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Samuel Walton Utley

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15th Company of 50 report

15th Company of 50 report, June 1852.

15th Company of 50 report.

Carter, Harriet Utley, Autobiographical sketch, 224-25, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah

Carter, Harriet Utley, Autobiographical sketch, 224-25, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, Vol. 3.

A terrible misfortune befall our family while we lived in Winter Quarters. We all contacted measles and five of our family died from its effects, leaving father, my youngest brother Gabriel and myself to start on the long journey to the Rocky Mountains. Before starting on our journey to Utah, father taught school and did some farming. He also secured some hardwood, seasoned it and built it into a wagon by himself.	
We started on our journey once more in 1852. We had the wagon father had made, two milk cows for our team, and the neccissities [necessities] we needed. We made good progress until we reached the alkali-beds, and then one of our cows died. The captain of the company had some extra animals and he let father have a yoke of oxen. Shortly after this occurance cholera broke out among the company while at Platte River. My father was one of its unfortunate victims. He was laid to rest without a coffin on the plains with other members of the pioneer company.	
A man without a team volunteered to drive my team after father died, so I did not have to worry about that. Up to this time we had plenty of bedding to keep us warm, but due to the health measures practiced in those days we discarded all of our bedding, and was only able to secure one pillow from the captain of the company, the epidemic of the cholera surely proved to be a severe hardship on us. We managed with the few things we had, but suffered much from the cold.	
When we reached Salt Lake City we felt like strangers in a strange land.

Transcript for Carter, Harriet Utley, Autobiographical sketch, 224-25, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, vol. 3, part 1

Carter, Harriet Utley, Autobiographical sketch, 224-25, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah.

Deseret News

15th Company

"15th Company", Deseret News, September 18, 1852, Page 2.

15th Company, Robert Weimer [Wimmer], Capt.; Wm. Austin; Augnes Austin; Thos. H. Crump; J. H. Glines; Isaac Herring; Levi North; O. F. Lomas; Thomas Wilkerson; Oliver Thornton; Geo, W. Ward; H[enry]. F. [B.] Wild[e]; Wm. Bench; E[lizabeth]. A. Glines; Isabel McIntire; Lucretia Meimes [Wimmer]; H[arriet]. L. Herring; Arminta North; Eliza Wilkerson; Mary Thornton; Ann Mard [Ward]; Sarah Wild[e]; Ann Bench; Luther Twitchel; Joseph Meekam [Mecham]; Sam'l Utley; Jas. Powel; Thos. Holden; C. Bennett; Ed[ward]. Rudd; James Wilkins; [Ann] Elizabeth Meekam [Mecham]; Elizabeth Twitchel; Jemima Powel; Abigal Bennett; Jane Rudd; A. Milkins [James Wilkins]; Thos. J. Filcher; Anson M. Might [Wright]; Osman [Osmond] Shaw; Isaac Melloe [Mellor]; Wm. Elliot; David Elliot, Chas. McKinley, Albert Lutz, Eliza Felcher [Filcher], Mary Wright, Elizabeth [Eliza] Shaw, N. A. Elliot, Margaret Elliot, Eliza[beth] McKingley [McKinley], Sarah Wade; Elisha Edwards, Susannah Lutz, H[enry]. F. [Alanson] Cleveland, Elliot Hartwell, Caleb J. [G.] Edwards, Geo. W. Slade, Hanson [Ransom] Van Leuban [Leuven], Jno. [John] L. [C.] Sperry, And[rew]. Gibbins [Gibbons], Achsah [Acksha] Patrick, Rispah Gibbins, Jane Edwards, Ann Duncan, A[nn]. C. [Slade] Cleveland, Polly [Mary Knight] Slade, H[ortense]. Hartwell, Cynthia Edwards, Sarah Cunningham, [Eliza] Jane Slade, L. Van Leuvan, M[atilda]. A. Sperry, F[rederick]. M. Van Leuvan[,] C[ornelius]. Van Leuvan, Van Leuvan; Wm. Draper; Martin Chapman [Chipman]; Ira Draper, Lydia Van Leuvan; Lovina [Lavina] and Susan Van Leuvan; Mary Draper, Lo[u]isa Chipman; Patience Draper; C[Alvin]. C. Pendleton; N. [Mary] Wright; J[acob]. Degraw; John Armstrong; M. Chase; J[ohn]. A. Bottoms; S. S. Hemmings; P. O. [Roswell Chapin] Ferry [Ferre]; S. Palmer; C[harles]. McCracken; P[leasant]. Minch[e]y; N[ewman]. Balkley [Bulkey]; W. Hancock; Drusila Parker; [Sarah] Ann Pendleton; N. Newberry; Sophia Degraw; M. Armstrong; H. Bottoms; Elvera Hemmings; Chauncy Hubbard; Rebecca Chapin; R[oswell]. O. [Chapin] Ferry [Ferre]; B. [Vina] Hollister; Joanna Hollister; A[nn]. McCrakan [McCracken]; Emeline Minchy; Jane Bulkley; [Nancy Ann] Anna Buckley; A[senath]. Lawrence; Mary Draper; M. A. Valier; P. A. Hancock; Ja[me]s. Brown; T[homas]. D. Brown; Jas. Adley; Alex[ander]. Young; Thos. N. Smith; Leonard Curchner [Kirchner]; Jas. Holland; Agnes Brown.

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Deseret News.

Historical Department journal history of the Church

Historical Department journal history of the Church. Supplement after 31 December 1852: Page 98.

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