Reddick Newton Allred (1822 - 1905) Profile

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Andrew Jenson, "Allred, Reddick Newton," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia

Andrew Jenson, "Allred, Reddick Newton," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia, Vol. 2.

Andrew Jenson, "Allred, Reddick Newton," Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia.

Church Historian's Press. The Journal of George Q. Cannon.People

Church Historian's Press. The Journal of George Q. Cannon.People.

Hawaii Honolulu Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1850-1978

Hawaii Honolulu Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1850-1978, Vol. 4, part 1.

Hawaii Honolulu Mission manuscript history and historical reports, 1850-1978.

Nauvoo Restoration Inc., comp., Nauvoo Seventies list

Nauvoo Restoration Inc., comp., Nauvoo Seventies list, Vol. 1, Page 9.

Source: 70s Rec, 4 Qrm, Bk B Sel, LDS Arc; 4 Qrm, 1844, pg. 1-2Family Search Stories for Reddin state that he was ordained to the Seventy in the Fall of 1842.

Transcript for Nauvoo Restoration Inc., comp., Nauvoo Seventies list, vol. 1, A-F (N.p.: 1990s), 9

Ordained President of the 4th Quorum of Seventies, 27 Oct 1856; ordained a High Priest on 28th of Dec 1856, served as Bishop's Counselor, 28 Dec 1856.Source: 70s Rec, 4 Qrm, Bk B Sel, LDS Arc; 4th Qrm, 1844, pp 1-2; 2nd list, 1850s, pp. 5-6

Nauvoo Restoration Inc., comp., Nauvoo Seventies list.

Temple Records Index Bureau, comp., Nauvoo Temple endowment register

Temple Records Index Bureau, comp., Nauvoo Temple endowment register, December 10, 1845.

Temple Records Index Bureau, comp., Nauvoo Temple endowment register.

Adams, William, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 32:11-12

Adams, William, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 32:11-12.

<xhtml:p xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">I bought a new wagon one yoke of good cattle and six cows. I spent a couple of weeks breaking the cows to work and use them to be handled and to be yoked, and close to the first of May 1849 I started on my journey to Utah in company of Thomas Judd and family[,] Henry Barney &amp; family[,[ four waggons in all[.] having a prosperous journey no accidents haveing ferried the Illinois River near Bardstown, traveling through Rushville Skylerlor McDonaugh &amp; Handcock Counties, we stopped in Carthage and examined the Gail [jail] where Joseph &amp; Hyrum were assassinded [assassinated]. there had been very little improvement made since I have resided in this country. I passed a five acre lot that I had farmed for two years[,] also my House and lot in the City of Nauvoo[.] I never received a cent for either of them. The journey through Iowa was pleasant keeping on the old Mormon trail passing Pisga[h] where several families of the saints resided, and many had died by the hardships by driven from their homes and the hard frosts and colds the experiences in their Journey, seeking a home from the persicution of wicked men and mob violence in the States of Missouria [Missouri] and Illinois. our company arrived at Council Bluff[s] about the first of June, crossed the Missouria by ferrying the latter part of the month and organized into a company of 100 waggon[.] Andrew H. Perkins cappain [Captain] Enoch Reese cappain of first fifty and Al[l]red Capr [Captain] of second fifty and on the seventh day of July commenced our Journey across the plains[.] the traveling was pleasant[.] we arrived on Lookinglass [Looking Glass] Creek in the Paunee [Pawnee] Country we correlled our cattal at night to keep them from being stolen by Indians, the cattle got restless and uneasy broke out of the correll and stampeeded[.] a few got killed several was crippeled[.] I lost two cows in the stampeed leaving me with one yoke of oxen and two yoke of cows[.] we had frequent stampeed not a day passed that some part of the company had stampeed traveling on the road the cattle would get excited and run off with the wagon and contents. Br. Hawks wife was killed I believe the only person that lost their Wife in the dangerous trials the company passed through. The plains from fort Kenney [Kearny] was covered with Buffalo to[.] we reached Fort Larama [Laramie] thousands could be seen by standing on the wagon wheel as far as your eyes could see. the company had to stop to let them pass for fear the would run over us. The company was traveling by tens on account of the danger in stampeeding and made slow progress taking us three month and one half in making Great Salt Lake City. </xhtml:p>

Transcript for Adams, William, [Autobiography], in "Utah Pioneer Biographies," 44 vols., 32:11-12

Albert Jones notes, circa 1906

Albert Jones notes, circa 1906.

The Emigrants made hand Carts at Iowa Paul Gourley



Left Iowa Camp July 28th 20 days lost// here 
Two companies—one under Edward Martin[;] one under Jesse Haven



<s>18-4/7 miles per day to make the 1300 in 70 days</s>



Arrived at Florence 22nd August



<s>average travel 12 miles per day</s>



Companies consolidated in one Edward Martin &amp; Daniel Tyler Capts.



Left Florence August 25th 1856 for the 1000 miles journey



576 men[,] women and Children



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Wagons 
4 to the Cart—5 of us</center>



 



Two wagon Companies behind us 
Benjamin Hodgett 
John A[.] Hunt



Company provisioned for 60 days



100# flour being given to each Cart for transportation



Sep 2 Col Alma [Almon Whiting] Babbit[t]—Thomas Margetts &amp; Child—James Cowdy &amp; wife and others killed—Mrs. Margets carried away by Indians.



Isaac Brockbanks mother



The March



Bro Evans the fourth death[.] tin cup record[.] Mother on the lead



&lt;above&gt; Passed near the spot where A W Babbitt was killed 
Too many meetings for prayer &amp; preaching 
Moses Cluff and the Buffalo



Danl Tyler and the Mules



The girls and boys courting



The buffalo Chips—the dainty chins



John Watkins[,] Brother Compsan



The Hymn—Come come ye Saints



Oct 8th At Larimie. Over Coat 
Flour[,] Bacon[,] Apples &amp; Peaches



The Tennant Cattle driving and guarding



The people getting weary with the work— 
John Jacques [Jaques] night adventure



The Appetites—



The 20th October crossing the North Platte



The first snow storm—which reached West to the Wasatch range and the great gloom



Snowed three days



The Songs of Zion



The deaths increasing[,] McBride 
Old Scotch Man 
his toes out of snow



Our Tent—the death of Jackson



callous to death



Dug the grave of a young man while he walked by its side[,] 14 in this Grave[,] Red Butte



Stone and the Wolves—a foot in a shoe brought to Camp—



 



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John Watkins &amp; the Ox



Oct 28—Rescued:: Joseph A Young 
Daniel W Jones 
Abel Garr



The big blue &lt;Government over&gt; Coat



The scene in Camp at the Rescue



Young girls eating toasted raw hide—as girls do gum 
Bread Making—Bed making 
Tents[,] Cyrus H. Wheelock 
Snow 1½” 
&lt;Fry Pans&gt;: for shovels [-] 
Rescuers[:] David Garr 
George D Grant 
Robt J Burton 
Charles Decker 
W H Kimball 
Reddick N[ewton] Allred



