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Bear, John L., "Autobiography of Elder John L.Bear," in Journal of History (Lamoni, Iowa: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Bear, John L., "Autobiography of Elder John L.Bear," in Journal of History (Lamoni, Iowa: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, January 1911.

At Saint Joseph we boarded a steamer bound north. We landed at Florence, two miles above Omaha. There we were left on the sand bank of the river. Soon some vehicles came down, and people began moving away till all were gone, excepting us, no one taking any notice of us. At last I went up to see what could be done, so a Swiss brother informed me that there was a hand car standing in an alley, saying, "If I were you, I would go and get it and take your things up?" I hesitated, saying, "They may take me up for it." He answered, "What else in the world can you do? You can not stay down on that sand bank. I would risk it if I were you."



So I took the car and was going to start, when I heard a shouting, and looking back, there was a big man, and I recognized him as John Smith, Hyrum's Son, patriarch in Utah, whom I had seen in Zurich. What I could make out of his hollering was that he wanted me to leave the car alone. But I started with it in full run down the hill, speaking to myself, "Let him come and catch me if he can." So we got our stuff up and crowded with others into one of those deserted houses; then I put the car back from where I took it.



We had to stay there a few weeks till our teams arrived. I was informed that we could not take our trunks with us, as the wagons would be overloaded. I did not like to leave them behind, as they were strongly built, bound with iron and put together with two-inch screws; they had cost me fourteen dollars; my older brother had made them.



There came a man, they said he was a Josephite, (the first time we had heard of Jospehites,) that wanted to buy some trunks. No doubt he knew that some could not take them along across the American desert, and they could be bought for a song. Well, he offered me so little for it, that I considered it a shame (don't know exactly the price any more, either twenty-five or fifty cents for both). I told him the screws alone cost that, if not more, and before I would sell them at that price, I would take the screws out and the locks and would take them with me, and would use the wood as firewood to cook our victuals. I considered him a poor specimen of Latter Day Saint. The screws and locks came in handy to me in the Rocky Mountain valleys, and the wood I burnt up to cook our meals with, as we had to stay at Florence quite a while.



Brother Diem, a Swiss, helped us to continue our journey from New York and he bought four teams, I assisting to drive one, I to pay him after I would be able to do so, after our arrival in the valley, which I heartily agreed to do. Our train consisted of thirty-five wagons, with two or three yoke of cattle to each. Eight wagons belonged to the Swiss.



I had such a faith in this latter day work that I thought when I could see that place of refuge I would fall down and kiss the very ground and praise His holy name; but oh, how soon it changed. We had all along the journey our evening and morning prayers, and did sing the songs of Zion. As we were getting toward the Rocky Mountain range a strange feeling came over me; evil forebodings of terrible things; troubles and trials seemed to penetrate my whole system, and I felt like the air was full of demons and evil spirits, which made me feel so miserable I can not describe it; yea, the nearer I got to our journey's end the worse I felt. When we reached the top of the big mountain, we could look down into that chamber and soon could see teams, on the Sabbath day, going up and down the canyons hauling wood. I was horrified and inquired who they were, and was answered, "They are Gentiles." "Well," I said, "we were told in the old country that no Gentiles would come here, as this was the Lord's chamber, where the people of God had a hiding place, till his wrath is passed over the nation." About seven or eight miles from Salt Lake City we made a noon halt. There came a few heavy set fellows from the valley; one of them offered up a prayer, but they did not remove their hats, and on inquiring who they were, I was informed that they were some of the Twelve to meet us. Well, I did think very little of them, because they would not remove their hats in the time of prayer, while all the rest of us were bareheaded. I also soon found out that those teams on the mountain road belonged to Mormons; some Brigham's, some Kimball's, and others.



Reader, you may think how I felt, coming from Babylon in full confidence to go to the Saints of the Most High, and then find them such transgressors of the law, which would not have been tolerated in Babylon, so called. Oh, my God, my God, what will be the end of this? Oh, Israel of old has gone astray in spite of the warnings of the prophets and here Israel of latter day is going astray; yea, their prophet and their leaders, their seducers. As we arrived at the city square, which was as dusty as earth could be made, and a strong wind blowing, we were in a puzzle, thousands of miles away from home and friends, destitute, in a strange country, with but little understanding of their language; no advice, no help, no assistance in any way; there you are, root or die.



Those who had friends were fetched by them, and so it was repeated as the same as it was on the sand banks of the Missouri at Florence.

