Franklin Wheeler Young (1839 - 1911) Profile

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Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917, Church History Library Journal

Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917, Church History Library Journal.

Historical Department journal history of the Church

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, October 8, 1861, Page 9.

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, October 9, 1856, Page 2-3.

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, May 30, 1858, Page 2.

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008, October 7, 1878, Page 4.

Historical Department journal history of the Church.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, Vol. 2.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, 2:94

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, 2:94.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, 2:98

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941, 2:98.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 76, Line 3018.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 70, Line 3018.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Franklin W. Young autobiography

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Franklin W. Young autobiography.

Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917

Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917.

Transcript for Franklin W. Young autobiography, circa 1915-1917

Historical Department journal history of the Church, June 21, 1847, Page 15.

MS 4040 1-4: Eli Bell diaries, 1854-1864

MS 4040 1-4: Eli Bell diaries, 1854-1864, Vol. 4.

Transcript for Eli Bell diaries, 1854-1864, vol. 4

MS 4040 1-4: Eli Bell diaries, 1854-1864.

"Orangeville. Siege of Smallpox Now Lifted-Pioneers Ill," Deseret News

"Orangeville. Siege of Smallpox Now Lifted-Pioneers Ill," Deseret News, April 10, 1907.

"Orangeville. Siege of Smallpox Now Lifted-Pioneers Ill," Deseret News.

"Pioneer of Many Localities Dead," Emery County Progress

"Pioneer of Many Localities Dead," Emery County Progress, January 28, 1911.

"Pioneer of Many Localities Dead," Emery County Progress.

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Diary

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Diary.

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Young family genealogy [ca. 1889-1899], fd. 1, 4-6

Young, Franklin Wheeler, Young family genealogy [ca. 1889-1899], fd. 1, 4-6.

In the spring of 1847 my father [Lorenzo Dow Young] went in the first company of Pioneers, with Prest. Brigham Young, and my brother John R[ay]. [Young] and I were left to come on later, with one ox team of two yoke of oxen, to bring my father's second family. We had a few cows that were put in with, and helped to make up the company cow herd; and the same with a few sheep we had, and my brother, 10 years old, and I 8 years old, had to help drive the cow herd one week, and the sheep herd the next, and then with the cows again, but other people were just as well, or bad off, which shall I call? one man having a few cows, but no boys, had to send a girl, some 8 or 10 years old to help drive the cows. One day we got away behind the train with the cow herd, and this poor girl gave out, and would have been left behind, but 
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 <we> boys caught a yearling heifer and got the poor, tired little Miss on to the heifer, astride? yes, and brought her safe into camp. and she live<d> and grew and came to be a very nice lady.
One day I was riding in the wagon, and while moving along, I slipped down on to the wagon tongue, and slipped &lt;and&gt; fell to the ground, the front wheel passed over both my legs just above the ankles, but no bones were broken, and I got a ride for a week or ten days, before I was able to drive cows again. On the way I saw thousands, yes, tens of thousands of buffalos. The hills being black with them for miles &amp; miles 
Our company had with it an old cannon, mounted on two wheles [wheels]. It was known as the "Old Sow". One morning while we were camped just below Laramie, on the bank of the Platt[e] river, in respons[e] to a request brought by a messenger from Capt. John Taylor (afterwards President Taylor) the cannon was fired, just to let the Indians know we had a big gun. Just as they were about to fire the cannon, I, not knowin&lt;g&gt; of the intention, rode a little mule down a "buffalo trail" into the river to let the mule drink. The bank was steep, the mules front feet were in the water up to its knees, when"bang" went the Old Sow. the mule jumped backward, and I went forward head first into the river, and it over my head, but I hung to the halter rope and "Peggy" pulled me out! Is it any wonder I have always had a kindly feeling for a mule ever since Seeing this one saved me from floating down the river to become food for fishes? This same day a big, big Indian chief learning that I had no father there wanted to buy me, and offered five ponies and two mules for me. I thought it was more than I was worth, and went and hid under some bedding in the wagon. When asked what he wanted me for, the big Cheif [chief] said I should sleep in his lodge,ride a good horse and learn to kill buffalo, and when grown Should have his own little girl for a wife, and be a big cheif too. Lo, how glad I am they did not sell me, for then I could never have been your loving Father. 
 My dear daughter:
We came across the plains in Capt. Jedediah M. Grant's fifty, and Isaac Chase's ten. At Green river I was afraid to ride across the river in the wagon, and proposed to wade the stream, but Capt. Chase saw me, and called out to me in a very earnest way "Here, what are you up to! Get in that wagon this minute." I obeyed, and no doubt saved my life by so doing, for the stream was too deep and swift for me to wade it.
 The day we met Prest. B[righam].Young and the returning Pioneers we camped early, and there was a time of rejoicing, and a meeting held in the afternoon, and, as I remember a dance in the evening, and while our young and able men were dancing, the Indians were quietly driving off ever so many of our horses and mules, among them little "Peggy" that dumped me in the Platt[e] river, and then pulled me out in the same movement. The loss of so many horses and mules, crippled the company very much.
 We arrived in Salt Lake Valley on the 4th day of October 1847.

