JOURNAL OF ELIZA MARIA PARTRIDE LYMAN · JOURNAL OF ELIZA MARIA PARTRIDGE LYMAN (This journal of “Grandma Lyman” is an abridgment made from a more detailed ... This abridgment

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JOURNAL OF ELIZA MARIA PARTRIDGE LYMAN (This journal of “Grandma Lyman” is an abridgment made from a more detailed journal kept by herself, and of course abridged by herself, as being too full. This abridgment was copied by her daughter, Lucy Zina Lyman Redd, and is now being copied from there by Albert R. Lyman, son of Platte D. Lyman, son of “Grandma Lyman.” I was born in Painville, Geauga County, Ohio. My parents’ names were Edward and Lydia Clisbee Partridge. At a very early age I was sent to school, where I acquired a very good common education. At the age of eight years I went with my parents on a visit to their friends in Massachusetts, accompanied by my sister Caroline, then a baby. The other children, my sisters Harriet and Emily, were left in charge of my aunt, Phoebe Lee. We went to my Grand Father Partridge’s in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where they left me while they went on to visit my mother’s friends, in the eastern part of the state. They returned in a short time, bringing my mother’s sister, Elsie with them. Although I was very young, I yet remember many things that I saw on this journey. My grandfather’s nice brick house and the cider mill, the orchard and the farm, are all plain in my memory, also the cities we passed through and the Erie Canal with its locks, and the roaring of the Niagra Falls in the distance. I remember the crossing of the lake, my sickness while crossing, and many other things that are still fresh in my mind. I do not remember anything more worthy of note, except that I was sent to school till I was about thirteen years of age. A short time before this the Book of Mormon was shown to my father; he did not accept it at first as being what it was represented to be, but after making a journey to New York, where the Prophet Joseph Smith lived, and making an inquiry of those in the

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church, and also of those out, he became convinced that the Lord had commenced to sat up His kingdom on earth, and he embraced the opportunity of becoming a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and was ordained later to the office of Bishop, there having none ordained in this dispensation until that time. He then returned to his home in Ohio, and after a time into that office, was called to leave his business, which was in a most flourishing condition, and go to the Missouri to attend to the business of the Church. He went and left his family to get along as best they could. I was at that time very sick, and he had no expectation of seeing me again, but the Lord had called, and he must obey. He showed his faith by his works, and the Lord spared my life and the lives of the rest of the family for many years. He never went back to sell his place or to settle up his affairs but left it for others to do, which was done at a great sacrifice. He had accumulated a handsome property, which went for a very little as he could not be there to attend to it. His family were moved up to Missouri in company with others who were journeying to that land, which was quite a task on my mother, as her children were very small, I being the eldest. We children were five in number, and the weather was cold, we were obliged to leave the Missouri River at a place called Arrowrock, about one hundred miles from Independence, and wait for my father to come with wagons to meet us. We procured a small dark room of a a family of negroes, our only light being what came down the chimney, and no way to get into or out of the room, except to go through the room occupied by the negroes. We occupied this doleful place about a week when my father came and took us away. The weather was extremely cold, so much so that we had to lay by one day or be in danger of being frozen. We, however, arrived at Independence in safety, and occupied a small brick house which my father had rented for the winter, as he had not yet had time to build. We lived very poor that winter, as the people of that country did not want much but corn-bread and bacon, and raised but very little of anything else. Consequently, there was but very little to be bought; but I remember we had a barrel of honey, and what vegetables we could get, but no wheat-bread, as wheat was not to be bought in the land. The next spring we moved into a house that my father rented of Lilburn W. Boggs, where we lived till my father built a house on his own land. Here we lived while we resided in that county. In July, 1833, a number of armed men came to our house in the afternoon, and took my father to the public square, where they administered to him a coat of tar and feathers, and raised a whip with the intention of whipping him, but a friend to humanity interfered, and prevented it. I well remember how my father looked, we (the children) were very much frightened. My mother was very weak, having a babe (a boy named for his father) only three weeks old. The brethren were very kind, and assisted my father to rid himself of the tar, but the clothes he had on were spoiled. The people of that place had been acting the part of a mob towards our people for some time, and still continued the same course until our people agreed to leave the county, which they did in the following November. Very cold and uncomfortable was the moving at that time of the year, and a great amount, if not all of our provisions, which we had laid up for the winter, must be lost,

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and our houses left with many of our things in them. Our land and orchards and improvements of every kind, was left to benefit those who had driven us away. We traveled three miles and encamped on the bank of the Missouri River under a high bluff. The rain during the night poured down in torrents, which wet ourselves and our things badly. This was the first night I ever slept out of doors. The next day we crossed the river into Clay County. Here my father laid up some house logs and stretched a tent on them so that we could stay there until he could finish a house. The weather was very cold, but we were in the woods and could have plenty of fire. It was here that I saw the stars fall; they came down almost as thick as snow flakes, and could be seen till the daylight hid them from sight. Some of our enemies thought the day of judgment had come and were much frightened, but the saints rejoiced, and considered it one of the signs of the latter days. When my father had done what he could to help the brethren across the river, he with others went out to see if they could find some houses to move into, as there was already snow on the ground. He found a miserable old house that we could occupy, with one fire-place in it; he and a brother by the name of John Corrill moved their families into this house. I think my mother, as also Sister Corrill, must have had their patience tried very much during this winter; the house being open and cold, and their cooking and children and husbands and selves all around one fire-place, for stoves were not in use then. I did what work I could get for almost any kind of pay, but there were so many wanting work, that there was very little chance to get any. We lived in this old house while we stayed in Clay County, which was about two years. While here, my father went on a mission to the Eastern States. After his return, he with others went to look for a location for the saints, as the people with whom we resided, began to be somewhat uneasy about us. My father and those who were with him decided that a good place could be had in Caldwell County, so they (our people) bought land there, and we had peace for a while after moving their families there and thinking to live in peace by themselves. While here I went about thirty miles from home and taught a school for three months, and though I did not hear a word from home while I was away, and did not see anyone I had ever seen before, the Lord watched over me and returned me in safety to my parents again. I would never advise anyone to let a girl go away as I did then with entire strangers, and to dwell with strangers. It was no uncommon thing in those days for our Mormon girls to go out a month the Missourians and teach their children for a small renumeration. I received but thirteen dollars and my board while I was gone. I think the people were not as wicked then as they are now, or it would not have been safe for us to go about as we did. It was at this time when I was seventeen years old. We remained in Caldwell County about two or three years, when not only the mobs that were around us, but the authorities of the State said we must leave that county, which we did, and settled in Illinois, first at Quincy, then at Pittsfield, Pike County, then at Nauvoo, which became the gathering place of the saints. In consequence of the persecutions of apostates, my father was obliged to leave Far West before his family, and he arranged with Brother King Follet, to bring them to

