| Show E W WEB W RITER TELLS Of 0 PIONEER DAYS AYS Relates Interesting Personal Ex Experiences Experiences of His Trip Across the Plains SOME HARDSHIPS ENDURED for Cor net nethe Theme u lit ut Address I he li of lir it Pioneers jug UiS II of C U tt the meeting of tho Daughters fir it ithe c the he Pioneers at nt the Won Lion House e Mr 11 W W RileI a II pioneer of ot 1847 rno Interesting talk of ot pioneer St I most of or ho 1110 lays class and nd torn told ninny many Incidents Journey across tho plains reminiscences gave u a clear cionI These TheO The O ind pIcture of ot the Iho u lally dally lIVI vps HI the suffering on and a of tt t the pioneers ana Impressed oil nil i with the sublime faith and courage of or o this noble motile band haRd Tho The speaker said saidI I II I 1 was only a n small boy when our family arrived In Nauvoo in 11 April A I 1 isiC 1846 Wo We W camped campell on tho lila slope we ne could see BOO Iho ho templo and til nt tie n a 0 achild achild child J I V was with Its 1111 lt beauty Ono One can scarcely rellI o the Iho emotions of Gf tho the faints In taking tho the lust bAt lok look lokot at ot building that they thoy hilt had with their sacrifices and aM dedi detH dedicated with vIt their faith and tears Men 11 n weak for fo laCK of or proper food fond lilY day after day tOld and this his temple was ws dear to every Mormon On the Ito journey journe to WittIer Winter Quarters several fell by tilt tho wayside At Mt It Ifrah there hero Was a II great grant deal of of sick sickness II nets ness The Tue chills and lint fever Cever anti and scurvy vere cro fo EO bat bail nt at Florence that scarcely n a was nis without sickness s Wo We Vc prepared for Cor winter by hy building the lest best shelter sheller possible log 10 sod itt houses and dugouts while others othera wart WIm sheltered only by b wagon boxes boxell Our In Winter VInter Quarters was as built the ann and wo we vero much annoyed by b Indians who were sere very Impudent My 11 father wait Willi tip 1111 olio uno of ot the bishops nod nna h ii had bate to tn l cure CillO for tor ninny of the tho families lert ieti by b tho the Mormon battalion boys Ilo tIo had Home iome mean and that winter his hi cOins liams traveled forth Corth for ft c corn orn rn tar lor food for tor these hungry Worn worin and children This ho Iw brought with his bIN own Iii rl means Wo Vo 0 boys hO R were employed and nu our Oti r was fighting snakes To show the tho courage anti Independence of ot the wo we i non Inon I well ehl remember one lIno Incident Aunt had a II yoke of ot steers and at nt Winter Quarters he ho cut tho 1 sn choosing the tita smallest the tho th nto n dragged them to where she he Intended tu tt build her log house hou e She built her house and lived In It ii nil till that vinter i iOUI Our OUI company left let Winter Quarters and the tho camp was WM ut what whal Is III tint now Horn Hero wits was erected craned a n liberty pole anti ami companion or Ot org g of or 10 I Ot CO rO and 10 INDIAN As n a better protection prote from froni the tilo In Indians wo traveled In double file Wo We 0 were notch much annoyed by hy Indians but not until we i cached Iea holl Strawberry creole creek lid did they ninko a j E raid hole Heio cle ve we 1 met filet Prest Young nn hi l company re 10 returning returning turning to 10 Winter Quarters The h night after they Joined us th Indians ns raided r and drove ofT off I 1 should Judge jud one cite halt of ot tho the horses hr cs of ot Young oung find and his company My Iy older brother In speaking of t this a n short time AIJO 10 said uld All A 11 through tho tile trials trill Is Prest Young kept I epla a upper tipper lip antI and this was WM the tho only limo that 1 i remember of his hll showing that li he was depressed I IThe The Tho next day clay after afler the thc loss of ot horses horRel Prost Young Youngs company start d lIon 1 on In a 1 blinding snow nov storm their thIr Journey of ot miles mill to Join their fain film lied lIe and we wo continued our 30 miles to tit the th valley Mr JIlter In speaking of ot life lICe lI In the tho valley said Wo arrived Oct 3 I and camped on Third West cst ct rite Tho lint company com had commenced to tn build the fort fori Many Man Manof of ot tho the houses hU l e hare horo woO weI of adobe Tho rho pioneers learned to make tubules 1 from tho battalion boys bos who vho had returned from rota California Tho rhe fort torl consisted of vI three squares Wo Ve 0 worn wor much an annoyed noyed with take mice tho th soil sod chimneys attracting them themI 1 I attended the th lint school which started sinned with seven oven pupil the tho th latter lutter part hart of ot f October In a IL tent In III the fort tort fortan ami an wan WIH taught by ly b my m lit aunt lI nt POTATOES Tho Tue first potatoes were raised near ner tb ho piano tho first Country club but bul they thc were not fully tully grown when winter cOllie on CHOPS enOlS In tho tile spring of ot 4 my father planted several acrea of ot wheat by b mak mk making ing tog a II dam In City creek Ho He Irrigated land and got wheat up Whoa Whon MII It was wasn n a afew few tew Inches high came anti and threatened to 10 destroy cl troy hut his crop Starvation Starvation tion ion Blared us U In III tho the face nee My ly father was so eo discouraged that bitt ho lie offered to trado tm with Hobert for tor a it I few tew bar bILl barrels Eels of Hour flour but Pierce declined to tn trade However father tather raised a n fair air crop 1101 and that with It the corn com I orn kept not only our OUI family but others from starvation It n atton We Wo ate nto ogo I and other roots TOOts and thistles and several lost their lives liveR through eating segos The rite Winter of ot 48 wan watt very rainy rain the tho sod sOIl roofs accumulated l moisture mol and for cor weeks clothing and bedding was I soaked My Iy mother during all these trials never lost patience pal or faith hut but did much good In iii cheering and helping oth others ers erR She Sh never novel rested until oil all her fILm fam family ily 11 of ot brothers and sisters were brought Into llItO the Church My Aunt Mary Iary Jan Jana was tho the first woman missionary to tho the Sandwich Islands I 1 was an nn eo cyc wit wH lies hess to the pulls gulls saving our crops crocs anti and us II from starvation One pe peculiar cOllar culiar of ot this Is that those these would eat cat until they could coul 1 cat calno no more then 11 gorRo and start over again t I tha hay hav ha never known them theta to do this be 00 before before fore oro or since TIle Tho compared the tho exodus under Young Youn with that of or tho the R He lIe congratulated tho the daughters on the tue work they tho are arc doing nod said I ant proud of or being belol a pie pio pioneer acer neer r and merit lIC It the time will como come when the memory of ot our pioneers will 1111 willbo bo ho 1 held sacr d their work recognized not nol only In the tho th archives archles of or the tho Church but bul In the history lIstor of the nation This ThIN bund whoso whom I lol were brought In it a II few wagons will ho bo rae rec nil not only on as tho the rs i IUlah of f Utah Ulah hut but pioneer of it tho the entire de do development anti and progress of ot tho the west |
