. Father began to lay up an
addition to his house yesterday.
27th Sunday. Mr. George A. Smith and President Brigham Young preached in the fore noon.
28th Warm and pleasant. We began to plough the City lot to day. Heywood's & Wooley's store was
opened to day. Lorenzo began to lay up his house this morning.
29th Very warm. We ploughed some and layed some adobies.
30th A little Colder this morning. We ploughed some this fore noon. I hauled 400 adobies. Father
and I buried the potatoes this afternoon.
31st Cold wet and rainy all day nearly. Father and I mixed mortar for plastering.
November 1850
[Nov 1850 - Building the house; Sick with fever; Josephine Mumford making tails; Hunting cattle]
1st [Page 12] G S L City Cold and wet in the morning. Mr. Johnson commenced plastering the
house. Began to snow about sun-down. Mr. Preece's little girl died this after noon.
2nd Snowed all night last night. There was about 9 inches of snow this morning. Very wet heavy
snow. Snowed some to day, but thawed about as fast as it fell. Very wet and slopy underfoot at
night. Finished plastering this afternoon. Mother has stayed at Lorenzo's yesterday and to day. I
hear that Thomas Williams store was broken into last night and they caught the thieves to day,
but it may not be true after all.
3rd Sunday. Wet and cold.
4th I had a chill to day. Very disagreeable weather.
5th I had another chill to day and a very high fever.
6th Quite pleasant to day.
7th Warm and pleasant. I finished diging the beets this after noon.
8th I went to mill this morning. Warm and pleasant.
9th Cool and cloudy. Father and I layed dobies to day, but did not finish the house.
10th Sunday. Cool and cloudy. A company of 100 men were appointed to go to little salt lake last
night.
11th Warm and pleasant. I hauled 170 adobies and worked some laying dobies.
12th Cool and cloudy. I went to the kanyon and hauled a good load of wood.
13th Warm and pleasant all day. I went to the kanyon and hauled a good load of maple wood.
14th I went to the kanyon and hauled a load of cotton wood. Josephine Mumford sits by me and keeps
jogling my elbow and says she is making tails.
15th Cold and cloudy. I worked putting down the sleepers in the new house. Father made a door.
16th [Page 13] G S L City I went to Mill creek kanyon and hauled a load of lumber. Twas warm
and the sun shone bright in the kanyon up at the mill, but our folks say that it was cloudy and
could not see the sun in the valley. The road was very slipery in some places.
17th Sunday. Cold and cloudy. George A. Smith preached a funeral sermon.
18th Cloudy. I went to the kanyon and hauled a load of cotton wood.
19th I went to the kanyon again and hauled another load of wood. Very foggy this morning, but
pleasant in the after noon. The U S Mail arrived last night.
20th Warm and cloudy in the morning, but began to grow colder in the after-noon. Snowed some in
the kanyon and rained a little in the valley. Lorenzo and I went to the kanyon and hauled each a
load of dry Box Elder wood.
21st Cool and windy all day. rained quite hard last night. Father and I layed the floors in the new
house.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I went to mill creek kanyon and hauled a load of slabs.
23rd Windy in the morning, but warm and pleasant in the after noon. Father and I put the slabs on the
roof of the new house.
24th Sunday. Warm in the morning but cold windy and rainy in the afternoon.
25th Monday. Cold and cloudy. Snowed some last night. I went to the Haights herd after cattle.
26th [Page 14] G S L City Very cold and windy. I hunted cattle all day.
27th Frost very hard last night. I came home from the herd and drove Mr. Mumfords and Mr. Speirs
oxen home, one for each, but could not find the steer that I went after. Father went to mill to day
got 14 bushels of wheat ground.
28th Cold and cloudy.
29th Snowed some in the morning. Mr. Johnson plastered the new house. rather disagreeable weather
all day.
30th Cold and cloudy. General training today. Rained considerable just at night. Father went to hunt
for the white steer up in the sessions settlement.
December 1850
[Dec 1850 - Trading for a bear skin; Hunting for old Darb; Parties; Emigrant trial]
1st Sunday. Very windy cool and cloudy. Father came home from hunting his ox but did not find
him. I traded for a bear skin to day with an Indian.
2nd About six inches of snow fell last night. Still kept snowing until about 8 oclock in the morning.
A little snow fell during the day. Father and I worked making a cow shed.
3rd Very cold in the morning. A little more moderate in the after noon. Father worked makeing
doors for Mr. Woodbury. I worked makeing a cow shed. Mr. Love found the ox that we hav
hunted for so much and drove him home. Harrison Sp[erry]... brought our horse home this after
noon.
4th This is the coldest day we have had this fall or winter. Father got his [] into the house and
worked on Mr Woodburys doors.
5th [Page 15] Tuesday. A little warmer. We got the white steer killed to day. Some of the people
started for little Salt Lake.
6th I cut up the beef. Father worked for Mr. Love.
7th Cold and rather windy. I went down Jordan hunting cattle. Found old darb.
8th Sunday. Cold and cloudy. George A. Smith, P. P. Pratt preached.
9th I drove my oxen and two of Lorenzo's cows away up Jordan to day.
10th I helped Lorenzo thresh with one yoke of our cattle. Father sold his ten acre lots for a yoke of
cattle.
11th I helped Lorenzo thrash with one yoke of Fathers cattle. Father gave up going to Little Salt lake.
12th Warm and pleasant. I helped Lorenzo thrash with two yoke of Father's cattle. Mr. Orton came
down from Utah to day.
13th I helped Lorenzo thrash again to day withe two yoke of cattle. finished thrashing one stack of
wheat. one of the cows came from Willis herd.
14th Cloudy. I helped rake the wheat off from the thrashing floor this fore noon. Father finished his
bedsted and put it up. The snow has nearly all gone off.
15th Cloudy and rainy. Rained Considerable last night. Mr Love started for Little Salt Lake this
morning. Mr. Orton started back to the Utah Valley this morning.
16th Warm but cloudy. Dr. Parker commenced school this morning.
17th Cold and windy. I helped Lorenzo clean up Wheat.
18th [Page 16] Quite warm and pleasant over head but wet and snowy under foot.
19th Warm and cloudy. thawed some, but it is not very windy.
20th Lorenzo and I began to thrash wheat again. Cool and cloudy, did not thaw much to day.
21st We thrashed wheat again to day. Cool and cloudy. Thawed a very little. There was a party at
Mr. Wardsworth's last night.
22nd Sunday. Cool and cloudy.
23rd Cold and cloudy. We thrashed wheat again to day. Mr. Woodbury was married this afternoon to
Miss Alvira Stephens.
24th We finished thrashing one stack of wheat to day.
25th Fair and warm. I had my Christmas cleaning wheat. The Band wer all out to day playing around
town, but most of the time around the stores.
26th Cool but pleasant. We cleaned wheat again to day and finished Father's part. I went to a party at
Mr. Empeys last night.
27th Pleasant. I helped Lorenzo clean wheat this afternoon.
28th Warm and pleasant. I drove two yoke of cattle over Jordan. There was an exhibition last night at
the Bowery.
29th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. B. Young preached about tithing and dancing.
30th Cold and cloudy. I went over the river and drove up two yoke of cattle to thrash Dr. Parker's
wheat.
31st Cold and cloudy. Father and Lorenzo began to thrash Dr. Parkers wheat. I worked fixing the
stable. Three Emigrants had their trial to day for stealing. The same ones that stole money out of
the tithing office and stole Mr. Vicars watches. This ends 1850.
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[Flash Back to 1848 - Winter Quarters; Devil's Gate; Buffalo Hunt; Work for American Fur Co.]
[Page 17]
Flash Back to 1848.
A few sketches of what took place in Homer Browns life. I shall skip over what took place until I left
Winter quarters May 25th 1848. Merely saying that I was born in the town of pomfret, Chautauqua
county N Y. Aug 9th, 1830. The 25th of May I left Winter quarters and started on a journey to the great
Salt Lake. I will now pa s on until I arrive at the Devils gate. I started out in company with some others
to kill Buffaloes. we killed two after being gone two days and one night. I will now pa s on until I
arrive at the head of the sweet water River the 23rd of august. I left there the 3rd of Sept. and camped at
the Pacific Springs, having cro sed the dividing ridge Between the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific.
The 12th of Sept. 1848. I stoped at Fort Bridger, commenced working for the American fur Company.
started for Fort Laramie the 16th with a company of Mormons that were on their way to Council Bluffs.
Arrived at Laramie about the first of October. Stayed there about a month waiting for goods that we
were to take to Ft Bridger. Started for that place about the last of October or the first of November.
Arrived there the 22nd of November. Started for the Uinta Fort the 24th.
25th camped on Smiths fork near some french traders lodges.
26th camped on Henrys fork with Jack Robison and some other traders.
27th followed down the creek camped again on the same creek.
28th the wind blew so hard and cold that we did not travel.
29th we started across Green river and camped on a small creek the Mountaineers call red creek near
the head of Brown's hole.
30th we traveled down Green River in Brown's Hole and cro sed Green river again and camped on
the western Bank.
December 1848
[Dec 1848 - Storm in the mountains; Uinta Fort; Trip to Ft. Bridger with Frenchmen]
1st first of December began to climb the mountain we had quite a snow storm while we were
climbing up the side of the mountain we cro sed part of the mountain and camped on a very
small creek.
2nd we descended the south side of the mountain and camped on Birch creek.
3rd Cold and windy we camped at night on dry creek.
4th [Page 18] cro sed Ashleys fork in the morning and traveled through cedar timber where it was
very thick and arrived at the Uinta Fort about the middle of the after-noon.
5th About two inches of snow in the morning.
6th Considerable snowfall.
31st I shall now pa s on until the last day of December. I then started with two Frenchmen to go to Ft
Bridger we traveled about 30 miles and camped on dry creek snowed all night.
January 1849
[Jan 1849 - Pilot disappears in the snow; back to Uinta Fort; trips between forts; poem to Mary]
1st 1 Jan 1849 Still snowing.
2nd The wind blew and was quite stormy we still stayed at our old camp on dry creek.
3rd Pleasant in the morning And we started about ten o-clock it began to be very foggy we lost our
way. our Pilot was walking and leading his horse when all of a sudden He disappeared and then
His Horse. But when I came up to the spot where I last saw them I saw what the trouble was we
had come to the brink of A hill and the snow had drifted over so that it had made a bank about
ten feet high and as he could see nothing but the white snow he plunged down and his horse after
him and they were pretty nicely covered with snow and the other Frenchman and me had to
follow him after caving off some more snow. The snow was about two feet and a half deep we
camped at night under some cedar trees after diging away the snow.
4th The snow was so deep that our horses could get nothing to eat and we concluded that we would
go bac and as it was clear we soon found our road and started and camped at night at our old
camp on dry creek.
5th Started again and traveled through snow from 2« to 3 feet deep and camped at night under some
cedar trees.
6th [Page 19] arrive at the Fort again Stayed there until some time in March. we then started again
for Ft Bridger we had a very hard, cold, stormy, tedious journey. full of hardships and troubles
sometimes breaking roads through the snow for a half-mile to a time and then again traveling
over the snow on the crust, no knowing how deep it was some places we knew it must [be] 15
or 20 feet deep by the tops of the quakeing aspen trees that would sometimes s[t]ick up about one
or two feet. Some days we could not travel over more than 6 or 7 miles a day. But we finally
got to Ft Bridger after 21 days hard travel which is generaly performed in 8 days. Remained at
the Ft one day and then started for the Uintah Ft again arrived there in nine days after we
started. Remained ther about one week and then started again for Ft Bridger arrived there in 6
days after we started. I continued working for the American fur company until about the first of
August I then left them and drove a team for Mr. Waters to Salt Lake City for one dollar per day
And now I am at hom again. I went to school during the winter. And this Brings me up to the
commencement of this Book. H. Brown.
To Mary
Will you think it ami s
When you read this
A few lines that I've pen'd
To look at now and then.
And see how things went on
In days by-gone
Now here am I
For Deseret State
I'll bid you goodbye
For tis getting late.
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January 1851
[Jan 1851 - Wedding parties; Emigrants cut off; Reformation; Trials; Governor Young]
1st [Page 20] Wednesday. Cold and cloudy the sun has not shown to day. not much going on to
day, at least not that I know of.
2nd Cold and cloudy.
3rd Cold and cloudy. Looks very much like snowing.
4th Very cold, foggy and the air was full of frost in the morning. John Orton came here last night
from the American fork in the Utah Valley.
5th Sunday. Cold and foggy.
6th Cold, cloudy and windy. I went up to Haights herd after old Brin. She was so near dead that I
could not get her up, and I was obliged to leave her.
7th Snowed nearly all the forenoon. very disagreeable weather. I came home and drove one of Mr
Mumfords oxen home.
8th Considrable snow fell last night, and some this fore noon. Miss Elizabeth Mosely was married to
Mr Daniel Miller this after-noon. They had an excelent supper, Beautiful cake and a first rate
time. We also had a good dance at night.
9th Quit warm and pleasant, thawed a little.
10th Warm and cloudy, Rained and snowed a little in the after noon.
11th Very cloudy all day. Rained a very little in the after noon. Thawed considerable.
12th Warm and pleasant all day over head, but wet and sloppy under foot. A great deal of preaching
done to day about swearing.
13th [Page 21] G S L City Monday. Warm and pleasant.
14th Tuesday. Warm and pleasant. Thawed considerable. I helped Father and Lorenzo clean wheat
for Dr Parker. We finished that job to day.
15th Wednesday. Quite warm this morning until about eight Oclock. Did not freeze last night But
about eight Oclock this morning the wind began to blow from the North, turned cold and began
to freeze in about five minutes. About nine Oclock it began to snow. We had a very cold
freezing windy day all day.
16th Thursday. Very cold and windy. Miss Ann Smith was married to Mr Thomas Jinkins about 7
Oclock this evening. by Father John Smith.
17th Cold but pleasant. Very Clear Cold light night last night. A beautiful night we had for the
wedding. We had a very good wedding supper.
18th A little warmer to day. Thawed considerable to day. All of our folks And Mr Mumfords folks
went up to Mr Crosby's to day a visiting. they got home about 11 Oclock at night went away in
the morning.
19th Warm and pleasant. Sunday. The Meeting house was very much crowded to day. George Grant,
B Young, H C Kimball preached in the fore-noon. Intermission of one hour. P P Pratt, Jedediah
Grant, and others preached in the after noon. Mr Alexander was cut off from the church. And
also several Emigrants that had been baptized just for the winter. Also several women that had
married these Emigrants wer cut off.
20th Monday. Cloudy, thawed a little Lorenzo began to thrash his other stack of wheat. Father
helped him. I hear that Brigham has put a stop to all the dancing. They have begun a great
reformation in this place lately. They have meetings every day and night now.
21st [Page 22] G S L City Tuesday. Warm and pleasant.
22nd The wind blew very cold this morning. I went and drove the oxen away again.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I went to court to day and herd the trial of Mr Loomis who was accused of
stealing a pair of pantaloons. he was proved guilty. Mr McCabe was his lawyer.
24th Warm and pleasant. I went to hear another trial to day concerning Mr Ashton and Mr Steret who
were accused of stealing wood of Ira Spaulding, but there was nothing proved against them. Mr
Kelly was also tried, for riot he was also proved guilty. Also one Mr Walker and another man
were tried for stealing wood. They were found guilty. Court adjourned until tomorrow morning,
8 Oclock, when the sentences will be passed on those who are convicted. I went to the
Blacksmiths shop to see the balls and chains put on to the prisoners. There were five of them,
viz. Love, Loomis, Kelly, Walker, and Johnson.
25th Warm and pleasant. General Muster. The sentences were passed on the prisoners this morning.
Mr. Loomis is sentenced for stealing watches and pantaloons to work two years on the public
works. Kelly 10 years for riot, Love stealing watches year, Walker is to pay for stealing wood
dollars fine, and Mr. Johnson is to pay for stealing wood __ dollars fine. Walker and Johnson
had their irons taken off this morning. It has been very muddy the last three or four days. Mr.
Hatch was to have had his trial this afternoon, but he said his witness was not here, therefore it
was postponed. Father commenced going to the lyceum last night.
26th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. P. P. Pratt and Orson Spencer preached this morning. There was
no meeting this afternoon.
27th Warm and pleasant. I worked at tinkering today. Father made a stand. I went to meeting last
night at Israel Hoit's. We had a first rate prayer meeting.
28th [Page 23] G S L City Tuesday. Warm and pleasant. There was a company of 8 men came in
from California yesterday. Captain hunt was among the number. The Band went out to meet
Brigham Young and escort him in. He has been up to Weber. There was also six canons fired
about sun down. Some say that Brigham has been appointed Governor of the state of Deseret
and that is the reason of the Bands going out to escort him in.
29th Warm and pleasant. Father and Lorenzo carried their tithing up to the office. Messrs Knowlton
& Co. had a trial about Red Bute kanyon. There was nothing proved against them.
30th Warm and pleasant. I went to another party last night at the house of Mr. Cole. I went to Fannys
school this after noon.
31st Warm but cloudy in the morning, but pleasant in the after noon. Father went up to Mill creek
kanyon to see about his saw logs. I cleaned up a little wheat.
February 1851
[Feb 1851 - Hatch writing school; Goldsmith teaches lettering; Noble funeral; Orson Spencer
school]
1st Warm and pleasant. I went to see some Jews paint window curtains this morning. I went up to
the State house this after noon and I saw a good many Men and boys playing ball.
2nd Sunday, warm and pleasant. Mr. Batemen wanted to preach a half an hour and he preached nine
minutes about nothing at all. And then B Young preached. I went to Mr Hatch's writing school
last night. I intend to learn to write and flourish.
3rd [Page 24] G S L City Monday. Warm and pleasant, a light breze of wind. I went to Mill this
forenoon and to school this after noon. Father Baptized two men to night. He is now
Confirming them.
4th Warm and pleasant. Freezes some evry night. Josephine was here visiting to day. Father and I
cut wood this fore noon.
5th Warm and pleasant. Father attended the doctors board of health this after noon.
6th Warm and pleasant. Harrison Sperry and me went to see Mr. Spencer about the stray pen. Father
hauled a saw log down to Chases mill this afternoon. And he also commenced makeing a mould
board for his plough.
7th A little cloudy this morning Father started for Mill creek kanyon to haul his logs into the mill.
Lorenzo went with him with his team. Warm and pleasant in the after noon.
8th Warm and pleasant. The Seventies held a meeting to day. Father and Lorenzo came home from
the kanyon and hauled a load of lumber up to the council house for titheing.
9th Sunday. Dark and cloudy. Snowed a very little this morning. Cloudy and windy all day. Some
busine s done at meeting this fore noon. Capt. Hunt delivered a discourse about California this
after noon. I went to writing school last night.
10th Cold and windy. the ground was covered with snow this morning, but it went off before noon. I
drove Lorenzos cow and calf home this morning. Windy all day Father and I cleaned some
wheat over that we had cleaned before.
11th Father and I went down in the big field with Mr Elsworth, to look at some ten acre lots that
Father had sold him. Brigham started with us, but it was so muddy that he could not get along
with his carriiage. Cool and windy all day. I went to spelling school last night.
12th [Page 25] G. S. L. City Cold and windy in the morning. Father started for Mill creek kanyon. it
began to snow about 10 Oclock this morning. The two Mrs Crosbys came h[ere]... visiting just
as it began to snow. I went to writing school last night. There was about five or six inches of
snow on the ground about sun-down to night.
13th Cold and windy in the morning, but a little warmer in the after noon. Father got home from the
kanyon about the middle of the after noon with a good load of lumber. Mr Patterson went with
him after lumber, but one of his oxen got tired out before he got home. I did very little to day
except read. There was 7 men came in from California to day. I have not heard what news they
bring.
14th Cold and cloudy snowed a very little. Last night was as cold a night as we have had this winter.
15th Cold and windy. I choped wood this forenoon. Father hauled some wood up to the meeting
house to day to warm it up for Sunday. Good sleighing today.
16th Sunday. Warm and pleasant in the afternoon, but cold and windy in the morning. Brigham
Young preached Mrs Nobles funeral sermon. The snow nearly all went off to day. Very poor
sleighing this night.
17th Warm and pleasant. Father went to mill. Mr. Goldsmith, A hungarian, Came here today and
learned me some about making German letters after this fashion.
18th Warm and windy. Father went up to Mill creek kanyon to carry off his lumber, but it was not
sawed.
19th Warm and pleasant. Father worked making a box to keep flour in.
20th Warm and windy. Father went up to Mill Creek Kanyon again to carry off his lumber. He got it
sawed this time.
21st Warm and cloudy in the morning. Father bought a load of chaff of Mr. Rigby this morning. We
hauled them home and then went to []. We got the grist that he carried Monday. It began to
snow and blow before we got home. Our other heifer came home from Mr. Willis herd to day.
22nd [Page 26] This is the most stormy day that we have had this winter Snowing, blowing, and
blustering. Snowed some last night. There was a ward meeting last night at Mr. Pickforths to
see about fencing this ward into blocks. and they decided that the ward fence should be taken
away by the first of April.
23rd Sunday. Quite warm and pleasant.
24th Pleasant early in the morning, but the south wind began to blow about nine or ten Oclock and
was very cold and blustering. I went up Jordan hunting up the cattle to see how they had stood
the storm. I found them and they all looked very well.
25th Warm and pleasant. I commenced going to school this morning to Mr Orson Spencer at the
Council house. There is about fifty scholars in the school
26th Quite warm in the fore-noon, but snowed Some in the after noon. I went to school.
27th Warm and pleasant. The company that went over to the Tooele valey came in this after noon.
but they did not find the thieves that stole the cattle and horses. Froze very hard last night. I
went to school to day. Father went to see Brigham today about going to Iron county. Brigham
told him to wait and go with him.
28th Warm and pleasant. I went to school.
March 1851
[Mar 1851 - School; Mary Mosley begins work; Many sick in city; Printing curtains; Poetry]
1st [Page 27] Saturday. Warm and pleasant. Father and I ... wood this forenoon. I studied
arithmetic this af[ternoon]...
2nd Sunday Cool and pleasant. P P Pratt preac[hed]... his farewell sermon this forenoon. The old
cow kicked Fathe[r] to night and hurt him quite bad.
3rd Warm and pleasant. Court sits to day. I went to school. Father rented five acres of land to day
of Mr Webb. he is to give Mr Webb one third in the shock. Mr Goldsmith is here again to night
writeing some for me. there was a lyceum at Mr Preeces.
4th Warm and pleasant. I went to school one half day.
5th Warm and pleasant. I did not go to school to day.
6th Warm and pleasant. I went to school to day, There was two men had balls and chains put on to
day.
7th Warm and pleasant. I went to school to day.
8th Saturday. There was a seventies meeting to day. Very warm and pleasant.
9th Warm and pleasant. Mr. B Young preached this after noon about the emigrants. I went to a
party last night.
10th Warm and pleasant. I went to school to day.
11th Cold cloudy, and rained a little in the fore noon. I went a hunting Cattle to day to plough with. I
found one yoke and two odd ones. Father worked on titheing with the team.
12th Very warm to day. I went hunting cattle again. found one ox and one I could not find. Father
worked on titheing with the team. The Mail arrived from the States. Mr Bridger and others
brought it in.
13th [Page 28?] Warm and pleasant. Father and I Commenced plowing Mr Webbs five acre lot.
Lorenzo went down to the American fork to see about getting some land.
14th Warm and pleasant. We ploughed again to day. Father hired a boy to drive one team. Fanny's
school was out to day.
15th Warm and pleasant. We finished putting in the wheat to day.
16th Warm and pleasant, Sunday, We sent our cows out in the herd.
17th Monday. Warm and pleasant. Father commenced sowing onion seed this morning. I hauled two
loads of gravel this after noon.
18th Warm and pleasant. Father and I ploughed the w[est] ... ditches for the wheat this fore noon. he
sowed onion seed this after noon and I worked fixing the door yard, setting o[ut] rose bushes, etc.
19th Cool cloudy and windy, and rained a little, Father a[nd] I went down to plough two acres of land
that he rented of George Allen, but it was so wet, and covered with saleratz that we did not do
anything with it. We then went and burnt off some gra s from fathers five acre lots, but it was so
wet that it would not burn much. Rained some while we were burning, we then came home and
finished plowing the city lot. It has been very smoky this after noon. Andy Perkins died
yesterday.
20th Cold and unpleasant. The snow fell about six inches deep last night. Mr. Orton came here from
Utah.
21st Cool and pleasant. I went to school to day. Father took a job of fixing a bridge acro s the creek
before the house. Mr. Orton helps him. There is a great many people sick in the City now with
bad colds. Benjamin Ashby was buried.
22nd Warm and pleasant again. I worked on titheing withe the team. Father worked on the bridge.
Mr. Adam Speirs stayed with me last night. Mr. Phelps says never learn too much and you will
not ... too much.
23rd [Page 29?] Sunday. Warm and pleasant. Mr Woodruff preached this fore noon and Bishop
Pettigrew and Mr Benson in the after noon. Mr. Patterson was baptised this morning.
24th Cloudy this morning, but the sun shone most of the day, but it has been very windy. I went to
school. Father worked on titheing with the team. [E]phraim Hanks came in with the mail about
noon. Mary Moesly began to work for us this morning. Mr Orton left here for California this
morning.
25th Cool and cloudy in the fore noon. Warm and pleasant part of the after noon, but about 4 Oclock
the wind began to blow and before sundown it began to snow and it blowed a perfect gale.
Father went to Mill creek kanyon. I went to school.
26th Cool and pleasant. I went to school. one of our oxen could not get up this morning. there was
about four inches of snow this morning. Mother is doubling yarn and she says that it bothers her
most to death.
27th Warm and pleasant. I went to school.
28th Cold and windy. rained and snowed some in the after noon. I went to school. Father went to
work on the dam that waters the 5 acre lots, but it stormed so that he could not work but half a
day, came home and worked on the bridge here at home.
29th Saturday. General training today, but I did not train. I had the head ache.
30th Sunday. Cool and very windy. Heber C Kimball preached in the forenoon.
31st There was about 3 inches of snow on the ground this morning, and it has been all kinds of
weather to day, summer spring and winter. I commenced learning to print window curtains this
morning, Mr. Goldsmith is learning me, he is a first rate fellow, but he is going to california, but
he is going to learn me to paint before he goes. He has been here all day to day.
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The ...[Lake of the Di]smal Swamp.
...[For] her a grave too cold and damp
...[Her] soul so warm and true
...[She's] gone to the Lake of the Dismal Swamp
...[And] all night long by a fire-fly lamp
She paddles her white canoe.
And her fire-fly lamp I soon shall see,
And her paddle I soon shall hear;
Long and loveing our life shall be,
And I'll hide the maid in the cypress tree
When the footstep of death is near.
Away to the Dismal Swamp he speeds -
His path was rugged and sore,
Through tangled juniper, beds of reeds,
Through many a fen, where the serpent feeds
And man never trod before.
And when on earth he sank to sleep,
If slumber his eyelids knew,
He lay, where the deadly vine doth weep
Its venomous leaves, and nightly sleep
The flesh with blistering dew!
And near him the she-wolf stirrd the brake,
And the copper-snake breathed in his ear,
Til he starting cried, from his dream awake,
"Oh! when shall I see the dusky lake,
And the white canoe of my dear?"
He saw the lake and a meteor bright
Quick over its surface play'd
"Welcome," he said, "my dear one's light!"
And the dim shore echoed, for many a night
The name of the death-cold maid.
Till he hollow'd a boat of the birchen bark
Which carried him off from shore;
Far, far he follow'd the meteor spark.
The wind was high and the clouds were dark
And the boat return'd no more.
But oft, from the Indian hunters camp
This lover and maid so true
Are seen at the hour of midnight damp
To cro s the Lake by a fire-fly lamp,
And paddle their white canoe!
And paddle their white canoe!
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[Page 32?] September
A Dream
One night as I lay sleeping,
I dreamed a curious dream
About a fair young lady,
Her name is Josephine.
These words she spoke to me
And she looked very sad
...[I] fear I shall hurt your feelings
...[A]nd make you feel quite bad.
...[Bu]t my feelings, do not spare
...[Be]fore you begin to talk.
...That you may speak more plainly
...[Sh]all we take a little a little walk.
...[Arm] in arm we walked along
...[And] pleasantly did talk.
...[She] put a paper into my hand
...[I] alone did walk.
...[This] is what the paper said,
...indeed it was a rhyme,
...as I can remember
...is line for line.
A vow I've made Which I cannot break,
To a young man That I cant forsake.
When this you read my mind you see,
For tis decreed That mine he'l be.
I read this letter o'er and o'er
And word for word this is what it said.
But I know not what it meant
For she seemed sad and hung her head.
I then ask'd her to explain
But she seem'd not inclined to talk,
And all the answer that she gave me
Was If you please we'l home ward walk.
We then turn'd round, towards home to go;
I then ask'd once more what this did mean
She said that I should some time know.
I awoke and found it all a dream.
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An Aerostis
Thy form so comely and so fair,
How oft I dream of thee.
O! those pearly teeth, that glo sy hair
Mi s, how can I describe thee
Alas! That I never can
Surely thats not in the power of man.
Perhaps you, think I flatter you,
Evry word I say is true.
I never would describe you Mi s.
Remember me when you read this.
Could you once think me untrue
Even to a girl like you.
(For Thomas Peirce)
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To His Muse
(By Mr. H. C. Coltrin to his Muse.)
Her skin is fair as the driven snow
Her cheek has the roses hue,
Her teeth like pearls that in Orient grow,
Her eyes of the brightest blue.
Like the raven's glossy wing her hair,
Her lips like the ruby red,
And her breath as sweet as the evening air
Where flowers their odors shed.
Her voice as sweet as the nightingale tone
When singing her happiest lay
And soft as the south wind's gentlest moan
In the merry mont of may.
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An Aerostie
(By Henry Clay Coltrin)
Homer was the poet prince
Ovid often did declare.
Many too have thought so since
Even our poets often dare
Riches from his mind to bear.
Brown is a young poets name
Rising now before our eyes.
Often shall his rising fame
Wave aloft to our surprise
New and dazzling to our eyes.
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[(Another poem)]
Adam unto thee my friend
Days of pleasure I wish to thee
An aerostic I have penn'd
My friendship to you all may [be.]...
So may you every bliss enjoy
Peace and hope and happiness.
Every evil that doth annoy
Involves thee now in deep distress
Rapid from thee may they flee
Sincere are these lines I write to thee.
By Mr. H,, C,, Coltrin)
Wedding Wedding
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[(Another poem)]
This is the day we hail with mirth
As we pluck the flowers from mother earth
And everyone seems blithe and gay
As they enjoy this fair may day.
In the kanyon we did go
Where the flowers so lovely grow
We started out tojoin in the morn
To gather flowers to adorn
A table, - which to say the least
Was loaded with a sumptuous feast.
I saw the...
I could not help...
The wood nymph...
For each one had a large bouquet.
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May 1851
[May 1851 - May excursion; Severe wind; Work on university; Mr. Coltrin dies; Poem]
1st Warm and pleasant. There was no school to day. The schollars were all out on a May excursion.
We had a very pleasant time everyone seemed to enjoy themselves well. Some of the schollars
went to the kanyon an gathered flowers and some stayed at the house where the dance was to be
and set the table and fitted up the room for the evening. The company that went to fight the
Indians came home today, noon. They killed 5 Indians, one white man killed also.
2nd Warm and pleasant. We had a first rate party last night, I suppose it was the best party that has
been in this city Which is no small credit to the ladies of the parent school. for they were the
ones that made the party. I went to school to day.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I planted some melon seeds to day. There was a seventies meeting to day.
Mr Patterson got done in the oxen and returned then got over Jordan again.
4th Sunday Warm and pleasant.
5th Pleasant. I went to school.
6th A very severe gale of wind. the hardest that I ever saw it blowed down sevral houses in the city.
I put the heifer in the herd. I went to school. Some teams came in from Laramie.
7th Warm and pleasant all day got the horse home today I put the calves in the pasture
8th Pleasant in the fore-noon. Cloudy in the after-noon Lorenzo went over the mountain after a
load of poles. Began to rain about dark. I went to school.
9th Rainy and stormy all day. Rained most of the night last night also. Rained all day until about
sun down, the began to snow an covered the ground with snow. I went to school to day, for it
w[as]... the last day of this quarter.
10th Cold and cloudy in the fore-noon. rained some about noon. Rained and snowed at night. I
worked on poll tax ...
11th ...
12th [Page 35] G,, S,, L,, City Warm and cloudy in the forenoon. Rained quite hard this after noon.
I went hunting cattle and found them all and they look well.
13th Cool and cloudy. A little storm of hail and rain this after noon. The wolves killed one of our
calves last night. I set out some locust trees to day and hoed some in the garden. Rained
considerable last night.
14th Warm and pleasant. I hoed potatoes this forenoon and onions this after noon. Henry Coltrin
came down here to day.
15th Warm and pleasant. I made some fence this fore noon.
16th Very warm in the morning. Quite a hard shower of rain about noon. I went to hunt the calf but
could not find it.
17th Warm and pleasant I worked on the university for Lorenzo, drove his team.
18th ---
19th Cool and windy. I hunted cattle. I found them and drove them up to go to work on the
university.
20th I worked hauling rock for the university to day. Warm and pleasant
21st Warm and pleasant. I hauled rock for the university.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I hauled rock for the university.
23rd Warm this forenoon. but we had quite a hard shower of hail and rain about one Oclock this after
noon. I went home with my team.
24th Warm and pleasant in the fore noon. I went up north to Mr Coltrins. Had a heavy shower of rain
before I got there. Mr. Coltrin died about 7 Oclock after I got there. He left 5 children, three
large and two small ones. There has been four deaths in this family in le s than five weeks,
which before that time were a prosperous family, all well and healthy.
[(Poem about Mr. Coltrin's death)]
As I looked on this man
And saw him breathe his last;
On him was deaths cold hand
And it did hold him fast.
We all to this same end must come,
Then why should we repine
We cant escape it no not one,
We all must die in time.
Each one then should quick prepare,
(Although we this world do love)
A better world than this to share
And dwell with those above.
... his children here
No more trouble will he see
For he with his wife does rest.
May he rest throughout eternity
And dwell among the blest.
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[Nov 1851 - Legion drills, no champaign; Destruction predicted; Opposition to teacher; Bath]
[Page 44?, probably November 1851]
6th I finished ploughing to day. Father sowed the lot ... harrowd it in. finished that job to day.
7th Cloudy and rained some. The Legion were all called out to day for the three days drill.
8th Rained hard last night, and most all day to day We all started for home about one Oclock, every
man goi[ng] his own way. We had a campaign - a real pain, and no Champaign.
9th Warm and pleasant in the fore noon and cold and cloudy in the after noon. I husked corn for H.
Sperry to day.
10th Warm and pleasant. I hunted the cattle and went to mill to day. Mr Bushman left here for Utah
this morning. A large company arrived from California.
11th Warm and pleasant. Father sold a yoke of cattle for a five acre lot. I went and hunted up the
cattle. Frost evry night now and the mountains are covered with snow. Father commenced
diging potatoes for Israel Hoyt on shares.
12th Sunday. Warm and pleasant.
13th I commenced harrowing a piece of wheat without plouging or sowing on Fathers five acre lot.
14th Very warm. I harrowed in wheat to day. I found my horse in the field to day, just in time to save
him from going to the stray pen.
15th Warm and pleasant. I continue harrowing in wheat. I sowed some this afternoon. Mr Orson
Pratt moved into Mr Loves house this morning.
16th Very warm. Father talks of trading a yoke of cattle to Mr Love for a city lot. I went to hunt the
cattle but could find only one ox.
17th I hunted for the ox again to day, but could not find him. I got 50 cents for driving up two cows
for Mr Seely. Very warm to day.
18th Warm and pleasant. I hunted for the ox again but the same luck as usual.
19th Sunday, warm and pleasant Mr Orson Pratt preached a funeral sermon to day.
20th Warm and pleasant. I commenced hunting strays for other people since I have such good luck
finding swine. I found one for which I received five dollars.
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[November 1851]
23rd [Page 46] Thawed all day. Sunday. I wrote two letters to day and drew off a copy of the trial
that was held here on the 14th inst. it has to go before the high Council now because one of the
parties is not satisfied. there was about 3 inches of snow on the ground this morning.
24th Rather cloudy, but thawed a little all day. I drove the beef ox up to the church yard to have Mr
Rigby butcher him. I hired Mr Allens team to haul the beef home. I got it home a little after
noon. Father worked on the public works. Mary Mosley came here this morning to live to go to
school. Dr Parker is here to night. he says that there is a going to be a great destruction among
the saints in two years from this fall. Certainly is a fast and he knows it, and that we may
remember it.
25th Cool and cloudy. The south wind blowed and took most of the snow away. Very little in spots
left. I went up to Mr. Turners clock store and made a trade for an eight day clock. I also helped
Father cut up his beef. Took a quarter up to pay for the clock the price of which was twenty
dollars. also took some beets carrots and onions up to the titheing office for titheing, rained very
hard while we were gone. got quite wet; Tried out tallow this evening. The beef weighed eight
hundred and ninety six pounds.
26th Cool and pleasant. did not freeze any to day. I went to school this after noon, to Mr Barker a
very noisy school in my opinion. I paid 15 cts for a pen holder and 10 for dates[?].
27th Cool and pleasant. I covered up one hole of potatoes this after noon I paid 25 cts for candy.
28th The south wind blew quite cold but it thawed considerable. I went over the river and found an ox
that I have hunted for four or five days, but I could not find the mare that I turned out. The
people that were opposed to Mr Barker were requested to go to school this after noon, but no one
went, but Father, Lorenzo, and two of the trustees, and myself All of which were opposed to the
teacher except one of the trustees. he thought we had better try the teacher a while longer. he
thought that the teacher would learn how to teach after he had practiced a while, but [Page 47]
we had better get one that had already learned the trade, but they finally came to the conclusion
that they would let him teach a while longer.
29th Warm but cloudy. Training day today I went and trained all day. The mail arrived last night
from the states.
30th Sunday. Cold and cloudy. the south wind blows quite hard does not freeze any, nor did it last
night. I went up to the bath house this after noon and took a bath for which I paid 10 cents. I
mailed a letter and the 2nd number of the Deseret news to my uncle Charles Mumford. I also
sent a letter and the firs number to my uncle Walter Mumford.
December 1851
[Dec 1851 - Trip to Provo; Stayed at Woolf's; Gladden Bishop's book; Wedding at the bath house;
Spelling, dancing, and parties; Spaniard's trial]
1st Cold and the south wind blowed. Ther was about three inches of snow fell last night. I started
for Provo in the Utah valley. I traveled about thirty miles and stopped at Mr Bushmans at Evens
ville, Dry creek.
2nd The south wind blowed some and thawed a little of the snow off. I left Mr Bushmans about 10
Oclock this morning, traveled about 17 or 18 miles and arrived at Provo a little after noon. Froze
hard last night.
3rd Warm and pleasant. Most of the snow went off. I stayed with Mr Woolf last night. I found
several farms for sale, some first rate land, under good improvement for five dollars per acre, but
I made no bargain for any, but concluded to wait until spring and try and take up some land in a
field that is to be fenced then.
4th Warm and pleasant. Froze hard last night I stayed at Mr. Woolfs last night. I started for home
this morning, between nine and ten Oclock. I got home between sun set and dark. There is but
very little snow on the ground now. I helped Father and Mary eat sourcrout to night.
5th Warm and pleasant. I made a stable door this fore noon and cut some wood this afternoon.
6th Cloudy and somewhat stormy, snowed some about daylight and two or three little storms during
the day. quite a hard one this after noon. I went up to the store this afternoon and bought a pair
of boots for which I paid $5 and some callico and some shirt buttons for $1,10, a box of [flatpins]
for 10 cts, Total $6.20 cts. I went to a spelling school last night.
7th [Page 48] Sunday. Cool and pleasant. Thawed a little. I went up to the toll gate in Red bute
kanyon after an over coat that I left there about a month ago. I studied geography this evening
with Mary.
8th Very pleasant but rather cold towards night. I went down in the big field and turned the horse out
this fore noon and went to school this after noon.
9th Warm and pleasant. I stayed at home to day and studied arithmetic. Old Mrs Conklin was here
this after noon. She says that she had a testimony from the Lord that Gladden Bishops Book is
true. This is the first that I have heard of any ones believing it. H. Coltrin paid me one dollar
that he owe me. I paid five cents for pins.
10th Cool and pleasant. I took the clock back to Mr. Turner this morning because it would not go I
studied arithmetic some and I also learned a part of a dialouge to speak next Friday night with
Mi s Adaline Mr Ewing and Mr Harrison Sperry. I paid 10 cts for a half yard of callico.
11th I studied arithmetic this fore noon and part of the afternoon. I went up to Mr Turner's this after
noon to get the clock, which he said he would fix to run good but he had not fixed it but he said
that I could have another in the place of it.
12th Cold and cloudy. I had the head ache all day. did not study much, had a rehearsal of some
pieces here last night that are to be spoken to night up to the school house. I went up to Mr
Turners again this after noon and got two large weight clocks in the place of the alarm clock. I
went to spelling school to night. Sevral very good pieces spoken. School was out about ten
Oclock. we danced until about twelve and then went home.
13th Cool and cloudy. Thawed a very little. I put our beef up to dry over to Mr Jinkins.
14th Sunday. Cool and cloudy. I spent the day in studying and writing.
15th [Page 49] Monday. Cold and cloudy did not thaw any to day. Father went up to the titheing
office to settle up but the clerks were all so busy that they could not attend to it. he also had two
of his teeth pluged and he bought a new dre s for Mother. Lorenzo went up the river and hunted
up all of our cattle. I studied arithmetic this fore noon, went to school a little while this after
noon I have been studying arithmetic this evening. Mary is sick to night.
16th Cold and cloudy and foggy. I worked on the tabernacle to day, nailing on roof boards.
17th Cold and cloudy. I worked on the tabernacle to day. I went up to the school house to a rehearsal
tonight where the pieces were spoken that are to be spoke next Friday night. I paid John Vanse
twenty five cts. to night that I have owed him about three months.
18th Cold and cloudy. Cleared off in the after noon so that the sun shone in some parts of the valley
for the first time in a week. the clouds also cleared away from the Mountains and we could see
them white with snow. I worked on the tabernacle. Mi s R. Woolley is to be married to Mr
Simmons to night to be married at the bath house. all that go have to pay three dollars and fifty
cents a couple. Rather a new kind of weding to me.
19th Cold and cloudy as ever. I studied arithmetic this forenoon went to school a part of the after
noon.
20th Cold and cloudy. I helped Lorenzo kill his hog this forenoon cut some wood this afternoon. I
went to spelling school last night there was several pieces spoken I spoke some. there was a
dance last night after the school was out but I came home when the school was out.
21st Sunday. Commenced snowing about daylight this morning. I went to a party last night at Mr. T.
Woodland's. Snowed all day.
22nd [Page 50] Monday. Cool and cloudy. Thawed a little. I went to mill this afternoon. About 5
inches of snow this morning. Wind commenced blowing about dark. Father and Lorenzo
commenced working for George Mattison.
23rd Cool and windy. The south wind blew all night last night. No snow left in the city this morning
at 10 o'clock. I paid 10 cts. for steel pens this morning.
24th Cool and windy. The sun shone this afternoon. I studied arithmetic almost all day. I went to a
little party last night.
25th Warm and pleasant. I started about 12 today to go to a large picnic party up to the public works.
There were about 400 persons there. I spent 35 cts. for candy. I became very slightly acquainted
with a Miss Hyder. This is the first time that I ever spoke to the lady.
26th Cold and windy. I went up to the party about 12 o'clock again today. It was adjourned from 10
last night until 10 this morning. I stopped at a party before I got home last night and stayed until
about 4 o'clock this morning. I spent 10 cts. for candy today. I paid 25 cts. for fiddlers bill and
Mr. Murdock where I stayed.
27th Cold and windy. I got home from the party about 1 o'clock this morning. The party is done at 8
this morning. Studied with Matie some. Cut some wood this afternoon. Snowed some, a little
after dark last night. We had a first rate party. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves first rate.
28th Sunday. Snowed most of the day, but it thawed nearly as fast as it fell. I studied with Matie
some. I went to prayer meeting this evening.
29th Very pleasant. Froze quite hard last night. Thawed some today. I wrote a letter this forenoon
and worked on the tabernacle this afternoon. Court sat today. Some Spaniards had their trial, but
I have not heard how they made out.
30th [Page 51] Cold and cloudy. Father settled up his business at the tithing office this forenoon. I
got an order for the news to pay for my schooling this winter. Father also got an order for me to
the amount of $2.50. I paid $2.50 in cash and $2.50 in orders on the church store for a pair of
gaiters; paid 20 cts. for candy.
31st Cloudy and snowed some in the morning about 7 o'clock, but it soon cleared off and then most
of the men that were laying shingles on the tabernacle were obliged to put off their coats because
it was such warm weather. I worked laying shingles on the tabernacle. Mr. Love and Absalom
Woolf came here tonight from Utah [(Valley)].
January 1852
[Jan 1852 - Spaniard Trial; Dixon's school; Dancing school in 4th ward; Work on tabernacle;
Dream about Judges and Soldiers; Spelled the school down; Dockstader dancing school; Opinion
of a young lady]
1st Cool and cloudy part of the day, and part of the day quite warm and pleasant. Thawed some.
There has been but very little work done in the city today as the governor has issued a
proclamation for all the inhabitants of Utah to rest and feast today. I went to a party at Mr.
Mumford's last night and stayed there until after 2 in the morning. I then went to another at Mr.
Woodland's and stayed there until 4 pm. I then came home and went to another party in the
school house in this ward. I got home from there a little after 5. I then went to bed and got up at
8 in the morning.
2nd [Page 52] Warm and pleasant. I worked on the tabernacle 6 and « hours today and then
stopped for want of shingles. I attend court a little while this afternoon. Trial of some Spaniards
that have been trading for some Indian children.
3rd Cold, stormy and cloudy all day. Quite a hard shower of rain about 5 o'clock this morning. I
went to a picnic party last night in the school house in this ward. Got home about 5 this morning.
The party broke up about 7. I paid 25 cts. for fiddler's bill. Did not freeze any last night. I got
up at 8 this morning.
4th Sunday. Warm and pleasant all day. Froze some last night. I read most of the forenoon in the
Fencing Master's novel. Absalom Woolf started for home this morning.
5th Warm and pleasant most of the day. Froze quite hard last night. I went up to the tabernacle to
work this morning, but did not work because there was nothing for me to do. I then came home
and went to school to Mr. Dixon. I like the school very much. Mother went Mr. Alley's today
visiting.
6th Warm and pleasant. I went to school today. Mr. Mumford's family were over Lorenzo's today
visiting.
7th Very warm and pleasant. The snow was all gone off and the mud has dried up considerable. The
school did not keep today. I stayed home and studied. George Sidwell brought our horse up this
afternoon. There was a kind of a dancing school commenced last night in the 4th Ward, but they
have no teacher. There are some new beginners that want to learn to run the cotillions. I went
over to see them last night. I had an invitation to go to another picnic party in the 1st Ward
tonight, but I thought it best to stay at home.
8th [Page 53] Warm and pleasant. I went to school.
9th Warm and pleasant. quite muddy in the day time, but freezes hard every night, not so hard but it
all thaws evry day. I went to school; we had two or three spectators in school to day, the teacher
scolded at some of the pupils this after noon until they cried; one young lady in particular. I went
to a party last night at the house of Mr D Miller. I got home a little after 3 this morning got up
at half past 6. Mr and Mrs Alley are here visiting to night Mary is sitting by my side pretending
to study geography but I think that she sleeps more than she studies for she was at the party last
night.
10th Quite foggy in the morning a little after sun rise. quite warm and cloudy all day; I worked at
shingling on the tabernacle all day. Henry Coltrin came here to night from San Pete he says that
the snow is two feet deep going over the divide into the sanpete valley; it is about two feet deep
for about five miles; very pleasant there but cold.
11th Sunday. Warm and pleasant but very muddy. I went over to Mr William Wards to look at some
of his drawings paintings and models etc. but he was not at home, how ever, I saw some of his
paintings some of which were very well done. I went to another of their dancing parties or
schools in the 4th ward last night got home at 11 Oclock. Father and I had a little difficulty this
after noon. he came home from meeting and began to find fault because I did not go to meeting
and because there was a couple of boys came here to see me and we both got rather mad.
12th The wind began to blow about day light this morning. and it has been cold and the coldest day
that we have had this winter so every one says that I have heard say any thing about it I worked
on the tabernacle putting up staging for lathing and plastering.
13th [Page 54] Very cold in the fore noon but quite pleasant in the after noon. I worked on the
tabernacle again to day putting up staging. I got two dolar and a half order at the titheing office
to day to pay Father for the one that he got for me.
14th Cold but the sun shone bright. I worked on the tabernacle putting up staging. I went to another
of the dancing parties in the 4th ward last night got home a little before 11. I went to the
barbers and got shaved and had my hair cut this evening before I got home from work for which I
am to pay a dollar per month. pay in orders on the church store, I heard to day that there was
two boys drowned last night but I did not learn their names.
15th Quite pleasant, but cold. I worked on the tabernacle, I shingled most of the day. I have had a
very bad cold for nearly three weeks, I went to a party last night at Mr. Woodburys but I did not
dance. I got home at ten minutes past nine.
16th The sun shone very pleasant but did not thaw I worked on the tabernacle putting up staging. I
got five lbs of beef at 8 cts per pound to day for work. I believe that nearly every one in the
valley now thinks that there will be a great destruction here in a few years; they think that the
United States will come against us; but for my part I do not wish to borrow trouble for it comes
fast enough without. I think I will wait and see. I went to a spelling school last night in this the
7th ward, very noisy school. Adeline Ewing started for her home at Provo this after noon.
17th [Page 55] Very pleasant until about the middle of the after noon it then clouded up and
snowed a very little. but it has not thawed any to day. I worked on the tabernacle putting up
scaffolding. One of the boys that was drowned a day or two ago was found to day.
18th Warm and pleasant in the fore noon. I went up to the council house this morning to meeting but
the house was crowded so full that I could not get in and I went an hour before meeting time. I
then came home and commenced writing. I went to the dance in the 4th ward last night they
are to be held on every Tuesday and Saturday nights. I got home a little before twelve.
19th Monday Cool and cloudy I worked on the tabernacle putting up scaffolding again to day; we
have generaly to do every piece of work twice because it is not done right although we do it as
the bo s tells us. I went to prayer meeting last night at Mr. Allens It was a very dull meeting
until Mr Allen said that he had a mind to send for a fiddler and he thoug that would wake them
up and cause more union and if dancing was of more consequence than prayer meeting we had all
better go and dance; after he said this there was sevral got up and spoke and the most of them
belonged to the dancing class in the 4th ward and they all spoke in favor of the dancing; after
they got through Allen got up and said that he believed he was as good as a fiddler to stir them
up. I thought they had all sorts of a meeting. Old Mr. Jinkins got another wife day before yester
day. I went to the carpenter shop and eat dinner to day the same as usual there was a man told a
dream that another man told in meeting last night. it was as follows he dreamed that the Judges
that went from here [Page 56] last fall came back accompanied by soldiers and officers and after
they got here they made a feast and invited all the people here to come, and they went and eat and
after they finished eating some of the boys got into some difficulty with one of the soldiers and
the soldier was going to punish him when one of the officers came up and told him not to for it
was no use, for the Mormons would do as they pleased any way. Thus ended the dream and a
great many of the hands said that it was a true dream but I think it is the best way to wait and see.
20th Cold. I worked on the tabernacle putting up scaffolding.
21st Cold and cloudy. I worked putting up scaffolding. I went to the dance in the 4th ward last night.
22nd Cold and cloudy. I worked putting up scaffolding. Mr. Thomas Jinkins and lady and Mi s C.
Hyder Were here last night visiting had a very good visit, at least I did
23rd Cold and cloudy I worked putting up scaffolding. I got two qts of service berries at the titheing
store for 12 « cts. per qt. I have been to a spelling school to night I spelled the school down.
There was so much confusion that the teacher dismi sed the school about 8 oclock. I came home
and read some in the newspaper and I have written from the 20th which I have neglected doing
before it is now just 10 Oclock and I will go to bed.
24th [Page 57] Cold and cloudy. I went to officer drill this fore noon but previous to this I went to se
Mr Dogkstader (a dancing master) about going to his dancing school he put my name down and
says that I can come to his school in the 13th ward, terms 4$ a couple I am to pay in church
orders there was no drill to day. The case of the Spaniards was decided on this fore noon. their
property was all confiscated. There was then a subscription paper drawn up for the people to
give them something after Uncle Sam had robbed them. after this the most of them went to the
stores and got drunk and drowned their troubles that way. I worked on the tabernacle this after
noon. These Spaniards live in new Mexico came here on a trading expedition they were
accused of trading with the Indians beyond where their license permitted them to trade. they
were also accused of trading for Indian children at San Pete at which place they were taken and
brought back here and tried. they are now left here on foot without anything, there is one or two
of them that know how to work the rest of them are very much like the Indians around here;
they are able to work but do not know how; There is one lame one that goes on a wooden leg (in
consequence of being shot in the foot) that I understand is a first rate black smith. There is but
very little work or at least work for but very few hands on the tabernacle now consequently the
greater part of Wm Cahoon's hands were discharged to night, myself among the rest. I have now
about twenty two dollars due me on the titheing office.
25th Sunday. Cold and cloudy and foggy this morning, I went to meeting all day to day at the
council house. Mr G. D Watt preached or rather gave us an account of his life which was quite
interesting. Mr. Leang also spoke this fore noon. Father and Mr Rockwood and Daniel Spencer
preached this afternoon. I went another of their dances in the 4th ward last night where a gentle
man told me that a certain young lady of my acquaintance was talking to an oldish gentle man
about a young gentle man that is waiting on her and that she would never marry him on any
consideration the old gentle man then asked her how she liked me; she replied that she liked
me very well, but she thought that I did not think quite enough of Mormonism. this is his story,
Therefore I think I must be a little more circumspect, and not get the ill will of the ladies.
Although I have never given her occasion to form such an opinion that I know of neither do I
know that she said it.
26th Cold and pleasant I went to school again to day. I bothered Mary a good deal to day about
sitting up late Sunday nights, although she does not stay here; but that is nothing for it is leap
year now and the girls can go courting, but none of them came to see me. I went over to Mr
Orson Pratts to night and heard Orson Pr. play on the piano had a very good visit.
27th Pleasant. but did not thaw much I went to school to day. I got a dollar and a half order at the
titheing office this evening after school to pay for fixing a watch.
28th Warm and pleasant but did not thaw much. I went to school. I went to a party in the 4th ward
last night, got home a little after 11. Mr and the two Mrs Jinkins and Mrs Mosley are here
visiting to night I went up to Mr Randall's to a dancing school with H Sperry; did not stay long
tonight.
29th Cool and cloudy. I went to school.
30th Warm and pleasant I stayed at home to day and studied. I done about 70 sums in fractions to
day I went up to the watch makers and got my watch that I carry.
31st Warm and pleasant general training to day. I trained until about one oclock. I went to dancing
school last night in the 13th ward took no partner.
February 1852
[Feb 1852 - Reading; Visiting the Hyder's home; Phonography school begins; Ten Tribes in North
Sea; Brown's grammar; Trip to Salt Creek and visit to Woolf's; Exploring with Harrison Sperry,
Mountain of plaster, salt caves and streams; land selected at Willow Creek]
1st [Page 58] Sunday Warm and pleasant I went to meeting this after noon I spent most of the
fore noon in reading. I finished reading a small volume entitled the life and travels of colonel
James Smith. I then commenced reading another entitled the poetical preceptor which I
borrowed yesterday of Mi s Sarah E. Hyder. I went yester day after training and spent the after
noon at the widow Hyder's where I found two other young gentle men. I had a very good visit;
although I did not intend staying but a few minutes I stayed until after sun down, for the three
Mi s Hyders and the two gentlemen that were present sung some very good songs (and as I am
very fond of singing) I could not get away very well. I ate supper there, and then took two of the
girls to a party in the 4th ward; the party broke up about 11 oclock. I think that one of the gentle
men that was there at Mrs Hyder's has been waiting on one of the girls that I took but she went
with me and left him there and I have also heard that she does not like him very well, but that is
something that I know nothing about; but I think they are a first rate family. that is, smart
intelligent and well behaved as any family that I know of if I may judge from what I have seen of
them. They arrived here last fall from Cambridge England. Mrs Hyder has been a widow nearly
15 years, but I think she has not neglected the bringing up and educating her children.
2nd Warm and pleasant I finished reading the Poetical preceptor.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I went to school this fore noon, stayed at home this after noon. I studied as
much at home as I should if I had went to school. I went and heard Mr Dickson lecture on
phonography last night. I signed to go to his school, terms one dollar and 40 cts;
4th [Page 59] Warm and pleasant. I went to school to day. I went to dancing school again last
night. I took Mi s M. Hyder for a partner there were but few there, we had a first rate chance
to learn, for there were only about 16 persons in the house. Father and Mother have gone over to
Mr Allens to make an evening visit Mary has gone over home (to see Harrison I suppose) to
night but Orson Pratt jr is here with me, but he amuses him self with reading the life and travels
of Col. James Smith and I commenced reading the life of Robert Burns.
