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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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Winegar, Alvin, [Record book], in Papers 1841-1906

Winegar, Alvin, [Record book], in Papers 1841-1906.

Alvin Winegar Capt 
W[illia]m Parker 
W[illia]m Gullier [Gollaher] 
Alonzo H. Russell



This may certify that I have here by furnished one waggon one yoke of Oxen one yoke of Cows for the benefit of the poor in my ten, This may certify, I Capt Winegar have furnished one yoke of Oxen for the benefit of Sister Goal in place of her Horses which ware taken back by men to assist the last Co.



July 6th &lt;1852&gt; Jane Pugh &lt;37&gt;[,] Elizabeth Caroline [Pugh] &lt;21&gt;[,] W[illia]m Winegar &lt;2 years&gt;[,] M[argaret]. Winegar &lt;10 months&gt;[,] A[lvin]. Winegar &lt;36 years&gt; &amp; family, Capt[,] Mary Winegar &lt;34&gt;, J[ohn] Winegar &lt;13&gt;[,] [Samuel] T[homas]. Winegar &lt;11&gt;[,]A[lvin]. Winegar &lt;6&gt;[,] W. Parker &lt;31&gt;[,] Maryan[n] Parker &lt;31 years&gt;[,] W H Parker &lt;3&gt;[,] M <s>H</s> &lt;A&gt; Parker &lt;2&gt;[,] Miner Prisbee [Prisbrey,] 43[,] Mary Tobias &lt;23&gt;[,] Mary Tobias &lt;71&gt; G Tobias &lt;4&gt; S[amantha]. Gullier &lt;4&gt;[,] W Gullier &lt;2&gt;[,] W. Gullier &lt;44&gt;[,] E[lizabeth] Gullier &lt;43&gt;[,] <s>M.T. Gullier</s> El[izabeth] Gullier &lt;20&gt;[,] J[ames] Gullier &lt;18&gt;[.] Harriet A Gullier &lt;14&gt;[,] A. H. Russell &lt;31&gt;, Nancy B. Russell &lt;27&gt;[,] Fanny Russell &lt;7&gt;[,] Viola Russell &lt;5&gt;[,] Sophia Russell &lt;3&gt;[,] Linetta t Russell &lt;10&gt;



A Winegar Capt[,] 3 Wagons[,] 12 Oxen[,] 4 Cows[,] 1 Horse 
W. Parker 1 Wagon[,] 2 Oxen[,] 2 Cows[,] 
W Gullier 3 Wagons[,] 12 Oxen[,] 4 Cows 
A H Russell 1 Wagon[,] 4 Oxen[,] 3 Cows

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