Sugar Creek Camp was the first winter encampment in Iowa nearest Nauvoo and is approximately six miles west of Montrose
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Improvement Era, 1939
A PIONEER'S ACCOUNT BOOK

By A. C. LAMBERT, Ph. D., Brigham Young University

TWO PAGES, LAID OPEN, OF A PIONEER'S ACCOUNT BOOK

How startled you would be to open your household account book today and read: flour, one hundred pounds, six dollars; one washtub, five dollars; one boiling pot, three dollars; shoemaking, twenty-one dollars fifty-five cents; pork, twenty-five cents a pound; butter, twenty-five cents a pound; cheese, twenty-five cents a pound; one horn brand, five dollars fifty cents; one pair flat irons, five dollars; one yoke of cattle, one hundred dollars. These would be interesting entries, indeed, and they are real entries. An account book lying open on the writer's desk contains these items.

But the date on the yellowing leaves of this book is 1861. The entries are in good handwriting, some in faded ink, and some in legible pencil. As one scans the pages of this little book the door of a one-room log cabin seems to swing open and reveal fragments of the financial transactions of a young pioneer couple just getting settled in "Rhoades Valley," Utah, during the first year of the Civil War.

From this account book, kept in a woman's handwriting, that of Adelia Lambert, wife of John Lambert, living in Rhoades Valley, Utah, in the early sixties, there come these items:

"Paid David Eubanks

2 pounds of butter 50 cts.

2 pounds of cheese 62 cts.

19 pounds of pork 25 cts. per lb.

16 pounds of flour 6 cts. per lb.

2 pounds of cheese 50 cts.

4 pounds of salt 15 cts.

"July 14th, 1861

Paid Wm. R. Green

1 sheep, 7 dollars

"April 17th, 1861

For herding and wintering a steer up to the 1st Dec., 1863, 14 dollars

One complete page of accounts, ruled up in orderly columns, contains these items:

"Received of Samuel Peterson $

1 yoke of cattle 100

1 wagon 100

1 cow 40

1 coat 16

Tools 18.50

Sole Leather 8.50

Shoe Making 21.55

Horn Brand 5.50

Pair of Flat Irons 5

1 Boiling Pot 3

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"I have receipted this 318.05

"Received on boot between oxen

leather from Smith 8

Pork 16 lbs. 1 dollar's worth of beef 1

Received Ropes 8.50

Wagon bed lumber 7

Lead .40

1 wash tub 5

1 wash tub, 1 bucket 7

Pots from the Potters .85

Nails 5

The purchases and sales recorded through the book at irregular intervals reflect a very narrow range of food articles purchased by this pioneer household. Of the fifty-nine entries of purchases recorded on three pages of this little book, twenty entries are for flour with a total of 303 pounds. Butter is the item in twenty-seven entries that total 46 pounds. A total of 17 pounds of cheese is accounted for in ten entries. Two entries occur for a total of 7 pounds of salt. All but one of the few entries that remain and that list sale or purchase of dressed meat call for either mutton or pork. Cattle had value for power as well as for food.

The account book from which these entries are taken belonged to the writer's paternal grandfather, John Lambert, who was born at "Gargrave,"England, January 31, 1820, and who settled finally in Rhoades Valley, Summit County, Utah. The book is now in the possession of one of the daughters of this pioneer. The accounts were kept by one of his two wives, Adelia Groesbeck Lambert, whom he married in Nauvoo, February 6, 1846.

INSIDE FRONT COVER OF A PIONEER'S ACCOUNT BOOK

This little book, measuring six inches long, three and three-fourth inches wide, and less than one-half inch thick, is remarkably well preserved. Curiously enough, it was probably first owned by a Thos. Cottam whose name in large hand printing stands out boldly on the inside of the first cover in letters one-half inch high. Two sentences, each in a different handwriting, stand beneath the two different inscriptions of the name of Thos. Cottam, and they state that this book was "Bought at St. Louis, Mo., U. S., July 3rd, 1845," and that Cottam, evidently, was "Formerly from Waddington, Clitheroe, Lancashire, Old England."

A small book, ninety-two years old, most of its pages are still unmarked, and notes and records scattered through the leaves are all too brief. The picture of that dramatic past is left very dim, and parts of it can never possibly be filled in. The loss is great.

How many families of today wish that records of the past had been easier to make and to preserve! And what a tragedy that so little can be done about it. But one thing we today can do is build our records well for those who yet will come to read them. We should make records, and we should record with intelligence and discrimination. Then the records that we make must be preserved. This is our obligation to the future.

