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COOPER, John, called at the Historian's Office, Oct. 10, 1916, and gave some particulars in relation to the brethren who spent the winter of 1856-1857 at Devils Gate with Capt. Dan W. Jones and others. He gives the list of the 20 brethren as follows: Daniel W.Jones, dead; Ben Hampton, living in S.L. City; presidents of party. John Laty, clerk, thinks he is dead. The rest were John Cooper, living at Fillmore, Ut.; John Hardcastle, died; at Sandy; John Shorten,lives at Ogden; John Chappel, dead; John Galbraith, dead; John Ellis, dead; John Whittaker, died at American Fork; Wm.Hand, dead; Wm. Laty, dead; Edwin Summers, lives at Paradise, Cache, Co., Ut.; Geo. Watt, (butcher was disaffected and went back east, having had a quarrel with Jones); Geo. Watts; Geo. Austin, lives either at Payson or Payson, alive in 1914.

He states that the account given by Dan W. Jones is mainly correct.