Show ONE OF THE PIONEERS mr azariah county sends goods the following letter to the concerning he be early oz experiences perien perle noes ces in the be church of hims himself elfand and nis lather father who died on october 31 1892 mr smith was waa present when marshall made the famous guld discovery to io california in 1848 and nd his bla journal has baa been thought of historical value on oa that bat account MANTI may 12 albert smith was horn november 18 1804 in ashfield Asb Ast field ifield franklin county maw of david and deborah smith and was married to esther dutcher Du may 19 1826 at Boil atun oswego county N Y abut the be year 1886 1885 they bey moved to ohio obio where in the year 1839 they embraced ibb gospel of the church ot or jesus christ of latter nay sainta fi soon boon start tart ing for missouri hut but as aa the were compelled to leave that state they stopped with a small branch ot of the church in sangamon Sani county ill uv uc til the year 1840 1849 when the saints were again gathering at commerce hancook hancock county 1 ai we then moved to that place next we crossed over the mississippi river iu in iowa where we remained until we had bad made shingle clapboards aud and taken timber etc across the river sod built a frame house in nauvoo father took an ac tive part in building up that city laboring much on the temple and other buildings anil and being called be went on a mission east when the saints Sainta were compelled to leave nauvoo father WOL wei t with the pioneers ere leaving mother and four children of us ue behind having no team but he be soon returned meeting us ua on the way with brother dame we went on as ae far as aa and then stopped building a small mall log house bouse and getting in some home garden sauce etc but we soon abon left there with brother wilford woodruff going on to winter quarters qi i arten where there came U 8 officers asking for volunteers volunteer to go in the united states stales service against mexico maxim and it being considered wisdom father and myself enlisted in the me mormon Bat battalion tallon leaving mother and two sisters deters and a little brother in the care of the church with the prom lae INS of god through hla his that we should return in safety we soon marched down to fort leavenworth where we drew draw our muskets and equils menta meats and also alm pay for one yvra clothing etc of which we sent neni back over one half bait to mother and we soon started on our tedious journey west on foot but having teams tamb to haul baul our food blankets knapsack etc father was waa soon appointed to take charge i f the provisions provision end and deal out the fl to company B a disagreeable and tedious duty but which lie he discharged to the satisfaction of the company but as fr the hunger thirst and weariness we arine we had to endure there to la not room for me to tell in this letter I 1 have a written account of it that I 1 kept all the way through and of my life ever since of over four hundred pages while op on the way december 1846 father and two others were run over by some wild bulls hurting them badly anu and some ome wagons wagon and killing two mule but on 00 we went the colorado river and a dry depart and with much hunger thirst and weariness we finally arrived on the pacific coast and company B was soon oon stationed fattened at dan diego and while there father and myself made many adobes acobes for friends thus thui obtaining means and buying pock pack animals to pack our provia tons eto etc on july we were paid off and discharged A large company of us ui with pack animals traveled groveled north with muon difficulty through an unsettled country inba inhabited only by uncivilized indians roaming on the mountains they generally treated us well we traveled northward about miles or more and on the of aug 1847 we were informed by brothers little and hunt that the pioneers with the twelve and a large company of saint sainta were at suit salt lake we passed dutter buttery s fort got our horses bonea shod bod and soon oon turned our course eastward traveling over some very rough mountains moun taina and through much pins pine cedar hemlock redwood and oak timber some u af which was waa very large passing bear river we met captain crowns company just juat from suit bait lake with a letter from ane twelve and those there with me kind advice that those that had not families miliea fa and no means ot of subsist aubain once enoe should bould return to Cal tornia where they could earn a living father won then took lour four of our animals and most moat of the provisions and with a company went on I 1 took one horse borse and with a compa others went back to butters butter getting ejob a job of him to dig a canal for a gristmill according to his bis wishes 1 I with a few others went up in the mountains some borne forty miles to the place now DOW called caloma to build a sawmill and in the tale ale race which I 1 helped dig and in blasting a big rock I 1 to get it out of the way mr marshall found the first piece of gold picked up in califor calieon is ia on january we were diligent and finished the sawmill and made out to gother gaither up some of the precious louB metal in the spring with the first company I 1 came through to salt bait lake arriving on september bep the 28 th 1848 and finding father mother sisters and brother all well living up on the bench land east of salt lake city father had got in some crop but the crickets destroyed most moat of the wheat leaving only twelve bushels bus bals but sparing the garden sauce joy filled our bosoms to meet again according to the promise of god althou although gb nit under very favor able circumstances salt bait like lake city being laid oft off we took up two lots loto in the ninth ward both beth tart taft being bishop and built a comfortable for table adobe house which we lived in through the winter brother appleton harmon put a turning lathe in one room we made a good many chairs abaire on the of april 1849 1 I was wa married to camilla augusta taylor and her brother cyrenia H taylor was married to iny 2 sister at emily smiths smith at out our house bouse b by y B brigham bigham young foung and reber heber C kimball the crickets again destroyed the be most moat ol of the wheat but we had bad some corn and buckwheat I 1 got adobes acobes and prepared to build on my loep lot but upun upon being called to go south and make a settlement in valley we sold out as best we could buying oxen and wagons etc and then fattier myself and C H taylor with our families started and aad with both bath company worked our way south having hard bard work especially up salt bait creek canyon in making a road so no wo we could get through on De demoor we arrived in valley and going down to where manti now it if we stopped in a few days patriarch isaac base morley came with another company also P P pratt oame came with a small company compana on an exploring expedition through the winter we lived jived in dugouts dug outs built up tip with with stone and dirt root roof and no it flior bor on the south side of the hill on be temple now st stani antle Jr that was a severe winter with much snow for it a long time we had to go down daily to shovel the snow from off the lead feed to keep the stock from at starving arving we also had much trouble with the Lama having to keep guard all toe time father with my help made a good many shingle taking two loads load to bait lake in december 1851 father got a home bones finished and moved ioto into it he also farmed considerably and assisted in building a stone fort to protect hect ourselves from the I 1 In nei diane laur and we also had to take down our log jog houses bouses and make a fort of them and live in trouble with the indians but we soon began tu to build up the place working mostly at farming raining good crops I 1 was witti with epileptic AU from the time that I 1 came to lo Bao pete pets and after about five years yeam my wife left me having two chi ob ildreD larou I 1 then lived with father and tu mother other and on the ot of september 1856 mother died causing much sorrow borrow father was blessed wish many children but the most of them died while others othen were married and left lome the last years of my father were war devoted to temple work aei he 0 had bad a record of the names of our progeny tors for seven generations and when the timple temple was wan finished we joined in as a family in doing work for them we were baptized for about two thousand persons of both sexes father continued this labor until he could not go to the temple alt although bough living only three blocks away helas he was perfectly willing to go to rest and died on the blot of october leaving many children grandchildren anti and great grandchildren well beatt scattered ered abroad the funeral was well attended after the services he be was taken to the cem aernt tery and placed in bis bin grave by th the 0 side of mother to await the cirit resurrection AZARIA 11 SMITH |