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Quincy. We had a very uncomfortable time, as the weather was cold, and we were badly crowded in the wagon. And at this time, as before when we had to move, we were compelled to leave most of our things. We crossed the Mississippi partly in a boat and partly on the ice. Father met us and took us to a house where we were more comfortable than we had been while traveling. We stayed here but a short time, as my father thought he could do better somewhere else, and the Church was scattered with no place of gathering. However, it was not long before we went to Nauvoo, as the prophet, who had been in prison, had said he thought it was the place for us to gather to. The saints were nearly all sick with ague and fever, and our family had to have a share. My two sisters, Harriet and Emily, had the ague about a year. I did not have it as I had worn it out when we lived in Ohio. As we were, by this time, much reduced in circumstances, (having moved so many times, and my father having poor health), it was thought best for me to take a school at Lima, a small town about twenty miles away, which I did, and my father rented rooms for his family in a large storehouse where several other families resided; among them Brother Hyrum Smith and his brother-in-law, R. B. Thompson, and two other families that had not yet had time to build. While I was teaching at Lima, I boarded with a gentile family, and was well treated, but suffered fearfully with headache. About two weeks before my school was out, my father sent a man for me, saying my sister Harriet was dying. We rode all night and arrived about sun-rise. My sister was still alive, but died during the day. My parents took this trouble to heart very much, and my father said she was his pet child, but no one knew it till then, and I do believe that when a child or friend is taken from us, we are apt to think we loved them more than others. This was in the spring, and my father was making a garden on his lot, which was distant about a mile. As his health was very poor, and he did not feel able to walk so far to his work, (he was also building a house) he concluded after the funeral that he would move down home and occupy a log house which he had put up for a stable, but which he had not yet used, and then he could work at his house and his garden with more ease. He commenced to move, but had to give up and take to his bed before he had the last load moved. He was sick about ten days, when he also left us most uncomfortably situated and died. I was too sick to attend the funeral. He was completely worn out on hardship and fatigue of movings and exposure caused by our enemies, who never slackened their hands, but persecuted us continually. He was firm and steadfast in his religion, and tried to the very best of his ability to attend to every known duty as Bishop in the Church of Latter day-Saints. We were in very poor circumstances at the time of his death, the handsome property that he had when he joined the church, having been spent in the church, and he not having had the privilege of staying in one place long enough to amass more. After his funeral, Brother William Law took us to his house to stay till our house was finished. He and his wife were very kind to us, and doctored me and also my sister Lydia, who was very sick, and in about three weeks we were able to move to our own house, which was finished.

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I forgot to mention that while I was in Far West I learned the tailor’s trade, as far as sewing went, which I found of great use to me as I could now get work at the tailor’s shops, and was paid three dollars a week, which was a great help to us. After a year or two, my mother married again, as she could not get along, she thought, without someone to provide for her. She now had three daughters besides me, and had one son, eight or nine years old. Her husbands name was William Huntington, a very good man, and kind to my mother and her children. After a time, my sister Emily and myself, went to live in the family of the Prophet Joseph Smith. We lived there about three years, while there, he taught us the plan of celestial marriage, and asked me to enter into that order with him. This was truly a great trial to me, but I had the most implicit confidence in him as a prophet of the Lord, and could not but believe his words, and as a matter of course accept the privilege of being sealed to him as a wife for time and all eternity. We were sealed in 1843 by H. C. K. in the presence of witnesses. I continued to live in his family for a length of time after this, but did not reside there when he was martyred, which was the twenty-seventh of June, 1844. I was then living with a family by the name of Coolidge. I stayed with them for a year or more, until I was married to a man by the name of Amasa Mason Lyman, one of the Twelve Apostles. I then went to live with my mother for a while, and after that lived with him and his wife Maria Louisa. Times were not then as they are now (1877), but a woman living in polygamy dared not let it be known, and nothing but a firm desire to keep the commandments of the Lord could have induced a girl to marry in that way. I thought my trial was very severe in this line, and I am often led to wonder how it was that a person of my temperament could get along with it and not rebel. But I know it was the Lord who kept me from opposing His plans, although in my heart I felt that I could not submit to them. But I did submit, and I am thankful to my Heavenly Father for the care He had over in those troublous times. After I married the second time, we remained in Nauvoo for a few months, living a part of the time in the back part of my mother’s house. In February, 1846, we left Nauvoo, crossed the Mississippi River with many of the Saints, and started to go to the Rocky Mountains, where we hoped to be free to serve the Lord as we thought best. While crossing the river, the ice came down in large pieces and threatened to sink our boat, but at this time, as at many others, we were preserved by the power of God. We went to Father John Tanner’s and stayed several days as the weather was very cold, and we were not in a hurry to camp out till we were obliged to. After a few days we left Father Tanner’s and joined the camp of the saints on Sugar Creek. The weather was very cold, the snow dep and we were most uncomfortable, as we were very poorly fitted out for such a journey at that time of the year. On the first of March, 1846, the Camp of Israel began to move. There were about 400 wagons. After traveling about five miles, the saints camped for the night, scraped away the snow and pitched their tents. Fortunately for us there was plenty of wood, and the brethren made large fires in front of the tents, which kept us from freezing, but we could not possibly be made comfortable under such circumstances. However, we did not complain, as we were leaving the land of our enemies and hoped for better times.

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I think it was about the last of April that the camp reached a place called by our brethren, Pisgah. Here they concluded a part of the company might stop and raise some crops of grain, as all were not prepared to go on much further. We had thus far had a most unpleasant journey. After the snow, came rains almost without cessation, making the ground very muddy, and some of the time, the roads were impassible, so that we had to remain in camp much more than we wished to, for we were desirous to get to some place where we could make homes again. At Pisgah, I left my mother and sisters Emily and Lydia and little brother Edward, with my mother’s husband, Father William Huntington, to stay till the next year, or until there should be a convenient opportunity for them to go west. My sister Emily was then President Brigham Young’s wife, and had a child, a boy named Edward. My sister Caroline was one of the wives of my husband, and traveled on with us. When we had traveled about one hundred and thirty miles from Pigsah, there came a requisition from the United States for five hundred men to be taken from our camp to go to Mexico, to help the nation who had driven us out from their midst. Our people responded to the call and sent the five hundred men, many of whom left their wives and children in their wagons, not knowing where they would settle and find a place for them, but they left them to the care of their brethren and friends, and many of them never met again. Some of the men died during their absence, others returned to find that their wives had sunk under the weight of care and disease, and their children scattered, but the Prophet of the Lord had said, “Go”, and they went trusting in Him. One woman was living with us whose husband went with the battalion, when it was time for them to return, she was very much elated, and rented a room and made all preparation for her husband. But oh what a disappointment awaited her. When the company came, and she thought her happiness nearly complete, they told her he was dead, and had been dead for moths. Oh the agony she endured; it cannot be described. My heart ached for her but I could not comfort her. I will go back to the time when I left Nauvoo, on the ninth of February, 1846, and write from my private journal. It will not, perhaps, be interesting to anyone but myself, but it shows more particularly how we were situated, and the hardships we endured in accomplishing the journey. On February ninth, 1846, I bade adieu to my friends in Nauvoo, and in company with my husband, Amasa Lyman, Daniel P. Cark and wife, Henry Rollins, and Dionitia W. Lyman (one of my husband’s wives) started westward for some place where we might worship God according to the dictates of our conscience. We went about one mile to the Mississippi River, waited about three hours and then succeeded in procuring a boat into which we put our horses and wagons, and as there was no prospect of Father Huntington crossing the river that night, we took my mother and sisters Caroline and Lydia and brother Edward with us and crossed the river. When we were about midway of the stream, we saw a boat some distance from us sinking, with no one near to assist them, but fortunately for them they were near a sandbar, so that they did not drown, and soon a boat reached them and took them safely to shore.

