Show PIONEER MRS WJZCTTB Hldovf ol Mfjir Ilimtlr lite raniatis si nils nn lutiremlug Letter HoChriLirj March 29180T To the 1111 tot As I have seen nothing rccontlr from this part of faraway Dixie 1 thought I would write a low Items ol Pioneer history to the many reader ol off Ibo News I am Ibo daughter tf I Samuel UwJur the third child of I family ol nine children I was boll May 81 1S33 In Lancaster counlji Fenn Llllle Illltaln toWLOblp I wablayeal when we crossed Ibo plalne Wowormilt I Jededlah Grant 100 Brother Koblea GO and Hayes and Kimball 10 Wo ImrleJ my mother fllleen miles this Idol Iiaramle tbe was still first white woman of the latterday Capped who laid < down ber life In teekln religious Ireodom In that Journey and will no doubt Im numbeieJ wltu the mnrlrl We prepared her for liar last reillnl plaot the best that our limited Mill ties would Allow We wrapped bit It I a quill and linvlnc nothing ill Which tomato a COMO we laid list H I n deep vault dog lu n deeper grave sell W to the table up to cover the viuUi then tilled 1 the grave with rooks truii and earth to prevent the prilrli volves front dllurblllil nil Ib1 wall earthly ol our dar loved 1 < one Then wl left bet In bar cold and lonely nitlcl place to continue our lad 01 lonely journey with heavy hearts all weary stri1 i leaving II 1 Steamers hall out life aoll bit Its sweetness behial all Our feelings can better be ImagluuJ than described It was a leD bit beggars description But such things were endured win the best possible grace all for Its I love of the truth = ely each Iii feel all will not go uewordU a mile lime como when we rejoloalar 41 file bardiblps we have endured for tie Goal and neo Slow wo are proudl know tnat we are counted worthy 0 Suffer for lllm who laid dawn Ills lie I for us Our long lonely and tedious JDQ ney terminated October 71847 who our eyes rested ou title valley 01 Its Great Ball Lake As soon as wa bad rested n day < I ir two father began making adoble nU oil Christmas day wo moveJ Into a mall room built by fathers OlIO band In the spring be planted he strain but It tesponded more 10010 required I of its tar It 1 came up Iwlc g us with no brad 101 gran that 00111t4 111 twice 18 rarely 1111IT49 oj 1 Toe crickets aiilitel Incoming ocond In-coming u and If It bd net I beoD for Ih rOIl white winged iull I fear the itjry of tbo Ilonotrs would never have been told licit divine all our laluly Interposed 111 I our bolialf at that lime lu 1 tbo form of the beu lined walto cull In I preserving us iriin famine WILD all Ui horror flat where tlioy oinie from auJ where they vent lo I lot nk la I a matter ot coulee tue I was fond 01 > f standing our door and watcbli B the gulls those member ere of deliverance ailing In The field 01 grain aod gorge themselves then 01 10 the batch and dllor that return lo Ibe fields and ripest the iteration thliti they coniltiu doing till Ibo crllhol retired front the scene Dr action and ceased 10 omoy file grain Uul Ibo Indians everroaly to increate In-create little stek of privIsions aDd nol overly pullciilar frum unal siurce itllilid a portion f Ue gnat array ol rlckels ss fon what tiny coull I not use Irtsti they ulell ground Ibw 10 a cjlloj mill whet ther could gtl OutoUo tried loglllur Me ground Urld crickets tttvlug an ttial 1 or aa I and service burtles orudbue Waite or I fto 7 raft cakes wire made Iroiu tblsub I I tal anJ bkod lu hI na Tacau hey tried to ditpisa of to the half I IWltbod 1100 llr broad We were Plan Sal Iho Drat to move to Ill Ye nail five bushels I 01 card which latuer bugblof Vote lidurs Hill u > that did duty ad broad till the nix narveit Oar principal food conslsteJ of usu nillk Bud obsess Cat tilted months wa ale our break ratio UIUOD aDd supper mluu nice Lelulllu worth bllcull 01 buffer Indeed i Ililuk we would wlllligly have paid Dan dollar for one suit 1 doubt e can I have obtained cu for that I have seen my father po lo his workman work-man n time nellnit for want of load We Hot only tuUered privations i for the lack of load and slieltor but from UOHIIe Indians When wu retired at night wo wire In doubt n > ID being title 10 tied nor Scalps III their proper places In file Inurning Hut we on ureil And lived through II all In 185J L kasmarno > i to IHwardI DUll the greMt and famous drummer drum-mer of JusriU HinlUiallroi I doubt If 1 bla equal as a diuiumer was or I looo Mine Ibe first muilcal entertaU Mail I was formed alter the creel Ue was certainly a master hand with the drum He was one ol the 1r phetn Iu f I ads as well na his favorite drummer S ion utter v > o came to 1 > xr 1 and among the llrst to Subdue ibis wild and loblddo desert where It 11 the 10111101 even al3aI alo the strength Dud 101111 nil be act being very strong the lflvUoo lie UUod ubDrUllnd Ills bealln and on the I h ol Doccmber 1S5 be lelt the he trials ol this Illo titifoy I Ibo toward I rpaled lot Ibo faithful III the nextj aloe which limn L have lived lu widow aod and fought I he battle of life alne 1have 111 my postuselon flow the STofdtljat tbu Irolliel gave to him In Nauvoo He suld flits drum to CIID Jennlngt who UTIB lu Tavlor Alll Them Is I much m to I could tell tut think I his Is suits out I hao a sitter living lu Col Vllry uiriled to Wilts Mil ir OLB rf tills lliltallon boys also OLD lu 1rovo who Is mcledtoltilertllill MAnY A 11 7 KW |