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Transcript for Le Fevre, William, [Reminiscences], in Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Garfield County Chapter, "Biographies and History of Garfield County Pioneers," Book A, 215

We traded my place for a yoke of oxen and lived the winter and the next summer in a house owned by John R. Robison and used my oxen in helping to farm some land near. The next winter I returned to St. Louis and found employment with Mr. Kidd, a bachelor. In the spring returned to the Bluffs where Jacob Morris, a lone man having a good wagon, a yoke of oxen and two cows joined us and we fitted ourselves up comfortably and started for the Salt Lake Valley.

. . . . Capt. Woods had charge of our company (Co. No. 6) About a hundred wagons formed this company. I had a yoke of oxen and two cows when we reached Salt Lake Valley.