1860 United States Census
County of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah
Post Office: Great Salt Lake City
Page 243, 11th Ward

John Lambert, age 39, Bricklayer, born Englandd
Adelia Lambert, age 38, born Ohio
Martha A. Lambert, age 13, born Missouri
John C. Lambert, age 10, born Missouri
Mary A. Lambert, age 8, born Utah
Sarah A. Lambert, age 7, born Utah
Richard F. Lambert, age 5, born Utah
Jedediah G. Lambert, age 3, born Utah
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Household Record  1880 United States Census
Census Place Peoa, Summit, Utah
 
  Household:
 John LAMBERT   Self   M   Male   W   60   ENG   Farmer 
 Adelia LAMBERT   Wife   M   Female   W   58   OH   Housekeeping   
 Eleni A. LAMBERT   Wife   M   Female   W   42   DEN   Housekeeping   
 John C. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   30   MO   At Home   
 Richard F. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   25   UT   At Home   
 Jedediah LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   22   UT   At Home    
 Ann M. LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   19   UT   At Home    
 Joseph LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   23   UT   At Home   
 Danl. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   19   UT   At Home    
 Lena LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   17   UT   At Home    
 Emma LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   16   UT   At Home    
 Elizabeth LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   15   UT   At Home   
 Mercy H. LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   14   UT   At Home    
 Cornelia LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   11   UT   At Home    
 Benj. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   9   UT       
 Parley W. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   3   UT       
 Emeline LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   1   UT       
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From Adelia’s history, author unknown:
“...They could have come to Utah with the pioneers of 1847, but her husband wished to get a little better fixed to start the journey westward. So he worked at his trade as a brick mason in St. Joseph, Missouri, (where their first child, Martha Adelaide, was born) and in Kansas City, Missouri, (where John Carlos was born).

“Adelia, while living in Missouri, wished to add to their income. So she made moccasins and trimmed them with fancy bead work and sold them to the Indians. [She] also made men's suits. She was an expert tailor and seamstress, doing all the sewing by hand. She made suits for her husband.

“In 1850, they started West, better equipped, perhaps, than most who crossed the plains in those days. They had gotten one yoke of black Spanish cows, one yoke of oxen, a good wagon with bows and cover with which to make the journey westward. One of the cows gave milk and Adelia would milk her each morning. She put the milk into a small covered bucket and fastened it to the back of the wagon, so every night they would have butter and buttermilk.

“Despite that, the trip was long and hard, lasting three months. Their difficulties were increased because the two children had the whooping cough the entire way, and her husband bruised his heel and a felon developed from which he suffered terribly. She drove the oxen part of the time to let him rest. Sometimes they would get a bit unruly so he would have to get out of the wagon, hop on one foot and whip them. They arrived in Salt Lake City on September 11, 1850.”

From: A Topographical Dictionary of England, 1848, p. 279

“GARGRAVE (St. Andrew), a parish, in the union of Skipton, E. division of the wapentake of Staincliffe and Ewcross, W. riding of York; containing 1761 inhabitants, of whom 1176 are in the township of Gargrave, 4½ miles (W. N. W.) from Skipton. The parish comprises 11,570 acres, of which 3490 are in the township; 10,427 are meadow and pasture, 483 woodland, 201 arable, and 276 common. The population is partly employed in a large worsted and cotton mill.

“The scenery is picturesque, and the village is pleasantly situated on the river Aire, over which is a bridge of three arches: the Leeds and Liverpool canal passes near. A fair for cattle, numerously attended, takes place on the 11th of December. The living is a vicarage... The church is a handsome structure, principally in the later English style, with a square embattled tower. At Cold Coniston is a second incumbency. There are places of worship for Primitive and Wesleyan Methodists. The poor have some land yielding £55 a year, the produce of various benefactions. Here are a Roman pavement and an encampment.”
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NAUVOO
Member of the Nauvoo, Illinois Third Ward.

Nauvoo Property:
Kimball 1st: Block 2, Lot 69
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Ordained Seventy: 24 Oct 1844, Officiator: John Eldridge
Member of Nauvoo Quorums 2 and 9.
SOURCE: “An Annotated Index of Over 3,100 Seventies Organized into the First Thirty-Five Quorums of the Seventy in Kirtland, Ohio, and Nauvoo, Illinois.”
Compiled and Edited by Harvey Bischoff Black, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus Brigham Young University

