Samuel Gadd (1815 - 1856) Profile

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Deseret News

Immigration to Utah

"Immigration to Utah", Deseret News, October 15, 1856, Page 6.

Transcript for "Immigration to Utah," Deseret News, 15 October 1856, 254

Deseret News.

Gadd, Alfred, Diary

Gadd, Alfred, Diary, June 1856.

June 28. Saturday, we went up. to the camping grounds and stopped there until July 15.
July 15. Wednesday, evening we started, after two weeks and three days at the Iowa camping grounds, and came to this side of the house and camped for the night and, also, for the next day.
July 18. We started again and traveled about 6 miles to the Nine Mile house and camped.
July 19. Saturday. We went 12 miles and stopped over Sunday at Brush Creek.
July 21. Monday. We travelled about 7 miles and camped at Leave Creek.
July 22. We went about 9 miles to Hilton Creek, which is about one and one-half miles from Mariage, and camped.
July 23. We travelled 18 miles and camped again for the night. 
July 24. We only traveled about 2 miles this day as one of our fellow traveler’s has passed away and we stopped to bury her. We camped there that night.
July 25. Friday. We went 13 miles and camped for the night, where we could not get any water fit to drink, nor wood to burn.
July 26. Traveled about three miles and camp for the night. 
July 27. Sunday. We stopped after driving 5 miles.
July 28. Monday. We travelled about 12 miles, going through Newton, and camped about two miles this side.
July 29. Tuesday. We traveled 14 miles this day.
July 30. Went 20 miles to Fort Des Moines and camped.
Aug. 2. Went about 10 miles and were then approximately 95 miles from Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Aug. 3. We drove through two rivers, one creek. One river near the city of Mel called Coon river. Traveled about 17 miles.
Aug. 4. Drove 17 miles and camped at Bare Grove.
Aug. 5. Travelled 18-½ miles.
Aug. 6. West 13 miles.
Aug. 7. West 13 miles and camped at Marset Creek.
Aug. 8. Travelled 15 miles.
Aug. 9. Went 16 miles to Cave Creek.
Aug. 10. Sunday. We rested until 4 o’clock, traveled 10 miles and camped 2 miles from The Bluffs.
Aug. 11. Monday. We went about 17 miles to Mauseiern [Missouri] River, in the afternoon we camped at Florence to get ready for the final journey.
Aug. 16. Saturday. In the afternoon we started and traveled 6 miles and camped until Monday. WE went back on Sunday to fetch the cattle up to us.
Aug. 18. We went about 5 miles to Papoose Creeks.
Aug. 19. Today we went about 11 miles to Elk Horn River and ferried over, then went 3 more miles and camped.
Aug 20. Travelled 15 miles to the Platt[e] River and camped.
Aug. 21. Went 12 miles and camped, although there was no water nor wood, only what we had with us.
Aug. 22. Travelled 22 miles and campt near the Platt River again.
Aug. 23. Went 11 miles to ferry. Ferried over and camped near the river.
Aug. 24. Sunday. Drove 23 miles.
Aug. 25. Monday. Drove 18 more miles and camped by the river.
Aug. 26. Tuesday. Traveled 21 miles. 
Aug. 27. Wednesday, we camped for the night on the prairie, where there was no wood, but a little standing water. We had travelled 23 miles that day.
Aug. 28. Thursday. We went 10 miles to Prairie Creek and stopped there for dinner. We then went on 22 miles and camped for the night at Wood River. Here we saw some Buffalo. It was dark before we got in camp and we found that an old man had dropped behind and was lost. There was a heavy thunder storm that night.
Aug. 29. Camped until noon. Went back and found the old man. The exposure made him too weak to walk at all. We went four miles and camped near the Omeasi [Omaha] Indians. They brought us some food and buffalo meat. They told us about the Indians killing Col. Babbits men. This tribe (Omeasi) have always been friends of the white people and warned us of the danger.
Aug. 30. We went 13 miles and stopped at the place where Babbit’s men were killed by the Chianes [Cheyenne] Indians. We covered them up, also burnt their things. We crossed the Wood River, nine miles from where we found the men.
Aug. 31. W. Babbitt overtook us and camped with us till morning, we were about ten miles from Fort Kearny. We went about twenty one miles and camped by the river again. We did not go near the fort.
Sept. 1. We went about twenty-one miles and camped at Buffalo Creek where we killed a buffalo in the evening, about one mile from the camp.
Sept. 2. We travelled about twelve miles to a creek and camped for dinner. We cut brush to make a bridge over which to cross and then travelled another three miles before camping. 
Sept. 3. We killed another buffalo. After travelling eighteen miles we camped for the night. There was no wood and no water where we camped, only some standing, muddy water to drink.
Sept. 4. We could not go on. On Wednesday night we lost about thirty of our best cattle. We stayed until Sunday and hunted for our cattle, but could not find them. There was a heavy thunder storm and our tents were broken.
Sept. 7. Sunday. We moved on about 4 miles to the Platte River where there was both wood and water.
Sept. 8. Monday. This morning a man came to us and told us of the death of Thomas Margretts, who was coming from the Valley to the States to live, but was killed by the Indians. Nearly two hundred miles after passing Fort Laramie, Margett’s family and another family were killed. This man, who was travelling with the Margetts, had gone out to shoot buffalo and when he came back after an hour’s hunt, he found them all dead. That afternoon we went fifteen miles and camped at the Platte River.
Sept. 9. We travelled eleven miles and camped for the night.
