Show I y j I h HANDCART HONKERS I t I k h How The First Company Um 10 b 1 5 i 1 < t 1 1 OroIZICllo I raTel I hit War 11 CLIABLESIdah CUARLF8J 4 U 7 1697 I 1 To the Editor I i1 treat deal laid and 1 r There l so a i t i I of forty puhllihed about the planeeri 1i 1 i 1 enID aod a little about the l1nd It with the I Carlo Myself and wife came t 1 company The lot tr t > lonter handcart I t 4 > lowing brief UomBjI believe have there were published ag 11 never been I f tiH but three persons personally acquainted I I 11f acquaint-ed wllh Ibm and one 01 these has i passed behind the vail Edmund Ellsworth captain of the pioneer I company The exact dates I cannot now give an I loot my IOU trial In 1868 In the latter part ol May 1866 Edmund Ellsworlh who was and 1 were mlislon on It n IJ shoring In I the Heretordsulre can ference At that time we stayed at The homo of 1 Brother 1owel I near Monmoulhbhlre I In Abenavetiny i U ally In the morning Brother Lilt worth said Brother Ulloway 410 I you awak 1 mtftwerd Yet I Brother E said 11 have l prcu lIrdam dorloo IbulghlI1h a bUD rsrreaied jr methreeiepsraietlroee Woul I you line lor meO lejeat U toy to-y Uff J answered < < Ve He slid < I dreamed that I uai nl home n > a wtnt I to the rresldenl1 tfllo I law athcr Plant lent You ng Ho call Why CamuvU w have I Juit been talking BDOUI you Wo are thinking of having n conrpnnv tl the Hilnts to rote the Plains with hitude A ran next root We would like you 10 lak charge ol Ihe I combany Will jou liD fi I W1111o 110 17 I I sold you ay asked trips W ial do yu think ol the IIrnm1 Well I think it Is I more than B ommoll dreom I wouM write It la yuir Journ i at aDd me what will come of ft01 When we not to the conference house be wrote It and Iced It lu uiy wit and I In about six weeks later bat we were again together 6 1 tbs onf renco lu uo A letter was Ihori for Brother IMlBworili rrm Iloildent Young When Brother Ellllrorib bd rood the Utter Ie not hip Journal acd handed me tllo letirr Ue read front his Journal what he hail written and III mn handed me his Journal to 0 mj Ir with the letiy lj they Xtto alike word lor word Will Brother Uallonay what do IOU say about creating the Plains with a hanuoarl 1 lelltd There Ii a moUo 01 a highland clan which Is my a nowel Wb1 otto risen as re wo can drift Ihe Lord helping UW 7 hen 110 luritd lit my wile Well liter Ualloway what do you 111 oil will follow my hutUand Then 1 will enter your Lames as that flrit volunteers hill took place In Aheroychan the Alt ol Juno or early In July If55 We hen Collins s need to 1 talk haudcart emigration Early lo December 1E65 I received a Idler from I IyiTiiol to Hint up what was left of the United Ilrbreo for Ibm 1010 with the first audoart oimpiny that would leave Liverpool tome lime In March 1650 Ixty of ui left for Liverpool with over Rod bundled ou the ship Mooch Train fur Boitou The Pioneer company of handcarts was met at file loot of the Little Mountain by President Young and the leadlDE authorities the Church From thence President Young nod others walked at tbe head ol the ploueer ojiniauy to Ball Lake City early li > the ailernoon ol Beflember LO 1650 Thus the dream was literally lullllled 1 kept a journal for the pioneer baodcaI cowpanyollich should be In the historians ifllce as I delivered It toonalter I arrlvtd lu Bait Lake to Captain Eilmoml bllowortb lo be ct pokiled III I thatkillo The allowing named persons who came with the pioneer handcuri oam panyaro living In Bear Lake Biakt CUBS I to II Urines Tbimss 1aisey Montpelier A Uslloway unit Jane C UalUway and my daughter Mrs French Anthony Idaho Whom we hauled In our handcart from Iowa city to Bait Lake City My wife walktd all the way and helped 10 pull our baudaerl for nearly fifteen hundred angles Such Is my knowledge ol the banecarl origin A GALLOWAY I |