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Our boat got into the ice, which hindered us about an hour but did no damage. We went to Brother Sidney Tanner’s where part of us stayed all night and the rest stayed at Nathan Tanner’s. Tuesday February 10. We are all alive and well. Dionitia, Caroline and I slept in one bed, and as I was very tired, I did not sleep much. Brother Lyman is going back over the river to visit his wife Maria. I cut and made a dress for Sister Tanner. Evening. Brother Lyman has just returned, bringing his Maria with him. I was heartily glad to see her. I went (by invitation) with them to see her father. Father Huntington and mother and brother Edward also came there and stayed all night. Mother Tanner prepared an excellent supper for the company. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1847. Brother Lyman went back to Nauvoo to see how the children were getting along, as his wife left them while she visited us. The rest of us remained at Father Tanner’s during the day, and tonight Brother Lyman came back in the evening, reporting all well. Thursday, Feb. 12. Brother Lyman took his wife to the river, and saw her land safely on the other side, and then returned to us feeling very well. Mother Tanner gave us the privilege of making some mince pies and assisted us to do so. Friday, Feb. 13. Brother Lyman went to the camp and took me with him as far as Sidney Tanner’s where I stayed all day till he came back and we went to Father Tanner’s. Saturday, Feb. 14. When we arose in the morning we found the ground covered with snow, and it snowed all day. Sunday, Feb 15. The weather was very pleasant. I went to the river with Brother Lyman to see my sister Emily. Found her in a tent surrounded with mud. Came home in the afternoon. Wrote Sister Maria Lyman in the evening. Monday, Feb. 16. Took breakfast with Aunt Polly Cook. Twisted some thread for mother. Came back and finished a dress for Mother Tanner. Tuesday 17. Mother Tanner gave Brother, twelve years of factory with which to line his wagon cover which I made in the morning. About two o’clock we started for the camp where we arrived tired for the night, but did not sleep much on account of the horses, we not being accustomed to their noise. When we left Father Tanner’s he gave us a few pounds of fresh beef, six or eight pounds of butter and some pork and some mince pies, and to Father Huntington a fine calf which he killed for veal. Wednesday, Feb. 18th The sun shines warm and the weather is very fine. I am sitting in the wagon and writing with all ease without a fire. Father Tanner and family came to camp and made a short visit. Albert Tanner brought a load of hay and some potatoes from his father’s. Thur. 19th. Arose in the morning and found the ground covered with snow. Snowed all day and made us very uncomfortable, as the wind blows the snow in every direction, and our fire is out in the storm so that we cannot get warm by it. I am almost frozen, so I shall go into the wagon and make my bed and get into it as that is the only way I can get warm. Friday 20th. The weather is somewhat more pleasant than it was yesterday, but is very cold. Our family consists of seven persons, namely, Amasa Lyman and his wife Dionitis, Daniels P. Clark and his wife, Henry Rollins, Albert Tanner and myself.

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Sat. 21st. The sun shines warm, but the air is cold. We received a load of corn from A. Lyman’s farm. Sunday 22nd. We have had a very cold night, but the sun this morning with his genial rays warms the earth, and all nature revives again. Received another load of hay from Father Tanner’s. Mon. 23rd. The weather cloudy and cold. Received word from Nauvoo that Sister Maria Lyman was very sick. I started about two o’clock with Brother Lyman to go and see her. When we had gone about three miles our buggy broke down, and left us in the mud. Fortunately a wagon came along and took us to Montrose. Found the ice running in the river so that it was impossible to cross that night, except in a skiff, which Brother Lyman succeeded in doing with great difficulty, leaving me on this side with Sister Daniels to stay all night. Tues. 24th. Brother Lyman came back this morning, said he found his wife more comfortable than he expected; had a fine son which they call Amasa. He took dinner at Sister Daniels, then went back to Nauvoo to stay till tomorrow. I stayed at Sister Daniel’s till nearly night, when Albert Tanner came and took me back to camp, where we arrived about dark. Wednesday 15. In the morning assisted in preparing breakfast, and through the day made preparations for starting on our journey on the morrow. Brother Lyman came back in the afternoon, brought a sheep-iron stove to put in the tent, which will make it more comfortable. Thur. 26th. The weather cold. Brother Lyman went over to Father Tanner’s and stayed all night. Friday 27th. As we are yet in camp, I have concluded to go to Nauvoo and visit Sister M. Lyman. Went with Henry Rolings and Dionitia Lyman, crossed the river on the ice, found Sister Lyman quite smart, but her son Marion sick with the measles. Stayed with them all night. February 28th, 1846. Stayed with Sister Lyman all day looking for Brother Lyman who had expected to visit us this afternoon. About three o’clock, H. Rollins came and said the camp had orders to move tomorrow. Consequently, Brother Lyman could not come over, but had sent him to ring us back, which was a great disappointment to Sister Lyman. I then bade my friends good-bye and went back to camp, where we arrived about seven o’clock in the evening. We were stopped by the guards in sight of our own fire, and were obliged to wait till Brother Lyman came and took us over the line. We found the brass band assembled around our fire, making some very good music. March 1st, 1846. The camp is preparing to leave, but we shall stay till tomorrow. March 2nd. Left camp at 15 minutes to ten. Had in camp Brother R. Dana and family, Wm. Huntington, Sen., and family, A. Lyman and family, D. P. Clark and wife, H. Rollins, A. M. Tanner, H. B. Jacobs, S. Jacobs and J. Butler. Traveled on the Farmington road, camped at five o’clock. Our ox team arrived at sun-down. March 3rd. Up at six o’clock, traveled ten miles, camped three miles above Farmington. Camped before sun-down. March 4th. Stayed in camp all day; washed, ironed and baked. March 5th. Up early in the morning and ready for a start. Brother Lyman took his wife Pricilla Turley into his wagon, and she will live with us for the present; Traveled the most muddy road I ever saw; went about six miles. A little before night, Brother John

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Smith’s wagon upset with himself, wife and daughter, but did little damage. Several teams gave out before night. We reached the prairie a little before dark, and camped in company with Brother H. C. Kimball; we made no fire, but ate some cold meat and bread and went to bed. March 6th. Arose in the morning and made a small fire of bark, and made some coffee to drink with our bread. After breakfast we started on our journey again, went about seven miles, found the roads very good; stopped about ten o’clock near Bro. B. Young’s camp on Indian Creek, and stayed the rest of the day. One horse died belonging to Brother Young’s company. Brother Lyman has brought a rabbit, Rollins killed 8 prairie hens, and D. P. Clark a bird, which will make us a very comfortable meal. March 7th. Up in the morning before sun-rise, ate breakfast and left Indian Creek at half past eight; traveled eight miles and camped on the farm of Dr. Elbert, where some of the brethren are at work; stopped at 15 minutes past one o’clock, pitched our tent and made ourselves as happy as possible. The boys killed some hens, rabbits, etc. The weather is very warm and pleasant. Sunday the 8th. Quite unwell through the night, better this morning. Brother L and J. H. Rollins have been to the main camp, and learned from the President that we are to join them this afternoon. Evening: We are comfortably camped again with the main body; have found the rest of our company, namely; Nathan and Sidney Tanner and their families. 9th stayed in camp all day 10th. Made all preparations to start; part of the teams went on, but it soon commenced raining, which hindered us from going. It rained all day, and the ground is very muddy. Two of the pioneers, J. Brown and Si Dayton, commenced boarding with us. 11th. Still raining 12th. The ground is very muddy, we cannot step without getting over shoe-top in mud. We have been obliged to move our camp to a better place, about a quarter of a mile. 13th. Washing, etc March 14, 1846. I ironed, etc. Bros. Lyman and Rollins killed a mess of squirrels which were very good. 15th. The weather was fine, but the wind was very high, and we could hardly keep our tent right side up. 16th. The sun has risen in all his splendor, and the weather is very fine. Brother Rollings took his team and started back to Nauvoo. Father Huntington and Nathan Tanner went away to trade horses for oxen. 17th. This morning Brother Sidney Tanner’s youngest child, names James Monroe, died and was buried in the afternoon. 18th. Went over to the other camp to see my sister Emily Young, stayed most of the day. While there, Brother Edwin Little’s corpse was brought in for burial. 19th. The camp have mostly moved on, leaving us here waiting for teams. Received a letter from Sister Maria Lyman by R. Cliff. Brother Nathan Tanner has returned from his trading expedition having exchanged one span of horses for one yoke of old cattle, one yoke of steers, a cow, a gun and a steel trap. Father Huntington came back having made no affectual trade.