Source: “The LDS Vital Records Library” in the LDS Family History Suite, Compact Disk, copyright 1996 Infobases, Inc.
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Harvey Black, comp, Early Seventies
LAMBERT, JOHN
Birth: England 1820
Death: UT 1893
Parents: Lambert, Richard & Vey, Patience
Wives (Number of Children): Grosbeck, Adelia (9)
Larsen, Elena Hansena (12)
Ordination: 1844
Quorum: Q2, Q9
Early Civil Data: Nauvoo Ward 3
Endowed Nauvoo Temple: 2/2/46 (Seventy)
Post-Nauvoo Civil Data: Brickmason, Kamas Ut
Sources: Susan Black, Early LDS Membert Rec 27:270;
Index, Nauvoo Land and Record Files 370;
70s Rec, Qrm 9
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Seventies Ordained Before 1850
LAMBERT, John
Birth: 31 Jan 1820, Gargrove, Yorkshire County, England
Parents Richard [Lambert] and Patience Vey
Baptism: Dec 1837
Ordained Seventy or into Quorum: 24 Oct 1844 [3rd list]
Occupation: Bricklayer
Residence: Salt Lake City, Utah [4th list]
Source: Seventies Record, 2nd Quorum, 2nd list, 1850s, LDS Arc. pg 20-28; 3rd list, pg 33-34, 4th list, 1850s-70s.
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Resided in the 11th Ward of Salt Lake City, 1852 - 1861

From: Encyclopedic History of the LDS Church:
SALT LAKE CITY 11TH WARD, Ensign Stake, Salt Lake Co., Utah, consists (1930) of the Latter-day Saints residing in that part of Salt Lake City which is bounded on the north by South Temple St..., east by 12th East and Elizabeth streets ..., south by 3rd South St ..., and west by 6th East St.

The 11th Ward was one of the nineteen ecclesiastical wards into which Salt Lake City was organized in February, 1849. John Lytle was chosen as Bishop. He acted without counselors from 1849 to July 13, 1851, when the ward was more fully organized...

The early settlers of the 11th Ward rented a log cabin for $2.50 a month to be used for school and ward purposed, which served until an adobe school house, 20x30 feet, was erected during the winter of 1854-1855. A rock meeing house was erected in 1873-1875, which served for meeting and school purposed until 1814... The 11th Ward belonged to the Salt Lake Stake of Zion until 1904, when it became part of the Ensign Stake.
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Three baptism dates are recored for John:
14 Oct 1837; December 1837, Officiator: Francis Moon; 14 Feb 1839
[All three dates are before John left England]

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KAMAS

Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church…
KAMAS WARD, Summit Stake, Summit Co., Utah, consists of Latter-day Saints residing in the central part of the Kamas Prairie. The town of Kamas is located on Beaver Creek, close to the mountains on the east side of the valley, 14 miles east of Park City, 17 miles northeast of Heber City (in Wasatch Co.) and 25 miles southeast of Coalville, the stake headquarters. 

Kamas Prairie or Rhodes Valley, as it is sometimes called, was settled by Latter-day Saints in the spring of 1860. Among these settlers were Thomas Rhodes (in whose honor the valley was named) and George W. Brown, who with their two families were the only ones who spent the winter of 1860–1861 in the district. They had a considerable amount of stock, and at that time there was much danger to their herd from depredations of bears and other wild animals which roved in the vicinity. It also became necessary in 1866 to erect a fort as a protection against hostile Indians, near the present center of Kamas. Other settlers joined the first-comers and Thomas Rhodes (affectionately known as “Father” Rhodes) had general supervision over the settlement. In 1861 Wm. G. Russell was appointed [p387] presiding Elder. He was succeeded in 1866 by Peter Carney, who was succeeded in 1867 by Ward E. Pack, who was succeeded in 1868 by Willet S. Harder. In 1869 the saints at Kamas erected a substantial bridge across the Weber River, which was a great benefit to the settlement and to the surrounding country. In 1870 Bishop Samuel Frank Atwood was called to preside at Kamas, although no ward organization at that time had been effected, but on July 9, 1877, Kamas was organized as a ward with Samuel F. Atwood as Bishop. He acted in this capacity until 1901, when he was succeeded by Dan Lambert, who was succeeded in 1908 by Merrit Newton Pack, who was succeeded in 1916 by George Christensen, who was succeeded in 1920 by Vincent Shepherd, who was succeeded in 1924 by Lorenzo Sargent, who was succeeded in 1928 by Oscar Edwin Eskelson, who presided Dec. 31, 1930, on which date the ward had 406 members, including 91 children. The total population of the Kamas Precinct in 1930 was 558, of whom 491 resided on the townsite.
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Andrew Jenson, Encyclopedic History of the Church:

