| Show A VETERANS TESTIMONY huntington HUNTI NOTON emery co utah september 11 1894 in looking over the account of the reunion of the battalion boys the thelio pio nears and the indian war veterans it brings to mind many faces and scenes of times long past I 1 am not a battalion hoy boy nor one of the pioneers fur for when the body of the saints lett left nauvoo they left me on a sick bed and in poverty but I 1 was soon busy fitting myself up and trying to help the poor who were lett left behind myself and D r lo le baron had charge of the nauvoo temple exhibiting it to strangers stranger until it was burned I 1 remained at nauvoo until the spring of 1860 1850 when I 1 started with my family to follow the saints to the mountains on arriving at Ka Kanes neaville ville I 1 found that hat the cholera had broken out amongst our people and I 1 was counseled to stop there and practice me medicina dicini mong the sick which I 1 did until the spring of ISM when I 1 prepared to finish my journey to the ibe mountains on account of the high waters it was thought best to try to go around the head waters of the elk horn and loop fork and it took us six weeks to make the journey of one week on the old rond rand there or are many manly now living jiving who renumber reja ren ember omber the tb trials trial and sufferings of that journey for want of toed teed wood and water we arrived in satt salt lake city the lot of octobers october having boving been nearly sow lent months on the road there are many incidents of that journey that would look well in print the first twenty 20 years of my life to in utah were spent mostly on the frontier or among the indians I 1 became identified with this churell in 1881 moved to kirtland in 1833 left there in the kirtland camp in 1888 1838 was among the first at nauvoo and last to leave there so have passed through all the kirtland and nauvoo troubles the indian and other wars ware in utah and now at almost seventy two years of age am still here to mingle toy my voice with yours in the great work but my hands have done thier work and I 1 am fast nearing that better land to meet those dear friends who have gone before me and I 1 am still as I 1 always have been firm in the faith of the true and everlasting gospel brogh tto to us through the pro phet joseph smith it is a general time of health here bere the farmers are busy harvesting their crops which are good although a little damaged by the late rains pour four schools start up monday and bu is going right along regardless of hard bard times GEO W JOHN JOHNSON sox SEN |
