Thomas Henry Latey (1815 - 1882) Profile

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British Mission Manuscript history and historical report

Elder David B. Dille wrote the following

"Elder David B. Dille wrote the following", British Mission Manuscript history and historical report, June 23, 1856.

Elder Thomas H. Latey from G.S.L. Valley arrived in Liverpool

"Elder Thomas H. Latey from G.S.L. Valley arrived in Liverpool", British Mission Manuscript history and historical report, September 18, 1854.

British Mission Manuscript history and historical report.

Index to the British Mission manuscript history and historical reports

Latey, Thomas H.

"Latey, Thomas H.", Index to the British Mission manuscript history and historical reports.

Index to the British Mission manuscript history and historical reports.

DUP Pioneer History Collection

Life of Job Pingree

"Life of Job Pingree", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 3-4.

We camped there awhile and bought a wagon, four oxen and a cow and left there in Jesse B. Martin's company. . . .


The country between Florence and Utah was not settled then; it was a wild and barren country and the settlers were wild Indians.


We had singing and prayers every night and morning in our camp. Very often we would sing "Come, Come Ye Saints". At the Missouri River we met some apostates who told lots of bad things about Utah. We also met some missionaries from Utah. Seymour B. Young was one of them. They came with hand carts from Utah, and the chorus of their song was "Cheer up Ye Elders, we to the world will show that Israel will be gathered soon, and Oxen are too slow!" Apostle John Taylor passed us here on his way from New York to Utah. Some of the elders went with him as a guard for several days.


I walked all the way from Iowa City to Utah and every other night had to be on guard half the night with the cattle. We got along pretty well until we came to the Platte River bottom where there was lots of buffalo. Then we had trouble with our cattle stampeding and running off. Several of the cattle were lost and one of ours happened to be lost so we had to work a cow from there to Utah. When we camped at night our wagons were put in the shape of a horse shoe, only left narrow so we could drive the cattle in to catch them. One morning when we were yoking them up and hitching them to the wagons they stampeded—running over people and one old man was killed. My Mother had a little boy killed and her daughter Martha's hip was broken so she had to be hauled in the wagon all the way to Utah.


At this place Elder Latey and several others left the company and went back to Omaha and lived there. At this place we could see the land black with buffalo for miles. We also saw many small herds of deer grazing in the distance. In our travels we crossed many streams of water. On account of the loss of cattle the ladies had to walk and to save them wading streams, I carried many of them over. I also helped get feed for the cattle carry water and wood or buffalo chips to cook with.


There was a hand cart company which caught up with us; sometimes they were ahead of us and sometimes behind, until we got to Salt Lake City and we both reached there the same day,—September 12, 1857. On the trip our cattle's feet got tender and we had to throw them down and shoe them. Robert McQuarrie and I always helped the blacksmiths who did this work.

Transcript for "Life of Job Pingree", DUP Pioneer History Collection, Page 3-4.

Daughters of Utah Pioneers. DUP Pioneer History Collection.

Jesse B. Martin journals, 1853-1857

Jesse B. Martin journals, 1853-1857.

Transcript for Jesse B. Martin journals, 1853-1857

Robert McQuarrie journals, 1854-1917

Robert McQuarrie journals, 1854-1917, Vol. 1.

Transcript for Robert McQuarrie journals, 1854-1917, vol. 1, 6-15

Robert McQuarrie journals, 1854-1917.

The Mormon

From the Plains

Amos M. Musser, "From the Plains", The Mormon, August 19, 1857, Page 3.

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	ELDER MUSSER writes us from Fort Laramie, Aug. 19th, from which we make the following extracts:
	"We are now within about 7 miles of the above named Fort under circumstances truly prosperous. Thus far we have been blessed beyond anticipation or expectation. We have lost but one ox and left but one wagon, and that an old one not worth hauling half the way.
	"General health prevails and a unanimity of feeling exists throughout. This last, you know, is a striking or prominent characteristic of the Latter Day Saints. Yesterday we unanimously deputed Elder W. [William] G. Young to precede the emigration companies to the valley, that he may be enabled to report at head-quarters their exact position and circumstances, and that they may in time receive succour if necessary.
	"I regret to have to mention several deaths, and the loss of a number of cattle, through stampedes, in Captain [Jesse B.] Martin's and Captain [Jacob] Hofhiens' companies. The first of these companies lost a number of cattle in the stampede, so laming the train that several families were obliged to return to Genoa. Bros. [Thomas Henry] Latey, Greener, [Robert] Gillis and Keates, with their families and friends, were those that returned.
	"Brother E. [Edward] Howard, from Sheffield, aged sixty-five, and a daughter of Sister [Charlotte Terrant] Banford, aged four years, were the sufferers. They were interred in a double grave which formed a melancholy feature of the fatal spot where the tragic scene occurred. A Sister Rogers, and a daughter of Sister [Ann Steed] Turner's were seriously injured, so much so that their recovery was hardly looked for. Captain Hofheins' train lost upwards of thirty head of cattle. No human suffering I believe. The Hand-Cart Companies are, as far as we can learn, going along pretty well, but slower than was expected.
	"Several fresh graves mark the steps of the Angel of Death amongst them. I think we noticed but three or four. The names of three I remember well, as follows: Brother James Reader, late from St. Louis, formerly from England; Brother Peter Hanson, a Dane, and a young female by the name of Emerretta Green.
	"We learn that the company of soldiers, set apart to straighten the Utonians out, have lost 800 head of cattle, through stampedes; 60 head had been recovered. It is reported that Gen. Harney, their commander, had been remanded for shooting one of his subordinates, a lieutenant, in a duel."

Transcript for Musser, Amos M., 19 Aug. 1857, Fort Laramie, in "From the Plains," The Mormon, 19 Sep. 1857, 3

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