PEOA WARD, Summit Stake, Summit Co., Utah, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the village of Peoa and a number of scattered settlers along the Weber River. The Weber River makes a short bend from a westerly to a northerly direction about one mile south of Peoa, and the settlement is located in the bend of the river thus formed. The ward meeting house, a rock building, is located about 15 miles southeast of Coalville and 12 miles northeast of Park City.
It is claimed that in 1857 Judge Wm. W. Phelps, with others, came on to the grounds where Peoa now stands with a view to making a settlement there and that Bro. Phelps drove stakes into the ground and named the place Pe-oh-a, the Indian word for marry. This name (Peoa) was retained by the later settlers. In 1860 several families came, put up log houses and took up their residence there. David O. Rideout was the first presiding Elder. He was succeeded in 1862 by Abraham Marchant, who was shortly afterwards ordained to the office of a Bishop and presided over the southern part of Summit County, including Peoa, Rockport, Wanship and Kamas, as well as acting as local Bishop of Peoa. When the Summit Stake of Zion was organized [p650] in 1877 Abraham Marchant was continued as Bishop of Peoa and acted in that capacity until his death, Oct. 6, 1881. In 1882 he was succeeded by Stephen Walker, who was succeeded in 1901 by Arthur Maxwell, jun., who was succeeded in 1916 by Abraham Franklin Marchant, who was succeeded in 1923 by James A. Maxwell, who was succeeded in 1925 by Hyrum A. Jorgensen, who presided Dec. 31, 1930, on which date the ward had a membership of 190, including 45 children. In 1930 the Peoa Precinct had a total population of 211.
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John came to Utah September 11, 1850 in the Lorenzo Young [sic] company. [See immigration notes] John was a member of the 9th quorum of Seventies. He settled at Salt Lake city in 1850, moved to Kamas in 1861. At both places he took an active part in the upbuilding of the country. Member of Nauvoo Legion; Echo canyon war veteran; worked on Salt Lake Temple.
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1860 United States Census
County of Salt Lake, Territory of Utah
Post Office: Great Salt Lake City
Page 243, 11th Ward

John Lambert, age 39, Bricklayer, born England
Adelia Lambert, age 38, born Ohio
Martha A. Lambert, age 13, born Missouri
John C. Lambert, age 10, born Missouri
Mary A. Lambert, age 8, born Utah
Sarah A. Lambert, age 7, born Utah
Richard F. Lambert, age 5, born Utah
Jedediah G. Lambert, age 3, born Utah
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Second household:
Page 129, 2nd Ward

John Lambert, age 39, Mason, born England
Ansenia Lambert, age 21, born England [sic]
Joseph Lambert, age 3, born Utah
Ephraim Lambert, age 1, born Utah
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Household Record  1880 United States Census
Census Place Peoa, Summit, Utah
 
  Household:
 John LAMBERT   Self   M   Male   W   60   ENG   Farmer 
 Adelia LAMBERT   Wife   M   Female   W   58   OH   Housekeeping   
 Eleni A. LAMBERT   Wife   M   Female   W   42   DEN   Housekeeping   
 John C. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   30   MO   At Home   
 Richard F. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   25   UT   At Home   
 Jedediah LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   22   UT   At Home    
 Ann M. LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   19   UT   At Home    
 Joseph LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   23   UT   At Home   
 Danl. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   19   UT   At Home    
 Lena LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   17   UT   At Home    
 Emma LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   16   UT   At Home    
 Elizabeth LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   15   UT   At Home   
 Mercy H. LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   14   UT   At Home    
 Cornelia LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   11   UT   At Home    
 Benj. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   9   UT       
 Parley W. LAMBERT   Son   S   Male   W   3   UT       
 Emeline LAMBERT   Dau   S   Female   W   1   UT       
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From: Mormom Immigration Index, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 2000, CD

LAMBERT, Elizabeth <1815>, F, age 25, Origin England, Occ. Stock Maker
LAMBERT, John <1821>, M, age 19, Origin England
LAMBERT, Richard <1823>, M, age 17, Origin England
LAMBERT, Joseph <1824> [sic], M, age 16, Origin England

Ship: North America
Date of Departure: 8 Sep 1840
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England
LDS Immigrants: 201
Church Leader: Theodore Turley
Date of Arrival: 12 Oct 1840
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Source(s): Customs #779 (FHL #002289); NSHP; Diary of William Clayton, pp. 73-96.