5th Warm and pleasant. I went to school. It has been very warm for a few days so warm that most
of the boys wear no coats at school. My legs feel a little sore to night in consequence of jumping
to day at noon. I jumped only 9 feet but that was further than any of my school mates could
jump. Father is quite unwell to night. Mother and Mary have gone over to Mr Allens to meeting
to night. The roads are dry now and in some places dusty. freezes a very little at night, although
it did not freeze any last night. We have had very beautiful Moon light nights for about a week
but I fear we shall have a storm before long to pay for the pleasant weather we have had; it is
now quite cloudy. But it has seemed like spring all the time since Sunday morning the birds
have been singing and the geese flying all the time since. It is now 8 Oclock and I am quite
sleepy and I believe I will go to Bed.
6th Warm but cloudy, sprinkled a very little this afternoon. I went to school. Our Phonography
school that was to come off tomorrow night is post poned until next Monday night, in
consequence of the teachers being obliged to attend a seventies meeting.
7th [Page 60] Cloudy and foggy. I studied arithmetic most of the day here at home for the school
did not keep to day. I went to a party at the house of Mr Boyington in the 3rd ward last night.
Rained some to day. I heard to day that the ten tribes have been heard of. I hear that there was a
ship sailing in the North Seas and the whole of the crew perished with the exception of one man
and he thought his chance was so slim that he might as well go forward as to turn back. therefore
he went on and passed several Cities and a great many inhabitants but he did not dare to stop for
fear the people would kill him, and he went on until he came to some Indians where he stopped
and he was nearly starved and they fed him and he stayed there untill he died and he left all of his
papers with the Indians where an Indian trader went to trade and he got these papers and has gone
to St Louis where he is publishing them. I have not heard many of the particulars, but if it is true
I shall hear more about it. Father has gone over to Dr Parkers to night to study a new kind of
grammar with him it is called Browns grammar. the Doctor praises it up very much he says
that all the rest of the grammars are nothing but nonsense by the side of it as much so as the
sectarianism are by the side of Mormonism.
8th Sunday Warm and pleasant, I went and got my horse up this fore noon.
9th Warm and pleasant; I went to school today.
10th Warm and pleasant; I went to school 3/4 of the day. I went to a phonography school last night
and have been to dancing school to night. I intend starting for Salt creek tomorrow morning, 100
miles south of this place.
[Page 61] I shall now (21st) copy from a small memorandum book that I took with me when I
went south.
11th Warm and pleasant. I started this morning in company with Harrison Sperry to go to Salt creek.
we started 20 minutes past 8 this morning, and arrived at Willow creek 20 minutes past 11,
distance 20 miles. We met sevral teams in pa sing around the point of the Mountain, one of
which was loaded with lumber and anoth with wooden dishes, bowls etc The south wind
blowed quite hard and cold until we got into the Utah Valley where it was very warm. We
arrived at Mr. Bushmans on dry creek about one O clock. We stopped here about 15 minutes.
we then went about two miles and turned our horses out and let them eat an hour. we then
saddled our horses and started again, found considerable mud between the American fork and
Battle creek. It was on this creek where the Mormons fought the first battle with the Utah
Indians, from this it received the name of Battle creek. First rate road from here to Provo. We
arrived at Provo bridge about five O clock. Harrison lost one of his leggins which he went back
after but could not find. this hindered us about half an hour; we stopped a few minutes at Mr
Ewings but we did not dismount, found them all well. We then went to Mr Woolfs, about «
mile distant, found them all well except Sarah Ann, their oldest daughter. She has had rather
poor healt for some time, but her health is now improving Stayed here all night.
12th Warm and pleasant we left Mr Woolfs about 8 this morning. found considerable mud between
Provo and Hobble creek, this is a beautiful stream about 25 feet wide and about 4 or 5 inches
deep very clear water. There is a nice flourishing settlement here; We passed some spaniards
here that are on their way home to Santafe. They are the same ones that have been in the City so
long having their trial. Very good road from Hobble creek to Spanish fork; this is a deep stream
about 16 or 18 feet wide it is bridged. we found considerable mud between this and P this is
a small stream of clear water. there is a settlement here but the most of the houses are in a fort.
just after we left the fort we came to the forks of the road and we did not know which road to
take but there were a few Indians encamped at the forks and [Page 62] I enquired of them and
they told me to take the left hand road, (I find it quite convenient to understand a little of the
Indian language sometimes) for the other went after wood. we then traveled about three miles
and turned our horses out to feed. we stayed here an hour and a half. We left here about half
past two. I spent most of my time while we stayed there in writing.
13th Friday two Oclock pm. After we left our halting place yesterday we crossed Summit creek or
creeks for the road crosses two creeks which I suppose come together again; there is small
settlement here of about six or eight houses. this is on the dividing ridge between the Utah and
Juab valleys. Harrisons mare was quite lame yesterday. We traveled up the Juab valley which is
a very pleasant fertile valley, but no water between Summit and Willow creeks, except some
springs. We arrive at Willow creek a little after dark where we found Mr Love, Mr Bigalow and
their families; also Absalom and James Woolf. They have camped here and are going to build
and take up farms here, we stayed all night with Mr Love We went and got our horses up
before sun rise this morning, eat breakfast with Mr Love had some fish for breakfast which was
quite a rarity to me. after breakfast we went out to look at the land, we found it very rich but the
water is not very plenty. Mr. Love thinks Willow creek will water only about 80 acres but there
are several large springs some of which afford more water than Willow creek, and the land lays
the best to water of any land that I have seen any where but the wood and timber looks rather
scarce from the road but Mr. Love says there is plenty and he ought to know for he has been up in
the kanyon. We left Willow Creek about 12 Oclock and arrived at the City of Nephi a little
before two. This is situated on Salt creek; it is a new place; the first settlers came here last fall.
There are now only about 16 houses here. The people are all enjoying good health. I am now at
Charles Sperrys house it is a snug log house like the most of the houses in this place there are
however a few adoby houses here. It was pleasant all day yester day and also pleasant this
morning. but it is now cloudy. There is caral here 26 rods square made of cedar posts 8 feet long
2 feet of which are in the ground. Harrison's mare was so [Page 63] lame this morning that he
concluded to leave her with Absalom Woolf. he then borrowed a mule of Mr Love to come here
with, but the mule is so ugly that he can not get him along unless he is in company with some
one.
14th Saturday morning. Cold and cloudy. Harrison and I have been out about an hour looking for my
horse we have found him and have sat down to rest for we have been walking with the wind in
our faces besides we were at a party until about one Oclock this morning, the party was at the
house of Mr Bradly. The weather now looks very much like snow. Saturday evening Quite
pleasant; I have been up in salt creek kanyon to day in company with Charles and Harrison
Sperry, we started about 10 this morning, we wished to see the curiosities such as the plaster
Paris, Salt cave, and salt springs etc. we visited the Mountain of plaster first, this is a large
Mountain of clear plaster, a great larg pieces of which have broken off and fallen down some of
the pieces I should think would weigh several tons; these are what the people get to haul to the
City. we then went to the Salt cave which is about 8 miles from the city of Nephi; this looks
more like a well than it does like a cave although people can get in and out of it very handy in dry
weather for one sid of it is not quite perpendicular but it snowy and muddy when we were there
for the frost was just coming out of the and made it very slippery but we went down and got
some of the salt which is almost as hard as a rock, but it is mixed with dirt. Charles Sperry did
not go down and he helped Harrison and me out by means of a rope, we then traveled between 3
and 4 miles farther up the creek to look at a salt spring that is in this kanyon but none of us knew
where to look for it but on we went through the snow which was about a foot deep at last we
came to a spring which we found to be about as salt as common brine it is close to the creek
and runs into the creek. We stayed here a short time and then started back; it rained some before
we got out of the kanyon. Just as we got out of the kanyon we overtook some men one of which
has been to the salt spring but not the one that we found for the one that [Page 64] he saw was
about 1/4 of a mile from the creek, and sinks before it gets to the creek; we got home a little
before sundown.
16th Monday morning. We stayed with Charles Sperry Saturday night. We went out Sunday morning
after breakfast to look at the land on Salt creek but we found nearly all of the land in the field
was taken up. therefore we thought we had better go back to Willow creek, We left the City of
Nephi about twelve Oclock and arrived at Willow creek about half past one, we found Harrisons
mare about as lame as she was when we left her; and we could not find what made her lame. we
pulled her shoe off but it was of no use. Rather cloudy this morning. We stayed with Mr Love
last night. We have concluded to take a farm at this place. Monday, two Oclock. We left
Willow creek about half past 9 this morning, came to Peleetneet about half past 12 distance about
20 miles we stopped at Mr. Stewards the surveyors about an hour and tried to get him to back
to Willow creek with us an survey our land, but he had too much business to attend to, but he
entered our land on his book and he said that we should have it in preference to anyone else. We
came on to the Spanish Fork, distance about five miles. We stopped here about 3/4 of an hour to
let our horses eat. We then traveled on to provo arrived at Mr Woolf's a little after dark.
Stayed here all night.
17th We left Mr Woolfs about nine this morning arrived at home about 8 at night for Harrisons mare
was so lame that we could not travel very fast
18th Cold and cloudy rained some. I went to school this after noon. I went up to the titheing office
this morning and got a pound of beet seed for which I paid a dollar order.
19th Dark and Cloudy I went to school Rained considerable
20th Warm and pleasant I went to school.
21st Quite pleasant. I spent most of the day in writ. Three of Mrs Kimballs' were here visiting to
day. I went to the phonography school last night
22nd [Page 65] Sunday Warm and pleasant I studied Phonography some today
23rd Warm and pleasant. I went to school; the school commenced in the ward school house. I went
to phonography school at night.
24th Cool and cloudy. I went to school to day.
25th Warm and pleasant I went to school to day and to a dancing school last night
26th Quite pleasant, I went to school to day and to Mr Orson Pratts party at night. I got home from
the party about one Oclock in the morning; quite a pleasant party.
27th Cool and cloudy. I went to school that day, and to a picnic party in the 7th ward school house at
night, got home about two oclock in the morning. Mrs. Elizabeth Miller had a daughter born to
day.
28th Cold, cloudy, and windy. Mr Woolf and Absalom arrived here this morning from Provo; they
came up to do some trading at the stores. I went around to the stores with them
29th Cold, cloudy, and windy. Sunday. snowed considerable this fore noon but the snow all went off
before night. Absalom Woolf and his father Started for home a little after 11 this morning. I
went to dancing school last night got home a little after 10. I think I have done dancing enough
for one week. Father and Mother have gone to prayer meeting to night and I am all alone and
have a good chance to write, but I can think of nothing to write therefore I will stop.
Lightning flashes, rolls the thunder,
Gynoth startles from her sleep,
Rends the castle wall asunder,
Settles down and trembles keep.
--- by Sir Walter Scott.
March 1852
[Mar 1852 - Henry Coltrin visits Homer, Father gets upset; Homer visits Henry; Poem about
Anna; Sarah Hyder's birthday and poem; Daguerreotype taken by Mr. Cannon; Dancing;
Drinking at distillery and Blazzard's Brewery; Jumping at the mill]
1st [Page 66] Monday. Cold and cloudy, snowed considerable last night. I went to school to day
and to Phonography school at night
2nd Cool and cloudy, I went to school.
3rd Cold and cloudy and very windy. I went to school. Lorenzo got his oxen home to day to plough
his garden; our old cow calved yesterday.
4th Cold and cloudy. I went to school this fore noon. Henry Coltrin came about noon and I stayed at
home and studied Phonography this after noon.
5th Cloudy and windy. I went to school. Father was very ill-natured this morning; he got up before
Henry or I did, and came up the stairs and asked me if I was not a going to get up to day. I
replied that I was; he then spoke to Henry, and said, Henry I want you to get up to, for it is time
for you to start, for I don't want to keep you any longer for nothing. We then got up and came
down but he had gone; I was sorry that he had not stopped until we had came down, for I wanted
to tell him what I thought of such kind of treatment, and ask him how he would like to be treated
in that kind of style; but I was very angry at the time and was glad after wards that he went away
for I fear that I should have been rater saucy, and I want to put up with it all (or in other words,
bear every thing patiently) while I stay with him.
6th Cold and cloudy as the south wind blew very hard all day. I went and got my oxen up. I started
away at 7 oclock this morning and got home at 4 this after noon. I rode between thirty and forty
miles. I went to dancing school last night.
7th [Page 67] Sunday. Cold and the south wind blew quite hard. I went down North about 10
miles to Henry Coltrins to day I went to se some people baptized after I got there; the wind
blew so hard in the afternoon that I concluded that I would not go home and face it therefore I
stayed all night. it snowed considerable in the night, but the snow was very wet.
8th Snowed a very little in the fore noon but was very pleasant in the after noon. I got home from
from Henrys about half past 11 in the fore noon; the snow all went before noon but left the
ground very wet; I went to mill in the after noon to get some wheat ground to feed the cows. I
went to look at my wheat that I sowed last fall while the miller was grinding my grist my wheat
looked well I think I shall have a pretty good crop if nothing happens to it.
9th Cold and the South wind blew quite hard all day, but it dried up nearly all of the mud; I took my
boots to Mr Palmers shop to have them mended; I worked most of the day scouring our plow
with a sand stone. Father worked digging onions or rather scallions. There was no Phonography
school last night on account of a dance that was in the school house, to which I went and stayed
until a little after 10.
10th Snowed most all the fore noon, but it melted as fast as it fell. I have been reading the life of
Robert Burns this forenoon. I went to dancing school last night.
How oft I think of that dear maid,
The maid that I love dearly,
That dear one with whom I've strayed
On the River banks so early.
How oft I've tried to cheer my mind
With dancing and amusements many.
But its all in vain I still do find
My thoughts will turn to Anna.
How loth I've been wi' her to part,
Her eyes filled wi' tears at leaving.
It seemed as if t'wod break her heart
For her bosom, sighs were heaving.
For many a lass I've seen since then
With charms and graces many,
But yet I canna' fancy them,
For my thoughts will turn to Anna.
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11th [Page 68] Cold, stormy, and windy. Snowed considerable to day. Snowed nearly all day
yesterday. there was about four or five inches of snow fell last night; the clock is just striking 9.
Father and Mother have gone to bed and I must go too for it getting quite cold, my fire is getting
low and the ever-lasting south wind howls dismally; but first lets see what I have been doing to
day. The first thing after breakfast was to get the snow from off from the roof of the house, I
then read some of the life of Burns I then studied Phonography until nearly night. I then fed my
cattle and milked eat my supper etc. since then I have been reading Burns. Father has been
working in the distillery yester and to day. I will now lay down my pen and go to bed. good
night.
12th Quite cold; Cloudy and a little stormy in the after noon. Mother and I made parsnip molasses to
day, we made nearly a galon. I finished reading the life of Robert Burns wrote two or three
acrostics on young ladies names, etc.
13th The south wind blew quite cold to day. I went over Jordan to look after Fathers old brindle ox
that he has not seen since last fall. I found him and he looks very well. I drew a two dollar order
to day to pay half of my dancing school bill. I went to dancing school last night, very mudy. I
went on horseback and took my partner on behind me, a way which neither of us ever went
before, but we got along first rate and had the best school that we have ever had.
14th Sunday. Cool and windy. I spent most of the day in reading. Mr Edward Davis eat break fast
with us this morning he is quite a fine young gentle man from London. He waits on Miss Sarah
Hyder sister to Martha Hyder, the one that I took to dancing school; and I should not be surprised
if he married her one of these days
15th [Page 69] Monday. Cold, and the N. W wind blows and the snow flies as if the Devil was
doing his best to keep me from plowing. This is Miss Sarah Hyders birth day an a tempestuous
one it is.
"The sky with clouds is overcast"
The wind is madly raging
"Loud roars the wild inconstant blast"
The storm I see is gathering fast
As if it war was wageing.
Coldly blows the North-West wind
The snow is fast increasing
The traveler his way cant find.
For stormy March is so unkind
With her storms and wind unceasing.
The farmer must his work postpone
And yard and feed his cattle
Until this stormy March is done;
And in the corner sit and yawn,
And hear his children prattle.
---H Brown.
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16th Quite cool but very pleasant. I went up to Mr Cannons Daguerreotype room, to make a bargain
with him to take my likeness, I also went into the cellar of the same house where there is a
barbershop and ale house, and I was surprised at finding so many loafers there, it seemed as if
they had nothing to do but eat, drink, and spend their money. Fine occupation for young saints.
17th [Page 70] Warm and pleasant. I worked spreading manure this fore noon on Fathers City lot
here at home. I took my team and went over to Mr. Palmers and got 11 bushels of potatoes this
after noon, potatoes that Father bought of him.
18th Warm and pleasant. I went up to Mr Cannons and got my likeness to day. Harrison Sperry also
got his, Mother thinks that mine does not look natural. I went up to Mr Cahoons dancing school
or rather cotillion party last night where he teaches them to dance cotillions with two partners.
19th Snowed very hard this fore noon but it was a very wet snow. Commenced snowing before I got
up and continued until until nearly noon. I have nearly given up ploughing; I went and turned
my cattle and the horse out because they are eating all of our hay up while the stay here and I
cannot get work enough to do to keep them eating. Quite pleasant this after noon. I went to
school in the after noon for it was the last day of the quarter. Mrs Hyder Mrs Johnson and Mrs
Mumford were here visiting this after noon.
20th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the council house to day to attend the officer drill but I had no
horse therefore I did not drill any I got another order at the tithing office one dollar to pay
for beer that I got last night at Mr Blazards. I went into the library this morning but it was only
an aggravation to look at the books and not be allowed to read them I went to a party last night
in the 7 ward school house. as it was the last day of school the scholars thought they must have a
dance.
21st Sunday Warm and pleasant. I went over to Mrs Mosleys and stayed most of the day.
22nd Very warm and pleasant. I went out to hunt for my cattle was gone all day and did not find
them. I walked all day and was very tired at night.
23rd [Page 71] Warm and pleasant. I rode bare-backed all day to day hunting for my oxen, but could
not find them. I went to phonography school last night.
24th Warm and pleasant in the forenoon. I went over Jordan again this morning and found my cattle
an got home with them a little after noon. I ploughed all the afternoon. the wind blew very hard
this after noon and it sprinkled a little. Old Mr Jinkins helped me some about plowing. I went to
dancing school last night.
25th Rained some this morning, but pleasant in the afternoon. I finished ploughing the City lot and
harrowed it.
26th Cold cloudy and windy. I went to mill to day for Mr Cannon to pay for my miniature. I started
from home about half past 7 and got home at 4 oclock. My legs feel rather sore to night this is
the effects of jumping to day on the mill floor; I found it was rather a solid place to light upon,
but I jumped 9« feet, there was but one other person there that could come up to it and he
jumped about 4 inches farther than I did. I went up to Mrs Hyders last night an took a game of
dominoes and a game or two of cards; - had a very good visit.
27th Cold windy and stormy in the fore noon but quite pleasant towards night. General training to day
but there was but a very few turned out. I have been at the distillery most all day and I drank
rather too much beer and besides I drank a little whiskey an I did not lack much of being drunk a
little before night. I then went down to Blazards brewery where I found about four or five men as
near drunk as I was. I went home before dark and was quite sober. I left the other men at the
brewery drinking their beer. I did not think the still beer would make one drunk but I found that
it would, for I was never nearer upset in my life. It snowed some this morning.
28th [Page 72] Sunday. Cold and windy. I wrote some and studied phonography some
29th Cold and windy. I commenced ploughing Fathers five acre lot; I have to plow about one half of
it over for it did not come up last fall. I got home about 4 oclock. I then went to see if I could
get a chance to ride up to the bath house next Thursday to a picnic party. a young man by the
name of Leonard Wines said that he would let me ride up with him if I would furnish provision
for him and his partner, but I mad him no answer. I did not even thank him for his kind offer.
30th Cold and windy. I worked at ploughing to day and finished about 2 oclock I then came home
and agreed with James Vance to take me up to the bath house. I went up to the titheing office
and got a dollar order to pay my bill at the party.
31st Quite warm to day. I sowed and harrowed in about two and a half acres of wheat to day.
April 1852
[Apr 1852 - April Fools Party at the bath house; driving in the rain; Mr. John Preece fooled; Poem
- Farewell; Conference and mysteries; collecting silver for sacrament trays; Trip to Willow Creek,
wagon gets wet, ink well breaks; Exploring with Absalom Woolf]
1st Thursday. Warm and pleasant in the fore noon but rained a little in the after noon. I started to go
up to the bath house between one and two oclock in the after noon. commenced dancing about 3
after a prayer by Mr _____. We eat supper about sundown, set a table and each one eat their own
victuals. we then cleard off the table and commenced dancing again and danced until about 9
oclock. The house was then called to order and Brother Woodruff delivered an adress which was
first rate, after which we commenced dancing again an danced until about 2 oclock and then
started for home, I got home between 3 and 4. We took a very [Page 73] round about way to get
home; our carriage leaked a little for it rained considerable; my partners got their dresses wet
some and I think they were rather cold. Our driver drove through a mud hole just before they got
home and when I had helped them out of the carriage the driver wished me to look and see what
it was that slipt when we came through the mud hole; I looked and found that the king bolt had
come out and it looked liked rather a sealy chance to get home. but he took his partner out and
wraped her up in a buffalow robe (for it was still raining) and we put the bolt in again, (found
nothing broke) and then he took me home. I went to bed a little after 3. We left a good many at
the bath house when we came away but we thought that we had danced about enough; but we had
a first rate time, considerable fun in the evening it being the 1st of April we danced from three
to five cotillions at a time. Mr. John Preece was a little the worst fooled of anyone that I know
of; a day or two before the party his wife was going up to her Fathers and he wished her to ask
her Fathers second wife (an old lady of 50) if she would not like to go to the party with him, all
which was in a joking way for he said that he would not have asked her for ten dollars if he had
mistrusted that she would have gone but the old lady said that she would go. his wife then went
home and told him what the old lady said, which put him in a rage, he told her to go and tell the
old lady that he was only in fun an that he did not want to take her but his wife would not do any
such thing, for she said that she had engaged a partner for him and he must take her, but he said
that he would not take her - he would stay at home first; but he had engaged another partner and
therefore he was obliged to go. so things went on until the day came to start. John and his
partner called at Mr. Jinkins and found the old lady waiting at the door with her cloak and bonnet
on. What! says John are you going; I thought you had given up going. O no said she I
believe I will go; so off the three went, Mr Preece about three rods ahead of his ladies with his
basket of grub on his arm. thus they walked all the way to the bath house, between two and three
miles just because he was too affraid of his dinner to hire a carriag to take them. Well the party
went on he danced with the girl that he took but never asked the old lady to dance at all, after a
while the ladies choose partners his young partner went and chose another gentleman to dance
with before she chose him, because she could not find him; he saw her upon the floor with
another and he goes up to her and says I will never take you to another party as long as I live.
Her partner heard him and said that is a smart man I should say. And upon the whole I thought
he got pretty badly fooled.
2nd Cold and windy in the forenoon, but warm and pleasant in the after. I went with James Vance to
take the carriage home this fore noon. I worked in the garden this after noon making onion beds.
3rd Warm and cloudy this fore noon. I worked sowing onion seed until two oclock it rained so
then that I was obliged to stop. Mr Bundy worked with me. The mail arrived from the states this
fore noon.
4th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I done some writing for Father to day making a schedule and record
for infants etc. I also had some writing to do at night at meeting. I expect to start for Willow
creek as soon as conference is over. I wrote the following song this afternoon.
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Farewell (Tune: James Bird)
April 4th, 1852
Farewell friends and farewell City,
Now I bid you all adieu.
Farewell Parents now I leave you
For a country wild and new.
Though I may be far from you
You I never may see again,
I'm sure I never can forget you
While a spark of life remains.
Farewell scenes that I love dearly
Farewell City of Salt Lake,
Farewell fair ones, good bye dancing,
Now of you my leave I take.
My departure's fast approaching,
Friends at home I leave behind
For a little creek called Willow
Where new friends I hope to find.
But I pray you to remember me
Though I am far away.
How I dread the hour of parting
With the friends I love so well,
But I find that I must leave you.
Once again I say, farewell.
---Homer Brown
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5th Warm and cloudy in the fore noon. I went up to the store to see Mr Beatie to see if he would buy
some of my window shades, but he would not. I came home and worked in the garden between
two and three hours Mr Bundy and Thomas Jenkins worked with me. It began to rain then and
we were obliged to stop we had a very hard shower of rain Mr and Mrs Love came here this
after noon from Willow creek to go to conference.
6th Warm and pleasant. It is two years to day since I commenced keeping a journal. Conference
commenced this morning at ten oclock in the new tabernacle. Dr Willard Richards read the
dedication prayer which was very lengthy. President Young then spoke the rest of the forenoon.
Father Smith closed the meeting meeting was dismissed until 2 oclock.
7th [Page 76] Warm and pleasant. I went to conference. I got a seat this fore noon, but was obliged
to give it up to the ladies. I then left the house and waited until noon. I was then a little more
cunning and I got a seat near the center of the house away from the aisle.
8th Considerable snow fell last night but it was pleasant in the after noon. I went to meeting.
9th Warm. I went to meeting. I went to a dance last night at the house of Joseph Murdock. I danced
three times and got home a little before ten. I did not feel much like dancing. I went to meeting
this evening at 6 oclock and president Young taught us the mysteries; and told us that Adam was
God and that Jesus Christ was the son of Adam etc. etc. I would rather go to one such meeting
than to go to a hundred dances.
10th Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day and at night also.
11th Very warm. Sunday. I went to meeting. Conference adjourned to day until the 6th of October
next at 10 oclock AM. there is also to be a special conference to commence the last Saturday in
August. I have been to meeting evry day since the conference commenced. the house has been
crowded evry day and a great many were obliged to stay out of doors. I have not been very
particular about writing down all the particulars of the conference because I have not room. They
administered the sacrament this after noon after which they passed around the plates to get silver
to make silver plates and silver cups for the sacrament, etc. They got quite a large quantity of old
silver such as spoons, old watch cases, cups, bucles and considerable money. The conference
was closed by shouting Hosannah Which was repeated three times.
12th [Page 77] Warm and pleasant. I worked in the garden making onion beds and sowing onion
seed. Dr Parker worked with me.
13th Warm and pleasant. I plowed the water diches on both of the five acre lots. I got John Sidwell to
drive my team. I finished before night. I then commenced fixing my things to go to Willow
creek. Our folks that is Father and Mother have been trying to persuad me to give up going but I
intend to start tomorrow morning by 8 oclock.
14th Wednesday. Cool and cloudy all day. I started for Willow creek this morning at ten minutes past
8. I got to Big Cotton creek about half past 10. As we go into the ford the road turns square to
the right but I could not make my oxen turn the consequence was they went straight forward
and got into a deep hole and the water came about six inches above the top of my wagon box
my oxen went across and came up to the opposite bank which was very steep and about 6 feet
high. I walked out on the tongue of my wagon and got upon the bank and turned them down the
creek which was rather a dangerous operation for I had to turn very short and the wagon was
afloat. but I got out without upsetting but my things got rather wet, but I took them out and dried
them and got started again in less than an hour as the south wind blew quite hard they dried
quick. all except my flour and that did not wet in very much. I let my oxen eat about half an
hour at noon. I got into the Utah valley a little before dark, camped on Jordan turned my cattle
out in the yoke. It now lack fifteen minutes of 10. It is very dark and begins to rain and the wind
begins to blow. I have just got my cattle chained up and fed. I will now go to bed. It has been
very warm to night and the musquetoes are too thick in my waggon to be comfortable
15th Cold and cloudy this morning, a very heavy shower of rain last night and ended as rains generaly
do in this country with a snow storm. I started at fifteen minutes after 6 this morning. I have
now stoped for noon at the foot of the hill about a mile and a half south of Battle creek. I have
been reading most of the day. I have just knocked my ink bottle off the trunk and broke a hole in
the side of it. It looks likely to be another storm, dark and cloudy in the west.
16th [Page 78] Cool and cloudy most of the fore noon. I camped last night on a small spring creek
about half way between Provo and Hobble creek. I turned my cattle out and I had a hard job to
yoke them this morning; I mired one of then down and then I caught him after a hard chase. I
started a little before 8 this morning. I have now stopped for noon on the south bank of the
Spanish fork. It is now warm and pleasant; the N. wind blows a little. I mended my ink bottle by
means of some salve which I think must be very powerful as it has healed the wound in the bottle
17th Very warm and pleasant. I camped last night on Summit creek. I started between 8 and 9 oclock
this morning and arrived at Willow creek between 1 and two; found the people all well.
18th Cold and windy in the morning. Sunday. Absalom Woolf and myself have been out looking at
the land and to take a horse back ride. We found several very large beautiful springs, visited an
Indian camp, found several squaws diging wild onions, the Indians laying in their huts (which
consist of a few sage brush piled up without a cover) sunning themselves.
19th Warm and pleasant; Mr. Woolf and my-self started to go exploreing some of the kanyons this
morning, but we did not go in consequence of a company of Mormons coming from California.
Charles Rich, Andrew and Mahonri Cahoon, James Winchester, S. A. Dunn, P. Hatch; were in
the company. also a young man by the name of Abraham Boswell that has lived with Mr Woolf
a great deal. I helped the boys plow some this after noon. I went to Mr Loves to live this after
noon.
20th Very warm. Mr Woolf and I started out this morning to explore the kanyons; we found them all
very rocky and but poorly timbered except one and in that the timber is very hard to get; it being
so high upon the Mountains; fencing timber rather scarce; I am almost discouraged about
making a farm. Walkers camp passed here to day.
21st Cool and windy; Rained a little. I went and made a ford to cross Salt creek this fore noon and
tried to burn off some greese wood and rabbit bushes this after noon but the wind blew so hard
that it blew the fire out and I could do nothing. I burned my spade handle considerable.
22nd [Page 79] Cold and rainy. I ground my axe and should have gone after Cedars if it had not
rained. I cut some wood and made a few pins for fence.
23rd Cold and stormy. Snowed considerable this fore-noon. I helped Mr Love plough this after-noon.
24th Cloudy all day; and snowed considerable. I went in company with Absalom over to the west
Mountain and got a load of cedar after waiting three or four days for pleasant weather but we had
the most stormy day that there has been. I drove the first team that was ever in that kanyon, I got
a tolerable good load of posts.
25th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I studied phonography, read and wrote some to day.
26th Very warm; I went and got a load of cedar for posts. I broke a spoke out of my wagon.
27th Very warm; I went to the kanyon and got some timber for pins.
28th Warm and pleasant. I worked making posts. I wrote a letter last night to Miss Mary A. Ewing,
and sent it to day by Absalom Woolf.
29th Cold and stormy this fore noon, and stormed most all night last night. I made posts this after
noon.
30th Warm and pleasant; I made posts and I also put a spoke in my waggon wheel.
May 1852
[May 1852 - Willow Creek renamed Clover Creek; Woolf family sick; Gold fever; Letters from
home; Elected corporal; President Young's expedition; Land surveyed]
1st Very windy but warm most of the day the wind blew from the south until about 4 oclock it
then turned cold and snowed some; I made a bridge this fore-noon across a little spring creek to
get onto my land. I mad posts this after noon. Mr Heywood came here this after-noon with a
wagon load of women from the City of Nephi. one of them was old Mrs Very or rather Mrs
Heywood.
2nd Sunday. Cold and stormy. Snowed considerable. The Governor and his exploreing company
passed here last Monday. We had this place called Clover creek because of the wild clover that
grows here I received a letter to night from Miss Mary A. Ewing. I eat dinner at Mr Woolfs to
day.
3rd Warm and pleasant in the fore noon, but cold towards night I went and got a load of cedars
4th Cool and cloudy. I went and got a load of cedars, snowed a very little this after noon.
5th [Page 80] Cool and cloudy. there was a company passed here this morning on their way to
Filmore to build the state house. I worked making posts. Mr Woolf is quite sick to night, he has
not been able to sit up to day. Sarah Ann is also unwell.
6th Very warm. I worked making posts.
7th Very warm. I went up in the kanyon and got a load of poles. the musquitoes like to have eat me
up. Orin Woodbury came here to night from the City.
8th Warm and pleasant. I made some posts.
9th Sunday. Warm and cloudy, rained a little this morning, I wrote a letter to H. Sperry to day.
John and David Cazier came here this after noon from the City of Salt Lake, John says there are
a great many people going from there to the gold mines and he also says there has been a
company all killed off by the Snake Indians in the neighborhood of Bear River
10th Very warm, I hauled a load of posts to day. I received a letter from Mother this after-noon by
Mr Miller also two from my uncles one of which is in the state of New York, the other in
Wisconsin.
11th Cloudy; Snowed some and rained some; I hauled a load of cedar. I wrote a letter to Mother this
morning and sent it by Mr Orin Woodbury.
12th Warm and pleasant, I worked for Mr Woolf to day planting corn to get his oxen to go into the
kanyon with.
13th Cloudy, and rained a hard shower about sun-down; I got a mule of Mr Woolf and went up in the
kanyon and cut a load of poles, fir and pine some of which were between 30 and 40 feet long
14th Cold and cloudy, and rained most of the day; I helped Mr. Love plant corn to day.
15th Warm and pleasant, I helped Absalom Woolf plant some garden seeds this fore noon to get him
to put a pair of half-soles on my boots; I went to the City of Nephi this after-noon to attend
officer drill, on account on their electing me corporal without my knowing it at the time of the
officers being elected, as I did not attend the election, but we had a first rate time after the [Page
81] drill was over we had a good game of ball and a dance at night. The old men and young all
played ball together and we had a first rate time.
16th Warm and pleasant. Sunday. I stayed at Mr P. Hoits' last night after the dance was over which
was about 11 Oclock. I went to meeting this fore-noon and to Sunday School this after noon. I
got home about sun-down.
17th Very warm. I put a standard in Mr Woolfs wagon, ground my axe and made some pins for posts.
18th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of poles to day.
19th Warm and cloudy, in the fore-noon; rained some in the after-noon; President Young and his
company passed here this morning on their return home from their exploreing expedition. I
understand that they only went as far as Coal creek. Absalom Woolf and myself went up in the
kanyon to day to camp and cut poles two or three days. we got there late and cut 30 poles.
20th Warm and pleasant, I cut and slid poles down the Mount two yoke of our oxen went home last
night but James Woolf drove them back this morning.
21st Very warm. we cut and slid down poles most of the day we then loaded up a load and came
home; Mr D Miller and family passed here to day on their way to Nephi.
22nd Very warm in the fore-noon but the wind blew very hard in the after-noon and rained some. I
went to the City of Nephi to day to train; got slightly acquainted with Miss C. Smith the school
teacher in Nephi.
23rd Very hot most of the day, Sunday. I have a very bad cold and a severe head-ache to day; it is
now thundering quite hard and some large drops of rain are now pattering upon the ground.
24th Warm and pleasant. Absalom and I hauled a load of poles to day this is for me.
25th Very warm. I made and put a tongue in Mr Woolfs wagon. Mr Stewart the surveyor came to
day.
26th [Page 82] Warm and pleasant. I helped Mr Love Mr Woolf and Bigalow survey their land this
fore noon and they helped me this after noon to survey Harrison Sperrys' and mine we have
one hundred and nine acres.
27th Very warm Absalom and I went to the kanyon to day after a load of poles but we broke the
wagon tire and were obliged to come home without a load.
29th Very warm. I went to the kanyon and hauled 33 poles I then moved my posts away from
before the house. I had 77 made and 40 that are not pined together.
30th Sunday. Very hot. I mended my boots and fixed for starting home.
31st Very hot and cloudy except in the morning when it was quite cool and pleasant. I left Clover
creek between 9 and 10 this morning. I am now stopped to let my cattle eat on a small creek
north of Summit.
June 1852
[Jun 1852 - Trip to Salt Lake, wagon upset, water very high;Provo bridge washed away; Poem
about Anna; Peeling bark for leather]
1st Very warm. I camped at the Spanish-fork last night, which is very high. I started at sun-rise this
morning and traveled about three miles and then stopped about an hour to let my cattle eat. I
then came on to Spring-ville and up-set my wagon in a creek. I hiched my oxen to one of the
wheels to turn it back but the box came off in the creek and wet nearly all of my things but the
sun shone hot and they soon dried. I came on then to Provo which I found very high and the
bridge is expected to go off if the water continues to rise as it has to day. the bridge is badly bent
in the middle but there are logs chained on it lengthwise to hold it up. after I crossed it I had
another small creek to ford which ran into my waggon box some but I was informed of its depth
therefore I got nothing wet. I have now stopped to let my cattle eat upon the bench a little N of
Provo.
2nd [Page 83] Warm and pleasant this forenoon but cloudy and windy this afternoon. I camped a
little North of Battle creek last night I started about sun-rise this morning; crossed dry creek,
which run very near over the top of my wagon box but I got none of my things wet the
American fork also run into my wagon box some. I stoped about two miles from dry creek in the
Utah Valley to let my cattle eat. I have now stoped between Willow and Dry creek in Salt Lake
valley to let them eat again.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I crossed Little Cotton-wood at a new ford last night without any trouble,
camped about two miles from where I crossed it - started early this morning, crossed big Cotton
wood without any trouble notwithstanding evry person that I saw told me that it was impssible to
cross. I arrived home safe this morning about 9 oclock. I helped Lorenzo plough some water
ditches this after-noon.
4th Very warm, I worked on the water ditch most of the day where it broke away last night, I got a
hoe made to day and hoed a little in the garden this evening. I heard to day that Provo bridge had
washed away.
5th Very hot; I went up to the distillery this morning and hauled some whiskey home for Father. I
have been a-bed most of the after-noon to day with the head-ache, Father has been watering
wheat on the City lot, I hoed a few potatoes about sun down.
6th Sunday Very warm. I commenced watering my wheat about two oclock this after-noon, Mr
Canada and James Fisher helped me; we watered until about 12 oclock at night, Some
emigrants arrived to day from ft Laramie; Father paid Canada and Fisher a half a galon of
whiskey each for watering paid in advance, Canada done but very little work,
7th Very warm. I commenced watering wheat again early this morning, James Fisher helped me
we finished about 2 oclock. I have been about sick all day to day.
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March 10th 1852
The lilly boasts its spotless white
And the rose its blushes many,
But these would be as dark as night
By the cheek and neck of Anna.
The Ravens wing its gloss would loose,
Softness it would not have any
When compared with the profuse
And silken curls of Anna.
The ruby too would nothing gain
Nor the coral thats praised by many;
In vain they'd try to please the eye
If by the lips of Anna.
Bards may sing of fairy forms,
Or of their lovely Fanny;
I'm sure they all would loose their charms
If once compared with Anna.
Her eyes, the lovliest of the whole
Do shine like diamonds many,
They pierce one to the very soul
Do the dazzling eyes of Anna.
Grace and beauty in her combine,
And she's always neat and cranny,
And a noble heart divine
Beats in the breast of Anna.
---Homer Brown
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8th [Page 85] Very warm. I hoed some in the garden this fore-noon, I went up to Mr Heywoods
this after noon to enquire if he knew of any person that was going up to Clover creek as I wish to
send a few things to Mr Woolf. He informed me that he was going himself next Monday and
would take the things. I hoed some this evening.
9th Very warm. I bought a bottle of Brittish oil this morning and sent it to Mr Woolf by the mail
carrier, price 35 cts. I hoed some onions and tore my saddle to pieces to fix it. I heard to night
that there were emigrants arrived to day from the states.
10th Warm and showery most of the day. I worked in the garden Mr Luce worked with me this after
noon.
11th Not quite so hot to day the wind blew a little. I worked in the garden on the Grundy lot. hoed
some potatoes and some carrots.
12th Very warm I worked hoeing parsneps and beets. I paid 25 cts. for some writing paper this
evening.
13th Sunday. Very warm. I went to meeting this fore-noon. I went in swiming this after-noon.
14th Not quite so warm to day, a little cloudy, I hoed in the garden most of the day and then
commenced prepareing to go to the kanyon to get bark for tanning.
18th Very warm I got home about dark to night with my bark which I went after last tuesday. I found
it very hard tedious work.
19th Very warm. I went this fore-noon to see about getting the water for my wheat, I went this
afternoon and made a bargain to sell my bark and get my pay in leather.
20th Sunday Very hot. I went this morning to look at Fathers and grass lots to see when the grass
when do to cut. I have spent the most of the day in reading and writing.
[Page 86] G,, S,, L, City This paper was bought June at ... price 25 cts. H. Brown.
21st Monday. Very warm this fore-noon. Clouded up very black in the West this after noon but did
not rain I went to water wheat last night, I worked all night and to day until about two oclock. I
got my wheat well soaked, but I feel very sleepy now.
22nd Very warm, I went to hunt my cattle this fore-noon to haul my bark up to the tannery. Harrison
went with me, we hauled our bark and had 3/4 of a cord each and are to have our pay in leather
in four weeks at the rate of 15 dollars per cord.
23rd Very warm in the fore-noon and most of the after noon, we had a very hard shower of rain about
sun-down which gave the ground a good soaking. I plowed and hoed potatoes this fore-noon and
fixed my wagon to go to hauling wood. I finished hoing the potatoes.
24th Cool and pleasant most of the day but rather warm this fore-noon. Lorenzo helped me transplant
onions this fore-noon, I helped Harrison a little about fixing his wagon this after noon and then
went and got my oxen up to go to the kanyon tomorrow after wood. There are a great many
emigrants in town now.
25th ---
26th Very warm. I started yesterday to go over the Mountain after wood. I got a good load of maple
wood and got back to the foot of the Mountain about dark. I started this morning and got about
half way up the mountain and broke my forward axle tree and and was obliged to come home
without my load but I got my waggon home about noon to day, by making a cart of one pair of
wheels and putting the other pair upon it. I worked this after-noon putting a new axle tree in my
waggon, but did not quite finish it.
27th Sunday. warm and pleasant I went to meeting this fore-noon a short time I then came home
and wrote a letter to Mr Love. I then went up to see Mr Ames to make a bargain to get some
more bark for him. he agreed to give me 11$ per cord.
28th Very warm. I started this morning in company with Harrison Sperry and George Sidwell to go to
Parley's park to peel bark for Mr Ames.
July 1852
[Jul 1852 - Gathering bark at Emigration canyon, peddler's cakes, beer, and strawberries for
food; Talk with Mary Mosley; Storm with walnut size hail; Smallpox among the emigrants]
1st Thursday Very warm in the fore noon, rained some in the after-noon where I was in Emigration
kanyon, but none in the City. I got home to night from peeling bark we had no very bad luck.
Harrison and I broke our racks some but we got our loads home. I also broke my reach we got
home about dark. We had nothing to eat to day except a biscuit between two of us until we got
into Emigration kanyon where we met a peddler with some cakes and beer and other things going
over the Mountain to sell to the Emigrants. I bought some cakes and beer which we soon
devoured. We got a few Straw berries in Parleys' park.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I ploughed the potatoes to day and hoed some in the garden. Orin
Woodbury got home this after-noon from Clover creek.
3rd Very warm. I worked in the garden this fore-noon weeding and thining out beets. Harrison and I
took our bark to the tannery this after-noon. We had 100 feet each. We also hauled each of us a
load of adobies to Mr Blazard We had our pay in beer.
4th Sunday Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore-noon and wrote some this after noon.
A. W. Babbit arrived the 2nd inst. A very hard gale of wind about sundo[wn], as hard as I ever
saw I went to engage Miss Catherine Wilkes for a partner to go to a pic-nic party tomorrow
night, but she was engaged.
5th [Page 87] Monday, warm and pleasant. Celebration to day. we had a first rate time. Speeches,
songs, and music occupied the day. I did not attend this after noon. I visited tˆte-a-tˆte with
Mary Mosley this after-noon. I had a first rate time talking over matters and things which I shall
not name.
6th Cool and cloudy this fore-noon. I bought some things of an Emigrant that has been boarding at
Lorenzs'. I paid two dollars for the things viz. some writing paper, tea spoons, a knive, a breast
pin and a pair of cuff pins, and some shirt buttons. There was a very severe hail storm this
after-noon which done a great deal of damage to the crops and broke some windows, a great
deal of wheat is entirely destroyed and some is about half threshed out; most of the vines are
generally destroyed, the hail stones fell as large as black walnuts in some places.
7th Warm and pleasant. I commenced harvesting my wheat this fore-noon about 10 oclock. Lorenzo
helped me. we cut about two acres.
8th Very warm. Lorenzo helped me cut wheat again to day. I also hired Mr Gallop to help I paid
him two dollars cash; we finished my wheat.
9th Very hot, Lorenzo and I commenced cutting Fathers grass to day.
10th Very hot this fore noon, but cloudy and quite cool this afternoon. I helped Lorenzo cut his wheat.
11th Sunday. Quite pleasant. I went to meeting this fore-noon. I bought a pair of pantaloons this
after-noon for which I paid 4,57 cts. also a linnen coat for one dollar, a pair of gloves for 25 cts.,
a cake of soap for 20 cts. Total 5,95 cts.
12th Very hot; I helped Lorenzo finish cutting his wheat to day. Mrs Mosley was married to day to
Mr Daniel Russell.
13th Very hot this fore-noon, but rained this after-noon. Lorenz and I commenced cutting Fathers
wheat.
14th Very hot all day. Lorenzo and I finished cutting Fathers wheat - that is, all that is ripe enough to
cut. I got very near tired out because of the hot weather.
15th Hot this fore-noon, but quite pleasant this after-noon. I commenced makeing a hay rack. I went
and traded some with the Emigrants this after-noon. I bought a pair of new fine calf boots for
five dollars also a pair of India-rubber boots for 4 dollars. I also went to the store and bought
some things to make a Brandy rectifyer. Mr A Boswell and Miss S. A. Woolf arrived to day
from Clover creek.
16th Cool and cloudy this fore-noon, Quite a hard shower of rain this after-noon. I worked making
the hay rack this morning and at makeing a rectifyer this after-noon.
17th Cloudy but very warm. I hoed in the garden this fore-noon and finished my hay-rack this after
noon. I let Lorenzo take my cattle yesterday to go over the Mountain after a load of wood. He
says that he heard heard the Small pox was among the Emigrants but a short distance back and
coming to this place. I had an invitation this evening to be one of the Twenty four young men for
the twenty fourth, but I declined.
18th Sunday. Quite pleasant most of the day. There was considerable of a thunderstorm this
after-noon. Several very heavy peals of thunder but it did not last long. I went to meeting this
fore-noon. Old Mr Miller preached but he had so much of the good old tone that I was perfectly
sick of it. Charles Rich also spoke and spoke well.
19th Cool and cloudy, and several showers of rain. Lorenzo and I worked cutting grass for Father
Mr Luce also helped. I hauled a load of hay home.
20th [Page 88] Very warm. Lorenzo, Mr Luce and I cut hay for Father. I hauled a load home.
21st Very hot. Lorenzo and I raked and put up hay most of the day. I went to mill this after-noon and
hauled thirteen bushels of meal up to the distillery for Father.
22nd Cloudy but very warm. I went over the Mountain to day and got my load of wood that I left there
some time ago but I found part of it missing. The Emigrants were all ordered out of the City
yesterday on account of the Small pox which some of them have been exposed to. Mr Love and
Absalom Woolf arrived to day from Willow creek
23rd Very hot. Father hired a man to mow to day, him and I worked about 3/4 of the day, we hauled a
load home and unloaded it.
24th Very hot. Celebration of the Pioneers coming into the valley. it was held in the Tabernacle the
house was very much crowded and it being so very warm I could not stay in the house over about
a half an hour. I then came home drank some beer at Mr Blazards on the way, drank some
whiskey on top of the beer which made me feel pretty well, but the Twenty fourth comes only
once a year. I went to a pic-nic party in the 7th ward school house. it was to have commenced at
3 oclock PM, but did not commence until about sun down and broke up about 12. We had a very
poor dull party.
25th Very hot. Lorenzo and I cut Fathers wheat on his City lot. Mother bought a feather bed this
morning for which she paid 9 dollars and 50 cts.
26th Very warm. I worked in the hay-field alone I hauled a load home.
27th Warm and sultry. I was nearly sick to day but I raked up some hay. Lorenzo cut some. I hauled
a load home Father bought a yoke of oxen to day for which he paid 50 dollars.
28th Very warm. Lorenzo and I cut hay we hauled two loads home and I sold one of them to Mr
Mcpherson for 8 dollars. I paid 40 cts. for a silk neck hand ker chief.
29th Very hot. I sold my other load of hay this morning to Mcpherson for 10 dollars Lorenzo and I
finished cutting Fathers wheat to day I paid 40 cts for two earthen plates this after-noon.
30th ---
31st Very warm. I hoed some in the garden I also went up toMr Cannons shop this fore noon with
Harrison Sperry. Quite a hard shower of rain this after noon.
August 1852
[Aug 1852 - Gladdenite preaches; Sarah Ann gets picture taken; Sarah Ann returns to Nephi;
harvesting berries, hay and wheat; Poem to Mary Adaline Ewing]
1st Sunday Warm and pleasant I stayed at home all day to day A. W. Babbit preached this
fore-noon also B Young. Mr. A Smith a Gladdenite, preached this after-noon.
2nd Quite warm and pleasant. I have not done much to day but go around among the Emigrants; I
bought a cow for twelve dollars; feather bed for nine dollars and 50 cts and a bottle of ink for 15
cts.
3rd Very warm. Lorenzo and I cut hay. we hauled two loads home and unloaded one of them but the
wind blew so that we could not unload the other.
4th Quite cool and pleasant. I went to hunt for some Emmigrants horses for which they offered 80
dollars reward for 3 horses but I did not find them. I went to see if I could trade some with the
Emmigrants but I could not.
5th [Page 89] Rained some this fore-noon but warm and pleasant the remainder of the day. Thomas
Jinkins and I mowed hay for Father to day. We hauled a load home. One of Fathers oxen was
taken sick this morning. Sarah A Woolf and Mary Mosley went up to Mr Cannons this morning
and got their miniatures taken Harrison Sperry went up with them I paid 5 dollars for one of
the miniatures.
6th Very warm. I went after service berries to day in company with H. Sperry, Mary Mosley, her
Mother, and Frances Brown. I got about 26 quarts of berries. each of the others got about the
same.
7th Very warm. I went down in the hay-field and raked up some hay I have not been very well to
day. I hauled a load home this is the second load that we have put in the small stack.
8th Sunday. Warm. I went to meeting this fore-noon Brigham Young preached. I went to Mr
Johnsons this after-noon to engage a passage in the stage for Sarah Ann Woolf to go home but
the stage had not yet arrived and I could not find out whether she could go or not. Fathers ox
died this fore-noon.
9th Very warm. This is my birth-day. Sarah A Woolf started for home this fore-noon; she went in
the stage. I have been quite unwell to day with a bad cold and a severe head ache. Jedson
Peirson came here this after-noon and told a long story about Miss Samantha Wells. he says that
he is a going to marry her but does not know when for he has never asked her to have him, but he
thinks she will. He says that he has been elected county Surveyor but it was all done before he
knew any thing about it for he was binding wheat at the time of the election.
10th Warm and windy this fore-noon but quite pleasant this after-noon I hauled a small load of hay
this fore-noon. I went up in the City this after noon. I spent about an hour at Mr Robinsons this
after noon with two young women of my acquaintance.
11th Very warm. I hauled a load of hay Harrison Sperry went with me. we came home and then
went to see Mr Ames about our leather. we did not get any but he says that he will have some for
us in about two weeks. There was a very hard gale of wind this after noon.
12th Cloudy and windy, and rained some. I went up in the pasture this morning to try to buy a cow
but the man asked too much for them Therefore I did not buy. I got my oxen up this after noon
to haul hay but the wind blew so hard I did not go.
13th Very warm. I hauled the last of Fathers' hay this fore-noon. I went to see Mr Webb this
after-noon about dividing the wheat that I raised on his land but he was not at home. Quite a
large company of Mormons arrived to day. I hauled some meal up to the distillery this
after-noon. There was a very hard gale of wind a little before sundown also a little rain. Mr
Deming (an old acquaintance of Fathers and Mothers) eat supper here to night.
14th [Page 90] Very warm. I helped Lorenzo haul his wheat there was only two loads of it. I
finished stacking Fathers hay this morning there is thirteen loads of it There is 5 loads in the
small stack. Myself and four others had a fine time eating melons last night we did not get
home until about mid-night, but we got all the melons we wanted. Harrison and I slept in the hay
after we got home.
15th Sunday. Very warm I went to meeting this fore-noon. Brigham Young preached, we had a
good meeting. I finished reading the Last days of Pompeii yesterday. I commenced writing a
letter this after noon to my uncle Charles Mumford, in Wisconsin but I did not finish it.
16th Hot and cloudy this fore noon Lorenzo helped me haul my wheat to day, there was three loads
of it.
17th Cloudy and the wind blew quite hard in the after noon and look very much like rain. I
commenced hauling Fathers' wheat. I hauled two loads I hauled it alone and stacked one load
of it.
18th Warm. I finished hauling Father's wheat, and fixed up my wagon to go to the kanyon tomorrow
after wood. Miss Mary Adaline Ewing was married to day to Mr Edward Duzette, a widower
with 4 children.
Adaline
May you live in joy and peace,
May your smiles be always winning
May your posterity fast increase,
For you have a fair beginning.
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19th Very warm. I went to the kanyon and got a load a wood. I got home about 8 oclock at night.
20th Very warm. I have been sick abed most of the day but I went up to the distillery this after-noon
after some Whiskey for Father for he has been trying to run some for himself but the boiler was
so out of order that he could not do much and has got to work all night.
21st Very warm. There was a large company of Snake Indians came into the City this after noon.
Miss Margaret Judd was married to day to H. Clawson.
22nd Sunday; Very warm. I went to meeting.
23rd Very warm, I hauled a load of wood I expected to buy my load of a man that works in the
kanyon all the time, but he had none on hand, therefore I was obliged to get my load myself.
24th I went to the kanyon again to day and got about a cord of wood for which I paid one dollar in
cash.
25th Very warm. I broke one of the stakes of my wagon yesterday and I put it in again to day.
26th I went to the kanyon again to day and got a little over a cord of quakeing asp wood and got home
before sundown. I have bought two loads for which I pay one bushel of Onions and one and a
half bushels of potatoes.
27th Warm and windy. Lorenzo and I took the horses and his cow and Father's calf away up Jordan
we left the calf at the Welch settlement. I found Father's heifer that I turned away last fall.
28th [Page 91] Warm and pleasant. There was a special conference to day to see about sending
Elders out preaching. There is to be a great many and Father has been appointed to go to Europe.
29th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore-noon. Orson Pratt preached a discourse
on the plurality of wives, which was first rate. I went up to see Mr Ames this morning. I got a
side of upper leather which cost 7 dollars. I did not go to meeting this after noon. I stayed at
home to finish my letter to Uncle Charles.
30th Cool and pleasant. I got up this morning about three oclock to go to the kanyon. Harrison went
with me but he set up so late last night that I had to go and wake him this morning. We got each
of us a good load of wood. I bought my load.
31st Warm. I got a side of sole leather of Mr Ames which weighed 16 pounds at 50 cts per pound. I
cleaned out the well this morning.
September 1852
[Sep 1852 - Trading goods; Poor fund co. arrives; Father leaves on mission; John Jones comes to
work; Trip to Clover Creek; Absalom gets sick; Trip back to SLC with Sarah Ann and Absalom]
1st Very warm. Harrison Sperry and I went to the kanyon again to day to get some timber for Mr
Bird for turning. we started at half past 4 this morning and got home about 10 at night we got
each a load, part timber and part wood.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I worked on the road all day. Quite cold and a little frost last night.
3rd Very warm this fore-noon but cool and cloudy in the after noon I went up to the Tithing office
this morning and got 6 « bushels of wheat for which I am to pay 6 « bushels of onions. I took
the wheat to mill to get it ground for distilling. I pulled some onions this after-noon to sell to Mr
Reece for store pay.
4th Cloudy and rained a little I went to the kanyon and got a little over a cord of wood. I gave a
quart of Whiskey for it. I got home a little before sundown. Father settled up with Dr Clinton
this fore noon. Mother bought a sett of crockery this after-noon for which she paid 9 « dollars.
5th Sunday. Very warm and cloudy. looked very much like rain this morning. I went to meeting all
day, but could not get into the house this fore noon. J. M. Grant and H. C. Kimball preached this
after-noon. The poor fund company arrived day before yesterday a large company of Snake
and Utah Indians came in the same day to make peace with each other.
6th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the tithing office this morning and got 7 bushels of wheat and
took it to mill and exchanged 6 bushels for wheat meal for distilling. I also got the 6 « bushels
that I took to mill last Friday. I took 8 bushels of it to Mr Lamsn distillery for Father I also
took up a small load of wood. [Page 92] I also took 11 bushels and 3 pecks of onions up to Mr
Reece for 2 dollars per bushel. I got ten bars of soap at 40 cts per bar. 4 dollars.
7th Cloudy and very rainy. I went to Red bute kanyon to get a load of wood but it rained so hard and
made the road so slippery that I was obliged to leave my wagon and come home on foot. I think I
never saw the rain fall much faster than it did for a short time in the kanyon. I got home between
one and two oclock. I received a letter this after-noon from Miss Sarah A Woolf. I was quite
unwell this morning before I started for the kanyon and getting wet did not make me feel much
better, although I took an over-coat and did not get wet as some others that took no coat but went
in their shirt sleeves.