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20th. Very high winds. Nathan Tanner took Father Huntington’s horses and started off this morning to trade for cattle. He succeeded and returned in the evening with two yoke of oxen. Our men are busy fixing yokes, etc., in order to be ready to start on again in the morning.

21st. All well. Weather fine. Started at eleven o’clock to pursue our journey. Traveled about three miles when Bro. John Young and Evan M. Green came up with us, just from Nauvoo bound for the camp of Israel, on express, they said. Traveled nine miles this day, and camped on the south fork of the Cheques River.

22nd. Awoke in the morning and found it had been raining. Started at eight o’clock, traveled eighteen miles and camped for the night in the edge of the woods near Fox River.

23rd. So much rain fell during the night that we were obliged to lay by this day. Had quite a hail storm in the afternoon. Our men took a job of splitting rails for corn, three baskets to the hundred.

24th. The rain continues to pour down upon us with some snow. The ground is very muddy and it is almost impossible to get around without getting mired.

25th. The ground is covered with snow; it continued to snow all day. Brother Lyman killed two ducks and one rabbit.

26th. The sun shines and everything seems more pleasant than yesterday. 27th. Cold and cloudy. The boys have commenced another job of rail-making,

for which they get corn and pork. 28th. Weather pleasant. Boys are off to work. Captain has gone hunting. Girls

are washing, and I am doing a little of everything and not much of anything. 29th. Edward Dusset and family arrived here on their way to the camp. Brother

Lyman and others made up a load of goods and sent them to the camp on Chariton River by Brother Sidney Tanner.

30th. Weather fine. Brother Lyman is thirty three years old today. He has been hunting today and killed three ducks and two squirrels.

31st. We had an excellent dinner off our ducks and squirrels. I started with D. P. Clark to go to Bloomfield, a distance of three miles. Went two miles and came to Fox River, but could not cross, so we went back home to camp. Brother Tanner came back in the evening.

April 1st, 1846. Packed up our things and started again on our journey. Came to Fox River, found the crossing very bad. I understood to walk across on a log with Brother L holding one hand, and D. P. Clark the other. Unfortunately for Brother L. He stepped on a rotten limb which broke and let him fall a distance of ten or more feet into the water, but I, more fortunate, held fast to Brother Clark and thus saved myself from falling, and reached the other bank in safety. After the trouble of changing wet clothes for dry ones, and lifting wagons out of the mud, we went ahead again for about a mile, when Aunt Dionitia hurt her foot in the double trees of the wagon. Traveled 15 miles this day and camped for the night.

2nd. Started early in the morning, traveled 12 miles and came to the Chariton River took in the rest of our loading and crossed over. We went on the bluff on the opposite side and camped for the night. Two brethren from Brother Pratt’s camp met us before we crossed the river, with seven yoke of oxen, to help us in the rest of the way to their camp, a distance of 7 miles on the west side of the east fork of Shoal Creek. At

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the river we came across Henry Jacob’s wagon in the mud, his wife, Zina, sick in bed on the tip of the load, so near the wet cover that she could hardly raise her head, a babe in her arms but a few days old, and no other wagon near, or friends to do anything for her except her husband. 3rd. Started early. Met Brother Parley P. Pratt, and G. A. Smith coming to see what had become of us. Went to their camp, for the rain was pouring down in torrents. Pitched our tent in the mud and water. It continued to rain all day. It was almost impossible to get anything to eat, as we had to cook it out doors in the rain over shoes in the mud. 4th. Arose from our beds sometime in the forenoon, and found them and our clothes quite wet with the rain. After breakfast we commenced to dry our bed clothes by the fire out in the rain, where one side ot wet while we were drying the other. 5th. The ground is a little frozen, but the sun has risen and shines pleasantly. Washed, cooked, etc., and we expect to start again tomorrow. 6th. Awoke in the morning and found it raining, which prevents us traveling today. Rained all day. 7th. We had a severe storm of rain and wind with sharp lightening. Brother James Scott came to our camp this morning from a camp three miles ahead of us, where Brother Miller Whitney and Kimball are. Just heard that President Young wishes us to move on as fast as possible, so we expect to start again tomorrow. 8th. Started on our journey in company with Brother P. P. Pratt and G. A. Smith and their companies. Traveled 7 miles across very wet prairie, the wagons setting into the turn nearly to the axle-trees most of the way. Reached Locust Creek about dark, crossed over, ascended the hill and pitched our tents in a very wet place, Found Brother Kimball and the rest of the camp at this place ready to start on tomorrow. We had thought that our teams must do without corn tonight, but to our great satisfaction, Brother Kimball had some corn for us, which was a great blessing to our teams after their hard days work. 9th. Started early in the morning and were obliged to double teams before we could get off our camp ground. Roads were very bad indeed, there were few teams that could go more than half a mile without help. Commenced raining about twelve o’clock, and we in the midst of a large prairie with no prospect of reaching timber this day, and consequently could have no fire this night, let the weather be what it might. Continued raining very hard, roads getting worse and worse. The best of the teams cannot move their loads with-our help. Brother Lyman told me to drive one with the buggy till we came to a fire, if we could find one, as there was no prospect of the teams getting much farther today, and it seemed that both the people and the teams must perish if they stopped there. We accordingly went ahead (that is Dionitia and I) some two or three miles when we came in sight of tents nor far from the road. Went to them and found my mother and family there with Father Huntington, which made us feel quite at home, although it was a most uncomfortable place, but we were wet and cold and glad to get any place where there was a fire. Their fire, however, did not do us much good, as the rain continued to pour down, which spoiled our chance of drying our clothes. Brother Lyman came up about dark with one team, but the one with our beds and provisions were left out in the team, but the one with our beds and provisions were left out in the prairie with D. P Clark and wife and Pricilla Lyman, without fire, or food for their teams.