The crossing of the Sweet Water



W[illiam] S Binder hauls my hand Cart through—



The axle broke 
Kimball carried me over—



S. S. went on



I remain &amp; get another Cart and took on our things



The Council at Devils Gate



Cyrus H Wheelock’s address



10 men stay at Devils Gate with the goods of Hand Cart—People and of the Wagon Companies



Rested at Martins Ravine 2 or 3 days



The accidental burning of John Jacques [Jaques] Record



 



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[Edmund] El[l]sworth &amp; [Daniel D.] McArthur 497 Souls—100 Carts 5 Wagons 
Jas D [James G.] Willie &lt;66 died&gt; 500 Souls—120 Carts—6 Wagons 
[Edward] Martin &amp; [Daniel] Tyler, 576 Souls, 146 Cars—7 Wagons



1856 Five hand Cart Cos. 
[Edmund] Ellsworth—[Daniel D.] McArthur—[Edward] Bunker—Willie ([Edward] Martin &amp; [Daniel] Tyler)



Timing the People time of death 
S S Jones and Eph Hanks



The feet of the People frozen



[irrelevant data]



The life Guardsman [David] Blair buried at Quaken Asp hill



The survival of the fittest 
Martins Lot the toughest of all 
My Vow behind the Log fire



The American Axe:



Nov 28<s>28</s>th over the Big Mountain 7000 to 8000 Altitude[,] the Oxen [illegible] 8 ft Snow

Transcript for Albert Jones notes, circa 1906

Allen Taylor's 100, first 50, report

Allen Taylor's 100, first 50, report, September 1849.

Allen Taylor's 100, first 50, report.

Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890), 62-75

Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890), 62-75.

Transcript for Daniel W. Jones, Forty Years Among the Indians (Salt Lake City: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1890), 62-75

Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963

Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963, Reddick N. Allred autobiographical sketch and diary, 1898-1903.

After our guide left us we missed the Walker Pass &amp; turned down the Toolary [Tulare] valley to Sutters Fort on the Sacremento [Sacramento] River where the City now stands



We reached there on the 26—Augt. 1847[,] 600 miles from Los Angeles, without accident. We found a few families of Saints that came on the Ship Brookland [Brooklyn] from New York expecting to meet the church in Cal[ifornia] untill we told them they were settling in Salt Lake Valley. The Burr family was there. We rested a few days &amp; then took the old Calaforna [California] Road—crossed the American Fork and found a Daughter of widow Murphy, one of the ilfated [ill fated] Hasting party.



Bro. John King &amp; I visited her to find her married to one Johnston distressed in mind because of her lot—away from the church &amp; Henry Pike Hoyt was taken so sick I stoped with him a couple of days—the Company going on to Bear Valley; 8 men staid with me.



The third day he said he could go, but after we crossed Deep Hollow he got so bad we took him off his horse as he was appearently dieing[.] Twice we adminestered to him &amp; he revived so much he said he could go, but then got so bad again I had to hold him on, and finally I had to brake his hold of the horn of the saddle—he said no go on—his last word for he was dead in 15 minutes. This time it never occurred to me to lay hands on him. We wraped him in his blanket and layed him ½ mile from Deep Hollow two rods below the road, having nothing but a hatchet to dig down on the hillside building up the lower side &amp; over the top with rocks &amp; sticks, and marked on a tree Henry P. Hoyt died on the 3—of sept. 1847 after 9 days illness with Jaunders [jaundice]. 80 miles from Sutters Fort.



We overtook the company in Bear Valley next day, and proceeded on our journey on the 5th, and met S[amue]al. Branden [Brannen] with an Epistle from Prest. Young for all that did not intend to go to the Bluffs for their families to stay in Cal. and get work th&lt;r&gt;ough winter.



(They were the boys that discovered the gold.) This broke up our organization, and Andrew Litle [Lytle] was our Capt. When we passed the Summet of the Searies [Sierras] we found Hastings winter camp. At the base of the Mountain we struck the Trucky [Truckee] river then crossed an arm of the Great American Desert to the sink of the Humbol[d]t river, passing the Hot Boiling Springs. From the sink we traveled several days up the river finding plenty of water &amp; grass. Then crossed a mountain to the noted Spring wells some of them without bottom appearantly. Then crossed the Goose Creek Mountains to Fort Hall on Snake River where we found Capt. Grant of the Hudson Bay Fur Company. When we told him where the Church were locating he said it would be a failure if we attempted to colonize there, for we could not raise a bushel of grain in Salt Lake Valley. Some of the company went round to Salt Lake, and the rest of us went by Soda Springs &amp; up Bear River over to Ft. Bridger.

Transcript for Reddick N. Allred autobiographical sketch and diary, 1898-1903, 21-23

Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963.

David Moore collection, 1843-1921, Meeting minutes, 1849

David Moore collection, 1843-1921, Meeting minutes, 1849.

<center xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">9 oclock A.M. June 24 1849 
Meeting of the Corp. of the Saints at Boeyo Lake &lt;or near the&gt;</center>



Opened by G[eorge].A Smith



<s>Be. . . . for the &amp; on fin.</s>



Prayre by Br Jos[eph] Perkins



G.A Smith said it was best to organize on this side of river on account of trouble with indians &amp;c



Allen Taylor apointed Captain of first Hundred By Motion of G..A..S.



Andrew H. Perkins apointed Captain of &lt;first&gt; Fifty



Allen Taylor Motion



Also on motion A..T Redick N[ewton]. Al[l]red cap of of 2nd Fifty



David Moore ap[p]ointed Clerk of first 50 By Motion of G..A..S.



Elder G.A.S. counseled the Bretheren to go well prepared with a plenty of provisioins and good wagons 
Ex[h]orted them to unity &amp;c 
if any Man Blasphemed the name of his Maker he wished him to take one side of the prairie no man alowed to abuse their teams on the road. A..P. adresed the Saints in unison with G..A..S.. on [illegible] G..A..S.. &amp; a counselor apointed to look out a good route to the ferry



July 2nd 1849



8 oclock morning [blank space] Omaha Lands near Winter Quarters



Capt Allen Taylor gave orders to Capts of 50 &amp; 100 to move forward for the space of ½ mile <s>far</s> and form into a Carrell [corral] for the purpose of Receiving instructions from Prest G.A. Smith and others which arived about 1 <s>2</s> oclock[.] after Calling the Brethren together <s>Meeting</s> Meeting was opened by prayer by Br A[a]ron Johnson after which Pres George A. Smith addressed the Saints in Regard of their moving west[.] in such Large Camps that they must be obedient to their officers and patient in all things, <s>after all things</s> after which the meeting proceeded to business by which the following were duly Elected or ratified from the meeting of June 24th 1849



Allen Taylor, Election of 24 June on motion of D[avid]. Moore was ratified &lt;and sustainedas Captain of the Hundred&gt;



Redick N. Allred Elec of 24 June on motion of D[aniel]. [Stilwell] Thomas was ratified and sustained as Captain of first 50 in Capt Taylors hundred



Eonock [Enoch] Tease [Reese] &lt;on motion of&gt; Pres. G..A.. Smith was Elected Captain of second Fifty in place of Andrew H. Perkins.