Notes: SECOND COMPANY -- North America, about 200 souls. Saturday, September 5th, 1840, Apostles Brigham Young and Willard Richards went from Manchester to Liverpool, and in the evening organized a company of Saints bound for New York, by choosing Elder Theodore Turley, a returning missionary, to preside, with six counselors, among whom was Elder William Clayton, one of the earliest English converts. Apostles Brigham Young and Willard Richards went on board the North America on Monday the 7th, and remained with the Saints on board over night. On Tuesday morning, about nine o’clock, the vessel was tugged out by a steamer. The Apostles accompanied the emigrants about fifteen miles and then left them in good spirits. The company had a prosperous voyage to New York, where they arrived in the beginning of October, and from there they continued the journey to Buffalo, New York. Owing to the expensiveness of the route many of the emigrants fell short of means to complete the journey to Nauvoo, they therefore divided at Buffalo, a part going to settle in and around Kirtland, Ohio, while the balance, under the leadership of Theodore Turley, continued the journey to Nauvoo, to which place Joseph the Prophet states he had the pleasure of welcoming about one hundred of them, about the middle of October, 1841.
<Cont. 12:12 (Oct 1891), p. 442>
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From: Church.History.Library@mac.com
Subject: Pioneer Submission
Date: October 28, 2004 8:18:39 AM MDT
To: venitar@mac.com

With regard to your request to add John Lambert's family to the 1850 Lorenzo Young company in the pioneer database on the Church web site:

We had the Lamberts in the 1850 unidentified company category with a note that they might have traveled in the Young company. However the John Lambert 1893 statement proves that they were in the Hawkins company. If he traveled "in the company of Thomas Johnson," then he was in the Hawkins company because Johnson was a captain of fifty in that company. I am including the portion of his statement referring to his crossing the plains on our web site, too. I don't know why his daughter, Elena, stated that her father came in the Young company, but John Lambert's statement is a much more contemporaneous record. In instances when we have a conflict in documentation, we are much more apt to accept his word than the word of a daughter [Elena] who didn't actually go on the journey, but was born 13 years afterwards.
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John Lambert’s statement:
“[I], John Lambert, first heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints preached by Frances Moon (a missionary) in England [in the] year 1837. [My sister, two brothers and I] emigrated in the fall of 1840 on the sail ship North America, [a] 32 day voyage. [We] landed in New York, took [a] steamboat on the Hudson River 160 miles to Buffalo, then took the Lakes to Chicago, 1000 miles. Then went by wagon (horses, I think) to Dison's Ferry, 110 miles to Rock River. Then [we] built a flat boat and sailed down Rock River to the Mississippi, about 150 miles, then down the Mississippi River to Commerce (Nauvoo), remaining there until the spring of 1846.

“Then [we] went to Saint Joseph [Missouri] by ox team, then to Jackson County [Missouri] by team to visit my first wife's (Adelia Groesbeck) folks in Sugar Creek, Iowa. [We] visited my brother, Richard, in Hancock County, Illinois, returned to Jackson County, remained there until in the spring of 1850. Then [we] went to Bethleham, north 350 miles, to the Missouri River, traveled with ox team. Then [we] started for Salt Lake City, Utah, with ox team in the company of Thomas Johnson. [We] arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, 11 Sep 1850. [We] lived there eleven years in the second ward and fenced the first lot in this ward. [We] moved to Kamas, Summit County, in the spring of 1861, April. I had been there six or eight months before.”
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Thomas Johnson Company
Source: Nelson, William Goforth, Reminiscences, in Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 9 Sept. 1850, 6-7.

Two companies of Saints arrived in G. S. L. City. William Goforth Nelson, who was with one of these companies wrote as follows:

It was on the 8th day of May, 1850, that we started from Mt. Pisgah to Council Bluffs and thence crossed the plains to Salt Lake Valley. We started with two good wagons and good ox teams. We also had a number of cows. We traveled pretty much alone until we had come four miles west of Council Bluffs, where we found a camp of Saints, and on June 4th the camp was organized with Thomas Johnson as captain.

The following day we were ready to start on our journey west. There were fifty wagons in the company. ... Our journey was quite a pleasant one. We had good luck, no Indian trouble whatever, and only three deaths occurred in our company on the trip. The first one of these was a woman, the wife of a man named Wilkinson. She was buried on the west side of the mouth of "Ash Hollow". The second was my cousin, Dr. Thomas Goforth, who was buried a little east of "Chimney Rock". The next, a few day later, was a Brother Borum. Melvin Ross and I dug the grave and buried it. These persons were buried in graves made with a vault in the bottom. The bodies were wrapped in a quilt, blanket or wagon cover, whichever could best be spared and would then be placed in the vault; timbers put across and hay spread over and then covered with dirt... While on the plains we saw a great many herds of Buffalo. When they were on their trails leading to watering places, they would not get out of our way, and if they were trailing across our road, we would be compelled to stop our teams until they would have time to pass. But if they were feeding we could not get near them.

We reached Salt Lake City, Sept. 9, 1850, and camped on the public square for two days.
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