Sept. 10. We went five miles to Carine [Carrion] Creek, camped for noon, after eating we travelled another twelve miles and camped by a spring.
Sept. 11. Thursday. We travelled sixteen miles to the Platte River. we found very little wood, which is the last we expect to find for nearly two hundred miles.
Sept. 12. We travelled eleven miles, crossed a branch of the river and camped for the night, twelve miles from Strawberry Creek. Brothers Franklin, Richards, Spencer and Whellock [Wheelock] and Joseph Young, and others, overtook us and spent the night with us. We held a fine meeting that night.
Sept. 13. This morning we had another meeting. Then we left the camp, crossing the river in a new place which was shown to us by the brothers who had spent the night with us.
Sept. 14. We went seventeen miles and camped by the river again. In the evening we shot two more buffalo.
Sept. 15. We travelled twenty miles.
Sept. 16. We travelled on and now were in the hills, which were very sandy. We camped in the Bluffs, where there was but a little muddy water. During the day we met thirteen Indians, who camped near us. They were watching us all night, but did us no harm.
Sept. 17. This morning we travelled on again at 4 o’clock A.M. and we travelled eight miles before stopping for breakfast.
Sept. 18. We travelled ten miles to Ash Hollow. We lost a woman, but found her the next day in the mountains. We stayed there until Saturday repairing our hand carts. Ash Hollow is about eighty miles from Fort Laramie.
Sept. 20. We travelled ten miles.
Sept. 21. We travelled fifteen miles.
Sept. 22. We travelled eighteen miles and camped near the river.
Sept. 23. We travelled twenty miles and had to cross a stream. We came in sight of Chimney Rock about noon and camped by the river at night.
Sept. 24. Wednesday. We crossed the river and travelled twelve miles stopping at Chimney Rock for dinner.
Sept. 25. Thursday. We went eighteen miles and camped at the river near the old shores.
Sept. 26. We travelled eighteen miles and camped by a creek where there was a little Cedar wood for fires.
Sept. 27. We travelled eighteen miles and camped against a branch of the Platte River, after having crossed it.
Sept. 28. We travelled nineteen miles and camped near the Trading Post, where the Sioux Indians were trading.
Sept. 29. We went eighteen miles and camped four miles from Fort Morgan.
Sept. 30. We again crossed the Platte River at Laramie. We went two miles beyond Laramie and camped at the river until the next day.
Oct. 1. We travelled eight miles today.
Oct. 2. Thursday morning Parley P. Pratt and some of the Missionaries from Utah came to us and we held a meeting. In the afternoon we travelled about six miles and camped.
Oct. 3. We went about twenty-seven miles and camped where there was a little wood and water.
Oct 4. We went three miles and camped. My brother Daniel (aged two) died this afternoon.
Oct. 5. We went twenty miles and camped at the Platte River, after having crossed it.
Oct. 6. We went fifteen miles before dinner, because we could not get any water. Then we came to the Platte again and travelled four miles more before camping.
Oct. 7. We travelled fifteen miles and camped at the river.
Oct. 8. We travelled to Deer Creek, which was a distance of about seventeen miles.
Oct. 9. We went eighteen miles. My father was dying before we left this morning, but they put him in a wagon and when we saw him at noon, he was dead.
Oct. 10. We buried Father this morning.
Oct. 11. Saturday. We travelled fourteen miles and nooned, but we had to camp for the night, as the cattle were worn out and could not go any further.
Oct. 12. Sunday. We travelled sixteen miles.
Oct. 13. Monday. We travelled fourteen miles and got some salt water. When we came to the springs we crossed the Sweetwater and camped.
Oct. 14. Tuesday. We travelled on again and passed Devil’s Gate; we went sixteen miles.
Oct. 15. We travelled twelve miles and camped for the night by the Sweetwater.
Oct. 16. We travelled ten miles and crossed the Sweetwater twice and then camped.
Oct. 17. From the 12th of October, I have missed on[e] day travelling; therefore, this is one day behind.
Oct. 18. Saturday. We travelled eight miles, camped on the Sweetwater after having crossed it.
Oct. 19. Sunday. We travelled sixteen and one-half miles before noon and had a snow storm. Soon after we met Brothers Young, Whellcock [Wheelock] and others. We travelled late that night and just got our tents up when it commenced to snow. It snowed all day, night and day.
Oct. 21. Today our brethern came in with their teams loaded with flour and other things for us. Our provisions were all gone one day before they came in with the flour.
Oct. 22. We travelled ten miles and camped for the night on the snow.
Oct. 23. We went sixteen miles and camped late at night. It was very cold. We remained there all day on the 24th.
Oct. 25. We travelled sixteen miles to South Pass and camped.
Oct. 26. Sunday. We travelled thirteen miles.
 Oct. 27. Monday. We travelled twenty miles in the snow and camped at White Goose Pass.
Oct. 28. We travelled ten miles and camped about two miles after we crossed the creek. We had no wood to burn.
Oct. 29. We travelled fifteen miles and crossed a creek and camped for the night.
Oct. 30. Thursday. We travelled twelve miles and crossed the Green River and camped at the river a mile and a half from the Fort.
Oct. 31. We travelled twenty miles and camped.
Nov. 1. We travelled twenty miles and crossed four creeks and camped.
Nov. 2. Sunday. We went to Fort Bridger and camped for the night. There we tied our hand carts behind our wagons and drew them no more, because we had more teams. We arrived on the ninth of November in Salt Lake City.