Ruben W[arren]. Allred Elected Clerk of first 50 and marshal by motion of Capt. Allen Taylor



Lorenzo Clark as <s>clerk</s> Marshal of second fifty on motion of Andrew H. Perkins,



David Moore on motion of Prest G.A. Smith was Elected clerk of the 100 <s>and Captain of ten ratified from previous Election of said ten</s>



Franklin M. Perkins on Motion of A..H.. Perkins was Elected Clerk of <s>first</s> second fifty



Joseph <s>Thomas</s> [Teasdale] Egbert, Daniel S[tilwell]. Thomas, george W[ashington]. Hancock[,]Daniel Corbett <s>David Moore</s> James Standing &amp; Charles Lambert, Elections as captains of ten were Ratified by Motion of A[ndrew]..H.. Perkins on Motion of Prest G..A.. Smith was Elected President of the camp



Isaac Allred and Absalem [Absalom] Pirkins [Perkins] was chosen and Elected Councillirs to Pres[iden]t A..H.. Perkins



after the <s>[illegible] business passed</s> business portion of the meeting was ended Prest G..A.. Smith arose and addressed the Saints in the &lt;following&gt; council[,] first to pray the Lord for his aid and protection in our Journeying to the Valley that our Health <s>may be pres</s> and lives may be preserved that unity may be in our midst. Watch your Cattle Closeley[.] Be Careful of Your teams[.] be cautious of your guns that you may not accidentally kill your friends[.] and Brethren keep unity in your midst and above all obey your officers together with much more good instructions. after which the meeting adjourned D[avid]. Moore Clerk



 



<center xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Beaver River July 19th 1849 
Prest G..A.. Smith</center>



 



Dear Sir once more we deem it a privilege of writing a few lines to You Stating our progress from Elk Horn[.] &lt;we left&gt; Wednesday July 11th and &lt;arived&gt; at Platt[e] River and old Liberty pole at Night. all safe with the e[x]ception of some teames &lt;in Capt. Reeses company&gt; which took fright from a Horse which broke loose from a wagon and some three or four teams sett to run[n]ing with their wagons and ran over a woman's arm and Breast and over an old man but they have both recovered[.] the two divisions traveled in sight till all arived at Looking Glass Creek[.] Camped there Monday night the two divisions Camped about a mile a part[.] Capt Reeses Company was ahead at night[.] a heavy shower of rain Came on and about 3 oclock in the morning the cattle took fright, the cause not known, and Broke out of the Carell [corral] as they were all loose and numbering 4 or 5 hundred Head they went out of the Carell with a mighty rush[.] the ground jarred and trembled like an earthquake throwing the Camp into Confusion and breaking two wagons to the earth and killing 4 sheep dead and 4 more injured so that they had to kill them and they were all found in the morning[.] Capt. Tayler [Taylor] Broke off the horses of of 4 head of Cattle[.] Some of the horses were buried in the earth and left there[.] Came to Capt. Reese in the morning &amp; told him not to Carell his Cattle any more but he not Obeying the orders Careled the Cattle at night again but they taking fright again broke out of the Carell injuring many more of the Cattle and they were finally pacified and headed on the open prairie till light in the morning[.] they were then drove into the Carell again and yoked up and many fastened together with chains and seemed quite tame again[.] but Some Sheep taking taking fright at a dog it started all the cattle to run[n]ing again with yokes and chains run[n]ing over four men hurting one of them very severely his life all most dispaired of[,] laming five of six of them and breaking one [illegible] leg[.] Capt A.. Reese called a Council of Captains and they decided to separate into tens and keep their Cattle seperate accordingly[.] they done so and scattered from [illegible] Looking Glass Creek to Beaver River



Clerking on Road from Bluffs to Salt Lake Valley 1849

Transcript for David Moore collection, 1843-1921, Meeting minutes, 1849

David Moore writings, circa 1860, 45-54

David Moore writings, circa 1860, 45-54.

June 27—I crossed the Missouri River with Captain Allen Taylor and R.N. Allred, selected a camp ground and returned to camp about 6 o'clock P.M. Tied our cattle to our wagons and to some trees for the night.



June 28—Ferried over our wagons and swam our cattle, and camped about half a mile from the old Winter Quarters, where we remained until the 30th waiting for the company to all get over the river.



Sunday July 1—Still in camp, went in company with some of the Brethren and sisters to view the town, found that a large amount of labor had been expended here by the saints the summer of 1846. They wintered there the following winter and was ordered back into Iowa the spring of 1847 by some U.S. Officials. I also went on the hill back of the town and saw many graves where the worn and exhausted saints had found a last resting place.



My reflections were anything but pleasant when I reviewed the labor, patience and suffering of the saints through all the trials and persecutions which they had passed.



Monday July 2—8 o'clock Captain Allen Taylor gave ordered [orders] to the camp to move out about half a mile and form in cor[r]al for the purpose of receiving farther [further] instructions from Pres. George A. Smith and others. They arrived about 1 P.M. They exhorted the Brethren to be humble and prayerful and obedient to the officers. The following officers were then elected: Allen Taylor, captain the hundred; Reddick N. Allred, captain of 2nd Fifty; Enoch Reese, captain of 1st Fifty; Andrew H. Perkins, President of the camp, on motion of G.A. Smith, Isaac Allred and Absalom Perkins were chosen and elected his counselors. David Moore was elected clerk of the hundred on motion of Geo. A. Smith.



Reuben W. Allred elected clerk of R.N. Allred's 50; Franklin M. Perkins elected clerk of Captain E. Reese's 50 on motion of A.H. Perkins. Reuben W. Allred elected marshall of Allred's fifty; Lorenzo Clark elected Marshall of Reese's company of fi[f]ty; Samuel Snyder elected Sargeant of the Guard in Reese fifty; Daniel S. Thomas elected Sargeant of the Guard in Allreds fifty; Joseph Egbert, Daniel S. Thomas, George W. Hancock, Daniel Corbet[t], James Standing, and Charles Lambert were elected Captains of tens in Allred's fifty.



The following are the names of the Captains of tens in Captain Reese's fifty, Lorenzo Clark, David Moore, Samuel Snyder, Absolam [Absalom] Perkins, George Snyder.



After the camp was organized Pres. George A. Smith said in as much as Bro. Allred's camp was all ready to move on he would propose that his company be called the first company, accordingly the numbers were changed and Captain Allred's company was formed as the first fifty and Captain Reese's was designated as the second fifty. Pres. Smith then counseled the Brethren to be humble and faithful on their journey to the valley of Salt Lake. He returned to Kanesville after the close of the meeting.