8th Warm and pleasant. I moved the manger and fixed the cow shed this fore-noon and went up to
the store and got part of my pay for the onions that I sold to Mr Reece. I got three glass tumblers
at 40 cts. each 1 dollar and 20 cts, one lamp 40 cts, two candle-sticks 75 cts, one scouring-brush
50 cts, one ball candle wick 10 cts. total 2,95. I bought a stove of Orson Pratt this after-noon for
which I pay 66 dollars 50 dollars down and the remainder within three months. I got a
white-wash brush yesterday at Reec's store price 1.50.
9th Cool and pleasant. There was a little frost last night. I went to the kanyon to day and got a cord
of wood I paid a dollar in cash for it.
10th Warm and pleasant. I went up to Mr Lamson's distillery this morning and hauled 28 gallons of
Whiskey home for Father. I helped him fix his wagon cover this after-noon. I also went to Mr
Houtz and got 300 lbs of wheat meal, and took 200 lbs of it up to Clintons to have Mr Weiler
distill it. Father done his last days work in Lamsons distillery yesterday he run off 24 gallons
for himself. I set the stove up this after-noon.
11th Very warm. I went to the kanyon again to day and got a little over a cord of wood for which I
paid 95 cts. There was a meeting to day of the Elders that are going out preaching.
12th Sunday. Very warm. I did not go to meeting to day. I stayed at home and wrote a letter to Miss
Sarah A Woolf. Orson Pratt preached this fore noon. I put my letter in the office this evening.
Father and Mother and me eat supper at Lorenzos to night.
13th [Page 93] Very warm. I have been doing chores most of the day to help Father to get away. I
went up to Mr Wheelers in Dr Richards pasture this after-noon to get a pair of hobbles for Father
but I did not get them for they could not be found. Father and Mr. Vancott harnessed up their
horses this afternoon to try them, they went first rate. Father took the meal back to Mr Houtz
that I got last Friday, for he understood that he was to pay for it in whiskey, and Mr Houtz said
that it was to be money.
14th Very warm. I went up to see Mr Hooper to try and sell him some onions but he would not agree
to take more than one bushel. I got a small looking glass, price one dollar. I got it at Reeces on
the onion account. Father intended to start to day but he postponed going until tomorrow.
15th Wednesday. Cool and cloudy. rained a little in the morning I started this morning in company
with H. Sperry to go over the Mountain after timber for Mr. Bird, but we did not find any that
was suitable. we then loaded up each of us a load of Maple wood. We got nearly loaded before
dark, It rained and snowed considerable about sundown. Very cold all night. Father started to
day to go on his mission.
16th Cool and cloudy. Harrison and I finished loading our wood this morning and then started for
home. we met some of the Elders that were going out preaching as we were coming up the
Mountain. We got home a little before sundown with each a good load of maple wood. Very
dark, cloudy, and windy to night and quite a hard shower of rain about dark.
17th Warm and pleasant this fore-noon but quite cold and a hard gale of wind about sundown. I
bought a blue blanket to make an over-coat for which I paid 7 « dollars, and the trimings and
lineing cost two dollars. I also bought two tumblers 50 cts each, and one paper of Brittish luster
20 cts, Total 10 dollars 50 cts. There was a Welch boy came here this morning to work for us,
we board him and give him 1 dollar per week vegtables. His name is John Jones. Holladay and
warner started a train of wagons for Carson Valley this after noon.
18th Cold and cloudy. rained a little last night. General training to day. I fixed up the windows to
day put in some lights of glass etc. Mr Jones, a tailor came here to day and worked makeing my
over coat, he charges two and a half dollars for making it, half flour, and half onions.
19th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. Mr Sherwood and Mr Kempton
preached. I engaged a passage in the stage to go to Salt creek tomorrow.
20th [Page 94] Monday Warm and pleasant. I started this morning in the stage to go to Salt or rather
Clover creek. We stoped at noon at the hot springs to feed the horses. We arrived at Battle creek
a little before sunset and eat supper at John Holmans.
21st Warm and pleasant. I stayed all night at Battle creek and slept in a wagon, eat breakfast at John
Holmans, he charged 25 cts a meal. I started between 7 and 8 this morning, Stoped at Provo to
have the mail opened. got some very nice water melons at Mr Higbys. stopped again at
Springville post office six miles from Provo. I stopped here in the shad of a small willow grove
and wrote some in my morandum, while the mail was opened. We went to the black smiths shop
to have the stage mended we were hindered about half an hour. We stopped at Payson post
office, and we stopped at Summit creek to change horses. We arrived at Clover creek about
sundown.
22nd Cool and cloudy. I helped Absalom Woolf make a hay rack to day.
23rd Cool and cloudy. Absalom Woolf was taken with a severe vomiting last evening and was very
sick all night. I went over to Mr Loves this fore noon. I went down in the hay field about noon
where Mr Woolf was cutting hay. I helped fix up his wagon to go to Provo with tomorrow.
24th Cold and cloudy. I left Clover creek this morning about sun rise in company with Absalom and
Sarah Ann woolf for Provo. We stopped at Payson to feed the horses, we arrived at Provo about
sundown. we stopped at Mr Camerons.
25th I left Provo early this morning in company with Sarah Ann Woolf and three other passengers in
the stage for home, at which place I arrived without accident about sundown. Sarah Ann was
very sick all day. I was very cold riding to day.
26th Sunday. I stayed at home to day and eat melons.
27th Warm and pleasant. I went up to Livingstons this morning and sold 14 « bushels of potatoes at
one dollar per bushel and take my pay in the store; I also sold 12 bushels of onions to William
Kimball at 1.75 cts per bushel, tak my pay at Livingston's store. I also engaged to sell 50 bu
potatoes, 10 of onions, 5 of beets, to a Mountaineer. Lorenz furnishes half of the potatoes.
28th Warm and pleasant. I sold 10 bushels of potatoes this morning to Kinkead at one dollar per
bushel, I got 25 pounds of sugar. Mother also done some trading. I dug potatoes this after noon.
I also got two men to dig on shares. I give them evry eighth bushels. I bought a cravat for 90 cts,
a hair brush for 30 cts cash.
29th Warm and pleasant. I dug some beets this morning and pulled some onions for a Mountaineer I
paid 50 cts for a comb and 35 cts for some bergamot, 10 cts for black cord. total 95 cts cash. I
got a looking glass to day for 7 dollars on my account at Reeces. I also got a rocking chair of Mr
Bird price 12 dollars.
30th [Page 95] Cool and cloudy, and rained considerable this after noon. I sold 25 bushels of
potatoes and 10 « bushels of onions 6 bushels of beets and one of carrots. Potatoes 50 cts per
bushel, onions 1,75 cts, Beets 75. carrots 75 cts per bushel. Also 20 heads of cabbage at 12 «
cts each, and some some Water melons for 50 cts
October 1852
[Oct 1852 - First peach since Nauvoo; Arrangements made to build temple; Rioters at a party;
Marriage to Sarah Ann Woolf; Marriage of Harrison Sperry and Mary Mosley]
1st Cloudy and rainy. I bought a piece of beef this morning for which I paid 65 cts. I went and
hunted up my oxen this afternoon, they were in the big field.
2nd Cloudy, and looked very much like rain. I took 9 and a half bushels of potatoes up to Mr Bird for
75 cts per bu. in furniture. I also bought 200 lbs of chopped wheat of Mr Sabines at two dollars
per hundred. I pay the cash. I took it up to the distillery to have Mr Weiler distill it.
3rd Sunday cold and cloudy and rained some in the after noon. Henry Coltrin stayed with me last
night. I eat a ripe Peach this after noon the first one that I have tasted since I came from
Nauvoo.
4th Warm and pleasant. I hired a yoke of oxen of Mrs McArthur to work. I am to work for her to
pay her I and the boy that lives with me went and hauled two loads of stone to build a cellar
that I have hired dug. I bought an ox for 20dollars 5 in cash, the rest in lumber
5th Cloudy, and rained considerable. I hauled two more of stone to day. A hard long shower of rain
since sun down, it is still raining and it is now 9 oclock and I will go to bed.
6th Cool and pleasant in the morning, but cloudy in the afternoon. Conference commenced to day,
but I hauled two load of rock. I went with two teams again. I sold eight bushels of onions this
morning to Mr Little for 1,75 cts per bushel. he paid me the money for them. Mother also sold
him 6 heads of cabbage at 10 cts per head.
7th Cool and pleasant. I went to conference to day as Brigham said yester day that the people must
stop their work and go to meeting. The preaching was all about going South, that is the new
comers. The heads of the church want all of them to go South.
8th [Page 96] Warm and pleasant. I went to conference to day this after but I did not go this fore
noon. John Young, H. C. Kimball and Brigham preached.
9th Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day to day. There was some arrangements mad to day
about building the Temple. Brigham preached this after noon. I went to a party last night in the
first ward School house. There was a gang of young men came there that were all drunk but they
had no invitation. They tried to break up the party. They made a great noise and threw some
stones through the window one of which broke four lights of glass and hit a man in his face
which felled him to the floor where he lay senseless for some time. I supported his head upon
my lap until he recovered his senses. The police caught the rioters and the party went on first
rate. The rioters were tried to day but I have not heard the particulars.
10th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I hunted up my oxen this forenoon. They were in the big field. I
went to meeting this after noon. Harriet Barker came here last night with her Father and her
Uncle. I had fine times carrying on with the girls this morning and last night. Mary Mosley and
Sarah Woolf were also here.
11th Warm and pleasant. I hauled one load of stone and one of sand.
12th Warm and pleasant. I hauled one load of stone and one of sand.
13th Very warm. I done but little to day except run about town. I engaged my adobies for my cellar.
I pay 50 cts cash per hundred for two hundred. the remainder I pay one dollar per hundred for, in
onions at two dollars per bushel. I took 12 « bushels of onions up to Mr Bird this after noon. I
bought 6 pounds of nails at 30 cts per pound. cash.
14th Warm and pleasant. I hauled 1200 adobies to day. I had Mrs McArthurs oxen to day.
15th Quite warm. I hauled 800 adobies this fore noon and sold them to Mr Savory for two bushels of
wheat. I also bought a door frame of him for which I am to pay two bushels of onions. I hauled
a load of clay this after noon.
16th [Page 97] Warm and pleasant. I hauled 400 adobies this forenoon and sold them to Mr Philo
Johnson to pay him for mason work, he commenced laying my cellar wall this morning. Two
hundred of the adobies I had of Frank Pullen for Whiskey one hundred for 50 cts and the other
for 75. The other two hundred I pay either beets or onions for. I hauled a load of clay this after
noon. I also went up in town and bought some stove pipe two joints and an elbow for which I
paid four dollars and sixty cts cash. Lorenzo worked here yesterday and to day laying floor and
makeing window frames.
17th Sunday. Very warm. I had the head ache to day and did not go to meeting. I received a letter
last night from Mr Woolf.
18th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of sand this fore noon and a load of gravel this after noon to
put in the bottom of the cellar. I also took 10 bushels of potatoes up to Mr Birds. Ann Jinkins
had a thumping big boy born last night.
19th Very windy. I hauled a load of corn for Mr Blazzard this fore noon for which he paid me two
dollars, one in cash and one in beer. I bought 16 lights of glass this after noon of Mrs Crosly for
20 cts per light. I went to see old Father John Smith this after noon to see if he would do a job
for me. I got a hat this after noon at Livingstons for which I paid 5 dollars also a pair of gaiters 5
dollars, and two dollars worth of sugar for a due bill that I got for potatoes.
20th Warm and pleasant. I went around and invited some of my friends to come to a party to morrow
night at Fathers house. I was married at night about 8 oclock by Father John Smith at his house
to Miss Sarah Ann Woolf. Nelson Empey took us up in his carriage. Lorenzo and his wife went
up with us. we got home about 9 oclock, had a first rate supper, went to bed about 12.
21st Warm and pleasant. I went up to Mr Ames this fore noon and got a calf skin for 2,75 cts and 5
1/4 lbs of sole leather 2,62 « cts. I hired Harry to help me this after noon to lay a floor in the
new buttery and to put on the ribs and partly cover it. I did not get done until late. part of my
company [Page 98] arrived before I got dressed but we had a first rate party after all every one
seemed to enjoy themselves well. the party broke up about 3 oclock. There was only 12 couple
here but it went off fine.
22nd Cloudy and windy in the fore noon and rained some. I hauled a load of adobies from Frank
Pullens yard some that he owed for Whiskey. I hauled two hundred. I borrowed 168 of the man
that tended mason for me and I was obliged to get some to pay him. I bought 50 pounds of flour
this after noon at the Tithing office at 6 dollars per hundred. I am to pay in onions at two dollars
per bushel.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I went up to muster this morning but I had no horse therefore I told the
Captain to take my name off the list. I bought a bed cord for which I paid one dollar cash. I
pulled some onions and agreed to pay a man a bushel of onions and half bushel of beets if he
would dig my potatoes which he agreed to do on Monday.
24th Sunday. Cloudy and rained some. I went to meeting this fore noon. John Taylor and P P Pratt
preached. Quite a hard shower of rain this after noon. I wrote a letter this after noon to Father
Woolf.
25th Cool and cloudy, I took 24 bushels of onions up in town this fore-noon. Two bushels I sold to a
cuttler for three butcher knives (two for myself and one for H Sperry to pay for work) and for
repairing two pocket knives. 3 bushels I sold for flour to Mcpherson the remainder I sold to the
tithing office part to pay my debts and 5 « bu on tithing. I hauled home 13 bushels of potatoes
and buried them, some that grew on my lot.
26th Cool and cloudy. I went to the shoe shop this fore noon and had my feet measured for a pair of
boots. I sold 3 bushels of onions this morning to Mr Bates for lumber, also 4 bu to Clark Decker
at 1,75 cts per bu. I got a bedstead of Bird and Hawkins but it did not suit me and I told them
that I should take it back when they got one finished that did. Harry Sperry also got one, for he is
to be married tomorrow and will no doubt want it.
27th Warm and pleasant most of the day, but very cold last night and this morning. The man that I
hired to dig my potatoes did not pick them up last night and they all froze, about 25 bushels. I
put some of them in cold water for a man told me that they be as good as ever if I would keep
them in water 12 hours but it did no good for they were soft when I took them out of the water.
[Page 99] I worked covering the cellar this after noon until 4 oclock. I then dressed to go to the
party Harrisons wedding, he and Mary were married this after noon about 4 oclock at Father John
Smiths. They eat supper about 6 dancing commenced about 8 oclock, broke up about 4. I hired
a man to put up some fence on the west side of the house. I pay him two bushels of onions for
the job. Mother, Sarah Ann, and myself had a very serious time of talking to day. Mother found
a great deal of fault and I think without cause.
28th Warm and pleasant. I worked covering the cellar.
29th Rained last night and some this morning. I tore down the old fence on the West side of the house
to get the boards and slats to finish covering the cellar.
30th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the post office this morning and got two letters one from
Father and one from uncle Walter. I finished covering the cellar this after noon.
31st Sunday. Cold and windy. I went up the river to day and took an ox up and hunted up Mothers
heifer and Lorenzo and my horses. Lorenzo went with me. We did not get back until dark.
November 1852
[Nov 1852 - Father Woolf comes to visit; Threatened by Frank Pullen; Mrs. Buel talks plain and
makes a visitation; Wood and potatoes scarce; John Jones to stay for the winter]
1st Warm and pleasant. I pulled onions and put 13 bushels in the chamber.
2nd Cold and snowy where I was in Red bute kanyon after wood to pay Mr Johnson for mason work.
I got about a cord and got home just after dark
3rd Cold and very windy. I hired a man to help me gather my onions. I also hauled a load of sand. I
went up to Mr Birds shop and got a sett of Winsor chairs. price 18 dollars.
4th Cold and windy. froze most of the day, I hired a man to help me again to day to gather my
onions. We got the greater part of them into the cellar. I got a man to plaster the buttery and
cellar. I give him 2 1/4 bushels of onions for the job. I also gave a man 3 « bu of parsneps for
tending him.
5th A little warmer to day but froze very hard last night and did not thaw to day enough to take the
frost out of the ground. I put up some boards on the house to hold the dirt on. I also plastered all
the holes in the cellar, under the eaves etc.
6th Cool and cloudy. I hired a man to help me to dig my beets, we finished them and buried them
but did not measure them.
7th [Page 100] Sunday. Cold stormy and windy Rained, hailed and snowed. I stayed at home all
day Father Woolf came here this after-noon from Clover creek left his family all well, etc.
8th Cool but thawed all day. I went up to the store with Father this fore noon, he traded near fifty
dollars on an order which he had on Livingstons and Kinkeads store. I bought seven yds of
hickory for which I paid 1,75 cts. I cut onion tops this after noon.
9th Cold and stormy. I bought a ball of shoe thred for 25 cts. I turned my oxen down in the big field
this morning but they came home at night. Rained quite hard about sundown.
10th Cold and quite a snowstorm this fore noon. I cut onion tops this fore noon and went up in town
and made a bargain with a man to make two doors and some window sash. I am to pay him in
onions.
11th Cool and cloudy. thawed a little but did not take off near all of the snow. I took my lumber up to
have my doors and sash made. I also made a bargain with Mr Randall for lumber. I am to give
him 12 « bu of onions for 500 feet of lumber. Froze quite hard last night. John finished cutting
the onions that I had in the cellar. I have now 89 bushels in the cellar and 46 in the chamber of
the cellar. Mr Savory brought me two bushels of wheat this morning to pay me for some
adobies.
12th Cool and cloudy. Very mudy. Father Woolf started for home this morning. I got some
blacksmithing done and am to give a bu. onions. I took some lumber up to Mr Parker
13th Warm and pleasant. I helped Lorenzo kill his hog this fore-noon it weighed 240 lbs. Lorenzo
helped me pull onions this after noon. John drove all of our cattle down in the big field except
the old brown cow.
14th Sunday. Very Stormy and rainy. I did not go to meeting.
15th Warm and pleasant. I got my sash from the shop. I went to the tithing office to see if I could
exchange some onions for potatoes but I could not but Mr Hill said he would let me have some
wheat for onions. I bought a board of Mr Randall and took it to the shop to have a door made.
16th [Page 101] Warm and rained a little this fore noon. I fitted in my window sash and made a sign
board and took them up to Phineas Richards to have them painted and have the glass set. John
pulled and cut onions. I asked Frank Pullen yesterday for some money which he owed for
whiskey and he ordered me off his land and then threatened to knock me down after I was in the
street if I did not go home but I told him I should not do it until I got ready he shook his fist
some and then went in but before I went he told me to come again and he would make it all right.
I went to a party last night at Mr Vances.
17th Snowed all the fore-noon, but not very cold snow thawed nearly as fast as it fell. I worked
some this after noon making a rack to feed the cattle in.
18th Cold and cloudy but thawed all day. I finished my hay rack and fixed up the cow yard fence.
19th Cold and rainy all day. I think the roads are the muddiest now that I have ever seen them. I went
up to the shoe shop after Mothers and Sarah Anns shoes, but they were not finished. Sarah Ann
and I went over to see Harry and Mary last night, and over to Lorenzos to night where Mother
and Mrs Bewel talked very plain. They were talking about Mrs Fox being very sick when she
was confined. Mrs Buel said she was always that way and if she was in her place she would not
try it again Quite a snow storm before we came home. I found about two inches of water in the
cellar when I got home. I finished pulling the onions this morning.
20th Very cloudy but did not storm with the exception of a very little snow in the morning. I worked
at making a ditch along the fence before the house for a new channel for the creek that I have
filled up, and to drain the cellar. I hired a Scotch man to help me but we did not finish it. I sent
up and got Mothers shoes or rather boots.
21st Sunday. warm and pleasant. I went to meeting to day, the meeting commenced at 11 oclock and
ended a little after 1. The appointment was given out last Sunday by Orson Hyde for the
meetings to commence hereafter at 11 oclock, but to day he said that he was mistaken and it
would commence hereafter as usual at 10 AM. P P Pratt, O Hyde, W Woodruff, and Mr Major
preached, Mrs Buel one of H. C. Kimballs women came here last Thursday morning with her two
children and left here this morning. I think she made a visitation as my grandfather used to say.
He said an after noon visit was a Vis and all day was a visit and if a person stayed two days it
was a visitation.
22nd [Page 102] Cloudy and rainy the greater part of the day. I hired John Preeces oxen and hauled
40 « bu of onions up to the Tithing office 27 « of which were credited on Fathers Produce
tithing. I pay the potato tithing in onions which amounts to 3 « bu of onions. The potatoe and
onion tithing is 32 « bu of onions which is paid and 13 bu over, 3 1/4 of which I had Credited to
John Preece for making Fathers coat and 50 cts for the use of his oxen. The other 9 bushels I get
9 bushels of wheat for, 6 bu and 40 lbs of which I get to night and also a due bill for 2 bu and 35
lbs. I bought a half pound of Tea for Mother for which I paid one dollar. It has been raining
steady since dark and it is now between 8 and 9 oclock. The Scotchman finished the ditch to
day. I commenced reading R Thomas History of the United States last Saturday evening which I
find very interesting. I bought a garden hoe to day for which I gave half bushel of onions. Sarah
Ann has been quite unwell to day.
23rd Winter in good earnest. Snowed and blowed all day but it did not freeze much, not enough to
freeze the mud up. I made a clock shelf and set one of the clocks up in the kitchen. It has been
stopped some time but I cleaned it and oiled it and it goes first rate.
24th Rather more pleasant to day over head but very disagreeable under foot. I took 3 « bu of onions
up to Mr Peck this fore noon to pay for a pair of hobbles that Father bought of him and for the
shoeing of his horse. I also took 3 « bu to Mr. Parker for making two doors and 12 lights of
sash. I had a very severe head ache this after noon.
25th Cloudy and snowed a very little. Did not thaw much to day but froze quite hard last night. I got
my doors home to day and hung them. I also went to see Mr Ames about my leather but it has
been such bad weather for the last two or three weeks that he has not been able to do any thing at
finishing his leather therefore I did not get any. There was about a dozen head of cattle got into
my wheat stacks and destroyed some wheat last night but they did not destroy as much as I
should have thought they would, for they sleeped in the stack yard. The snow now lays in drifts
from one to three and a half feet deep. I cannot tell how deep it would be on a level, but I think it
is impossible to get into the kanyons now for wood. I hear some offering to pay cash for wood
but they cannot get it, and I think potatoes will be very scarce this winter for they are very scarce
now at the public works, for they had a hundred bushels last year at this time where they have
one bushel now.
26th [Page 103] Cloudy and thawed a little. I went over in the 8th Ward to see Mr. M Ensign about
some sheep that he and Father Woolf have been talking of buying, but he was not home he had
gone down to Cotton wood to look at the sheep. I then went to the store and bought two door
latches for which I paid 50 cts. each. I put one of them on the buttery door. I got a bushel and a
half of wheat this morning at Mr Sidwells for the use of faning mill. My feet are very sore with
what I call chilblains. I heard this morning that sister Love was very sick.
27th Thawed all day to day and rained and snowed some. It is decidedly the mudiest time that I ever
saw. I went to Chases mill to day with about 10 bu of wheat. I am to have 2 bu of it floured and
the remainder chopped for the cow and pigs. I got my windows home from the glaziers this after
noon and put the buttery window in this evening. I heard to day that the snow is six feet deep
over to the West Mountain. It has been cold damp weather now for near three weeks. Rained
quite hard about dark.
28th Sunday. Cool and cloudy, but thawed all day and froze none last night I went and hunted up
the ox that I bought. he was in the big field I also got Wm. Sperry to drive my old red cow over
the river. The mud and water in the field is generally a little over shoe, which made me very
tired walking. Mr Jones came here to day to see about his son John staying here this winter and
going to school. he is to go to school this winter and I am to board him and pay his schooling for
the chores that he will do nights and mornings, and next summer he is to work and I am to pay
him one dollar a week, part of it in clothing.
29th A little more pleasant to day. I went up to the post office and subscribed for the Deseret news I
am to pay five dollars a year for it and pay in onions at 1,75 cts per bushel I hired Wm Condy a
Scotch man to get out manure for me to day. I worked with him this after noon. I hired Thomas
Jinkins oxen this after noon to haul it out with. John Jones came back a little after noon.
30th Cool and cloudy. I worked with Mr Condy getting out manure this fore noon. we finished about
one oclock I gathered my cabbage and put part of them in the cellar and let Lorenzo have 10 or
12 heads and buried the remainder. I gave Wm Edwards « bushel of onions for bringing my grist
up from Chases mill to day. I let Mr Condy have 2 « lbs of sole leather this after noon at 50 cts
per pound for work. I also let Lorenzo have a pair of half soles 6 oz. I branded my old ox to
night by candle light as I intend to drive him away in the morning.
December 1852
[Dec 1852 - Broom making; 7th Ward picnic party; getting weighed; Heifer misbranded; Reading
U.S. history; Party at Dockstader hall; Work on school house to pay tax; 3rd Ward party]
1st [Page 104] Very stormy most of the day. I did not go to drive my ox away. The snow fell very
fast in the fore noon. John and I fixed up the stable this fore noon. I also got some broom corn
of Wm Sperry to make up for one half. I then went to see Mr Vance about the school tax. he says
that we owe 8 dollars and 95 cents. I then went up to the broom maker and see him make two
brooms and stole his trade. I then bought two bunches of twine for which I am to give a broom.
I then came home and made two brooms which I think look as well as the broom makers.
2nd Cold and cloudy in the after noon but quite pleasant this fore noon. I made a machine this fore
noon to press brooms. I then made some handles and I also made two brooms. The snow has all
gone off.
3rd Cold, damp, and stormy. I got the remainder of Mr Sperrys broom corn this morning and I also
got some of Mr Sidwell. John took part of the onions out of the cellar and carried them up stairs
for they have commenced to grow I made five brooms. I have a very bad cold to day.
4th Cold and windy. I put up my machine to press brooms this fore noon and sewed some I then
helped Harrison put the ribs on his house. I sold a broom to him for 50 cts. I also took two up to
Reeses store to pay for twine. I split out some broom handles this evening.
5th Sunday Cold and rainy and snowed a little. rained some last night I cleaned my clock and
read some in the History of the United States. Printing was first introduced in New England in
1639. The first thing printed was the Free mans oath; the next an Almanac, the third a collection
of Psalms. The first mill was a wind mill built near Watertown The firs vessel was built in
Massachusetts which was called the Blessing of the Bay. The Indian Chief Phillip was killed the
12 of August 1676 after a great many escapes and doing a great deal of damage to the Settlers.
11th Thawed a little. It has been a very stormy week. I have done nothing this week except make
brooms and but little of that Very stormy on Wednesday, and Wednesday night the snow fell
about eight inches deep. I went to a picnic party in the 7 ward school house. had a very good
party, got home between one and two oclock. California mail arrived on the 9th bringing news
of the burning of Sacramento City. 2500 houses in ashes, all in two hours. I took two brooms up
to the store to day, sold one for 50 cts cash. I bought a door lock and knob price $2.50. I am to
give five brooms. I carried Wm Sperrys brooms home he had sixteen in all I got some more
broom corn of Mr Lewis to make up on shares
12th Sunday. Very cold. froze very hard last night I stayed home and read the news paper. I was
weighed yesterday at the Tithing office I weighed 168 pounds Harrison Sperry weighed the
same.
13th [Page 105] Monday. Very cold in the fore noon. the South wind blew very hard Lorenzo and
I went up above Gardners mill West of Jordan to find our cattle and horses We found them all
also my oxen that I turned in the big field and expected they were there still until I found them
about five miles above the mill. I found Mothers heifer branded O on the right hip and the old
brand LB shows quite plain. I came down to the mill and enquired of Mr Gardner if he knew
who branded on the right hip with the letter O. He replied, Father Beckstead, but I thought I
would say nothing about it as I did not wish to take her away now and thought if a man would
brand an animal that was not his own he would find means to dispose of the heifer if I should tell
him that it belonged to Mother. Therefore I said nothing to him after I found the heifer but I
enquired of him as I went up about her but he said he had not seen her. I told him I thought he
must have seen her for she had been running about there as much as a year or more whereupon he
said that he might have seen her but could not tell, for a man would have enought to do if he took
notice of all the cattle that were there. he also said that Lorenzos cow was there the morning
before and he fed her. I made a bargain with Mr Gardner for some lumber and pay in onions. I
forded Jordan at the mouth of Little Cotton wood and came up through the big field to look for
our other heifer but did not find her. I had Mr Thornes horse to ride I am to pay him in onions.
I got home a little before dark. I got a ticket to go to a ball or rather a pic-nic party at the
Dockstader hall.
14th Cold. I sold four brooms to Mr Woodruff this morning and four to Mr Needham this afternoon
also four to Reese.
15th Very cold and stormy and blustery this fore noon. the snow blew so that we could hardly see. I
made a small brush broom. I went down four miles in the big field this after noon and found our
heifer with a young calf, and drove them home
16th I made a house for the calf and fixed the wood saw I then got ready for the party.
17th The south wind blew very hard all day and all night last night. Commenced thawing about noon
to day. I went to see about Mr Woolfs sheep. I also made a bargain up to the public shop to have
some broom handles turned and pay in onions handles three dollars per hundred onions two
dollars per bushel. We had a first rate party last night: bill one dollar per couple.
18th The South wind still continues to blow harder than yesterday. I took my timber up to the shop to
have my broom handles made. I made four brooms. Brother Love came here this evening and
stayed until about 8 oclock.
19th Sunday. Very windy. the South wind has continued blowing three days and nights without
stopping. the snow has all disappeared and the mud is drying up very fast. I wrote a letter to
Father Woolf.
20th [Page 106] Monday. Snowed some last night and a little this morn. I put up a sign this
morning: Onions for Sale. Phineas Richards painted it. I paid him in onions for doing it. I
bought a few things of a peddler to day and pay him in onions also he is to have three bushels. I
made four brooms this after noon. I went up to the 7th ward school house this evening to a party.
I came home about 9 oclock. Snowed some this evening.
21st Quite warm. I got my broom handles home. I have 13 doz large and 1 « doz small ones. I made
a small brush broom this after noon. I paid 50 cts cash for some large wire which I am going to
exchange for small.
22nd A very hard snow storm to day. I sold my small broom to Reese for one dollar. I also sold three
others for 50 cts each. I eat dinner at Lorenzos to day and Mr Johnson plastered for him.
23rd Clear and pleasant to day but the snow fell about fourteen inches deep last night and yesterday. I
went to try to find some wire for broom making but was not successful. I got a bundle of twine
25 cts. Mother paid Mr Pratt up yesterday for her stove.
25th Cold and cloudy to day and snowed a very little and about the same yesterday. I went to a party
last night at the Dockstader hall, very good party, we got home about 4 this morning the bill
was 1,50 cts per couple. Does not thaw any yet. Lorenzo and Fanny eat dinner here to day. I
have done no work to day, did not get up until nine oclock. This morning rather late rising, but
Christmas comes but once a year. The men that started out to meet the mail came back
yesterday; went to the foot of the second mountain snow too deep.
26th Sunday. Cold, Windy, and Stormy. I read some in the History of the United States, and some in
the Boston Bee.
27th Cold but pleasant. I finished making Mr. Lewis broom this fore-noon. Mother went to Mr.
Alleys to day visiting, Mrs. Margaret Clawson came here to day to get some books that I had that
belonged to her. John Jones came back to day. I think last night was the coldest night that we
have had this winter.
28th Cold, Lorenzo and I worked 7 « hours each on the 7th Ward school house to pay Fathers school
tax. Our stove hearth got brok to night.
29th The south wind blew considerable and the snow went off quite fast this after noon. Lorenzo and
I worked each 8 « hours on the school house tithing.
30th Warm and pleasant. The snow nearly all went off last night and to day. I worked 5 hours and
Lorenzo worked all day on the school house. Mr Johnson commenced plastering it this after
noon. I went to a picnic party in the 3rd ward last night.
31st Rainy most of the day. I finished making up what broom corn I had. Mr Standish mended our
stove hearth to day, charged 1,75 cts.
January 1853
[Jan 1853 - Trouble with George Mattison at a party; Jinkins' clothes stolen; A bad party;
Absalom (Appy) visits; 3rd Ward party; Mr. Brim's dancing school; Mr. Hill leaves]
1st [Page 107] Cloudy and rainy nearly all day. Mother, Sarah Ann and me eat dinner at Lorenzos
to day. Very wet and mudy now. the ground is full of water and it stands in large puddles all
over the surface of the ground trying to get in. George Mattison the manager of a pic nic party in
the third Ward school house came here the day before yesterday and gave me an invitation to said
party which was last night and I went alone for which he would give me no number to dance and
said if I had a lady ther I should have a number. I told him that I considered that I was entitled to
a number as much without a partner as with, and some other words passed between us and he
threatened of putting me out of the house. I told him if my dog could not manage a party better
than that and should invite persons and then not take notice of them enough to give them
numbers when they come I would shoot him. He afterward came and set down by my side and
tried to make up friends and offered me his number. I then told him just what I thought of him. I
then stayed until got ready to go home and then left.
2nd Sunday. Rained some to day. I studied out some puzzles, Rebusses, Charades, etc. that were in
an English Magazine.
3rd Warm and very pleasant. I dug carrots to day. Mr. Hill dug parsneps for me this after noon.
4th Warm and pleasant. I killed our hog this fore noon, went up to the Post office this after noon and
also to the sugar factory which they expect will be in opperation in about two weeks. Uncle
Edwards folks were all here this afternoon and evening.
5th Cool and cloudy. I stuck a nail into my foot this morning. I went up to Mr Ames to see about
my leather but the weather has been so bad that he could do anything at tanning. therefore I did
not get it. my foot was so lame before I got home that I could hardly walk. it was swelled very
much. I cut up the pig this fore noon he weighed 112 pounds.
6th Cool and cloudy. I read all day in Reynolds Miscellany.
7th Warm and cloudy. I read again to day. Rained a little last night.
8th Warm and cloudy. Mrs Hyde, her daughter and Mrs Winchester were here visiting to day. I
spent the day in reading. I sent John up to Mr Ames this after noon and got a calf skin. price
5.62 « cts.
9th Warm and pleasant. Sunday. I spent the day in reading. my foot is getting better. I walked out
some to day. John got his shoes from Charles Hales this morning price for making 1.25 cts.
Brother Hyde eat supper here last night
10th Warm and pleasant. I filed and set the wood saw and went down to John Preecs in the evening
where all of the old people danced that never danced before. old Mr Jinkins & Mr Allen were
amongst them
11th [Page 108] Warm and pleasant. I went to the shoe makers and got my boot mended. I also
went to the Post Office and got the paper.
12th Warm and pleasant. I got my foot measured for a pair of shoes this after noon at Charley Hales.
I also went to see Mr Randall about some lumber but he was not at home. I bought half a quire
of paper, 25 cts. The turning of my broom handles and the sawing come to 5,75 cts or three
dollars and twenty cts. per hundred. There was a ward meeting this evening at the school house
to arrange business and for the committee to make their report etc. which they did not seem to
like very well for he thought he had not had time to make it out.
13th I got a horse of John Vance and went up to Gardners mill to se about some lumber that I was to
have of him and pay in lumber onions. Quite cool but thawed some. Snowed some last night,
and Thomas Jinkins had some clothes stole. he tracked the man that took them about a quarter of
a mile. he then got into a wagon which was easily tracked (because of the snow that had fallen in
the evening) to the house of Isaac Hatch where the wagon stood. they searched the house but
found nothing and they all declared that they knew nothing of the clothes but the officer saw an
emigrant that was living with Ike wearing a boot exactly coresponding with the track. I bought a
file this morning for which I paid twenty cents.
14th Warm and pleasant. I got two bu. of potatoes this morning for some onions that I let him have. I
then went to see about my taxes and made a visit to the social hall.
15th Warm and pleasant. I got two glass [] dishes 35 cts each at Needhams store for some brooms
that I let him have also a paper of Brittish lustre 25 cts.
16th Sunday thawed some. I went to meeting. C Rich, B Young, and O Hyde preached.
18th Warm and pleasant to day and yesterday. I went to a pic nic Ward party last night in the 7th ward
school house. it commenced between three and four and broke up at twelve and was the worst
party that I have been to this winter. I never was at a party where the company were so imposed
upon as they were last night, and the same is to be performed again to night. I cut onion roots to
day and took part of the onions out of the cellar chamber and carried them into the other
chamber. Mr Pratt and Mr Bates were here this after noon.
19th [Page 109] Cool and somewhat cloudy. freezes hard evry night thawed but very little to day.
I went up to the Legislature most of the day. I let a man have a bushel of onions to night and he
is to pay me in adobies next summer.
20th Warm and pleasant. I helped Lorenzo thrash his wheat to day Mrs Alley was here visiting to
day, Uncle Edwards folks were all over at Lorenzos and nearly all of the women in the City were
out visiting I should think for I could not look up without seeing one or two.
21st Warm and pleasant Absalom Woolf came this morning from Clover creek. I helped Lorenzo
cave up his wheat and then went up in town with Appy. we stopped in the Legislature hall a
while, then visited the sugar machine and carpenter shop, etc. I went to Mr Blazzards wedding
last night.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I helped Lorenzo clean up his wheat. He had thirteen and a half bushels of
wheat.
23rd Sunday. Quite cool I went with Appy over Jordan to look for Mr Loves mule but we did not
find it. our old cow calved to day.
24th I commenced thrashing my wheat this morning Appy helped me with his horses. I also had
John Vances two horses and one of Br Allen. Lorenzo also helped me, besides some boys to ride
horses. the U S mail arrived to day.
25th Warm and pleasant. I finished thrashing one stack of my wheat. Appy helped with his horses
and I had two more of John Vance and two of James. Mr Raimond got 9 « bu. of onions and is
to pay lumber.
26th Warm and pleasant. I went all around town with Appy and then came home and caved up my
wheat and sweeped off my threshing floor. I went to a pic nic party in the 3rd ward school house
last night, and to Mr Brims dancing school this evening.
27th Warm and pleasant this fore noon but a little cloudy this after noon Absalom started for home
this morning about sun rise. I worked filling up the old ditch before the house.
28th Warm and pleasant. I looked around for a fanning mill got the one that Father owns a share in;
got home about sundown.
29th Warm and pleasant Lorenzo helped me about cleaning my wheat. we cleaned thirty two bu and
put it in the bin, but did not quite finish on account of the mill breaking. It has froze some evry
night this week and warm and pleasant but still has not thawed enough to make it mudy. Sarah
Ann was taken very sick last night but is better to night.
30th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. We finished cleaning my stack of wheat. I had thirty five bu and
three pecks. Sarah Ann has set up considerable to day but feels rather worse to night. Mr Hill
came to me yesterday and told me that he had left my house and that I must look to Mrs Pratt for
the rent now. I marked the two calves and the two cows and the old oxs ears. two holes in the
right ear and one in the left; holes made with a shoe punch.
31st Cool and windy all day but thawed all of the time. I went up to the store and to the meat market
and got some beef. I bought a pound of black pepper and one of allspice half pound tea and
three nutmeggs which were 25 cts., total $2.25.
February 1853
[Feb 1853 - Misbranded heifer retrieved; Admitted to 2nd Quorum of Seventy; Temple ground
breaking missed; Sugar factory starts; Ordained a Seventy; Sarah Ann starts school; Work on
Temple]
1st [Page 110] Very pleasant but did not thaw much. John and I cut onions to day. I went to the
ward meeting last night which was to see about keeping Mr Dickson in the school as teacher but
it was not decided but left with the trustees. I came away before the meeting was out but it was
then after eleven.
5th Cool and cloudy but thawed a little. I went to Chases mill about seven or eight bu of wheat about
three of which is for flour, the rest to be chopped for feed. I had Mr Bundys oxen.
6th Cold and windy. I went up Jordan and got my oxen. I found Mothers heifer at Mr Becksteads
with a young calf. I told Mr Beckstead that it was Mothers and I had no difficulty with him as I
had expected. I got home a little after dark.
7th Warm and pleasant I went up to Gardners mill and got three hundred and eighty feet of lumber.
Johny went with me and we drove the heifer home. we got home about eight oclock at night. I
took 6 « bu of onions up to the mill. I am to have my pay in lumber.
8th Warm and pleasant. I paid up for the paper yesterday, and some other debts; and went after the
lumber to day.
9th Quite pleasant. I got my grist home from Chases.
10th Cool and pleasant. I went to Neffs mill to day but did not get my grinding. I took two bushels
and a half of onions up to Brighams mill for which I am to have bran or shorts [(a by-product of
wheat milling that includes the germ, fine bran, and some flour)]. I hired a young man to get my
grist ground as every one is obliged to be there to do their own milling and I did not wish to stay
all night therefore I give half bushel of onions to have it ground and brought home.
11th Warm and pleasant I made a calf pen and a pen for the heifer. also mad rack to haul stone on
12th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of stone the roads are very mudy.
13th Warm and pleasant. Sunday. I did not go to meeting to day, but I attended the meeting of the
second quorum of Seventies this evening. There were four vacancies, one of which it was voted
that I should fill, namely that of Mr John Rice. Lorenzo proposed that I should fill one of the
vacancies and as no one had any objection I was admited.
14th [Page 111] Monday. Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of rock to day, for as I did not go to
meeting yesterday I knew not that this was the day to commence the Temple, but so it was and I
understand that Brigham Young threw the first spade full of dirt which was first dug around with
picks because of the ground being froze.
15th Warm and pleasant. I went to the Seventies meeting to day. I also visited the sugar factory
which has been in opperation since Saturday morning.
16th Cool and Cloudy. I went up to Brighams mill and got 85 pounds of shorts and 3 bu of bran. I
also took two bushels of parsneps for which I am to have thirty pounds of flour at five cents per
pound.
17th Snowed considerable but thawed as fast as it fell. I cleaned out a part of the ditch before the
house, and made a trough for the calves, and took Mother to a ward feast or dinner at the house
of Harrison Sperry which was crowded to exceeds. They had a dance at night. I went over and
stayed until nine oclock. Orrin Woodbury was married about four this after noon I understand
but am not certain
18th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a small load of stone and quarried two more. the roads are very
mudy.
19th Warm and pleasant I hauled a load of stone this fore noon and a load of gravel this after noon.
I went to a pic nic party last night in the third ward school house.
20th Sunday, pleasant this fore noon but cloudy this after noon. I started this morning to go over
jordan to hunt my cow but it was so mudy that I did not go.
21st Snowed considerable. I cut the letters of my name this fore noon in a piece of tin, and went up to
the convention this after noon to hear what price was put upon Farmers produce. I was ordained
last night a member of the Second quorum of Seventies. The clerk wrote my ordination in
Phonography and I am to have a copy of it next Sunday evening. Sarah Ann commenced going
to school to Mr Dickson.
22nd Warm and pleasant. Johny and I quarried stone all day and hauled a small load home. The snow
nearly all went off.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of stone this fore noon and hauled a part of a load of
parsneps home, also a load of gravel.
24th The South wind blew very cold but it thawed considerable. I went over Jordan with John Wakely
to look for my cow but I could not find her. we found both of Johns, and got home about eight
oclock. John lent me a horse we went across the valley to the West Mountain. We both got wet
a little, crossing the river coming home.
25th [Page 112] Cool and windy. I worked on tithing, hauling gravel out of the Temple cellar. I also
hauled a load home at night.
26th Cool and cloudy. John and I worked on tithing. John drove the team and I shoveled dirt. we
hauled a load of gravel home. It rained quite hard after we got home for a short time and then
commenced snowing but that did not last long.
27th Sunday. Cloudy. I stayed at home all day; went to quorum meeting at night. I got a copy of my
ordination, which is as follows:
Homer Brown, son of Benjamin and Sarah Brown, Born in the town of Pomphret, Chautauque
Co., New York, on 9th of August 1830 Ordained a Seventy in the second Quorum February 18th
1853 under the hands of Lewis Robbins, Wm. F. Cahoon, Harrison Burgess, Elijah F. Sheets. L.
Robbins mouth. Brother Homer in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of the holy
priesthood, we lay our hands upon thy head, and ordain you in the second quorum of Seventies
to be an apostle and a special witness to the nations of the earth in bearing the everlasting
gospel to the inhabitants thereof. We ask God our heavenly Father to let his blessings rest upon
you, that the holy spirit may be in thee, that thou mayest be enabled to magnify thy calling and
the office which we now confer upon you, and be an instrument in doing great good in thy day
and generation, and inasmuch as you are young we pray our Father to let his blessings rest upon
you that you may have strength of heart to magnify thy calling and make it honorable to thyself,
and honor the priesthood which God has called you to. We say unto you inasmuch as you are
faithful no power will be able to stay thy hand. you shall be instrumental in doing great good
among the nations of the earth, and your name shall be held in honorable rememberance for the
time to come. you shall be honored on the earth and in the eternal worlds by the Gods. God has
sent you to this earth to magnify thy calling and prepare thyself for his presence. We seal all the
blessings of this apostleship upon your head, and we pray God our Heavenly Father to seal the
same upon you, and all praise we will give to the Father through Jesus Christ, Amen.
28th Warm and pleasant. I went up to Brighams mill and got seven bu of bran and thirty pounds of
flour for the onions and parsneps that I took up there. I worked paving the walk from the house
to the S gate this afternoon.
March 1853
[Mar 1853 - Hauling stone; Foundation of new home laid; Isaac Hatch shot by Bill Hickman;
Gladdenites preach; Wind storm; Plagued by a skin disorder]
1st Tuesday. Very pleasant and warm. I hauled gravel from out the Temple cellar. I also hauled a
load home at night. Harrison Sperry moved into his new house to day.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I took three bu of parsneps to pay for blacksmithing to Mr Cuthbert he
made five wedges for me to split stone with which was one dollar he also sharpened two picks,
37 « cts. I hauled a load of stone.
3rd [Page 113] Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of stone.
4th Warm and pleasant. I hauled another load of stone.
5th Very pleasant. John and I went up in Parley's kanyon and got a load of wood for which I paid
twenty five cents when it was standing. I also got one hundred and fifteen pounds of shorts at
Brighams mill we got home a little after dark. There was considerable snow in the kanyon.
6th Sunday. Very warm. seems almost like summer. I went to meeting at the Tabernacle to day and
at the 7th ward school house at night. The mud has nearly all dried up. John went home to see
his folks.
7th The South wind blowed considerable to day and is blowing quite hard to night. I hauled a load of
stone. I got a pail of Mr Lewis to night for which I am to give a bushel of onions. Johny came
back to day.
8th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of stone this fore noon and dug parsneps this after noon.
9th Cold, Snowy, and rainy. I worked in the chamber cutting onions and laying the floor, and
moving the things etc.
10th Cold and stormy. I put a handle in my axe and marked the axes and some other things with a
cold chisel.
11th Cold and mudy. I got my pay of Mr Wallace which was eight dollars at Livingstons store for
onions. I also went to the sugar factory to see if they would take my beets and parsneps and let
me have molases.
12th Cloudy and windy this after noon. I went up to the public shop and ground both of my axes. I
also fixed the gravel walk in front of the house. Mrs Pratt had a boy born to day.
13th Sunday Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting at the tabernacle to day and to quorum meeting
this evening.
14th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of stone this fore noon and a load of sand this after noon.
15th Cloudy and windy. I hauled a load of sand this morning. I then dug out the place for the
foundation of my house. Eliza moved home.
16th Cloudy, and quite cold and windy this after noon. I hauled two loads of stone from Fathers house
over for mine. I also hauled half a load of clay from here and one load from the clay bank. Mr
James Hirst a mason commenced laying the foundation of my house. I also hired a man to tend
him. I dug parsneps this afternoon.
17th Warm and pleasant. I went this forenoon to find where I am to make my fence in the big field. I
then hauled a load of sand and dug a few parsneps. Mr Hirst finished laying the foundation of
my house which is twenty two by sixteen. I paid Mr Hirst 6 bu of beets 4 1/3 of parsneps and
one bu of onions all of which is 8 dollars. the laying of the stone is sixteen dollars. the other
eight I pay in wood. I paid the tender one bu of onions and two of parsneps.
18th [Page 114] Warm and pleasant. I dug parsneps part of the day. I then went up to Holladays
store, for I heard they were selling sugar at 20 dollars per cwt and I intended to buy some, but it
was a mistake. it was 33 1/3 cts per pound instead of 20. I hired a man to fill up the ditch North
of the house I am to give him a bushel of onions and go to the kanyon and haul a load of wood
which he is to get down off the side of the Mountain.
19th Quite pleasant except the North wind blew some. I drove my old ox up nearly to Gardners mill.
I also got the horse that belongs to Lorenzo and me he was about five miles above the mill. I
stopped at Isaac Hatch's as I came home and I found the report was false about his being dead,
but he is severely wounded and it is supposed by Bill Hickman but Hatch would say but little
about it to me, for he said that he had acted the fool too long now. He had a very high fever this
after noon but he said that he intended to live and do well yet, but he expected to be a cripple for
one of the balls is lodged in his body that is the one that went into his back or between his back
and hip, and the Dr says that it cannot be extracted. He was shot a week ago last Wednesday the
9th
20th Sunday, warm and pleasant I wrote a letter this fore noon to Absalom Woolf. I went to
meeting. H. C. Kimball & W. Woodruff preached. After meeting a Gladdenite preached north
of Livingstons store. had a wagon for a stand commenced by singing a hymn and prayer; the
man that preached was Albert Smith. I came home before he was done but I understand that a
man by the name of Robert Williams or at least he is called Bob Williams. He got upon a small
building close in the vicinity and commenced thundering away so loud that Mr Smith and Mr
Gallop (the two Gladdenites) left the ground.
21st Very pleasant and warm. I worked around the house this fore noon and dug some parsneps this
after noon. Johny stayed at home to day to help me and I intend to keep him at home this week.
22nd Warm and pleasant I worked on tithing hauling out gravel from the temple cellar. I took eight
bu of parsneps up to the tithing office this morning. I hauled a load of stone home with me to
night to pave a walk before my house.
23rd [Page 115] Warm but the South wind blew very hard. I hauled roots for Horace Alexander
which is to be turned on tithing. The big barn up by the public square burned to day with horses
in it. I hired a man to thresh my wheat for evry eighth bushel he commenced this morning. I
got six peach trees up at Lorenzo Youngs which we bought of Mr Gaddard at fifty cents each, but
they are only about a foot high.
24th Cold Snowy and windy. The South wind continued blowing all night and about four oclock this
morning it was almost a hurricane, which I expected would unroof our house but it did no
damage for me except blowing down nine lengths of fence and my wheat stack and unroofing the
back and hen houses and carrying away my half bushel and wash dish both of which I have not
found. One side of Mr Johnsons shop (which was built of adobies but only a single wall) blowed
down and one of Mrs Pratts waggons blew over. Thomas Jinkins had started to go to the kanyon
befor the hard gale and I understand that it blowed him across the street and blowed him down
and blowed his hat away etc. But what damages were generally done throughout the City I have
not yet learned. There is considerable snow on the ground to night but it all lay in drifts therefore
I cannot tell how deep it is.
25th Warm and pleasant. Johny and I worked putting up the fence that blew down, we also fixed the
cow yard.
26th Warm and pleasant. Johny and I hauled three loads of manure and put on the garden. John then
started for home. I got out one load after Johny went away. I plowed some this after noon on
Fathers City lot
27th Sunday. The Sunday that the Welsh hold as a feast day. The South wind blew quite hard to day.
I went down in the big field with Br Condy and looked at Fathers five acre lot. Mr. Condy is to
take it and sow about half of it with wheat and plant the remainder with corn and beets. I am to
find the seed wheat and he finds the corn and beet seed and I am to have one third of the wheat in
the shock. I spent the remainder of the day looking for my cow but I did not find her. I have
some kind of disorder breaking out on my fase and wrists and legs but I do not know what it is.
28th [Page 116] Monday. Warm smoky and the South wind blew quite hard. John came back to day
we then moved the back and hen houses and then Johny commenced harrowing the land that I
plowed Saturday. I am now taking Richardsons bitters three times a day.
29th Warm and windy. I took half a bushel of onions up to Mr Neibaurs and got a dollars worth of
matches which was twenty bunches. I also took half bu of onions and four and a half bu of
parsneps to Mr Westwoods shop. I get 4 « pounds of wrought nails for the parsneps. the onions
partly pay for a dung fork. I went to see Dr Andrews to day to see if he could tell what is the
matter with me and he said it was only a disease of the skin. but it itches and burns so nights that
I cannot sleep. The man finished threshing and cleaning my wheat. There was just fifteen
bushels, two of which I give for threshing.
30th Rained some this morning. I made some fence posts and fixed up the fence on my lot and hauled
home a load of beets.
31st Warm and pleasant I worked clearing off the lot to get it ready for plowing and finished diging
the parsneps.
April 1853
[Apr 1853 - Sore throats and fevers;Temple cornerstones laid; Sealed to Sarah Ann; High water;
Limits on books; Brigham calls in Gladdenites; Governor orders Mexicans arrested; Indians rob
mail; Snake and Crow Indians die of smallpox]
1st Very warm. I plowed harrowed and furrowed Horace Alexanders city lot to day, and fixed my
wagon to go to the kanyon.
2nd Cool and snowed some in the kanyon. I went to Parleys kanyon and got a good load of wood. I
broke my reach but I took two along with me therefore I got along first rate. I paid 25 cts cash
for my load and cut it myself.
3rd Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went up to the stray pen to look for my cow but could not find
her.
4th Warm and pleasant. I went over to the point of the West Mountain to look for my cow and to
drive up some stray cattle for George Grant, for which he said he would pay five dollars. There
was a sale to day of the stray cattle. I found three of our cows and my two oxen in the stray pen
but I did not have to pay.
5th [Page 117] Warm and pleasant I picked up some of the stone that were lying around the house.
I also hauled my hearth stones over to my lot. I had a very severe head ache this fore noon but I
got Lorenzo to commence plowing but my head ached so hard that I was obliged to come in I
then had a chill and a very high fever. Sarah Ann is also sick. we both have sore throats.
6th Warm and pleasant. The corner stones of the Temple were laid to day but none of us were able
to go. Sarah Ann and me were sick in bed. It is three years to day since I commenced keeping
this journal.
7th Warm and pleasant. Sarah Ann and myself are better to day so that we sat up to the table and eat
some. our cows commenced going in the herd this morning.
8th Warm and pleasant. I plowed a little this after noon but it made me very tired.
9th Warm and pleasant. I finished plowing Fathers City lot and sowed a few onions. this is the new
of the moon when the people say it is the wrong time to sow onions but I am going to try it.
10th Sunday. Very warm but pleasant Sarah Ann and I were sealed to day by E. T Benson in the
Council House there were several other couple there that were sealed also among whom was
Harrison Sperry and Mary Mosley. I went to meeting all day.
11th Warm but cloudy and windy. I worked in the garden making beds and sowing onion seed.
Thomas Jinkins and Henry Sabina worked for me this fore noon and Mr Bailey this after noon.
Rained a little this evening.
12th Rained considerable. I sowed some onion seed this morning, also set out some rose bushes and
some Hollyhock roots. I also went up to the tithing office and found that I owed some on my
tithing.
13th Warm and pleasant. I worked some in the garden and fixed up the waggons. I put a reach in one
and a box in one wheel etc.
14th Cold cloudy and rained some I went up to Gardners mill and got 540 feet of lumber. The
creeks are rising now City creek is quite high and I never saw kanyon creeks higher than they
now are.
15th Cool and rained a little. I went up to the library this fore noon to get a book but the librarian
would [Page 118] let but one go to a family and as Lorenzo has books there I can have none until
he stops getting for there is not books enough for evry one to have at one time. I furrowed out
some land for potatoes this after noon and hauled my beets home. I had only nine bushels, these
are the sugar beets.
16th Very warm and pleasant. I got my plough sharpened and hauled the last of my parsneps from my
lot. I then raked up the weeds and other rubbish that was on it and burned it. I sold a pound of
onion seed this evening at Reeces store. I understood that Brigham sent fore all of the
Gladdenites to come and see him but I know nothing about it.
17th Sunday. Very windy I went up to the church pasture to day to look for my cow amongst the
strays but I could not find her. Major Holman arrived yesterday from the Weber river where he
wintered and lived nineteen days on Elk meat, as I understand.
18th Warm and pleasant. I ploughed my City lot. I also got my pay of George Grant for driving up
stray cattle but it was credited to me on tithing, five dollars. I planted a few potatoes this
morning.
19th Warm and pleasant. I harrowed my City lot and sowed half of it with wheat. The Church herd
started for California to day.
20th Cloudy and rained a little. I done some breaking for Mr Saddler this fore noon and part of the
after noon. I planted a little corn this after noon, only four rows the length of my lot.
21st Cloudy and windy I worked at ditching to day to fence in the 4th Ward pasture.
22nd Snow about three inches deep this morning but very wet. continued snowing until about 10
oclock. some of the snow melted off this after noon.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I sold four bushels of onions to Capt Hooper this morning at 150 cts per bu
for the cash. I covered the back house this afternoon. Holladay and Warners train left here this
morning for California.
24th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. Sarah Ann and I went to meeting this fore noon. I got my oxen up
this after noon.
25th Cool and cloudy I plowed for mr Condy and he is to ditch for me. I plowed about two acres
26th [Page 119] Warm and pleasant most of the day but rained a very little in the afternoon Johny
and I worked ditching for Fathers five acre farming lot. We finished the fence except setting thre
posts and putting on twelve poles, which we did not take down on account of the roads being so
bad. Governor Youngs proclamation was issued to day but I have not read it, but I understand
that he has given orders to arrest evry Mexican that is found within the Territory and that the
Mexicans have been furnishing the Idians with arms and ammunition for the purpose of killing
the Mormons in the Southern settlements. There has been two or three of the Mexicans arrested
in this place, but I cannot find out the exact number, but it is supposed they belong to a banditty
that live in the Mountains.