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We had to sleep as best as we could, which was anything but comfortable, some lying on boses, some on chairs, and others in wet beds. I laid across a box in Father Huntington’s wagon, with my head on his and mother’s bed, with my feet on the front end board, and my clothes wet about a quarter of a yard deep around my ankles. I do not know why I did not freeze, for I had no bed and very little covering. It must be that there was not room in the wagon for the frost to get in, it was so full of folks. 10th. Arose in the morning and found the mud so deep that we could not get from the wagon to the tent without getting nearly mired. Found the beds in the tent wet through. After much adoo, we succeeded in getting some breakfast. The brethren then took all the teams they could raise and went back to help those who were left out last night. They returned towards night with some of the families, but left several to stay another night in the prairie. The weather is very cold, and the people have no fire and very little food. 11th. The brethren have gone again to the prairie to render assistance to those who have not come up. Washed some of our wet clothes. 12th. Brother Lyman has gone to attend a council of the twelve, distance 5 miles. He returned towards evening nearly crazy with the toothache. 13th. Took all the teams in the company and part of the wagons and went 5 miles to stay while the teams went back for the rest. 14th. The teams came up and went on past us three miles, then came back for us. We started about three o’clock, came up with the main camp before dark. Found Sister Emily and the bage well. 15th. Traveled 7 miles and camped in the edge of the prairie. 16th. The most of the company have moved on, and we shall remain here while our teams are being sent off to trade. Nathan Tanner and D. P. Clark having gone for that purpose. We expect teams from the other camp to help us along tomorrow. 17th. The teams have come for us, but it is so late in the day and Brother G. A. Smith is here destitute of teams, that we have concluded to stay another night, Brother Lyman, Hutchinson and Driggs have gone turkey hunting, will stay all night. 18th. Our hunters have come in bringing one turkey and one chicken. Started on our journey again. Traveled 8 miles and camped in the timber. 19th. A most beautiful morning. All well except Brother Lyman, who is very sick with the bowel complaint. 20th. I am 26 years old today. Brother L. very sick. Received a letter from Sister Maria Lyman. 21st. Answered Sister L’s letter. Brother L. is not well today as yesterday, suffers much pain. One of our horses very sick. 22nd. Brother Lyman some better. The weather very warm. April 23rd 1846. Brother L. same as yesterday. Dionitia taken sick. 24th. Brother L. able to dress himself and leave the wagon. 25th. P. P. Pratt left us and went on to Grand River 26th. The weather pleasant. Folks getting well. 27th. Woke up in the morning and found it raining. It rained all day. 28th. It has rained all day and is raining yet. 29th. The weather cloudy with some rain. 30th. Still raining.

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May 1st. The weather more pleasant. Brother Tanner and Clark have just returned from their trading expedition. 2nd. Brother Johnson and family came up with us just from Nauvoo. 3rd. Had severe storm of rain. 4th. A fine pleasant morning. We had designed to start on our journey again, but the rain has prevented us. 5th. The weather extremely fine. Brother Wm. Edwards very sick. The rest of our men preparing for a game of ball. 6th. We are again hindered from pursuing our journey by a most violent storm which visited us last night, and we have another today, most furious storm. 7th. The morning cloudy but a prospect of better weather. 8th. Weather fine, Brother Edwards some better, but not able to sit up. Sister Lydia 16 years old today. We have plenty of squirrels and wild turkeys here, and at night we are blessed with the music of the wolves. 9th. Started on our journey at half past eight in the morning. At 12 o’clock stopped to feed our teams. Brother Edwards very sick and so crazy it is almost impossible to keep him in the wagon. Traveled 8 miles and camped for the night. 10th. Traveled 9 miles. 11th. Traveled 7 miles and came up with Brother Young’s camp at the farm on Grand River. I stayed with Sister Emily all night. The rest of our company went on two miles farther. Left Bro. William Edward at Father Allreds. 12th. Brother Lyman came back with the buggy for me. Sister Emily went with us and she stayed with me all night. 13th. The ground quite wet with last night’s rain. Traveled 12 miles and camped in the prairie and looked for a storm. Heard that Brother Edwards died this morning. 14th. The looked-for storm came about dark last night, and a harder rain we haven’t had this spring, almost everything we have is wet, but the prospect is fair for a pleasant day. Brother B. Young has just arrived and camped near us. We traveled none today. 15th. Traveled 6 miles and camped in the prairie. 16th. Traveled six or eight miles across the prairie and camped near a skirt of timer. 17th. Stayed in camp all day. 18th. Went to Grand River, found Brothers P. P. and O. Pratt camped. 19th. Brother Lyman went in company with B. Young and others to look at the country around us, two Indians came to our camp looking for a stray horse. May 26th. Rainy morning. It is thought best for some of the families to stop here for the present and raise crops this coming summer. They have named the place Mt. Pisgah. 27th. Father Huntington is moving his family to a house he is building, and will not move father this year. 31st. Attended meeting in the grove. June 2nd, 1846. Brother Lyman has started back to meet his wife Maria and family, they are about thirty miles from here. 6th. Brother Lyman has returned with his family and Father John Tanner and family.

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11th. We are now ready to start on our journey again after having stayed nearly a month in this place. I here leave my mother and sisters Emily and Lydia and little brother Edward with the rest of the family, excepting Sister Caroline, who is also Bro. Lyman’s wife. She is going with us. Cornelia Leavitt Lyman, (also one of Bro. Lyman’s wives) has joined our family and is going west with us. Started about four o’clock, traveled about four miles and camped for the night. 12th. Traveled till night and then camped in the prairie so far from the wood that we could not have any fire and of course not much supper. 13th. Arose early, ate some rusk and milk and started on our journey at 6 o’clock. At 12 we came to some timber, made a fire and prepared breakfast. Stayed tll three and then went on till night. 14th. Weather pleasant. Brother E. T. Benson took breakfast with us on his way from Mt. Pisgah to Councill Bluffs. Traveled till noon, camped near a small creek where we found an abundance of ripe strawberries. Camped in the prairie a short distance from the timber. 15th. The cattle could not be found till 11 o’clock. We started about 12, traveled till 3, stopped to bait. Met with one of the Pottowattomie Indians. We carried wood from this place to where we camped in the prairie. 16th. The morning pleasant. Traveled 16 miles. Passed an Indian village on the Nishean Botany River. 17th. Weather fine, roads very dusty. Met several Indians who were out hunting. They had venison on their horses. We camped at night on the bank of quite a river. 18th. Some rain through the night, also plenty of mosquitoes. Brother Benson met us this morning, took a letter for me to my mother at Mt. Psgah. Traveled 16 miles, camped on the bank of the Washtenau where we had plenty of mosquitoes. 19th. Traveled 8 miles, passed a dead ox in the road. 20th. Traveled 10 miles, came up with the main camp 6 miles from the Missouri River. Passed another dead ox. 21st. Had meeting in the grove. 29th. We have had quite a great deal of bad road and some rain during the week. Wrote to my friends at Mt. Pisgah this morning, sent it by Bro. Pratt. 30th. Bro. Lyman with his family of 16 persons left the camp and started for the river, which the twelve expect to cross today. Traveled about 6 miles, came to some bad mudholes which they were obliged to bridge so that we did not reach the river this day, but camped for the night in the bottoms a short distance from Bros. Young and Kimball. July 1st, 1846. The sun shines pleasantly this morning. We were much annoyed with mosquitoes during the night. Came to the river at 12 o’clock then crossed over, ascend the hill and went to the prairie a distance of 2 miles. 2nd. Went to Brother Miller’s camp four miles from the river. Upset one wagon into the mud, but not much damage done. Made some trouble drying and washing clothes that were wet and muddy. 14th. My first child was born here in a wagon. I have named him Don Carlos. I am very uncomfortably situated for a sick woman, the scorching sun shining upon the wagon through the day, and the cool air at night is almost too much to be healthy.