Tuesday July 3—Commenced to get the number of Captain Allreds company and found the number to be as follows: Total number of persons 246; number of males 127; number of females 119; number of wagons 72; number of oxen 254; number of cows 184; number of yearlings 37; number of horses 6; number of mules 2; number of sheep 120; number of pigs 20; number of dogs 34; number of cats 41; number of turkeys 12; number of ducks 4; number of chickens 34; number of doves 3; number of hives of bees 5; Males over 12 years of age 82; Females over 12 years of age 81; Children under 12 years of age 83.



Captain Enoch Reese's company numbered as follows: Males over 12 years of age 77; Females over 12 years of age 60; Children under 12 years of age 62; total 199.



No. wagons 65; no. of oxen 292; No. cows 127; No. yearlings 34; No. horses 21; No. mules 1; No. sheep 148; No. pigs 9; No. dogs 25; No. cats 15; No. geese 2; No. turkeys 5; No. ducks 14; No. chickens 31; No. doves 2. The returns of the above Companies were mate [made] to Bro. Orson Hyde at Kanesville July 6, 1849.



Thursday July 5—The company of fifty under Captain Allred being ready to move, they left their camp ground near Winter Quarters and started on the great journey towards Salt Lake Valley.



Friday July 6—The second fifty under Captain Reese started out on their journey. We did not come in sight of Captain Allred's company until we had traveled towards Salt Lake Valley some 18 or 20 miles.



Saturday July 7—All arrived at Elkhorn River the first company arriving about 11 A.M., the second company arrived about 3 P.M. All in good health and spirits. A boy had a wagon run over him, was not much hurt. Christopher Merkley had his foot injured by his wagon running over <s>and</s> it, and a wagon run over a sheep and killed it.



The Elkhorn was not fordable and a man by the name of Compton having purchased the ropes to the ferry came on to ferry us over, but finding the ropes to be insufficient as well as the raft too small he took three dollars for the use of said ropes and raft and returned home again. We then cut and hauled some more logs, enlarged the raft and added some more ropes to it and crossed all of our wagons without any accident by 4 o'clock P.M., Tuesday the 10th.



Tuesday July 10—The second fifty crossed their 65 wagons in 8 hours.



Wednesday 11—Captain Taylor called a meeting of the hundred, Pres. A. H. Perkins offered the opening prayer, at which Captain Taylor presented the several officers to see if any of the tens or fifties wished a change. All expressed their satisfaction with the organization. Captain Taylor then said that as they felt to sustain all of their officers he expected that they would obey them in all things and that we would now continue on our journey.



Two letters were wrote and left here on the bank of the Elkhorn, one by the clerk of the one hundred and one by the clerk of Captain Allreds 50, for G.A. Smith stating the progress of the camps. We took a good sized pole and bored a hole in it and put our letters in, then pluged up the hole and set the pole in the ground close by the road so that it could be seen by the company that was coming with Pres. G.A. Smith. This was called our post office.



10 o'clock A.M. all the trains were in motion once more, all things went off well with the exception of a horse which took fright and broke loose from a wagon where he was fastened and running by some teams frightened them causing them to run also, one man and one woman was injured during the fright. Camped on the banks of the Platte River near where a liberty pole was standing, passed the remains of some Indian camps and a number of bones lay scattered about, could not make out what was the cause of their death.



Thursday July 12—Traveled until noon, Captain Allred's company laid by on account of the heat, Captain Reese's company traveled on till night. Camped on banks of the river again, made about 7 miles this afternoon.



July 13, Friday—Had an axel tree to make this morning, made 13 miles today and camped on the west side of Shell Creek, all in good health.



Saturday July 14—Passed many bad sloughs, broke a wagon tongue and lost a cat on the way, Reese's company traveled 14 miles today.



Sunday July 15—Made 11 miles, no accident.



Monday July 16—Made 11 miles, lost one sheep, camped about 2 o'clock P.M. by request of Captain Allen Taylor, to settle a difficulty in Captain Allred's camp. The companies of tens were traveling in order of number, causing the rear tens much inconvenience in comming into camp at night, bringing them sometimes far behind in time. These claimed the right to travel ahead in turn according to the rules of travel in 1848; Captains E. Reese, L. Clark, President Perkins, the clerk of hundred and several others went back about two miles, called a meeting and arranged the affair to satisfy some of the parties at least.



Captain E. Reese's company corralled their stock, some not having ropes to tie them, all had to follow suit. About 2 o'clock A.M. the cattle took fright and rushed from the corral, breaking two wagon wheels and one axel tree killing and injuring seven head of sheep, and breaking the horn off of one cow.



Tuesday July 17—Repaired the wagons during the day and moved a short distance, and formed a new corral and put the cattle into it; all seemed quiet once more until about 11 o'clock at night, when they took another stampede in the corral, but the guard stopped them and only a part of the cattle got out, some of the men got out of their beds and drove back the cattle into the corral again. But the cattle were not more than safely inclosed before a dog ran at one of the animals and all took fright again rushing out of the other opening of the corral hurting some more of the cattle. They were then herded on the prairie until morning.



Wednesday July 18—The cattle were drove in and yoked up and some of them hitched together and taken out of the corral when some sheep took fright at a dog and ran among some of the cattle which started them off on a stampede again, running over three men, George Snider, a man named Dye, and a negro called Old Frank. Dyes back was nearly broken, the other two was only slightly injured. The cattle were brought to a stand on the prairie when it was found that several of them were injured, one steer having his leg broken.



A council of the Captains was called by Captain Reese, and after some consultation it was decided to separate the companies of tens and travel separate for a while until the cattle was over their fright. My ten being ready to travel Captain Reese gave his order for us to move on which we did. The other tens following suit. Captain Perkins ten stayed a short time behind to fix for carrying Mr. Dye in a more comfortable position (this Mr. Dye was an emigrant on his way to California) at night. The camps of tens were scattered from near Looking Glass Creek to Beaver River. Captain Lorenzo Clark had much trouble with the cattle of his company on account of the dogs in his camp frightening the cattle continually, so much so that he had to kill the dogs after losing four cows, which ran off so far that the Indians got them, as was supposed.



The 19 and 20 was passed without much progress.



Saturday July 21—R.N. Allred's Co., 6 tens and a part of Reese's Co. arrived on the bank of Loop Fork, found four graves, two were deaths by C[h]olera, one killed by Indians, and one drowned. One of the men that was buried here was named McCarty, a member of the L.D.S. Church. During the afternoon search was made for a ford, none found.



Sunday July 22—Search was made again today for a ford which was found and staked.



Monday July 23—Captain R. N. Allred's company all crossed over but two or three wagons.



Tuesday July 24—Captain E. Reese's company of 50 wagons commenced crossing and were all on the opposite bank by two o'clock P.M.