Transcript for Gadd, Alfred, Diary 1856 June-Nov., 1-6

Gadd, Alfred, Diary.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008

Historical Department journal history of the Church, November 9, 1856, Page 21.

Historical Department journal history of the Church, 1830-2008.

James G. Willie History

James G. Willie History, Page 95-120.

Transcript for Marilyn Austin Smith, Faithful Stewards--the Life of James Gray Willie and Elizabeth Ann Pettit, 95-120

James G. Willie History.

Linford, John, Diary

Linford, John, Diary, April 1856.

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John Linford, 48 Maria Linford, 43 George J. Linford, 17 Joseph Wm. Linford, 14 Amasa C. Linford, 12 Mary Ann Britin, 50 Samuell Gad, 41 Eliza Gad, 41 Alfred Gad, 20 Jane Gad, 17 Wm Gad, 12 Samuel Gad, 10 Maryann Gad, 8 Sarah, Gad, 5 Isic [Isaac], Gad, 1 Daniel Gad, 1 Maryan [Mary Ann] Funnel, 62 Elizabeth Funnel, 23 Maryann [Mary Ann] Miller, 30 Ann Howard, 30
October 29 taken our diner in the territory of Utah
30 crossed the green river[,] 165 [miles] from sault [Salt] lake city.
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(In another place in the book is the following entry made by one of the sons.)
 “The 19th of October we mett a snow storm and soon after we met the bretheren from the valley[,] brother wetlock and young[.] about 270 miles from the valley we had eat up all our flour [blank space] we have relying upon [blank space] hundred weight of bisket for a week [blank space] people then we came to camp and in the morning we were snowed in and had got all our biskets among us[.] brother willey [James Gray Willie] went to meet the wagons on a mule and father [John Linford] died the 21st of October 1856 down by the sweet water at 5 oclock in the morning[.] he had been ill from florence from the feaver and ague and then weekness and the diareah[.] the journey was too much for him.”
(October 29 and 30 entries evidently were made by one of the sons after the death of John Linford)

Transcript for Linford, John, Diary 1856 Apr.-May, fd. 1, fd. 2

Linford, John, Diary.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886, Vol. B, Page 204.

Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company financial accounts, 1849-1886.

Salt Lake Herald-Republican

Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856

Josiah Rogerson, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856", Salt Lake Herald-Republican, December 15, 1907, Page 5.

