| Show james mcbride B biography y 1 I james mcbride Mc Brido son of thomas mcbride and catherine john was bora may 9 1818 in now new Lanca lancaster sterl fairfield county ohio in april 1820 my father moved to wayno wayne county ohio and leased eighty acres of land on the red haw a branch of tho the Mol mohegan iegan river in march 1831 two mormon elders thomas tripp and harvey green preached tho the first sermon on the red how haw in my fathers home soon after my father mother and sister isabella were baptised baptized sed in august 1833 wo we started to emigrate to missouri but stopped in richland county ohio we resumed our journey in the spring of 1831 and arrived in pike county missouri in juno june of the same year in the spring of 1836 wo made another move to ray bay county missouri here the howling of the mobs was heard on every hand in september 1836 the family moved to caldwell Cald weli county missouri and father filed on an eighty acre homestead on shoal creek three fourths of a mile from hauns mill in shoal creek I 1 was baptised baptized sed in june 1838 at hauns mill on october 30 1838 th there ere was a dastardly massacre c committed by a disguised mob it happened just before sunset tho the mob consisted of about two hundred forty mounted men be decked in feathers and smeared with paint they were headed by captains william jennings and nehemas comstock as they came with a rushing gallop into the little settlement of mormons cormons at the mill the the presiding elder of the hauns mill branch of the church of jesus christ of Latt erday saints perceiving their evil intentions raised his hands as a sign of peace but the tha mob heed thompson if 0 1 0 0 rideout if 10 0 0 0 wright rf 1 1 1 3 totals 5 11 6 16 referee jarvis umpire L spencer grantsville GRANTS VILLE F T G P cook rt rf 5 2 0 10 orr rf 1 I 1 0 0 2 at watson if 5 2 1 11 V anderson c 4 2 1 9 0 hale rg re 0 0 0 0 W anderson rg 0 0 0 0 stromberg ig 3 1 1 7 totals 18 7 3 39 30 JORDAN F T G P kimball rf 6 1 0 12 dow if 3 4 3 9 vincent c 5 1 0 10 richardson rg 0 6 0 0 anderson ig 0 0 1 0 anderson ig 0 1 0 0 total gotali 14 12 3 31 1 referee efe ree L spencer umpire jarvis grantsville GRANTS VILLE WINS TWO last friday night the grantsville Grants ville second team won from the cyprus high school with little difficulty the score at the finish being 26 to 14 the same evening the first team cam defea defeated teil tho the waterloo at club of salt lake 37 to 20 tho the scores are given complete grantsville GRANTS VILLE F T G P J watson rf 0 0 1 0 0 E r bailey rf 02 0 2 1 11 1 orr rf 2 1 1 6 5 R anderson rf 0 0 0 0 butler if 5 3 0 10 M bailey if 0 0 0 0 johnnson johanson c 3 4 4 10 IV anderson rg 0 0 0 0 flinders rg 0 0 0 0 ig 0 0 0 0 totals 10 11 0 26 CYPRUS F T G P herson dierson rf 3 6 3 9 deland if 1 2 1 3 bow bowen c 1 I 1 0 0 2 hendrickson rg 0 2 0 0 ig 0 0 0 0 1 5 10 4 14 grantsville GRANTS G I 1 I 1 A N VILLE iii L E F T G P cook rf 6 7 3 16 it AL watson if 6 1 0 12 0 orr if 02 2 2 1 5 V anderson c 0 2 1 1 hale rg 1 1 0 0 2 stromberg ig 1 0 0 2 W anderson ig 0 O 0 0 0 0 totals 16 12 5 6 37 WATERLOO AI allen alien rf 1 1 3 1 3 morrison if 2 0 0 4 millward c 4 4 3 11 sutton rg 10 0 0 0 tanner rg 0 0 0 0 wasson ig 1 l 0 2 1 totals ia i 8 7 4 20 ing him not continued their rushing advance and commenced firing the stricken and horrified settlers fled endeavoring to escape and find shelter there ensued a volley of rapid musketry of many hundred shots that lasted about six minutes then there followed a ransacking ram sacking search A militiaman named rogers come came up to where my father was lying wounded and helpless with his gun by his side rogers picked up tho the gun which was a kentucky cap and ball mussel loading rifle seeing that tho gun was loaded rogers deliberately discharged Ischar god it into my door dear aged fathers breast father was then sixty three years of age rogers then picked up an old rusty piece of a hand mowing scythe commonly used as it corn com cutter and hacked and cut my father until his arms hands wid and body were frightfully mangled all the while father was holding up his hands with somo some of the fingers already cut off imploring for mercy but it was in vain october 31 1838 my brothers brother amos my brother in law james dayley and others carried the dead bodies on a board ono one at a time and dumped them into an adjacent well about twelve feet deep and covered them with straw and dirt my brother amos turned his back on tho the well when james dayley slid fathers corps oft off the carrying board into the heart rendering resting place to await the morning of tho the first resurrection there were fifteen bodies burled in tho the ono one tomb three moro more of the wounded finally died some of the dead and some of tho the wounded were more boys as young as eight years old one of the mob later boasted of killing ono of tho the youngest boys saying make lice if lie ho had lived he would have been a M mormon ormon 11 my bi ther amos lived about three miles ft fi in the mill some time later a mob went and relieved him of his gun and took him from his home in the night without allowing him to dress they drove him in his nightshirt and bare feet about a mile and a half into the tha woods they tied his arme anno around a tree gave him eighteen lashes