Show VETERAN AND PIONEER county march 8 1895 As AB you desire to know something bout about the be pioneers of Jackson county siad and I 1 am one or of them I 1 submit the following I 1 went to jackson county with my rather father and ana mother titus pad and diantha billings billing when I 1 was four years yean old bishop partridge and father rooted rented the house of governor boggs bogga they bad several wagons and teams teama and no surprised the native missourians Missour ians by putting pulling up a lot of bay and preparing for the winter this was regarded as uch such an lv innovation on the ancient customs that the people came anil and hauled away the wagons wagon and dumped them over a hillside into a creek after this they met e fire to the hay stacks table and burned them we were then driven into olay clay county where far west was settled when further troubles lea came from the os natives tives we removed to illino a and settled at nauvoo I 1 came from nancoo to council bluffs and stopped over winter and came on to jtb with the pioneers Plo neen I 1 was with the company of ten commanded by howard egan the following season I 1 went back to the missouri Misa ouri river and returned with president Preal dent heber C kimball I 1 went to california after the gold discovery dla covery in 1849 and abent there nearly two hearp alter after rt turning from the gold fields I 1 settled in manti and have remained here bore ever since ince except two years when I 1 was waa on st a to carson canon nevada with president orson oreon hyde I 1 am now ow almost 68 years yean or of age if those items are of interest you are at t liberty to use them your brother P BILLINGS |