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Show mTn Kft- -i ft Church fc ?r6 i .? CWcfc SsMian, 1,1 - .,, r r wi e Wf .w , IHEJRAGEDY AT WINTER OUARTERS CAurafc Mteury era reo-rsrefcfae pnHuAed Tkf . Deportment " TW r 1 mtnu Miiaur up mAieesent By Elder Andrew Jenson Assistant Church Historian ... , lfc. mU 4.tin.IS iM 19. HU Mtofrli.. Omrlari m w Wy MH Krxxrr,T,f THURSDAY, Jedediah SEPT 3Tr M. Grant, Heber C Kimball and Pres. Brigham Young were appointed to search out a ferry nearly oppoalte Cutler' Park. SEPT. 4, Prea. Brig-baYoung started for the contem- new fmPrY acroaa River. SATURDAY, SEPT. R. Ellera -- fhittP,c5.fS Oron Pr'trntrfenSlmj!i,VJedediah M. located on tha sec-."I'1 of the river bottom. It out in the form, of a city, five acre in each block; consisting loU The laid out occupies from six tocity as huneight dredaere, of ground. ; THURSDAY, REPT. 24 The Bsints continued to move from Cut-lereapark to Winter Quarters, and Prea., Young with others of the Brethren were busy surveying city Mi W, place. Daniel it' WtUlam Cutler arrived without aaaiatance; consequently the council determined to raise teams and send back for them. It waa thought advisable pest to get all the teams they could of those who had built houses on the other aid of the river, at Mount Ptagah ami Garden Grove, because measure prethey being In pared for the winter, could better Spare their teams than we who have not yet built a single house, except the one that Uro. Kimball down from Culler'i Park. brought -- (Womans Exponent Vot 13:113.) On this date, Samuel E. Carpenter (aged 43 died with fever. He was years) born March 10, 1803. SEPT- 26 Pres. SATURDAY, Brigham Young rode over to Turkey Creek and examined the ground for a mill site, accompanied by Willard Richards and Colonel Albert P. Rock wood, Marinda Stout (aged 20 year!, ,w Ife of Hoses Stout, died with dropsy. She was born Aug, 24, 1824, in nj MW - and other went In aearch ofGrant a f2L Missouri trrynt ondowne the river B mile, taking a leather boat them in which the company, withs seven, creased the river and w- - Harr la, Phinehaa Richard and a committee from Council other,' Point on the iame business. Elder Orson Pratt reported that the committee had found a aul table point for a between thl and tha "!??!? Foie he bluff. SUNDAY , SEPT. 6opposite At a ptibllo meeting held at Cutler Park It was voted that Ira Eldredge should employ nine men and make a road to the place selected for a and remove the ferry boat to ferry that ftpot. MOKDAT, 8EPT. 7 President Brigham Young and Heber C. Kim-borode to the new ferrying place at the mouth of Willow Creek (later known as Turkey Creek and still later as Mill Creek.) nutov-berin- il TUESDAY. SEPT. 8 Alanaon Alpheua Cutler, Albert P. Rock wood, Jedediah M. Grant and Kara Chase were to locate winter quarter appointed tor the Saint THURSDAY, SEPT. Brigham Young and Elder Heber C. Kimball rode out fo find a location for the Council to win- ter. They returned to Cutler's Park in the afternoon. At a council meeting held In tha evening the committee on location recommended that the Saint locate on both side of Willow Creek, north-eas-t of Cutler Park. FRIDAY, SEPT. 11 About a m. Pres. Brigham Young and Baders Heber C. Kimball, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff. Geo. A. Smith and Amasa M. walked in a northeasterly Lyman direction from Cutlers Park and selected the site for Winter Quartern They returned to camp later In tha day. After dinner, the brethren mentioned, accompanied by the High Council and marshal returned to the site of Winter Quar-teand President Young commenced the survey of a townsite by locating the main street, which waa running 22V. degrees west of north. The brethren .returned to Cutlers Park at 6 o'clock in the evening. FRIDAY. SEPT. IS Pres Brigham Young met with the Twelve and the High Council. They discussed the propriety of laying out the contemplated city nearer the Missouri River; some preferred tha table-lanand some the bottoms. Pre. Young desired the camp to locate together for protection from Indians and mobs. The Twelve walked out on the side of the bluff and conversed on the plan of the 10-3- cs Jter with letters from 'the trustees in Nauvoo and 34 letters from Ml. " account of H1 Hauvoo. . (Journal fiinoTy). .? Helen Mar i writes: ami Whitney !JTWo orenlng Squire Wells Mi torn Cu Uer arrived from voo. They have been six Kau coming from that place in a days bug-EOne object of their coming is to get teams to send bock for the poor brethren who are not able to come without assistance. The brought considerable hews, and next morning came to our tent and remained for an hour or more, telling particulars of the late b tie between one hundred of our brethren and one thousand of the mob who came to attack the city and were kept at by a little force who eompelledbay them to retreat with considerable Ipsa a supposed, although the mob would not acknowledge the loss of a man. Three were killed on the breth-ren- e side and three wounded. The action lasted an hour and twenty minutes and took place between Winchester Street and Squire Weils house in the neighborhood whw Bishop Newel K. Whitney had built his first house when the place was called Commerce- - In the battle the mob had six cannon besides their small arma The brethren had five cannon, dent Young, Heber C. Kimballpresia number of the Twelve and and lame others were present at Our tent to relate the affair, after which Dr. Richards read the art), cles of the capitulation of the city hlch Ux,1 P on the 17th mat. Elisabeth H Brlnton (aged MHn,on County, Tennessee. "bellne Cox (aged 3 years), daughter el And. J. and Elisabeth Cox, died. She was bom Oct, 4, IS 44, in Noxubee County Mississippi. SUNDAY, REPT. 27. In the afternoon the Saints assembled on a rise of ground on the west side N Main Street in Winter Quarters. Orson Pratt and Prea. Brigham Young preached, and Daniel H. Wells gave an account of the Battle of Nauvoo. MONDAY, SEPT. 28. Prea Brigham Young In a letter written to Atmon W. Babbitt and others statBedford ' " Froetor died of chill and fc-ster Brlnton was bornSept ir?r,e 17, 1817, and. John Proctor Was born In Preston, England. FRIDAY, SEPT. 25.