In the evening a general meeting was called of all the camps at 7:30 P.M. Prayer by President A.H. Perkins. Captain Taylor then addressed the meeting, said as Captain Reese's company had been traveling in separate tens on account of the wild condition of their cattle from the recent stampededs [stampedes] but as many of them seemed quiet at present he thought it best to unite again as we were in an Indian country and liable to an attack from them.



Captain Reese said that he had been consulting with some of the Captains of tens on the subject and found that they were not in favor of uniting again as they were much hindered in travel by being in such large companies, and that the cattle would soon be stampeding again if we got so many together, for some of the cattle <s>would</s> was still wild and showed signs of being easily frightened.



Captain L. Clark said that he would rather stand his chance among the Indians than to have another stampede. Captain Samuel Snider said his views were with Captain Clark, that it was more dangerous traveling among stampedes than among Indians. Said that as an Irishman in his company had remarked that cattle in a stampede had no respect of persons and would run over a Captain as quick as any one else. Captain Absalom Perkins said he was thankful that we had come thus far as safe as we had, after so much stampeding. The camps then separated and traveled in companies of ten until the cattle became quite tame and easily handled.



Arrived in Salt Lake <s>Valley</s> City, Saturday, October 20, 1849.

Transcript for David Moore writings, circa 1860, 45-54

Deseret News

Elders' Correspondence

"Elders' Correspondence", Deseret News, August 22, 1855, Page 190.

<blockquote xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[From Elder P. P. Pratt to Elder Geo. A. Smith.]</blockquote>



 



<center xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">SAN JUAN, April 30, 1855.</center>



 



ELDER G. A. SMITH, Historian—Dear Br:—b



The following is a list of our spring emigration from San Francisco Conference of the C.J.C.L.D. Saints, to San Bernardino and Salt Lake, according to the organization completed here this day: —



Wm. McBride, captain; Bechias Dustin, chaplain; Henry W. Bigler, sergeant of the guard and historian; Cynthy Jane Whipple, Henry Willard Whipple, Reuben Gates, Sarah Jane Bryant, Hamilton M. Wallace, Elizabeth Wallace, Wm. Farrer, Norman G. Brimhall, Rozilla Brimhall, Louisa Brimhall, Isabel Brimhall, Nancy Brimhall, Norman Brimhall, Geo. W. Wilkins, Catherine A. Wilkins, Mary A. Wilkins, Geo A. Wilkins, Charles H. Wilkins, Moroni Wilkins, John Lindon, Harly Swartout, Nathan Tanner, Chancey W. West, Red[d]ick N. Allred, Orren Smith, Anna A. Smith, Ellen M. Hopkins, Amelia A. Smith, Emily H. Hopkins, Francis Smith, Ann Smith, Eugene Smith, James B. Call, James R. Allred.



Add to these, Wm. Warren and George More, who have already gone to San Bernardino, and those who sailed on the 28th inst. from Santa Clara, to form a junction at San Bernardino, viz:—Willard Whipple, Betsy Whipple, Orison [Orson] Whipple, Alvina Whipple, Rosette Whipple, Charles Whipple, Walter E. Dodge, Ellen [Eleanor] Dodge, Ella Dodge, Elizabeth Warren, George Warren, Elizabeth Warren. Total—souls, 51; wagons, 13; mules, 20; horses, 23.



We hope as many more will start for Carson Valley and Salt Lake, as soon as the snowy mountains will admit; say July.

Transcript for "Elders' Correspondence," Deseret News, 22 August 1855, 190

Deseret News.

George C. Lambert diaries, 1866-1912, 7

George C. Lambert diaries, 1866-1912, 7.

My mother [Mary Alice Cannon Lambert] and children [George Cannon and Charles John] accordingly journeyed back to Missouri, where, at St. Joseph, she rejoined father [Charles Lambert] and remained until the early spring of 1849. Then, with two yoke of oxen and two yoke of cows to draw their wagon they repaired to Winter Quarters and joined a company which was preparing to start West, of which Allen Taylor was Captain. It consisted of 100 wagons, in two divisions of 50 wagons each. One division was under command of Reddick N. Allred, and my father had charge of ten of the wagons in that division. I learned to walk while on the plains, and was about eighteen months old when we arrived in Salt Lake Valley.

Transcript for George C. Lambert diaries, 1866-1912, 7

Historical Department journal history of the Church

Historical Department journal history of the Church. Supplement after 31 December 1849: Page 3.

Historical Department journal history of the Church.

James Pace papers, 1846-1861

James Pace papers, 1846-1861, July 1846.

Weddensday 25th was a rest day The Pionears [Pioneers] went on to the Fort to get the chance of a shop to shoe horses



Thursday 26th we proceded on our way to <s>see</s> whare the Pionears ware encamped on the Americane Fork near Sutters making a travell of 20 miles



Friday 27th weather warm &amp; had mutch the appearance of Rain This morning Four Tens left for home. Journed for the Mountains. Brother Averett with the Pionears Bro [Levi] Savage Bro [Luther] Tuttle &amp; Curtice we travled a distance of 18 miles encamped in a scierce [scarce] place of feed &amp; water.



Saturday 28th we left camp early travled to the River at the foot of the Mountains near Mr Johnstones A lite rain fell



Sunday 29th The morning Cule [cool.] we left camp early, travled 18 miles up in the Mountains encamped at a cold spring at the left of the Road—



Monday 30th warm &amp; rain like travled a distance of 15 Miles[.] had a good camping place &amp; no important transactions.



Tuseday 31st weather cule journed over Sum greait Mountains[.] travled a distance of 15 miles[.] encamped in the Pine woods at a Cold [Cove] on the right of the road.



Weddensday 1st day of September clouday &amp; a good day for travling[.] our days travel a distance of 10 Miles[.] incamped in little Bare [Bear] River vally whare we had good grasing &amp; water plenty &amp; plenty of Huccleberrys [huckleberries] on the mountains which serve us first rate pastime while we was at laguna.



Thursday 2nd cleare &amp; pleasant tis day we rested our animels &amp; washed our close [clothes.] in the afternoon a small shower of rain[.] considerable Thunder



Friday 3rd weather good &amp; plesant[.] This morning we left the vally[.] travled over the Mountains a distance of 15 Miles[.] encamped on a small River in the midst of the Mountains[.] grasing was good.



Saturday 4th weather cleare &amp; cule[.] we left camp early[.] continued our journy over the Mountains past a number of Lakes[.] travled a distance of 12 Miles[.] encamped at a cold spring on the road side at the foot of a Mountain[,] a small plain south &amp; then a Lake of considerable[.] Size first rate grazing.



