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Show Thursday, 20, 2006 Page 5 The Gunnison Valley Gazette Celebrating our Pioneer Heritage John Buchanan honored This story is reprinted with permission from author, Karen W. Jensen of Centerfield. It originally ran in the June 2006 issue of the Buchanan Banner. John Buchanan has many descendants in the Gunnison Valley. John Buchanan was born in Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky, a son of John Buchanan and Nancy Ann Bache on 25 Jan 1825. John married Adeline Coons on 23 Feb 1851. He married Sarah Wilkinson 28 Apr 1866. The family settled in Manti and was one of the early Pioneers of the area. They suffered many of the hardships of that day. As the pioneers came west John was then the oldest brother in the home. So when Captain Allen from the United States Army approached them and asked the company for 500 men to fight for the U.S. in the Mexican War. John joined in what was known as the Mormon Battalion and he was listed as a Corporal in Company D. He left his family at Mt. Pisgah in Iowa and they marched on to Santa Fe, New Mexico where many of the company had taken ill. The officers decided to send those that were ill to Pueblo, Colorado and assigned John who was also ill to be a guard and aid for this small detachment. While in New Mexico on FOLLOW THE DAY-TO-DAY TREK OF THE Martin & IViCCie HANDCART The places traveled are divided into six categories: (1) Liverpool to New York City (2) New York City to Iowa City (3) Iowa City to The year 2006 marks Florence, Nebraska Territhe sesquicentennial of the tory, (4) Florence, to Fort Martin and Willie Handcart Laramie, Nebraska TerritoCompanies treks to the Salt ^ _ ^ ^ ry, (5) Fort Laramie Lake Valley. These, ^•^/Jyj to Sixth Crossing faithful Saints made of the Sweetwater the journey to the River, Nebraska Valley pulling handWillie : Territory, and (6) carts and walking, 'JSisterMla, '•} Sixth Crossing of enduring some of ' ' was delivered 6f it spti. the Sweetwater the greatest hardWisterfflla* made the River to Great Salt ships of all the piointpregnant, Lake City. neers who followed Whether sea Brigham Young's sickness, cramped call to gather in the ::She had her "trains, hot and huWest. In an attempt before thec^rnpat].ye^p^enGe<i this mid days of waling, to bring some of the ..-, fatal ascejpd of Rocky Ridge. ,•.,or harsh winter personal daily expeMiraculously, both Ella and bapy storms on a reduced riences of the Willie Jacob survived the fi food supply, these Company to meminto Salt Lakc'Ciiy. Saints experienced bers of the Church almost every kind and other interested of physical of physviewers, BYU Studa wide range of previously ical trial imaginable. ies has produced a day-by- overlooked sources, includday web chronology of the ing Daughters of Utah PioThis chronology of the trek, based on research by neers, state historical soci- Willie-Handcart Company Paul D. Lyman, eventually eties, newspapers, railway will give new insights into to be compiled in a book maps, congress reports, and the experiences and hardpublished by BYU Studies. John Dickerson's territorial ships ofthese faithful Saints. Their stories and events will On the website www. surveys. handcart.byu.edu, viewers On the webpage, you strengthen your testimony can follow the Saints day- will see a summary for that and understanding as you by-day on their journey, specific day along with in- access the new, fuller confrom the Willie Company formation from original text. To have daily events Journal, as well as brief documents. From there you emailed directly to you, conbyustudies@byu.edu summaries pulled from can click to see entries orga- tact other journals and sources. nized day by day, by month or visit the website: www. handcart.byu.edu Entries include links to full- or by place. Reprinted with permission from Kelsey Lambert, author. the battalion march, John wore out his shoes and was compelled to travel barefoot over the hot sand and lava beds. Gangrene developed in the resulting wounds and was considered to have contributed to his death years later. As spring approached, the entire camp was anxious to go on. Eleven of the men were assigned to go ahead of them and cut a passage out for those to follow. These eleven men were responsible for the "Mormon Trail" in the vicinity of Laramie, Wyoming. John was one of these eleven men. John Buchanan is listed on the "This is the Place" Monument near Emigration Canyon as being among the first 147 to enter the Salt Lake Valley. Sometime later John left with Brigham Young and several other church leaders to travel back to Iowa to join the remaining Saints and escort them to the Salt Lake Valley. When they arrived at Mt. Pisgah late in October, 1847 John had been away from his family for 15 months. John and Adeline had eleven children, eight survived to adulthood. John and S^rah had eight children, the last two died in infancy and their second child died at age five. John Buchanan died October 11, 1897 at the age of seventy-two in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah. He was buried on October 14, 1897 in the Manti City Cemetery. text journals and accounts, including the diaries of William Woodward and Levi Savage, and an account by John Chislett, written some years after they arrived in Salt Lake. 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