Deseret Evening News | 1897-05-26 | Page 1 | Come in 1847

Came iu IS 17 LOGAN Uau May ten ITo I-To Ihe lillton I Catherine Thomas Lalshman am one of the Pioneers who came bere to Utah In 1817 I waa born In North Carolina and emigrated Irom there to tba ataleof Mlailsilppl and there with my fauisr and the family embraced trie Impel Then moved irjm Ibero to Nauvoo whorl I aaw Ike Propht JOPh Smith and waa thereat Iho lime of Iota I martyrdom From tbere we moved to Florence and wintered tier and lu Ito spring ot 1847 started ou our Journey Jour-ney acrosa the tlalun with my fatner and brother Henry and Daniel Thomas In John Taylor hundred and Bishop Foutza fitly Daniel Thomata ten Btauop Hunter wIn w-In uur company nod often called on us and would anjI Fine cmplng ground lee yea llrnlher Ihomat plenty c grata and water Wo ofleu looked across the Platie river and raw Immenie herda of buflalo They would bob Imollt grovea of cedar I On the first crcBiIng ot Ihe Hveelwa lo goIng eat we met the Pioneers golug back and we killed a beet and feaitedandPrraldent Youngordered a danco and we bad a good time in gen nral I was tbere we met my brother nobel Toomaa woo came back to dull lauto with ua He waa one 01 tbe first WOO entered the valley lila lived ana died in Provo lu lull lellowshlp ul Ito Ooiol CAIIICUINU THOMAS LoaitMAN