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James Madison Welch

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Jones and Taylor family histories, undated

Jones and Taylor family histories, undated.

<p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[Elmer Taylor]</p>



<p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">It was about the middle of July 1850, that he started for Salt Lake city in Captain Foote’s “hundred” and Abraham Coon’s “ten”. The thrid day cholera attacked thecamp, a man named [Alfred] Brown being the first one to succumb. Half of Horace Spafford’s family, the mother [Martha Stiles] and five children who were traveling with the Taylors, also died, the father [Horace] and five children recovering. Several of Captain Coon’s family were stricken, but none of the Taylor family, twelve in number, were even assailed. In all there were about thirty victims. Elmer [Taylor] assisted in digging th gtaves [graves] and burying the dead. Eight miles above Fort Laramie, Mattison [Madison] Welsh [Welch] and Nelson Spafford narrowly escaped drowning while swimming the Platte river, driving stock to feed. Elmer Taylor was of the party, and though a poor swimmer, while his companions were experts, by holding on to an ox’s tail he crossed and recrossed the deep, a swift-running stream without difficulty. On the Sweetwater his father [Benjamin Franklin Taylor] nearly died from being poisoned by a snake.</p>

Transcript for Jones and Taylor family histories, undated

Richetts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996

The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996, Page 23.

The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996, Page 244-245.

Richetts, Norma Baldwin, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848, Logan, Utah, Utah State University Press, 1996.

Warren Foote Emigrating Company Journal

Warren Foote Emigrating Company Journal, June 1850, Page 21.

Transcript for Warren Foote Emigrating Company Journal, 1850 June-September

Warren Foote Emigrating Company Journal.

Warren Foote papers, 1837-1941

Warren Foote papers, 1837-1941, May 1837, Page 110-26.

Transcript for Warren Foote, Autobiography and journal, 1837 May-1879 December, 110-126

Warren Foote papers, 1837-1941.

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