Andrew Hunter Scott (1815 - 1874) Profile

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Bezzant, Harriet Charlotte Wright, "Biography of John and Charlotte Smith Wright by Their Daughter, Hattie Wright Bezzant."

Bezzant, Harriet Charlotte Wright, "Biography of John and Charlotte Smith Wright by Their Daughter, Hattie Wright Bezzant.".

In 1863 they moved to Liverpool, and in 1866 emigrated to Utah.



 Early in the year they, with their three children, Hyrum Isaac age 10, John Jr. age 7, and a baby girl, left Liverpool and sailed on the ship Orkwright.  After seven weeks and five days on the ocean they landed at New York.  They traveled by railroad from New York to Omaha, Neb.



 The company of Saints remained at Omaha three days to prepare for the journey overland by ox teams.  While at Omaha their baby girl died.  The mother sat in the shelter of some trees and held the dead child until morning.  A sister in the party, Miss [Elizabeth] Kettle, (afterward Mrs. John Peters.) made some burriel clothing and a board coffin was made and the dear little child was buried here among others who had passed away while enroute across the plains for those who could not stand the hardships of the journey.



 They crossed the plains in the company under Captains Andrew H. Scott and John Haws both of Provo, Utah.  The father of Andrew Jensen (Church Historian) [Christian Jensen] and his family and Wm. O. Williamsen's and Hebertson's families, later of Pl[easant] Grove, also came in this company from Omaha.  They arrived in Salt Lake Oct. 8th and on the 10th came to Pleasant Grove where the Smiths (Mrs. Wright's parents) lived in a log house on the lot where the Mayhew, later Nebber, house now stands.

Transcript for Bezzant, Harriet Charlotte Wright, "Biography of John and Charlotte Smith Wright by Their Daughter, Hattie Wright Bezzant."

DUP Pioneer History Collection

Autobiography of Marie Nielsen Robins

"Autobiography of Marie Nielsen Robins", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 3-4.

Here [Omaha] we were forced to wait several days for men from Utah who were to take charge of the company.


My parents were penniless and were without the necessary cooking utensils to begin the long trip across the Plains. One day while we were waiting, some other children and myself went into some oak brush to play when, right before me, lay a five dollar gold piece. I picked it up and showed it to the other children. An older girl in the group wanted to give me some bright pieces of cloth for it but although I did not know its value, I felt I must take it to father. This I did and he took it to the Captain of the Company who told him there would be no chance of finding the owner and for him to use it. Again in our time of need we acknowledged the hand of the Lord in Helping us.


From the time we left our home in Denmark, my eleven year old brother had been ill. Most of the time so bad he had to be carried from place to place. We left Omaha, August seventh in Captain Scott's company and at noon, August 9, just as mother was preparing the meal, my older brother who was left in the wagon called, ‘Oh, Mother!' [Niels] Ditlow [Ditlov Neilsen] is dying!” He had been so anxious to reach Zion where he could rest but was the first of the company to be left at the sides of the trail. In one hour the train moved on, but before that time a shallow grave had been dug by father. The little body was wrapped in a blanket and laid away and the stricken family fell in line with their faces ever to the West.


The morning before his death one of the teamsters had given him a stick of peppermint candy which was taken from his hand after death and divided among the children, being the first candy I had ever tasted.


Forty-four others of the company passed away before Salt Lake Valley was reached. Mother's health was poor and she and my two smaller sisters rode in the wagon most of the way but I walked the entire distance, being placed in the wagon only when streams were too deep to be waded.


A company of prospectors was a short distance ahead of us on the Plains and I would often go to their camp sites and gather discorded [discarded] bacon rinds, onion and potato peeling and take to Mother. She would scrape and clean them and make broth that tasted better than the choicest food does now. When we reached Echo Canyon a terrible storm came up and many of the cattle were frozen to death. The emigrants were so hungry they would have eaten the flesh of the animals but the officers in charge would not allow.


We arrived at the tithing yard in Salt Lake City October 6, after five months of almost constant traveling . . .

Transcript for "Autobiography of Marie Nielsen Robins," 3-4.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers. DUP Pioneer History Collection.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008. Supplement after 31 December 1851: Page 11.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Vol. 4, Page 2711.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude.

Scott, Andrew Hunter, Autobiographical sketch, in 34th Quorum, Biographies, 1857-1875

Scott, Andrew Hunter, Autobiographical sketch, in 34th Quorum, Biographies, 1857-1875, Vol. 2.

Scott, Andrew Hunter, Autobiographical sketch, in 34th Quorum, Biographies, 1857-1875.

Scott, Andrew Hunter, Autobiography, in Susan Tate Laing, Andrew Hunter Scott: Builder in the Kingdom [2001], 481

Scott, Andrew Hunter, Autobiography, in Susan Tate Laing, Andrew Hunter Scott: Builder in the Kingdom [2001], 481.

Scott, Sarah Ann Roe, Autobiographical sketch, 1892, 2-4

Scott, Sarah Ann Roe, Autobiographical sketch, 1892, 2-4.

Started out for the Valley of Great Salt Lake in the spring of 1851 in Capt. Morris Phelps Company [.] as the Elk horn River was very high and getting late in the season the Captain Concluded to head the Horn which was a tedious Journey as only one Company had started that way, but those that did not come to the mountains in those days do not know what it is to travel over the plains in wagons drawn by oxens and only one house in a thousand miles and sometimes camp where there was no water for man or beast and no wood to make a fire[.] But we traveled on our Journey trusting in our Heavenly Father to preserve us to the end of our Journey 	
Crossed the mountains into the Salt Lake Valley on my nineteenth Birthday Sept. 26, 1851. Stopped in the Salt Lake City that winter

Transcript for Scott, Sarah Ann Roe, Autobiographical sketch, 1892, 2-4

The story of the life of Isaac F. Shaw, 1926

The story of the life of Isaac F. Shaw, 1926, Page 6-14.

Transcript for Hammer, Mary Lenora Shaw, The Story of the Life of Isaac F. Shaw [1926], 6-14

The story of the life of Isaac F. Shaw, 1926.

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