Transcript for Broadbent, Mary Jane Nuttall, Autobiographical sketch, 16, in Histories and biographies written by members of Camp Sunflower, Daughters of Utah Pioneers of Center Utah County, Provo, Utah, vol. 1
I left my mother, my brother, my relatives and friends, all that was held near and dear to me by the ties of love and affection—for the gospel's sake. I arrived in my new home in Salt Lake City, on the 2nd of September, 1861.