27th Warm and pleasant I sowed onions to day and planted some potatoes on Fathers lot.
28th Cool and windy I sowed some onion seed four ounces on a piece of land 120 feet long and 28
feet wide. I also sowed some peas and some beet seed.
29th Cold and very windy I planted a half a bu of potatoes on Fathers lot and a little over half a bu
on mine. I also sowed a few beet seeds there was a Mountaineer came in to day from Green
River and say that he thinks the Crow Indians have robbed the mail and taken the carriers
prisoners for the Mountaineers have heard that the Crows had some prisoners and as near as they
can learn one of them is Little the man that went out with the mail.
30th Windy and hailed some I sowed some onions. General muster to day. I saw a Mountaineer to
day that told me that nearly half of the snake Indians and a great many of the Crows had died last
winter with the small pox.
May 1853
[May 1853 - Bath at warm springs; Governor returns from expedition; Joined Capt. Angel's Co.;
Thomas Mosley cuts foot; High Water]
1st [Page 120] Sunday. Rained some about noon. I went to meeting this fore noon and went up in
the pasture and got my oxen to go to the kanyon tomorrow.
2nd Warm and pleasant most of the day except a little cool and windy towards night. Johny and I
went and got a load of wood in a small dry kanyon South of North kanyon. We took a warm bath
at the warm spring as we came home. The Governor arrived to day from his Southern
expedition. There has been a great deal of talk about going to fight the Indians lately but I think
they will not go for the Governor brings quite favorable news as near as I can learn.
3rd Cool and windy. I got Johns shoes mended to day. I give half bu of potatoes for mending. I
finished planting my potatoes this after noon.
4th Warm and pleasant. I finished sowing my onion parsnep and carrot seeds this fore noon. John
and I drove the calves away up to George Allens pasture. I marked them by making two holes in
the right ear and one in the left with a shoe punch and then putting lead rivets in the holes. I am
to pay one cent per head a day. John Wakley came home from Ft. Bridger.
5th Cold and stormy most of the day. I finished making the fence for Fathers farming lot. I hauled a
load of wood to Mr Hirst this morning to pay him for laying the foundation for my house the
load was eight dollars.
6th Warm and pleasant. I went to Red bute kanyon after a load of wood for Mr Bailey which he was
to get off from the Mountain down to the road where I could drive to it with my waggon But
instead of that it was near half a mile up the Mountain. therefore, I did not get it, but I cut a load
of birch brush for pea brush and to put on some beds etc. I also hauled home two large flat
stones to make a floor to the cellar. I split them up and they covered 21 square feet.
7th Warm and pleasant General muster to day. I joined Capt Angels company of foot. Several
speeches delivered about being prepared to fight the Indians etc. The Eastern mail arrived this
after noon with six bags of letters and left eleven at Ft Laramie. This is the first mail that we
have received for 7 months.
8th Sund. Warm and pleasant Sarah Ann and I went to meeting all day. Br Brigham and Br
Kimball preached this fore noon concerning their journey south etc.
9th [Page 121] Warm and pleasant. I went up to the Post office and got five letters from Father, one
dated at Kanesville one at Portland one at New York, and two at Lodi. I planted my melon seeds
and cucumber seeds and some Callifornia peas.
10th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I went and got each of us a load of stone. I got mine to make a
floor in the cellar. we both got stalled twice on account of the high water washing the channels
of the creeks so deep. we did not get home until 9 oclock at night. I understand that the
Spaniards (that have been prisoners here since the Governor issued his proclamation) were to
have their trial to day, but I do not know.
11th Warm and pleasant except a considerable gale of wind this afternoon. I paved the cellar, and
worked some fixing the fence around the 4 ward pasture. I carried down four poles and I
furnished three before, which makes seven, 1,75ct. Mrs Hyder and her three daughters were here
visiting to day. I had a very severe head ache this morning
12th Warm and cloudy. I took the plow to pieces and put it away. I also went up to the Tithing office
to see if the would take onions on labor Tithing and found that they would.
13th Warm and cloudy and rained a little about sundown. I took six bu of onions up to the tithing
office to turn on my labor tithing. I hauled a load of pebble stone from the temple cellar for
paving.
14th I hauled a load of gravel and put in a water dich and a load of stone to pave a walk in front of the
house.
15th Sunday. Warm and pleasant I was quite sic to day with the sick headache.
16th Warm, Cold, Cloudy. I made a sand board for my old waggon and fixed up my waggon and got
my chains mended to go to the kanyon.
17th Cool and cloudy Johny and I went to the kanyon after a load of poles he drove Lorenzos team
and we got two loads earned in the kanyon [Page 122] without feed for our cattle, worked very
hard, had to slide our poles nearly half a mile. we also got eight sleepers [(a piece of timber,
stone, or steel on or near the ground to support a superstructure)] for my house.
18th Warm and pleasant. we got home about 4 oclock with our poles, about 40, and eight sleepers. I
bought six poles at ten cts. each in the kanyon, slept rather cold last night. I broke a spoke out of
one of Lorenzos wheels.
19th Warm cloudy, cold and rainy. I hoed some onions and put a spoke in Lorenzos waggon and a
stake in mine
20th Rained considerable. I fixed up the board fence and commenced writing a letter to Father.
21st Rained very hard where I was up Jordan but only a very little in the City. I was over the River
hunting cattle I found the oxen one was fat and the other looks first rate. I got home about 8
oclock, the water vry high.
22nd Sunday. I wrote some to Father. I got my oxen up this after noon to haul wood. Johny went
home yesterday to see his folks.
23rd Very warm and rained some this afternoon. Lorenzo and I went to N. Mill creek kanyon and got
each a load of logs for wood. We got home about 9 oclock P.M. Johny came back this after
noon.
24th Warm. I made a waggon tongue and read some in Spencers travels in the East.
25th Warm and rained some this after noon. I hauled a load of stone for Lorenzo. Thomas Mosley
cut his foot and his Mother was very badly scared. I done it up for him.
26th Warm and pleasant. I worked fixing up my waggon.
27th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I went to the kanyon (a small dry kanyon N. of the hot spring)
and got each of us a load of wood.
28th Very warm I got a pair of waggon wheels of Mrs Wakley and got the tire set at Mr Thomas
shop, and got the wagon ready for the kanyon.
29th Sunday. Rained some. I finished writing my letter
30th Warm and pleasant. I hoed some potatoes. I also carried mine and Mothers letters up to the P.
O. I also received a letter from Father.
31st Warm and pleasant. I calculated to have gone to the kanyon to day but the water rose so high last
night that I have been obliged to stay at home.
June 1853
[Jan 1853 - City flooded; Brigham Young's birthday; Grasshopper plague; more flooding; Gold
diggers from States; Famine expected; Caring for an ox; Thomas Jinkins has a dispute with Mr.
Gregory; List of materials used for home]
1st [Page 123] Cloudy and rainy. I worked on the water ditch up by Mr. Knowltons to turn the
water of City creek down in the bottom by the bath house. evry man in the City was called out
even the carpenters in the publick shop were furnished with picks and spades etc. to help turn the
creek which has done considerable damage nearly washed down some houses and overflowed
some lots among which latter were Lorenzos and Fathers. Lorenzos was nearly all under water
the night before last. the whole of the neighborhood were up at the time which was about one
oclock in the morning. I found most of my onions were under water but I cut a ditch which
turned the water off but it was so dark that we could not see, so I went in and went to bed until
light. I then worked a good part of the fore noon helping Lorenzo make a ditch around his lot.
Br Love came here yesterday from Clover creek. he came down on the West side of Utah Lak
reports very good road. This is Brigham Youngs birth day. he was born 1801. John and I
finished hoeing my lot for the first time.
2nd Cloudy and very black in the West all of the fore noon and rained quite hard this after noon.
Johny and I hoed some onions, carrots, melons etc. but the ground was very wet after the flood. I
worked in the water some to day, up by Mr Vances and some at home I have written
considerable to day.
3rd Warm and cloudy. I transplanted some beets and worked at the water some. I also went up to
the library.
4th Rained some this fore noon but cool and pleasant this after noon. I went to company muster this
fore noon. There were quite a number of men called out of different companies to go and work
on the water ditch to keep the water from washing Orson Hydes house away. I worked in the
water all the afternoon up by Mr Vances for the water has been standing on part of Fathers lot
since Monday morning but I think we have turned it off now. Thomas Corless told me to day
that he thought there were about three grasshoppers in the big field to evry spear of wheat a
great deal of it being completely destroyed.
5th Sunday. Warm and very pleasant. Sarah Ann and I went to meeting this fore noon. P. Pratt
preached most of the time then an Elder from the Society Islands, then Mr Roswood spoke about
the grasshoppers, that they were eating all of the wheat, and that they could be killed for one man
and his boys had kept them off his wheat, one! Brigham then told the people they had better all
go tomorrow morning and drive the grasshoppers into Jordan.
6th [Page 124] Monday. Warm and pleasant. I commenced working for Lorenzo, hoeing onions,
but about 10 oclock the water broke loose and began to overflow my garden, consequently I was
obliged to work in the water nearly all of the remainder of the day. I got done in time to go and
get my oxen from the pasture which by the by is nearly all under water. I rode about half a mile
where the water was from two to four and a half feet deep, before I got to land. I then rode about
three quarters of a mile to get back besides the other creeks and sloughs that I went through.
Johny worked all day for Lorenzo.
7th Warm and pleasant. I went and got a load of willow wood from the worst place that ever any
person went for wood I expect. I went up a small dry kanyon (South of Bakers kanyon) which
led to the top of the Mountain N. of City creek. here we left our waggons and went down into
Bakers or North kanyon and dragged it up the hill, it took six draggs for my load. We had a
beautiful view of the City and of Salt Lake and the country for thirty miles North and to the
Southern extremity of this valley also to the Western, etc. We got [home] about 11 oclock P.M.
and were very tired.
8th Very warm until about five oclock it then rained very hard for nearly an hour and hailed some.
John and I made a ditch along the sidewalk in front of the house on account of the water being so
high. I then fixed my waggon and hoed a few onions. Johny hoed onions while I fixed my
waggon.
9th Very warm. John and I went up in a small dry kanyon down North and got about a cord of wood,
maple and oak. we suffered some for want of water, but John went about a mile out of our road
coming home and got some at a spring. We got home about nine oclock.
10th Very warm this fore noon, but cold and cloudy this after. I took my lumber up to the public shop
to have H. Alaxander make my door and window frames. one of our cows got into the big field
and Mr Gregory drove her into his yard with several other cattle belonging in the 4th ward.
There was twenty cts a head to pay.
11th Warm and cloudy in the fore noon but cold and rained some this after noon. Johny and I hoed
potatoes all day except when it rained. I got some large English shoe nails to put in the heels of
my shoes. there was an emigrant came in to day, on his way to California.
12th [Page 125] Sunday. Cold, cloudy, and windy. I worked in the water all of the fore-noon up by
Amys tin shop because of a Mr Stewarts tearing away the dam or bank which let the whole of the
east branch of City creek run over the streets and across the East side of the 7th ward and done a
great deal of damage to gardens etc. There was quite a large company of gold diggers came in
from the states, lost two mules in East kanyon creek report Livingstons goods in tomorrow or
next day. Bear River bridge broke down and a load of goods belonging to Mr. Tutt lost. Loss
between four and six thousand dollars.
13th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I ploughed our potatoes this fore-noon. I also hoed some
onions this morning. Johny hoed onions all day. I went down in the big field this after-noon to
look at Fathers grass and farming lots. the grass lots look first rate a great deal of the grass is
now up to my waist but the road is very wet and mudy between that and the City. The wheat and
corn does not look so well, but the wheat looks better than some in the field for to me it looks as
if there would be a famine in less than a year for I passed lot after lot that was completely
destroyed by the grass hoppers and many others that were in a fair way to be for the grass
hoppers were so thick that I could shovel up a shovel full at a time in some places. It looked very
discouraging to me for I saw but very few pieces of wheat that looked well in riding six or seven
miles and back. Indeed it was fairly sickening to see the sad havoc they have made and still are
making with the crops. Some pieces of Spring wheat are swept clean not so mutch as one spear
left the Winter wheat the climb up and eat the heads off and thus destroy it and the high water
has destroyed a considerable number of gardens etc. but I suppose it is all for the best; and I must
not complain. P.S. My woman got rather mad at me at noon because I told her the coffee was not
strong. I then laughed at her and told her that I would write it down in my book.
14th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the U. S. Hotel to see if I could sell some onions to the Gold
diggers. I sold them half a bushel. I also bought six sacks for 75, also a small tin can for 15 cts.
Mr Cuthbert shod my oxen this after noon, price for shoeing seven dollars.
15th Very warm. John and I hoed corn and onions this fore noon and started for North kanyon about
noon for a load of wood. I sold a bushel of onions to Mr Little and half bu to an Emigrant.
16th [Page 126] Very warm. John and I slept in North Kanyon last night. the musquetoes bit us a
little. We got a good load of maple wood dry and got home about five P.M.
17th Roasting hot. John and I started for the North kanyon again in company with Thomas Jinkins
we started about noon one of my oxen came very near giving out on account of the intense heat;
we were obliged to stop between the kanyon and hot spring and let our cattle rest but they were
so hot they would not eat much. we got up to the camping place about nine or ten oclock at night
while it was cool traveling.
18th Another very hot day. We got a good load of maple wood, part dry and part green but were
obliged to stop before we got home on account of the heat, we met several gold diggers with ox
teams. we got home about sun down. We saw some men yesterday that had just arrived from the
mines; report the water very high between here and California, etc.
19th Sunday. very warm but somewhat cloudy. I had the head ache to day. The grass hoppers have
commenced their work of destruction on the gardens in this part of the City, but I believe have
done no great damage yet. Alexander Williams arrived in this place yesterday from California.
20th Warm and pleasant. I worked fixing the fence around the 4th Ward pasture this fore noon and
hoed some onions this after noon. Abraham Boswell came here to day; he says that he is
married to one of Mr Hamiltons daughters. Mr Hamilton is going to the states to give himself up
to Mr Vaughns friends to have his trial for murdering said Vaughn.
21st Very warm. John and I hoed onions this fore noon and hoed corn and watered wheat this after
noon.
22nd Very warm. I watered some of my wheat this morning. I then went up to the Post office and got
a news paper from Mr Stoddard N. Y I also bought a piece of beef at 10 cts per pound and some
tallow at 15. John and I started for North kanyon about one oclock.
23rd Warm and pleasant John and I slept in the kanyon last night. we cut part of our load last night
and dragged it down and loaded this morning the most of it is fir and pine logs. we got home
about 4 oclock.
24th Very warm I went and cut a load of grass on Fathers grass lot. I got Mr Cuthbert to put on three
shoes on my oxen which came off the second time that I went to the kanyon. Lorenzo and family
and Mother went up to John Crosbys visiting to day they started between four and five in the
morning
25th Very warm. John and I worked on the road in Red bute kanyon. I am entitled to twelve tickets to
pass the toll gate. I saw a large bear track in the kanyon. The road is washed to pieces very bad.
The Eastern mail got in this evening.
26th [Page 127] Sunday. Very warm this fore noon. I went to meeting. Very windy this after noon.
I got a letter from Father. I also commenced writing one to him. The papers in this mail got very
wet and are not yet distributed.
27th Rained some this fore noon. I set out some cabbage plants, about 85 in number on account of the
water drowning part of the first ones that I set out. I hauled two loads of clay this after noon
very large loads.
28th Warm and pleasant I cut and hauled a load of grass this forenoon I also stuck some stakes
where my fence is to be for my ten acre lot. I hauled a very large load of clay this afternoon, it
was about as large as four loads that some men haul. one of my oxen was taken sick to night. I
think it was on account of his eating some poisonous weed but I do not know. I went and asked a
farrier what to do and he told me to give him about three qts of skim milk and half pound of salts
and if I could get no salts thicken the milk with salt, and add one spoonful of cayenne pepper and
about a pound of lard and pour it down him then one get on each side of him with a wisp of
straw and rub his belly thoroughly for nearly an hour and if there was no alteration in three hours
he must be bled. I followed his directions and the ox was better when I had done.
29th Warm and pleasant I borrowed a yoke of oxen and hauled my door and window frames home. I
finished writing my letter to Father. I also ploughed Mrs McArthurs corn my ox is better to day.
30th Warm and pleasant. I hoed some onions and plowed the potatoes on Fathers lot. I went up to the
Post office and put Mothers and my letters in. The water is falling very fast in Mill creek and
City creek Mr Gregory drove one of our cows up into his yard and there was 10 cts to pay I
paid it and took her home he also had Thomas Jinkins cows and when Thomas went after them
he told Thomas that he could not have them and Thomas told him that he would and upon that
they came very near fighting and Gregory threatened to run the pitch fork through him and his
hired man handed it to him for that purpose but Thomas jerked it out of their hands and went to
see Bishop Hunter about it and when he came back his cows were at home. This is Thomas
story.
[Page 128] December 19th Amount of building material and the price of the same for my house:
$
cts
2 « doz round head screws 20 cts per doz
50
4 doz flat head screws, 10 cts per doz
40
one door handle
50
one door knob and lock
2
50
Two hundred and twenty feet of lumber of R. Gardner at four dollars at the mill
8
80
163 feet of lumber of A P Raimond at the same price.
6
52
on load of stone, page 110
2 cords of stone
36
00
for laying 16 perch of stone
16
00
Mason tender two days
3
50
One and a half load of clay and three loads of sand, 75 cts each
3
37 «
Four and a half pounds of wrought nails
2
25
Three hundred and forty feet of lumber, at four dollars per hundred at the mill
21
75
Four window springs, 25 cts each
1
00
Two pair of two inch bits at 15 cts per pair
30
One pair of two and a half inch bits
20
Four pounds of wrought floor brads at 50 cts per pound
2
00
Eleven pounds of shingle nails at 30 cts. per pound.
3
30
Six loads of clay at 75 cts per load.
4
50
Making eleven door and window frames 1,50 cts each.
16
50
322 feet of red pine lumber (including rafters) at 2,50 per hundred at Snyders
mill, and 210 feet of white pine at 3 dollars.
14
35
For hauling said lumber at two dollars per hundred
10
64
2000 adobies of Robert Thompson at ten dollars per thousand
20
00
8 sleepers and for hewing the same and putting them in the house
8
00
2 crane eyes
---
266 feet of posts at five dollars per hundred
13
30
3150 adobies of George Leslie at one dollar per hundred
31
50
Four bolts for the house
10
50
1000 adobies of George Leslie at one dollar per hundred
10
00
One days work putting on the plates
1
50
250 adobies of Mr Hill at one dollar per hundred
2
50
10 loads of sand for laying adobies at 75 cts per load
7
50
Two pounds of ten penny nails at 30 cts per pound
60
Three and a half pounds of double ten penny nails
9
05
Two and a half pounds of six penny nails
45
A day and a half work putting on rafter and sheeting.
3
00
Three days work at shingling
7
50
600 laths at 1,35 cts per hundred
5
10
100 feet of lumber seasoned of Harry Sperry
5
00
1 keg of white lind
5
00
Total
309
35
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July 1853
[Jul 1853 - Celebration of 4th; Helping an emigrant; Disturbances by Indian Walker; 7th Ward
party; Finding a lost yellow cow]
1st [Page 128] Friday. Warm and pleasant. I hoed some onions and John turned the oxen out.
2nd Very warm. General muster. I trained this fore noon and tried to trade some with the
emmigrants but I only bought a 1/4 of a pound of tea for Mother. I bought a pair of shoes for
John this morning. price 2,50.
3rd Sunday. Very warm. I went to meeting.
4th Very warm. I attended the Cellebration to day. commenced by fireing the canon and with music
by the Brass and Martial bands. At 9 o'clock the Governor was escorted to the Tabernacle where
he was seated in the stand. After the escort were seated the Marshall read the order of the day
and called upon Elder Erastus Snow to open by prayer. They then proceeded with Orations,
Speeches, Music, Toasts, etc. The ceremonies ended by the Bands playing the Governors Grand
March and the people retired to refresh themselves in family capacities or ward conventions as
best suited their wishes.
5th Very warm. I hunted nearly all day for my oxen and waded a great deal in the water and the sun
burned my back and legs considerable. Harry went with me we got very tired and hungry. we
went to Mr Geo Allens and begged something to eat. We found our oxen in the canes I drove
our beef ox up. We got home about dark.
6th Very warm. I sold the beef ox to Briant Stringham for 57 dollars. Johny hoed the potatoes on
Fathers lot.
7th Very warm I fixed to go to Red bute kanyon after wood
8th Very warm. I went up in Red bute kanyon and bought 3/4 of a cord of wood of Mr Flemming. I
pay him 1.50 cts per cord.
9th Very warm. I went and cut a load of grass for my oxen. I also hauled some adobies.
10th Sunday. Very warm.
11th Hot and sultry. I hauled three loads of sand and some adobies. I hired an Emmigrant to mow for
me he cuts the grass puts it up for two dollars an acre. Lorenz hewed my sleepers.
12th Very hot. I hauled some adobies and then fixed my waggon to go to Snyders mill after lumber.
15th Very hot. Harrison Sperry and I started last Tuesday about five P.M. to go over the Mountain
after lumber. we got over the first Mountain and camped about half past eleven, on big kamp
creek. The next day we got to the mill and loaded up and got about two miles towards home.
camped on a small spring creek in Parleys park, a very pretty place. the 14th we travel'd over
some very rough stoney road and camped on Big kanyon again at one old camping place. We
picked some strawberries in [this] park this fore noon. We took Harrys load up to the top of ....
[Page 129] and got back to that camp about dark. 15 we started ... [mo]rning with my load and
got [to] the top of the Mountain bef[ore it] got very hot. We found a very bad road down
Emmigration kanyon but we had first rate luck. I found two good pails in the road. we then went
on and found an Emmigrant waggon upset in the creek but nobody hurt neither was the waggon
broke but the things were considerably wet. They gave Harry and me each a dollar to help them
out they also gave us some candles and nutmegs and some paper and several other articles. We
got home before sundown without any accident.
16th Very warm. I piled up my lumber and helped Lorenzo level the sleepers in my house. I also
hoed some for him and then took some lumber up to the public shop to have a door frame and a
window frame made. I then went went and measured the ground that my hired man mowed
found it to be a little more than two and a half acres.
17th Sunday. Warm and cloudy. I went to meeting this fore noon. There was a drove of seven
hundred head of cattle passed through the City this after noon. rained a little this after noon.
18th Very warm and cloudy. I got Harry Sperry to help me haul hay we hauled three large loads.
19th Very hot. Harry and I hauled four loads of hay. one of my oxen is very lame to night.
20th Very warm. I hauled a load of hay to Mr Cuthbert to pay for blacksmithing. I bought some tar
this morning.
21st Very warm. Mr Gallop commenced laying my house this morning. I hauled adobies.
22nd Very hot. I hauled one load of sand and one of dobies. I have a very severe head ache all day. I
have understood that the Indian Walker is making considerable disturbance at Petetneet that
some of his tribe have killed one white man and wounded another there has been or is to be a
large company of men sent out from here to fight.
23rd Very warm. I hauled adobies. There were a number of men gathered together to go to fight the
Indians but whether they have gone or not I do not know.
24th Sunday. Hot and sultry. My head aches to day and I do not go to meeting. There was quite a
hard shower of rain last night.
25th Very warm. I hauled adobies. I also sowed some turnip seed and John raked it in.
26th Warm and pleasant. I went to a ward party last night in the 7th Ward. I planed some fentils this
forenoon for my house. I hauled three loads of sand this after noon.
27th Very warm. I fixed my saddle and went up to Mr Snyders and got some joists of Mr Randall
266 feet. Harrison Sperry and I started about one oclock to go over the Mountain on horseback
to see if we could find any lost cattle or trade any with the [Page 130] Emmigrants we got over
to the Willow springs and creek before sun down. we passed a large drove of sheep and quite a
number of cattle and horses. we were obliged to take our horses near half a mile up the
Mountain to get feed.
28th Warm and pleasant. we started this morning and found an ox at the foot of the big mountain.
We brought him down and put him in the charge of Mr Winter who agreed to take care of him
until we returned as we expected to go to the Weber river before we returned but we only went
down East kanyon about six or eight miles. we stopped at noon or a little after to let our horses
eat and while we were there a man passed us going towards the City and said that he had lost a
cow back about 3/4 of a mile he said that she was a yellow cow with the points of her horns
sawed off; after ourselves and horses had eat we went on and looked for the cow but could not
find her we then went on about two or three miles further and turned back and came nearly to
where the cow was lost and turned our horses out to let them eat as the grass was very good here.
we stayed here nearly two hours we then started on and as we were passing through some thick
timber and brush we heard the brush crack. we then stopped and listened but could hear nothing.
I then dismounted and went into the willows a few rods and found the yellow cow with the points
of her horns sawed off. We got her out and started for home, got to the top of the big Mountain
about dark. Very dark going down the Mountain and a very rough road lost the cow about a
mile above the Willow spring in some very thick brush by the road side. we went on about a
mile and camped.
29th Very warm. We went back and found the cow this morning, and started for home we could not
find the ox that we left with Mr Winter but we came home without him. got home about the
middle of the after noon. I bought 43 pounds of dried apples at 25 cts per lb. Thomas Jinkins is
to have twelve pounds of them.
30th Very warm. I went up in Red bute kanyon and got 38 poles of Mr Flemming at 10 cts each.
31st Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I stayed at home all day. I made a sheath for my knife.
August 1853
[Aug 1853 - Scythe mended; Appy visits; Trying to buy oxen from Bishop Biglar; Teasing cousin
Marion Beatie; Men fight the Indians; Fort Bridger captured ]
1st [Page 131] Monday. I got my scythe snath mended today and ground up my scythe. I also
made two posts for a corral on my lot. Mending snath, 50 cts.
2nd Quite pleasant. the wind blew quite cool. I commenced mowing which made me very tired. I
hauled a little grass home, the first work that I have done with old Brandy for more than two
weeks.
3rd I got my pistol fixed to day and bought some sugar of an emmigrant for 33 1/3 cts pr pound.
4th Very warm. I mowed to day and John raked up that that I cut Tuesday. I hauled a load home to
night.
5th Very hot. I mowed again to day, hauled a load to mr Cuthbert. Absalom Woolf came here to
day from Salt creek with a herd of cattle.
6th Very warm. I went over Jordan with Appy to drive the herd over. We swam the river. got home
a little after noon we then went to Blazzards and got some beer and had a first rate time the rest
of the after noon.
7th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. the wind blew quite cool. I did not go to meeting to day but stayed
at home and wrote some.
8th Warm and pleasant. I worked poll tax paving the crossing of the creek by Lorenzos. Absalom
brought his oxen from over Jordan for me to work and take care of.
9th Very warm. I mowed some and hauled a large load of hay home half of which I sold to Mr
Biglar Bishop of Nephi City for four dollars and 76 cts. it weighed 940 pounds. my waggon
weighed 1008 pounds.
10th Very warm. I was up in the City trying to buy some oxen of Mr Biglar but we could not agree
about the price and the oxen did not exactly suit me and he said that he had some better ones over
the river. I bought 10 boxes of waterproof percussion caps for 2,50 cts. also a small wooden box
for 20 cts. and got a sight put on my gun 37 « cts.
11th Very warm. I mowed some and hauled two loads of hay one of which I sold to Robert Thomson
for 800 adobies. I had quite a time of plagueing my cousin, Marion Beatie this morning.
12th Very warm. John and I went down and raked up the hay that I cut yesterday and we then hauled
two loads home. I went up this after noon to see if I could buy a yoke of oxen of Mr Biglar but
he had sold them all except one yoke and I could not find Biglar. therefore I went home without
any.
13th Very warm. Conference to day. I attended Conference this fore noon. I saw Mr Biglar this
morning about his oxen [Page 132] and he said that if any person would give him seventy five
dollars for them they could have them and if not he would turn them over the river again. I heard
yesterday that some person had discovered a gold mine at or near the Pacific springs.
14th Sunday, warm and pleasant. I stayed at home and made shot pouch. Absaloms mare ran away
yesterday and he could not find her he went again to day rode to Willow creek and back and
found her in my yard when he came back. Benny Brown found her in the big field. Mr Biglar
told me to night that he sold his oxen for 67,50 cts. instead of 75 dollars and he did not turn them
over Jordan. Therefore I think he does not scruple at telling a lie if he is a Bishop. Appy and he
fixed for starting home this evening intending to start home early in the morning. There has been
a fight with the Indians at Willow creek in Juab Valley, one white man wounded in the knee and
two horses killed, and they killed or think they killed three Indians, for they saw three trails
where they had been dragged from puddles of blood.
15th Very warm. I went to mill but my wheat was so damp that they would not grind it. Appy started
for home this morning. I got some bolts for my house of Mr Cuthbert, price 10 dollars.
16th Very warm. I commenced cutting my wheat but the cradle worked so bad that I could not do
much. I paid Harry Sperry 7 dollars for his part of the cow that we found over the Mountain.
Mary has been very sick all day to day. tomorrow night I can record a == I do not know what.
17th Very hot. I gave Harry Sperry a dollar to cut my wheat. There is twenty three dozzen of bundles
verry large ones. The Indians killed two men and wounded another about noon to day. They
were on their way home from Snyders mill with lumber and had got up the small mountain near
Parleys park when the Indians fired and killed one man named John Dixson. John Quayle then
unhitched his best horse and mounted it and started back towards the mill and had got nearly 50
yards when he was shot. [Page 133] The ball entered just back of his shoulder and came out in
front but some think that it was not the shot that killed him for he had a bruise on his fore head
but it is not known whether he was stru[ck] or whether he received it by his fall from his horse.
John Dixson was shot twice through the body one ball went through and lodged in his load of
lumber, the other did not go through. John Hoagland was wounded in his arm while he was
down to assist Some of the others. There were four of the boys and they only four Indians the
fourth one was Samuel Knigts he escaped with no injury he and John Hoagland came in on
Hoaglands horses. the remainder of the animals the Indians got viz four horses and two mules
together with a first rate yager gun that John Dixson had. John Quayles gun they did not touch. I
heard that the Indians also tried to drive off some cattle from the bench between the City
Brighams mill on kanyon creek. Mary Sperry had a thumping girl born last night at 9 oclock and
15 minutes.
18th Warm and pleasant. The bodies of John Quayle and John Dixson were brought in to day. I went
to Brighams new mill and took 14 « bu of wheat. I branded my cow this morning LB on the left
hip and L. Brown on both horns.
19th Cloudy and rainy rained quite hard this after noon. I got my grist home from the mill. I had
532 pounds nearly 38 pound to the bushel.
20th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of sand and made a bargain with George Latie for a thousand
adobies. I give him 50 pounds of flour for 500 of them and for the other 500 I pay him beets and
onions.
21st Sunday. Very warm. we all went to meeting. Phineas Young, J. Grant, H. C. Kimball and
Brigham Young preached.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I stood guard all night last night on the bench. I slept most of the fore noon.
I hauled a load of adobies this after noon. I put the Joists in my house this fore noon.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I hauled 750 adobies this after noon. A company of men started yesterday
to go to Ft. Bridger. Johny and I turned my cow and one of my oxen and one of Father Woolfs
up in the pasture this fore noon.
24th Very warm. I went up in Red bute kanyon and got a load of wood for Mr Gallop. I got home
about 10 oclock at night.
25th I cut a load of hay and hauled part of a load home. I took Mr Gallops load to him charged him
ten dollars. there was a cord of it.
26th [Page 134] Very warm. Lorenzo and I went up in Red bute kanyon and got each a cord of wood
of Mr Fleming we got home at nine oclock without accident.
27th Cool, cloudy, windy and rainy. I started to go after a load of hay but the wind blew so hard that I
gave it up. I braided part of whip lash for Lorenzo to pay him for making a door frame for me. I
then went up in the City to see a shoe maker etc. The Callifornia mail arrived to day.
28th Warm and cloudy. Sunday. Sarah Ann and I went to meeting this fore noon. Orson Spencer and
Lorenzo Snow preached. The Eastern mail arrived last night we receive no news. Johny went
home to see his folks yesterday.
29th Monday. Warm and pleasant. I mowed to day and hauled a load home at night, which finished
my stack.
30th Warm and pleasant. I raked up part of my hay and hauled a small load home. Lorenzo and I
started for Red bute kanyon about half past three oclock. Some of the men came back from Ft.
Bridger and bring news that Ferguson has taken the Fort but that Bridger has made his escape.
Johny came back to day.
31st Cold and raind hard while we were in the kanyon. we got up to Flemings wood factory about
nine oclock at night we got our wood ourselves we hauled it up Flemings road this morning.
we got home about five oclock with each a load cord of wood.
September 1853
[Sep 1853 - William Rudd comes to work; Threshing wheat; A dog in Lorenzo's bed; Shingling
the house]
1st Cool and pleasant. I put the plates on my house it took me all day.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I hauled 250 adobies and a load of sand.
3rd Very windy. I hauled a load of hay. Lorenzo and I worked a little making the rafters for my
house.
4th Sunday.
5th I helped Lorenzo thresh his wheat with oxen.
6th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I went to Red bute kanyon and got each of us a load of willow
wood. Johny went with me. I got two loads. we got home about ten oclock.
7th Warm and pleasant. I helped Lorenzo clean up his wheat. I then went to see Mr Lamb to see if I
could make a bargain with him for some shingles but I could not find him.
8th Warm and pleasant. Johny and I hauled two loads of wheat (all there was) from the five acre lot
and threshed two floors of it.
9th Finished threshing the wheat from the five acre lot and cleaned it. There was 15 bushels of it.
10th [Page 135] Warm and pleasant. Johny and I hauled a load of hay this after noon. Some Utah
Indians arrived in the City to day with the men that went to Ft. Briger. The men all came in
except a few that were left at the fort until the emigration is past.
11th Sunday, warm and pleasant. Johny went home to day to work for his Father. I settled up with
him and I owe him 5,90 cts. Livingstons goods arrived to day.
12th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of hay this fore noon and went up to the book store this after
noon and made a bargain for some books and pay in onions.
13th Warm and pleasant. I went to see Mr Dayton about some shingles. I also settled up or rather
jumped accounts with Mr Cuthbert. I am to pay him four dollars and fifty cents and then we are
square. I took two bushels of onions up to the book store and got two books, viz. the history of
Greece price 2 dollars and life on the Ocean price 1,50 cts. I also sold half a bu of onions and
two bushels of potatoes to Mr McKinzie for three dollars.
14th Lorenzo and I threshed my wheat.
15th The wind blew quite hard. Lorenzo and I cleaned up 9 « bu of my wheat. I then took half a bu
of onions and up to the book store and got the description of a voyage up the Nile price one
dollar and forty cents. I also took two bu of potatoes to Mr Mckinzie, two dollars. I then went to
the N. W. corner of the city to Mr. Rhodabanks and got a box of glass and some nails that Father
sent.
16th Cold and cloudy. Lorenzo and I took each five bu. of potatoes and he took 2 « bu of onions and
I took two bushels, to Mr Haladay and sold them the potatoes at one dollar and the onions at two
dollars per bushel, cash.
17th Cold and cloudy. I worked all day and Lorenz worked this after noon putting the rafters and
some sheeting on my house.
18th Sunday. Cold and rather cloudy. a hard frosst last night I cut my corn this morning.
19th Warm and pleasant. I mowed grass to day and hauled a small load home at night. There was a
boy came to live with me and work for his board and some clothers he came here this after noon
his name is William Rudd.
20th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I went to Red bute kanyon and got each of us a cord of wood
of Mr Fleming we got home before sun down.
21st Warm and pleasant. I cut some more hay to day and raked up what I cut day before yesterday. I
hauled a good load home.
22nd Very hot. I started about noon in company with Lorenz and Harry Sperry to go up Emigration
kanyon after wood. we stopped about one mile before we got to the wood at a small log shanty
which was about ten feet square there were nine of us slept in it that night but I did not sleep
very well, and Lorenz had considerable trouble with a dog that was determined to sleep in his
bed.
23rd Very warm we went up the kanyon about a mile over the roughest road that I drove a waggon
over we got each a good load of wood mine was all or nearly all maple we got home with our
wood safe except that I broke the end of my [ ] off and Lorenzo broke out a stake.
24th [Page 136] Warm and pleasant. Wiliam and I went up Emig Red bute kanyon and got a load of
wood of Mr Fleming we started between three and four oclock A.M. and got home a little after
four P.M. with a cord of wood. we then went up to Mr McClans where William was to have a
trial for leaving Mr Nixon but he had no trial but he was advised to go back and stay until his
mother comes on which he declared he would not do it. We at length persuaded him to go.
25th Sunday. Cold cloudy and rainy. it washed my house some as it is not covered. I read some and
put some boards on my house to prevent it washing.
26th Cool and rained a little. I worked on my house putting on sheeting and putting up a staging.
27th Cloudy but warm. Mr Dumvill and I put the frieze and Barge boards on my house. Lorenzo
helped me some this fore noon and all of the after noon. we commenced laying shingles this
after noon and layed over one thousand.
28th Cool and pleasant. Lorenzo and I finished laying what shingles I had. I want 1000 more to finish
covering my house. Lorenzo and I went up in town this evening to see some Mountaineers to see
if we could sell them some potatoes and onions but they had bought all they wanted of
Livingston.
29th Cooll and pleasant. I was not very well to day. I went up in town to day to find out if there was
any more men coming in from Ft Briger. I learned that there was some more expected in to day
or tomorrow.
30th Warm and pleasant. the Eastern mail arrived this after noon. I watched for the men from Briger
but they did not come. we received no letter this mail and I could hear nothing from the
Mountaineers. There was some horses, mules, oxen and cows sold to day that belonged to a man
that has had his trial and been found guilty of stealing a large sum of money from Mcdonels and
Addoms store. he has to pay a very heavy fine and the property went to pay it.
October 1853
[Oct 1853 - Selling goods to Mountaineers; Sarah Ann teased as she leaves for Clover Creek; Br.
Thompson hired; Thompson teased about wife; Widows searching for a place to stay]
1st [Page 137] Warm and pleasant. I went to Red bute kanyon and got a cord of wood of Mr
Flemming and let Mr. Dumvill have it to pay him for his work for ten dollars.
2nd Sunday. warm and pleasant. I pulled some onions and read some.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I made and set some posts this fore noon and commenced cleaning up my
wheat this after noon. I then saw seven waggons coming in and concluded that they were
Mountaineers and I then mounted my horse and went to meet them to sell some onions etc. but
when I found that they were Mountaineers I also found that the proprietor had came in before the
waggons and that I must see him before I could trade. (I then rode along with the waggons) as I
thought that would be the quickest way of finding Mr Russell the proprietor as I never saw him
and therefore should not know him until we got up to Mr Nixons store when Mr Russell came
out and I enquired of him if he wanted to purchase any vegetables and he said that he had
engaged evry thing that he wanted of Kinkead and Livingston. I then enquired of Livingston if
he had engaged all that he wanted and he answered in the affirmative but as I was coming away
he came up to me and said that if I would come up about noon the next day he would let me
know whether he wanted any or not but thought he should.
4th Warm and pleasant. I went up to Livingstons according to agreement and found that they would
take eight bushels of onions and nine of potatoes I furnished half of them and Lorenzo the other
half. we also sold some to other individuals so that altogether we sold eleven bu of onions and
ten bushels of potatoes which amounted to thirty four dollars and fifty cents.
5th Warm and pleasant. I went to Red bute kanyon and got a cord of wood of Mr Fleming.
6th Thursday. Warm and pleasant. I went up to Livingstons and traded out part of my order. I had a
very severe headache this after noon.
7th Warm and pleasant. Lorenzo and I started this morning to go to Red bute kanyon we started
about three oclock in the morning and got home between seven and eight P.M. I got my wood of
Fleming and then helped Lorenzo get his from over the Mountain where Mr Fleming gets his.
Lorenzo had a yoke of oxen of me to day.
8th Warm and pleasant. I went to the kanyon again to day and got another cord of wood of Fleming
and got home about nine oclock P.M.
9th Sunday. warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this forenoon and hunted for the little heifer this
after noon. she has not been up since Friday morning and I did not find her to day.
10th [Page 138] Monday, Warm and pleasant. I had a ring put in my hogs nose this morn. I then
went up to the pound to see if the heifer was there but I heard no tidings of her there. I then went
to the paint shop and found out how to make sizeing to put on knots before painting them. they
melt some glue make it thin and stir in some red lead enough to collor it. I hunted most of the
after noon in the big field after the heifer and found her in the pasture West of Parley Pratts
house.
11th Warm and pleasant. Sarah Ann started to go and see her folks this morning as she had a good
chance to ride with Abraham Boswell and his wife. I laughed at her and told her that she was
going to leave me and that I should get another before she got back but she did not appear to be
much alarmed. She thinks some of staying all Winter but I think she will wish herself back
before that. I pulled some onions and dug some carrots. I also went up in town and agreed with
Dr Ellis to have his boy come and live with me. Mother also agreed with a woman to come and
work for her.
12th Warm and pleasant. I took a load of wood up to Mr Thomas a black smith. the load was worth
six dollars and I owed him three. I then dug five bu of potatoes and took them up to Mr Nixons
store together with 1 « bu of carrots. the potatoes were 75 ct. per bu. and the carrots were 50.
George Ellis a boy of thirteen came to work for me but he is very slow and his father
recommended him to be a very quick active boy therefore I think that I shall not keep him. Mrs
Susanah Vaughn a young widow whose husband died at Keokuk came here this evening to
live with Mother. There was also a young man by the name of Thompson came here this evening
wanting employment and I told him to come in the morning and I would give him one dollar per
day and board him and pay him in vegetables.
13th Warm and pleasant. Br Thompson came this morning and we dug potatoes, we dug about 33 bu
26 « bu of which we buried.
14th Warm and pleasant. Br Thompson and I commenced digging potatoes but Brother Thompson
soon gave out his back got lame as he worked with a fork and I worked with a hoe. I tired him
out. I finished digging the potatoes on my lot, and then went up in town. we had quite a laugh at
Br Thompson about his wifes going to Br Shirtleffs to live, we told him that he must look out or
he would lose her for Br Shirtleff would get her. it was all in a laugh but he said there was no
danger, and if a woman would leave a man and go to another she might go and he would not
trouble his head about such a woman but he knew that his wife would not do so but I thought that
he might possibly be mistaken, although I know nothing about her, but such things have
happened before now.
15th [Page 139] Saturday. Warm and pleasant. Br Thompson and I made a coral to day on my lot.
There was a man moved into my old log house to day he is to pay me a dollar and fifty cents a
month for the rent. I saw Charles Deaker this evening and he told me that there was one
Mountaineer sending in teams after provisions and I am in hopes that I shall be able to find him
and sell him some vegetables.
16th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. John Taylor preached mostly to
the new comers. I discharged William Ellis yesterday.
17th Warm and pleasant. I made a bargain with Mr Holden a tailor to come to the house and make my
pantaloons
18th Very warm I hauled some potato tops and covered the stable this fore noon.
19th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the camp of the brethren that have just came in. I heard while
there two widows with families enquiring for places as they said they had no bread and nothing
to eat except potatoes and only enough of them for supper. It made me feel very bad but I knew
of no place for them. but I engaged a boy about fourteen years of age to come and work for me.
his father is to come down with him in the morning and make the bargain. I got part of my sash.
quite cold and windy this after noon.
20th Warm and pleasant. I made a bargain with Bishop Hunter to exchange 25 bu of onions for 25 bu
of wheat. I took up the onions and got 10 bu and 50 pounds of wheat. Mr Huntin came down
with his boy this morning and I agreed to give the boy one dollar per week until the first of
December, I am to pay him in vegetables.
21st Cool and cloudy. I saw the Mountaineer to day that I mentioned, but I cannot sell him any thing
except a few beets and carrots. I got 800 shingles of Hyrum Dayton this evening.
22nd Very cold this morning. I sold vegetables to the amount of 14,75 cts, ten of which was in cash
and four in whiskey.
23rd Cool, but pleasant. Sunday. Froze very hard last night. I did not go to meeting to day but Susan
did and she saw Daniel Wood and he wanted her to go and work for him or at least he said he
did, but she would give him no answer until she had spoken to Mother about it and I rather think
that she will not go.
24th Cool and cloudy. I sold some vegetables to Mr Willis.
25th Rained and Snowed some. I bought half gal of linseed oil for which I paid $4. I boiled part of
my oil this after noon. Br Maiben came down this after noon.
26th Warm and pleasant. I bought some crockery to day and Mcdonalds and Addoms store. I also got
the remainder of my sash, and hauled my corn from the big field.
27th Cool and rained a very little. I finished digging potatoes. I had a woman to help me dig she dug
and picked up 24 bushels.
28th [Page 140] Warm and pleasant. I sold six bu of beets to Mr Hawkins. I also took a few bu of
potatoes up to the tithing office. Mr Hackerday sent his teams here this evening, thirty head of
oxen. I kept 20 of them and Lorenzo kept the other ten for 25 cts each.
29th Warm and pleasant. I had to train all day to day from nine oclock until sun set. Br Maiben
trained with us. Hackerday bought some onions and potatoes of us and started his teams out.
30th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. I also went to the Post office and
received a letter from Father. I wrote a letter to him this after noon.
31st Warm and pleasant. I went to see Bishop Hunter, to see if I could arrange it with him about
paying my taxes he said that he would settle them. Mr Maiben came here this morning to do
some painting, he primed some sash and tined in the glass.
November 1853
[Nov 1853 - U. S. Surveyors killed by Indians; Trip to Salt Creek; Changes in the land; Meeting
like the forefathers; Bishop's dress code for dancing; Return trip to SLC]
1st Tuesday cold and windy. I layed 800 shingles to day and nearly froze in the bargain. Br Maiben
done some painting on my house.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I made the stops for my windows. Br Maiben worked painting my house.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I worked all day on my house. Br. Maiben worked painting all day.
Middletons goods came in to day. I hear that the Indians have killed eight more men that were
surveying on the Sevier River seven of them were hired by U.S. and the other was Wm. Potter a
Mormon. They were surveying for the rail road to the Pacific. Lieutenant Gunnelson had
command of the expedition he was one of the number that were killed. It appears that the
company was quite large consisting of Topographical Engineers, dragoons etc. but how many I
have not been informed but the company had divided into small companies. Gunnelson and his
company were eating breakfast in a place that was nearly surrounded with brush when all of a
suden the Indians fired upon them and killed eight of them and took all of their instruments and
most of their papers. but D. Huntington the interpreter has gone to talk with them and try and
recover the Instruments and papers but I do not know how he will succeed.
4th [Page 141] Friday. Warm and pleasant. I worked on my house at carpenter work.
5th Warm and pleasant. I finished putting the roof on my house. We had a Welch tinker here all this
fore noon mending up evry old tin dishes in the house.
6th Sunday cold and windy. I went over Jordan to look for my old ox that I turned out for beef but I
could not find him.
7th Cold, cloudy and rainy. I went up to Reeces store and and bought a pair of shoes for Mother
price $3.25. I also bought a flannel shirt and some callico for a shirt and five dollars worth of
sugar.
8th Warm and pleasant. I went down to see about ditching Fathers grass lots but there is so much
water on them that it is impossible to ditch. I also put my sign up and done a little work on my
house. The company of dragoons came in the City this morning.
13th Sunday. Cold and the South wind blew very hard. I started for Salt creek about ten oclock this
morning in company with W. Sperry, C. Sperry, Miles Miller and others we camped on Willow
creek about sun down after driving twenty miles. I rode in W. Sperrys waggon.
14th Warm but cloudy. I took my horse and left the company before I got to dry creek and went on to
Provo where I arrived before sundown. I traveled ten miles farther than the rest of the company.
I stopped at the house of Alexander Williams. There has been a great alterati[on] made in the
country between G. S. L. City and this place since I was here in Sept 1852. Where there was then
flourishing towns and fine large farm houses there is nothing but ruins, old chimneys etc. the
people having all moved into forts. Provo City looks far better than I ever saw it before. there
are a great many fine houses going up here now there is also a woolen factory and a seminary
being built the adobie work is nearly done.
15th Cold and cloudy. I left Provo about 11 oclock this morning in company with Wm. Goddard to go
to Payson where we arrived a little before sun down. I stopped with Br Goddard. rained a little
this evening. Br Goddard showed me where his hay, oats, corn, and wheat were and told me to
feed my horse all he wanted for I was perfectly welcome.
16th Cold and cloudy and rained some in the evening. I waited all day at Payson for the company to
come up as it is considered unsafe for one to go alone from here to Salt creek. The company
arrived late in the after noon. therefore we must stay here to night. There are a few Indians
camped at Summit creek six miles from Payson. There were a few of them here to day.
17th Cold and stormy in the morning. the company started about 3/4 of an hour before I did this
morning. It snowed and blowed in my face so hard this morning that I could scarcely see from
the time I left Payson untill I passed Summit creek. This storm made the road very muddy and
slippery. I arrived at Salt creek at about four in the after noon where I found my wife and all of
her folks enjoying good health.
18th [Page 142] Warm and very pleasant. I helped Father Woolf dig some beets and cut the tops off,
etc.
19th Warm and pleasant. I helped Appy thresh wheat to day. I went to meeting last night and it
seemed like the meetings of our fore Fathers when they first settled North America each man
coming in with his musket or rifle in his hand and his catridge box or Shot pouch at his side and
sentinels placed around the house which is outside of the fort. The meeting was for the purpose
of raising provisions such as bread stuffs vegetables etc. they got between 20 and thirty bushels
of wheat and some corn and potatoes etc. A W Babbit and G. A. Smith with their guard arrived
this evening from Filmore City where they had been for the purpose of selecting a place to build
a penitentiary.
20th Sunday cool and pleasant. Babbit Smith and guard left Salt creek this morning for G S L
City.
21st Warm and pleasant. I helped Appy thresh and went to a small party where there were a few
young people got together to enjoy themselves and dance a little etc. and some of us were in our
evry day clothes which caused the Bishop to make a bit of a speech he said the young men
ought to put on their best dudds, their fited shirts with the collars up around their face, etc. but I
though it looked too much as if they had their shirts on wrong end up but I said nothing but
thought he might as well mind his own business about other peoples dress.
22nd Cold and windy. I started from Salt creek fort about 8 oclock this morning to take my wife
home. Absalom my brother in law takes us in his Fathers waggon with four horses mine being
one of the number. we stopped at Payson to feed our horses at noon we then traveled on to
Springville where we arrived about dark. while we were at Payson we saw some Indians that
appeared very friendly they had that morning brought in some mormon horses that had been
stolen as they said by some other Indians and they had found the Indians with the horses and that
the Indians would not give up the horses until they whipped them, and one they were obliged to
knock from a horse with a club this is the Indians story whether true or not. this same Indian
whose name I do not know says that if any Indians steal any thing dont kill them but whip them
and if any one loses any thing and think the Indians have it come and tell him and he or some of
the band will go and get it. This Indian was shot through the thigh in the fight at the mouth of
Salt creek.
31st Warm and pleasant. we left Springville early this morning stopped about half an hour at Provo
got something to drink etc. and arrived at dry creek a little before sun down.
December 1853
[Dec 1853 - Encounter with Mr. Gregory over a cow; Bishop's trial with Mr. Gregory]
1st [Page 143] Thursday. Cool but pleasant. We left dry creek early this morning and arrived at
home about half past three without accident and found the folks all well.
2nd Warm and pleasant. Appy and I started to go and find Mothers heifer that has been gone two
days, but just as we were ready to start Fanny came over and said what shall I do for Mr Gregory
has our cow and I have sent Benjamin after her and Gregory wont let him have her and I sent
word that Lorenzo would pay him when he comes home for all the damages that she has done but
he wont let her go and she said Homer I wish you would go and see if you can get her and I told
her I would. Appy and I then went over to Mr Gregorys and I said Mr Gregory I hear you have
got Lorenzos cow in your yard; he said yes. I then told him that I should like to get her. he said
that the cow could not go until the damages were settled. I then told him that Lorenzo would pay
him as soon as he came home and that Fanny was not able to come after the cow for she was
sick. he then said it wont hurt her any more than it will me to come over here. Now said he there
is the man that has got the greatest demand on the cow (pointing to George Mattison) talk to him
about the cow but as George and I were not very good friends and he had just been abusing
Fanny until she told him to leave the house, I thought it best to say nothing to him for fear I
should get into a fuss. Therefore I said Mr Gregory Lorenzo will settle with you for the cow if
you will let me have her. No he wont either said he and it is no use to come here jawing about
the cow for you wont get her. Said I we will see and got off my horse, and got over the fence
and took hold of the rope to untye the cow. but I had scarcely got hold of the rop when Gregory
came up and clinched me by the collar with one hand and with the other he pulled my hat over
my eyes and I thought it was getting pretty warm work and I struck him and I had my riding whip
hanging to my wrist and he says it was the whip that hit him but I cannot see how it could be
possible but still I could not see but I could feel my fist hit something. I then struck at him again
and he warded off the blow and let go of me. I then went back to the cows head to untie the rope
but he took hold of the knot and I could not untie it I took my knife out of the sheath and cut
the rope and put the knife back as soon as I possibly could I then started to lead the cow out but
he kept hold of the cow until I got most to the barn where he stopped her I then [Page 144] said,
I want to know whether you are going to let the cow go or not for if you wont one way you will
another, for I thought I should go and ask Bishop Hunter about it as Thomas Jenkins did last
summer but he said I could take her but it would not end here I told him I did not expect it
would; Well said he I want you to get off from my premises; very well said I, I will do so and
went off directly. he swore some and called me some names etc. and turned the cow out and
Appy and I took her home, but some way in the scuffle he got my mouth to bleeding and it kept
bleeding until I got the cow home. Appy and I then started again to go after the heifer and as we
passed Gregorys house George Mattison came out and said that Gregory was very bad and that I
had broke his jaw and that he had fainted and that I had better go after a Doctor if I would. I told
him I would if he would ask Mr Gregory what doctor he would have he stopped a little when I
asked him again if he would ask the man what Doctor he would have he said he would and went
in but as he went in he met the old woman Mrs Gregory and said something which I could not
hear but she said a Doctor, he had better keep away with his Doctor and we waited a while and
George did not come and Mrs Gregory was going in and I said Mrs Gregory does Mr Gregory
want a Doctor or not when she answered very sharp you had better keep away with your Doctors
for I think you have done doctoring enough for one day you had better go along about your
business, which we were very glad to do. we then went down in the field but could not find the
heifer and we returned without her we had been home but a short time when the man that lives
with Gregory or rather works for him passed by and I asked how Mr Gregory got along he
answered he was rather sick and was in bed and that the Bishop had been to see him etc. I then
went down to see the Bishop and got him to go with me to see Gregory we found him in bed
but he refused to see me then because he said he was not able but that when he got able to be
about he would hear what proposition I had to make. I then left him.
3rd I went down in the big field to hunt for Mothers heifer but without success.
4th Sunday. I went to meeting this fore noon. I shall now pass on until the 23rd of December.
23rd I have been getting out manure for one or two days and was working at the same business when a
man came into the yard and said that Bishop Williams requested him to notify me to attend a trial
in the third ward school house. he said he knew nothing about the affair but supposed it was
about the difficulty with Mr Gregory and me. I told him that I would be there at the time
appointed which is to be tomorrow night.
24th [Page 145] Cool and pleasant. I went up to molases works and got ten quarts and a pint of
molasses. Mother, Sarah Ann and myself together with John Crosby and lady, and Br Harris and
lady eat supper at Lorenzos after supper Lorenzo and I went down to the trial when it was
proposed that Mr Gregory and I should settle without having a trial. I replied that I would much
rather if we could. Mr Gregory then said that he would make a proposition to me which was he
would choose three men and tell them how much he wanted me to pay him and leave it to them
whether it was too much or not. I told him that I wished to choose part of the men myself, but he
said no it could not be settled that way but that he had named the way and that was the only way
that we could settle it between ourselves. Bishop Perkins then said if he was in my place he
should have faith to believe that Br Gregory would choose men that would give in a righteous
decision if he chose men that were in good standing in the church. I told him to name the men
and if I could bring no objection against them then they might say how much I should pay him
he then chose his men two of which I did not know viz. Br Proctor and Br Wright the other was
Br Corliss we then our stories which differed some. the three men then arose to go out to talk it
over and decide upon it but before going they enquired if we were going to abide their decision
Gregory answered he was that he would take whatever they said, but if it was not as much as the
two hundred dollars (the sum that he said he must have) then he would have no fellowship for
me; but he would take it and say no more about it. I made no answer to their question. They
then went out and when they came in they said that they thought I must pay Gregory one hundred
and fifty dollars one hundred in cash and the rest in trade. I then told them that I should abide
no such decision. Lorenzo tried several times during the evening to get an opportunity to speak
but could not he now asked again if he could have permission to speak a few words but Gregory
objected but the Bishop gave him permission to speak Gregory then got up and said if that was
the way that people were going to act he should go home and started out but some of the boys
said that he remained and listened at one of the windows, but I did not see him. I then started for
home went over to Lorenzos and played cards and danced until twelve oclock and then went
home.
25th Sunday. Mrs Susanah Vaughn was married this after noon to Mr Anthony, Lovet Anthony but I
think that she does not love him very well from what I have heard her say.
January 1854
[Jan 1854 - 7th Ward party; Notified to appear in court; A first rate time with Harry and Appy;
Trial before Judge Smith - Acquitted]
1st [Page 146] Sunday. Cold and pleasant. We had a small party here last night. Br. and sister
Maiben stayed here last night and all day to day.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I took 10 « bu of onions up to the tithing office. I also went to see Br.