with a long hickory cutting blood each lick clear across his back and then they turned him loose with profane vile threats and with blood trickling down his hick back at a still later date my brother thomas while going to tho the store which was near his home was seized by a mob they put a ropo rope around his neck and hung him to the porch A mr air gray cray happened by just in the nick of time lie ho jumped thru the crowd and cut the rope saying 1 I will not see a human being hung that way thomas limp and helpless feel to the ground black in the face in a few minutes ho he recovered enough to get home tout but died about three weeks later leaving a wife and child to mourn there is one probable reason that I 1 was not also and that is because 0 at the time of the massacre I 1 was sick at home three fourths of a mile from hauns mill bill I 1 was at that time twenty years of age but small of statue puny and sickly with such experiences as a s these how could the mormons cormons be censured fo for leaving civilization and emigrating to the wilderness of roca mountains hoping for peace and religious freedom february 24 1839 wo we left hauns mill bound for illinois and settled in adams county about four miles from payson in tho the spring of 1840 anther move was made to nauvoo hancock ancock II county illinois here at nauvoo my mother died july at 1841 march 7 1814 1 I married olive cheney daughter of aaron cheney and wells my wife was waa born may 16 15 1817 in bloomfield Bloor ofield Gat Cat aragus county now new york while at nauvoo my first son brigham was born february 6 1846 in april 1846 wo we left nauvoo going westward we laid over at farmington iowa and worked until september then we moved down the desmornes Des river and stopped at tims all mill while there my eleven months old son brigham brig ham died leaving toms mill may 1817 we moved to appo noose county lown iowa and while there a second son thomas aaron was born july 10 1848 here also a third son amos orin was born bom january 2 1850 on may 17 1850 wo we left apponoose Appo noose county traveling est the ne next stop was at Kar lesville now council counci bluffs june 3 1860 1850 we crossed the missouri river bound for the great basin in the rock mountains wo we arrived with our little company in salt lake city october A 4 1850 1830 six days later wo we settled at willow creek now Grants grantsville ville ono one white man living in a wagon box and herding stock was the only inhabitant Inba bitant of the tha place at that time I 1 my wife and two children harrison severe his wife and three c hidren composed our company at that time we built the first ho house use and plowed the first and on willow creek and an d consequently we were the first settlers of Grants villo we had but ittle means with which to support ur families and our nearest market was salt lake city during the winter of 1850 1 we mode made several trips to salt lake city hauling charcoal by doing this and killing game such as defer dear antelope rabbits wild fouls and fishing wo we managed to make inako a bare living for ourselves and families we did what fencing we could when wo we were not otherwise employed march 20 1851 the indiana stole and drove off all our cattle but three oxen and ono cow wo we followed cattle and indian trucks tracks out into the skull valloy valley and onto the cedar mountains sixty miles from home strung all along the way wo we found several of our cattle dead the indians had killed them used a little of the meat and left the rest to waste being on foot with only two biscuti each and having given up all hope of finding any of our cattle alive wo we gave up the chase and returned homo home wo we moved to lake laho view and worked in tho the canyon getting out hose togs logs and saw baw logs we hauled the logs down to tho the old saw mill now the grist mill ten miles cast of grants ville where wo we got the logs sawed up into lumber working in this mani man i nor ner wo we were able to make our living as well as buy two hundred eighty dollars worth of work oxen in december 1851 wo we moved back to Grants grantsville ville tivo other families came back with us they were the families of dark clark baker durfee sova and watson malting making n total of twenty six souls in all A branch of tho the church was organized with benjamin baker as presiding elder A little later thomas 11 II clark was placed as aa presiding elder in the autumn of 1852 harrlson harrison severo severe and I 1 thrashed about five hundred bubels of wheat in 1863 twenty three more families settled in grantsville Grants ville they were dayley pope mecham walker fairchild steel bell two orr families martindale barrus dark clark blair abbot martin durton barton Di diamore Dic emore burbank sabin phippen Phlp pen pal mer and dark clark jn in the autumn of 1853 quite a number more families settled in grantsville Grants ville some of which were parkinson pon leo lee mcmurray matthews wilson whittle hudson and halo hale during the winter of wo we built a fort thirty rods square to protect our families from the indians the walls on tho the north west and and half of bf the south sides was built of dried mud it was five feet thick at tho the bottom twelve feet high and eighteen inches thick at the top the cast wall and half