Transcript for Bear, John L., "Autobiography of Elder John L.Bear," in Journal of History (Lamoni, Iowa: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, January, 1911), 4:80-82

Bear, John L., "Autobiography of Elder John L.Bear," in Journal of History (Lamoni, Iowa: Board of Publication of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Deseret News

The Immigration

"The Immigration", Deseret News, August 15, 1860.

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The following are the names of persons in Capt. John Smith's company of immigrant saints, as per his report forwarded to President Brigham Young from Laramie on the 27th of July:



John Smith; Lorin, Lovina, Hyrum S. [Smith], Jerusha C. [Celesta], Edwina M. [Mariah], Emma T. [Irene], William A. [Arthur] and Sarah E. [Ellen] Walker; Minor J. [Jewett], Lucy M. [A.], Sarah [Adelia], Eliza [Alida], and Francis Prisbrey; Mary Ann [Marianne] Pearson; Minor G. [Grant], Mary Ann [Hershey], Joseph [Smith] and Lucy Ann Prisbrey; Nathan [Cutler], Isabella [Wells], Wingaliea [Wingallea], Carey F. [Cora Isabelle] and Lydia B. [Lydia Rebecca] Davis; Alfred Holmes; William [B.], Ann [Annie Hayes], Thomas Stennett], Sarah Ann [Stennett], Martha [Stennett] and George [Joseph] Popfelton [Poppleton], Milam [Milan Lucian], Elizabeth [Sanborn], Edgar, Norman, James, Julia [Ann] and Alma [Milan] Fillmore; Daniel [Babcock], Thankful [Ann Grant], Martha [Minerva], [Daniel] Ranson, Marantha, Rosille [Thankful Rosella], Oscar [Newman] and Antha [Elmira] Fillmore; Orin Stoddard; Osmar, [Mary] Jane, Lucy Ann, Andrew J. [Jackson], Clarence [Augustus], Eveline [Augusta], Osmar G. and Charles [Merrit] Lamb; James O. [Orrin], Mary Jane [Fillmore], Jerome [Truman], Caliste [M.] and Denver [Orrin] Lamb; William and Mariette Burbeck; Karl G. [Gottfrid], Anna [Henrietta Meith], [Karl Frederick] Reinhard and Ortille [Anna Ottillie] Maeser; Camilla [Clara] Mieth; John [Jacob] Slaugh; William [Wilkinson], Mary [Ellen Stones], Hannah and Clementine Tuke; William and Jane Knapp [Knopp]; John and Susan Reynolds; John, Anna [Eva Dittmore], Henry, Mary [Elizabeth], and William Herbert [Herbst], Henry Didmore [Dittmore]; Mary and Henry S. Sheen [Sheets], William, Ann, Sarah, Thomas H. and Albert H. Starkey; Elizabeth Dunavan [Donovan]; William, Dinah [Ingham], John and William [Ingham] Nutter; Nancy [Nutter] and Elizabeth [Ann] Stemworth [Stanworth]; Henry, [Agnes] Francis [Goble], Joseph, Henry S. [Sidney] and Harriet J. [Jane] Howell; Eli, Martha and Ruth [Alice] Whitely; Thomas and Sarah Morgan; George and Eliza Gunn; William, Caroline [Hutchins] and Charles Brozier [Brazier]; Mary Ann [Gunn] Adey; Ann and Benjamin Gunn; John [C.], Caroline [Barham], John W. [William], Louisa B. [Barham] and Priscilla [Barham] Gunn; William, Emma [Baker], William [Baker], jr., Louisa, Fanny and Betsey Gunn; Betsey Judd; Cornelius, Frances [Hobbs], Jane [Caroline] and [Frances] Lucy Traveller; William [James], Jane [Gadsby] and Sarah J. [Jane] Panter; George Harrison; Nicholas, Julianna, Levi, Mary and Jane Lesater [Lasater]; John, Sarah [Blecher], Elizabeth, Louisa, Alice, Joseph, Hyrum and Esther Charrington [Cherrington]; John, Sarah and Ann Hughes; David, Ann, Sarah and John Evans; Philip [Phillip], Margaret [Davies], Elizabeth and Joseph [D.] Naughan [Vaughan]; John and Ann Beer [Beers]; James and Elizabeth Thompson; Henry, Caroline [Good], Malinda, Nancy A. [Ann] and Benjamin Hershey; Xavier F. and Mary Schlage; [James] Henry, Jane [Allen], John H. [Henry] and Mary J. [Jane] Blackner; Joshua, Elizabeth [Hoskins], Mary [Carter], Ellis [Davies], Benjamin [Hancock], William H. [Henry] and Caroline Salisbury; Mary [Whitehead], Mary A. [Ann] and Adam Chatwick [Chadwick]; James and Jane Sewell; Henry, Isabella [Elizabeth Archibald], Elizabeth and Henry [James] Anderson; Ellen [Easton] and George [Lawson] Scott; William, Eliza [Jane Broadbent], Frederic [William], Miranda [Jane], Mary [Elizabeth] and Sarah [Ann] Mullin; Mary E., Mary [E.] and Eliza Shawan [Shewan]; William and Ellen Young, Ann [Slater] Bunding [Bunting], Ann, John and Alfred Fenn; Stephen, Jane [Ellen Glover], James [William], Sarah, Margaret, Jane E. [Ellen] and Eliza [Elizabeth] Shelton [Skelton]; Benjamin, Phebe [Phoebe Davis], Margaret [Jane], Mary, Ann, Sarah, Emma and Thomas J. [John] Isaac; Daniel, Margaret [Evans], Ruth, Margaret, Samuel [H.] and Anna Williams; John O., Margaret [Jane John], Elizabeth, Emilie [Emily Caravena] and Chas. [Charles Cogan] Thomas; John E., Mary [Davies], Thomas, Evan [E.], Jane and Gorner [Gomer Isaac] Rees; Richard Williams; John [Haines], Sarah [Jane Davis], William [Davis], David [Davis], Thomas J. [John] and Ann L. [Anne Lianne] Williams; John Williams, sen.; William and Eva [Morgan] Bath; John Jenkins; Maria and Ann Bath; Hannah, Fanny and George Watson; Philip Bath; John, Hannah [Draycott], Mary A. [Ann] and Hyrum Bates; Joseph and Sarah Bradley; Evan and Margaret Thomas; John [Phillip] and Rachel [Williams] Isaac; Theophilus and Mary Williams; Thomas [Daniel] Stephens; Mary A. [Ann Webb] Stephens; William D. Roberts; Rodney [Quinby] Shoemaker; William Willis and Herman Davis.