The names of this company will be given first in place, for if ever in print before, it is over fifty years ago.



The members of this company, mainly, if not all, sailed from the Brammerly-Moor docks at Liverpool, Lancashire, England, in the ship Thornton, May 4, 1856, landing at New York June 14, and arrived at Iowa Hill, near Iowa City, Ia., about the 27th of June, 1856. When the Mormon emigrants that sailed from Liverpool, Lancashire, England, May 25, in the Horizon, and comprising the whole of Martin's handcart company and Hunt's and Hodgett's wagon companies, arrived on Iowa Hill, Ia. July 8 and 9, 1856. Willie's company was then nearly ready to leave that camp with their handcarts and tents all made, wagons loaded with provisions, etc., for the 1,350 mile journey to the Great Salt Lake valley, Utah, and made their start on the 10th or 12th of July, a day or two after Martin's company reached there.



Names of the company from England—Captain J. G. Willie and William Woodward, returning missionaries; John Chislett, Ann Osborn, Thomas Moulton and family, Jesse Impey [Empey] and family, William Reed and family, Joseph Osborn [Oborn] and family, Sarah Charles [Choules], William Edwick, Alfred Peacock, Jemima Rogers and daughter, Mary P. Griffiths, Suzannah Stone, Min[ni]e A. Cook, Sarah A. Williams, Ester Millard, Elizabeth Tite, Betsey Stanley, Mary A. Stockdale, Julia and Emily Hill, the poetess; Amelia Evans, Cecelia and Sarah Norris, the latter the wife of Elder Jenkins Evans, and residents of Parowan, Iron county, Utah, for the last fifty years; Mary A. and Adelaide Cooper, David Reader and family, Mary A. Bird and family, Joseph Wall and wife [sister], Benjamin Culley, Rebecca Langman, Rebecca Pilgrim, Elizabeth and Jane Culley, Ann Oliver, Ann Cooper, Theophilus Copp [Cox], Thomas Girdlestone and family, James Harren and family, William Philpot and family, Rose Key and family, Sam Gadd and family, Mary A. Perkins, John Linford and family, Mary A. Miller, Ann Howard, Mary E. Bretton [Britton], Mary and Elizabeth Fannel [Funnell], Samuel Witts, Ann Bryant, Thomas Hooley, Charles Gumer [Gurney] and family, Anna [Hannah] and Mary [Maria] Kirby, John Nockolds, Abraham Ore and wife, George and Jane [John] Brazier, George Ingra and wife, Kitty Ann Tassell, Ellen Toffield, Lucy Ward, James Oliver, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, James Gardner and family, William Hailey and wife, Joseph Meadows and wife, Mary and Hannah Dorney, Edward Bowles and wife, Jane Rowley, Thomas Oakley [Oakey] and family, Edward Wheeler and family, Frederick Wall and wife, Jenet [Janetta] and Mary Hodges, Emma Summers, Sarah Steed, Martha Chetwin, Mary Ann Newman (widow), her daughters, Eliza, Mary Ann, Caroline and Ellen, and sons, William and John, residents of Parowan, Iron county, Utah, since 1856; Sophia C[r]ook and daughter, Richard and Ann Godfrey, Anna Herbert and son, Thomas and Enoch Bowles, John Roberts, William Jeffry, Richard Hardwick, Richard Turner, George Humphries and family, Eliza Withom [Withorn] and son, Mercy Miller and son, Elizabeth Panting and family, James Read [Reid] and family, Martha Campkin and family, John James, George Curtis, William James and family, Harriet and Ellen C. Showell, Sarah West, Mary Roberts, Ellen Jones, William Smith and wife, John Bailey and family, Ann Rowley and family, residents of Parowan, Iron county, Utah, for fifty years; William Page.



From Wales—Catherine M. Griffiths, Edward Griffiths.



From Scotland—Allen M. Findlay and family, residents of Panacea, Nev., for thirty years; Archibald McPheil and family, Margery Smith and family, residents of Beaver City, Utah,, for thirty years; Alexander Birt or Burt, Salt Lake, Utah; Thomas Stewart and family, David Anderson, carpenter, resident of Salt Lake for fifty years; William Ledington and family, James Gibb and wife, Andrew Smith of Salt Lake, Mary A. Calchwell [Caldwell] and family, Barbara Kelly, Ann Tesit, Christina McNeil, John McCollick [McCullough], Jane A. Stuart [Stewart], Isabella Wilkey [Wilkie], John Stuart [Stewart] and family, John Kelly and wife, Elizabeth Forbes.



