| Show HANDCART VETERAN DEAD Nephi April Gadd a hand handcart handcart handcart cart veteran of 1836 died at his home borne in Nephi Tuesday morning Mardi March 30 lB after arter an Illness n of short abort duration The cause of ofUs Us his death dea l was w a severe BeveN Lase lale of la In grippe followed by other complications Alfred Gadd was born at Orwell Cam England July Jul K and Joined the Church Chur h of Jesus Je us Christ of latter Lat 1st ter as Saints October 1 7 1855 and was confirmed a member r of the church the same day clay by his hit father who was then presiding eWer elder of f that branch On May 4 4 1116 be he set Mt sail Ail for America with Ills his fathers rathers family on the ship Thornton landing In New York July 14 II From there the family went ent direct to Iowa lows which was wae then the gathering place of the saints Mints preparatory to making the be trip across the t plains Shortly after landing landingin in Iowa towa the tilt family Joined Captain J U G band hand cart company and started for Utah rth After a tramp of liCO 1150 miles they landed in Salt Lake Luke City Utah in InN November vember N of ot 1896 1851 It If te is an h admitted fact that Captain company during its It trip across the plains suffered as great groat if not greater privations than vy my VI company that made d the trip during durin the early days The eom resi pany numbered fie 2 souls when they start tart started started ed and when they reached Salt Lake City they had lost lest of their num sum number numbu sumber ber bu Bach Rach per o i a as allowed ten tell tellof ounces of our flour per day to subsist sub on The TIle In Indians Indians were pre continually bothering them and they stole stoic over oer half the oxen the little company started with Sickness preyed upon noon them and every nery that was WIll able ble had to t pun pull his sick neighbor r in bin hie II tha the ha early part M of AI of boa the tM PItt trip I able ble had to t pun pull his sick neighbor r in bin hie II tha the ha early part M of AI of boa the tM PItt trip cart During Mr Cr Gadd burled buried Ms his father and one of or his bUt brothers on the bank of the old Platte river and aDd as U the Journey was wu about at atan atan atan an end they w wre re overtakes overtaken overta with it a great rest t snowstorm and had it not been for the tile assistance aa sent out from Salt Luke Lake CUr t the little company would W uW have baTe perished In this thill great vt snowstorm Mr II Gad Gadd had the be sorrowful experience of n an another another other brother by b the roadside The deceased came to Nephi ta In Novem November N ber her of l 1 and has bas resided here e ever since He served In the tile Black Hawk war and has baa had bad a great deal del to do with the settling and building bulldis up of In lS he was waa again called upon upu to cloas CJ the plains this time these with ox ax teams tea to bring a company of at immigrants across i After his hi bl return from this trip he met and married Mary MAlT Hobbs Hobbe January M 10 SM In UM he was railed rafted to Great Britain on a mission and bad bed the privilege p of crossing the plains a third time Ume hut but this lime time be rode In hi a Pullman car Mr Ir Ga Gain in in relating the story of his life Ufe to his children used to contrast the between the three trips trIptI he made e the plains In he hf pulled a hand haH cart can and in imi eight tit years later inter he ho drove a aspan aspan span of oxen os en and nd hi In II t thirty years yean after he made the trip on a tram team Mr Gadd has always been a staunch aulICh Latt Saint from the time he lIP Joined the church and has ev e erse r h b been n ready aim aDd willing to make any an ny sacrifice for oe his ilia re religion ligion lidon en two days da before Mf Ms hiS demise although a very sick man be he arose a hi is Ms Ida bed and bore the strongest testimony of o ohis his hili life to his family faral exhorting them to is remain true to their covenants to the Lord Tie Tte P e deceased leaves a widow and four foar fourson son and t two to o daughters The funeral will trill willbe willbe be held Id a th tb the S g cond mj nard ard meeting m house home Saturday Saturn at t H ii o 0 lock clock a m in |