Sunday 5th weather clear &amp; frosty[.] we journed early crost the main ridge or Backbone of the Calaforna [California] Mountain[.] travled a distance of 20 Miles past the Shantys whare &lt;the&gt; Emigrants perished the winter before[.] we camped in a vally 1 Mile below Sum Shantys whar a Mans body lay on the top of the ground uninterupted[.] This vally we named Counsel vally because here we receved Councel from the Twelve



Monday 6th weather cleare &amp; frosty[.] This morning we persued our Journy[.] travled about 2 Miles &amp; meet Brother S Branon[.] we learned from him that Capt Brown was close behind him &amp; that he had letters &amp; an Epistle from the Twelve to us[.] we returned back to the vally from whence we had started &amp; we encamped to awate the arrival of Cap Brown &amp; also a part of air which was in the rear[.] we sent two Men to meet the Capt &amp; one back to Levi &amp; Lytte[.] here we patiently awa[i]ted the arrival of boath partys as we hoped to hear good word from our friends &amp; brethren &amp; those that we had so long been absent from



Tuseday 7th weather cleare &amp; frosty[.] The captain reached our camp about 10 oclk[.] He Soon unfolded his pac[k]age of letters which we earnestly received untill the most of us ware silently parousing for ourselves. the contentes of the presant favered to us by our friends. At a proper time <s>a set</s> the attention was cald to hear the Epistle from the Twelve which was chearing [cheering] nuse [news] to us[.] The spirit of the Epistle <s>was</s> bore testamony to us from whince it came &amp; that not withstanding the hardships we had undergon attended with all the privations that could be expected from sutch a trip[.] They had not forgotten us, neither had they slacked there hands But with all diligence sought a location for the Saints. No moore to be thrown down[.] we hartily congratulated them in there success &amp; in the work they had accomplished[.] Being satisfied that we had born an humble part &amp; that it was a prevaleage even to become a scape goat in time of Trouble. Bro. Levi [Hancock] &amp; Lytle came in just at nite we had qui[e] a time of rejoising altho we had to mo[u]rn the death of Brother Henry Hoit [Hoyt.] he was behind with Lytle[.] he died vary sud[d]en[.] he road on his horse untill a few Minuts before he died[.] here our sercumstances compeld sum of the boys to return back to the Settlements as they ware not prepaird to stop at the vally nor able to get to the States.



Weddensday 8th cule &amp; frosty this morning we parted[.] a number returned back to the settlements to work all winter[.] we travled a distance of 15 miles encamped on a small Creek[.] here we had another devision[.] a number <s>of</s> was only intending going to the vally as they expected to meet there Famulys thare &amp; it would be betere for them to travel slo[,] while those intending going through to the States was anxious to get along as far as posable. The situation &amp; wish of all was enquiard into &amp; all oranged [arranged] for a ceparation in the morning all retiard to rest in peace &amp; in good feelings



Thursday 9th The morning pleasant[.] we parted according to our expetations[.] a Company of near fifty set of[f] for the Bluffs &amp; Twenty odd concluded the journy slow to the vally[.] we travled a distance of 20 Miles[.] camped on the butifulist camping ground I ever saw in all my travell



Friday 10th we journed early[.] travled down the Trucky [Truckee] River shuning every crossing we could as it was vary bad crossing sum of the fords[;] however we suceeded in reaching the last Crossing of the River[.] encamped[.] had good grazing[.] Bro Levi &amp; Lytle failed to &lt;get in&gt; camp for no cause[.] only Lytle was not disposed to dose[.] Consequently they had to shear the fate of there own folly[.] the next morning two of there animels were gon which would have paid them well to have travled 2 Miles further but sumtimes men get there pay down &amp; it is all right[.] we travled only a distance of 20 Miles.



Saturday 11th This morning sum of the crowd ware for going ahead &amp; sum for waiting for Levi &amp; Lytle[.] I proposed for them to go a head as we had travled but two days since we had rested &amp; I would watce [watch] &amp; see what had become of them[.] I done so about "9" ock they came up reported there misfortuns &amp; <s>show</s> Lytle sho[w]ed dissattissfaction because we had left but I thought he had shered his reward for what he had done &amp; if he thought he had not he was welcome to remane behind untill he was &amp; so I left him we travled a distance of 40 Miles[.] encamped at the Sink of Marys River[.] here we had but little grass &amp; the water was bitter



Sunday 12th the morning rainy this day we travled 25 Miles[.] encamped at a Slew [slough] whare we had a vary little grass[.] the water was tolerable good



Monday 13th cleare &amp; cool[.] This day we travled a distance of 20 Miles &amp; encamped on Marys River. grazing, vary pooar. Sciercely any dependance at all but the best we could do as the emigration had taken the grass



Tuseday 14th weather cule[.] travled a distance of 14 Miles[.] encamped at the first good grazing on the River[.] Lytles company was yet behind



Weddensday 15th weather cule[.] we travled this day 30 Miles[.] encamped on the River[.] we had good grazing for the animels.



Thursday 16th weather cule[.] we left camp early had a good road[.] travled a distance of 25 Miles[.] encamped in good grasing on the River bank



Friday 17th weather good[.] journed as usual had a good road[.] travled a distance of 25 Miles[.] camped a gain on the River in a kind of a horsshew [horseshoe] bend



Saturday 18th weather good[.] journed as usual[.] travled a bout 28 Miles[.] encamped on the River[.] here we lost two horses stolen by the Indians or left camp on there own hoof.



Sunday 19th The morning warm[.] travled this day a bout 25 miles[.] camped on the River[.] we had good &amp; a plesant camping ground.



Monday 20th The morning clear[.] we left camp at 7 ock[.] traveled 10 Miles &amp; overtook our Fathers[.] we past them a bout one Mile[.] encamped a bout 12 olk. our Fathers did not visit us except one or two of there company.



Tuseday 21st weather good[.] travled 22 Miles[.] encamped a gain on the River Just a bove a large settlement of the Root Diging Indians &amp; near whare Stoedom was attacked by them



Weddensday 22nd weather clear &amp; cule[.] travled 20 Miles[.] camped on the River[.] had good grasing here[.] we lost one Horse either stolen or runaway[.] the Horse belonged to Lt. Omans



Thursday 23rd The morning vary frosty &amp; cleare[.] this day we travled 20 Miles[.] encamped on the River had a butifull Camping ground.



Friday 24th weather good this day[.] we Journed early[.] travled a distance of 15 Miles[.] camped a gain on the River



Saturday 25th travled a distance of 18 Miles[.] encamped at what is cald the welts



Sunday 26th weather pleasant[.] travled this day a distance of 30 Miles[.] encamped at the Hot Springs &amp; a good cule branch runing flushly through that little vally which had a butifull apperance



Monday 27th This day we Rested &amp; sent Brother Hyde &amp; Tutters Company a heaid to precure sum bacon at Fort Hall[.] Bro Levi [Hancock] &amp; Lylte caught up with us here.



Tuseday 28th The morning cule[.] travled this day a distance of 25 Miles[.] camped at a butifull spring. at this camp Joseph White Lost a hors stolen by the Indians.