From Ireland—Joseph McKey (or McKay), Margaret Douglish [Dalglish].



From Sweden—John Ahmansen.



From Bombay—Elizabeth Tealt [Tait].



From the United States—Millen Atwood, Levi Savage, returning missionaries.



From Denmark—Peter Madsen and wife, Peter Jacobson and family, Ann Olsen, Berta Neilsen, Emma Browant [Bravandt], Marcan [Maren] Gregerson, Ella [Helle] Neilsen, Louiza Loutross, Johanna Maria Jensen (afterward the mother of James J. and J. Willard Squires, barbers of this city for many years), and her sister Catherine Jensen; Mari and Anne Anderson, Jens Sanberk [Sandberg], Anders Christensen, Cassius Hanson, Oleo [Ola] Wickland and family, Jens Peterson and family, Jens Neilson and family, Peter Larson and family, Paul Jacobson and wife, Rasmus P. Hanson, Mareann Jergonson [Jorgenson], Christen Jergonson, Carsten Jenson, Ni[e]ls Anderson and family, Andres [Anders] Jenson and family, Rasmus Hanson and wife, Lars Vandelin, Peter Mortenson and family, residents of Parowan, Iron county, Utah, for fifty years; Nils Hanson and wife, Anders Jergonson and family, Sophia Peterson and family, Peter Marsen [Madsen] and family, Ole Madsen, Petrina C. Janes.



Although Captain J. G. Willie's company left Iowa Hill, Ia., some fourteen or sixteen days ahead of ours, Martin's company, with the middle of July weather, and which they made good use of—and all possible haste to Florence or Winterquarters [Winter Quarters], Neb., and got away from there with only a few days rest, losing no time from there to Fort Kearney, and realizing the value of the good weather and the date that they should reach and pass Fort Larimie [Laramie]; yet before reaching the latter landmark on those dreary plains, they seemed fated that by a little possible lassitude on the part of their guard at nights over their cattle, and where it was more necessary than any other part of the journey to meet with their most crippling disaster in the loss by the Cheyenne Indians of half, or more, of their draught oxen.



This to them—at that time and place, was an irreparable loss and fatality, and from which they could not and did not recover to the end of their journey. They had made good headway from the start, with more single and able-bodied members, in comparison to Captain Martin's company, that really contained, and as heretofore recorded, the most aged and infirm, and the cleanings up of that season's emigration.



This loss of half their draught oxen necessitated the unloading onto the carts of the company of half the provisions in the wagons, and taking into considerations the three or four days' spent in hunting for the cattle, without moving camp, and after conceding further quest to be hopeless and needless, their travel for the next two and three weeks with but little more than one yoke of oxen to the wagon, was greatly hindered and impeded, placing the company back from where they would have been without this loss, not less than 125 miles.



This company did not lack by any means for members of hardihood, health, strength and endurance, for Captain Willie came to the relief party below the mouth of Willow creek, after dark at night, on Monday, October 20, 1856, and with what assistance they received from that on they were enabled to reach Salt Lake City on Sunday, November 9, the morning Martin's company left the "Ravine."Three miles west of Devil's Gate and 350 miles from Salt Lake City.



This loss on their part figures out almost proportionately with them as the unnecessary delay on Iowa Hill, Ia., of sixteen days waiting for the handcarts to be made after we got there, did to Martin's company, for now it is proof beyond question that sixteen days of fairly good weather and dry ground would have landed the latter company from the Platte bridge in the vicinity of Big Sandy or Green river, but the knowledge of the future is often withheld from the most gifted and wise and for a purpose best known to Himself.



One paragraph more from the late President Franklin D. Richards' journal on his return from Florence, Neb., to Salt Lake that season, and then follows Captain J. G. Willie's report which is the best authority as to the travels, hardships, sufferings and losses by death of his company.



Friday, Sept. 12, 1856—We overtook and camped with Brother Willie's company at North Bluff creek, consisting of 404 persons, six wagons, 87 handcarts, six yoke of oxen, thirty-two cows and five mules. They were considerably weakened by the loss of their oxen which they had failed to recover, but were in good spirits and averaging fourteen to sixteen miles a day. Here we forded the Platte river to the south side and were followed by the handcarts.



Never was a more soul-stirring sight than the party and the passage of this company over that river. Several of the carts were drawn entirely by women, yet their hearts were glad and full of hope.



