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I started from Ioway [Iowa] for Salt Lake City with hand carts on the 27 of July[.] I had the diarrhea all the way from Ioway City to Florance [Florence] so bad that I have sat down on the road and been administered to by the Elders and got up and pulled my hand cart with renewed vigor[.] I started from Florance on the 3rd of September[.] At Wolf Creek on the Platt[e] my Daughter Amy Elizabeth was born on the 27 of September[.] I arrived in Salt Lake City on the 30 day of November 1856.

[Reminiscences also published in Amy L. Van Cott and Allen W. Leigh, comp., Generations of Websters [1960], 49.]