John Turner (1843 - 1906) Profile

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Deseret News

Report of the Immigration

Joseph W. Young, "Report of the Immigration", Deseret News, September 17, 1862, Page 5.

Transcript for Joseph W. Young, "Report of the Immigration," Deseret News, 17 September 1862, 93

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Lindsay, James, Autobiography, 1-2

Lindsay, James, Autobiography, 1-2.

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The Church had a sotre [store] at Florence and we were able to get what we needed for our journey. We waited seven weeks before the wagons came to take us to Salt Lake City. It was a strnage [strange] sight to us when they did come. We had never seen oxen and men driving them with their long whips and shouting, “Whoa, Ha, and Gee” at them. We were assigned to John Turner’s wagon in Homer Duncan’s train to cross the plains. It was a very trying time for everyone traveling day after day in the heat, dust, and winds. We did our cooking in dkillets [skillets] over smokey fires and slept in tents with ten to fifteen men, women, and children. Flour and bacon was about all the food we had. Usually the water was bad, and sometimes no wood to burn. It was in this way that we moved along at about fifteen miles a day, often resting on Saturday afternoon to wash and clean ourselves up. All day Sunday was spent resting. Prayers were offered night and morning, and often singing and dancing in the evenings. We were two months moving from Florence to salt Lake And Heber, arriving on September 21, 1862. </xhtml:p>

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Montgomery, Livingston, Reminiscences, 1-2

Montgomery, Livingston, Reminiscences, 1-2.

When we started across the plains, I remember Mark Jeffs, William M. Giles and all of the Giles family who crossed the plains in the same wagon as we were in. I remember the storm on Wood River. All that were able of two families in tents, had to stand up and hold the tents from blowing down while water ran under our beds and water snakes crawled under us.



	I also remember a dead Indian that had been fastened in a tree by his tribe as a last resting place for him. These incidents were more or less startling.



	I recall being extremely thirsty and having Mark Jeffs and Rob going to the Platt[e] River and getting some water for us. Mark and his father were in this train. The teamsters were John Turner, Calvin Henry, Jacob Baum and William Clyde of Springville, a brother of George W. Clyde.



	In the same wagon with us was a young girl [Agnes Taylor] from Scotland, who afterwards became Mrs. Calvin Henry. My sister Agnes became Mrs. John Turner. The Lindsay family were also members of this train. I remember seeing rough log cabins somewhere on the plains and the few trappers there.



	I remember Fort Bridger and Coleville. There was a herd of sheep in the brush at Coalville, which drew my attention. We were camped on Silver Creek, which was fourteen or fifteen miles from Heber when father and Fred J. Giles came to meet us with vegetables and fresh eatables. We arrived early on the 22nd day of September 1862 in Heber.

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