Show ONLY 18 REMAIN OUT OF PIONEER GROUPS OF 1 1847 J Eight Survivors Survivors' of Valiant Bands Make Homes in City and County v By JACK THOMAS Eight survivors s of ot the pioneers who entered Salt Lake valley during 1847 still make their home in Salt Lake City ity and county Throughout the west vet are scattered ten en other survivors These 18 aged persons 11 lie women and nd seven men arc are all that remain of f the more than 2000 pioneers who had lad reached the valley by the close cloie of f 1847 The 87 years since Brigham Young said aid This is the place have taken steady eady toll of the hardy men and courageous women who labored to tomake tomake tomake make the desert like a arose rose ose Salt Lake City is home to six survIvors survivors sur- sur ivors Mrs Melissa Jane Lambson Davis 87 Joseph U. U Eldredge 91 Dl Mrs drs D. D Kingsbury Fryer 87 Elijah Norman Freeman 89 Mrs Hulda C C. C Thurston Smith 88 88 and Robert Sweeten 93 Mrs Mary A. A Parks Brockbank 91 Dl 91 resides at Highland drive ant John H. H Woodbury 89 89 at Granger Live Outside County Veterans of 1847 living outside Salt Sal Lake jake county are Mrs Caroline Cherry Harris Centerville J. J S. S Adams and Joseph H. H Horn of Richfield Mrs Geneve Molen Ross and Mrs Sarah Sara Ellen Mowery Thomas of Vernal Mrs Mary Theodosia Savage Wilcox Thornton Idaho Mrs Elizabeth Steele Young Mona Mrs Esther Esher Esther Es Es- ther her Eldredge Garn C Coalville Mrs Lydia Shepherd Davi Davidson Baggs Wyo and Brigham Bingham Mesa Ariz Not one member of the group p of oC men three women and two chi chil dren who crossed the plains plains' with wit Brigham Young in the first company compan remains Nor is isa a single member o othe of the Mormon battalion still alive Since Pioneer day is observed o on July 24 many believe that that- thatis is th the da day the first pioneers reached here Three fourths of that first company were in the valley July 23 however and plowing began near what la is now Broadway and State street Arrived Day Later Brigham Young had b been en ill m. an and nd vas was traveling with the rear guard o othe of f the c company p ny He lIe e did not bt reach th the valley lm until unfit il Jul July 24 and it was was' was in his honor that the day was sl s' s later t. t r set se seaside aside as Pioneer d day y Five days later Captain J James mes Brown and his party of oC Mormon bat battalion lion members and plans reached the valley from Pueblo o on the Arkansas river where the they had wintered I Mrs y the first w white ite chil child born in the state was born A August gust 9 11 days after her parents John ant and Catherine Campbell Steele arrived arrive here with Captain Brown She was named in honor of President Young Youn and Queen Elizabeth of England Most of the surviving pioneers o of 1847 were children in the first Immigration immigration im Ira- migration organized by Parley P P. Pratt companies of ot which reached reache here in September and October 1847 after crossing the 1000 miles of mountains mountains moun moun- and plains from Irom the Mississippi river Mrs Davis Mr Freeman and several several several sev sev- eral others were members of the Danid Daniel Dan Dan- id iel Spencer company which reached reache here September 19 1500 Pioneers Arrive Arrhe More than thin 1500 persons and near nearly wagons reached Salt Lake Cit City within a few weeks later Soon afterward a p portion of th the Mormon battalion which had wi wintered win in California reached h here re aller after crossing Nevada Tales of the early days and o of events in the growth of Utah and th the west are arc related by the handful ot of o survivors Still vivid in their minds mind are arc the efforts it took to reclaim th the desert desolation of ot silence that was Utah and build a state Out of that period dine cime came modern irrigation Out Ou of ot it came the beauty and dignity o or of Salt Lake City Cit Out of it came the th little hamlets hamlet s scattered over th the state Out of it came ame a I common commo commonwealth commonwealth wealth in hi ll building which these pi pioneers pio pio- are proud to say they had a hand |