Daniel Roberts (1842 - 1919) Profile

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Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 859

Frank Esshom, Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah (Salt Lake City: Utah Pioneers Book Publishing Company, 1913), 859.

"Handcart Pioneer Dies at 77 Years," Salt Lake Herald

"Handcart Pioneer Dies at 77 Years," Salt Lake Herald, February 7, 1919.

"Handcart Pioneer Dies at 77 Years," Salt Lake Herald.

Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6

Handcart Veterans Association. Handcart Veterans Association scrapbook, 1906-1914, folder 6.

"Handcart Vets Hold Reunion," Deseret Evening News

"Handcart Vets Hold Reunion," Deseret Evening News, October 3, 1907.

"Handcart Vets Hold Reunion," Deseret Evening News.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B

Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B, Page 182.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund, Financial Accounts 1849-1886, Ledger B.

Roberts, Robert David, Family record, 1854-1921, fd. 2, 7

Roberts, Robert David, Family record, 1854-1921, fd. 2, 7.

I shall give [a] little of our history from the old c[o]untry untill the present time as corect as my memory will serve me.
We started from North Welas [Wales] Meirionethshire [Merionethshire] Parish Festiniog Bethania in the year 1856. April 9th 
on the 10th arrived in Liverpool and on the 19th we went into the ship S[amuel]. Curling. which was on the 20th to start her Journey acros the Atlantic[.] This journey was very ruff the Sea was raising like mountains and tosing the Ship in every way. 
May 24th we arrived in Boston on the Continant of Amarica [America.] in a day or two we took the Rail Road Cars to travel from here to Io[w]a City[.] We was about eight days on the Rail Road and staid here nearly three weeks[.] after this we took our journey acros the blains [plains] to Utah with the hand-Carts and arrived in Salt Lake City October 2nd[.] This journey was very heart [hard] because we did not have half enough to eat for the support of our bodys and very heart [hard] work to draw the handcart[.] we staid here for a few days, my father and family went to Farmington 18 miles North of Salt Lake City.

Transcript for Roberts, Robert David, Family record, 1854-1921, fd. 2, 7

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