Randall about some lumber but I did not see him.
3rd Cold and cloudy. I went up to Garners mill on jordan and got 350 feet of lumber and got home
before dark. I paid in onions for the lumber.
4th Cold and windy this fore noon but a little warmer this after noon. I moved Br. Maibens family
and then went to a ward party in the 7th ward but it was very much crowded. we broke up about
twelve oclock.
5th Cold and cloudy. Mother, Sarah Ann and I went to fast meeting to day.
6th Cold and cloudy. I went up in town to see if I could exchange some of my green lumber for
some seasoned. I made a bargain with Edward Patrige I am to give him boards of the same
length and width or els he would not trade. I then came home and commenced sawing my wide
lumber up into narrow boards about five and six inches wide. I was notified to day to appear
before the probate court tomorrow for trial at one oclock P.M. about the Gregory affair.
7th Cool and pleasant. I took my lumber up and exchanged it for dry and I paid one dollar in cash
besides the same amount of lumber. I also got 100 ft of Mr Randall I then went to the Bakery
and bought some crackers for my dinner and sent John home with the lumber and I went to the
trial but I had it adjourned for two weeks because my witness was not here but Gregory has
brought in a complaint of $500 dollars damages for personal injuries. I took Mother and Sarah
Ann to the theatre this evening.
8th Sunday Very cold and rather windy I went to meeting all day.
9th Cold and windy I took two bu of onions up to the Collectors which paid four dollars of Fathers
Territorial taxes I then fixed up my bench and tools to commence laying my floor.
10th Cold and windy. I commenced planeing boards for my floor
11th Cold and cloudy. I worked planeing boards for my floor.
15th Sunday. thawed some to day but there is about six or eight inches of snow that fell yesterday. I
have worked all the week except Monday on my house.
16th Thawed a very little today. I worked laying floor in my house.
17th Cold and the South wind blew hard. I worked at laying my floor. Absalom came here to day
from Salt creek to attend my trial as he is my main witness: he has had a very cold time to ride on
horse back while coming.
18th Cold and windy. I worked laying my floor and Appy helped me.
19th Very cold. Appy and I commenced work this morning and Harrison Sperry came over to make a
door on my bench but we all agreed to have some beer. I then went over to Blazzards brewery
and got three qts of beer which we very soon finished. we then sent and got three quarts more
and drank it which made us all very merry and we done no more work that day but we had a first
rate time.
20th Cold and windy. Appy and I finished laying the floor in one room of my house. we then went up
in town to see Mr Raighley about a heifer of his that Appy drove down to Nephi supposing it to
be his Fathers and did not find out the mistake until he got home.
21st Very cold. I had my trial to day before Judge Smith for striking Mr Gregory. In the morning
before the trial commenced I was passing the door of Almon W. Babbits office when he spoke to
me and asked me if my trial came off today. I told him it did. he said that he expected they
intended to put it onto me rather hard but he did not think that Gregory could get more than ten $
for what he knew about Gregory would go a good ways. I then told him that [Page 147] I should
like to have him come in and tell what he knew about him. Babbit then came in and acted as my
lawyer. The Judge asked if the parties were present and if they were ready for trial. Gregory said
that he wanted twelve Jury men which I agreed to and the Judge said that he was very glad for it
took the trouble off his hands but he said that he would give Gregory a little advice and that was
to have only three or six Jury men in the place of twelve as three would answer the law as well as
twelve and it would save cost but Gregory said if it was legal for him to have twelve he wanted
twelve and if it was not then he did not want them. There was then twelve Jury men impanneled
the Following are their names. William Kimball, Elijah F. Sheets, Joseph Busby, Horace Gibbs,
Wm P. Appleby, James I. Kimball, Moses Clawson, Joseph Colton, Hiram Kimball, Jesse W.
Fox, and Jacob Weiler but Gregory objected to him. The trial then went on and the witnesses
were examined etc. Babbit then arose and made a short plea and told the Jury that he went down
to see Mr Gregory a few days after the difficulty and found him out doors sawing wood without a
coat on but as soon as Babbit commenced talking to him he put on his coat and put his hand up to
to his face and turned up his collar etc. and pretended to be very badly hurt and that evry time
that he had seen Gregory since Gregory had put his hand up to his face in the same way and that
he did not believe his jaw was broke nor that he was badly hurt. The Jury brought in no cause of
action and that the Plaintiff should pay the cost which was forty five dollars.
22nd Sunday. Very cold. I went to meeting this forenoon and to Quorum meeting this evening. Br.
Love was down here from Salt creek last week trying to get a wife but he did not succeed and
was obliged to go home without one. Br Andrews was here at the same time on the same
business was more successfull. he married Charlette Bailey that lived at Lorenzos.
I shall now pass over a considerable length of time as nothing of consequence has occurred.
February 1854
[Feb 1854 - Br. Maiben's dancing school]
27th Monday. I went this evening to Br Maibens dancing school to learn the quadrilles, polkas,
waltzes, etc. his terms are three dollars per schollar.
March 1854
[Mar 1854 - Br. Love finally gets a wife; Susan Anthony in trouble]
9th Thursday. Very mudy. Br Love has been up here about a week and started home this morning
and he has a wife to take home this time. he was married yesterday.
10th Warm and pleasant. I worked at painting my window sash.
11th I worked at my house. Snowed this after noon.
12th Sunday. Warm and cloudy. Susan Anthony was here to day for the first time since she took her
things away and she has plenty of trouble for she says that her husband abuses her and has struck
her bad once or twice etc.
September 1855
[Sep 1855 - Father returns from European mission]
1st Very warm. I went over the little Mountain to meet Father. I met him between the Mountains,
found him in very poor health. I went out with two yoke of oxen (Lorenzos and mine) and took
out a few potatoes, onions, melons, corn etc, which was quite a treat for him. I found he had
bought a waggon in company with a widow by the name of Grey. She has two daughters. there
was also a young woman by the name of Ruth Weily. they also had a teamster by the name of
John Donaldan.
2nd Very warm, got home about three oclock.
8th Ann Mosley was married to Edwin Booth. Father married them and got no pay.
October 1855
[Oct 1855 - Moved into new home; U. S. Troops fight Sioux Indians; Sarah Ann has a toothache;
Traded saddle for goods; Rebaptized by Father in 4th Ward; Miloe Andruss' Co. arrives; Received
endowment with Sarah Ann; Keeping down the working class; Br. Harper's Co. arrives]
3rd [Page 148] Wednesday. We moved into our new house. I have hauled corn all this week from
Fathers five acre lot. Two loads on Monday four loads Tuesday and one load to day. warm and
pleasant.
4th Cool and the N wind blew I went to Gardners mill on jordan, took 16 bu of wheat, got 628
pounds flour. Slept in the mill with Ormus Bates. I went with my waggon which I paid 8 dollars
for the pieces of.
5th Cold and the North wind blew. It Froze quite hard last night, killed all the corn. I came home
from the mill, got home about 11 oclock this morning. Br Bates brought a pig for Father
yesterday. I eat dinner in my own house to day for the first time. I had 184 pounds of the flour
that I brought from the mill.
6th Warm and pleasant. Conference to day but I did not go I made a wash bench and straightened
things up a little. Froze last night.
7th Cold and pleasant. Sunday. I went to meeting. P. P. Pratt preached this forenoon and Orson
Pratt Sen. preached this after noon. Old Brother Jenkins died last night.
8th Monday warm and pleasant Conference held to day but I did not go. I made an axe handle the
first one that I ever tried to make. I heard to day that the U. S. troops have had a fight with the
Sioux Indians: ninety of the Indians killed and a good many squaws taken prisoners, no troops
killed. Sarah ann has a bad time to night with the tooth ache.
9th Warm and pleasant. I went over the Mountain after wood with two teams. Cyrus Avery drove
one. camped near the foot of the Big Mountain after dark.
10th Warm and pleasant. We went up and got our loads, and got back and camped in Emigration
kanyon a little after dark.
11th Warm and smoky the South wind blew some. I got home a little after ten oclock this morning
with two good loads, took $5,50 worth of wood up to Mr Bleazzard to pay for repairing a
waggon. I also took 7 dollars worth of wood up to C. Binnall to pay for repairing my waggon. I
paid one dollar and fifty cents for a hoe at williams store.
12th Warm and pleasant I spent the fore noon going up in town for Father to see about getting a pair
of shoes for Cyrus. I also got a hoe for Father. I also went to Shelmerdines hat shop to see about
getting a hat for him. I commenced digging my potatoes this afternoon. Father and Cyrus helped
me we dug fifteen bushels fourteen of large ones, them we put in my old house cellar and one
bushel of small ones for the pigs. I traded my saddle to mr Pugh this after noon for a lot of things
viz one new neck hand kerchief, one new pocket do, one silk scarf for the neck, [Page 149] Five
knit shirts, one merino handkerchief for the neck, one linnen pocket handkerchief, one fur box,
three old pairs of stockings, one small tin pail, one tin grater, three common table spoons, one
silver salt [shaker], one good clothes brush, two razors, one lather brush, and box; ... of note
paper, one dozen envelopes, and one good bed tick.
13th Very warm. I bought of Mr Pugh this morning the following articles Viz. one flannel skirt and
two towels linnen, two chemise, two pillow slips, one large double shawl for which I gave a bed
quilt and one dollar and fifty cents cash. Mr Pugh is going back to England he thinks that he
cannot live here. Father and Cyrus dug bushels of potatoes for me to day. Cyrus and I went
down and burned most of the old grass off Fathers grass lots got home after sundown I then
took 12 « bushels of potatoes up in town and sold them for 75 cts per bu. six dollars on
Williams store and the remainder in cash. a company of the minute men started for Fort Bridger
this after noon. The Indians are troublesome.
14th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I stayed at home and read a book entitled Geneva or the history of
a portrait.
15th Very warm I started in company Stephen Alley for Snyders mill for lumber, went with two
teams, camped on the East side of the Little Mountain.
16th Warm got to the mill when the sun was about an hour high, but our lumber was not ready, but
Snyder told me that it would be ready in the morn and showed me the logs to make it of, it was
joist which were to be 2,50 pr hund. feet. I helped get the logs on to the log way and then eat my
supper about 9 oclock, and went to bed.
17th Warm and pleasant. Loaded up this moring and Snyder wanted me to pay three dollars per
hundred for my lumber instead of 2 «, but I would not do it, and in reconing up he made out that
I owed him 85 cts. and I made out that he owed me two or three dollars, but we had no difficulty
we left the mill about ten a.m., stopped to feed our cattle about 7 miles from the mill, got to the
foot of the mountain a little after dark.
18th Warm and pleasant got home about four oclock.
19th Very warm this forenoon, and cold in the after noon. I took part of Mr Naisbitts lumber up to
him this fore noon and dug potatoes this after noon, put twenty bushels in one bury. I have a very
bad cold.
20th [Page 150] Warm and pleasant. I finished taking Br Naisbitts lumber to him this morning,
twelve hundred and fifty five feet altogether at four cts pr foot, which amounts to fifty dollars and
twenty cents, to be paid in Williams store. I finished diging my potatoes this after noon. I have
raised 90 bushels on my lot. I bought a high post bedstead to day for which I paid twenty dollars.
I sold one cord of wood or timber for fourteen dollars of it and the remainder in potatoes at one
doller pr bu or nearly all the remainder. I paid him one dollar on Williams store and fifty cents
cash. I have now got thirty bu of potatoes in the cellar, and thirty two bu buried.
21st Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day. Br Brigham preached in the fore noon.
he wants us to let the doctors alone and then we will have less sickness amongst us and if any are
sick send for the Elders etc. Br William Willis late missionary to India preached in the after
noon or rather gave us a short account of his mission.
22nd Warm and pleasant I went up in Big Cotton wood canyon after lumber for Lorenzo, started
about five oclock, got up to the mill some time before sundown a distance of 19 miles and loaded
up my lumber, and cut a few poles for coupling poles.
23rd Warm and pleasant got home from the kanyon a little after sundown without any bad luck.
24th Warm and pleasant. I was rebaptized this after noon by Father in the 4th ward. I wrote a letter to
Appy. Capt. Miloe Andruss Company arrived this after noon.
25th Thursday. Warm and pleasant. Sarah ann and I received our endowments to day in company
with about fifty others. I think there must be some thing about to take place from the way they
are giving the people their endowments so fast, but still I do not know. Thomas Jenkins was
married to Miss Mary R. Avery. This is his second.
26th Warm and pleasant. I started in company with br Thorn this morning about six oclock to go over
the little Mountain after wood, got our loads on at night.
27th Warm and pleasant. Br Thorn broke his waggon tongue just as we started up the Mountain. I got
home safe with my load of green maple which proved to be heavy enough for both yoke of our
oxen. we eat supper at Fathers.
28th Sunday. Warm and pleasant, I went to meeting all day. Br Glover and Br P. S. Fulmer, late
missionary to England spoke this fore noon, and Br Barlow, Br Andruss and Br Brigham spoke
in the after noon.
29th [Page 151] Monday. Warm and pleasant. I settled up my Territorial tax this fore noon, which
was seven dollars and forty cents. I also made a bargain with Mr Winder for a pair of boots he
said that if I would bring him a good load of wood he would give me a pair of boots worth six
dollars therefore I took about three fourth of a Cord and he made me the exceeding generous
offer of five dollars for the load. this is the way that most of the people that have means try to
keep down the working class, for after a man has been to the kanyon two, and some times three
days, and tore and wore his clothes and shoes out and nearly tired his team out, then be offered
five dollars for his load. I would see a man that would offer such a price go cold more than one
day before I would sell a load of wood to him that is a man that is able to pay for his wood. I
concluded that if wood was worth no more than that I could afford to keep a good fire this Winter
therefore I brought my wood home. Br Barker brought some wheat down for Father (20 bu), Br
Harpers company of saints arrived this after noon.
30th Warm and pleasant. I paid Br Barker three dollars on Williams store for wheat. I also hauled
three hund. feet of lumber up to S. Snyder. I also got two waggon tire set.
31st Warm and pleasant. I went up in Big Cotton wood kanyon after a load of wood. I got part of my
load on at night, had fifty cents toll to pay.
November 1855
[Nov 1855 - Br. Alred's Co. arrives; Barker family visits; Summary of discourses; Building a back
house; Patriarchal blessing; Sarah Ann and Lorenzo sick; Brigham requests work on canal and
curbs visits to his home; Working on canal with Br. Thorn ]
1st [Page 152] Warm and pleasant in the forenoon. I got home from the kanyon with a good load of
wood got home about sundown. quite cold and windy this after noon. there is quite a number of
people down from Salt creek to receive there endowments. I read a letter from Mother Woolf.
2nd Cold, cloudy and windy. The Mountains are white with snow. I hauled a load of stone to build a
back house. Br George Barker and family are down from ogden to get their endowments. Br
Alreds company of saints arrived about sun down.
3rd Cold and very windy I hauled another load of stone and two loads of adobies three hundred and
twenty five which I bought of Frank Mattison for one dollar pr hundred and pay in potatoes at 75
cts pr bushel. Fathers stove came to day. Br Pace brought it for him for twelve dollars and fifty
cents pr hundred weight. Harriet Barker came in to day and stayed about ten minutes. She
looked very sober I told her that she was home sick. She and Sarah ann went over to Mothers to
get Jane (Harriets sister) to come over but sarah Ann came back without them. I think if they do
not think enough of us to come and see us they can keep away. Br Barkers folks all got their
endowments to day except Harriet.
4th Sunday. Cool but pleasant. I went to meeting. Br Carrington the editor of the Deseret news
preached this fore noon on education he says that we must commence educating our children as
soon as they begin to notice any thing. that is the parents must set them good examples and
teach them good principles etc. and not think that if they send them off to school and get them
out of the way that it is all that is necessary. Br Riser also gave us an account of his mission to
Germany. he then addressed the Germans for a short time in their own language. meeting then
adjourned until two oclock. Br Charles Basset gave us a short account of his mission to the state
of Ohio Br Brigham then spoke on education and told us how pure little children are and how
the Angels guide them, and how they often ask questions at two or three years old that their
parents nor the priest nor the wise men could not answer and then the parents call them foolish
children for asking such foolish questions he wants the parents to tell them that they do not
know at present but they will some time and then they will tell them for it is the angels that put
such thoughts into the childs mind [Page 153] and he does not want the spirit of enquiry
quenched by the parents an older children laughing at them he then said that if he had the last
number of the Deseret news he would read a text from it. some person then handed him the
paper and he read the following from the history of Joseph Smith. In regard to the building up of
Zion, it has to be done by the council of Jehovah: by the revelation of heaven, and we should feel
to say, if the Lord go not with us, carry us not up hence. We would say to the Saints that come
here we have laid the foundation for the gathering of God's peop to this place, and expect that
when the saints do come, they will be under the council of those that God has appointed. The
Twelve are set apart to council the saints pertaining to this matter; and we expect that those who
come here will send before them their wise men according to revelation; or if not practible, be
subject to the council that God has given, or they cannot receive an inheritance among the saints,
or be considered as Gods people, and they will be dealt with as transgressors of the laws of God.
He read this and preached as he went along. he also gave some of the elders a pretty good rub
that have been out on missions and come home merchants out of other peoples pockets. I must
try to write down the chart of Brigham and Hebers heads in my new journal which I will find in
No. 34 and vol 5 of the Deseret news.
5th I made a bargain with John Needham to work on his barn putting in sleepers and joist and laying
floor. I worked for Father this after noon helping fix it up for plastering. I hauled a load of sand
and clay.
6th Cool and cloudy. Father and I worked for Mr Needham. Williams & Co. goods arrived to day.
7th Father and I worked for Mr Needham.
8th Cool and cloudy. I worked for Father casing doors and putting down base boards etc. [Page 154]
Father has been talking of selling his stove but he concluded to day to let me have it and pay him
ninety dollars for it between this and next fall fifty dollars of it in cash or store pay. I took it on
those conditions and put it up.
9th Cold and rained all of the forenoon. I commenced laying the foundation for my back house this
after noon.
10th Cold windy and snowed a little at different times through the day. Two of Fathers cows and my
one were left out of the yard last night and they got into Br Birds corn and we have to give Mr
Bird a bushel and a half of corn for the damage done. I worked this afternoon laying the
foundation of my back house.
11th Sunday, snowed the greater part of the day. I staid at home and copied two blessings mine and
Mary Ann Barkers, one of Fathers wifes. W. W. Phelps preached this after noon.
12th Cold and windy in the morning but thawed most of the snow off through the day that fell yester
day and last night. I bought a few things at Williams and Co.'s store this fore noon. I got three
joints of stove pipe and one elbow made this after noon cost of making 1,25. I got the sheet iron
of Father I bought four lights of Glass for Israel Hoyt and sent it by W. Black.
13th Snowed nearly all day. I done little chores about the house, put up the stove, put in a light of
glass and fixed up the windows etc. Sarah Ann is nearly down sick with a cold, which she has
had nearly two weeks.
14th Warm and pleasant. the snow nearly all went off. Father Lorenzo and I sent our cattle over to
the point of the West Mountain to Br Lewis herd. I sent one ox and one cow, Fathers five oxen
and one heifer, Lorenzo two oxen and one cow. I commenced laying the adobies in my back
house. Father worked making the door frame for it. Father and John Donallan and myself
administered to Lorenzo this evening for he came home from the kanyon last week quite unwell.
15th [Page 155] Warm and pleasant. I layed a few adobies. John Donalan has come down from Box
Elder to get a wife. he has been after her all day but for some reason or another he did not get the
knot tied.
16th Warm and pleasant. I sent my tithing potatoes up to the tithing office, nine bushels in all. I made
a window frame this fore noon I layed a few adobies this after noon. John Donallan has been
trying all day to see Brigham to get him to marry him but he did not see him, he says he will wait
no longer but will get the first Bishop to marry him that he comes to. he says that tomorrow at
breakfast time he will not be here. his oxen have been in my yard two days and two nights
without a drop of water, and I expect that they would have had to done without another night if
Cyrus had not carried some water to them this evening.
17th Warm and pleasant. Very little frost last night I finished laying the adobies in my back house.
There is a load and a half of stone and 400 adobies in it. The stone cost 1 « bu of potatoes in
Red bute kanyon at the quarry and the adobies cost one dollar pr hundred. John Donallan was
waiting to see Brigham this fore noon but whether he saw him or not I do not know for he left
here this morning about nine oclock, and said he was going to start for home. The people in the
fourth ward have been fixing up the school house for the last two or three days. they have
shingled it to day.
18th Sunday Cool and cloudy look like snow. I went to meeting Bishop Smoot told his experience
in crossing the plains as he has crossed them several times as Captain of companies and he says
the main secret is in seeing that your cattle have plenty of feed and water. President Young then
said that he wanted all of the Bishops with the men in their wards to come evry day in the week
to work on the canal until it is finished for he says that there is only about seven days work for
each man if they will all turn out and work. he then wanted [Page 156] to make a request of the
Brethren and sisters but more particular of the sisters that is to keep away from his house and
not make it like a town meeting as it generally is. he says women will come to see Mrs Young
that they are not acquainted with and then they want to go into evry room and evry bed room and
evry corner and then they will steal his shirts and his stocking and he wants them to stop it but he
wants his acquaintances to come and see him and those that he is not acquainted with also but he
wants them to have a regular introduction and unless they do have he shall set them down as
thieves, and he says that men will come and set in his office for three hours at a time to see him
and when he gets up to go they are ready to follow him into his house or bed room or any place
that he may go to, and he is tired of it, and wants it stoped. Meeting then adjourned until two
oclock. Meeting commenced at two oclock. President Young preached this after noon about
people letting little things over throw them etc. and when they are going to apostatize and go to
California or back home, he wants them to pray for the light they once had and get their minds
out of darkness, and he wants the parents to bring up their children in the way they should go,
and teach them to believe in Jesus Christ and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet and when they
grow up they will never depart from that belief.
19th Warm and pleasant. I put part of the roof on my back house.
20th Warm and pleasant. I finished shingling my house. I sent my bed clothes up to the canal, where
I expect to go to work tomorrow to pay up my tithing.
21st Pleasant this fore-noon but cold and cloudy this after noon snowed on the Mountains on evry
side. I gave up going to work on the canal to day because it looked so much like snow. I put the
seat in my little house and layed the floor. Sarah Ann has got a quilt on the frames ready for
quilting to night.
22nd I went up in the City and bought a few things at Williams store; their last train has not yet
arrived, it got as far as fort Bridger and unload all of the wagons, and came in and found the
roads good and but little snow. they then went back after the train. I made part of the door of my
back house this after noon. Sarah ann finished her comforter this evening. Mother has helped
her all day.
23rd Cool and cloudy. I helped Harrison Sperry kill hogs.
24th Snowed nearly all day. I have not done much work to day. Israel came down from Salt creek
yesterday to get another wife. the Bishop of Salt creek also came on the same business.
25th Sunday, Cold damp, and cloudy. I staid at home to day and fixed a bucket or tub to carry my
dinner in to the canal.
26th Warm and pleasant. I put a handle in my pick this fore noon and got my things fixed up to go to
work on the canal the wagon started a little after one oclock, but I did not start until four
because I waited for the clog maker to put a pair of wooden bottoms on a pair of old boot tops
which I intended to throw away but he said he would fix them for a bushel of potatoes therefore I
have got a pair of clogs. English fashion, but they will not bend therefore I could not walk [Page
157] in them but was obliged to walk in my fine boots. I walked over eight miles in about two
hours there was two other men started with me but one of them could not stand it to walk so fast
and he got into an ox wagon and the other one and I went on and walked a good deal faster than
we did before. we got to camp a little before dark. we got there at the same time that the wagon
did that started two hours before us. Br Thorn (my nearest neighbor) and myself are going to
work together and sleep together. I borrowed Fathers tent and I had a small sheet iron stove and
we fixed them up and had a good comfortable place, the only tent there was in camp and the only
stove. The men were soon buisy peeling potatoes and getting supper; we went to bed tolerably
early to be ready to go to work in the morning.
27th Warm and pleasant. At day light this morning the men were buisy getting their breakfast which
generaly consisted of Bread, potatoes and meat and sometimes coffee but more generally crust
coffee. Br. Thorn and I commenced on our three rods as each man in the 7th Ward has a rod and
a half to do this canal has to be seventeen feet wide at the top and twelve feet on the bottom and
two and a half feet deep on the lower side and generally three feet on the upper side this is the
dimensions of Br Thorns and mine and the dirt has all to be thrown to the lower side and this dirt
has to be made into a road twenty feet wide on top and a level road. this road is twenty five feet
wide at the bottom and the canal being seventeen feet wide makes the distance of moving the dirt
from outside to outside forty two feet, which is no small job. br Thorn and I worked at great
disadvantage for we had no wheel barrow to move the dirt with but we exchanged our pick
sometimes for a few minutes for one and we kept it running pretty lively when we could get it
28th Br Thorn and I got up about an hour and a half before day light this morning and used the wheel
barrow until Edmund Paul the owner got his breakfast and came to work, which was quite a help
to us Edmund worked only a little while and then started home to go to a party at his Fathers but
I found that he had previously lent his barrow to Br Sidwell but said that we could have it when
Sidwell was not using it. Some of the boys tried to laugh Edmund out of going home on foot
eight miles on purpose to dance but he wanted to dance so bad that he went.
29th Warm and pleasant. We were up long before day light again this morning and at our work. We
had the use of the barrow all the fore noon, but Edmund and his brother John came out at noon
and we were obliged to give it up to them Br Sidwell expected to get his portion finished to day
but he has not quite done it.
30th Friday. Warm and pleasant, until about sundown when the wind began to blow and it was quite
cold all the men in camp were in bed early to night except four of us that were in the tent by the
stove. we were right comfortable and did not go to bed so early.
December 1855
[Dec 1855 - Sydney Beatie marries (again), Marion upset; Bad luck with ducks; Cleaning the
clock; 4th Ward school begins, but noisy; An Enigma not published; Homer's writing school
commenced; Colder temperatures if longer thermometers; Joined the Polysophic Society; Cold
cotillion party]
1st Warm and pleasant to day. There was about an inch of snow fell last night and the men were not
in much of a hurry to get up this morning but Br Thorn, myself and one other wer up a little
before light and at our work. We finished our portion about noon. Br Sidwell finished his about
a half an hour before for after he thought that he had finished he had to dig about four inches
deeper. I got home a little before sundown.
2nd Sunday. Cloudy. I have staid at home to day and read the news paper and done some writing.
Father got his kitchen plastered yesterday. Sarah Ann has been making pumpkin butter of
squashes to day. Wm Woodland arrived last night from California. H. Beatie was married today.
see 5th inst.
3rd Cool and cloudy. I worked a little on my back house and ground my axe and dug nearly all of my
beets. Sarah Ann and Mary Sperry visited Sister Willie this after noon. Harry and Mary spent
the evening with us I had the tooth ache all the evening but not very severe.
4th Cool and cloudy and snowed a little I helped Father fix up his cow shed. I eat supper at Fathers
with Mrs Ann Crosby and Miss Jakes, who were there visiting. Mr Barker made Father a present
of a turkey last night. Sydney Beatie was married last Sunday to Miss Hellen Clawson; his first
wife my cousin Marion Mumford was much opposed to his marrying Helen so I understand and
I heard to day that she was sick a bed but whether it was on account of the second wife or not I
do not know, but I rather think it was for I hear that when she got out of the carriage after going
up to see them married she fainted away, and Sydney was obliged to carry her into the house and
then she was so bad that he had to go up to Clawsons and tell them that he could not be there at
supper.
5th Cool and cloudy. I worked a little about home. I also went up to the post office and read two U.
S. journals.
6th Cool and cloudy. I made a saw horse and went to the store about dark and bought some shot.
7th Cold and snowed nearly all day, wind N.E. Harrison Sperry and I went up in allens pasture
hunting geese and ducks we saw but very few Harrison killed two ducks and I killed nothing,
for the shot gun that I had scattered the shot so bad as I found after I got home for I shot it fifty
yards and the shot scattered over a space of about three feet square. I got home with very wet
feet. Harrison gave me one of his ducks.
8th Cool and cloudy. I helped Father get out manure. I heard to day that Marion Beatie had gone
down to Mr Alexander on Mill creek to spend a few days as Sydney had not been to eat or sleep
with her since he got his new wife.
9th Sunday. warm and cloudy, thawed some but the snow is not all gone yet. I have staid at home to
day and have written some.
10th Warm, Father and Cyrus helped me husk out my corn this fore noon and I carried it in this after
noon. I had fourteen baskets full
11th Stormy. I made a clock shelf this fore noon and took my clock to pieces and cleaned it this after
noon, but I shall not soon forget what a time I had to get it together for I did not get it together
this after noon but I came very near it.
12th [Page 159] Warm and pleasant. I bought some tallow this forenoon. I also got some paint and
painted part of the woodwork of my house over.
13th Warm. I put my clock together this morning, and done a little more painting this after noon.
14th Snowed very fast this morning, until about nine or ten oclock. It then cleared off and we
butchered our hogs. Fathers, Lorenzos, and mine Fathers weighed 178 and mine 160. Lorenzo
and Fanny were here last night and we had a good game at cards.
15th Cool and cloudy, and very severe snow storm a little before sundown. Lorenzo, Harrison Sperry,
and I went hunting ducks, but neither of us killed any.
16th Sund. Warm and pleasant. I spent most of the day in writing.
17th Cold and cloudy rained and snowed a little in the after noon I took my clock to pieces again to
day and put it together again and I think it will keep good time now, and I have learned
considerable about a clock that I did not know before. I took Fathers clock to pieces and cleaned
it this after noon. it was so dirty that it would not go when the pendulum was off. I made it go
first rate. I then helped Father fix his rack in his cow shed. The school in the fourth ward
commenced to day. Samuel Teasdale teacher. Cyrus Avery that lives with Father says that there
is so much noise that he could not hear himself think for the schollars talk out loud just as much
as they please, except when the teacher is talking to them telling them to keep still then they wait
until he gets done and then they begin again. My old cow came home to day from Lewis herd for
he has given up herding but he wants the people to pay one cent a head pr day for the cattle
running on his herd ground without his looking after them at all.
18th Warm and pleasant. I hauled part of my corn fodder up to my yard this forenoon and read the
news paper this after noon. T. S. Williams & Co. train of goods of ten waggons arrived
yesterday they have lost 75 head of oxen since they left ft Bridger.
19th Cool and cloudy but thawed all day. I finished hauling my corn fodder and covered my potatoes
deeper. Br Middleton the teacher of this block was here to night to see if we had any complaints
to make but we had none.
20th Warm and pleasant Father and Mother have gone down to the fourth ward school house to a
party to night. I had quite a chat with Br Edwards this morning. I asked him why they did not
have writing or grammar schools in the fourth ward instead of having so many dances but he said
he did not know but they are going to have a cotillion school there this winter price four dollars
pr couple for thirteen nights and I have no doubt but the school will be full, but if it was a
grammar or writing school at half that price I doubt whether there would be over a dozen
schollars that would attend although some that are going to the cotillion school can hardly write
their own names.
21st Cold and cloudy; the South wind blew nearly all day. I commenced making a cradle.
22nd Very cold, snowy, and blustering considerable snow fell last night I have staid in the house to
day, practiced reading and writing some. I also went over to Fathers and read the news paper. I
eat supper at Fathers.
23rd Cold. I staid at home and wrote some. I also saw Br. Preece about getting the school house in
the 4th ward to teach writing school in. he thinks that I can have it.
24th Very cold. I spent most of the day in writing, and done some flourishing. I also went up in the
City. I took the copy of an Enigma that I have written up to the printing office to have it printed
if the editor should see fit to print it. The following is a copy of it:
My first and my fourth is a pleasant drink,
But what it may be I shall leave you to think.
My second and third I am sure you will find
To be fully as endless as time.
My last, third, second and first
Is a noise made by a bird not the worst.
My whole is often used at a feast,
And is of great service to both man and beast.
And those who pretensions to beauty do make
Are very much vexed when them I forsake.
My whole is composed of letters just five
But to think what I am I shall leave you to strive.
Ned.
25th [Page 160] Cold enough to shave a man and a dull instead of a merry christmas. I got a few
signers to go to writing school. I joined the Polysophical society last night.
26th A very little warmer to day. I went around through the City to see if any of our cattle had come
up, but I could find none. I then got some more signers for the writing school. I went to a
cotillion party this evening but had the tooth ache and came home about 8 oclock.
27th The South wind blew very hard all day and blowed nearly all of the snow off. I had a very severe
head ache all day. I set some copies. I went to Thomas Jinkins wedding party this evening but I
had such a severe head ache that I came home at ten oclock. Father and Mother and Sarah Ann
came home at the same time.
28th Snowed and the North wind blowed nearly all day. I went to the printing office and got the news
paper but my Enigma was not in it. My writing school commenced to night but there were but
few there. I expect it was on account of most of the schollars being up late last night at the party.
29th Cold but pleasant. I sent a little corn to mill to day. Lorenzo came home from the sugar house
because it was so cold that he could not work he says the mercury in the thermometer was all in
the ball this morning; he says that if the thermometer had been longer it would have been a great
deal colder. John Wakley let me have a cow to keep for her milk.
30th Cold but pleasant I done some writing to day. I went to H. Sperrys cotillion party last night.
The musicians could hardly play fast enough to keep the people warm for the house was so very
cold and the men gathered around the fire and it could not shine out.
31st Cold and cloudy I made a bargain with br. Taysom to make a pair of shoes for little Manly that
he may have a pair to commence the year with. Taysom goes to writing school to pay for the
shoes. I went up to the store and bought a few things this after noon.
January 1856
[Jan 1856 - Stenciling & wall painting trade learned; No New Years Day spree; 7th Ward party
crowded; Harry swears off whiskey; Making molasses, a cradle, and a chest; Absalom visits
Harriet Wood; Playing Chess for the first time; Tithing settlement; Metting for daily express]
1st Cold and cloudy I went down to the fourth ward school house and saw Mr Hirst do some
stenciling and some wall painting which is very simple. I think I very nearly learned the trade in
about two hours that I stopped at the school house. I then came home and eat my breakfast and
went up in the City with Harrison Sperry where he bought a half pint of whiskey intending to
take it home and make a sling and treat our folks but nothing would do but we must taste of it
and we took two or three swallows each, and it got into his head directly. he then commenced
cutting up his pranks when Mr. P. Dotson got him into his room and kept him there until after
dark. Dotson let me into the room after Harry had been there nearly an hour. when I went in I
found that Harry was not able to walk straight and hardly able to talk or walk at all and there
were two others in just about the same fix besides Dotson who was soon about the same that is
he could not walk straight but he seemed to know very well what he was about, and we soon got
Thompson and Briggs started for home but Harry was not able to go. we then locked the door,
and Dotson and Harry soon forgot their troubles and were sleeping as if they never intended to
awake. I then went out and got some salleratus and mad some strong salleratus water and gave
them each a good dose which soon set them to vomiting and the floor was soon in a nasty mess
and the fire got out and I did not know where there was any wood and there I had to sit in the
cold and watch them until some time after dark, when Dotson got able to help me get Harry up
on his feet and with Dotson on one side and me on the other he was able to walk around the room
a little and I then undertook the job of getting him home alone which I found to be no very easy
one, for I was obliged to nearly carry him all the way home for he could not stand alone, but he
could move his legs along when I held him up. We got to Mrs Moseleys (his mother-in-law)
between 7 and 8 oclock and then if we did not have to take a scolding I am no judge of what
scolding is. She did not blame Harry any more for getting drunk than she did me for letting him.
She said I might have kept it away from him etc. but it did not hurt me any, and so I did not say a
word, but let her go on until she got done. I left Harry on the floor asleep and got home at half
past 8. Thus I spent my new years day without any spree of my own but in taking care of those
who did have a spree, and I believe that if I had not taken care of them they would have very near
froze to death. I went to a ward party in the 7th ward last night which was about like all of the
7th ward parties that is crowded to death. there was 44 couple when 24 would have been a
great plenty for the room.
2nd [Page 161] A little warmer to day and rather cloudy. I had the tooth ache most of the day and
consequently did not do much of any thing. Harry called in this morning as he was going home.
he feels rather sick and he swears he will never drink any more whiskey as long as he lives.
3rd Quite warm and pleasant. I sawed some wood and done some writing to day. I went up to the 7
ward school house to a party last night but I took no part in the dance except once when Miss
Domvill chose me for a partner and I could not well refuse.
4th Warm. I done some writing to day and read some in the Popular educator Uncle Mumfords
folks were visiting at Fathers to day. I had a writing school to night.
5th Quite warm I went to mill but did not get my grist Miss Birch, Mrs. Middleton and myself
rehearsed a dialogue that we are to speak next Monday night at the Polysophic society. I gave
Thomas Jenkins and his ladies a lesson in writing this evening. Mr and Mrs Middleton parted.
6th Sund. Thawed considerable I was about sick with the head ache all day.
7th Warm and pleasant. I took a piece of poetry up to the printing office this after noon for Esther
Birch, a piece of her own composition entitled Gold. I drew the profile of the Appollo Belvedere
this after noon.
8th Warm and pleasant I started at half past eight oclock this morning in company with Br Thorn to
take our cattle over to the West mountain distance about fourteen miles. We got there at half
past one and started home at two oclock got home at ten minutes before six and we were both
tired out as we were not used to walking. I went to bed soon after I got home and had a hard chill
and a very high fever. I blister my toes considerable.
9th Cloudy but thawed considerable I have not done much to day for I feel quite unwell, and very
stiff and sore. I slept very little last night. Sarah Ann cleaned beets for molasses to day.
10th Warm, thawed considerable. I helped Sarah Ann make molasses. I have felt quite unwell to day.
11th Cool and cloudy but thawed considerable and it is very mudy. Absalom Woolf arrived here this
after noon from Salt creek, came on horse back I believe that he has come up to see his girl that
lives ten miles North from the City. I think he is keeping company with her for he went to see
her when he was up last sumer on the 20th of July, but he has not seen her since her name is
Harriet Wood.
12th Cool and cloudy I worked a little at my cradle to day and Appy and I went down to Harrys
cotillion school this evening.
13th Warm and pleasant. I spent the day in writing, reading and drawing.
14th Cold and cloudy. I went with Appy to have his tooth pulled this fore noon for he has had the
tooth ache ever since he has been here. went to the polysopic.
15th Cold and cloudy, freezes to day. Appy and I went nearly all over the 7th Ward to borow a ladder
to put some meat in my chimney to smoke.
16th Freezes again to day. I worked at my cradle some to day Appy mended my shoe. We went to
the cotillion party again this evening.
17th Cold and cloudy I worked a little more at the cradle.
18th Cold and cloudy. I went up in the City with Appy to get a shoe put on his horse. I also cleaned
Mr. Wakely's clock. Sarah Ann and Mrs Middleton (or Singleton she is now) are quilting to day.
19th Cold and cloudy. I finished the cradle and painted it. Br Morris was here this after noon to see
Appy. We did not get to bed last night until about one oclock. Mrs Singleton was here and we
played cards.
20th Cold and cloudy. I wrote some to day. I undertook to play a game of Chess last night, the first
time that I ever saw it played. Appy started up North this morning to see his Harriet and expects
to be back here tomorrow but I doubt.
21st Cold and cloudy I shelled a bushel and a peck of corn and got it ground. I commenced making
a chest for Sarah Ann this after noon. I went to the polysophic school this evening we had a
lecture from br Paul on architecture which was quite interesting considering the brief space of
time which he had to deliver it in as each member has only fifteen minutes allotted them in an
evening.
22nd [Page 162] Cool and cloudy I worked some on the chest. Appy has not come back yet.
23rd Commenced snowing this morning and has snowed nearly all day. I worked some at my chest
again but it was too cold to work much.
24th Cold but pleasant I went up in the City this morning with Harrison Sperry and we met Appy
coming home I expect he found it harder to leave his girl than he thought for, therefore he staid
four nights instead of one.
25th Very foggy this morning. Appy started for home a little after eight oclock. I went up to the
tithing office this after noon to settle up my tithing which I have not settled for three years and I
expected that I was in debt as much a hundred dollars or more and for that reason I have been
almost afraid to go up to settle because it would be on my mind constantly and I had enough on
my mind to get along in these hard times without borrowing trouble but I was most agreeably
surprised when the clerk informed me that my tithing was all settled up to the first of January
1855 and that they owed me one hundred and ten dollars which I can turn on my labor tithing
but I paid William Edwards ten dollars and I have one hundred dollars and 63 cents yet due to
turn on my labor tithing and as they only charged me 6 months tithing in 21 which is a little over
one dollar pr month and eight dollars pr year for wood which will make my tithing for 1855 a
little over twenty dollars and Father had 134,20 cts due him when he did not expect to have any.
therefore we are a great deal better off than we expected.
26th Cold but pleasant. There was a mass meeting this after noon to adopt measures for a daily
express from the Missouria river to Callifornia via Salt Lake City. several gentlemen delivered
speeches among whom were the Hon. A. W. Babbitt Secretary of Utah, Hon. Judge Stiles, Doct.
Hart, Ind agent J. C. Little, City Marshal, Seth M. Blair the Texan Ranger, O. P. Rockwell, T. S.
Williams, Capt Hooper, etc. Some resolutions were read but withdrawn. The Governor gave T.
S. Williams a very severe whipping. The meeting was dismissed about dark or rather it was
adjourned until next Saturday at one o'clock. John Preece was married after the meeting was
over to an old lady that I believe is between forty and fifty years old. She is second. I went to the
cotillion party last night. Sister Singleton went down to br Snarrs this after noon as br Snarrs
folks sent for her to come and meet a man there this evening for they say that he wants her very
much yet they have never seen each other, this I think is going beyond the pictures for I have
heard of falling in love at first sight but the falling in love before seeing the object of ones love is
something that I never heard of before, but there are many strange things in the last days.
27th Sunday Cold and pleasant I spent the day in reading and writing.
28th Very cold, I went with Father to some of the inhabitants of the fourth ward to settle up their
tithing which I found to be a very tedious and cold job as most of the houses that we were in
were so cold that I could scarcely hold my pen and I had considerable writing to do.
29th Cold and cloudy I helped Father about the tithing again to day but instead of going to the
peoples houses we had the people come to us thus we had a good comfortable place to write and
settled with more than we could have done if we had went to their houses.
30th A little warmer to day I am still helping Father.
31st Thawed considerable to day I helped Father again to day but it is very slow business and we can
settle with only about seven or eight in a day. I rec'd a letter this morning from Father Woolf and
I wrote one last night to Absalom.
February 1856
[Feb 1856 - Cotillion party; More on daily express; Heber preaches frugality; Trip to Nephi City;
Woolf family sick with Scarlet Fever; Dance with Eliza; Asking Father Woolf for Eliza's hand;
William Woolf dies; Brigham whips the lawyers and loafers; Lorenzo called on mission; Making a
cheese press]
1st [Page 163] Warm and pleasant, thawed considerable I helped Father about the tithing all day
and went to the cotillion party this evening got home a little after ten oclock. Mrs. Singleton
went to a party at Howards hall with her beau whose name is Daniel Greenig.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I helped Father this fore noon and attended mass meeting this after noon;
and after several speeches from prominent citizens it was decided that there should be a daily
express from the Missouria river via of Salt Lake to Callifornia and President Young has agreed
to take three hundred miles of the road and carry an express on that road from East to West and
from West to East evry day and there was 1000 miles taken by different individuals which leaves
700 miles yet to be taken and they called for men to take that which will no doubt soon be taken.
3rd Sunday. Warm and cloudy, thawed considerable to day. I went to meeting. P. P. Pratt and
Heber Kimball preached about the hard times and exhorted the people to be saving of their
provisions and fuel for there are a great many people that have neither and those that have must
divide, etc. Sarah Ann and I eat supper at Fathers this evening. Mrs Singleton went this
morning to live with Mr Greenig to take care of his wife who is sick and I expect she will be Mrs
Greenig before she gets away from there that is if she can get a divorce from br Middleton.
4th Thawed considerable to day. I sawed wood this fore noon and took some leather to the shoe
makers to have a pair of shoes made for Sarah Ann.
5th Cool and cloudy, thawed considerable. I bought 20 cts. worth of wire this fore noon and made
two brooms this after noon for br B. Lewis. The case of Carlos Murry was brought before the
court to day for killing an Indian.
6th I shelled three bushels of corn to day, which is all that I have, and I owe about 40 pounds of that,
but still I hope to be able to get some more before I get entirely without breadstuff although it is
very hard work to get any now.
7th I agreed with David Cazier this morning to take me down to Nephi City to see Father Woolfs
family we are to start tomorrow morning. I sawed wood this fore noon to last until I get back. I
went up in the City this after noon, bought a little tea, etc.
8th Cold, thawed a very little this morning. I started a little after nine oclock for Nephi City at Salt
creek, found the roads very rough this fore noon, eat dinner at Willow creek 20 miles from home,
stopped all night with Br Bushman at Lehi City, dry creek the old people were at a dance, but
the old gentleman came home and told us to make ourselves at home and for the two girls that
were along (Rosannah Cazier and Elizabeth Love) to cook supper for us. he then showed them
where the potatoes were and the meat and we had bread with us, and we done first rate.
9th Very cold. we started in good season this morning, found the road pretty rough until we got to
Battle creek. we then found it a little smoother but it soon commenced snowing which continued
until after noon. I took dinner with Mrs Williams at Provo. we arrived at Payson a little after
dark: very bad wagoning this after noon on account of the snow and the road was not brok. we
stoped with Elias Gardner, went to a dance at the school house where there was no fire and no
place for any and it was a very cold night.
10th Sunday, Snowed some this morning. I saw br Pitchforth this morning who was on his way to
Salt Lake City, and he told me that Father Woolfs family were some of them sick with the scarlet
fever; we found the roads very bad to day, snow deep. We arrived at Nephi about sundown. I
found little William Woolf very sick and Phebe and Harriet were also sick but not so dangerous
as William, the rest ot the family are enjoying tolerably good healt. Mother has a bad cold and
Father is pretty well tired as he has been broke of his rest so much of late.
11th Quite pleasant. I visited br Loves school to day, and passed the day quite agreeably there was a
meeting this evening for the young people of Nephi which is held evry Monday night. I did not
attend meeting.
13th Warm and pleasant, but very mudy. I went to the grist mill and around the City etc. I eat supper
with Charles Sperry. I went to a dance in the school house to night and took Eliza for a partner.
14th Warm and pleasant I went to school part of the day. I sat up part of the night with Appy to
watch with the children. I asked Father Woolf for Eliza and he gave his consent if she was
willing and she told me yesterday that she was.
15th [Page 164] Warm and pleasant, I went to a party to night but I did not feel like dancing. danced
only twice.
16th Warm and pleasant, Election to day to elect a delegate to the ... [convention?] for the purpose of
admiting utah into the union. Mr Hamil[ton]... Foot were the ones that run. Mr Hamilton was
elec[ted]...
17th Sunday. Warm and pleasant I did not go to meeting but ... of the day in the house.
18th A little cooler to day, I engaged a passag[e] this morning in the stage ... price five dollars. I
started about four oclock this after noon for h[ome, arrived] at Payson about midnight stayed the
remainder of the night at Mr Calkins.
19th Warm and pleasant we left Payson a little after sun rise this morning, quite foggy until we got to
Palmyra, where we had the mail changed. we then went to Spring ville where it was changed
again; we saw a company here that were going to Palmyra to take some Indians prisoners. We
stopped at Provo to eat dinner, where the mail was changed again. I called on Mrs Williams and
she told me that she and Mr Williams had a real quarrell. We stopped with Mr Wood at
American fork all night.
20th We left American fork a little after sunrise and got home about four oclock, found the roads very
mudy near the city, but quite dry from the point of the mountain to Cotton wood. I found the
folks all well. I wrote a letter to Absalom after I got home, Br. Rane trusted me for the pay for
my passage, until I can make some turn to pay.
21st Warm and pleasant but very mudy. I mended my cloggs. William Woolf died.
22nd Warm and pleasant, I weighed my meal this morning. I had 112 pounds. I also weighed out 20
pounds to see how long it would last. I agreed to make a gate for Mr Wagstaff for $1,50 and take
my pay in garden seeds.
23rd Warm and pleasant I commenced Mr Wagstaffs gate, but did not quite finish it.
24th Sunday. Warm and pleasant, I went to meeting. Dr Hovey preached first, and president Young
then spoke and said that Br. Hovey had spoken the truth he then gave the lawyers the worst
whipping that I ever heard any sett of men get in my life and he gave it to Zerubbable Snow
worse than any of the rest he said that he was a stink in his nostrils and that he would want to
get up in the pulpit and speak after Brigham was done but he said that he would not have the
pulpit so disgraced as to have him there and he did not want him on the stand again he then
gave the jury men of the court a whipping, and the loafers that have been around the court house
during court time he said he was going to send them on missions and he did not care if they
preached or not so they got away from here. Br Kimball then spoke a short time and then called
on Br Thomas Bullock to read the names of those that were to go on missions, he read 117
names. Lorenzos was among the number to go to the Vegas. L. Snow was to go to Australia.
The two Orsons Pratt are to go to England. Mr Daniel Greenig and Mrs Eliza Midelton were
married this after noon, Mr Greenig is to go on a mission to Green river. I commenced a letter
to night to Appy.
25th Very warm and pleasant almost like spring. I commenced making a cheese press for Father
Woolf. I went to the polysophic school this evening we had a very good time. Sarah Ann was
over at br Thorns as it was Floras birth day. She is twenty one.
26th Cold and snowed nearly all day. I worked at the cheese press and Lorenzo worked at Mr
Wagstaffs gate.
27th Cold and cloudy Lorenzo and I finished Mr Wagstaff's gates. I then went up in the City and
got a windlass and some pulleys turned for a cheese press. I also went to the post office and got a
letter from Father Woolf which brought the sad news of the death of one of his sons, little
William a fine little fellow about eight years old he died on the morning of the 21st, of the
present month, he died of the scarlett fever.
28th Cold and cloudy part of the day and warm part of the day. Lorenzo and I worked for Mr
Wagstaff putting up some slab fence. we are to get our pay in garden seeds. The men that have
cattle in Cedar valley started after them this morning for the Indians are stealing them and I hear
that they have killed six white men.
29th Cool and pleasant Lorenzo and I finished Mr Wagstaff's fence this morning and got some
seeds. I then came home and finished the cheese press.
March 1856
[Mar 1856 - Indian Squash Head suicide; Old man pretends poverty; Lorenzo wins shooting
match; Making a wheel barrow; Sarah Ann gives birth - a girl; Fainting at polysophic school]
1st Warm and pleasant, I made a door sill and threshhold for my front door for the old ones were
wore out. I heard that Indian Squash head was brought into the City to have his trial and he knew
that he deserved to die but was so determined that no white man should kill him that when they
untied his hands to let him eat his dinner he took out his knife and cut his throat.
2nd Sunday. Cool and cloudy and snowed very little. I finished reading the life of General Jackson
this fore noon. Sarah Ann and I then went down to Harry Sperrys and spent the after noon.
3rd Warm and pleasant I went up to the store with Father and Mother and bought some cotton
coloth for some pants. I got it for cleaning Wakely's clock. I made a rocker for the cradle this
after noon.
[4th] [Page 165 (page corner is missing)] Warm and pleasant. I made a well pole and commenced a
wheel barrow. Flora Maddison ... for us today.
[5th Warm an]d pleasant, I worked some at my wheel barrow. I then wrote a letter to Absalom
Woolf. [I took] it up to the office where I found one from him which informed us that their
children [are getti]ng better.
[6th Warm and] pleasant fast day. I had a very severe head ache. I helped father carry some ... from
Mr Jenkins over to his house there was six bushels of them.
[7th Warm a]nd pleasant. I worked a little at my wheel barrow. Father helped me this [fore]noon.
There has been an old man living at br Bundys this winter who pretended to be too poor to pay
for his board and has lived on the old folks until they [are, were?] nearly out of provisions; this
morning Father, br Edwards and br Wakley went over to see if the old man was as poor as he
pretended to be they wanted him to unlock his box and let them see what was in it but he
refused to do so but they told him that they could open it if he would not, and he finally opened
it. Father asked him how much more money he had and he said he had a sovereign. Father asked
him how much more and he said he had no more, but they found about thirty dollars in the chest,
and two watches and four shawls, besides other property.
8th Warm and pleasant, I set out the mortises of the wheel barrow and then went with Harrison
Sperry hunting ducks but we saw none to shoot but we burned off some grass and cane on
Fathers grass lot, and came home.
9th Sund. Warm and pleasant I went to meeting all day. Heber and Jeddediah preached.
10th Warm and pleasant. I settled up my tithing this fore noon with Mr Vance the clerk of the 7th
ward. I settled up to the first of January 1856, and I am ahead with my tithing $13,53. I worked
some at the wheel barrow this after noon. Sister Leang was here visiting this after noon.
11th Warm and pleasant I worked a little at the wheel barrow this fore noon and made some fence
posts this after noon for Mrs Reily I made twelve of them at 30 cts each.
12th Warm and pleasant I finished the fence posts this fore noon and sawed off 30 fence poles for
Mrs Reily at 30 cts each. I set out a few currant bushes this after noon and then went up to the
post office and got a letter from Absalom Woolf, stating that they were all well. I also sent one
to him. our cow calved to day.
13th Cool and windy. I painted Father Woolfs cheese press. I then went over to Fathers and weighed
out a hundred pounds of flour and measured up two bushels of potatoes for Mrs Reily. I then
went over to Lorenzos and shot at a mark with him and he rather beat me. I done a little more at
my wheel barrow this after noon.
14th Cold and cloudy, snowed a little I nearly finished my wheel barrow. Father has been working
on the canal for three days. The snow is now about 18 inches deep up North.
15th Pleasant but the North wind blew rather cold. I finished my wheel barrow this fore noon. I went
this after noon and dug some roots although I was not obliged but I thought that it would be
saving a little provision for there are a great many now that are obliged to dig roots for a living.
16th Sunday. The sun shone very pleasant but the North wind blowed very cold. I went to meeting all
day. Br Vernon and br Brigham preached this fore noon and br Wooley and br Brigham
preached this after noon.
17th Warm and pleasant. Sarah Ann was taken sick about one oclock this morning and was sick all
day. I took my potatoes out of the hole to day. there were 19 « bushels some person had
stolen half a bushel.
18th Cloudy, looked like rain. I went up in the City and bought some tallow and sold four bushels of
potatoes at a dollar and twenty five cts pr bushel, cash. We had a little daughter born this
morning at 15 minutes after one oclock. Sarah Ann had a very hard time. Sister Harrington and
sister Thorn were with her. Mothers health would not admit of her being with her girl weight of
9.5 lbs.
19th Warm and pleasant. I made some candles and wrote a letter to Absalom Woolf. I then went up
to the post office and got a letter from him. Harrys girl was born to night.
20th Warm and pleasant. I helped father put some handles in his plow.
21st Warm and pleasant. I commenced paving a walk around my house to go the well. I went up in the
City this after noon to get my planes that were being fixed but I did not get them.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I worked in my door yard this fore noon, and helped Father sow onions this
after noon. I bought a spade this morning for which I paid $2,75.
23rd Sund. Warm and pleasant. I stopped at home to day and done some writing.
24th Warm and pleasant, I fixed my wagon and loaded up a load of manure. I went to the plysophic
school to night but had a very bad head ache, and did not enjoy the school much, very warm,
three of the young laidies fainted.
25th Warm and pleasant I hauled out some manure. I have been quite unwell to day, had br Wakleys
oxen to haul the manure.
26th Warm and pleasant. I plowed a little of my City lot this fore noon had br Wakleys oxen to do it
with, I planted a few peas this after noon. I then went up to the post office and got a letter for
Sarah Ann from Eliza.
27th Warm and pleasant. I sowed some beets, turnips, lettuce etc. Lorenzo drove my ox home.
28th Warm but rather windy I set out some to onion setts and some onions for seed and sowed a few
seed.
29th Very windy and rained a very little I worked a little in the garden, set out some currant trees.
30th Very windy. I went to meeting this fore noon, and done some writing this after n.
31st Very windy I worked getting out manure. Father helped me this fore noon rained a very little
this after noon.
April 1856
[Apr 1856 - Cattle died during winter; Missionaries called to Carson Valley; Fishing and
swimming with Harry; Prayer circle; An enigma in the news; Lorenzo leaves on mission to Las
Vegas; O. P. Rockwell chases thieves]
1st [Page 166 (upper right page corner missing)] Cool and pleasant the N. W. wind blowed a little.
I plowed s[ome] ... and raked some of the ground.
2nd Warm and pleasant I sowed onion seeds nearly all day. I went up [to the post] ... office this after
noon, but got no letter.
3rd Warm and pleasant. I sowed some carrot seed this morning ... some manure and plowed and
harrowed some. Lorenzo helped ....
4th Warm and pleasant. I raked off some ground for beds, sent my o....
5th Warm and pleasant. I sowed some onion and beet seeds. Mr M... from Salt creek he brought us
a feather bed that Father Woolf ... also a bushel of corn and a few peas, etc. Sister Bushman ...
came here to night to attend conference.
6th Warm and pleasant. I went to conference. it was in the bow[ery] ... [There] was a very large
congregation notwithstanding there were ... the country on account of poor teams. I saw a man
today that ... there had about three thousand head of cattle died up North th[is] ... winter and that
Nixon had bought two thousand hides and there ... a great many died that were not skined and
there had be[en] ... enough brought to the City to make the 3000. George A. Smith p[reached] ...
this fore noon and Orson Pratt in the after noon. there were a great many missionaries call to
day, about eighty of which are to go to Carson valley.
