Lewis Brunson (1831 - 1888) Profile

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Lewis Brunson autobiography, 1861, Church History Library

Lewis Brunson autobiography, 1861, Church History Library.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, Page 3, Line 108.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, Page 3, Line 108.

Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959.

Missionary reports, 1831-1900, Church History Library

Missionary reports, 1831-1900, Church History Library.

"Arrival of Captain Bronson's Company," Deseret News

"Arrival of Captain Bronson's Company," Deseret News, September 3, 1862.

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CAPTAIN [LEWIS] BRONSON'S [BRUNSON'S] COMPANY</center>



On Friday last, about four o’clock, Capt. Lewis Brunson’s company of Saint, which left Florence on the 17th of June, arrived in this city, and camped on the Public Square, in the 8th Ward. The company consisted of 212 persons, with 48 wagons, 75 yoke of oxen, 68 cows, 17 horses and 10 mules.



The following is the organization of the company, as furnished by the clerk:



Lewis Brunson, captain; John Henderson, chaplain; Joseph S. Wing, clerk and captain of the guard; Samuel Williams, O. C. Hoskins, John H. Robertson and Thomas Hunt, captains of tens.



In the company were natives of England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, the Canadas and other British American Colonies, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Missouri.



The following is a list of the names of the principal members of the company:



Lewis Brunson, returned missionary, S. Williams and wife, Jos. S. Wing and family, Peter Van Volkenberg and family, W. A. Buggess [Boggess], D. M. Griffin and family, Andrew Prior and family, L. Dangresen, John Molson, D. C. Allen and wife, S[usan]. E. Rogers, J. M. Turpin, O. C. Hoskins and family, Patterson Moss, David Hall and family, T. J. Phipps and family, J. W. [H.] Robertson and family, Jane Robertston and family, C. Fuller and family, D. Fuller and family, John Farrole [Farrell] and family, Margaret Vaughn, Jacob Sterry, John Henderson, A. C. Etchel and wife, James Corbett and family, Thomas Hunt and family, James Fisher and family, Richard Howells and family A. Bosthwick [Bothwick], W. Linzy and family, John Knighton and family, Geo. Jackson and family, Harriet Oterway, Herbert Longson, C. P. Lander, Adel a Sparks, Wm. Lane and family, Wm. Miller, John Tranter and family, James Spain, E. Tadlock and family, Sophia Smith, J. T. Griffith and family, Elizabeth Kirkham, Jane and Louisa Gittens, T. Griffin, A. W. Landers, S. J. Wing, Mary Ann Sanders and family, S. P. Metcalf and F. Rich.



There were only two deaths in the company while crossing the plains—Mercy Ross from England, aged 21 years, and Wm. Mails, aged 16 years, from Indiana. One birth reported. We understand that no accident worthy of note transpired during the journey.

Transcript for "Arrival of Captain Bronson's Company," Deseret News, 3 September 1862, 6

"Arrival of Captain Bronson's Company," Deseret News.

Brunson, Lewis, Autobiography, 1861, 16-17

Brunson, Lewis, Autobiography, 1861, 16-17.

On the 15
th
 of May, 1851, I started from Council Bluffs for G.S. Lake Valley with a company of fifty wagons under the presidency of Roswell Stevens. In order to avoid the high waters Our Company was counseled by Elder Orson Hyde to take a route so as to head the Elk Horn river, and consequently we had to travel through an unknown country, some two or three hundred miles before we struck the usually traveled road. After a very pleasant, though lengthy, journey of between three and four months, we arrived in Great Salt Lake City in the early part of September, and came to Provo on the fifteenth day of the same month.

Transcript for Brunson, Lewis, Autobiography, 1861, 16-17

Brunson, Lewis, to Robert L. Campbell, 28 Sep. 1862, [3-4], in Missionary reports, 1831-1900

Brunson, Lewis, to Robert L. Campbell, 28 Sep. 1862, [3-4], in Missionary reports, 1831-1900.

On the 27th [of April] I was requested by President O. E. Bates to go to Florence in company with Jno [John] Brown to help forward the emigration[.] Accordingly 
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 on the following day I took leave of New York, and Started en route for Florence travelling to Detroit via the great Suspension Bridge where I had an excellent view of the “Falls”, paid a short visit to my relatives in Illinois, and arrived at Florence on the 15th of May. On the 16th I started en route for Fort Desmoines after a herd of cattle and returned to Florence on the 30th. Here I staid until the 17th of June, occupying the time in hauling provisions &/c fitting up wagons, and otherwise assisting the emigration. A company was then organized consisting of 212 persons 
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, 48 wagons, 251 oxen, 68 cows, 17 horses and ten mules, and I was called upon by Jos[eph]. W. Young to lead them across the plains with which requisition I cheerfully complied. We had a very prosperous journey, but on account of high water we had to cross the black hills which made our travelling a little more fatiguing than it would otherwise have been. During our journey I baptized forty nine persons many of whom had never before been baptized. A very remarkable case of healing I will here mention: One sister who was very lame desired to be baptized for her health believing She would be benefited thereby. Accordingly I baptized her, and in connection with the elders administered to her by the laying on of hand when by the blessing of God she was healed and enabled to pursue her journey. 
On the 29th of August we arrived in Great Salt Lake City, being a little over ten weeks in travelling about one thousand miles.

Transcript for Brunson, Lewis, to Robert L. Campbell, 28 Sep. 1862, [3-4], in Missionary reports, 1831-1900

Historical Department journal history of the Church

CR 100 137: Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008. Supplement after 31 December 1851: Page 1.

Historical Department journal history of the Church.

Mary Melissa McAdams Robertson reminiscences in History of John Henry Robertson and his wife Mary Melissa McAdams by Alice Bates Cutler in Robertson family life sketches, circa 2012, 3-12

Mary Melissa McAdams Robertson reminiscences in History of John Henry Robertson and his wife Mary Melissa McAdams by Alice Bates Cutler in Robertson family life sketches, circa 2012, 3-12.

Transcript for Mary Melissa McAdams Robertson reminiscences in History of John Henry Robertson and his wife Mary Melissa McAdams by Alice Bates Cutler in Robertson family life sketches, circa 2012, 3-12

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