It will be remembered that President Franklin D. Richards and his company of returning missionaries left Florence, Neb., on September 3, passing Martin's company on Sunday, September 7, and in five days more overtook Willie's company as above recorded. This would then place the latter company from 125-150 miles west of Martin's, and in the vicinity of Fort Kearney, where their cattle were stolen.



Captain James G. Willie's digest of his journal of the journey of his company from Liverpool, England, to Salt Lake City, Utah.



Synopsis of the fourth handcart company's trip from Liverpool, England, to Great Salt Lake City, in the spring, summer and autumn of 1856. (Written by Elder James G. Willie, Captain.)



On Thursday, May1, the ship Thornton, Captain Collins, received the Saints (761 in number) on board the ship in the Brammerley-Moore docks, Liverpool, and on the following Saturday President F. D. Richards, accompanied by the government inspector and doctor, came on board, and the Saints answered to the usual inspection and were all pronounced by those officers to be in good health. President Richards appointed myself (James G. Willie) captain of the company, and Elder Millen Atwood, Moses Clough and Johan A. Ahmanson, my counselors, and afterward in a few appropriate remarks exhorted the people to strict obedience on the passage, as otherwise they could not expect, and would not have a prosperous journey. President Richards then blessed them in the name of the Lord and by authority of the holy priesthood. Captain Willie then made the usual appointments for the promotion of cleanliness and good order, and on Sunday, May 4, at 3 a.m. the company was tugged out of the river by the Pilot. Sea-sickness soon commenced, but through the blessings of the Lord it was not frequent during the voyage, and which terminated at New York on the 14th of June. The spirit of the Lord prevailed. The ship's captain yielded to the influence which surrounded him and was kind and affable to all, often voluntarily giving from his own table for the comfort of the sick and infirm, and otherwise ministering to their wants with his own hands. He seemed to be a good man, and I felt all the time and still feel to say "God bless Captain Collins." By his sanction meetings (at which he was generally present for preaching and bearing testimony) were held on the quarterdeck, and every liberty which could in reason be expected was granted by him. He often in polite terms, complimented the Saints upon their cleanliness and upon their ready compliance with his requests from time to time, and said he never wished for a better or more orderly lot of passengers.



They certainly deserved the captain's encomium, for with scarcely an exception, they did their utmost to carry out to the very letter the instructions given. Previous to landing at New York a testimonial, expressive of the Saints' appreciation of the captain's and the doctor's kindness, was presented to them by myself; and one signed by the captain, first mate and doctor, on behalf of themselves and the ships's company, was presented to me on behalf of the Saints. On our arrival at Castle Gardens, New York, we received a hearty welcome from President John Taylor and Elder Felt. Several gentlemen of the press also paid us a visit and were very courteous toward us, appearing desirous to obtain information concerning the company from its officers, and subsequently several paragraphs appeared in different New York newspapers in praise of the general appearance and demeanor of the entire company.



On Tuesday, June 17, they started under the presidency of Elder Levi Savage for Dunkirk, a distance of 460 miles, where they arrived on the 19th, leaving Brother Attwood and myself behind to transact sundry items of business. We, however, arrived at Dunkirk by express train on the same day, and immediately embarked with the Saints on the Jersey City for Toledo, 280 miles further, where we arrived on Saturday, the 21st, in good health and spirits. We at once started per rail for Chicago, which we reached on the following day. I should mention that the railway authorities at Toledo manifested a very unkind spirit toward us, putting us to every inconvenience in their power. The conductor compelled us to land in the streets of Chicago, but the superintendent there gave us the use of an empty warehouse for the night.



The day [-] next day (the 23d) most of the English Saints left per rail at 3 p.m. and the rest at 11 p.m. for Rock Island. On the first train arriving at Pond Creek, the next day, it was ascertained that the railway bridge there had fallen down while a previous train was passing over it. Several brethren, including Brothers—and Erastus Snow, were in the train, and although many of the passengers were seriously injured, they escaped unhurt. We slept in the cars, and on the 25th the remainder of our company came up. We had much difficulty in obtaining provisions.

Transcript for Josiah Rogerson, "Captain J. G. Willie's Or, the Fourth Handcart Company of 1856 (No. 1)," Salt Lake Herald, 15 December 1907, 5

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Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot

Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot", Salt Lake Tribune, January 4, 1914.

Transcript for Josiah Rogerson, "Strong Men, Brave Women and Sturdy Children Crossed the Wilderness Afoot," Salt Lake Tribune, 4 January 1914

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