Transcript for Young, Franklin Wheeler, Young family genealogy [ca. 1889-1899], fd. 1, 4-6

Young, John R., Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer, 1847 [1920], 56, 60-61

Young, John R., Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer, 1847 [1920], 56, 60-61.

I may relate a little incident in my own life. My father and my younger brother, a lad of five years, went with the advance company of pioneers. My brother Franklin W. and I followed in Jedediah M. Grant's company. On Ham's Fork, near Fort Bridger, a cow gave out, and I was left behind the train to try to bring her into camp. At sunset, while about three miles behind the camp, letting the cow rest, I saw an Indian just across the creek move from behind a tree. Needless to say I made quick tracks toward camp.
In the morning we found that the Indians had killed the cow. It proved to be a band of Sioux, on the war path after Shoshones. Had they been angry at us, they could have killed me as well as the cow,—Brigham's counsel was bearing fruit. Neither my scalp, nor our cattle, beyond that one cow, were interfered with, while Fort Bridger was heavily raided.
To me the migration of our people for the next twenty years was a wonderful history. Our companies often scattered far apart in order to get feed for the cattle; our men, weak in numbers and but poorly armed; our women and children often compelled to walk, and therefore, sometimes quite unconsciously going too far ahead to be safe, or, in spite of the vigilance of the guards, becoming weary and lagging behind, yet not a single life was lost by the hand of the Indians.
Again the cheerfulness with which the people passed under the rod during these unparalleled journeys was no less marvelous than the protecting providence that was over them. Picture in your mind starting out on a certain morning, in company with five hundred men, women, and children. We walk eight or ten miles, then halt for dinner. Five hundred head of cattle have to be unyoked, watered, then driven to pasture and guarded, while fires are built and dinner is being prepared. Then the cattle are reyoked, the wagons packed, and the line of travel is taken up again.
Thousands of our people, many of them mothers with babes in their arms, walked every foot of that ten hundred thirty-seven mile stretch from Winter Quarters to Salt Lake. Day after day the toilsome journey is renewed. At night a quilt or blanket is spread upon mother earth for a resting place. Days pass into weeks, and weeks into months, before the longing eyes find rest and the weary feet pass down the dusty road of Emigration Canyon. Picture then, their feelings, when, on reaching a certain eminence, the Salt Lake Valley, with the Dead Sea glimmering beyond, burst like a vision of glory upon their view! Old and young break down, and weep for joy.
Having foreshadowed the immigration movement in general, I turn back to the parting at Winter Quarters. Owing to the poverty of our people, and to the lack of men, conditions were such that in making up the Pioneer Company many families were divided. Such was the case in my father's family. My dear mother, poor in health, was left behind with my only sister, Harriet, to follow several years later.
It fell to my lot to cross the plains in Captain Jedediah M. Grant's company. Brother Grant was a man of wonderful energy. In fact, the various companies which followed on the heels of the pioneers were led by a host of stalwarts; so that in my youth I became acquainted with many solid men of Joseph's day. Foremost among them, to my mind, were Brigham Young, John Taylor, Geo. A. Smith, Parley P. Pratt, Uncle John Smith, and Uncle John Young.
The last-named stood as a father to me; and yet, during that pilgrimage I was like a waif upon the ocean. The camp fire was my home, and I was everybody's chore boy. While this arrangement taught me self-reliance, it chilled my heart, and turned me against those finer, more tender endearments of life which ever abound in happy, lovable homes; and from this experience I have learned to pity the child that grows up without a mother's care and caress.
On reaching the Valley, our people at first all lived in the "Old Fort."

Transcript for Young, John R., Memoirs of John R. Young: Utah Pioneer, 1847 [1920], 56, 60-61

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From Journal History: Oct 8, 1861 page 9: At the October Gemeral Conference, 1861 F.W. Young, with others, was called to settle in Southern Utah. Source: Blake's manuscript. Dec. 9, 1861 page 2, F. was appointed postmaster, James G. Bleak manuscript. Sep. 23, 1862 page 4 at a conference at St. George Franklin W. Young was called as bishop (he was formally the Bishop of Payson, see Journal History Sep. 27, 1861) of Grafton, Utah Territory (now Washington County, Utah). Nov. 16, 1862 page 1 he was released from this position when he moved to St. George and was called to the High Council.

October, 1863 was released from Southern Utah Mission by President Brigham Young and called to go to Bear Lake where he was appointed County Clerk and then Recorder for Richland County, Idaho. Called to help settle Cache Valley 1866 to 1873.

St. George, Washington, Utah Territory, United States

1866 he was called to help settle Cache Valley. In 1873 he returned to Salt Lake City until he was called to settle on the Sevier in 1875.

Richland County, Idaho Territory, United States

Cache Valley, Utah Territory, United States

1875 called to settle on the Sevier, going first to establish the town of Leamington and then Rabbit Valley. October, 1877 on to Thurber and Loa, now in Wayne County, Utah.

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

Journal History Oct. 7, 1878, page 4, F. W. Young of Oak Creek called on a second mission to Hawaiian Islands. Source Deseret News 27:597. Oct. 12, 1878 page 5, Honorably released from this call due to family circumstances

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