7th Cloudy, and we had a fine shower of rain this fore noon and we needed it very much for the
ground was getting very dry. I went to meeting. the articles of the convention were read and it
was then put to vote to see if they should be sent to washington and it was voted they should.
8th Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon, E. T. Benson, O. Pratt and Patrick Lynch
preached and conference was adjourned until the 6th of October next. Br. Orson Pratt says that it
was just eighteen hundred years to a day from the crucifixtion of Christ to the organization of the
church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
9th Warm and pleasant, I finished a clothes horse, and then dug up some ground with a spade in my
door yard. I then went up to the post office.
10th Warm and pleasant I got some rhubarb roots of Fanny this fore noon. I also set out some cat nip
and horehound roots, and some horse raddish. I commenced trenching a piece of ground for a
rhubarb bed.
11th Windy. I finished my rhubarb bed and set out roots. I then set out some currant trees. I joined
the prayer circle to night.
12th Warm and cloudy. I dug up some more of my door yard, and sowed some clover seed. I also set
out a lot of currant trees.
13th Sund. Cool and cloudy in the fore noon, and rained hard in the after noon. I went to meeting
Orson Pratt preached in the fore noon and J. M. Grant and E. Snow in the afternoon Harry and
Mary Sperry eat supper with us.
14th Cloudy and rained a litte. I planted some peas that Father Woolf sent me I also, I also put down
some mop boards in my back house and ground my hand axe. I got a scraper for my front door,
for which I am to pay a dollar. went to the polysophic to night.
15th Cool and pleasant I helped father make some posts this fore noon. I took a bushel of corn to
mill this after noon I then planted a little corn and potatoes.
16th Cool and pleasant. I helped father make some more posts four of them are mine. I also planted
some peas, onion seed and 167 peach stones. I then went up to the post office and put a letter in
but got none as the mail was not opened.
17th Warm and pleasant. I went up to the post office and got my paper and a letter from Appy. I then
went a fishing with Harry Sperry, but we caught no fish. We then went swimming in Jordan.
18th Very Warm. I made a walk in front of my house. I then went up to the blacksmith shop and got
an Iron for a mop. I went to prayer circle to night.
19th Warm but very windy in the after noon. I went up in the City this fore noon and made a handle
for a file and one for a screw driver.
20th Sund. Cold and rained some. I went to meeting in the forenoon. br Fulmer and president
Brigham Young preached. I stopped at home this afternoon.
21st Warm and pleasant. I dug up some more of my door yard, and set out an apple tree.
22nd Warm and pleasant. I set out some pink roots this fore noon and got Lorenzos tool chest and
some of his tools. I helped him plant some corn and potatoes this after noon. I then made a side
of a knife handle for a pocket knife, went to polysophic last night had a first rate time.
23rd Cool and windy. I fixed a trap to catch gofers but I do not know how it will work.
[24th] [Page 167 (left upper corner of page is missing)] ...[Clou]dy and snowed a little, the ground was
white with snow. I sowed a little cloves ... [in my] door yard, I cased the window of my back
house this fore noon. I went up to ... [Mrs. Beaties this] after noon. we had a very good visit and
the girls had a real time carrying [on.] ...
[25th] ... windy. I cleaned off my lot the remainder that was not plowed. I then plowed it ... [pra]yer
circle to night.
[26th] ... [pleas]ant. I harrowed my ground, dug up a little, and then went over to Fathers, ... [Lorenzo
is] to start on Monday for Los Vegas, and Father wanted to have his family ... before he went.
Lorenzo told me to day that Thomas Bullock told him that when ... [go]ing over the names of the
men that were on the jury during to Br. Kimball ... [ca]me to Fathers name he told Bullock to put
Lorenzos name down for a mission.
[27th] ... [and] pleasant, Sarah Ann and I went to meeting this fore noon Bernard Snow ... [Brigham]
Young preached. I had a very bad head ache this after noon.
[28th] ... pleasant; I had the tooth ache to day. Lorenzos team started out this after noon ... siz bushels
of potatoes up stairs this fore noon to eat. I then studied out ... [an e]nigma in No. 7 of the
Deseret news, and wrote an answer to it and took it up to ... [the] office. the answer is Beebe. I
went to the polysophic school to night got home at eleven oclock; the school was adjourned
until the first Monday in November.
[29th] Cold and Snowed very hard this morning. Lorenzo started on his mission to Los Vegas. I went
up in the City this after noon, I bought a tunnel at auction for which I paid 25 cts.
30th Warm and pleasant. I planted my potatoes to day and covered them with a plow. I also planted
two rows of corn. I heard to day that Wm Woodland and four others had started for Callifornia
last week and that they had been stealing horses and O. P. Rockwell and a company of men had
gone after them.
May 1856
[May 1856 - Bakery broken into; Governor buys cradles; Nethercott trades fish for food; Bishop
Perkins usurps tax work; Working on state rode; Tobacco, whiskey, and a bucking bronco]
1st Thursday, fast day, I took a pail full of potatoes up to Mr McLelons (one of the Bishops council)
for the poor. I went to fast meeting which commenced at ten oclock and dismissed about two,
had a very good meeting. I did not fast. Sarah Ann recd a letter from her sister Eliza, this
morning, stating that she expected she would have to come here when she wanted to see Sarah
Ann which she expected would be sometime this summer.
2nd Cold and cloudy. I plastered my back house. I attended the prayer circle to night. Mr Golightly
had his bakery broke into last night for the second time and had 100 pounds of flour stolen.
3rd Cool and cloudy. I went up to the court house and laid in a bill of three hundred and forty dollars
against the U. S. for loss of property which the Indians have stolen and destroyed. I then went to
Mr. Goddards auction; there was a childs cradle being sold just as the Governor was passing by
in his buggy. there was one dollar bid on it and the Governor bid 150. and got it there was
another then put up, and the Governor got that for 175, he said he had use for two or three cradles
about this time. I bought nothing at the auction.
4th Sunday. Rained nearly all day. I spent the after noon in writing, copying my old journal into my
new one. I laid in bed a good part of the fore noon. Brigham told the people this fore noon that
he wanted them to raise enough grain this year to last them two years and next year to raise
enough to last them twice as long.
5th Cloudy in the fore noon but very warm and pleasant in the after noon. I made a butter tray.
Sarah Ann and I spent the evening at br Thorns. br and sister Maiben were there. br Maiben
sung some comic songs. We went to bed about 11 oclock. Rained most of last night.
6th Warm and pleasant, a very nice day for things to grow. I worked on the road. I took half a
bushel of potatoes up to Mr Wells to pay for two gimlet bits. I also sold a little more than a
peck to Frank Pullen for fifty cts. to make yeast of. Mr Nethercott came here to night with a few
little fish, the largest of which were about six inches long and wanted to trade them for
something for his wife and childs supper for he said they had nothing to eat. Sarah Ann let him
have some meal and some milk he said he was ashamed to offer the fish but he could do no
better. Sarah Ann has been visiting at Mr Woodburys this after noon.
7th Warm and cloudy, and rained a little. I went up in the City and finished up my business with
Thomas Williams about my Indian losses. they amount to 600 dollars. Williams gave me a
recipt for the same and promises to pay two thirds of the amount when collected, the other he has
for collecting, and if he does not collect it he charges nothing. I had a severe head ache this after
noon.
8th Warm and pleasant. I worked on the road.
9th Very warm in the fore noon, but cold and cloudy in the after noon. I worked on the road paying
road tax. I asked the bishop Perkins what Mr Beaties tax would be and he told me $5,80 and I
told him that I intended to see Mr Beatie and get the chance to work it out for store pay. I
attended prayer circle to night.
10th Cool and rained a fine shower this morning. The Eastern main arrived this morning for the first
time since last fall. I went up to see Mr Beatie this morning to get the chance to work his tax, but
what was my surprise to find that Bishop Perkins went right to him (after I told him that I
intended to go) and got the job which I think is rather a mean trick for a bishop to do. I went to
Mr. Nixons auction to day but I had only fifty cts to buy with, but the goods went very cheap.
11th Sund. Cloudy, and a nice shower of rain. I went to meeting this fore noon. J. M. Grant preached
and H. C. Kimball preached. I did not go this after noon.
12th [Page 168 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Warm and pleasant, I worked on the road in
front of Fran[k Pullens. I] ... got my grind stone from Chas Lamberts, I am to pay ... for cutting it
and I find the stone.
13th Cloudy and showery most of the day. I got a man to work for ... to day on the road. I got Isaac
Nash to make a crank for my gr[ind stone.] ... I helped him and he charged me one dollar and
fifty cts. ... [I] worked this after noon making a frame for my grind stone. then I worked in front
of my house making road to day.
14th Warm and rained a little. I finished the frame for my grind stone and hung the stone. my hired
man worked on the road for me. Father went over Jordan hunting cattle.
15th Warm and pleasant. I set out about 10 cabbage plants this morning. I then went up to the post
office and got a letter from Appy. I also got a package of wheat for Father that Dr Bernhisel sent
from Washington. I fixed up a leash to day.
16th Very warm. I made some fence posts this fore noon and hoed some in the garden this after noon.
I also went up to the store and bought an oak barrel for a pork barrell, for which I pay three
dollars. I planted my corn this afternoon. I attended prayer circle to night. I turned my man off
this after noon.
17th Very warm, I bought a pair of linnen pantaloons of Mrs Cloward, for which I paid one dollar. I
then came home and hoed in the gardens.
18th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting. David Candland and President Young preached
in the fore noon and John Young in the after noon. Stilman Woodbury got home yesterday from
the Islands.
19th Warm, windy and cloudy. I hoed in the garden this fore noon and on the state road this after
noon for county orders, at the rate of two dollars pr day. I worked until half past seven.
20th Cold and windy. I worked on the State road. I worked in the water most of the day.
21st Warm and pleasant. I worked on the State road. I put a letter in the office that Sarah Ann wrote
to Eliza requesting her to come up as soon as she can conveniently.
22nd Pleasant in the fore noon but very windy in the after noon. I worked on the state road fixing the
bridge
23rd Warm and Cloudy. I worked on the state road this fore noon and in the garden this after noon. I
went to prayer circle this evening.
24th Cloudy and windy, rained a very little. I went with Harry Sperry after a load of Willow roots this
forenoon and he helped me hoe onions some this after noon, finished hoing the onions first time.
25th Sunday, Cool and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. P. P. Pratt, Father Morley and
Brigham preached. I spent the after noon in copying my old journal into my new one.
26th Very warm. I started this morning in company with John Corless to go over Jordan to get my
horse. I borrowed br R. Allreds Spanish mare to ride, we went up in the City first for John said
that he must have some tobacco before he went, and after he got it he said he must have some
whisky and I tried in vain to persuade him to buy none for have some [Page 169 (upper left
corner of page is missing)]... paid seventy five cents for some and invited two others besides ...
help drink it we then went on over Jordan and had got about half ... mountain and were riding
along slow when all of a sudden the mare ... commenced jumping stiff legged and throwed me
off but I held on ... and got on again and went over to the point of the mountain where ... my
horse and my ox. I left my ox in the charge of Newton Merrick he charges ... day for herding
him. I got home about four oclock.
[27th] ... I went up in the City to try to trade my horse for an ox but I ... no person to buy him. I bought
a bed stead for which I pay eleven dollars ... six and a half of it I paid to day and the remainder
when I go to hauling ...
[28th] ...[wa]rm. I worked on the state road.
[29th] ...[w]arm. I went up in town again to try and sell my horse but had [no] ... success. I then took a
bushel and a half of wheat to mill. br Maiben painted my front door. I worked a little on the
water ditch this evening to get the water onto my City lot.
[30th] ...[Ve]ry warm I worked in the garden weeding and watering I got my grist home from the mill
I had seventy pounds of flour. I went to prayer circle to night.
31st Very hot and windy. I worked pulling weeds.
June 1856
[Jun 1856 - Father & Mother Woolf sealed; Horse traded for steers; More canals to be built]
1st Sunday Warm and very windy. I went to meeting this fore noon, br Smith late missionary to
South Africa preached and gave us a short account of his mission he also told us that there was
about from five to seven thousand mormons coming this season and that they had ordered one
hundred hand carts to be made etc. brother Kimball then spoke awhile.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I watered some with a watering pot and done some weeding.
3rd Warm and pleasant, Father and Mother Woolf came here this morning and eat breakfast with us.
I made a trap to catch gofers. I tried to trade my horse but could not.
4th Very warm. I spent most of the day visiting. I got some corn ground.
5th Very warm I went over Jordan to try to trade my horse to Mr Dresser but I did not trade. I
watered part of my lot this morning.
6th Warm and pleasant. I done some weeding Father Woolf helped me this fore noon some then he
and Mother went up to the endowment room and were sealed. he went up to the prayer circle
with me to night
7th Warm and pleasant I went over Jordan to fort Taylor and traded my horse to Mr Trimmer for a
yoke of three year old steers and five dollars in cash. I drove my steers around a little after I got
home to break them.
8th Sunday I went to meeting this fore noon. Joseph Young preached and then Heber Kimball and
Brigham spoke about the canal that is nearly finished from Cotton wood to the City. he said that
the people need not think that they were done with public works when they had that canal done
for they would then take Jordan out to water the land west of Jordan and then they would take the
Provo out and bring that to the City and then the Webber and then Bear river etc. I made two
whip lashes, one to pay a boy for herding my steers to day. We had some green peas to day.
October 1856
[Oct 1856 - Relics from Carthage Jail; Request for teams to meet the handcarts; Attended
conference with Eliza; Married and sealed to Eliza; Baby girl blessed; Move to Salt Creek]
1st Warm and pleasant I helped make molasses to day, from beets.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I helped make molasses again to day, and then went up and saw br Bunkers
hand cart company come in. Some with one arm and some with one leg some old and some
young etc.
3rd Warm and pleasant I helped make molasses this fore noon and went up to the fair this after
noon, which was truly worth going to see. I saw the rellics from the Carthage jail when The
Prophets Joseph and Hyrum were martyred the pistol which Hyrum held at the time and the
small revolver which Joseph had and the cane that Willard Richards knocked down the muzzles
of the guns as they were thrust into the door and fired also the watch that John Taylor had in his
vest pocket which saved his life for as he was in the act of Jumping from the window among the
mob where he would have been killed instantly a ball struck his watch and knocked him back
into the room where he lay wounded and bleeding. I also saw a great many curiosities from India
among which was the skin of a Boa constrictor over thirteen feet long which Bishop N. V. Jones
killed also some of the Gods that they worship in India and too many other things to mention. I
went to prayer circle to night.
4th Warm and pleasant We finished making molasses to day.
5th Sun. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day. Eliza Woolf and Abraham Boswell and his
wife came to my house this after noon from Nephi.
6th [Page 170 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Warm Conference commenced this morning
at ten oclock ... bowery, it was very mutch crowded so mutch so that Eliza ... not get a seat where
we could hear all that was said but ... heard very well had it not been for the crying children that
... in spite of Brighams preaching to the contrary Eliza and I started ... a good seat in the after
noon
7th Windy I attended conference again to day conference was ... the 6th of April the time has
been principally occupied by the ... [missi]onaries that have returned, there was quite a number of
teams called for ... meet the hand cart companies the last of which were at the Loup fork, ... of
September.
8th Cloudy and very windy, and rained some. I began to make some preparations for ...
9th Very windy. I went up in the City and made a bargain to sell a load of wood for ...
10th Pleasant Went to see Brigham to day. I took my load of wood up to Mr Winder for which I get
nine dollars in leather I also took some beets and carrots up in the City and sold them.
11th I took my tithing vegetables up to the tithing office I also sold some carrots and one bushel of
onions to J. C. Little to pay my taxes I went up and see Brigham yesterday to ask him if he
would let me have another wife he said he would and he asked me if I had her already courted
and I told him that I had. he then told me to bring her up to his office on Sunday between the
fore and the after noon meetings. I packed some of my things up to move this after noon.
12th Sunday Warm and pleasant Sarah Ann, Eliza and I went to meeting this fore noon and we went
up to the Presidents office as soon as the meeting was dismissed, and Eliza Woolf was sealed to
me there were also nine others sealed at the same time among whom was B. L. Clapp he took a
Danish girl and br Fulmer. Eliza and I went to meeting this after noon and Sarah Ann was
obliged to go home and see to her babe, we eat supper at Fanny's my sister in laws. Harriet
Wood slept at my home last night and to night.
13th Warm and pleasant I got a side of upper and a side of sole leather this morning of Mr Winder
for which I paid $12,50. I put my wagon cover on and packed up some more of my things.
Bishop Perkins Blessed our little girl, the following is the blessing. [(The blessing is missing
from the journal)]
14th Warm and pleasant. I have been quite unwel to day but I packed up some of my things and
settled up my tithing and got a recommend from Bishop Perkins of 7 ward to Bishop Biglar of
Nephi also that I have 73 dollars and 53 cents paid on my labor tithing. I hired br Thorn to go
over Jordan and find my heifer that I had not seen for a year, and I got Thomas Moseley to go and
get my oxen and br Lewis drove up my ox that has been running over at the point of the
mountain we worked pretty late last night
15th Very windy I finished packing up this morning and started for Salt creek about 11 oclock we
camped on Willow creek after dark distance 20 miles br Thorn helped me to start my loose
cattle
16th Very windy we traveled all day without accident and camped on Provo bench some time after
dark.
17th Rather windy, We passed through Provo and stopped to bait our cattle between Provo and
Springville. We then traveled on nearly to Spanish fork and camped cloudy and the wind blew
very cold, all night.
18th Cloudy but tolerably warm we started before sun rise this morning, passed through the Spanish
fork settlement and stopped and got breakfast at Spanish fork bridge. we then went on passed
through payson and stopped about half way between Payson and Summit creek and eat again, we
passed Summit at dark and traveled about four miles and camped. we met brothers Fulmer and
Cahoon just before we camped. they are from Los vegas. they told me that Lorenzo was well
when they left and that he was working in the lead mines.
19th Cold and windy we started before sunrise this morning and traveled about three or four miles
and cooked breakfast at the kanyon springs. we then traveled about four miles and met Absalom
Woolf who came out with a spare team to meet us. Sarah Ann and Eliza then took the horse
team and went home. Appy and I got to Nephi about the middle of the afternoon.
20th Cold and cloudy, snowed considerable last night. I unloaded my wagon and fixed up a little.
[21st] [Page 171 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ... [c]loudy. I did not do much to day. Appy
and I hauled a large ... home a little after dark and started about ten oclock in the morning.
[22nd] ... windy. I hauled dirt and put on the top of the house that Father Woolf ... to live in this winter.
[23rd] ... this fore noon. I helped Appy clean up wheat this after noon.
[24th] ... dy. I planed some boards for a cupboard and made a fork to put ... fanning milk. Harry Sperry
arrived last night from the City he brought ... me, two of which I sold for 3 « bushels of wheat
each.
[25th] ... [c]onsiderable last night and made it rather unpleasant under foot to day. I went ... marshall
this after noon and planed one board for a shelf and read some in a novel.
[26th] ... I went to meeting this fore noon br Jackson spoke some also Bishop Biglar. I spent this after
noon in writing. br McGaw and company passed this after noon from the Cherokee Nation on
their ... Filmore. some of Hooper and Williams goods came in to night from the City.
27th Warm and pleasant I worked all day putting up some shelves for Father Woolf.
28th Warm and pleasant in the fore noon but rather windy and cold in the after noon. I made a
crimping board for Father and then layed the floor which was very loose. I had a real time of
carrying on with the girls Eliza and Sarah Jane Scriggins. I laughed until I was ashamed of
myself.
29th Warm and pleasant, I went up in Salt creek kanyon and got a load of cotton woods green and
very heavy I got nearly to the mouth of the kanyon and upset and broke my coupling pole and
one of my ox bows and was obliged to leave my load and got home a little after dark. John
Cazier got home from the City and brought another wife with him he has now accomplished
that which he had been trying to for a year or two but he has been very unsuccessful heretofore.
30th Warm and pleasant, I went this fore noon and got my wood that I left last night. James went with
me for some of the logs were so large that I could not load them alone. I helped James clean up
wheat this after noon. The Callifornia mail got here a little after noon.
31st Warm and pleasant I helped James clean up wheat.
November 1856
[Nov 1856 - Trip to SLC, severe snow storm; Missionaries labor in wards; Indian Arapeen visits;
Handcart people stay for dinner; Sick with the Kine Pox]
1st Warm and pleasant, I worked in the school house putting up a stand, as each man was requested
to do one day work on it.
2nd Sunday. Cool but pleasant, I went to meeting, some of the brethren that have returned from the
City occupied the most of the time in relating the instruction that they recieved while there
3rd Warm and pleasant I spent the day in fixing up to go to the City after the rest of my things
4th Pleasant James Woolf and I started before sunrise this morning to go to G. S. L. City, we
stopped to bait our cattle a little South of Summit creek. we then drove to the Slough between
Payson and Spanish fork, where we arrived a little after dark.
5th Cool but pleasant, we got up before sunrise this morning and could not find our oxen but we
found their tracks where they had gone back. we then went back to Payson (a distance of about
two miles) where we found two of them but the other two had gone on. We then got a mule of br
Fairbanks and I went back into the Juab valley (a distance of about nine miles from Payson)
where I met Johnathan Davis driving them to me as he was bound for the City. he had drove
them about four or five miles. I then drove them back to the camp and we yoked up and drove on
to the Provo bench where we over took the other teams that started from Nephi the same time
that we did. we camped a little after dark.
6th Cold and cloudy. We had a severe storm of snow and wind about mid night last night which
caused us all to get up and turn the mouths of our waggons from the storm, and we had only just
got into the waggons again when we had to get up and stop our cattle as they were going back, it
was so dark that we could not see which was our own oxen until we pulled sage and made a large
fire we then yoked them up and watched them until nearly day light. we then laid down and slept
about an hour. Some of the men lost their hat in the storm but were fortunate enough to find
them again. We started a little after day light this morning and arrived at Battle creek about eight
oclock when we stopped at br Seelys and fed our oxen what hay they wanted and we eat our
breakfast in our wagon, we then drove on and left the rest of the company. we stopped at the foot
of the mountain and fed our oxen some corn we then drove around the point of the mountain
when a severe snow storm met us in our faces, which lasted until we got nearly to Dry creek
where we camped for night it being after dark.
7th [Page 172 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Cool but pleasant we started before sunrise
this morning and arrived in the ... br and Sister Thorn were very kind to us br Thorn told me to
help myself ... the oxen and sister Thorn baked some bread and cooked some potaoes for us, we
spent ... looking about the City and enquiring the price of wheat and of goods in order that ...
know where we could do the best with our wheat and flour; I sold three pairs of g... a pair of
sathnitt pants, but I had to give half a bushel of wheat besides.
8th Warm and pleasant. We took our wheat up to Gilberts store and 1,75 cts pr bushel. I ... sold 50
pounds of flour at 4 1/2 cts pr. pound. we got our trading done and packed up a few things. we
eat supper at Fathers, I went to Mrs Foresyth's and tryed to buy a glove pattern but she would not
sell one. I believe she is an English woman and I expect that she was afraid that I would get her
trade from her.
9th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day Benjn Clapp spoke first and then br
Brigham and then W. W. Phelps, and in the after noon H. C. Kimball and Jedediah in the after
noon, they both said that they did not want any person to partake of the Sacrament again that
have injured any person until they have made restoration to the one they have injured and if they
do partake of it before they make restoration they do it to their own souls damnation, and I saw a
number that did not partake, myself among the number. I also went to the fourth ward meeting at
night where B. L. Clapp and G. B. Wallace preached, they are appointed to labor in the fourth
ward and live in the ward until they have prepared the inhabitants thereof for baptism and there
are missionaries appointed for evry ward in the City; we eat at Fathers to day Br Wilkes
company of hand carts arrived this after noon, some of them are badly frozen.
10th Warm and pleasant. we started about day break, this morning for home. we slept only about
three hours for after we got home from meeting we had to pack up, which took us till near
midnight. we went as far as Dry creek in Utah and stopped at Mr. Skeins.
11th Warm and pleasant, we started before sunrise this morning and stopped to eat on the Provo
bench. we then went on to Spring vill and stopped with br James Obanion.
12th Warm and pleasan. We started some time before day light, passed through Spanish fork before
day light, a distance of six miles. we passed through Payson at hal pas seven and stopped to eat
break fast about halfway between Payson and Summit creek. we also stopped and fed corn at the
Panyon springs and got home about half past seven, all safe.
13th Warm and pleasant. I made and put in a window frame, and plastered up a little around the
house. I also sold a hat for a short jointer and an oil stone a smoothing plane, a rabbit plane and a
small tenon saw.
14th Warm and pleasant I set up my bedsteads and cut out some letters out of pastboard to mark bags
with
[15th] [Page 173 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ...nt. I made two axe handles to day and
unloaded my wagon and ... the house.
[16th] ... and pleasant. I went to meeting. we had a brother to preach to us that is in ...rn from a mission
to Hindustan he gave us an account of his mission in the ...ng we had brs. Graham and br.
Farnham to preach. they are their way home ...m Australia.
[17th] Warm and pleasant I helped James to clean up wheat. Isaac drove my beef ox up from Willow
creek. I vaccinated my arm this after noon.
18th Cool and cloudy I worked on the road opening the road into a new kanyon, hailed some about
night I went to Seventies meeting at night, snowed and the wind blowed very hard about bed
time
19th Cold and stormy. Appy helped me to kill my ox. Arrapeen and some other Indians came here
this after noon. Bishop Snow from Sanpete preached this evening to the young people.
20th Cold. I cut up my beef, and sold one fore quarter in small peices for ten cents pr pound, for
wheat at two dollars pr bushel, it come to a little over ten bushels of wheat.
21st Snowed nearly all day. I marked Fathers sacks. There was four wagons from Iron county (that
have been to the City after the poor that came in with the hand carts) stopped here to night on
their way home. four of the hand cart people eat supper with me. The Choir of Nephi have a
feast to day.
22nd Cold and cloudy I worked mending a wash tub that the hoops burst but I did not get it fixed. the
Iron county people went on this morning.
23rd Sunday Cold I went to meeting
24th Cold I was quite sick to day, with the kine pox.
28th Cold, The Presidents of the different quorums with their councilors and families had a feast this
after noon to which I was invited we had a meeting in the evening or rather we spent the evening
in speaking, praying and singing and we had a first rate time. I have not been able to get out of
the house much this week, as I have sick with the kine pox.
29th Very cold. my arm is so lame that I am not able to do much yet.
30th Sunday Very cold. Sarah Ann and I went to meeting Brs Foot, Miller and Bishop Biglar
preached; had a very good meeting also one in the evening
December 1856
[Dec 1856 - Jedediah Grant dies; Legislature convenes at Filmore; Making gloves; Talk about
Celestial Kingdom and waiting spirits; Sleigh riding]
1st [Page 174 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Monday. Very Cold. Absalom started for the
City this morning with a load.... Jedediah M Grant died this evening at twenty m...
2nd Very cold I commenced a pair of shoes for Sarah Ann. Father cup...
3rd Very cold I finished Annas shoes. Father Woolf showed me and help...
4th Very cold. I commenced a pair of shoes for Eliza I cut them out my... Waggons came in this
evening on their way to Filmore to the legislat[ure]... the sad news of the death of Jeddediah M.
Grant who died last Monday ...
5th Very Cold. I finished Eliza's shoes this after noon. quite a number of people arr[ived this]
evening from the City on their way to the Legislature at Filmore. Lorenzo Sn[ow] and W. W.
Phelps spoke this evening at the meeting
6th Very cold. The Legislators started this morning for Filmore. James and I went and got a good
load of cedar wood, and got back before sundown. Daniel Miller arrived this evening from the
City he brought a hat for me.
7th Sunday Cool but pleasant, I went to meeting. Benjn Johnson and Father Morley spoke on the
reformation. Father Miller also made a few remarks; I spent the after noon in writing and went to
meeting in the evening an express passed here from the City to Filmore to have the legislature
adjourn and go to G. S. L. City.
8th Snowed nearly all day. James and I hauled a load of green cedar wood.
9th A little warmer to day. I got three bushels of wheat of J. Mangum for a wash tub and took it to
mill
10th Snowed nearly all day. I cut out a pair of gloves and helped some about sowing them. Some of
the Legislators got back this evening from Filmore. Br. Snow from Provo preached to us this
evening on the reformation the Bishop from American fork also spoke a short time John Cazier
says that the snow is about eighteen inches deep from the sevier to Filmore.
11th Cold, I worked making gloves, and went to meeting in the evening.
12th Very cold and blustery, I cut out two pairs of gloves. Absalom came home from the City he was
five hours coming from Spanish fork to Payson on account of the snow being so deep he then left
his wagon and came home on horse back.
13th Cold and cloudy. I sowed some on a pair of gloves and tried to sell a pair at the store but could
not. Some more of the Legislators got in from Filmore having been four days on the road.
14th Sunday. Cold, cloudy and snowy. I went to meeting this forenoon. Bishop Evans from Lehi
spoke on the reformation. I spent the after noon in writing. I went to meeting in the evening and
heard Bishop Staker speak a short time and then John Parker spoke on the order of Celestial
marriage; the reason and effect, etc. He explained better than I ever heard it explained before. he
told of the spirrits in the spirit worl[d] that want to come on this eart[h] and take tabernacles but
would not condecend to take those that [Page 175 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ...
impure sources as those in the gentile world where there is disease ... therefore the best, bravest
and most noble spirrits are yet in the ...[spirit worl]d there are such a number of spirits there
waiting is the reason ...[Proph]et Joseph being commanded to introduce the order of celestial
marriage ...[so t]here might be tabernacles prepared for them. I was much pleased with the
meeting.
[15th Cold b]ut pleasant. I cut out a pair of gloves. I sold one pair for a bushel and a peck of wheat.
[Ja]mes Woolf started for Payson this morning after the wagon that Appy left there.
[16th] Pleasant and thawed some. Appy and I hauled a load of wood, and got back between one and
two p.m. James got back from Payson. I went to Seventies meeting this evening, and I spoke a
little but it was but a few words, for it was the hardest work that I ever done, but I intend to keep
trying.
17th Cold and thawed a little. I did not do much, commenced a pair of gloves
18th Cold and snowed nearly all day. We went to a block meeting last night which was for the
purpose of having the people expressing their feelings whether they are willing to sustain the
authorities and whether they are willing to sustain and obey all that are over them and the women
all promised that they would obey all that were placed over them therefore they are to be in
obedience to their husbands, evry person in the room spoke. I went to prayer meeting to night
but did not speak, but the young folks got a severe whipping for talking and whispering.
19th Very cold. I cut out a pair of gloves.
20th Very cold. I cut S. Caziers name in a piece of past board and marked seven sacks for him for
which I charge half a bushel of wheat. I helped Appy kill Fathers two hogs, this after noon.
21st Sunday. Clear and pleasant and a little warmer I went to meeting this fore noon and Bros. Foot,
Miller, Bryon, and Israel Hoyt spoke. I spent most of the after noon in writing
23rd Pleasant. I commenced reading the Scottish chiefs this after noon.
24th Thawed considerable to day. I cut Father Caziers name in a piece of past board and marked ten
sacks for him for which I charged forty pounds of wheat I then helped Appy shoe his sled, after
which he and Lucy Hambleton and Eliza and me took a sleigh ride.
25th Pleasant most of the day but snowed a little near night and after dark. I spent the fore noon in
reading the Scottish chiefs. I then took a lot of the small children fifteen in numbers out sleigh
riding for about an hour or so. There were a good many out riding to day. the choir and
musicians of Nephi commenced serenading the people about midnight; myself and family eat
dinner with Father Woolf's family we had a first rate dinner and enjoyed ourselves first rate. we
went to prayer meeting this evening
26th [Page 176 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Snowed nearly all day I spent the day in
reading the [Scottish chiefs.]
27th Pleasant. James and I hauled a load of wood.
28th Sunday. I went hunting horses this fore noon and went to meeting again at night but c... house
was so full. I then came home and finished reading the Scottish c[hiefs.]
29th Very cold this morning but warmer in the after noon. James and I hauled pa[rt of a load of]
wood. we broke our sled, and could not haul all of our load. James very near froze his f[eet.] I
told him to rub them in snow which he done and set the blood in circulation a[gain.]
30th Snowed nearly all day. I worked mending the sled. Anny and I had a little bit of a spat [to] day
about nothing.
31st Warm and pleasant. James and I hauled a load of wood.
January 1857
[Jan 1857 - Shoe making; Crisis misspelled; Discourse to apostates on Faith; Began work for Edcil
Elmer; Indian Migo begs; Sleigh riding and singing with Nephi choir; Catechism list; Missionaries
preach restitution; Family order when teachers come; Dinner at Cazier's; Love's views on seven
seals]
1st Thursday. Cold blustery and snowy. I went to fast meeting until 2 p.m. We then came home
and eat a first rate dinner at Fathers, went to meeting in the evening.
2nd Pleasant. James and I hauled a load of Wood. our horses balked and we were obliged to unload
but we finaly got it home.
3rd Cloudy and thawed considerable all day. I worked for Father at shoe making part of the day. I
went to spelling school this after noon and got spelled down on the word crisis.
4th Sunday. Warm and pleasant, thawed pretty fast. I went to meeting. a man from Iron co spoke
and then br Kendall. his discourse was mostly to the apostates. he said that he did not know how
they could [not?] believe in the work of God after they had seen the manifestation of his holy
spirit etc. He then related a circumstance of the mercy of God in rescuing them (in crossing the
sea) from the tempest when the Captain and sailors thought that they would surely be lost and
there were a number of the elders went before the Lord and asked him to still the winds, and He
did so. br Kendall said was it not so br Bezzant. Bezzant said he thought the wind blew when it
was a mind to and stopped when it was a mind to. but br Kendall said that they had power over
the elements when Mr Paxton spoke and said it was but very little power they had for he was
there. Paxton is one that no body had mis trusted of apostatizing but it seems very much like it
now. I felt like telling Mr Bezzant and Mr Paxton that if they were not willing to acknoweldg the
hand of God in their deliverance then that the time will come when they will be glad to call upon
the Lord for assistance and be willing to acknowledge his power, but I did not say anything. I
went to meeting in the evening had a first rate meeting. Israel Hoyt spoke first rate ...
[5th [Page 177 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ... [Warm and] pleasant. Thawed considerable.
James and I hauled a load of wood this ... part of the after noon in reading the deseret news. I
wrote a letter this morning ..., and one yesterday to Lewis Robbins one of the Presidents of the
second quorum of seventies ...
[6th] ... James and I hauled a load of wood. I engaged to do some carpenter work for Edsil Elmer.
[7th] ... [Warm a]nd pleasant. I got some lumber and commenced to make a work bench and ground
my tools. ...Cuthbert arrived from Los Vegas. I went to block meeting to night. a company
started for Willow creek to get saw logs.
[8th] Cold and snowed some. I worked making my work bench. Mr Cuthbert made a sled and is
going to put his wagon box on it and leave his wagon because of the snow being so deep. Mr
Cook put hsi horses on with Cuthbert at Parrowan and helped him to here and hauled his things
and horse feed in the wagon and Cuthbert boarded him and he charged Cuthbert twenty dollars.
9th Cold. I put my work bench in the house and worked at it there. I put a letter in the office for
Lorenzo.
10th Very Cold this morning and last night The most of the people think this was the coldest
morning that they have seen in the mountains. I worked making my work bench, put it together
this evening, been very cold all day the men got home from Willow creek they have got twenty
four logs between eleven of them the snow was to light for logs to slide.
11th Sunday. Very cold indeed I went to meeting this fore noon. Migo the chief of the Sampichers
spoke a little but it was mostly begging that he done he said that the people at Sanpete had given
Arrapeen several beef cattle and had written a letter to Brigham for him and said he I should like
for the people here to do so by me etc. I staid at home to night and copied some of my old
journal into my new one.
12th Cold but pleasant. Br Bryan and Israel Hoyt with several others started for the City this morning
to come home with the Bishop I commenced this after noon to work on Edsil Elmer's house
planeing floor boards.
13th Quite warm and pleasant thawed some. I worked on Edsiluls house. Went to seventies meeting
to night.
14th Warm and somewhat cloudy, thawed considerable. I worked on Edsil's house, layed some floor,
etc.
15th Warm and thawed more than it has any day since the snow has been so deep. I worked at Edcil's
house. I went to prayer meeting to night.
16th Cloudy, snowy and rainy. the South wind blew considerable and the snow went off pretty fast I
worked at Edcil's house.
17th Thawed but little. I worked on Edcils house. Wm Sperry got back from the City last night he
says that the snow is about two and a half feet deep at the City. I went to block meeting this
evening.
18th Sunday Cold but pleasant I went to meeting. Br Ord spoke on the reformation, then Br Liston
from Iron co spoke on the government of God. Br Oakey then spoke on the reformation and of
the oneness that should exist among the saints
19th [Page 178 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Warm and pleasant. I worked on Edcil's
house. I finished ... commenced the door casings.
20th Warm and pleasant I spent the day in fixing up a sleigh ... to meet the Bishop tomorrow. I
harnessed up the four horses that ... how they would work. I went to Seventies meeting this
evening
21st Warm and pleasant. I hitched up the four horse team and drove around ... the singers; the
Patriarch and wife and several others to the number of twe[lve]. I then drove out of the South
gate where the guard were formed which consisted of twenty young men on horse back, well
armed. there were also six more sleighs well filled. We then started from the South gate in the
following order vis 1st ten young men on horse back; 2nd a four horse sleigh with the choir,
drum, flute and violin on board, 3rd six sleighs well loaded with people; among whom were part
of the Bishops council; Jude Bradley, Esq Woolf, etc. We then marched through Nephi the Choir
singing Hark listen to the trumpeters. We went out of the North gate, and went on and made a
halt at Willow creek and watered our horses, we then went on to Miller's, or the Panyon springs
where we met David Cazier he told us that the Bishop would be along in about two hours. we
then stopped and fed our horses and eat some dinner and then hitched up and went on about a
mile where we met the Bishop. we then turned around and formed a square and the Bishop drove
up byside the choir when they gave three cheers. the choir then sung a song of welcome which
was composed for the occasion by sister Spencer. Bishop Biglar then got into Judge Bradley's
sleigh and they drove next the choir from there home. Mr Gardner's horses got loose from his
sleigh when coming home and they ran away with the whiffle trus striking their heels evry jump
they ran in among the horsemen and passed among them but hurt no one. Appy run them about
half or three fourths of a mile and stopped them and brought them back, nothing lost except one
trace chain. we got back to the City a little before sun down and just before we got to the gate
there was a volley of musketry fired also a round of canon the flag was also hoisted on the liberty
pole and I think that all of the young men and boys that were six years old were drawn up in a
line by the road side there were also a number of the natives in the line. We then halted in front
of the Bishops house, and gave three cheers. the Bishop then gave us his blessing I then drove
to Mr. Webb's where the Choir got out; I enjoyed myself first rate in hearing the songs that were
sung while going and coming and also by hearing the music the time passed very agreeably to
me. Father Woolf's family and mine eat supper at Absalom Boswell's this ends this day.
[22nd] [Page 179 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ... [Warm and plea]sant, I worked on Edcil's
house. There were quite a number of ... the legislature arrived here to day on their way home
they preached ... reformation we had a first rate meeting.
[23rd] ...[Warm and plea]sant I worked at Edcils house I hung two of the doors. I borrowed one of
[the catechis]ms of the Bishop this morning that I might read it and know how many [q]uestions I
have been guilty of, and I told him that when I had cleansed myself [and] made all things right
then I would be on hand to do what so ever he should require; he said that was right, the
following are the question in the catechism to be asked the Latter Day Saints.
1 Have you committed murder by shedding innocent blood or consenting thereto?
2 Have you betrayed your brethren or sisters in any thing?
3 Have you committed adultery by have any connection with a woman that was not your wife or
a man that was not your husband?
4. Have you taken and made use of property not your own, without the consent of the owner?
5. Have you cut hay where you had no right to, or turned your animals into another person's
grain or field, without his knowledge and consent?
6. Have you lied about or misrepresented any person or thing?
7. Have you borrowed any thing that you have not returned or paid for?
8. Have you borne false witness against your neighbor?
9. Have you taken the name of the Deity in vain?
10. Have you coveted anything not your own?
11. Have you been intoxicated with strong drink?
12. Have you found lost property and not returned it to the owner and all dilligence to do so?
13. Have you branded an animal that you did not know to be your own?
14. Have you taken another's horse or mule from the range and rode it, without the owners
consent
15. Have you fulfilled your promises in paying your debts, or run into debt without prospect of
paying?
16. Have you taken water to irrigate with, when it belonged to another at the time you used it?
17. Do you pay your tithing promptly?
18. Do you teach your family the gospel of salvation?
19. Do you speak against your bretheren, or against any principle taught us in the Bible, Book of
Mormon, Book of Doctrine and Covenants, Revelations given through Joseph Smith the Prophet
and the Presidency of the Church as now organized?
20. Do you pray in your family night and morning and attent to secret prayer?
21. Do you wash your body and have your family do so, as often as health and cleanliness require
and circumstances will permit?
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22. Do you labor six days and rest, or go to the house of worship on the sev[enth?]
23. Do you and your family attend Ward meetings?
24. Do you preside over your household as a servant of God, and is your family ...
25. Have you labored dilligently and earned faithfully the wages paid you by your employ[er?]
26. Do you opress the hireling in his wages?
27. Have you taken up and converted any stray animal to your own use, or in any manner
app[ropriated] one to your benefit, without accounting therefor to the proper authorities?
In answer to the above questions, let all men and women confess to the persons they have
injured, and make restitution, or satisfaction. And when chatechising the people, the Bishops,
Teachers, Missionaries, and other officers in the Church are not at liberty to pry into sins that are
between a person and his or her God, but let such persons confess to the proper authority that the
adversary may not have an oppertunity to take advantage of human weakness and thereby destroy
souls.
24th Warm and pleasant, I read some in the bible; the 15th chapt of John; the 33rd chapt of Ezekiel
and the 37th of Psalms. I then worked on Edcils house, and then came home and went to
meeting in the evening. Br McBride and Jacob Hutchison, two Missionaries from G. S. L. City
preached to us; and first rate preaching it was. they preached reformation and restitution but they
said they were not going to preach repentance.
25th Warm and pleasant, Sunday. I went to meeting all day and in the evening and we had first rate
instructions from the missionaries about making restitution to those that we have injured and
about setting our houses in order, and our families they said that when the Teachers come to
visit us we ought to place the first wife at our left hand with her little ones around her, and the
second at her left hand and so on. we should then place our oldest son at our right hand and the
next oldest next to him and our oldest daughters to the left of our wives and the hired women to
the left of the daughters and the hired men to the right of the sons. then place the teacher in front,
and receive his instructions. I enjoyed myself very much. I wrote a letter to Father.
26th Monday. Warm and pleasant. I told the Bishop to day that I was ready to be catechised for I was
ready to answer the questions although I had not made restitution in all places for I could not at
present. he said that he would call upon me in a day or two. I told him that I was glad of it for I
wanted to know how I was to stand, etc. I took five bushels of wheat to mill. I also bought 1 «
quires of p[aper(?)]. I read some in the bible this after noon.
[27th] [Page 181 (upper left corner of page is missing)] ... [Warm and p]leasant, I worked at Edcil's
house this fore noon. Father and Mother [Sarah] Ann, Eliza and I eat dinner at Father Cazier's
we had a first [rate meal and a go]od visit we read Br Kimball's sermon in Deseret news
Volume ... he preaches mercy unto the people, etc. Father and I went to Seventies [meeting in]
the evening and the women stopped and visited. we had a first rate meeting ... that I have not
enjoyed myself as well at meeting since I have been .... I read some in the Bible before I went to
meeting in the 5th and 6th chapters of Mathew; After we got home from meeting we went over to
Father Caziers and behold they had supper all ready which I thought was going to rather too
much trouble for we had a late dinner and I think that no one felt hungry but we had to set down
and eat and drink a cup of tea, but it kept us awake until after one oclock, but I finally got to
sleep. the missionaries that started for Sanpete yesterday returned on account of the snow. there
was a donation here for them this morning and the[y] got between six and seven hundred cwt of
flour, some meat butter and a chicken etc. they then started on their return to the City. they took
a good report of the Seventies that they were all in good standing and the Bishop vouched for us
all.
28th Warm and cloudy. thawed considerable, quite mudy. I fitted the sash into Edcils house and
planed two or three floor boards.
29th Warm and cloudy, thawed very fast, I worked on Edcil's house some but I had the head ache and
did not do much. The Bishop and part of his council and several others went out to the Indian
camp to administer to Baptiste's boy who is very sick, and the Indians thought it would do him
good to have the Mormons lay hands on him
30th Warm and thawed a good deal. I worked on Edcils house this fore noon and went visiting at Br
Love's this after noon. we had a good visit. Br Piper the President of the Seventies in this place
and Father Woolf and John Barrowman his councillors together with their wives were all there.
We had a first rate supper after which we had a meeting, opened by prayer, Father Woolf mouth
all spoke that felt like it, both brethren and sisters. I thought that I had nothing that would be
beneficial therefor I said nothing, when all had spoken that felt like it we were dismissed by br
Barrowman, we then sat and chatted as best suited us. Br Love thinks that the seals spoken of in
the fifth and sixth chapts of Revelations, that each seal is seven years and that the first seal was
the commencement of this church and then a seal for evry seven years after, etc. Now if his
doctine be correct, we are near the opening of the sixth seal, when there will be a tremendous
earth quake and the Mountains and Islands shall be moved out of their places and the sun black
and the moon as blood etc.
31st Warm and pleasant I worked on Edcils house The loose cattle of Nephi were drove to Willow
creek for the snow is off there and plenty of grass there.
February 1857
[Feb 1857 - Orson Hyde preaches on Celestial Marriage; Letter and lead from Lorenzo; Br Hyde
preaches on marriage relations; Dream about ten tribes; Catechised by Bishop; Trip to SLC;
Father after another wife]
1st [Page 182 (upper right corner of page is missing)] Sunday. Warm and pleasant I went to
meeting this fore n[oon]... and did not enjoy the meeting much. Brs Love, Miller, Foot ... spoke.
I spent the after noon in writing. I had the head ache this evening ...
2nd Warm, I worked at Edcils house, finished laying floor.
3rd Warm and pleasant, rained a very little in the night but the streets are getting quite ... to day. he
preached this evening, spoke considerable about prayer. he said we oug[ht] ... [when] we pray
and not make too long prayers, and not ask for evrything that we want fr[om the time] of our
creation until the time of our death, but ask for such things as we need now. He [said] if an
Indian was to come to any of us and ask for biscuit, and then ask for meat, and for a ... and for a
sheep, and for a sack of flour and for an axe and for a portion of evry thing that we h[ave] we
would be very apt to be disgusted with him; and give him nothing, when if he had asked for
biscuit, just what he needed at the present he would be very likely to get it, and as we are poor
dependant creatures, we ought not to ask God for evry thing that he possesses, and we must avoid
too frequent reppetitions of the Lord's name, but hold it sacred, he said we had a pattern to go by,
which is the Lords prayer; and to address the Deity there is no use to say O Lord give me so and
so; O Lord give me so and so, but call upon the Lord and then ask for such things as we really
stand in need of, for where any two or three are agreed touching any one thing (not forty things)
it shall be granted, etc. Br Packard then spoke about our being watchful as well as prayerful, we
must watch ourselves, etc.
4th Warm and pleasant I worked at Edcil's house, this fore noon and went to meeting this after
noon. Br Orson Hyde preached, he spoke on the order of celestial marriage and explained it first
rate, he told the brethren to never make use of their Priesthood to get women until the[y] are
commanded to, and not to get them to grattify their lusts but for the building up of the Kingdom
of God, he also told us to make ourselves ready to behold our Father when he comes; and prepare
ourselves for the test which is close at hand, and unite our hearts with those that are placed to
direct us, and we must serve our God for he will fight for his friends but not for his enemies if
we will do this and do as we are told to do by our superiors all will be right and we need not
enquire who are coming against us. I did not go to meeting this evening but spent the evening in
writing
5th Pleasant in the fore noon, but we had a severe snow storm a little before sundown, wind blew
from the North. I intended to have gone to fast meeting but thought that it was to be at two
oclock therefore I went over to case one of Edcils doors and did not know until it was ... for
meeting. there were about 70 teams came here this evening from Sanpete with ... their way to the
City. Harry Sperry also came here from the City; he brought a book of Mor[mon]... from Father.
[Page 183 (upper right corner of page is missing)] ... [Bis]hop Biglar and council and several
others started for Sanpete, to preach to ...
[6th] ... [worked on] Edcils house. Charles Sperry also worked there helping me make a chimney
piece.
[7th] ... [Warm and] pleasant, I finished working at Edcil's except putting on one door latch. Brs
Turnbow ... Los vegas lead mines eat supper with me. I recd a letter by them from Lorenzo; ...
[sev]eral teams along loaded with lead. Lorenzo writes that it is very hard work getting the lead
... it yields very poor; the best yielding only twenty five pr cent, and they can make only about 6
cwt instead of four thousand per day as Bishop Jones expected when he was in the City.
[8th] Quite pleasant, Sunday, Brs Turnbow and Piert eat breakfast with me, and then started on for
home. Br. Turnbow gave me a piece of lead that came from the Vegas, betewen two and three
pounds. I went to meeting. Br Kendall spoke. I wrote a letter to Lorenzo this after noon.
9th Warm and pleasant, I hauled a load of wood. Br Hyde and those that went with him got back
from Sanpete Br Hyde spoke in the evening, he done some pretty plain preaching, he said that
men ought not to spend all their strength with their women to no purpose but when a woman has
concieved then let her alone; he compared it to a field of wheat, said he if a man sows his field
with wheat and harrows in it, and it comes up and is doing fine then what would you think of that
man if he should put the harrow onto that wheat again and disturb it do you not think that it
would injure that wheat, and then when it gets nearly ripe supposing he should put the harrow on
again and harrow it would it not very near kill it; there might be a few heads but it would be
shrunk and not come to perfections; He said this was the reason that we do not live to be as old
as the ancients used to is because we spend our strength uselessly. He then told the young men
that it is the will of the Lord that they should marry, and multiply and replenish the earth, which
observation caused me to write a few lines of poetry which I will write in my new book, and save
once writing. Bishop Snow from Sanpete spoke some also.
10th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of wood, went to Seventies meeting at night.
11th Warm and pleasant. I hauled a load of wood to the poor that came with the hand carts, I put the
latch on Edcils door, this after noon.
12th Warm and pleasant, I hauled a load of wood. I went to meeting this evening. Eliza went but
came home because there were not enough of young folks there, but she got rather vexed when I
told her that was the reason that she came home, and she contradicted me some.
13th Cloudy and snowy Isaac Woolf and I hauled a large load of wood, but we got ... I dreamed last
night the ten tribes started or was to start to come back on ... Febuary, and that it was very dark at
noon, at the time.
14th [Page 184] Warm and cloudy Isaac and I hauled a load of wood, but did not get home until
dark because we went in such a bad place and we had to make a road and I then was obliged to
hold the waggon with a long leaver to keep it from upsetting, broke one spoke out, snowed last
night but it all went off to day. I agreed with D. Miller to take me to the City and back for 1« bu
wheat.
15th Sunday Cloudy and damp I went to meeting. Br Redick Allred and Br Packton spoke. Bishop
Biglar then made a few remarks he wanted all of the new comers to bring in their recommends
from the places that they came from and he does not want any loafers to stop here longer than
over night without a recommend, and he wants us all to be careful how we keep strangers about
us, for they will say they are going to Iron co., and to Sanbernardino etc. and when they get there
they will go to Callifornia, and he said we are going to make a settlement out about the sevier for
them that they might not stay here to long. I took my recomend to the Bishop after meeting. I
spent the evening in writing.
16th A very hard snow storm this morning, which lasted until about ten a.m. which prevented me
going to the City. I settled up my tithing and I am seventy five dollars and twenty two cents
ahead with my labor tithing. I was catechised this after noon by Bishop Biglar and Josiah Miller.
The Bishop said that I had done nothing but what I could get forgiveness for in this reformation
for the Lord has said that if we will repent of our evil deeds and make restitution where we have
injured we shall receive forgiveness but we must try and do better for the future.
17th Cold and cloudy the North wind blew quite hard. I started about eleven a.m. with Daniel and
Miles Miller to go to the City, stopped at the Panyon springs and eat dinner and fed the horses
The teams that went from Sanpete to the City with tithing were on their return and most of them
had camped before we left the springs we got to summit creek a little after dark stopped at Abel
Bitterfields slept on the floor, snowed a little this after noon.
18th A little warmer, we started about four oclock this morning; got to Payson at daylight, stopped to
breakfast at Spanish fork, found very mudy road from this to Springvill. Miles and Daniel sold
part of their load to Mr Stewart because the road was so bad they sold their wheat for one dollar
and twenty cents per bushel. we then went on to Provo, stopped at the house of Mr Ewing. I eat
supper with Eliza Williams, went to bed at ten oclock.
19th Cool and cloudy, I got up at three oclock and finally succeeded in getting Miles and Daniel up,
but it was hard work, but Miles thought that he could not start until he had a cup of coffee,
consequently we did not get started until day light. we stopped at Battle creek and eat breakfast
with Perry Mcarthur we then went nearly to Willow creek in S.L. valley, had fried eggs for
supper, camped out and slept in the wagon.
20th [Page 185] Cool and pleasant. We got up about midnight and started that we might travel while
the ground was froze. we got to Little Cotton wood before daylight a distance of about ten miles.
we stopped here and fed our horses, and made a fire and stopped about an hour. we then went
into the City arrived there about eleven oclock. I sat and visited with Mother and Fanny, nearly
the remainder of the day. Father had gone up to Kay's creek, and I rather guessed he was after
another wife.
21st Pleasant; I went up in the City, found they were paying $1,50 for wheat, and $4,50 for flour, eat
supper at Father's.
22nd Sunday. Warm and pleasant I went to meeting. Samuel Richards spoke first. he spoke of the
parrable of the Savior the good seed that was sown in good ground etc. he compared it to the
word of the Lord that has been taught to us from time to time in days past, but we have not given
place for it in our hearts, consequently it was like the seed that was sown on stony ground, it took
no root. he said that we ought to have clear conciences befor God, and if we will do right and
receive and obey the things that are taught us we have clear conciences, etc. And because the
people have given place in their hearts for the things that have been taught they had to reform and
be stirred up, that they might repent, he then repeated the 19th question in the catechism, which
is as follows, Do you speak against your brethren or against any principle taught us in the Bible,
Book of Mormon, Book of Doctrine and Covenants, Revelations given through Joseph Smith the
Prophet, and the presidency of the church as now organized,? but he thought that it
comprehended a good deal more than it says, but if a person does not speak against the principles
but have heard and understood them but have not obeyed and lived up to the revelations, he
thought that we would be under just as much condemnation a6s if they spoke against it. He then
spoke on the consecration, that we must do as Christ had done that is to deliver up all to those
that are over us. He said we have not recieved our inheritances yet, and if we seek to love our
wives etc. that is give them up when called for then we shall save them and if not then we shall
lose them etc. for he that seeks to lose his life shall save it and he that seeks to save his life shall
lose it, etc. and that we must love our neighbors and if our neighbor injures us it does not justify
us in injuring them. All the things of God will increase if we will only give them a place in our
hearts, just like evry thing els its seed will produce its own species and naturally increase, just so
with the reformation, if we will take hold of it it will naturally increase within us, all on natural
principles. Brother Wells then spoke he said that he wanted to speak a few words in regard to
sowing seed in good ground, when sown in stony ground it will sometimes spring up quick but
when the sun strikes it it will wither and die are there any of us like the stony ground that the
reformation will soon die away with us, he said that it would probably be more probable for
Carthage and Warsaw than for this people if they should turn away [Page 186] after recieving
what they have we should hold on to it and not let it slip through our fingers etc. We are the
people, that the Lord loves to bless when he can without sending them to hell. many may turn
aside but those that remain will receive their reward, etc. The world are arrayed against us but
they are fooling with the Lord of hosts, and He knows how to deal with them, etc. Br. Woodruff
said that he wanted to speak to the people to do them good, for he knew they wanted feeding etc.
he then quoted the 33rd verse 6 chapter of Mathew viz seek first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all things shall be added, etc. Many seek the Kingdom of God and then they
think they are safe without seeking His righteousness. He said that we should treasure up the
things that we hear for we will never again hear the proclamation that we have heard this winter;
he said we ought to all help to roll the wheel to the top of the hill, or Mountain for when we get
to the top there is a hill to go down and then the kingdom will fill the earth, then it will not be the
hand carts but the Kingdom that is coming. Study well your hearts, that you may know your
position before God. He wanted us to be united for union is dangerous to the devil and therefore
tries to destroy it wherever he sees it, etc. The majority of the gentiles have rejected the word of
God for the last of twenty five years, and they are nearly ready for the harvest, for they blaspheme
the name of the Lord, and He is the least popular person with them that there is. The ten tribes
will begin to come and there are men and women here before me that will administer in the
house of the Lord in giving them their endowments. He then spoke of the Governor that should
come out of the house of Joseph and loins of Ephraim this he said has been fulfilled, etc. There
was then quite a number called to go on missions some with Brigham to Salmon river and some
to Europe and the Islands.