- - IiKgah. Pree, Young with hia brethren continued the of Winter Quarters. surveying Horace K. Whitney vt rites; The next day (Sept. 25th) council waa held near Bro. Taylor's tent. Squire Wells related to the people the circumstances that lately transpired at Nauvoo and Raid that there were a great many brethren in very Indigent circumstances who would not be able Jto come away ed that there were ten or eleven hundred wagons at Winter Quarter and on the banks of the Missouri River, and that the health of the Saints and the camp waa Improving. Squire Wells and William Cutler Started for Nauvoo. Horace Ensign (aged 49 years), husband of Mary B. Ensign, died with chills and fever. He was born In Westfield, Maas. TUESDAY, Sept. 29 Pre. Brigham Young and counselors located a bridge acroaa Turkey Creek at the head of Main Street at Winter Quarters. This creek was first called Willow Creek, later Turkey Creek, and still later Mill Creek, after a mill had been built On it. A mall left the post office at Winter Quarters for Nauvoo and ML I UuIm Tanner (aged 33 years), wife of Sidney Tanner, died with fever, She waa born in Washington County, New York. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 Henry G. Sherwood. Pres. Brigham Young and others were busy surveying at Winter Quarters. I 'res. Young commenced digging well. THURSDAY, Oct 1 Pre. Brig- - ham Young, accompanied Dr. Willard Richards on horseback up Turkey Creek to view the selected mill site. John Pack arrived St Winter Quarter from Savannah, Mo, with a carding machine. . Horace K. Whitney records, un-ddate of Oct. 1st, that he with several of the boy was engaged ,n ,h played the violin at a ereninjhe ,.em at hia father's (Newel K.party tent on the anniversary ofWhitney) hi little birthday. (Woman , Exp. Vo, 13.1)5). ClrH (aged one year), daughmr of Lorenno and Beulah Ann Clark, died ith fits. She was Jrn Feb. 24, 1843, in Nauvoo, U- - Moots, FRIDAY, Oct 2. pres, Brigham Young rode out to aee a selected for a brick yard pear place Win-tQuarters, and found an excel- lent bed of day; he also t found atone In tbe river to stone Wells. At a High Council held in the evening Amasameeting M. Lyman, Orson Pratt and Wilford Woodruff were appointed a committee to divide Winter Quarter into wards. SATURDAY. OCT. 3,-- John H.ll and- Ashael Lathrop arrived at WintQuarter having left their fam-llion tha Rush Bottoms, about 70 mHea above, on the Missouri River, with, seven other families, and three aingle men; they had left Bishop Geo. Milter at ) tinea and ' moved down to their present loon-tto- n to get better feed fee t cattle. During the last atx thetr of their journey they had liveddays on two squirrel, one goose and a turtle. Undr date of Oct. 3rd Horace JC. .Whitney writes: Bro- - Lathrop and another brother arrived here from ' Miller' camp. They had been Stripped Of nearly all they poe-"d Wved away from Btefe '?'? op Miller's some distance' , when had concluded to come down they It to be only 30 miles. supposing They (raveled six days and " arrived here at last having had nothing to eat during that time except a wild goose, a rabbit and n turtle that they killed on their, route." Elder Whitney also men- Honed a band which playsd at Winter Quarters that evening and I Joined them and playsd says: with them. 1 im to, play the in- strument (flute) formerly used by Andrew Cahooa who expects to start shortly for England Eider , Whitney also mentions a very so-- T , vere frost that night lor the ft rat time that season. The weather ' had been wlndy, rainy and disagree- hie for several days. A few day after the arrival of the first inhabRants at Winter Quarters the wind so aevero that a number f tenta Were blown to the ground' , 4r (Womans Exponent, 13:115), SUNDAY. OCT. 4 At the pubMt meeting held at the atand Winter Quarters, Open Pratt preached on the first principles of the Gospel In the forenoon, and In the afternoon. Pres. Young gavo ' r.; 1 er . 4 later-Marl- er ' , ea i A L 0 . , On (Oonttai raw f t r rir-- - 'Y - m) I d f , eitv. WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 23 The Saints who had been temporarily located at Cutler's Paik commenced to move onto the new location for Winter Quarters, which was being aurveyed as a city In blocks of 20 rods by 40. each lot being 4 rods by 10 In sise. Pres. Brigham Young assisted some of the brethren to build a vard large enough to hold all the cows of hla division. Under this dale (Sept. 23. 46) Helen Mar Whitney record the following; Being misty today wn rather inauspicious for our removal. A number of the brethren with teams came to our ass lata net and we arrived at our winter quarter about 1 o'clock m. which la j Cutler's - J i ' HICIOH Of HO Mon ENCAMrMBNTi ON THE, MISSOURI RIIM-JI44- 47 i t1 yft (4 g. |