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We spent one winter at Winter Quarters. The following spring father left with the Pioneers, leaving my step-mother, two sisters and myself behind. One morning, on going out, mother found a yoke of oxen with chain on, standing over the tongue of our wagon. She thought that meant we were to travel on after father. On relating it to her brother, he offered her a team to go to the valley with. I was sent to Missouri after provisions. My sister Adelaide and I drove the team until we met father on his return from the valley.