odthe south was built of 6 4 12 abodes with a rock foundation this part of the wall was three feet thick at the bottom twelve feet high and eighteen inches thick at the top tho the total length of wall built was rods and the average cost per rod was twenty five dollars making the total cost of the wall equal to three thousand dollars in the summer of 1854 we had an uncommonly dry season and the grasshoppers destroyed a big part of our crops but the kind hand band of providence was manifested and none seriously suffered during the winter I 1 thrashed two hundred bushels of wheat that season and refused four dollars a bushel in gold for my wheat to brother isaac leo lee of says I 1 brother leo lee I 1 would bo be glad to sell you what wheat my own family cosent need but I 1 know some of my neighbors raised their broad bread they must have what I 1 can spare my neighbors got my wheat and those that were able to pay paid mo me two dollars a bushel others prom promised lied to pay and the needy got it free gratis I 1 divided and kept on dividing until before the next harvest my own family went without broad bread for three days brother john W cooley had a small patch of barley ripen first in our neighborhood ard and all were welcomed to como come and help themselves tho the barley was ground in coffee mills and mush was made one happy day the spring and summer of 1855 was a season of much suffering greanwood Greas wood and various kinds of weeds were cooked as greens for food roots and were eaten to sustain life some had milk to season the various preparations with squatters rights on homko wail wag the customs until the government surveys were made after that I 1 filed homestead entry on west wi st 12 1 2 NE 14 1 4 and E 12 1 2 NW 14 1 4 of section 36 in T fi 8 2 S or range 6 W salt lake city containing acres all you who are living on or owning property round the old james mcbride homestead nou nor joshua R darks clarks home may know irom from whence to trace abstract title those having squat squatters tees rights within my bom homestead estead received title to their land by only paying for the making out of their deeds the meeting house lot the tithing house lot the old school house lot the tithing barn bam lot and find the cemetery enclosure each and all received title on tho same terms when thomas 11 II dark clark was presiding elder arieh C browers brewers and I 1 were bm teachers end and A B sabin was branch clerk in 1866 a ward viard was organized with william G young as bishop and A G C brower first counselor cona con clor and I 1 james mcbride second counselor in 1857 the johnson Jo Jinson army scare caused a lot of worry and distress their plans were thwarted as a poet wrote of their threats well hang tho the men go got t two wives weve got the ropes so handy that is wo we mean say wo we would havo have done but smith burned them on sandy their plans being thwarted the army instead of arriving in the valley wintered at fort bridger suffering much from uio c old cold wint winter C r 0 of f 1857 5 58 8 in tho the spring of 1868 1858 thru the fear of tho the arrival of johnson and hla his army the saints started to move south leaving enough men to firo fire the homes in case tho the army did arrive and then tho the army would find only destruction and no cormons mormons to hang the kind hand of providence was again made manifest when a compromise was wag affected between the leaders of the church and the army officers the saints returned to their homes in III july 1858 finding fl flourishing crops the ilia army arrived and passed thru salt lake city while they were vere in the city a I 1 concourse of children sang many days wo we havo have lingered around our cabin door 0 1 i hard times come again no more e etc t c 11 jt it melted the heart of colonel john son to hear tho the song and note the general appearance of tho the innocent urchins the army crossed tho jordan and established winter quarters in cedar valley which was colled called camp F floyd loyd during the winter of 1858 59 the soldiers brought mules and oxen to Grants grantsville ville to feed they paid us forty dollars a ton for hay and one dollar per cubic yard for straw in turn they sold us provision blankets clothing and in the spring they sold us mules or arl wagons cheap shall it again bo be said that the overruling liand land of the true and living god was near tho the stony hearts within an amy army softened tho the soldiers were kind sociable friendly and liberal in measurements and weights in the alio auction of mules oxen wagons and equipments they did not persist persistently antly urge for higher bids september 0 5 1852 my son eon james 0 mcbride was born in Grants grantsville ville september 18 1854 my son elam W mcbride was born november ap 7 1856 I 1 married marian louisa redden hodden sho she she wag waa born in mclaws county Il lionia lionis august 31 1841 tiny may 16 1857 my son eon heber K mcbride was born february 10 1859 1869 olive D mcbride my first daughter by my second was born 14 1801 my daughter dorcas L mcbride was born november 20 1862 my daughter catherine al mcbride was born sho she died december 27 1802 1862 Sop september i fember 22 1804 my daughter ar arminan minta malinda was born bom july 30 1860 my son joseph J march 4 1869 1909 my son |