23rd Pleasant. I went up in the City and sold about 8 1/4 bushels of wheat 2 2/3 of which I sold for a
family bible price $4,25 I went to a meeting of the Presidents of Seventies, br Dunbar, Robbert
Burton, br Mcallister and F. D. Richards spoke.
24th Cold and the South wind blew, and it snowed considerable about sundown and after. Miles, and
Daniel and I left the City about eleven a.m. for home, we stopped at Willow creek and fed our
horses and eat dinner, we then went to the American fork and slept in the School house. we got
here about nine p.m.
25th Warm and pleasant, Miles went to Thomas Mckenzies this morning to see sister Gads daughter
to see if she wanted to go to Salt creek where her Mother is but she said she wanted to stay where
she was we then started; found the road very mudy to Battle creek, stopped here a few minutes
then went to Provo; eat dinner and fed the horses, then went to Spanish fork and stopped for
night at the house of Mr Colwell where they had nothing but green willows to burn.
26th [Page 187 Nephi] Warm and pleasant we got up before day light and fed the horses, and got
started about daylight; found the road tolerably good stopped at Summit creek and eat breakfast,
and fed the horses stopped again at Willow creek and fed, we got home about sundown, found
the folks well. I went to prayer meeting this evening.
27th Warm and pleasant, I fixed the hearth and stayed in the house most of the day.
28th Warm and pleasant. I worked on the road in Salt creek kanyon.
March 1857
[Mar 1857 - Little end of nothing whittled to a point; Apostates leave for California; James Woolf
marries; Tooth pulled; Lorenzo returns from Las Vegas mission; Appy hears rumor of Harriet
Wood marriage; Appy marries Lucy; Severe head ache]
1st Sunday. Warm and pleasant, I went to meeting and soon after meeting commenced the Bishop
got up and said he wished Br Brown, Miles, and Daniel Miller to come to the stand as they had
just returned from the City therefore we went but it made me feel as if I was not larger that the
little end of nothing whittled down to a point when I got up in the stand to address so large a
congregation but I told them that if they would give me their faith and prayers I would endeaver
to remember some of the things that I heard taught while I was in the City. I then told what I
could think of but I could think of more after I sat down. Father Josiah Miller, Br Foot, and
Bishop Biglar also spoke. There was two loads of lead arrived on their way from the mines to
the City. I went to meeting this evening and the Bishop said that those that wished to receive a
blessing would arise and speak their feelings, but if they wanted to loose their crown and let
some other person have it then they could set still and say nothing. I for one felt as if I wanted
the blessing therefore I arose and spoke a few of my feelings.
2nd Warm and pleasant, I cut out a pair of gloves, and cut the Bishops name in a piece of paste board.
I also painted a sign for myself.
3rd Very warm and pleasant. Sarah Ann, Eliza and I went visiting at Br James Biglows.
4th Warm and pleasant. I had a good game of ball to day, went to block meeting this evening at the
house of Timothy B. Foot.
5th Warm and pleasant, Fast day. The apostates are very buisy this morning hitching up their teams
to start for Callifornia. they went with ten wagons, and one hundred head of cattle and there is
between forty and fifty persons. I went to fast meeting, had a first rate meeting. I also went in
the evening, meeting rather dull. Bishop Biglar gave S. L. Adams and Br. Wilkie a bit of a
whipping.
6th [Page 188] Warm and pleasant. I made a couple of handles for my shovel plow. I also tried to
buy some lumber to make a harrow but could not find any. Two men left here this morning on
their way to Filmore to buy cattle for Livingston. They offered from seventy to eighty five
dollars pr yoke, but they did not find any body fool enough in this place to sell oxen for that
price.
7th Warm and pleasant. I sowed about two and a half acres of wheat and harrowed part of it but did
not quite finish. I sowed it on corn ground without plowing.
8th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting. Br Ord and Br Love spoke. The Bishop then
called Absalom Woolf to the stand, Appy went and the Bishop told him that he wanted him to
speak, therefore he got up and tried it but it was an up hill business for him but I knew how to
pity him. I got Gustave Henriod to record the marriages, births etc. of my family in my new bible
this after noon. I went to meeting this evening.
9th Cool cloudy and windy, rained a little. I sowed a little more wheat, and finished harrowing, and
cleared off the weeds and burnt them on another piece of land. I received an invitation to go to
James Woolfs wedding tomorrow.
10th Cool and I went to see James Woolf and Malinda Bradley married, also George Bradley and
Elizabeth Love, at Br Bradleys house. Bishop Biglow married them. we had a first rate dinner
and a good time, although I had the tooth ache some which prevented my enjoying myself as well
as I should have done. I put James to bed to night.
11th Warm and pleasant. I cleaned out Fathers house that Mr Cooly one of the apostates has been
living in. Eliza helped me clean it out.
12th Warm and pleasant. I worked laying the floor in the Cooley house.
13th Quite pleasant. I fixed up an old door frame, and cut a hole for a door in the Cooley house.
James Woolf went to the Sevier River after currant trees.
14th Warm and pleasant. I worked part of the fore noon harrowing for Saml Adams. had the tooth
ache and done nothing more, officer drill this after noon. James got home this after noon with a
lot of currant bushes. There were a few wagons arrived at this place from the Vegas. I have had
the tooth ache all the week, but had it pulled this evening.
15th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting. Father Cazier spoke first as he has just returned
from the City. Br Covert one of the Vegas missionaries also spoke also Br Miller. There were a
number of people here rebaptized this after noon.
16th Windy. I went down in the field and tried to sow some wheat but the wind blowed so that I gave
it up and came home after sowing a little.
17th Warm and pleasant. I fixed up Father's harrow, and commenced fixing a plow. Appy went
down and finished sowing my five acres of wheat, and harrowed it.
18th [Page 189] Warm and pleasant. James Woolf and I started this morning to go to Willow creek
after a load of maple, and to get my oxen from the herd at Willow creek. James went after the
oxen and I went up in the kanyon and got a good part of the load cut when he came with the oxen
as he had to go so far after them we got home about 8 p.m. with a very large load of green maple.
I found my Brother Lorenzo at my house when I got home he is on his way home from his
mission to Los Vegas.
19th Very windy. I commenced to help Father fix a plow but the wind blew so hard that we did not do
much. Father sold a yoke of steers for 80 dollars pay at Livingstons. I sold a pair of gloves for
1.50 cash. I cut out some gloves. Lorenzo started for home this morning. Edciil Eelmer and
Rosannah Cazier were married this after noon.
20th Warm and pleasant. I worked at harrowing for Appy, harrowed off weeds and burned them.
Appy furrowed out my wheat for watering. The Teachers were here visiting to night.
21st Very windy. I harrowed wheat for Appy. We put in about six acres. There is a small company
here to night from Payson on their way south to raise cotton.
22nd Sunday. Warm but some what cloudy. I went to meeting this fore noon, spent the after noon in
writing.
23rd Warm and pleasant. I harrowed this fore noon, and plowed some this after noon. The company
started for the cotton county this morning. There was some U. S. surveyors came in this evening.
Absalom was intending to start to the City the day after tomorrow but Bishop Bigler told him this
morning that he had better wait until conference, and go up with him and get a couple of wives,
and I believe that Appy is going to obey council.
24th I plowed all day. Appy heard to day that Harriet Wood was married to Heber C. Kimball but he
says that he does not care if it is so, for it was not him that changed his mind first, and he says
that he has half a mind to get married right off.
25th I went down to plow, and grub willows. Isaac Woolf plowed for me and I dug willows. We had
been at work but a short time when Appy came down and told us that he was going to be married
about 4 p.m. and invited me to the wedding. I got done work in time to get home and fix for the
wedding. Bishop Biglar married him to Miss Lucy Hambleton at Sister Hambletons we eat
supper at Father Woolfs. Cold and windy day.
26th I harrowed in about two and a half acres of wheat, very tired to night.
27th I plowed about 1 1/2 acres. Mr Scriggins dug willows for me.
28th [Page 190] I harrowed and layed off some. Appy helped me. Mr Scriggins grubbed for me.
29th Sunday. I have a sever head ache this morning, and was obliged to have a cloth wet in cold
watter layed on my fore head and left eye, where the pain was the most severe, this eased the pain
but I was about sick all day. I went to meeting this fore noon, but my head ached to hard to go
this after noon. I went to bed. Cloudy and rained a little.
30th Warm and pleasant. I plowed an acre and a half. There was a number of horsemen went over the
West Mountain this morning in pursuit of some horses that an Indian says that he saw there
yesterday. three of the men came back before night. the remainder went on the trail. Lucy,
Appy's wife was very uneasy because Appy did not come and she would not be comforted. I told
her that she must try and controll her feelings more than that against the time that Appy should be
called to go on a mission. but she said that she could not help her feelings, but Appy came home
a little after dark but did not find the horses, but followed the trail until dark, and then were
obliged to give up.
31st I harrowed the land that I plowed yesterday, and furrowed part of it off for watering.
April 1857
[Apr 1857 - News received that Harriet is not married; Andrews & Burchall fight for a woman;
Appy starts for SLC to be sealed to Harriet & Lucy; Chief Arrapeen begins a farm; Poem to
Harriet, Appy, & Lucy; Gustave Henriod almost cut off]
1st Wednesday. Very windy. Father and Mother Woolf started for the City to attend conference.
they went with Appy's horses. I finished laying off my wheat land and then went and plowed the
remainder of the day for James.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I worked for Father laying off his wheat land for watering. We worked with
three teams and finished it up.
3rd I worked at plowing for James. he sowed some wheat and Isaac harrowed.
4th Cold and very windy. I plowed and layed off land for James. he sowed some more and Isaac
harrowed it in. Absalom and Lucy each recd a letter from Harriet Wood, which say that she is not
married which I think rather plagues Appy, for it is him that has married first but he would not
have done so had he not heard that she was married for he intended to have married Harriet and
Lucy both at the same time.
5th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. It is my day to herd sheep. John and Andrew Woolf herded for me
this fore noon. I done a little writing in my journal this fore noon. Isaac Woolf and I herded
sheep this after noon. I wrote quite a long letter to Harriet Wood this evening for Absalom
Woolf. I wrote it and he coppied it from the slate and sent it it was to let her know that he was
married [Page 191] and if she was still single and had not changed her mind in regard to him he
would still marry her for he intended to have married them both if he had not heard that she was
married.
6th Mond. Warm and pleasant. I worked at grubbing willows and James and Isaac Woolf plowed
for me this after noon, for corn land.
7th Windy. James and I worked at grubbing all day. Isaac and John also worked for me this fore
noon. I eat supper at Charles Foot's to night as Sarah Ann and Eliza were there visiting this after
noon, and Charles called me in as I was going home from work. I am too tired to go to Seventies
meeting to night.
8th Very warm. Isaac, John, and Andrew Woolf worked for me. I worked some at grubbing and
some at plowing. I finished plowing the land that Father Woolf let me have.
9th Very warm. James and I went to look for some of the horses that were missing, we found them
and got home by the middle of the after noon.
10th Very warm this fore noon but rather cooler this after noon. I helped James plow corn ground for
Father I feel very sore from riding yesterday.
11th Warm and pleasant. I plowed for Charles Foot this fore noon for which he gives me the use of
one and a half acres of land to plant corn on. I plowed for Father Woolf this after noon. Father
and Mother returned from conference, with most of the rest that went from this place. They saw
Harriet Wood and she felt very bad when she heard that Appy was married. She is not married as
we had heard and she thinks that Appy might have waited until he knew for certain whether she
was married or not. she thinks that he might have put more dependence in her than to belive
such reports, for she put more dependence in him than that.
12th Sunday Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon, but my head ached this after noon
and I did not go. The men that have returned from conference spoke and told what they heard at
the City. Stillman Woodbury arrived here to night from the City. They say that he is in search of
a wife but I do not know whether he is or not.
13th Warm. I worked at plowing, plowed one acre of the land that Chas Foot let me have. Mr
Andrews and Mr Burchall had a fight last night about a woman. (Burchall's wifes sister) that
they both wanted. Andrews got the worst of the fight but I suppose he did not care for that for
the woman went home with him. Andrews got his eyes pretty badly blacked and his face
scratched and one finger nearly bit off.
14th Very warm. I finished plowing my acre and a half and harrowed and rolled it. Appy and Lucy
started for the City this morning. Appy intends to be sealed to both of them, Harriet and Lucy.
James and Eliza went to Payson to day.
15th Warm and windy this after noon. I spent the fore noon in hunting for my oxen. I hauled three
loads of sand this after noon. James and Eliza got home this evening
16th Warm and pleasant. I hauled one load of sand and then worked at plastering. [Page 192] There
was quite a large company left here this morning on their way to the cotton country. I do not
know where they are from. The missionaries from Sanpete that are going with Brigham stopped
at this place to night The Utah Chief Arrapeen with the rest. a number of men went from here
to Chicken creek to day to get the water out of the creek for irrigating they intend to make a
farm out there it is between eight and ten miles South from this place.
17th Warm and pleasant this after noon but quite cold this morning. I worked at plastering I bought
twenty acres of land of Mr Scriggings it has eight acres of wheat on it. I am to pay a note that the
emigrating fund company hold against him for the land. the note is sixty five dollars and I expect
there will be interest on it also.
18th Warm and pleasant. I worked a little at plastering.
19th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. the brethren that have returned
from conference spoke about the teachings the recieved, etc. Appy was married to Harriet Wood.
20th Warm and pleasant. Br Wright plastered for me this fore noon, and I mixed mortar. I plastered
this after noon and mixed my own mortar.
21st Warm. I finished plastering this fore noon, and we moved into the house that I have been
plastering the one formerly owned by Mr Meeks.
22nd Very warm. I went down in the field and cleaned out part of the ditches to water my wheat. I
then came home and hunted up my oxen which took nearly all of the after noon.
23rd Very Warm. I worked very hard watering wheat. Appy came home this morning about ten
oclock with his two wives, Harriet Wood and Lucy Hambleton.
May their lives be long and happy
Harriet Lucy and Appy
And their children numerous be
As the sands upon the sea.
And may they love and bliss enjoy
With now and then a girl or boy.
24th Very warm I finished watering the volunteer wheat that I bought of Scrigins.
25th -----
26th Sunday Warm and pleasant I went to meeting. Bishop Bigler made a motion that Gustave
Henriod be cut off from the church for breaking his covenants and lying and Father Josiah Miller
seconded the motion. The Bishop then explained what he had done he said that Gustave had
promised him that he would stop using tobacco and had now commenced smoking again and
thus broken his covenant and he wanted to make an example of covenant breakers. he then told
[Page 193] Gustave that if he had any thing to say that he could come onto the stand and say it
Gustave then went up and confessed that he had said that he would stop using tobacco and had
been using it again and was sorry for it and asked the people to forgive him and he would do
better and quit using it for the future. the Bishop then withdrew his motion and took a vote that
Gustave should continue in the church. The Bishop said that as Absalom Woolf had been to the
City he would like to hear from him. But as there were several others that had been to the City
and to meeting and had told what was said Appy had but little to say. I did not go to meeting this
after noon.
27th Warm and pleasant. I put up two shelves this fore noon and worked around home and watered
the garden in the after noon.
28th I went down in the field, and put in three head gates for watering. One of my eyes commenced
getting sore about noon (my right eye).
29th Cold and windy. John Woolf helped me plant potatoes we planted a little more than half an acre,
snowed and rained a little this morning.
30th Cool and windy. I commenced furrowing out my corn ground but the wind blowed the dirt right
into my eyes so that I was obliged to stop as one eye was very sore and painful. I watered what I
furrowed out.
May 1857
[May 1857 - Sore eye; Joseph Young & Co. arrive, preach; Trip to SLC; Sarah Ann sleep on
ground for first time; Little Manley wonders where house and fireplace are; Oxen take ill -
Dependency on Lord; Sarah Ann afflicted with hives]
1st Friday, Cold and windy I finished furrowing out the land that I got of C Foot.
2nd Warm and pleasant. Election of Military officers to day, but my eye was so sore that I did not go,
but they elected me Serjeant which office I do not particularly crave.
3rd Sunday. I staid in the house all day.
4th Warm I commenced plowing my garden lot. my eye is getting better.
5th Very hot. I finished plowing harrowing and rolling my garden. the gnats bit pretty bad.
6th Cool and windy Eliza and I planted some potatoes, corn, and peas.
7th Cold and very windy and rained a very little. James and I went up in Salt creek kanyon and got a
large load of dry cotton wood.
8th Cold and it appeared this morning as if winter had just begun for it snowed very fast for a little
while but it cleared off and was quite warm I commenced watering my wheat and potatoes on
Father Woolfs land. I cleaned my clock this morn.
9th Warm and pleasant. I watered wheat all day. my left eye is quite sore.
10th Sunday warm and pleasant I went down and turned the water that I left running on my wheat
last night. my eye is still sore.
[(There is a set of smaller pages inserted after this one and before the next page which appear to
be notes from a general conference. The writing is very light and faded.)]
11th [Page 194] Cool and cloudy I finished watering my wheat in the forks of the creek on Father's
land. worked very hard to day as the land was bad to water.
12th Cold rainy and snowy, most of the day. I staid in the house and half soled Annys shoes.
13th Cloudy and rained some, I went down in the field and stuck a stake branded with my name at
each end of my part of the field wall that I bought of Mr Scriggins this was the instruction of the
Bishop that he might go around the wall and see who had their wall up and who had not. mine is
up and is as good as any that I saw. President Joseph Young in company with A. P. Rockwood,
J. G. Gates, Gilbert G. Clements and Br Casper arrived here this after noon from G. S. L. City
and held a meeting at the school house at 4 p.m. they wished us to be merciful and try to help
those that need help and strengthen the weak and not try to crush them because they are weak and
not give them meat, or a bone to eat when the[y] can only bear milk etc. for doctrine that one
person can swallow and get along with first rate would make another apostatize etc. and they
wished us to bless and not curse, and try to create love instead of hatred in our families and not
keep them always under the lash, but try to exercise wisdom and be merciful as the Lord is
merciful unto us, etc. etc. Pres Joseph Young appointed a meeting of the Seventies at early
candle light. Seventies met when John Cazier, Miles Miller, Timothy Hoyt, and Samuel
Pitchfort were ordained Presidents of quorums of Seventies with instructions to ordain such as
wished to be ordained if they brought a recomend from the Bishop. Pres Young then addressed
us for some he then gave out an appointment for a meeting here next monday evening at five
oclock, when the return from Sanpete.
14th Cloudy. Joseph Young and company started this morning for Sanpete. Eliza and I worked in the
garden all day planting seeds. Mercy Pitchforth and Richard Jinkins were married last night.
15th Cloudy, and two or three flurrys of snow. I planted an acre and a half of corn on Charles Foot's
land. I planted it with a spade.
16th Warm and pleasant. I went in company with several other men and built a dam and made a water
ditch to take the water out of Salt creek about four miles North of the City and turn it onto what
is called the North meadow, as the grass is drying up for want of water, but the stream of water is
so small that I fear that it will do but little good. we got home a little before night.
17th Sunday, warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon Brs Webb and Tranter that have
lately returned from the City spoke and told some of the things that they heard taught while at the
City Br Kendall then spoke, the Bishop also made a few remarks about the field wall and about
the herd running on the meadow etc.
18th [Page 195] Warm and cloudy and quite a hard shower of rain a little before sun down. I worked
on my twenty acre lot cleaning out water ditches and putting in head gates and commenced
watering my wheat a little before sundown, camped by the side of my land that I might be ready
to go to work early in the morning.
19th Warm and rained a little in the after noon. I worked at watering wheat, went home at night.
20th Warm and pleasant, finished watering the wheat on the Scriggins lot got home about dark.
21st Warm. I furrowed off some corn ground, and planted some corn on Father Woolfs land I got an
Indian to help me I also watered some of my wheat the second time. I watered this with the
water that A. Boswell wasted, I had my sheep sheared.
22nd Very warm. I finished planting corn and finished watering five acres of my wheat the second
time. Indian George helped me. I
23rd Very warm I went up Salt creek kanyon and got a load of dry maple and cotton wood.
24th Sunday. warm and pleasant. I staid at home, read the Deseret news and wrot some.
25th I sowed about half an acre of peas and harrowed them in. warm and pleasant. I also went to
mill.
26th I spent most of the day in getting ready to go to the City. Indian George went to hunt for my
oxen this morning but did not get back until about two oclock, as they had got so far away out of
sight and all alone. I got started for the City about 5 P. M. with about twenty one hundred
weight. Sarah Ann went with me. we camped about three miles from home, where there were
some Danes camped that are going to the City with tithing grain from Sanpete. we slept on the
ground as the wagon box was too narrow for us and two children to sleep in this is the first time
that Sarah ann ever slept on the ground in the open air Little Manley thought it quite curious he
wanted to know where the house and fire place was, but we slept first rate as we had a feather
bed.
27th Warm and pleasant. we started about sunrise this morning and traveled about nine miles and
stopped at Miller's springs a little more than one hour. we then started on and traveled about
eight miles and stopped again an let our cattle eat, on a small spring creek between summit creek
and Payson we then started on and passed through Payson and went about two miles and
camped on what is called the slough. traveled twenty two miles.
28th Warm. I found one of my oxen very sick this morning he was vomiting very very much there
were also several other cattle in the Danish camp that were sick and three horses but they did not
vomit. I asked the Lord to heal my ox and had faith that He would and when we had [Page 196]
drove about half a mile the ox began to chew his cud. he seemed pretty well until we got to
Spring ville here they drank pretty freely and both oxen were very sick we went about a mile
farther and stopped for noon. here one ox was taken with vomiting again. I still asked the Lord
to heal them, for I felt my dependence in Him. we staid about two hours and a half, and then
went on to Provo. here I tried to get some butter or greese of some kind to give them but I could
not get any but the potter Robberts gave me some stuff that he called sot soap which he said was
better than butter for an ox that had eaten poison, but the stuff that he gave me did not look like
soap for the ley and greese had not mixed and it looked like black salt and I did not give it to
them. we camped on Provo bench. the oxen seemed to eat pretty well.
29th Very warm. I went out to look at my oxen. I found that one of them had vomited considerable in
the night and they seemed pretty sick. the Danish company all started pretty early except two
waggons. they stopped with me about two hours to let the cattle eat, but they would eat but little.
while we were waiting there were three ox teams from Salt creek came up and turned out their
teams and stopped for break fast, and I concluded to stop with them we staid here about two
hours more and then went on across the bench to Battle creek. here I bought some four quarts of
sweet milk and a pound of butter and melted them together and pourd it down them. we then
went on nearly to the American fork and stopped for noon. staid here about an hour. we then
went on to the point of the Mountain where we arrived after dark. drove the cattle about half a
mile to feed. seemed to eat pretty well.
30th Very warm. We started pretty early this morning, watered the cattle at the hot springs but we
watered them with cold water which close by side of boiling hot water. we stopped at noon at
Dry creek. Sarah Ann began to break out here pretty bad with the hives. we camped at night at
Mill creek, in the big field. Sarah Ann and Maryann Scrigings slept in a house for the first time
since we started, slept at the house of Mr Graham, oxen seem quite well.
31st Sunday Warm and pleasant, I got up as soon as light and hunted up the oxen and I drove into
the City before breakfast, the other teams went to Brighams mill, we found the folks all well. I
went to meeting. Brigham spoke first and gave a short account of his journey North. I eat supper
at Father's I put my oxen in Mr Vances pasture.
June 1857
[Jun 1857 - Workers on temple like bees in hive; Sarah Ann stays for a visit; Return to Salt Creek;
Fishing on the Provo river; Meets Charles Rich returning from San Bernardino; Utah Chief
Ammon visits; Br. Kendall reports Lord's protection from grasshoppers; Appy and Sarah Ann
return; Hauling wood, other driver wouldn't wait; News of Parley P. Pratt's murder; Cave
discovered with James Woolf]
1st [Page 197] Monday Warm and pleasant. I went down to Brighams mill and unloaded my
tithing wheat, 15 bushels, which I had to carry up stairs. I then went down to Father's grass land
and got a load of grass. I then went up in the City and sold about a hundred pound of flour, got a
few tools etc. I also went to see how the temple was progressing, found a great number of hands
engaged in hewing stone for the temple. I was talking with Br H. Maiben the gate keeper when
the bell rang for the hands to cease their labors. they very soon came out of the gate like bees
from out a hive, which made me think the L.D.S. were truly like the honey bee. I then went to
the tithing office and got my receipt for hauling tithing. Br Hill told me that they had given
receipts for seven hundred bushels of grain that they had received that day on tithing. I stopped
at Mr Beaties and heard a letter read from my Uncle who resides in Wisconsin. I eat a first rate
supper at Father's. Lorenzo and family also eat with us. went over after supper and looked at my
house and lot.
2nd Warm and pleasant. I spent the fore noon in visiting and going with Father to look at his
gardens. I eat dinner at Lorenzo's in company with Father and Mother and Sarah Ann. after
dinner I put my things into my waggon and started for home between one and two oclock. Sarah
Ann is going to stay a week or two and visit. I camped at the Hot springs a little over 20 miles
from the City. Quite a shower this after noon.
3rd Very hot. I started early this morning, found Dry creek pretty wet, and the crossing bad but I
crossed without accident. I stopped to noon between American fork and Battle creek. I got in
company with two men that were going to the mouth of Provo after fish and I concluded to go
with them. I camped at the mouth of Provo at night.
4th Warm and pleasant. I helped the fishermen to fish we made two hauls and caught a skiff load,
they gave me a few fish for helping them and I traded salt for some more. I got about 130 lbs,
and started for home when the sun was about an hour and a half high, forded the lake nearly a
fourth of a mile to get arount the mouth of Provo river. The sun was down before I left Provo
City, traveled until a little after two oclock in the morning and stopped on the bottom between
Spanish fork and Payson about a mile from where my oxen got poisoned going down. I slept a
little more that two hours and got up and started;
5th stopped and eat breakfast between Payson and summit creek, staid here about an hour and a half,
and let my oxen eat. I met Gen Chas Rich and company in Juab valley about a mile North of
Panyon springs, On their way to G. S. L. City from Sanbernardino Cal. I stopped about an hour
at the springs to feed my oxen, arrived safe at home a little after sundown.
6th Very warm. I put up some shelves, for a cupboard, and bought about a hundred ft of lumber.
7th Sunday. Warm and cloudy; a soaking rain last night. I herded cattle to day. James Woolf started
started yesterday for Fillmore in search of a horse supposed to have been stolen by Indians from
Geo Bradley.
8th [Page 198] Rained a little. I went down and looked at my garden. things do not look very well.
I commencd making a nail and tool box.
9th Very warm I spent the fore noon in company with Eliza and James wifes looking at my wheat
and corn down in the field which was quite a walk for the females. I finished my nail box this
after noon.
10th Very hot. I replanted some corn in my garden and hoed some this fore noon. I done nothing
scarcely this after noon. Ammon one of the Utah chiefs passed through here this after noon he
called to see me as we were old acquaintance at the Uintah valley in 1849.
11th Very warm I replanted some corn on Chas Foot's land. did not feel well to day.
12th Very hot. I was quite unwell done nothing but stay in the house.
13th Very warm. I worked in Salt creek kanyon helping to frame a bridge to pay my Territorial tax,
have two dollars for my days work.
14th Sunday,Cool and windy. I went to meeting all day. had some very good preaching by Geo.
Kendall and others on the propriety of the people doing right and living their religion and the
Lord woud turn the destroyer from our grain etc. and that it is the hand of the Lord that is staying
the grass hoppers at the present time for there are millions of them all around us now but they
seem to be doing but little damage at present, when we know by past experience that they like the
wheat the best of any thing but yet they seem to keep off from it when they are right by the side
of it. I think that it is one of the greatest of blessings.
15th Very warm I worked fixing my water ditches and putting in some head gates
16th Very hot. I watered wheat on the lot that I bought of Scrigins
17th Very hot. I finished watering the Scriggins lot, Appy and Sarah Ann got home from the City, this
after noon.
18th Very hot I commenced watering my wheat on Fathers land.
19th Very hot I finished watering my wheat a little after noon. my wheat all looks first rate except
some that is pretty weedy. I have a fair prospect of a bountiful harvest. I went up in salt creek
kanyon this after noon after a load of wood and some timber to make a cradle and some axe
handles, etc. I camped in the kanyon there was a large drove of horses passed through here this
after noon from Callifornia on their way to the States.
20th Very hot. I came home from the kanyon with a good load of dry maple wood. I got stalled once
and was obliged to unload which vexed me very much because there were three other teams up
there and would not wait about fifteen minutes for me for they were in such a hurry or els they
were affraid they would have to help me & they left me alone not careing what accident might
happen to me. I think that was not doing as the be...
21st [Page 199] Sunday. Very hot this fore noon but rather cooler and cloudy this after noon. I went
to meeting this fore noon some of the brethren that have been to the City spoke and related some
of the things that they heard preached while there.
22nd Very warm I bought fifty pounds of fish this morning. I plowed my potatos this after noon. I
also cut some willows to make a shade to work under.
23rd A little cooler. I commenced making a clock reel. I also made a shade over my bench.
24th Pretty warm. I watered my corn on Chas Foot's land I then worked some at my reel this after
noon
25th Very warm. I finished my reel and it works well, although it was a difficult job as I had none to
look at.
26th Very warm. I bought fifty pounds of fish this morning for which I paid 25 pounds of flour. I got
five bushels of wheat ground this morning. I commenced watering my wheat on my land. I
heard to day that Parley P. Pratt was killed in Kansas.
27th Very warm. I watered wheat again to day I picked a mess of peas on the land that I bought of
Scriggins.
28th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon, but went to bed this after noon as
I had a bad head ache.
29th Very windy. Eliza and I pulled the weeds out of the garden this fore noon and I watered the
garden. James and I went up in Salt creek kanyon after a load of wood and timber. camped in
the kanyon at night and cut part of our loads mosquitoes made pretty free with us.
30th Warm and windy we finished getting our load and started home when we saw the mout of a
cave up in the side of the mountain it was partly concealed by some small maple trees and under
brush. I proposed going up and see how it looked which James finally consented to. we found it
to be pretty rough climbing over the rocks and among the thick brush, but we finally reached the
cave which we found to be in a very soft sand rock. it is some forty feet long by thirty wide and
from four to eight or nine feet high. We then spent near two hours in climbing among the rocks
and rolling them down the mountain where they would sometimes leap fifty or a hundred feet
and break into thousands of pieces. we climbed some places that were very near perpendicular
so that we were obliged to pull off our boots and go bare bare foot that we might stick to the
rocks for if we had slipped we would have been dashed to pieces. we were hindred about two
hours in the kanyon by a bridge being removed that they might fill the old chanel of the creek.
we got home about three p.m. I nearly made a rake after I got home.
July 1857
[Jul 1857 - Celebration of 4th; News of death of uncle; Appointed to lead 12 married ladies in
celebration parade of 24th; Parade with banners]
1st [Page 200] I finished my rake and then went down in the field and watered about six acres of my
wheat. I used the water that A. Boswell wasted.
2nd Cloudy and rainy all of the fore noon, and some of the after noon I helped James make some
posts and fixed up a hay rack this after noon.
3rd Very warm I ground my scythe this morning. I then went down in the field and grubbed some
of the willows out from among my corn I also mowed some of the milk weeds that were among
my wheat.
4th General muster, this morning. we then marched down to the school house where T. B. Foot
delivered an oration and Bishop Bigler, and Geo Kendall also made some remarks concerning the
day we were celebrating etc., and a few toasts were read and a comic song by Wm. Kendall. we
were then dismissed for one hour to go home and partake of refreshments, etc. we then
assembled again and spent the remainder of the day in dancing also a part of the night. had a
very good time only very much crowded and prety noisy.
5th Sunday I went to meeting this fore noon. Geo Kendall, and Chas Kemp preached.
6th Very warm I grubbed some willows and watered the remainder of my wheat on Fathers land. I
then went down to my land and commenced watering there.
7th Very warm I finished watering my wheat.
8th Very hot I watered my garden this fore noon and made a pitchfork handle and rake handle this
after noon. I have been about sick this week.
9th Very hot I herded cattle to day. was very tired to night.
10th Very warm I plowed out my corn. hired two men and a boy to grub willows and pull weeds. I
had Timothy Hoyt's mare to plow with.
11th Very warm. I fixed up for haying.
12th Sunday Very warm. I watered my corn and went down in the West meadow, to look at the
grass, found it very short.
13th Very warm I commenced cutting hay, cut about two loads in the North meadow.
14th Very warm but the wind blew and was quite comfortable mowing. I cut two loads and raked up
some.
15th Warm I cut about two loads, and raked up most of my hay.
16th Very warm I cut about a fourth of a load and put up all of my hay excep half a load I then
loaded up a load and came home. I then had to go to watering on my land. staid all night. recd a
letter from Mother informing me of the death of her oldest Brother.
17th Very hot. I watered all day got home after dark, water failing very fast
18th Very hot. I hauled a load of hay and put up the remainder of what I had cut. Eliza watered the
garden.
19th Sunday. The hottest day that has been this summer I staid at home and slept all the fore noon. I
commenced watering my wheat on Fathers land, this after noon.
20th [Page 201] Very warm. I turned the water onto my wheat this morning came home about nine
oclock and eat my breakfast, and then started after a load of hay. Eliza went with me got home a
little before night. I then went and turned the water on my wheat again, got home a little after
dark.
21st Very warm. I went down and attended to the water a little while and then Eliza and I went and
hauled a load of hay, and then went down to the hay field and staid all night. put on part of the
load at night.
22nd Very hot. We hauled two loads to day. I recd the following appointment when I got home. Mr.
Homer Brown, Sir you are hereby appointed to select twelve married Ladies to form part of the
escort of the 24th inst. at 9 A.M. the escort will be formed at the school house. It will be
expected that you will get up a Banner. Nephi, July 21/57. By order of the commitee Samuel
Pitchforth clerk. I then invited twelve married ladies who all accepted the invitations except one.
23rd Very warm. I spent most of the day in preparing for the Cellebration.
24th Quite pleasant in the fore noon but rather windy in the after noon. had a first rate time, at
daybreak music by Capt Sperrys band and firing of musketry at 9 a.m. the Escort was formed and
marched through the principle streets in the following order, front guard, Sperry's band, twelve
old men with f[l]ag, motto Fathers of Israel, Twelve old ladies, with banner - Mothers of Israel,
Bishop and councilors committee of arrangments, twelve young married ladies, banner - Zion
shall increase, Twelve young men - banner Zion's defence The Young Lions that were seen in
the vision, 24 little boys with paper caps, banner hope of Israel, 24 little girls - banner Israel's
hope of perpetuation, We will do it, rear guard. All under the command of John Kienke Marshall
of the day. We then marched to the bowery which had been prepared for the occasion, where we
had an address by Br Love. There was then permission given for anyone to speak that felt like it
and for toasts etc. which took up the fore noon. Then adjourned for two hours to partake of
refreshment in companies of ten. The greater part of the after noon was taken up in speaking,
singing, music, reading toasts etc. after which there was a short time spent in dancing. then
adjourned for one hour, after which we again assembled and spent the evening until 11 oclock, in
dancing.
25th Cool and windy. I worked at making a cradle to cut my wheat with. Father Woolf has been very
sick all day with the pleurisy was in great pain.
26th Sunday. Quite pleasant, I went to meeting this fore noon, watered my garden this after noon, and
done some writing. wrote a letter to Mother.
27th [Page 202] Monday Very warm I commenced cutting my wheat on my land in the South field.
Corneluis Cummins helped me we did not commence until noon, had to grind the Scythe and fix
the cradle this fore noon.
28th Very warm. Cummins helped me again to day to pay for a bowie knife that I let him have; cut a
few of my oats.
29th Very warm. I commenced cradling to day and found it to be very hard work Thos Webster raked
and bound for me I cut some more of my oats. Eliza went down and gathered some of the peas
that were ripe.
30th Very hot. I commenced cutting my wheat in the forks of the creek on Fathers land Thos Webster
and Indian Jim raked and bound for me.
31st Very warm. I cut a little more wheat in the South field Jim and another little Indian helped me.
Jim says that he wants to stay and work for me until winter and then he wants me to give him a
gun and I told him that I would.
August 1857
[Aug 1857 - Work on farm; Excitement about U. S. Troops coming; Express from SLC to harvest
crops quickly; Harvesting in earnest]
1st I cut a little wheat in the forks of the creek this fore noon, and hoed in the garden this after noon.
Jim helped me. he commenced watering my corn this evening.
2nd Sunday. I went to meeting all day.
3rd Very warm. I hauled a load of dry maple wood. Jim said that he would water the garden but
when I came home I found that he had not done it and had not been at work but said that he was
going to live at the Indian wic a ups.
4th Very warm. I cut wheat in the forks of the creek Caleb Love's little Indian helped me
5th A little cooler the wind blew some I cut about two acres of wheat Br Stevenson and two little
Indians raked and bound it and set it up. I broke my cradle.
6th Warm I mended my cradle put in two new fingers and then went down in the South field to cut
my wheat done but little in the fore noon Br Stevenson helped me
7th Very hot rained a little in the after noon. I cradled for Br Pitchforth this fore noon and he sent his
two hired men to help me in the after noon. Pitchforth's wheat was the worst that I ever tried to
cut for it was very heavy and lodged very bad.
8th Very hot I cut wheat on my land. I finished my volunteer wheat Thos Webster helped me. We
also watered my late spring wheat. Considerable excitement now about the troops that the U.S.
are sending here.
9th Sunday Very hot. I went to meeting. The Bishop wanted those that would rather have their
right arms severed from their body than to back out of defending this people to raise their hands
(I think all hands were raised).
10th [Page 203] Monday Warm and pleasant. Mr. T. B. Foot was elected mayor this morning. I cut
about an acre and a half of wheat I had two Indians to rake and bind for me.
11th Very windy. Br Fellows cradled for me, and Alfred Gad and myself raked and bound. cut nearly
two acres on my land.
12th Cool and rather windy, rained quite hard in the after noon wet us considerable I cut wheat in
the forks of the creek. Alfred Gad and T. Webster raked and bound. We got home ten minutes
before four.
13th Cool. I worked in the garden all day. Thomas Stevenson and Thos Webster helped me hoe and
pull weeds. Alfred Gad herded cattle for me.
14th Warm. I watered my corn, and shocked up some wheat and cut out a shot pouch etc.
Considerable preperations making for war.
15th Warm and pleasant. I cut some wheat and finished cutting my oats. Alfred Gad raked and bound
for me. An express came from the City ordering us to secure our grain as fast as possible and
drop evry other kind of buisness and thresh our grain and save evry grain and use it spareingly
and eat vegetables, etc. where we can, and look out for places of safety in the Mountains for our
wives and children and to cache our grain etc. if needs be. Our Bishop forwarded expresses to
Filmore and San pete. Appy Woolf and Chas Cazier went to Filmore, and A. Love, and S. Cazier
to Sanpete. We must also make the Indians our friends for the U.S. will soon be their enemies as
they are the Sioux.
16th Sunday Warm and pleasant I went to meeting all day. turned the water on my wheat after
meeting.
17th I worked fixing up George Sidwell's grainery. I am going to put my wheat in it
18th Very warm I worked alone cutting wheat in the forks of the creek I also raked and bound.
19th Very warm I worked again at the grainery Foot got home from the City there was a meeting
this evening to hear the news.
20th Warm and windy Br Fellows cradled for me and A. Gad raked and bound.
21st Br Fellows cradled for me, and A. Gad raked and bound. we finished in the forks of the creek.
22nd Rained a little and blowed considerable. Some alterations made in the Military this after noon.
Therefore I could not go harvesting as a general attendance was requested I cleaned of a stack
yard this fore noon.
23rd Sunday. I went down in the field this morning to see if my wheat was ripe enough to cut but
found that it was not. I then went to meeting
24th Very warm I worked at the grainery Ten men with two pack mules started out East to look for
our enemies to day noon.
25th Fellows cradled for me and Alfred Gad raked and bound, hauled a load of wheat home.
26th I helped G. Sidwell thresh this fore noon. fixed my hay rack this after noon.
27th [Page 204] Thursday. I hired Alfred Gad this morning to work for me one month. I am to give
him thirteen bushels of wheat for the months work. I hired George Sidwells oxen to day and
Alfred and I hauled four loads of wheat from my land. got stuck in the mud twice.
28th Very warm. Alfred and I hauled four loads of wheat from my land. G. A. Smith preached this
evening on his way home from Iron co.
29th Very warm. Alfred and I hauled two loads of wheat from my land and two from Fathers. Bishop
Biglar started for the City this morning.
30th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon and wrote some this after noon.
The ten men that went out East got home this morning, made no discovery, went to the head
waters of Spanish fork. I traded guns with Indian Bob this morning he gave me an otter skin to
boot.
31st Very warm I cut wheat and Alfred raked and bound. we hauled a load home.
September 1857
[Sep 1857 - Harvesting and threshing; Bishop Bigler speaks on ignoring strange events; Apostates
flee city, brought back; Troops at Laramie; Eliza has a baby boy; Emigrants to California killed
in Iron Co. by Indians; Enoch Bowles comes to work; Alfred Gad quits a day early; Troops
determined to come in or die trying]
1st Tuesday Very warm. I finished cutting my wheat. Alfred raked and bound; this makes twenty
two days that I have been harvesting and I am very glad that I have got done, for I have had a
tedious time of harvesting.
2nd Cloudy and rained in the after noon. I hauled four loads of wheat from the forks of the creek; I
intended to have hauled six but could not on account of the rain. We unloaded only two of those
that we did haul.
3rd My stack and my loads were so wet that I could not unload until after noon. we then went and
hauled one load from the forks of the creek.
4th Very warm. Alfred and I hauled four loads of wheat with one team from the forks of the creek.
The Bishop got home from the City.
5th Very warm We hauled a load and a half of oats and half a load of wheat from my land.
6th Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting all day.
7th Very warm. I had George Sidwell's oxen and we hauled four loads of wheat from my land.
8th Warm. We hauled one load of smutty wheat from the forks of the creek; this finishes my wheat
hauling. we then cleaned off the threshing floor, and I went down and turned the water on my
land so that I may plow it for fall wheat, as the word has come for us to sow fall wheat.
9th Very windy I helped Chas Foote and A Boswell thresh wheat to day to get them to help me.
10th Warm and windy I commenced threshing my wheat to day or rather Caziers machine did it
threshed all day but did not finish. I had seventeen hands besides the three that go with the
machine.
11th Quite cool. We finished threshing between 10 and 11 a.m. Alfred and I then helped Bishop
Bigler thresh in the after noon. The news came last night that Gen. Harney was appointed
Governor of Kansas and had gone back with his troops, but part of the baggage wagons were
coming on, and the Commissary had got into the City.
12th Cool. Alfred and I helped Bishop Bigler thresh all day; hard frost last night, killed the corn etc.
13th [Page 205] Sunday Cool and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. Pres Kimball's
discourse in the Deseret news was read, and Geo. Kendall made some remarks. Bishop Bigler
also spoke a short time. he said that we ought to keep our mouths shut and not talk about things
that did not concern us, and if we should see a man walking around with his head cut off we need
say nothing or if we should see a man riding a saddle and the horse had run out from under it and
the man enquiring for the horse we need know nothing about it etc. for the worst enemies that we
ever had are those that we have always had amongst us. I hear that there were two apostates
came here last night on their way to Callifornia and have run away from the City without paying
their debts etc. I went to meeting this evening the brethren were called on to work for the men
that have gone out in the mountains, and their corn wants cutting etc.
14th Bishop Bigler started for the City this morning to take the two apostates back. Mr Whitehouse
and his father in law. Mrs Whitehouse and her father started for Callifornia and missed their
road and took the road to Sanpete; they passed fort Ephraim and went on and passed Manti, and
said they were going to Filmore and having business at ft. Ephraim they came around that way,
but there happened to be a man there that was at ft Ephraim when they passed and knew that they
did not stop; after they passed Manti they took the road to the Elk mountains when some one told
them of their mistake and they turned back and got lost again they one of the road that the people
go after hay; the old man then got out to look for the road and while he was gone the woman
drove out of the road and when he came back he could not find the carriage thus wandered about
until morning but finally got to this place, but Whitehouse got here about an hour berfore them,
expecting that they were way ahead of him. I met him just before he came into the gate, when he
asked me if I could tell him where he could get some hay or some sheaf oats; I told him that I
thought likely that he could get some of the Bishop. he then wanted to know if there was no one
els that had any, if they were very short of hay here. I then rather mistrusted him as he did not
seem to like to go to the Bishop and I told him that I thought probably he could find some
somewhere els, and we went on this was on Saturday night, and a little after dark, a carriage
came in and stopped at the Bishops, and one of the men went out to see who it was and came in
and said it was a little old man and a young woman. the Bishop said that was the man that he
was looking for; for the people at Sanpete had turned them this way and then sent word to the
Bishop and he had been on the look out for them, and he had seen Whitehouse, and when Mrs
Whitehouse had been in the house a while the Bishop asked her if she was going to Callifornia.
She answered, to Callifornia! no indeed why we are Mormons. The Bishop said you need not
deny it for I have seen your husband; this rather choked her and she said well I must
acknowledge that we are going to Callifornia. The Bishop then ordered the Marshall to take their
horses, and take care of them. Alfred and I cut corn.
15th Alfred and I finished cutting my corn and bound part of it.
16th Rained most of the fore noon and considerable of the night. I made a fork for pitching chaff.
Alfred herded cattle for me.
17th Rained considerable. I worked at George Sidwells grainery most of the day.
18th [Page 206] Warm I commenced cleaning my wheat cleaned 116 bu wheat and 37 1/2 of oats.
19th Warm We cleaned up 129 bu of wheat Bishop Bigler got home from the City last night about
midnight. he says that the sherif had been looking for Whitehouse up North and was intending to
start East soon in search of him and was very glad to find him the troups were at Laramie and
expecting to start the next day, when last heard from. Eliza my second wife had a fine boy
weighing 9 3/4 pounds, born about 20 minutes before eleven P.M.
20th Sunday. Rainy a good part of the day. I intended to clean wheat but it rained so that I cleaned
only twelve bushels. I then went to sleep as I was up nearly all night last night. I hear that a
company of Emigrants en route for Callifornia were all killed by the Indians near Iron co all
killed except 15 small children, part of them sucking babes, the Emigrants killed a beef and
poisoned the meat and then gave it to the Indians, which caused some of them to die, and the
soon had their revenge.
21st Warm and pleasant. I cleaned up wheat.
22nd Warm and pleasant, cleaned up wheat again.
23rd Finished cleaning up my wheat a little before noon had 560 bu. Alfred hauled a load of corn this
after noon Enoch Bowles came to live with me this morn. he went up with Alfred after corn,
one of my oxen is sick to night.
24th Warm. I felt quite unwell did not do much. Alfred bound up the rest of my corn. Enoch pulled
peas.
25th Alfred and I hauled four loads of corn. Enoch pulled peas.
26th Alfred came this morning and said that his time was out but I told him that as he hired on the
27th I thought that he ought to work until the 27th but he did not come to work I hauled three
small loads of corn, as my ox was sick.
27th Sunday Cool and pleasant; I went to meeting this fore noon. I went with my two wives up to
see my wheat and corn in George Sidwell's grainry, wrote a letter to My Brother Lorenzo in
answer to one that I recd from him yester day. I hear that there are fifty men called from Payson
and Summit creek to go back on the road as the troops are determined to come in or die, in
trying.
28th Warm. I hauled one load of corn (the last that I had.) I then hauled a load of peas. I got some
wood from the mill to make a harrow.
29th Very warm I worked some making my harrow but as I was about sick with a cold I did not do
much.
30th Very warm. I worked a little at my harrow this fore noon and helped Father thresh this after noon
to pay for James helping me thresh my wheat.
October 1857
[Jan 1857 - Troops approach Ft. Bridger; Obedience preached; Many people sick, son John
Anthony especially; Men selected to fight, Homer included; John Anthony dies; Report on war's
progress; Hauling coal; Trip to SLC; Father has two new wives]
1st Thursday. Very warm I helped Father thresh this fore noon and finished my harrow this after
noon.
2nd Warm. I dug potatos to day with a shovel plow, dug sixteen bushels. The mail carrier told me to
night that the troops were eight miles East of Ft Bridger and would come in to the City or die
trying, and Pres Young said their words should be verified for they should die trying, and that
fifty men from Provo had stampeded thirteen hundred of the soldiers cattle.
3rd Very warm. I dug potatos again to day with the plow, had four squaws to pick them up. we
finished them, had 32 bushels, 48 in all.
4th Sunday Very warm I went down in the field and turned the water on my land this morning I
then went to meeting Brs Foote, Miller, Woolf, Pypeer, and Cazier spoke on the principle of
obedience to all that are placed over us, whether military or eclesiasticle that we should be
always ready to go whether to work or any thing els. I did not go to meeting this after noon but
spent the after noon in writing and reading.
5th Warm and pleasant. I commenced plowing for fall wheat. I had the horses that carry the mail
from the City. I feed them grain for their work and they only go from here to Manti, which takes
Saturday, Sunday and Monday and the remainder of the time I work them. I was called on to
work on the public bakery but I hired Tom Webster to herd for John Kirkman and he worked on
the bakery.
6th Warm and pleasant, I plowed again to day and Enoch harrowed, with my oxen.
7th Cool and cloudy, South wind. I plowed again and Enoch harrowed Enoch waters the land
before I plow it.
8th Cold and cloudy and rained a little in the morning. I did not go plowing, done but little all day. I
hear that the troups are on Hams fork recruiting their teams and are determined to come in.
9th [Page 207] Friday. Cold with a North wind. I furrowed out my land or part of it. I have near
four acres in and about three of it furrowed out. there are a great many now sick here with the
influenza. my family all have it. my youngest John Anthony has been sick for some time. Sarah
Ann and Eliz set up with him last night. The express came in from the City this evening, stating
that we must raise fifty efficient men in this place armed and equipped with thirty days
provisions with teams to haul their provisions etc. There was a meeting called at early candle
light and a selection made of the men, that are to start on the 11th inst. I am one of the men
selected but I should feel much better if I had a pair of good boots or shoes, for mine are so full
of holes that I can hardly keep them on my feet but I am on hand if I have to go bare foot, for I
would much rather fight bare foot than see our enemies come in to trample us under foot as they
have done. What is a few days hardship compared with it or should we have to die in defending
our rights, what is that we only have to die once and we could not die in a more noble cause than
in the defence of the Kingdom of God, but I do not believe that the Lord wants me to die yet but
if he does then let me die in doing good and in helping to redeem Zion.
10th Cold and the North wind blew. I got up this morning with the intention of going with the rest of
the men to fight the soldiers but a person does not know an hour before hand what they are going
to do at least I found it so for I had not been up long when Enoch came and said that Mrs. Brown
wanted me to come home for the baby was dying. I hastened home and found it to be too true,
for the little fellow lived but a short time after I got home but I suppose it is all for the best for he
has left a world of trouble and gone to a better one but Eliza took it pretty hard. I went and told
Adjutant Picton and he said that he would excuse me from going with them to the City. I then
got Br Ord to go in my place and let him have my gun and 18 rounds of ammunition and 50
pounds of flour. I had to nail up the coffin and help to bury it and would have had to bury it
alone but I went and got the man that dug the grave (Wm. Jeffres) to go with me for none of
Father Woolfs folks went with us nor said a word about going but I suppose they had no time as
James and Appy are going soldiering. we buried the child about sundown. The Bishop got home
about the same time and he drove business when he come for he gave out word for the men to
start in one hour in stead of tomorrow morning and the men were all on hand and were started
within two hours.
11th Sunday I went to meeting had but one meeting. The bishop spoke some also Father Woolf.
The Bishop said that Lot Smith's company had burned fifty of the Soldiers wagons which were
mostly loaded with liquors. The most of the time to day was spent in arranging and planning
how the work should be done for the men that are gone and they finally concluded that each man
that was here should look after one of the families whose husbands are gone. I have to look after
sister Ord. I went down and cut some wood for her this evening The company from Sanpete
arrived a little after dark, on their way to the city rained some and snowed on the mountains.
12th Cold and cloudy this morning, but warmer in the after noon. I finished furrowing out my wheat
and then harrowed some in without plowing and furrowed it out. The Sanpete company left early
this moring. Br Hoffines staid at Father's last night he has just returned from a mission.
13th Warm and pleasant I hauled a load of wood for Father and he mended my boots.
14th Warm. I dug John Kienke's potatos J. Webster helped I also hauled his squashes and corn,
heard that the Mormon boys had burned 27 more U.S. wagons, and that three teamsters had
driven their wagons into the Mormon camp loaded with groceries and one soldier had deserted.
15th Very warm I dug and hauled Thomas Ord's potatos, he had 15 1/2 bushels.
16th Cool and cloudy part of the day. I hauled a large load of maple wood from Salt creek kanyon.
Appy's Indian went with me, got home a little after dark.
17th Warm I fixed up my house hauled some dirt and put on the roof, etc.
18th Sunday. Cold and cloudy. I went to meeting commenced at noon, after meeting I fixed to go
after coal tomorrow, for Mr Adams.
19th Cool and cloudy. I started this morning in company with Samuel Adams, Mr. Parker, Thos.
Webster and John Webster to go over in the Sanpete valley after coal. we stopped at the Uinta
springs to let our cattle eat and to eat our dinner. we found the Indian Migo here with his band of
Indians, who were burning the grease wood and Rabbit brush hunting Rabbits and said that they
were very hungry. we gave them some bread and we then went to the san pitch creek and
camped after dark. Snowed considerable before we camped.
20th [Page 208] Cold and snowed all of the fore noon. we started pretty early this morning and
traveled about five miles, about one and a half of which was up a narrow kanyon and pretty rocky
but it was tolerable good road, for kanyon road we found the vein of coal to about 3 or 3 1/2 feet
thick in a ledge of solid lime stone. Our loads were dug but we had to bring the coal out of the
pit as the coliers were not there and we found it to be considerable of a job, consequently we
were late getting to camp at the Duck spring.
21st Cool but tolerably pleasant. we had a very cold night last night, did not sleep very much we
started pretty early and traveled nearly five miles and stopped to eat our breakfasts. After
breakfast we started again. after we had gone a little ways Sam. Adams went to sleep on his load
and Thomas Webster went back and stopped Sam's team as it was the last team but it did not
wake Sam up we went on between a 1/4 and a 1/2 a mile and stopped to water our oxen when
some Indians came to us and Tom got one of them to go back and wake Sam or I do not know
how long he would have slept. We then came over to the forks of Salt creek kanyon and stopped
for noon after passing the Hieroglyphic stones which are large dark collered stones with
characters which have the appearance of being picked with a pick such as millers use to dress
mill stones. I also saw the place whe a man by the name of Bowman was killed by M. D.
Hambleton. this Bowman wanted to take the life of Brigham Young, and stir up strife among the
Indians etc. and while he was going from Sanpete to the City he was shot and a Spaniard that was
with him was shot at but not hurt and he reported that it was Indians that shot, when he got back
to Sanpete, etc. We got home about sundown. I hauled 3000 cwt with two yoke of oxen.
22nd Warm and pleasant, I fixed for starting to the City measured up 40 bushels of wheat to take to
pay Scrigins for the land that I bought of him; let Father have my wagon and oxen to haul wood
and did not get quite ready.
23rd I started for the City about noon. Eliza went with me. I had Father's steers to put on with mine
we camped at Millers springs twelve miles from Nephi.
24th Cloudy. we started late this morning and made a short drive and camped on the bottom between
Payson and Spanish fork. commenced raining about dark.
25th Sunday. Rained all night and until about 7 oclock this morning. we started after it stopped
raining and traveled to Springville and stopped to bait the oxen in a field we then went to Provo
and stopped at the house of Eliza Williams.
26th Cold and windy. We started pretty early this morning some time before sunrise. We stopped for
noon between Battle creek and American fork, and camped at night at the point of the Mountain.
We met some of the Provo boys who had been out to defend their country but were not wanted at
present and were permitted to go home and be ready at any time when called.
27th We started a little after day light and stopped for noon between Dry creek and Cotton wood.
While we were stopping the Sanpete company that had been in the City for some time passed us
on their way home, as they were not needed, for the troops that had been traveling North had
come back to the Salt Lake road, and was expected they would not try to come in the North route.
we arrived in the City a little after dark, found the folks pretty well, and Father has two more
wives, one of which Mother does not appear to like verry well.
28th Warm and pleasant. I learned early this morning that the Salt creek boys had started for home
and as I had letters and parcels for a number of them I went to the state road where I knew they
would have to pass and gave them their things. after breakfast I went up in the City to see how
much Edy Wells would allow for the wheat that I was to pay him for Scrigins. he said one dollar
and fifty cent pr bushel. I saw a carriage with five men start out for the U.S. camp, with two
persons who wished to join the camp viz Jessy Jones, Wardle's agent, who came in to make
arrangements for the freight teams and a Mrs Mogo who married one of the surveyors Mogo that
was here last spring and is now with the soldiers and she is going to him, John Harvey, Joseph
Young, Jefferson Hickman and two Sharps went with them. I took my wheat up this after noon,
38 1/2 bushels at 1,50 pr bushel 57,75 cents, and I owe $7,25 cts on the note, yet.
29th Warm and pleasant, I went up in the City but found the stores Hoopers were arranging goods and
Gilbert had delivered their goods over to Stewarts. Father, Mother, Eliza and I eat supper at
Fannys.
30th Warm and pleasant, I helped Father make a corn crib this fore noon, and went up in the City with
Eliza this after noon and done a little trading for folks that sent by us from Nephi. we also went
and had a look at the foundation of the temple etc. 8 teamsters and one Deserter soldier came in
the City this after noon.