Weddensday 29th weather good[.] travled 22 Miles[.] encamped on Goose Creek[.] here we had good grasing



Thursday 30th The morning clear[.] travled down Goose Creek to whare the Road left it &amp; a bout 8 Miles further making a distance of 20 Miles[.] encamped in a Canion [canyon] whare we had but little for the Mules to eate.



Oct Friday 1st weather warm[.] travled over a Mountainous road a distance of 20 Miles[.] encamped at sum hot springs at the foot of a Mountain good grasing—



Saturday 2nd weather warm[.] travled a distance of 30 Miles[.] encamped on a streem cald Cass Creek



Sunday 3rd weather modrate[.] travled down the Creek to where the Oregon Road Crost &amp; encamped making a travell of 15 Miles[.] here we had a bad chance for grasing in consequence of so many Emigrants passing—



Monday 4th The morning cule[.] travled a distance of 18 Miles[.] encamped snake River[,] a butifull streeme a tributary of the greait Collumbia which emtys in to the Pacific.



Tuseday 5th The morning winday[.] travled a distance of 15 Miles[.] encamped a gain on the River.



Weddensday 6th Rainy looking weather[.] This day we reached Fort Hall making a travel of 14 Miles[.] Camped at sum springs near the Fort Just at dark[.] a lite shower of rain fell



Thursday 7th This day we left the Fort[.] <s>travled</s> a part of our Company Continued on the road to Fort Bridger but the largest number turned South bound for the Great Salt Lake City[.] we journed successfully day after day untill we reached the promised Land

Transcript for James Pace, Diary, 1846 July-1847 October, 53-66

James Pace papers, 1846-1861.

John M. King diaries, 1845-1850

John M. King diaries, 1845-1850, Diary, May 1847.

Transcript for John M. King diaries, 1845-1850, Diary, 1847 May-November

John M. King diaries, 1845-1850.

Levi W. Hancock papers, 1832-1878

Levi W. Hancock papers, 1832-1878, Journal, September 1846.

Transcript for Levi W. Hancock papers, 1832-1878, Journal, 1846 September-1847 October

Levi W. Hancock papers, 1832-1878.

Logan Journal

Robert Newton Egbert of Lewiston Among the Oldest Pioneer Residents There

"Robert Newton Egbert of Lewiston Among the Oldest Pioneer Residents There", Logan Journal, January 15, 1927, Page 11.

My parents left Nauvoo with the main body of the saints in the month of February 1846 and crossed Iowa in the early spring, sharing with others the hardships of the journey during the most inclement season of the year.  My father crossed the plains with the pioneer company under Prest. Young in 1847, but returned to Winter Quarters the same fall.  We remained at Council Bluffs during 1848 and made a crop and made preparations to cross the plains the next year.  We left the Missouri river in April 1849 and joined Allen Taylors company.  Redick Allred was captain of fifty and father captain of ten.



On the plains our company had only one serious accident; the trains were travelling in two columns, when one of our teams ran away pulling the front wheels from under the wagon box, and ran into a wagon on the other train and killed a woman names Findley.  They then ran out on the prairie and circled around and came back and ran over a woman named Hawks [Margaret Hawk], and killed her.



We reach Salt Lake about Sept. 13. . . .

Transcript for "Robert Newton Egbert of Lewiston Among the Oldest Pioneer Residents There," The Journal, 15 January 1927, p. 11

Logan Journal.

Martha M. Morgan, A Trip Across the Plains in the Year 1849 with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1983), 7-20

Martha M. Morgan, A Trip Across the Plains in the Year 1849 with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1983), 7-20.

Transcript for Martha M. Morgan, A Trip Across the Plains in the Year 1849 with Notes of a Voyage to California by Way of Panama (Fairfield, Washington: Ye Galleon Press, 1983), 7-20

"Names of Persons Who Volunteer to Go as Teamsters" in Offerings for the assistance of the P. E. F. immigrants

"Names of Persons Who Volunteer to Go as Teamsters" in Offerings for the assistance of the P. E. F. immigrants, October 1856.

"Names of Persons Who Volunteer to Go as Teamsters" in Offerings for the assistance of the P. E. F. immigrants.

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

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

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

Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 180

Norma Baldwin Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion: U.S. Army of the West, 1846-1848 (Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1996), 180.

Reddick N. Allred autobiographical sketch and diary, 1898-1903 in Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963, 37-38

Reddick N. Allred autobiographical sketch and diary, 1898-1903 in Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963, 37-38.

Up to this time I had not been able to do any thing towards a fit out for the Valley, but in the spring of 1849, I drew a land Warrant, and traded it for two yoke of oxen and a wagon, and set about geting ready for the journ[e]y. The first week in june we camped in the Missouri Bottom and was organized in tens, fifties and hundred, by Elder Geo. A. Smith, thus.



Allen Taylor Capt. of Hundred, Enoch Reese Capt. of first, and myself Capt. of second fifty. I had 73 wagons in my Company &amp; Capt. Taylor traveled in my Company, my father [Isaac Allred] &amp; father in law [James Hoyt] being with us. My team consisted of a yoke of oxen on the wheal, &amp; a yoke of cows on the lead, and I drove the lead wageon to the Valley. Capt. Taylor haveing crossed the Plains the year before as Capt. of Pres[iden]t. Young Company was of great service.



He advised us to tie our stock by the head out side of the wagons as they were correlled [corraled] at night, which I strictly observed, but Capt. Reese did not, with the result that he had not been out a week untill his cattle stampeded in the night, smashing down wageons to get out. This so frightened them that they broke up into small companies. Bro. Perkins asked me to let him come into my Company with 10, I said yes fall in the rear[,] which I soon learned was bad polacy for their stock[,] remembering their fright[,] started to run while moving. As soon as I saw it[,] gave the word to halt &amp; stand by their teams. In a short time teams were runing in all directions except a few at the head altho one team rea[ran] the entire length between the two lines. I stood by my team talking kindly to them and the[y] did not move. It was frightful to behold especialy when we geathered up the wounded, three was badly hurt, and one, Sister [Margaret] Hawke, died that night. We had no more trouble on the road, but the journey was long &amp; tedious, and as we entered the Mountains we split up into smaller Companys for convenience for feed &amp; camping.



Oct. 16—1849 we arrived in Salt Lake City, or where the City was afterwards built I bought a room in the old Fort and lived there that winter.

Transcript for Reddick N. Allred autobiographical sketch and diary, 1898-1903 in Daughters of Utah Pioneers collection, 1828-1963, 37-38

Reddick N. Allred journal

Reddick N. Allred journal, August 1854.

