Show A TOUCHING STORY uintah co utah march 17 1897 in reading the NEWS I 1 see ee some of ahe atha pioneer misters mentioning some ome ol of the trials of early life to ID utah I 1 will say ay a few words that baan vt been written I 1 nave have been through all or of toe the mobbing ol of this people I 1 the on the ath of uary on the loe ice was wag one of the sift am sit mount garden grove al 31 suit council conoll bluff traveled ID brother parley fratia company my tenah ABd to lo the battalion after many weeks of hardship while up the Ar Arka kassam oaB river the sona all we the families to pueblo to in mexico to winter with a detach beat of men man tor for a guard with orders orden to 40 meet the rasta army on a certain aortal D 4 imbt as santa fe we had bad tu to travel a w wild lid indian country we under captain higgins and foamed aed through the arapahoe nation abl which was wa on the illuv warpath karpath war path the cap tola ordered all to load their guns euna my bagband being sick iok at the time put his sam with the muzzle to the front of ibe rin ka go nave it handy bandy rod and when be go tooS rit IS out it shot bot him through the at al the indian chief who came to gold be could cure him to a time and dd the men thought best beat to ato baw an they W had no doctor aad ad they had aad strict arlot orders ora to meet the again aaen arnay army at t a certain time ISO 80 I 1 fayed with wilb him and brother thomas bod and MY mj little 12 year jear ola sister caroline Sarg sargent BOURN so bo I 1 VM left la in bat strange land in a dell aate af situation among ule the wild and indiana Ind laDi my died and nd brother woolsey u dag us a grave and we put him 16 some ome sheets beeta and lowered him into be grave without a emu or a board to mark the lonely DOL the chief told me I 1 was waa safe afe while walle j I 1 clayed in his bis tent it he 1 j abere I 1 had bad to give alm near jy jj all 1 I I 1 toad had in my fagoo once fit b teft me while I 1 was waa in his hii tent and two UW barfie indiana came ins in took out long lucree and made them hem sharp and all ur hm kiwo looking at me this was be jem my husband died they are going to co kill you and dissect you pray to so gode god aud and I 1 did many macy and the he indiana indian got up and west went away muttering the chief ahen am came and said they were very b alter we left mig lonely spot we ourselves oun elvea in the hands handa of god ana we graveled rave led in four days day the he same ft al alastanas that the company did dia la in seven vea I 1 had bad an ox ex team the jurdon of the lord was waa over us and me doiy through all we the team many times and isea wim in the road and asked the to uda take care of us na and he be mutely aurely did for we saw savage indiana following as all be time brother woolsey stood food guard at night while the he hungry wolves bowled around so BO close they scratched and throw threw the he dirt on my head bead when I 1 overtook the company the slaters misters gathered around me as aa it I 1 had been their child and wept tears teara ol of joy saying maying they never expected to see aee me again we started under order of the government and got into the valley on the it was waa a haril bard time lime tor for us all I 1 had in shape of broad bread was wa pounds of flour one bushel of corn and one half ball bushel of wheat the wheat we owed bowed the same fall it if we had kept it we might have eaten it in we the spring it came up and I 1 b a crickets eat it off twice it came on again and at harvest we pulled and thrashed it and had fifteen bushels bushel I 1 thought I 1 was rich then never did broad bread taste so ao sweet and it was waa ground on a band will mill baked without sitting many days day I 1 took my child and went and dug degoes all day got home and cooked them and that would be all we bad that day we lived many days on whistles thistles es boota and greens and sego degoes I 1 mean we existed we did not live that Is IB what brother kimball used to tell UL u he was wa a great prophet of god I 1 board beard him prophesy many things that I 1 have lived jived to see bee ful filled I 1 could wy say many more things but my article to B quite lengthy and aid way may not oe be worthy a place in your paper I 1 fear it to in too lengthy I 1 will close hoping you will thin writing and spelling elling cp as I 1 haven it had may any schooling booling Bo to speak of I 1 sin am to IB my seventieth year I 1 lett nauvoo to lo 1846 and got to salt bait lake lo in July 1847 JANE |