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15th. Brother Lyman went over the river. (It was about this time that the Mormon Batallion was called for) August 9th, 1846. Since I last wrote I have been very sick with child-bed fever. For many days my life seemed near to end, I am now like a skeleton, so much so that those who have not been with me do not know me till I told who I am. It is a fearful place to be sick with fever in a wagon, with no shade over us except the cover, and a July sun shining every day. All the comfort I had was the pure cold water, from the spring near by. But the Lord preserved my life for some purpose, for which I thank Him. My babe, in consequence of my sickness, is very poor, but as I get better, I hope to see him improve. We left the spring and went up the river about 12 miles. September 14th. Wrote a letter to mother sent by Father Tubbs. 21st. Visited Father Lotts, had a baked goose for supper. In the evening we were alarmed with the cry that a mob was near us, but it proved to be false. 22nd. Don Carlos ten weeks old today, and as bright a little fellow as ever was. 23rd. In the evening attended the wedding of Wm. Martindale and Rebecca Ann Haaynes. 26th. Removed to our winter quarters on the banks of the Missouri River. 27th. Stayed at home. 28th. The wind blows very hard, several tents were blown down. Received a letter from mother. Bro. Sidney Tanner removed from the bluff to the river bank. 29th. Brother S. Tanner’s wife Louisa died, leaving a babe three months old. 30th. Sister Tanner buried. Father and Mother Tanner here, stayed all night. October 1st. Brother Lyman and other brethren gone up the river to cut house logs. 3rd. Brother Lyman and company came home with a raft of house logs, the first that has been brought here. 4th. Stayed at home and tended baby. 5th. Brother Lyman and others went up the river for more logs. 14th. Don Carlos is three months old today and weighs 11 pounds. 15h. We have taken possession of our log house today, the first house my babe was ever in. I feel very thankful for the privilege of sitting by a fire where the wind cannot blow in in every direction, and where I can warm one side without freezing the other. Our house is minus floor and many other comforts, but the walls protect us from the wind if the sod roof does not from the rain. 25th. Caroline wrote a letter to Mother. My hair has nearly all come out, what little is left, I have had cut off. My head is so bare I am compelled to wear a cap. 29th. Took breakfast within the walls of our house. It is now about seven months since we have eating in a house till now. November 9th. Daniel Weden Clark died this morning aged 3 weeks, he was the son of D. P. and Sarah M. Clark who were living with me. 14. Don Carlos weighs 13 pounds, having gained two pounds during the last month. He is a great comfort to me. December 6th. My baby is sick and getting worse, has cried all day, but I cannot see what ails him. 12th. The baby is dead and I mourn his loss. We have done the best we knew how for him, but nothing has done any good, he continued to fail from the time he took

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sick. My sister Caroline and I sat up every night with him and tried to save him from death, for we could not bear to part with him, but we were powerless. The Lord took him, and I will try to be reconciled and think that all is for the best. He was my greatest comfort and nearly always in my arms. But he is gone and I cannot recall him, so I must prepare to meet him in another, and I hope a happier world than this. I still have friends who are near and dear to me, if I had not I should wish to bid this world farewell, for it is full of disappointments and sorrow, but I believe there is a power that watches over us and does all things right. He was buried on the west side of the Missouri, on the second ridge back, the eleventh grave on the second row, being farthest from the river this will be no guide as the place cannot be found after a few years. January 22nd 1847. Brother Lyman has gone to visit the brethren on the other side of the river in company with G. A. Smith and Lyman Calkins. 24th. I went to Nathan Tanners to take care of his wife who is sick. 27th. Sister Caroline attended a party at the Council house with D. P. Clark and wife. 29th. I visited Brother Young’s wife Louisa and others. Feb. 1st. Brother Lyman came home in good health and spirits. 2nd. I am not able to stay with Sister Tanner, so have come home to stay a while. Pricilla has gone to take care of her a day or two. 3rd. I am making a dress for Pricilla. Sister Caroline is writing to mother. 10th. Attended a Bishop’s party at the Councill house in the evening in company with Bishop L. Calkins and wife. Had a very pleasant time. There were many good brothers and sisters present, and also some of the twelve who seemed to enjoy themselves very much. 12th. Dionitia has moved her bed to her brother-in-laws house where she will stay for the present to take care of his children, as they were deprived of their mother by death. 16th. Visited in the afternoon at Ek Fuller’s with Sister Maria Lyman. Brother Lyman came in the evening bringing news that J. Tippets and Bro. Woolsey had returned from the army (known as the Mormon Batallion) March 19th. After so long a time Mother and family have nearly arrived. They are on the opposite side of the river from us, and so much ice in the river that they cannot come over. Mother’s husband died at Pisgah, so she and the children are alone. 20th. I went to the river and saw my friends on the other side, but could not speak to the. Sister Caroline went across but not without danger. 21st. The river is clear of ice on the other side, and a road cut from the bottom on this side, so that Mother has crossed, and I am much rejoiced to meet her again, and hope we shall never be separated again until death. April 8th, 1847. The wagons of the pioneers started this afternoon. They are going west to look for a location for the Latter-day Saints and have no idea where that is, but trust the Lord will lead them to the place. 9th. Brother Lyman started but expects to come back before he leaves. 12th. Brother Lyman returned to spend a day or two before he leaves. 13th. Went to the creek and washed.

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14th. Brother Lyman has gone with the pioneers and we do not expect to see him again this summer. I took my turn with the rest of the girls in taking care of Sister Tinney the rest of the month. May 1st, Took some wool of Sister Summy to spin on shares, picking, washing and carding and spinning for half. Spent a great part of the time making a garden. 8th. Sister Caroline and I walked several miles over the bottom hunting one of our cows, but did not find her. 9th. Went to meeting. 10th. Spun wool and worked in the garden. 11th. Carded wool. 12th. Took our clothes to the creek and washed. May 13th, 1847. Went to Father Bott’s and borrowed a little wheat to spin whool on, and spun the rest of the day. 14th. Carded and spun. 15th. The same as yesterday. 16th. Rainy day, had to keep in doors. 19th. Visited Sister Lenora Morley’s with Sister E. R. Snow and others. 20th. Am engaged in making clothes for Sister Spicer who is very sick. 21st. Sister Spicer died, leaving two small children to the care of her sister. 23rd. Went to meeting, heard Bro. Pratt and Taylor preach. 24th. Rainy day. 25th. Sister Emily and Lydia visited us in the afternoon. 26th. Made a cheese. 28th. Washed at the creek. 29th. Worked in the garden. 30th. Forenoon rainy, went to meeting in the afternoon. June 1st. Sister Elvira Homes’ baby died. 2nd. Received an invitation from Sister (Holmes) to come and spend the day with her which I accepted, visited with her the grave of her child. 3rd. Am spinning wool for Sarah P. Reich. 6th. Stayed at home and took care of Sister Maria Lyman’s baby while she went to meeting. 9th. Mill dam broke away. 19th. One of the people shot by the Indians while coming from the barn, died next day. July 6th. My brother Edward started for Missouri with Brother Flake. This is the first time my brother has been so far away from his mother, he is 14 years old and over October 15, 1847. Since I last wrote I have been busy at all kinds of work, the time passing without anything of note having occurred. D. P. Clark and wife started for Missouri. 16th. Went to the farm and dug potatoes. 17th. Went to the farm and dug potatoes again. Cornelia Lyman started for Illinois with her uncle. 18th. 19th and 20th. Did house work.