31st I went up in the City and tried to buy a hat, but could not find any that would fit. I partly loaded
up my wagon, to start home, put in 20 bushels of onions etc.
November 1857
[Nov 1857 - Return to Salt Creek; Letter from Appy at Ft. Supply - Troops fired on men; Gentiles
leaving Utah; Prisoner escapes barefooted from Troops; Spies from California apprehended]
1st [Page 209] Sunday, warm and pleasant. Eliza and I went to meeting all day. Orson Hyde and
Geo A. Smith preached in the fore noon, and John Taylor in the after noon. I finished loading up
this evening.
2nd Warm and pleasant, I started for home a little before sunrise this morning. Beny Brown, my
nephew started with me to take a load of onions down to trade for wheat as Lorenzo is in Echo
kanyon and has been nearly two months just in the time that he was going to work for bread stuff,
and his family have none, and I told Fanny that if she would send some onions I would try and
trade them for wheat for her. We camped at Dry creek in Utah Valley after dark.
3rd Cloudy. We started before light this morning as the moon shone so bright that I thought it was
light, and we camped at night near Springville, and it commenced raining about dark, and rained
all night.
4th Rained nearly all day, but we traveled, and stopped to noon on the bottom between Spanish fork
and Payson. here we saw a man that lives at Spanish fork and he said that it was thought that Dr.
Hurt was in the Uinta Valley, and that some men had gone over there and the Indians had
stopped them and there had now ten more gone from Spanish. we stopped at Summit creek over
night. I gave half a bushel of onions for some corn fodder to feed our oxen.
5th Cold and rainy all day and all last night, very mud traveling to day. we got home a little before
night.
6th Cold and rainy, rained very hard this morning. I sold a few onions at the rate of 1 bu onions for
1« of wheat.
7th Cold and snowed some. I mended Sarah Anns shoes, had to attend roll call this morning as soon
as light
8th Sunday Cold and rather windy I went to meeting this fore noon the Bishop had the History of
Joseph Smith read, in vol 7 Number 35 of the Deseret news, which showed very plainly what our
enemies would like to do with us now if they could for they are trying to come the same games
but thank the Lord they are not able to do it. I had the head ache and staid at home this after
noon.
9th Cold and stormy. I mended Eliza's shoes to day. Lucy Woolf got a letter from Appy yesterday
dated Ft. Supply Oct 30th which stated that the "troops had fired on our boys again and if they
did it any more our boys had orders to give it to them, and that they were going the next day to
look at the devils" etc.
10th Quite pleasant. I herded cattle to day. the Callifornia mail arrived to day from the City and brot
news that the troops had fired grape shot at our boys and that the boys had obtained 150 head of
cattle and 50 head of mules and horses, and that Col Johnson had come up with 360 more troops,
and the Governor and other territorial officers.
11th Very cold I went to mill to day got my grist home, 8 bu wheat. I commenced reading the Black
Dwarf one of Scott's novels. there was quite a company of the gentiles, merchants etc. from Salt
Lake stopped here to night on their way to Callifornia as the time has come for them to sepperate
from this people. Wm. Huntington is their guide and is to pass them through the Indian tribes as
Mormons and consequently will allow of no swearing in camp, which I think will be rather hard
for some of them as two of them are U.S. teamsters and Linforth an apostate is with them.
Harriet Woolf came to day.
12th Very cold. The apostates and gentiles started on their journey this morning after paying the
Bishop twenty dollars in gold for keeping part of them and feeding part of their animals the rest
stopped at Father Cazier's. I banked up my house and built a pig pen. Another apostate arrived
this after noon with a cart and two ponys before it and a woman in it. they are very anxious to
overtake the company that left this morning. I sent Enoch home this morning because I could not
depend on him to do what I told him.
13th Cold and pleasant. I hauled a load of Cedar from the West mountain. The apostate did not start
to day and I understand that he is going back to the City for fear the Indians might catch him
befor he catches the company.
14th Warm and pleasant I hauled a load of stone for George Sidwell to build a shed and I am to put
my oxen under it. The apostates with their cart started back for the City. Their name is
Sutherland there were six men came in to night on their way to Callifornia. they say they are
from Ogden, some of them came in this fall, from Arkansas the Captain or boss says that his
name is Edge. We heard to day that when Col Johnson came up with the rest of the U.S.
company, they pointed out Joseph Taylor, (the one that they took prisoner when he was taking
supplies to Lot Smith) and said that is one of our prisoners. Johnson said it is oh, well damn him
we will hang him tomorrow when we get to Ft Bridger and they placed a double guard over him
but he pulled off his boots and was warming his feet, and it smoked in his fase and he stepped
back to get out of the smoke and when he got back far enough he made a break and run in among
the cattle where they could not shoot him and thus made his escape to our boys in his stockings.
15th Sunday Pleasant, I did not go to meeting to day. the mail did not get here until to day which
should have been here last Friday. the conductor says that the troops are intending to leave their
wagons at Bridger and come with pack annimals I went to meeting this evening. Br. Wilkie
(who has just returned from Sanfrancisco where he has been laboring in the office of the Western
Standard,) addressed us a short time and gave a short account of his mission. The six
Callifornians went on this morning but they were told that the Indians would scalp them but on
they went.
16th Warm and pleasant, I butchered my cow to day Peter Manzer helped me. I gave him nine
pounds of beef for helping. James Woolf came home to day from out on the road, but he said he
had no news but what we had heard.
17th [Page 210] Tuesday. Pleasant, I [w]ent up and salted my beef, to day. I got 30 lbs of salt of the
Bishop.
18th Warm and pleasant I helped Benny Brown gather up his wheat to day and fixed his wagon that
he may start for home in the morning. Appy Woolf came home to night from out on the road, but
brings no news.
19th Warm and pleasant. Benny started for home this morning in company with Brs Udall and Ricks.
I helped him start and then husked a little corn.
20th Warm and pleasant, I hauled a load of dry cedar wood from the West mountain; very mudy.
21st Warm and pleasant, I hauled another load of dry cedar from the west mountain. The men that
left here last Sunday for Callifornia came back to day, for the Indians have stolen one of their
horses, and they began to think that the Mormons told them the truth and they have turned back
for the City.
22nd Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting. C. Kemp, Br Wilkie, and Father Woolf, and the
Bishop spoke. The Bishop wants the people to keep humble and prayerful, and not forget the
reformation.
23rd Warm and cloudy. I hauled a load of dry cedar from Burchall's kanyon; Wm Holden returned
from Echo kanyon being sick; he says that the U.S. troops have got as far as ft. Bridger.
24th Warm and foggy; I helped Absalom thresh to day. There were four men came in this evening
that are gentiles they are going to Callifornia the South route. They have lately come from
Callifornia the North route and were going East, but were stopped in the City and sent to
Callifornia escorted by O. P. Rocwell, John Lot, and John Murdock. one of the men had a letter
of reomendation from a commander of a U.S. station in Callifornia to Col. Johnson stating that
the bearer was a man that could be trusted and was capable of performing any scheme that he
might undertake etc. this letter fell into Brighams hands, and thus he found out who they were.
25th Cool and cloudy. I was called up between ten and eleven oclock last night to go out to the Sevier
river on business started before light this morning in company with Absalom Woolf, Miles
Miller and John Kienke. We arrived at the Sevier a little after noon, and camped for night, and
attended to our buisness ready to start home.
26th Cool and rainy all night and part of the fore noon, started for home about eight oclock, where we
arrived a little after dark, when we found considerable excitment on account of two of the
gentiles that stopped here night before last coming in this morning and reporting that they were
shot at by Indians while camped last night and that all the rest of the men were killed and
themselves badly wounded; one in the head and the other in the back and the ball came through
to the skin near the left shoulder, which Bryant cut out. The one that was wounded in the head
threw away his coat and boots, and hat, and came in his shirt sleeves and bare foot. they said that
it was their own fault that they did not put out a guard for the Indians were right upon them
before they knew it while they were sitting around the fire telling stories and singing songs, etc.
We met four men going out to look after Porter and men to see if the could find what had become
of them.
27th Cold and stormy and very mudy. I read some this fore noon in Ivanhoe; and mended Elizas
shoes this after noon. the four men came back and report that they found the Indian's trail going
to the West mountain and the thought it dangerous to follow them into the mountains.
28th Cool and cloudy. I started with Absalom this morning to go to willow creek after the herd as
there was an express came from the City for beef cattle. The two wounded men started for the
City this morning as they seem very anxious to get to Salt Lake. We got only a part of the
Willow creek herd as the rest were over at the West Mountain and we did not find where they
were until it was too late to get them; got home about dark.
29th Sunday. I went to meeting. The Bishop wished the people to learn wisdom and to attend to their
buisness and not meddle with that which did not concern them and not ask so many questions
about things which they had no buisness.
30th Cold and snowy. I went to Willow creek with Peter Manzer after a load of hay, did not get home
until after dark. there was a vote taken this morning that evry man should turn out tomorrow and
haul wood for the women whose husbands are away. the beef cattle started for the City.
December 1857
[Dec 1857 - Dispute about canyon wood; Seventies hold a feast; Another trip to SLC; Struck with
sickness while praying]
1st I hauled a load of wood for the women whose husbands are out in the mountains. I took my load
to Edcil Elmers Br Ord helped me get the load.
2nd Cool I hauled a load of dry cedar for myself to day.
3rd I staid at home to day as my oxen were tired I made two coarse combs. Mother Woolf eat
supper here.
4th [Page 211] Quite pleasant. I hauled a big load of dry cedar from the worst place that I have been
in since I have been here, but there was considerable wrangling and dispute about the kanyon this
morning at roll call, for some body had found it and was going to get the wood and somebody
else had been and cut it all, but I thought when I got there that they were quarrelling about a very
small affair.
5th Cool and windy I helped Appy butcher a steer this fore noon and helped George Sidwell make a
shed this after noon. The Bishop and council and the Presidents of Seventies had a feast this
after noon. Our boys that have been out in the mountains got home this after noon. I believe that
most of them got home soon enough for the feast to which I think they went.
6th Sunday. Cool and cloudy. I went to meeting, the time was principally occupied by the men that
have just returned from the wars, giving an account of the times they have had, etc. I weighed
177 pounds this after noon, Eliza 125.
7th Cold and snowed some I hauled a large load of dry cedars James Woolf also hauled a load.
There were a number of church mules left here for Salt Lake.
8th A little more pleasant. I have done but little to day I made a small course comb this after noon.
I had a saddle brought to me from the City by Br Dodge.
9th Cold and rather cloudy, I started this morning to go after wood but one of my oxen was so lame
that I could not go; therefor I came home and done nothing Sarah Ann and Eliza visited at
Mercy Jenkins, this after noon. Bishop Bigler started for the City this morning to attend the
Legislature.
10th Cool and cloudy I bought a bushel of salt this fore noon as there is a team here from Filmore
buying all the salt there is in the place. I worked for George Sidwell afternoon fixing his shed,
cutting willows and pitching straw etc. Snowed some this evening. I did not go to meeting to
night.
11th Cool and pleasant; I staid around home carried water to wash and mended my bridle etc.
12th Cool and cloudy. I mended my boot and Anny's shoe this fore noon and it was inspection of
arms this after noon, which took nearly all of the after noon. Thomas Bowles came in to see me
this evening he is just from the City he says that my folks are well, and that Father's youngest
wife is about to leave him. The Teachers of the Seventies came to visit me this evening and their
teachings were good.
13th Sunday. Went to meeting.
14th Snowed a good part of the day. I did not do much except buy a buckskin of Bob.
15th Snowed some I hauled a load of wood with George Sidwell's oxen, bought another skin.
16th I helped George Sidwell cover his shed most of the day.
17th Quite pleasant, I cut a lot of wood for my folks as I intend to start for the City the last of the
week. I helped George Sidwell make a gate this after noon.
18th Cool and pleasant. I herded cattle this after noon. A. Boswell's boy herded with me and he is of
but little use to herd with.
19th I started early this morning with Sam Adams to go to G. S. L. City I took two beef hides to sell
for leather. we went as far as Payson and stopped over night found wher Br Calvin (an old
acqaintance) lived; just happened into his house to leave some corn to feed when we came back.
20th Sunday. Snowed considerable this fore noon; we left Payson a little after day light and went as
far as Provo and stopped at Alexr Williams, went to meeting in the evening, heard a letter read
from Pres Snow who is a member of the legislature stating that the U.S. soldiers were very much
divided and had been fighting each other and had killed seven.
21st Left Provo before light and eat breakfast at Battle creek. we then went on to the point of the
mountain and camped, after dark.
22nd Started before light, and arrived in the City about sundown and found the folks well, went to
Bishops meeting in the City hall in the evening, where there was considerable said about dancing
and about the saints living their religion etc. I saw Bishop Bigler and he invited me to go to the
Legislature tomorrow.
23rd I attended the Legislature to day, where I heard several speeches concerning the standing army,
which is to number one thousand men, I also visited the pistol factory.
24th I spent the day in looking around the City, making sale for my hides etc.
25th Warm and pleasant. I went up in town bought a hickory shirt of Merkley for which I paid two
dollars. I eat my Christmas dinner at Father's.
26th Warm and pleasant. I took my hides up to Ames tannery and sold them for five dollars worth of
leather, I also sold five and a half bushels of wheat at one dollar pr bu. for leather.
27th Sunday. I went to meeting all day, at the tabernacle. W Woodruff, and President Brigham
Young spoke in the fore noon and Warren Snow and Pres H. C. Kimball in the after noon.
Brigham told who might dance and who not and could stand between him and his enemies and
who not etc. and Heber spoke on home manufacture. I spent the evening at Lorenzos and
Harrison Sperry's.
28th [Page 212] Cold cloudy and snowy and North wind. we started before light this morning and
arrived at Dry creek in Utah valley a little after sundown stoped with John Murdock.
29th Cold but tolerably pleasant. we started early this morning and eat breakfast at Battle creek with
James Wilson. We arrived at Springville a little after dark, and stopped with Thomas Child.
30th Cold and cloudy. started before light this morning and got home a little after 9 P.M. found my
folks well. After I had eat supper, I was praying and returning thanks to my Heavenly Father that
he had preserved my life and the lives of my family, when I began to feel sick and nearly fainted
away and should quite had not Eliza thrown water in my face. I know not what was the cause of
it unless the devil was trying to keep me from praying for when I would get ready to kneel down
again I would feel sick, but I was determined that I would pray and I did, but I was some time
before I could. I met Israel Hoyt a little after noon, and he agreed to bring my leather.
31st Cold. I did not do much, went to meeting this evening Br Adams and my self were called to the
stand to relate what we had heard while at the City which we done to the best of our ability.
January 1858
[Jan 1858 - James Woolf moves in; Israel Hoyt forgets to bring leather; Missionaries returning
from various missions; Another trip to SLC; Attended Provo theatre, gratis; Taken sick with
distemper]
1st Cold and windy. Father Woolf's family and Absaloms and mine made a dinner together and eat
in Father's house, had a first rate dinner.
2nd Cold but pleasant, I mended Eliza's shoes.
3rd Sunday, Cold, I went to meeting. Br Hill from Cottonwood and Buhanan from Sanpete
preached, also Father Miller and Geo. Kendall.
4th Cold and pleasant. I went down to the S. W. corner of the field and found one of my oxen and
drove him to the Willow creek herd, was very tired when I got home as I had to walk in the snow
where it was from two to six inches deep. I bought a large buck skin of an Indian this evening.
5th Cloudy but thawed considerable. I shelled a little corn this after noon, and went to meeting this
evening, the best seventies meeting we have had this winter
6th I had to move out of my small room to let James Woolf move in; he is now going to keeping
house as his wife and his folks do not exactly agree. I also made two shelves and put them up,
and set up the stove.
7th Warm and pleasant, I made a window frame, this afternoon.
8th Cold, cloudy and snowed a little. I helped br. Tranter thresh wheat. I took my sheep out of the
herd to day.
9th Warm, Thawed considerable. I helped Br Knowles thresh wheat, Mr Howd came back from the
City on his way home to Iron county. Some of the boys say that he has been to the City to be cut
off from the church for drinking whisky. Israel Hoyt returned from the City but he did not bring
my leather as he agreed and all the excuse he made was that he had so much load that he did not
know as he could get home; so I suppose that 8 or 10 pounds more would have hurt him.
10th Sunday, Warm and pleasant, I went to meeting. Israel Hoyt spoke as he has just returned from
the City. Br Knapp from Provo also spoke and sung a first rate song composed by a Brother in
Ogden. We are all a nodding in our Mountain home. I also went to meeting in the evening,
which was a testimony meeting, when most of the Brethern bare their testimony that Joseph
Smith was a prophet of God and Brigham Young is his lawful successor. Israel Hoyt also spoke
and made considerable pretentions that he wanted to do good in the kingdom and do all the good
he could to his brethren, etc. but I could not help thinking that he would rather do it in words than
actions for he does not like to accommodate any better than some others for I believe that he
would rather see me go to the City on purpose to get my leather than to bring it, for it would have
been no trouble to him as it was at the house where he stopped in the City, and he would have
had nothing to do but throw it into his wagon, and bring it along, but yet he says that he wants to
do all the good he can, and perhaps he does. I am not a Judge, but I like to see a mans actions
correspond with his words.
11th Cool and cloudy. I helped Charles Sperry thresh wheat all day, the Cal. mail left here this
morning for Callifornia, two U.S. teamsters with it. Br Tanner arrived from Callifornia this after
noon. Rob Rollins came with him. Cold and windy and snowy since dark.
12th I helped C. Sperry thresh this fore noon, and hauled some adobies and sand this after noon.
13th James and I topped out our chimney this after noon.
14th Cold, I done but little to day, except cut out a pair of buck skin mittens and tried to trade cows
with Morton Rollins but did not succeed.
15th Cold but pleasant, I worked making a sheep pen. O. Pratt, E. T. Benson, John Kay, John Scott, J.
Q. Cannon, and some others arrived on their way home from their various missions, of which
they gave a verry interesting account this evening and told of the persecution which the Elders
now have to endure etc. and they feel very thankful that they are once more in the valleys of the
mountains.
16th [Page 213] Cool and pleasant. The missionaries went on this morning. Br. Foot went with them
as far as Springville as they were loaded too heavy for their teams. I cut some wood as I think of
going to the City next week. Br Orson Pratt says that U.S. is sending troops to Callifornia and
that quite a number came on the same ship that he did and our brethren did not dare to know each
other on the ship nor in Callifornia.
17th Sunday. Cold but tolerably pleasant. I went with Br Isaac Grace hunting cattle to day, as we
expect to start for the City on Tuesday and it will take all of tomorrow to get ready. We found
our oxen and got home before sundown but I had a hard ride for one of my oxen was away from
the herd about three or four miles, away in the west mountains. I also drove Br Oakeys cow
home, which I found with a young calf, alone in the prarie.
18th I loaded twenty two bushels of wheat into my wagon to take to the City five bushels of which is
to pay Scrigins and three to pay for fixing my gun, the remainder to Father for borrowed wheat
and for onions etc.
19th Cold and pleasant. I started about day light this morning in company with Brs Grace and Webb,
for the City; arrived at Summit creek about sundown found the snow deep and the road bad. we
spent the evening at the house of Br Riste, sat up until near eleven oclock hearing songs by Br
Riste's daughters and Brs Evans and Braithwaite. Spent the evening very agreeably.
20th Started early this morning, stopped at noon at Spanish fork we then went to Springville and
stopped with Br McDonald.
21st Started tolerably early this morning but only went to Battle creek and stopped with Br Seely.
Abraham Boswell also stopped there on his return from the City he told us of the new bank that
is to be started and he said that there is to be fifty men to go from our place in the standing army,
but I think that is rather too large to be true.
22nd Started about six this morning, stopped for noon at the hot springs and then went a little North of
Dry creek in Salt Lake valley and camped rained some in the night, passed a great many teams
some going with tithing and some going home from the tithing. Several teams camped with us
that had been down with tithing grain.
23rd Cold and quite a snow storm this morning. we arrived in the City before noon, and got unloaded,
found Father's family well as usual.
24th Sunday, went to meeting all day, the time was occupied by Brs Benson, Pratt, Kay, and Scott,
who have just returned from missions to Europe.
25th Spent most of the day in the City. Eat supper at Lorenzos. I expected to get a hat of Mr Johnson,
but he can not finish it until ten oclock tomorrow and I cannot wait.
26th Cold and windy I started for home. Harrison Sperry started with me, taking a load of onions.
we went as far as the hot springs and stopped at the house of Mr Greene.
27th Started before light, stopped at noon at Bishop Harringtons American fork. we then went as far
as Provo, and stopped with Br Ruff, found the road very bad.
28th Started before sunrise this morning, found the road very rough from Provo to Springvill So
much so that Harry gave up going any further and stopped to sell out his load and then return
home. Br Grace over took me here and we traveled in company the remainder of the way.
Stopped for noon at Spanish fork, and then went as far as Payson, and stopped with Bishop
Hancock; attended the theatre as we were acquainted with some of the Provo Brass band that
were in attendance and they gave us tickets gratis the play was the Iron chest, concluded with
Mrs Brown or the Scolding wife. A number of teams on their way to the cotton country stopped
with us.
29th Cool. Started before light and got home a little after dark. found the folks all sick with Influenza
or distemper or something I do not know what. The cotton company stopped here. Joseph Horn
is the captain of the company. I hear that my name is down for the army.
30th Warm and pleasant. I was taken with the distemper this after noon.
31st Sunday. I have not been able to sit up any to day, have had a violent pain in my head all day and
a high fever, and yet very chilly.
February 1858
[Feb 1858 - Joining army, Samuel Cazier's ten; Preparations for war; Trip to SLC with Father
Cazier; Dispute with Br. Johnson over inadequate hat; Return to Nephi; "Dr. Osborn" from
Washington arrives in big hurry to see Brigham]
1st Cool, and cloudy. I have been rather better but very weak, went to meeting to night to make
some arrangements about the company for the army but we did but little as Capt. Maxwell was
not here therefore we adjourned until tomorrow night. I wrote a letter to Father to let him know
that I am going in the Army.
2nd I went to bed part of the day, went to meeting to night. Capt Maxwell spoke to us a short time,
the captains of tens then selected their men, I am to go in Samuel Cazier's ten.
3rd -----
4th -----
5th I helped Father a little at sowing my boots I then went out and tried my rifle. Br Heywood
arrived on his way home from preaching in the Southern Settlements. Br Weeks and daughter
also arrived from Provo I believe she intends to marry Br Hambleton if she likes him and she is
going to live there awhile to try it and if they agree then it is to be a bargain.
6th [Page 214] Warm and pleasant. The mail left here this morning for Beaver for the first time
since it has to be carried by tithing. Harvey Elmer is to carry it in the place of going in the army.
I fixed up my sheep pen this after noon, there is a meeting this evening and I expect Br J. L.
Heywood will preach. I spent the evening in writing.
7th Sunday Pleasant I went to meeting Brs. Chase, Kendall, Woolf and the Bishop spoke. Br.
Chase said that Br Case told him that Br Kimball said that he wanted all of the boys that are
going in the army to have their endowments before they go and be blessed and set apart for that
ministry etc.
8th Cold cloudy and snowed some. I helped Father some about my boots. The Cal mail left here this
morning with two U.S. teamsters as Passengers.
9th I sold a coat to George Sidwell for 250 feet of lumber.
10th Warm and pleasant I got my lumber home and commenced making a flour box Appy started
for the City this morning. The men that are for the army were called together this morning and
we found that there is only three annimals to two men and take all that are fit to go.
11th Warm and pleasant I hired Reuben Downs to finish my flour box. I took about 7 bushels of
wheat to mill I also took five baskets of corn into the grainery and cut a little wood
12th I commenced making a pair of shoes for Eliza
13th I finished Elizas shoes this after noon.
14th Sunday. I went to meeting, also went in the evening. I bought a revolver for which I gave 15 bu
of wheat and a pair of fine boots.
15th I started this morning with David Cazier to go to the City. Father Cazier and Samuel and Charles
also went we stopped at Summit creek and fed. I bought a saddle tree of Wm. Goddard, for which
I give four bushels of wheat at Salt creek. Father Cazier would have bought two, but Goddard
was going to make some of a different pattern and the old man agreed for two of them when he
comes back but I thought that I had better make sure of one while I had a chance for fear there
will be none as we come back. we stopped with Br Fairbanks at Payson, went to a meeting of the
boys that are going in the army. they are to be ready next Saturday.
16th Started early this morning, stopped for noon at Provo and then went to American fork and
stopped in the school house, found the road very mudy part of the way.
17th Rained a little this morning found the roads good, stopped for noon at Little cotton wood, met
several teams loaded with persons that have been to get their endowments previous to going in
the Standing army. I arrived in the City about three oclock, P. M. found Fathers family enjoying
tolerbly good health We met Appy Woolf this fore noon, he brought me a hat from Philo
Johnson which I paid for before I left the City and which was to be an eight dollar hat and to have
been sent to me more than a year ago and I do not know how many times he has promised it since
but he sent it at last but I would not be guilty of wearing it for it is about as open as a sponge and
is only a little boys hat, and I thought that if Johnson had been there when I got the hat, I should
have kicked his latter end. I went to two hat shops this evening to try to get a hat but did not
succeed.
18th I saw Mr Johnson this morning and asked him if he was not ashamed to send such a hat for a
man to go into the mountains with after my waiting so long and after his making so many
promises. I then told him how he was to have made it the day that I started home when I was up
before but I could not wait for it but told him that he could make it and leave it at Fathers as well
as if I waited for it and he said he would When I told him this he got angry and said it was a
falshood and called me some hard names and I slapped his fase for him when he picked up a part
of a dobie and was going to throw it at me but I think that he was affraid that he could not hit me
therefore he threw it down, but said that I would be sorry for it. I then went over to Father's and
he soon came over to tell Father and I then proved by Father and Mother what he had promised
but he said that he did not remember it. I then asked him if he was going to pay me anything that
I could turn towards another hat for if he was not then I should buy one myself. he said that
when I paid him for striking him then he would pay me. I went up in the City bought a hat at
Hooper's for which I paid two pairs of gloves and one dollar cash. I also bought a side of leather
for which I paid $6,50 cash and two and a half bu of wheat. I also traded buck skins with Father
and Lorenzo gave them two that were not tanned for two that were. Mother let me have a
blanket, to go on the road, and two pairs of garments.
19th Cloudy. I started for home this morning, stopped for noon at the hot springs we then went to
Battle creek and stopped with Br Seely.
20th Rained all day stopped at Houts mill at Spring ville for noon and then went to Summit creek
and stopped with Isaac Morley, rained very hard about sundown.
21st [Page 215] Sund. Cold cloudy rainy and mudy. I went in to Godards shop and got him to cut
out some saddle riging but he has made no saddle tree since we went down therefor Father Cazier
gets none yet, for those that he had are sold, so I hit it by taking one when I could. Got home
before night, found the folks well except Manley he fell off the hay stack and strained the cords
of his arm and I think has sprained his shoulder.
22nd I worked a little at fixing my saddle and picked some hair for girths
23rd Ammasy Lyman arrived last night about mid night with a gentleman from the City of
Washington who has come from there in a little over forty days he calls himself Dr Osborne he
travels night and day nearly and is in a great hurry to get to Brigham but tells his buisness to no
one. He is a verry small man and seems rather dellicate for he had to ride on horseback from the
house to the carriage; distance being about two or three rods, but he did not step on the ground as
it was quite wet, he wears a Scotch cap, and a mustachio. I spun some hair for girths this after
noon and went to meeting this evening and had my name enrolled in the standing army in Col
Cunninghams Battallion.
24th We were inspected this morning about 7 oclock together with our horses and guns, we made a
good appearance so the officers said. I made some synshes to day or hair girths.
25th Father Woolf got home from Beaver valley where he has been to purchase horses for the boys
that are going back on the road. he bought six, and one since he got home of S. Brown from
Filmore, this he got for me. I am to give 60 bus of wheat for her. Jacob Bushman stopped here
on his way home from Callifornia.
26th I made a pair of cottonwood stirrips for the war.
27th I scoured out my buckskins that have been tanned and traded for a bear skin of an Indian, for
which I gave a blanket, read the Massacre of the Oatman family this evening.
28th Sunday. I went to meeting this fore noon, cut out a pair of buckskin pants this after noon and
traded for a parflesche and made a bargain with a squaw to come tomorrow and make my pants
and sew them with sinew as they are very heavy skins. I expect to start for Filmore in the
morning.
March 1858
[Mar 1858 - Trip to Filmore for a mare; Dr. Osborn none other than Thomas L. Kane; Sarah Ann
gives birth - boy; Read book about the Oatman family massacre; Amasa Lyman reports no
fighting likely in the spring; Gustave Henriod copies more of journal; Men sent to Salmon River
to help after attack by Indians; Journal ends]
1st I started about half past six this morning in company with Br Baxter (a missionary lately from
Australia now on his way to Beaver) for Filmore to get a mare which Father Woolf bought of
Samuel Brown. We stopped for noon at the Sevier river. we met two wagons from
Sanbernardino Br Button and Br Mathews were with them, we reached the Cedar springs a little
before sun down stopped with Br Johnson I was very tired, to night as I have not been used to
riding and when it comes to riding 55 miles in a day on a hard trotting mule came near tireing me
out. I think I was never so tired of riding in my life, and I enjoyed a straw matress very much
although it was nearly two feet too short for me, but I rested first rate, we met the Cal mail in
round valley. the driver told us that man with the express was none other than Col Thomas L
Kane.
2nd I started before sunrise this morning and without breakfast for Filmore where I arriived about
nine oclock. I got Reuben McBride to go and get the mare. I then eat breakfast at the house of
Samuel Brown. While I was waiting for the mare I went around the city which would be but
little if the court house was taken away I also went to the tannery and tried to buy some leather
but could not for they did not want to be troubled with little dabs of wheat so far from home but
yet they pretend that they wanted to accommodate but I plainly saw that they wanted to be well
paid for it and be accommodated besides for if I could pay sheep then I could get leather,
although they wanted wheat yet, that they could get at home. I came to the conclusion that Mr
Hoyt the proprietor was like a good many others, that is all that he has is for building up the
kindom until it is called for and then it cannot go even when people offer to pay for it, this I find
is too often the case. I started back to the Cedar springs a little after sunset and arrived there
before bed time a distance of ten miles, Stopped with Br Johnson, again.
3rd I eat some bread and milk and started about sun rise for home I rode my mare to the Sevier
where I stopped for noon and fed the oats that I cached here when I went down. I stopped here
about an hour, and then mounted my mule and started and got home before sun down.
4th Fast day. I went to meeting had a very good meeting the Bishop gave the men that use the
Indian Showup a whipping and thought that it was more filthy than tobacco, and wished they
would stop it and if not, then change their clothes before they come to meeting so that they would
not stink so etc.
5th I had a son born this morning by Sarah Ann, born two or three minutes before four oclock
weighted 9 3/4 pounds, I did but little work to day.
6th Pleasant. I made a bench for my clock reel, this fore noon I went and looked at my land found
rather wet for plowing I then went and found my oxen near the west mountain and drove them
up. Brs Heywood and Wandall arrived this evening, Kanosh the Pauvante chief also arrived
from GSL.
7th [Page 216] Sunday warm and pleasant I went to meeting this fore noon Brs Heywood and
Wandall preached Br Wandall gave us a very interesting discourse on the pollitical affairs of the
world but more particularly of the United States and their present movements towards this people
and he appears to be very well posted in the affairs of the world and his being quite an orator
made his discourse very interesting to me. I have been reading a small book entitled the captivity
of the Oatman girls. it is a thrilling and heart rending account of the massacre of the Oatman
family by the Apache Indians and the narrow escape of Lorenzo the oldest son who was left for
dead after having his head severly cut with a club and thrown off a precipice and the captivity of
the two girls, Olive and Mary Ann and the Starvation of Mary ann among the Mohave Indians
where they were sold by the Apaches and Olives final escape, and return to her Brother. These
are Charles Sperry's sisters children.
8th Warm and pleasant. I commenced work in my garden I harrowed it over three times. I let
Father Woolf have the mare that I got at Filmore as she did not suit me. I let him have her for the
same as I gave.
9th I helped George Sidwell haul straw from out of his coral, where we stacked it last fall.
10th Very warm Eliza and I planted some peas, raddishes, onions, lettuce etc. Ammasy Lyman
returned from the City and preached this evening he thinks there will be no fighting for us this
summer.
11th I commenced plowing for wheat. I sowed about an acre and plowed in. Ammasy brings word
that two men at Salmon river have been killed by the Indians and five wounded and nearly all of
the cattle driven off, and the Mountaineers were at the head of it. The names of the killed were
McBride and Miller.
12th Cold and rainy I done nothing. The mail carrier says that there are two hundred men going to
Echo kanyon and one hundred to Salmon river.
13th Cold and cloudy, I plowed about an acre. Snowed and hailed some.
14th Sunday Cold and snowy rained considerable last night I stopped at home. I named my boy
Walter Henry, after two of my uncles. N. wind, snowing fast at bed time
15th The snow was about a foot deep this morning and drifted very much, it was between two and
three feet deep in front of my house, and it snowed nearly all day, four men (viz Israel Hoyt, Eli
Randall, Edcil Elmer, and Guy Foot) started out South to meet Harvey Elmer (the one that carries
the mail from here to Filmore) to help him in as he has a span of small mules and the storm has
been so severe and the snow drifted so that we were affraid that he would not be able to get in
they met him about 14 miles out, he left his wagon and one mule in round valley, near 40 miles
from home and walked most of the way and drove his mule. Israel Hoyt went on after his mule
and the rest returned when they met Harvey; Israel stopped with Mr Adair and John Mourey a
little S. of Chicken creek, they are on their way to the cotton country.
16th Cold, snowed this after noon. I stayed in the house as it was too snowy to be out. George
Kendall sent in word from Willow creek that he wanted help to get home as his team is weak, he
has been to GSL
17th Snowed nearly all day. I worked making a pair of buckskin pants I hired Gustave Henriod to
write for me, copying my old journal into my new one.
18th Snowed again to day, but the sun came out a little this after noon, I commenced making a pair of
shoes for Sarah Ann, Gustave wrote for me.
19th Thawed some to day. I have done but little to day, read a little and took Sarah Ann and Eliza and
the children out sleigh riding a little while this after noon with Appy's team. Gustave wrote.
20th Warm and pleasant I finished Sarah Ann's shoes, Gustave wrote for me.
21st Sunday. Warm and pleasant. I went to meeting this fore noon. Bishop Bigler spoke a short time
and then called on J. D. Chase to speak on the book of Mormon. He made some excellent
remarks, compared the writings in the Bible with those in the book of Mormon, etc. Father
Miller also made a few remarks The Bishop then made a few remarks on the word of wisdom
and the necessity of the presidents of quorums setting a good example for the members etc.
Father Woolf had a son born about one oclock p.m. this is their twelfth child and eighth boy. I
recd a letter from Mother and Father Brown, they write that there had a company of 132 men had
gone to Salmon river to help the men in from there as the Indians have drove off their cattle, and
killed Brs McBride & Miller and wounded five others; also that 50 men went out East on the 12th
inst. and there were more to go on the 15th. There was a white man by the name of J. H. Powell
with the Indians that helped drive the cattle and kill the men.
22nd Snowed nearly all night and all of the fore noon the mail carrier started for the City on horse
back but could not see to follow the road, and returned. I spent the day in reading and writing.
Sunday, warm and pleasant.
[(End of Entries)]
Index of Individuals
(Note: This is not a completely literal index. Some names have been combined into one entry where it
was obvious the same person was being referenced. Homer's father and mother are nearly always
referred to as "Father" and "Mother" in the journal, but I have listed them as "Benjamin Brown" and
"Sarah Mumford". Homer's wife Sarah Ann is listed here as Sarah Ann Woolf. His second wife is
listed as Eliza Woolf, Hannah Eliza Woolf, and Mrs. Brown. Homer's brother-in-law, Absalom Woolf
is often referred to as "Appy", but the index lists him only as Absalom. Homer's friend Harrison Sperry
is referred to as Harry, but is listed in the index as Harrison. It is hoped that these and other not-so-
literal modifications to the index will make it easier to find individuals. At least you have an index!)
, Ammon (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
, Arrapeen (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124, 128, 139
, Baptiste (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
, Bob (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .149, 159
, George (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
, Jim (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
, Kanosh (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
, Migo (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128, 154
, Phillip (Indian) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
, Walker (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2, 83
,Squash Head (Indian). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Adair, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Adams, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Adams, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Adams, S. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Adams, Sam.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154, 159
Adams, Saml. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Adams, Samuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Addoms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88, 91
Alan, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Alaxander, H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78
Alexander, Horace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71, 72
Alexander, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13, 105
Allen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Allen, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Allen, Geo.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
Allen, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17, 75
Allen, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 31, 33, 66
Alley, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29, 65
Alley, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30, 66
Alley, Stephen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Allred, R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Allred, Redick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Alred, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Ames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Ames, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49, 53, 54, 58, 62, 65, 66
Andrews, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Andrews, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Andrews, Miloe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Andrews, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Andruss, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Andruss, Miloe (Capt.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Angel, (Capt.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
Anthony, Lovet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Anthony, Susan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Appleby, Wm. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Ashby, Benjamin. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Ashton, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Avery, Cyrus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98, 99, 102, 105
Avery, Mary R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Babbit, A. W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50, 52, 92
Babbit, Almon W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Babbitt, A. W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Bader, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bailey, Charlette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Bailey, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73, 75
Barker, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100, 101
Barker, Harriet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58, 100, 101
Barker, Jane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Barker, Mary Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Barker, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
Barlow, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Barrowman, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Basset, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Batemen, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Bates, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59, 66
Bates, Ormus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Baxter, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Beatie, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Beatie, H. S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Beatie, Marion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84, 105
Beatie, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43, 118, 144
Beatie, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Beatie, Sydney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Beckstead, (Father). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63
Beckstead, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Benson, E. T.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 73, 115, 161, 162
Benson, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Bernhisel, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Bewel, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Bezzant, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Bigalow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Bigalow, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34
Biglar, (Bishop) . . . . . 121, 122, 125, 129, 132, 133, 136, 138, 149
Biglar, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84, 85
Bigler, (Bishop) . . . . . . . .137, 140, 146, 150, 151, 159, 160, 167
Biglow, (Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Biglow, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Binnall, C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Birch, Esther. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Bird, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Bird, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54, 55, 57-60, 101
Bishop, Gladden. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Bitterfield, Abel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Black, W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Blair, Seth M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Blazard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40, 84
Blazard, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40, 50, 51, 58
Blazzard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Blazzard, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Bleazzard, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Booth, Edwin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Boswell, A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51, 142, 146, 150, 159
Boswell, Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44, 79, 89, 120, 162
Boswell, Absalom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Bowles, Enoch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151-153, 156
Bowles, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Bowman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Boyington, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Bradley, (Judge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Bradley, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Bradley, Geo.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Bradley, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Bradley, Jude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Bradley, Malinda . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Bradly, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Braithwaite, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Bridger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Bridger, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Briggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Brims, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
Brown, Benjamin2-10, 13-18, 25-30, 32, 33, 36-40, 42, 43, 47, 49-55, 58-61, 65, 67, 70, 72-79, 82,
87, 91, 93, 96-107, 109, 110, 113-116, 118, 123, 124, 130, 132, 134, 143, 144, 155, 159,
160, 162-164, 167
Brown, Benjamin (Benny). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93, 155, 157
Brown, Benny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 157
Brown, Eliza H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Brown, Frances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Brown, H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12, 39, 49
Brown, Homer . . . . . . . . . . .10, 16, 22, 42, 48, 69, 93, 136, 147
Brown, John Anthony. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Brown, Lorenzo2-6, 8-10, 13-15, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 37, 47, 49-56, 58-68, 71, 73, 75-79, 82-89, 91,
93-95, 97, 99, 102, 105, 107, 112-117, 122, 128, 132, 137, 144, 152, 155, 160, 162, 164
Brown, Manley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142, 165
Brown, Manly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Brown, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Brown, S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Brown, Samuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165, 166
Brown, Walter Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Bryan, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Bryant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Bryon, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Buel, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Buhanan, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Bullard, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Bullock, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .112, 116
Bundy, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Bundy, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42, 43, 68
Bunker, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Burchall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Burchall, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Burgess, Harrison. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Burns, Robert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33, 38
Burton, Robbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Busby, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Bushman, (Sister). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Bushman, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Bushman, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Bushman, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25, 27, 34
Button, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Cahoon, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Cahoon, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Cahoon, Mahonri. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Cahoon, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Cahoon, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Cahoon, Wm F.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69
Calkins, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Calvin, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Cameron, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Canada, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Candland, David. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Cannon, J. Q.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Cannon, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39, 40, 52
Case, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Casper, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Cazier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Cazier, (Father) . . . . . . . . . . 126, 130, 131, 137, 156, 164, 165
Cazier, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Cazier, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Cazier, Chas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
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Cazier, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 122, 125, 141
Cazier, Rosannah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 137
Cazier, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126, 149
Cazier, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163, 164
Chase. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 62, 68
Chase, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Chase, J. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
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Clapp, B. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121, 124
Clapp, Benjn.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Clawson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Clawson, H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Clawson, Hellen (Helen). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Clawson, Margaret (Mrs.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65
Clawson, Moses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Clements, Gilbert G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Clinton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Clinton, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
Cloward, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Cole, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Colton, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Coltrin, H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Coltrin, H. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21, 22
Coltrin, Henry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24, 30, 37, 57
Coltrin, Henry Clay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Coltrin, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17, 24
Colwell, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Condy, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Condy, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62, 72, 74
Condy, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Conklin, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Cook, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Cooly (Cooley), Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Corless, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Corless, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
Corliss, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Covert, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Crosby, Ann (Mrs). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Crosby, Fanny. . . . . . .14, 17, 64, 93, 105, 116, 121, 134, 155, 156
Crosby, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 79, 94
Crosby, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Crosby, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Cummins, Cornelius . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147, 148
Cunningham, (Col.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Cuthbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Cuthbert, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70, 78, 79, 83-85, 87, 127
Davis, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Davis, Johnathan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Day, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Dayton, Hyrum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Dayton, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Deaker, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Decker, Clark. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Deming, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Dickson, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33, 68, 69
Dixon, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Dixson, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Dockstader (Dogkstader), Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31, 64
Dodge, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Domvill, Miss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Donallan (Donaldan), John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97, 102
Dotson, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Downs, Reuben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Dresser, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Dumvill, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Dunbar, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Dunn, S. A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Duzette, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Edwards, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106, 113
Edwards, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Edwards, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Edwards, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Eelmer, Edciil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Ellis, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Ellis, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Ellis, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Elmer, Edcil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158, 167
Elmer, Edsil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127-133
Elmer, Harvey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163, 167
Elsworth, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Empey, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Empey, Nelson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Ensign, M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Evans, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Evans, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Ewing, Adaline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Ewing, Adeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Ewing, Mary A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Ewing, Mary Adaline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Ewing, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 34, 134
Fairbanks, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123, 164
Farnham, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Fellows, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148, 149
Ferguson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86
Fisher, James. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47
Fleming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86, 89
Fleming, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86-89
Flemming, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82, 84, 88
Foot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 149
Foot, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125, 126, 131, 136, 161
Foot, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Foot, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139, 142
Foot, Chas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139, 144, 145
Foot, Guy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Foot, T. B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146, 148
Foot, Timothy B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Foote, Chas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Foresyth, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Fox, Jesse W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Fox, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Free, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Fulmer, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116, 121
Fulmer, P. S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Gad, (Sister). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Gad, A.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Gad, Alfred. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148-152
Gaddard, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Gallop, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50, 71, 83, 86
Gardner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 66, 68, 71, 73, 98
Gardner, Elias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Gardner, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3, 63, 64, 129
Gardner, R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Garner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Gates, J. C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Gilbert. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123, 155
Glover, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Godard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Goddard, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Goddard, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 164
Goldsmith, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15-18
Golightly, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Grace, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Grace, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Graham, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Graham, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Grant, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 72, 73
Grant, J.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 86
Grant, J. M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54, 116, 118
Grant, Jeddediah M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114, 123, 125
Grant, Jedediah. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Grant, Jedediah M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Greene, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Greenig, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110, 112
Greenig, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110, 112
Greenig, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Gregory, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78, 80, 93-96
Gregory, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Grey, (widow). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97
Grover, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Grundy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48
Gunnelson, (Lieutenant). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Hackerday, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Haight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 13
Hait . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Haladay, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Hales, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Hales, Charley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Hambleton, (Sister). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Hambleton, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Hambleton, Lucy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126, 138-140
Hambleton, M. D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Hamilton, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79, 111
Hancock, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Hanks, Ephraim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Harney, (Gen.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Harper, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Harrington, (Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Harrington, (Sister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Harris, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94
Hart, (Doct.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Harvey, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Hatch, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66, 71
Hatch, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 15
Hatch, P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44
Hawkins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Hawkins, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Hayte. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Henriod, Gustave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136, 140, 167
Henry, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Heywood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Heywood, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163, 166
Heywood, J. L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Heywood, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 48
Heywood, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45
Hickman, Bill. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Hickman, Jefferson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Higby, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Hill, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144, 160
Hill, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60, 65, 67, 81
Hirst, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Hirst, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70, 75, 107
Hoagland, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Hoffines, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Hoit, Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Hoit, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46
Holden, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Holden, Wm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Holiday, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Holladay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 71
Hollbrook, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Holman, (Major). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Holman, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Hooper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122, 155, 164
Hooper, (Capt.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74, 109
Hooper, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Horn, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Hout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Houtz, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Hovey, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Hovey, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Howard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Howd, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Hoyt, Israel . . . . . . . . . . .25, 102, 103, 126-128, 160, 161, 167
Hoyt, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Hoyt, Timothy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141, 146
Hunt, (Captain). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14, 15
Hunter, (Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80, 90, 91, 94
Huntin, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Huntington, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Huntington, Wm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Hurt, Dr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Hutchison, Jacob . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Hyde, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66, 132
Hyde, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Hyde, O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61, 66
Hyde, Orson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 6, 61, 77, 132, 155
Hyder, (widow) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Hyder, C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Hyder, M.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Hyder, Martha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38
Hyder, Miss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 32
Hyder, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33, 39, 40, 75
Hyder, Sarah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38, 39
Hyder, Sarah E.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Jackman, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Jackson, (General) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Jackson, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Jakes, (Miss). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Jeffres, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Jenkins, (Brother) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Jenkins, Mercy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Jenkins, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Jenkins, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43, 94, 99, 108
Jinkins, Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58
Jinkins, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27, 31, 32, 40, 41, 66
Jinkins, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Jinkins, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Jinkins, Thomas. . . . . . 13, 31, 52, 62, 66, 71, 73, 78, 80, 84, 107
Johnson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Johnson, (Col.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .156, 157
Johnson, Benjn.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Johnson, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165, 166
Johnson, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 9, 14, 52, 60, 64, 65, 71, 162
Johnson, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Johnson, Philo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58, 164
Jones, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Jones, Jessy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Jones, John. . . . . . 56, 60, 62, 63, 65-72, 74-79, 82-84, 86, 87, 95
Jones, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 62
Jones, N. V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Judd, Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Kane, Thomas L. (Col.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Kay, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .161, 162
Kelly, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Kemp, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Kemp, Chas.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Kempton, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Kendall, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127, 132, 142, 163
Kendall, Geo.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145, 146, 150, 160
Kendall, George. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Kendall, Wm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Kienke, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147, 154, 158
Kimball, (Pres.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Kimball, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75, 112, 116, 119, 163
Kimball, H. C. . . . . . . . .3, 13, 54, 57, 61, 71, 86, 118, 123, 160
Kimball, Heber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 110, 114, 120
Kimball, Heber C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18, 101, 137, 160
Kimball, Hiram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Kimball, James I.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Kimball, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Kimball, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 96
Kinkead. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56, 60, 88
Kirkman, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Knapp, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Knigts, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Knowles, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Knowlton, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4, 6, 14, 76
Lamb, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Lambert, Chas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Lamsn, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Lamson, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Leang, (Sister). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Leang, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Leslie, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81
Lewis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Lewis, B.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Lewis, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102, 121
Lewis, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63, 65, 70
Linforth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Liston, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Little . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
Little, J. C.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109, 121
Little, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57, 78
Livingston . . . . . . . . . . 56, 58, 60, 70, 71, 78, 87-89, 136, 137
Loomis, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Lorenzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Love, (Sister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Love, A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Love, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 77, 97, 111, 131, 136, 147
Love, Caleb. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Love, Elizabeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 136
Love, Mr.. . . . . 4, 9, 10, 25, 29, 34-36, 43, 44, 46, 49, 51, 56, 67
Love, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Luce, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48, 51
Lyman, Amasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Lyman, Ammasy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165-167
Lynch, Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Maddison, Flora. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Maiben, (Sister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95, 117
Maiben, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90, 91, 95, 97, 117, 119
Maiben, H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Maiben, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Major, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Mangum, J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Manzer, Peter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157, 158
Mathews, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Mattison, Frank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Mattison, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28, 65, 93, 94
Maxwell, (Capt.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Mcallister, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
McArthur, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57, 58, 79
Mcarthur, Perry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
McBride, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130, 167
McBride, Reuben. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
McCabe, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
McClan, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
Mcdonald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
McDonald, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Mcdonels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
McGaw, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Mckenzie, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
McKinzie, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
McLelon, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Mcpherson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
Mcpherson, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Meeks, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Merkley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Merrick, Newton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Middleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Middleton, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106, 110
Middleton, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Middleton, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108, 109
Midelton, Eliza (Mrs.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128, 167
Miller, (daughter) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Miller, (Father) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125, 167
Miller, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125, 126, 131, 137, 152, 167
Miller, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30, 46, 133
Miller, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 125, 133-136
Miller, Elizabeth (Mrs.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36
Miller, Father . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Miller, Josiah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133, 136, 140
Miller, Miles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92, 133-136, 141, 158
Miller, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 45, 51
Mogo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Mogo, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Morley, (Father) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Morley, Isaac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Morris, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Moseley, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Moseley, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Mosely, Elizabeth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Mosely, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 32
Mosley, (Mary's mother). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Mosley, Mary . . 12, 18, 26-28, 30, 32, 33, 50, 52, 58, 59, 61, 73, 85
Mosley, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40, 50
Mosley, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76
Mourey, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Mumford, (Uncle) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108, 144
Mumford, Charles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 53, 54
Mumford, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65, 67
Mumford, Josephine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 15, 20
Mumford, Marion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Mumford, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 13, 29
Mumford, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Mumford, Sarah4, 8, 18, 28, 29, 33, 36, 38, 39, 43, 45, 51, 53, 55, 56, 59, 61, 63-65, 68, 69, 76, 79,
80, 82, 89-91, 93, 94, 96, 100, 103, 106, 107, 113, 114, 134, 144, 147, 155, 164, 167
Mumford, Walter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26, 59
Murdock, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Murdock, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .157, 160
Murdock, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Murdock, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Murry, Carlos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Naisbitt, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Naisbitt, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Nash, Isaac. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Needham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Needham, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Needham, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64, 101
Neff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Neibaur, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Nethercott, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Nixon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Nixon, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88, 89, 118
Noble, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Oakey, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128, 162
Oatman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165, 166
Oatman, Lorenzo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Oatman, Mary Ann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Oatman, Olive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Obanion, James . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Ord, (Sister). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Ord, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128, 136, 153, 158
Ord, Thomas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Orton, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Orton, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 17, 18
Osborne, Dr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Pace, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Packard, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Packton, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Palmer, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37, 39
Parker, Dr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10, 13, 26, 33, 43
Parker, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Parker, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60, 61
Parry, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Patrige, Edward. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Patterson, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15, 18, 23
Paul, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Paul, Edmund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Paul, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Paxton, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Peck, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61
Peirce, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Peirson, Jedson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Peneton, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Perkins, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94, 118, 121
Perkins, Andy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Pettigrew, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Phelps, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18
Phelps, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1, 3
Phelps, W. W.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 123, 125
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Picton, (Adjutant) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
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Pitchfort, Samuel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Pitchforth, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 148
Pitchforth, Mercy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
Pitchforth, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Porter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Potter, Wm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91
Powell, J. H.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
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Pratt, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 66
Pratt, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67, 70, 71
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Pratt, Orson . . . . . . . . . .25, 32, 36, 54, 55, 112, 115, 116, 161
Pratt, Orson (Sen.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Pratt, Orson Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33
Pratt, P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
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Pratt, Parley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89
Pratt, Parley P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
Preece, (little girl). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Preece, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Preece, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, 61, 66, 110
Preece, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8, 16, 41
Proctor, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Pugh, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98, 99
Pullen, Frank. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58-60, 117, 118
Pulsifer, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Pypeer, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Quayle, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .85
Raighley, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
Raimond, A. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80
Ramsey, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Randall, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Randall, Eli . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Randall, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 60, 66, 83, 95
Rane, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Reec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Reece. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55, 57, 63, 73
Reece, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54, 55
Reese. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64, 91
Reily, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Reynolds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Rhodabanks, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Rice, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
Rich, C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Rich, Charles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44, 51
Rich, Chas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Richards, Dr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Richards, F. D.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Richards, Phineas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60, 64
Richards, Samuel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Richards, Willard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Richards, Willard (Dr.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Ricks, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Rigby, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16, 26
Riser, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Riste, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Robberts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Robbins, Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69, 127
Robinson, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Robison, Jack. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Rockwell, O. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109, 117
Rockwood, A. P.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Rockwood, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Rocwell, O. P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
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Rudd, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87, 88
Ruff, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Russell, Daniel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
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Sabina, Henry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Sabines, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Saddler, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Savory, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58, 60
Scott. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
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Scott, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
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Scriggings, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Scriggins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142, 145
Scriggins, Eliza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Scriggins, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138, 141
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Scrigings, Maryann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Scrigins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140, 145, 154, 155, 162
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Sharps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Shelmerdine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
Sherwood, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56
Shirtleff, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90
Sidwell, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
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Simmons, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Singleton. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
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Singleton, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109, 110
Skeins, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Smith, (Father). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .43
Smith, (Judge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .96
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Smith, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
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Smith, Geo. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
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Smith, Hyrum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Smith, James (Colonel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32, 33
Smith, John (Father) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13, 58, 59
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Smoot, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Snarrs, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Snow, (Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124, 133
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Snow, Zerubbable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Snyder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81, 82, 85, 99
Snyder, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83
Snyder, S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Spaulding, Ira . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
Speirs, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18, 22
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Weiler, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55, 57
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Wells, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Wells, Edy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Wells, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Wells, Samantha. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52
Westwood, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Wheeler, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55
Whitehouse, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150, 151
Whitehouse, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150, 151
Whitney, (Bishop). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Wilkes, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Wilkes, Catherine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Wilkie, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136, 157
Williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98-103, 122
Williams, (Bishop) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94, 99
Williams, Alexander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .79, 92
Williams, Alexr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Williams, Eliza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134, 155
Williams, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5, 112
Williams, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 112
Williams, Robert (Bob) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Williams, T. S.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106, 109
Williams, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3, 8, 118
Willie, (Sister) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Willis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Willis, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 16, 90
Willis, William. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
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Winchester, Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66
Winder, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100, 121
Wines, Leonard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40
Winter, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83, 84
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Wood, Harriet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108, 109, 121, 137-140
Wood, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Woodbury, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9, 10, 30, 118
Woodbury, Orin (Orrin) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45, 46, 50, 68
Woodbury, Stilman (Stillman) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118, 139
Woodland, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Woodland, T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Woodland, Wm.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104, 117
Woodruff, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, 135
Woodruff, Mr.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 18, 64
Woodruff, W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 71, 160
Wooley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Wooley, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Woolf, (Esq.). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Woolf, (Father)59, 60, 62, 64, 86, 92, 110-112, 114-116, 120, 122, 124-127, 129-131, 137-139, 141,
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Woolf, (Mother). . . . . . . . . . . 100, 111, 120, 130, 138, 139, 158
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Woolf, Andrew. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .138, 139
Woolf, Br. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152, 163
Woolf, Eliza111, 115, 117, 119-122, 125, 126, 130, 133, 136, 137, 139, 141, 142, 144, 145, 147, 148,
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Woolf, Hannah Eliza. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70
Woolf, Harriet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 156
Woolf, Isaac . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124, 133, 137-139
Woolf, James35, 46, 122-127, 136-139, 141, 144-146, 152, 153, 157, 159, 161
Woolf, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138-140
Woolf, Lucy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Woolf, Mr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 34, 36, 44-46, 48, 56, 58, 64
Woolf, Phebe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Woolf, Sarah Ann34, 38, 45, 48, 51, 52, 55, 56, 58, 59, 61, 65, 67, 69, 73-75, 77, 86, 89, 94-96, 98-
104, 107-110, 112-119, 121, 122, 125, 127, 130, 136, 139, 141-145, 153, 156, 159, 166,
167
Woolf, William . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111, 112
Woolley, R.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Wright, Br.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95, 140
Young, Brigham2-6, 8, 10, 13-17, 43, 46, 52, 53, 57, 66, 68-70, 73-75, 77, 82, 85, 86, 99-103, 109,
110, 112, 114, 116-121, 123, 128, 135, 139, 143, 152, 154, 158, 160, 161, 165
Young, John. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2, 57, 118
Young, Joseph. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7, 120, 141, 142, 155
Young, Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71
Young, Mrs.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Young, Phineas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86