There had been three deaths in the company before arriving at Laramie. William Glover, aged 80, died on the 1st, John [Cartwright] Cherrington the 10th, and Emma Blackner on the 15th of July. The last two were children not a year old.



The following are the names of persons in the First Hand-cart company, Capt. Daniel Robinson, which left Florence June 6, 1860:



Robert Stoney and family, [William] Oliver Mawson, George Pacer [Facer] and family, James Cook, George Nash and family; George Rogers and family; Mary Ann Gorton, Charles [M.] Webb and family; Susan Lavender and family, Amelia Rothwed [Rothwell], John Wagstaff, Demas Ashdown and family; Emma Jackson, Alfred Birmingham, Henry Nichols, Sarah Nichols, Alice [Bryant] Hook and family, Harriet Taylor, Thomas Birmingham, Edwin [Morrell] Curtis and wife, Hugh Cousins, Mark H. Forscutt and wife, Maria Holmes, Ellen Payne, William Walker and family, Henry Harrison, Sarah Birmingham, Hannah Slater, Sarah Booth, George Wright, Jabez Faux, David Holder, Dorathy [Dorothy] Kipling and family, Joseph Bell and family, Annie H. Hobbe [Annie E. Hobbs], George Meldrum and family, Jane Meldrum, Edward P. [Pearson] Holder , Andrew [Walker] Higgie [Heggie], Charles McNeil and family, John [Black] McCulloch and family, James Beverland and wife, Ann [Pearson] Holder, Margaret Whitten, Henry Tempest and family, William Williams, Eliza Rogers, Levi Naylor, Mary Matthews, Mary Nash, Ann Richardson, Joseph Slater, Mary Ann Webb, Christian Christiansan [Christensen], Thomas Green and family, Elizabeth Parkinson and family, Jesse Wilgas [Wilgus] and family, William Hemmings and family, John W. [William] Townsend and family, Elizabeth Royall [Royale], Jane Baker, Christopher Gardner and wife, John Stonestion [Stonestrom] and family, William Falconbridge, David Moffit [Moffat] and family, Thomas Jones and family, John Lewis and family, John Gibson and family, Henry Jacques and family, Robert Siddoway and family, William [Walter] Shewar [Shewan] and family, [Foster] Thomas Hook, Ann Stevens, William Ordige [Ordidge] and wife, John Wardle and family, David Richards and family, Ann Jackson, Hugh G. [Greenleaf] Sibbell [Sibbett] and family, Fanny [Franz] &amp; Mary Ann Robison, Richard Cough [Gough] and family, John Pilling, William Brownlow and wife, Hannah Cockin, John Siddoway and wife, Pridger [Pridgen] and Phoebe Thacker; [John] Joseph Welch and family, Conrad [Alma] Smith and family, Joseph Lapish and family, David [C.] Robison, Daniel Robison and family, William [R.] Corbett [Corbitt] and family, Augustus [Embley] Pierce and family, A. Dalrymple, William Robinson [Robison].



