Allen Russell (1824 - 1919) Profile

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Benjamin Gardner notebook, 1851-1862

Benjamin Gardner notebook, 1851-1862.

<center xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">June the 13th 1852</center>



the North Pigeon Company was organized under the direction of E T Benson[,] Benjamin Gardner was appointed Captain of the Company it being the tenth fifty[;] Jude Allen was appointed Capted [Captain] of the guard and Joseph Nichlas [Nicholas] assistant[.] Beverly C Boren was apointed Clerk[.] Crost Misourie [Missouri] river on the 21[st] of June[.] by request of Elder Benson A P Chesley remained there



also on the 29 Lorenzo Jo[h]nson[,] JC Hall[,] Agrip[p]a Coopper [Cooper] and Br Read returned to the river order of E T Benson as guard[.] they was furnished with fore [four] horses[,] guns[,] provision



June 30 Brother Larson died[.] Emaly [Emily] Marinda Jo[h]nson died the 29[th] aged 2 years[,] 9 months and Elizabeth Marrinda Mangum died on the 30th aged 1 year[,] &amp; 9 mo[,] <s>8</s> 9 day[s] and Sariah Mangum on the 5th of July aged 36 y[,] 11 mon[,] 27 days[;] on the 5th Mariah Lane aged 46 years [;] on the 8th William Lane aged 55 years [;] on the 11th Alfred Hunt 5 years[,] 4 m[,] 11 days[;] on the 12 LouCrecia [Lucretia] Jane Boren aged 1 year 10 months[,] 2 days[.] The only daughter of B C and M.J. Boren <s>and on</s> William Francis Beal on the 12th aged 2 years[,] 5 months[,] 3 days and on the 16 Hosea Berian Boren aged 12 years[,] 7 mon[,] 11 days and on the 19th Catharine Wilson aged 2 years[,] 7 m[,] 16 days[,] and on the 29th Jude Allen Juneyer [Junior] aged 1 year[,] 1 month[,] 4 days



on the 7th of July Lorenzo Jo[h]nson and J C Hall returned to the Company and on the [illegible] night of the 24th of July A P Chesley and Agrippa Coopper [Cooper] returned in Company with E T Benson[,] John Taylor[,] Erastus Snow and [blank space] Richards and others



and on the 25th A meeting was held and much instruction given after which E.T. Benson consider&lt;ed&gt; it wisdom to divide the Company[.] Lorenzo Jo[h]nson was apointed to take Charge of the 2th [2nd] division subject to the orders of Cpt g[u]ard



then on the 8th of August the first and 2th [2nd] division encamped near to geather[.] the Captains of the tens were Cald in Council with regard to Crossing on the south side of the river[.] after Consulting a few minutes it was motioned by B.C. Boren and Second[ed] by Allen Russel[l] that <s>they</s> we remained on the north side of the river[.] the vote were thence Caled and susttained unianimos [unanimous]

Transcript for Benjamin Gardner notebook, 1851-1862

"Fillmore Pioneer Nearly 95 Years of Age Is Dead," Deseret Evening News

"Fillmore Pioneer Nearly 95 Years of Age Is Dead," Deseret Evening News, July 17, 1919.

"Fillmore Pioneer Nearly 95 Years of Age Is Dead," Deseret Evening News.

Russell, Allen, Reminiscences

Russell, Allen, Reminiscences.

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">So when Spring came, all that could get redy gathered near the Ferry. &amp; ware organized into Companies.) &amp; crossed with Captins of fifties, &amp; of tens the River, &amp; Started for Salt Lake valley. Benjamin Gardner was appointed Captain of the fifty that I traveled in, &amp; I was appointed Captain over one of the tens in Capt. Gardners Company. &amp; we traveled on without much dificulty, until the c[h]olera broke out among us. Then we had a terable time with that awful Diseas. There was 16 that Died in Capt. Gardner Company. My Father, &amp; his wife, my step mother, &amp; my Brother Horace, traveled with me. We traveled on until we Came near the, Black hills, to a stream Called deer Creek, &amp; there we lay over a day for the women to wash, &amp; straiten up a little, &amp; myself Jude Allen, &amp; Jessee Habson went out on a hunt, &amp; it being a very warm day, I got very thursty, &amp; came very near dying, by drinking, to much alkaly water. we killed one Buffalo, &amp; returned to Camp in the night[.] the next day the Company Started on, &amp; I had to get another Man to drive my team, &amp; I suffered terably all that day, &amp; all that night, &amp; was not able to take care of my team. The next [day] came, &amp; I was still worse &amp; I told Capt. Gardner, that I could not travel that day, &amp; they could go on, &amp; If I lived I would Come on, &amp; if I died I might be burried there as well as any whare, &amp; he Said they would lay by that day, &amp; perhaps, I would be able to travel the next day. And I suffered terable that day, &amp; they kep giveing me grees vinegar, &amp; Sour bull berries, until they got the Strength of the alkaly killed, &amp; then I began to feel a little better, &amp; the next day, we traveld on, &amp; I kep geting better, &amp; in a fiew days I got so th[at] I could drive my own team. That was the first time in my life that I thought I was going to Die. We continued traveling on, &amp; on the 24 day of september we arived in Salt lake City. </xhtml:p>

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