Show OUR PIONEERS david timothy son of homr grim ni TIMOTHY and DAVIS TIMOTHY written by i his daughter emily mrs 11 WOODWARD my father can remember the first bread and vegetable venders who mat the boat as soon ai as it docked when he arrived in america and there was great scrambling and relo re to cin to see ree real bread and green vegetables again norn new york the party journeyed by train to nebraska where they camped at mormon hindquarters for two weeks walt inc im the arrival of ox teams from utah to take them on an to the west the company was named don jone s after its captain the wagon ed to grandfather took two families including live ie grown peo pea pl ph and nine children before leaving omaha grandfather bought 0 cr n v r moe it necess necessary nry tor for him bim to walk all the way and lead the cow bit the milk was necessary for the iburg 1 ung children the wp in 4 n the caravan next to grandfathers rand fathers was drawn by two cows belonging to one of the group v atho ho bought them in omaha go so they could milk them night and morn ing and drive them in the daytime while the company was traveling along lion the platte river grandmothers first girt girl was bom born the sixth child of the family during the n a raging storm aroe aro e grandmother m and the baby were in the covered wagon and the children hildren ere sleeping in a tent which blew down and their beds flouted around in n teen inches of flood water my father remembers remember 3 this night distinctly the man who shared the wagon with r had auns and hunted jong oong the way for or game one day he be left his en gun ly lyng ng in the front feat seat and it rolled off and shot a man through the leg this roan man was null mill ing hs h s cow a and rid it passed through the flesh ot at his lee leg and am into the cow s foot they happened to be camping by a ranch and through the kindness of the owner the wounded cow was traded i for another arother perm permuting them to go on with the company my father sad sald the old nick himself was along and tried in cv continued on page five DAVID TIMOTHY continued from front paea page one cry ery way to 1 discourage the weary tra travelers elers 11 one day when they were camped a and nd apparently a e n aly everything was quiet u le t and an d peaceful c e ful suddenly the oxen pricked up their ears and started A stampede several child barcly barely escaped being trampled under their feet and grandfather just in time dragged two of 0 his boys from their path the company arrived in salt lake city late in october and were unloaded on the public square early in november atter after searching tor for work in every conceivable place grandfather hired out to israel ev E ans at lehl lehi lie ile contracted for one ear and slid for his labor he was to have lave one room double house to live in a flour tor for the family use and five head of sheep with the aid of other welch families in lehl uhl they passed the first winter enduring many hardships the family hied in lehl during the he year isca and anetter nn son was born in rn march 1804 they moved to tp provo valley now in the vicinity or heber city the accumulations of ho the family now amounted to ta a small smail herd of sheep and one cow grandfather and my father walked and drove the animals and arid grandmother and the other children rode with an immigration train on its will io to omaha for more saint saints in provo valley grandfather rented P farm i vr m of robert broadbent Broadb aru ard farmed on shares but having no team he had to work an extra day for evry day he used the ox team As lifeber city was just laid out grandfather took up two lots and built a log leg house out of round rough tough pine logs tile first house they owned later thu house was traded to mark ark jeffs for a boie of oxen wh illch ich greatly added to the ways and nd means of making a living HI all during tant winter my father grubbed and hauled sage brush irom from the open flat for fire wood to be continued next week |