In the company there were 233 persons, 43 hand-carts, 6 wagons, 38 oxen and 10 tents.



The following are the names of persons in Captain James D. Ross' Wagon company:



James D. [Darling] Ross and family, George Smith and family, George Fawns [Farnes], Charles Budd, Harriet Husband [Husbands], Susan Husband [Husbands], Henry McEwan and family, Mary G. [Gilmore] White, Ebenezer Tucker, Frank Wilson and family, James Nibley and family, Thomas Dee and family, John Marsten and wife, John Frehand [Treharne], Wm. [William Bell] Barton and wife, Emma Walker, John J. Duke and wife, Wm. Cooper and wife, Sarah Clark, Henry Druce and family, Owen Jones, John Green, Richard Fry and wife, James Tucker and wife, Aaron Rigby and family, Wm. Robson and family, Richard Rankin and wife, Malcolm Donald and wife, Jane Allen, Wm. Ferguson, Joseph Graham and child, Henry [S.] Winson [Vinson] and family, Ann Haigh, Fanny Teaqnes [Teagues], Phillip Edwards and wife, Emily Davis, Thomas Parry and family, Edward Lloyd, Thomas Bolton [Boulton] and family, Thos. Hodgkins [Thomas Hodgkiss] and family, Valentine Rock and family, Thos. [Thomas Goldman Smith] and Benj. [Benjamin Franklin] Smith, Thomas [H.] Bradshaw and family, Mary Rumreal and daughter, Precila Blackatt [Priscilla Blackett], Rebacca [Rebecca] Murray and daughter, Winter Hastings, and family, Robert McCloy, Eliza Scalpin [Scelpin], Neils Snueson [Thueson] and family, M. C. E. Schaneveld [Edward Conrad Emil Schvaneveldt] and family, Nill [Nell] Fulson , Ola N. Lindgreen and family, Wm. Rodgers and family, Henry McCoy, Wm. Cooper and wife, Sarah Clark, John Croft and wife, Jesse [Jessie Sophia] Mitchell, Wm. Thornton and family, John C. Loosle [Loosli] and family, James Furriman [Fuhriman] and family, Annie Stiescheweld [Hegesveld], Ulrich Looslie and family, Maria Perenand [Perenaud], Louisa Perenand [Perenaud], [Johann] Rudolph Fley [Frei], Magda [Magdalena] Schneider, Johannes Diem and family, Caroline Schneeble [Schneibel], Conrad Huten [Hafen] and family, Daniel Benelie [Bonelli], John Hebbur [Reber] and family, John Stahele [Staheli] and family, Margaretha Vengar [Venger]; Samuel Hoffman and wife, Henuck [Heinrich]Kuhn[,] Sebrath Bar[,] Susannah Ledler [Sedler], Godleb Fley [Gottleib Frei], Maria Naf [Anna Maria Frei Naef] and family, John Stanfer [Staufer], Frederick Stanfer, Magdaline Kushu [Magdalena Kirsher] and family, Nicholas Huber, Wm. Stahele [William Staheli], Anna [or Hannah] Sidler, Eliza Stahele [Elizabeth Thalman Staheli], Christian Rerger [Berger] and family, F. Schapple [John Henry Schlappi] and family, Harnrich Schalerer [Heinrich Scharrer], and family, John Jnoser [Moser], Verena Ravver [Reber], Madalena Galli.



There were 249 persons, 36 wagons, 142 oxen and 54 cows in this company when it left Florence on the 17th of June.



