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Samuel Smith Young

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5th Company of 50 report

5th Company of 50 report, September 1852.

5th Company of 50 report.

Charles Sansom autobiography, 1907, 12-80

Charles Sansom autobiography, 1907, 12-80.

Transcript for Charles Sansom autobiography, 1907, 12-80

Council Point Emigrating Company journal

Council Point Emigrating Company journal, November 1851.

Transcript for Council Point Emigrating Company journal, 1851 November-1852 September

Council Point Emigrating Company journal.

George K. Bowering journal

George K. Bowering journal, July 1842.

Transcript for George K. Bowering journal, 1842 July-1875 January, 79-118

George K. Bowering journal.

Young, Anna Ross, [Autobiography], in Eleanor McAllister Hall,comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 53

Young, Anna Ross, [Autobiography], in Eleanor McAllister Hall,comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 53.

We stayed there [Lexington, Missouri] six weeks while my mother and father were busy repairing the damage done to our belongings. My father bought three yoke of oxen, a wagon, a tent, and everything we needed to make the trip. We were as well fitted out as we could be; plenty to eat and would get fresh water whenever we could to be carried in five gallon kegs and swung under the wagon. The cattle sometimes would die from drinking the water of the Plains, one of our best oxen died and we had to put a cow in the place. Then we had one yoke of oxen, one yoke with an ox and a cow, and one yoke with two cows, making three yoke in all. There was plenty of grass along the way. At night we would milk and set it in pans under the wagon, in the morning we would take the cream off and put it in a little stone jar with a dash. By night it would be churned to butter with the jolt of the wagon.
My mother baked a lot of crackers before we started and we had some of them when we got in Salt Lake. They were made out of just flour, salt, and lard. They were rolled out and the dough pounded to make them light. We had never heard of baking powder or soda. We had yeast cakes that mother made before we left and she would make bread and bake it on step stones that had belonged to Jeff (McCullough).
When we had traveled about 100 miles, my father took the cholera and died. He was buried at Woodriver [Wood River] without a coffin. He was wrapped in a heavy quilt. His death occurred July 5, 1852. On the 8th of the same month my oldest brother died.
He said, "I want to be baptized before I die." Jeff McCullough baptized him. He died and was buried the next morning.
Our trip from then on was uneventful. We were about three months making the trip and arrived in Salt Lake the 23rd of Sept. 1852.

Transcript for Young, Anna Ross, [Autobiography], in Eleanor McAllister Hall,comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 53

Young, Rhoda Byrne Jared, [Reminiscences], in Eleanor McAllister Hall, comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 34

Young, Rhoda Byrne Jared, [Reminiscences], in Eleanor McAllister Hall, comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 34.

About the 10th of May we started from Council Bluffs in the 5th Company under Capt. Tidwell. My husband, Adolphia Young, was captain of one of the Tens. We had not gone far when the cholera made its appearance in our camp. On the 2nd of July my husband was taken with the dread disease. He lingered four days and died on the 5th of July 1852 near the Wood River one hundred miles out of Winter Quarters. My oldest son, Samuel, was taken with the same complaint on the 7th and died on the 8th on Elm Creek. Thus I was bereft of my husband and my son only three days between their deaths. Oh, I felt that there was no power but the Lord's that could sustain me under this overwhelming stroke.
I, with the help of my oldest daughter, Frances, drove my own team, yoking my cattle mornings and unyoking them evenings. About the 20th of Sept. we landed in Salt Lake City where I had so long desired to be.

Transcript for Young, Rhoda Byrne Jared, [Reminiscences], in Eleanor McAllister Hall, comp., The Book of Jared [1963], 34

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