Transcript for Reddick N. Allred journal, 1854 August-1856 November

Oct 6th. 1856 I attended conference in Salt Lake City, but as the <handcart> emigration was belated and likely to be caught in the mountains in the snow without provisions and the necessary cloathing I responded to a call upon the brethren to assist them in, and on the 7th about 50 men and 20, four horse wageons with ten ton of flour, with other provisions and cloathing left the city. I got a pony to ride from Wm. B. Pace. G. D. Grant camped at the foot of the big Mountain with ten wageons and I camped at the east foot of the little mountain with ten wageons</handcart>



8th. We crossed the big mountain and overtook Bro. Grant on East Kanyon [Canyon] at the cotton wood grove[.] encamped for the night where we joined his camp and organized. G. D. Grant had been apointed by letter from the President to lead the company and R. T. Burton clerk. Charles Decker capt 1st. ten and I of the 2nd. ten[.] Wm. H. Kimball Sergt. of guard and C. H. Wheelock Chaplain.



It snowed all the afternoon &amp; evening so that I took cold and it gave me a severe pain in my breast that lasted one month that was almost like takeing my life.



Sunday 12th. we reached Bridger where we got seven beef cattle.



Monday 13th. met Capt. A. O. Smoot in advance of the church train, in order to obtain supplies. <s>&amp;</s> &lt;He&gt; returned with us and on <s>Big Sandy on</s> the 15th. left with Bros. Wheelock, Joseph A. Young[,] S. Taylor &amp; A. Garr who were sent ahead to meet the trains. We crossed Green River and on the 16th. met Cpt. [Abraham O.] Smoots train on Big Sandy where we camped. I suffered much from the pluricy or a pain in my breast &amp; side.



Oct. 18th. 1856 We arrived at the South Pass and camped on the Sweat Water [Sweetwater] 3 miles from the Pass. It snowed and was quiet cold.



19th. Capt. Grant left me in charge of the supplies of flour, beef cattle, four waggeons, the weak animals, and eleven men for guard. I killed the beef cattle &amp; let the meet [meat] lay in quaters where it frose and kept well as it was very cold &amp; storming almost evry day. We were reinforced by 3 wageons &amp; 6 men loded with flour.



23rd. I recieved an express from Wm. H. Kimball in charge of Capt. Willy's hand cart company then at stony point forty miles below in a deploreable condition.



24th. I took 6 teams and met them 15 miles below in such a hard west wind that they couldnot travel faceing the drfting snow even if they had been ready for duty. I found <s>them</s> &lt;some&gt; dead &amp; dying laying over the camp in the drifting snow that was being piled in heaps by the gale &amp; buerrying their dead.



We set in with the rest to make them as comfortable as posable &amp; remained in camp till next day.



25th. The waggeons were all filled with the most infirm and we made my camp <s>in goo</s> altho. many didnot arrive till late at night. Fifteen were bueried on the ground below &amp; three at my camp. On our return to camp we found one of the men sick with the small-pox and to avoid any further out brake if posable I sent &lt;him&gt; homeward with one man alone to obtain a Physician.



Oct. 26th. Bro. Kimball sent an express to the city for more help as the other companies hadnot been yet heard of, and went on himself with Capt. Wille's company leaveing me with a few men &lt;(7)&gt; to keep up the station till the last train should arrive. Capt Grant had said that he would send me back with the first train, but he sent word by Bro. Wm. Kimball that he wouldnot feel satisfied unless I stoped at the station as their lives depended upon it. &lt;being kept up&gt;



On the 13th Nov. Ephram Hanks arrived from S L. City and reported 150 wageons on the way to relieve us, but nothing having been heard from the trains I sent a man with him to meet them.



They started next morning (14th.) and as it was very cold &amp; the wind blowing a gale from the West he set a sail behind his wageon and struck out at the rates of ten knots. Bros. John Van Cot &amp; Claudeous V. Spencer arrived this morning but their stay was short as another man was comeing down with the smallpox. Bro. Spencer tried to induce me to brake up camp and return to the City. I declined this propposition, and he said he would return. I advised him to stay for the lives of the Company the depended upon us &amp; he then said that he moved that as I was President of the Station they center their faith in me that I should get the word of the Lord to know what we must do. to this I objected as he had already said what he would do. They returned next day. I sent a letter by them to the companies on the road <s>sent out for our assistance</s>, for them to come on as fast as the condition of their teams would allow, but &lt;he failing to present the letter&gt; all the <s>teams</s> companies turned back with them untill they got to "Bridger" where Lewis Robinson prevailed on them to stop untill he could send a messenger to President Young, the result of which was to turn them all back again with instructions to go untill they met Capt. Geo. Grant. Spencers team after reaching the Big Mountain was turned back and arrived at my Camp the same evening that Capt. G. —arrived with the last company. The team was in an exhausted condition, reminding them of my words to them, that "if they wanted to save the team leave it with us, &amp; keep it there to help the needy," but C. A. Spencer wouldnot consent. President Young told Wm. Kimble that he didnot care if he turned same so quick that it would snap their neck. But I saved my neck by sticking to my post. Joseph A. Young came to my camp with the first inteligence from the last companies, &amp; went on to the City next day.



Capt. Grant got into my Camp on the 17th of Nov. just 30 days since he left me, and saluted me with "Hurah for the Bull Dog—good for a hang on."



Nov 18th. The teams having all arrived we were organized into Companies of (10's) Tens by wagons—each ten taking up a Company of one hundred as they were organized in the Handcarts—my ten wagons hauling Capt. Mayo's company. All could ride, altho. much crowded. We then set out for the City with this half starved, half frozen and almost entirely exausted Company of about 500 saints. But from that time on they did not suffer with hunger or fatiegue, but all suffered more or less with cold. As well as I was provided I even lost my toe nails from frost



I had a good tent &amp; took in 5 Bretheren—including Capts. Tyler &amp; Martin, and the 3 sisters Quinn to do our cooking



After geting well started Capt. Grant with a number of others started ahead to the City leaving Robert T. Burton in Command with me to assist him, and after hard marches &amp; much suffering, which was however, lessened by assistance from Salt Lake City in the shape of Cooked provisions &amp; men to Clear the snow on the mountain passes—making it possible for our much exausted teams to get along with their heavy loads, we arrived in the City in triumph. Capt. Burton leading one &amp; I the other as we moved up the Street in two lines to the Tithing yard where we were greeted with much praise &amp; a hearty welcome to the City of the saints where we as well as the new comers could rest from our labours and our work could follow us.



Thus ended one of the hardest &amp; most succesful Missions I had ever performed, for although the Mission with the Mormon Battalion was long hard &amp; teadious, &amp; therefore very severe, yet this was Short &amp; Sharp in the extream.

Reddick N. Allred journal.

Spencer, Claudius to Brigham Young

Spencer, Claudius to Brigham Young, November 12, 1856.

Spencer, Claudius to Brigham Young.

William McBride journals, 1854-1855; 1874

William McBride journals, 1854-1855; 1874, Vol. 2.

Transcript for William McBride journals, 1854-1855; 1874, vol. 2

William McBride journals, 1854-1855; 1874.

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Lucy Adeline Allred

Lucy Hoyt

Redick Reddin Allred

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Great Salt Lake City, Great Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States

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James Riley Allred

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Reddick Newton Allred

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