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21st. Dug potatoes all day. When we came home at night we met Myron Tanner just come from the mountains. We were much rejoiced to see him and others who were with him, as they had been out long and suffered much. 22nd. Myron went with us to the field and helped us dig 18 bushels of potatoes, which we brought home at night and put in the cellar. 23rd. Myron helped us again today. We dug 23 bushels today, making 57 bushels of potatoes we have put in the cellar. We live mostly on the vegetables, with but very little bread, corn plenty, but no grinding of account. Brother Tinney very sick. 24th. D. P. Clark and wife have returned from Missouri. 28th. Thursday evening. Brother A. Lyman returned from the valley of The Great Salt Lake, he stayed home till Saturday, when he with others started with provisions and corn to go back and meet the camp. They met them, this side of the horn. 29th. Brother L. and the pioneers came home, having found the place that the Lord designs for His people to gather to. November 1st. Brother Lyman made a dinner for some of his friends who had endured many hardships on their journey. Had a party in the evening of the neighbors who seemed to enjoy themselves well. My sister Caroline and I have been trying to build a log house for ourselves, as we do not feel quite comfortable where we are. We first got possession of an old house which we pulled down, and had the logs moved to a spot where we wanted to put it up again. As we could not get anyone to lay it up for us, we went at it ourselves and laid it up five or six logs high, when some brethren came and laid it up the rest of the way, and put a dirt rood on it. Then I built a fire place and chimney till it was about as high as my head, and some of the brethren topped it out for me. We had one window of three panes of glass. Now we have a house without a floor, and without a rood that will keep out the wet. We divided the room with a wagon cover, and let D. P. Clark and wife have one part, as he had helped to build it. WE each had room enough to put our beds, by having the foot of the beds come together, and about six feet square from there to the fire. November 10th, 1847. We have commenced housekeeping in our 6 by 10 or 12 house, that is, Sister Caroline and I, and we feel very comfortable to what we have sometimes. 28th. Sunday. During the last week I have made a coat for D. P. Clark, and a dress for Maria Lyman. Spent the day at Mother’s. 29th. Helped sister Evelyn Rollins wilt. 30th. Washed, etc. December 1st. Attended a sewing party at Mrs. Eliza Hakes. 2nd. Helped Maria Lyman wash. Had company in the afternoon. 3rd. Helped Dionitia wash. Brother Lyman started over the river to attend a conference. 4th. Called on Sister Lucy Morley who is quite sick. 5th. Spent the day at Mother’s. 6th. Washed for sister Hakes for which I got a bushel of corn to feed Mother’s cow. 10th. Mother and I visited Sisters Emily and Louisa Young.

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11th. Wrote a letter for Mother Walker. Brother Lyman returned from the conference. He expects to start on a mission soon to the Southern States. Ten of our brethren arrived here today from the Mormon Batallion. 16th. Paulina Lyman became the mother of a fine son, which she has named Oscar Morris. Mother and child comfortable. 24th. Brother Lyman started on his mission south. Daniel P. Clark gone to the rushes. 26th. D. P. Clark came back bringing two turkeys. 29th. A young girl by the name of Emily Cox left her mother’s house with a seducer by the name of Long. They say they are married, but she will not be likely to stay with him long. Lines composed by Sister Eliza R. Snow, on hearing of the death of my babe, Don Carlos:

Beloved Eliza do not weep Your baby sleeps a quiet sleep. Although in dust its body lies, Its spirit soars above the skies. No more upon your throbbing breast It lays its little head to rest, From all the pains of nature freed Your fond caress he does not need. Sweet was its visit, but its stay On earth was short, ‘twas called away By kindred spirits to fulfil Its calling and Jehova’s will. Then soothe your feelings, do not mourn, Your noble offspring will return With all its lovliness again And with its friends on earth remain. February 27, 1848. (Missouri River) Ruth Adelia Lyman died. She was the daughter of Amasa and Maria Lyman. April 6th. Went over the river to attend the general conference. June 29th. Since I last wrote, we have been very busy making preparations for our intended journey to the valley of the great Salt Lake, where we hope to live in peace, and serve the Lord as He commands us. Brother Lyman has returned from his southern mission accompanied by quite a number of saints who will travel westward with us. Among them are John Brown, Wm. Crosby, Wm. Lay and Wm. Bankhead. We are some better fixed for traveling then when we left Nauvoo, but our outfit is very scant. Have provision enough to last us a few months after we get there, but not enough to last till we can raise more, but we go trusting in the Lord who never forsakes His people. Sister Caroline and I have one wagon for our use, to cook and eat by ourselves. We

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have a bedstead laid on the projection so that our bed does not have to be moved about. We have room for a chair which is a luxury for me under the circumstances. My mother’s wagon is next to mine. My sister, Emily has gone on with her husband, B. Young, and the rest of his family so I am leaving none of my relatives behind, which is a great satisfaction to me. We started on our journey and traveled six miles and camped for the night. July 1st. After staying in camp two nights, we started again for the Horn River, but were detained another night in consequence of rain. 2nd. Crossed the Horn and waited till the 7th for Dr. Willard Richards when both camps left and went to the Platte River. 15th. Crossed the Loop Fork, and went four miles and camped in the Pioneer’s old camping ground. 16th. Our men and teams went back to help the Dr.’s company across the Fork. Saw the first Indians here since we started. August 20th. Platte Dealton Lyman born at about six o’clock on Sunday morning. This is the second son that I have had born in a wagon, and I still think it a most uncomfortable place to be sick in. He was born on the east side of the Platte River, opposite Fort John or Laramie. The journey thus far has not been very pleasant to me as I have been very nearly helpless all the way, but it is all right, we are going from the land of our oppressors to where we hope to raise our children in the fear of the Lord, and where they will never suffer by the hands or our enemies as we have done. 21st. Crossed the Platte River; the rocks in the bottom are so large it seemed sometimes as if they would tip the wagon over. I help fast to the baby and Sister Caroline held fast to me, so that I was not thrown out of bed. October 17th. Reached the place of our destination in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. I have been quite as comfortable on the journey from Laramie as could be expected under the circumstances. Some of the time the weather has been very cold with rain and snow, so that I could not be comfortable anywhere as I had no stove in the wagon, but I and my child have been preserved through it all, and I feel to give thanks to my Father in Heaven for His kind care over us. We are now at our journey’s end for the present. The weather is beautiful. The country barren and desolate. I do not think our enemies need envy us this locality, or ever come here to disturb us. 18th. Moved into a log room. There are of us, 7, to live in this room this winter; my Mother and Sister and Caroline and Lydia and Brother Edward, Mr. Lyman and one of Maria’s children, to go to school and myself and babe. We are glad to get this much of a shelter, but it is no shelter when it rains, for the dirt lets the water through, and the dirt floor gets muddy, which makes it anything but pleasant. April 8th, 1849. During the past winter we have had some sickness. My babe was very sick with whooping cough. Many children around us died with it. My brother Edward also had it, they are both getting quite well of it now. We are intending to have our houses moved out of the fort on to our lots in town. We baked the last of our flour today, and have no prospect of getting any more till after harvest. 13th. Brother Lyman started for California in company with O. P. Rockwell and others. May the Lord bless and prosper them and return them in safety to their families and friends. Bro. Lyman has left us, that is Paulina, Caroline and I without anything to