The following are the names of persons in Captain Jesse [Easters] Murphy's company:



E. M. [Jesse Easters] Murphy and family, Jacob Dalson, Emanuel Bird [Murphy], Thomas E. Murphy and family, Thomas Stelfox and son, Fanny Stelfox, John Barnett and family, Margarett [Margaret] Lang, Jane Thomas, Joseph [William] Ovard, Nahima Holder [Nahum Cole Holden] and family, Elam Meecham [Mecham] and wife, Salsbury [Salisburg] Cummings, Sarah Jane Cummings, Mary Heuchett [Henchett], Wesley Norton, Benjamin P. Brown and family, Wm. Johnson, Emerett Sawyer and family, Margaret Denny and family, Edward Blair and family, Joseph Brown and wife, James Collins, Catherine Collins [Collings], Wm. H. Hunt and family, Jane Burden, George [Franklin] Jarvis and family, W. C. [William Cook] Reamer and family, Margaret Hardie [or Hardy], Jamesh [James Lippecot] Wilbert, Charles M. Webb and family, Wm. Lark and family, Robt. Clarkson and family George Spiers and family Rose Anna West, Eliza Smith, Anna Sherriger [Sherregar] George Ostler, John Crisholm [Chisholm] and family, Thomas [Benjamin] Davis and family, James Collins [Collings] and family, Mahonri M. Cumer [Collings], Robert E. Hartlett [Hurlett] and wife, John Eardley and family, Josiah Eardley, W. L. [Lot] Webster and wife, Eliza Williams, Thomas Overd and family, Thomas Smith and family, Isabella Reid, Joel S. Campbell and family, John W. Jenks [Jinks] and wife, More [Moroni] Campbell and wife, Dorthea Clark and family, John Kynaston and wife, Wm. [William Windsor] Jones and family, Frances Sprowl [Francis Sproul] and family, Lewis Taft and wife, Benj. N. Gavitt [Gavitte], Alonza D. Gavitt, Samuel Bee and family, M. [Mannery] Hulmes and family, Joseph Warburton and family, David [Giles] Roberts, Henry Hug and wife, Henry Buz [Benz] and family, Margaretta Wamftler [Wampfler], George Bouelle [Bonelli], Elizabeth Pankhausen [Frankhausen], John Uluck Stucke [John Ulrich Stucki] and wife, Henry Hafter and wife, Babetta Kunzei [Barbara Kuenzle], George Delthelm [Diethelm] and wife, Frederick Thencer [Theurer], Hendrick Gubler and family, Maria Benelli [Bonelli], Mary Huckstrasser [Hochstrasser] and family, John Gubler and family, Ulrich Traber and family, Maria Rutschi, Jacob Graf and family, Maria Stahl, Gottlieb Herschi [Hirschi], Ulrich Auer and family, Paul A. Schettler, Allretoo Bischef [Albrecht Bischoff] and family, Wm. Ostler and wife, Elizabeth Schneider, Edward Haber [Huber] and family, Damitile [Domitilo] Henriod, Richard Morris and family, Lettice Thomas and daughter Martha McCreery, Charles Miles, Joseph Morris and family, Christina Elliot, Caroline Goswold.



This company when organized consisted of 279 persons, 38 wagons 164 oxen and 39 cows and left Florence on the 19th of June.



The names of emigrants in the 4th wagon and 2d hand cart companies have been received and will be published next week.

Transcript for "The Immigration," Deseret News, 15 August 1860, 189

Deseret News.

Emigration list for Spring, 1860

Emigration list for Spring, 1860, Page 11.

Emigration list for Spring, 1860.

Historical Department journal history of the Church

Historical Department journal history of the Church. Supplement after 31 December 1860: Page 24.

Historical Department journal history of the Church.

"Pioneer Woman Dies After Useful Life," Salt Lake Telegram

"Pioneer Woman Dies After Useful Life," Salt Lake Telegram, April 18, 1910.

"Pioneer Woman Dies After Useful Life," Salt Lake Telegram.

"Territorial Notes: Items of Interest Gleaned From Our Territorial Exchanges," Coalville Times

"Territorial Notes: Items of Interest Gleaned From Our Territorial Exchanges," Coalville Times, October 11, 1895.

"Territorial Notes: Items of Interest Gleaned From Our Territorial Exchanges," Coalville Times.

The Mountaineer

Local News: Names of Emigrants

"Local News: Names of Emigrants", The Mountaineer, August 18, 1860.

Transcript for "Local News: Names of Emigrants," The Mountaineer, 18 August 1860, 206

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