| Show HE IS A SURVIVOR RAMAH BAMAH valencia county N M may 22 1893 1898 in your issue of the ha 2nd and irist yon published an account of the dedication of But buttery butteris port fort which as well gave the names eames of the survivors car vivon of the gold discovery in ID california wm johnston John is not mentioned and seems seema to have been lost track of but Is ie now living here and though crippled in out oo foot is otherwise well he was ula uncharged charged with other mom mem bere of the mormon battalion at los angeles on july 16 1847 and started to the great salt lake valley but returned atter reaching the place where the donner company perished because president young so BO advis edas supplies supplier were short abort in the valley he returned to Stitt erPs fort and hired out to dutter to work for stock soon after arriving there marshall came down from the mill and sutter butter sent wm johnston up there where he be stayed and helped dia discover cover the gold he stayed at coloma a abort time after the discovery when he went to mormon island to dig gold there during the fall of 1848 brother johnston came to great salt lake valley where he spent the winter and was married ini the spring of 1849 returning to california soon after he was hired sam brannan the eagle bugle theater and mcdowell jo to act as night police on J and front street in sacramento he was wag the first policeman in that city in 1858 this veteran was living in sau san bernardino Bero ardino when that city was abandoned he came to salt liske lake and returned to california in 1861 as an employed of the butterfield company helping to move their mail stock to the northern i verland route he kept the overland burn barn in salt lake city for some time when the settlements on the muddy creek nevada were started he was again put in the frontier being called to settle there when the settlements broke up brother johnston stayed in st giorge gi orge a while and then removed to eagle valley nevada he worked two and a half years in st george quarrying rook rock for the temple then be went to long valley because of his wife cifes Is poor health when the saints be an settling in arizona wm win went to oppy as aa he was called to do when sunset was settled he be went there tind and remained five years vainly struggling with many others to make that bett settlement lement a success he stayed in woodruff to raise one crop when he came to ramah bamah where be has shared his bis portion of drought and hardships as he has done with the church as a pioneer in nauvoo Call california druis utah dixie arizona and now new mexico well said he in conversation with me they have hava my name among them the survivors but just let them kouw know im around yet I 1 was jim marchalls marshalls Mar right boderas bow bower eras Jas a gambler gambier would say and signed a certificate for him when the Wit Willi ilses ses tried to get away with the discovery respectfully yours GEORGE H CROSBY JR JB |