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make bread, it not being in his power to get any. The family at the Cottonwood have some. 15h. Mr. Hakes and family here took Sarah and Dionitia home with them. We gave Sarah some cotton yarn for stockings, some tallow and soap grease. Samuel White, a man in Bro. Lyman’s employ, says they cannot move our house till after harvest, so I think I shall move on to the lot without a house, and live in a wagon box or tent. 16th. David Frederic and Brother Edward gone to Cottonwood. 17th. Brother Frederic and Edward returned from Cottonwood and brought a quarter of beef, also drove our cow, Frosty, to us, so that we can have some milk. Drove a yoke of mother’s cattle to work. 18th. Made preparation for moving onto the lot where we can make a garden. Called on Sister Holmes in the evening. We are spinning some candle wick which we shall try to sell for bread stuff. There is an old lady who goes around and peddles anything anyone has to sell, and as there are not any stores in the town or Territory, she has very good success. 19th. Moved on to our lot to live in wagons again. We are four in the family, Sister Caroline, Brother Frederic, myself and babe. I sold a ball of candle wick for three and a half quarts of corn, sold another ball for three and a half quarts of meal, which has to be divided between Paulina Lyman, Mother and my family. 20th. Visited at Mother’s with Sister Lucinda Bingham. 21st. Sister Emily brought us 15 lbs of flour, said President Young heard we were out of bread, and told her to bring that much although they have a scanty allowance for themselves. I sincerely hope I may be able to return it before they need it. 22nd. Stayed at the wagons. Sister Emily spend the day with us. Brother Hakes brought some shoes to Caroline and Paulina. 24th. Went to Mother’s and stayed all night. 25th. Carded and spun three balls of candle wick. Br. Frederic setting out fruit trees on the lot. Jane James, a colored woman, let me have about two pounds of flour, it being about half she had. 26th. Caroline gone to tend Sister Emily’s babe while she washes. 28th. A military organization; more men together than I have seen before in the valley. Samuel White gave Paulina a dollar to buy corn with. Sister Caroline gave two and a quarter dollars for a calico dress pattern, gave Charles Burke 25 cents for his trouble in getting it for her. 29th. Stayed at the wagon with the babe while the rest went to meeting. Wind blows hard and cold. Went to Mother’s, who is still in the fort, and stayed all night. 30th. Carded and spun some cotton yard. Came home in the afternoon and cut out two shirts for D. Frederic. May 1st. Made a pair of pillow cases, the babe an apron, and sewed on a shirt for D. F. 2nd. Went to the fort and visited with Sister Holmes, with Sisters Fuller and E. R. Snow. Had quite a rain with high cold wind. Went to Mother’s and stayed all night. May 3rd. 1849. Fast day. Went home and found Caroline going to washing. Assisted her. Paulina bought a one half bushel of corn of Mr. Shomaker. 4th. Sewed and went to the Fort.

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5th. Did sundry kinds of work. Pricilla and Cornelia Lyman and Charles Burke came from Cottonwood. Brought Dionitia home and took me back with them. Slept at Mother Hakes with her. 6th. Went to meeting heard an excellent discourse from Wm. Crosby. Took dinner with Sister Crosby, who is an excellent woman. Went from there to Sidney Tanner’s where I stayed all night. 7th. Spent the day with Mother Shepherd, she gave me some tea for Mother. I bought some soap and some cotton cloth for which I am to sew. In the evening went to Cornelia Lyman’s. Heard from miles north of us because she has nothing to eat at home and is under the necessity of doing something, as there is nothing to be bought although we have the money to pay for flour is there was any. 8th. Maria Louisa born; she is the daughter of Maria Lyman. 10th. Attended a sewing party at Mrs. Hakes. Brother Erastus Snow happened along and took dinner with us. 12th. Visited at Sister Crosby’s. She gave me some nice stuff to make my boy a coat. 13th. Went home in Brother Hakes’ carriage. Found Sister Caroline there but going back again in the evening to her school. Have got Sister Lydia to stay with me till I can do better or some other way. 14th. Washed, etc. Lent D. B. Huntington he spy glass by B. Young’s order. 16th. Visited Wm. Walker’s with Sister Emily and Louisa Young and Sarah Ann and Lucy Kimball, also President Young and Kimball. 18th. Cut and made a pair of pants for J. Holmes. Stayed at Mother’s all night. Came home the next day, but the wind blew so hard and cold that I went back to Mother’s again. 19th. Our tent burned down; burned the rocking chair while I was away. 20th. Stayed at the wagon. Caroline came home but went back the same day. I went to Fort again in consequence of cold rain. 21st. Paulina and Dionitia moved into John Her’s room in the Forth. Sister Emily visited us. 22nd. Tremendous rain and snow storm with high winds. 23rd. Snow blowing furiously. We were so very uncomfortable, though we had as stove in the wagon, that we thought best to go to the Fort to Mother’s. We did so and found her worse off than we were, for the rain was running through the roof, and every thing in the house was wet, and the ground perfectly muddy under her feet. We thought it would neverdo for her to live that way, so we took her and her effects to the wagons, deeming it more prudent to live out of doors than in such a house as this. In the afternoon Brother Frederic went to look for the cows that strayed away during the storm, but did not find them, spent several days hunting them and found them at last. Bought 11 pounds (something missing) and 11 pounds of shorts of T Billings at 10 cents a pound. 24th. Edward went to Cottonwood to get Brother Frederic’s cow, but Brother Driggs forbade his taking her, so he had to come back without her. Charles Burt brought us some beef; some of old Mike which was tougher than boiled owl. Sarah Clark came up on a visit.

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26th. Sister Emily Young and Lucy W. Kimball here on a visit. Caroline came home. 27th. Took my baby to meeting. Went to Sister Emily’s to dinner with Sister Caroline and Sister Brown. May 28th. 1849 Washed and had company in the afternoon. Sister Sarah Clark and Hellen Callister brought two and a half pounds of corn meal from Sister Holmes. Paid fifty cents in work for it. 29th. Cut out and made a pair of pants for Brother Holmes. 30th. Saw a head which looks encouraging in this time of scarcity. Visited at Paulina’s with Sarah Clark. Brother Frederic is shearing sheep for Charles Rich. 31st. Spent the afternoon at Brother T. Callister’s. Sister Emily spent the day with us. 2nd. Caroline came home. We washed and went to the fort and stayed all night. 3rd. Came home and stayed at the wagon all day. Brother Tinney and S. White here to dinner. Caroline went to her school in the evening. 4th. Spent the afternoon at Sister Cobb’s with Sister Emily Young. 6th. Edward went to Cottonwood and got the white cow and calf. Payed Washbourn’s boy one dollar for herding. 7th. Edward moved the hen house from the fort to the lot. 8th. Brother Frederic is ditching, and Edward is building the hen house, Mother is spinning cotton, Lydia is helping Emily wash, Caroline is teaching school, and myself making pants for D. Frederic who is taking care of baby. 9th. Washed some. Finished pants, and let D. Frederic have two dollars to buy summer coat. 10th. Sister Caroline came home. We all but Lydia went to meeting. 11th. Brother Frederic and Edward pulling down the house in the fort and hauling the logs to mill to get them split. Mother carried the cotton yard which she has carded and spun, to the weavers. Maria Lyman sent us some cloth for pillow cases, and a few dried apples. 12th. Let Paulina have a dollar to buy flour. This morning the mountains are covered with snow which makes the air quite cool. 13th. Sister Emily spent the day with us. Lydia and I washed, and washed wood for D. Frederic. Bought some coarse flour. 14th. The Indian chief Walker here today. 15th. Bought a half bushel of wheat from Sister Richardson, paid 20 cents for grinding it. 16th. D. Frederic at the mill sawing the logs for our house. Edward hunting oxen in the forenoon, and went to the mill in the afternoon to haul logs. Very high wind in the evening. 17th. Sunday, stayed at the wagon. Sister Caroline doesn’t visit us today. Some rain and wind. Bought four pints of coffee for mother for which I paid fifty cents. 18th. Picked wool etc 19th. Went to the warm springs and took a bath. Went to Cottonwood with C. Burk and stayed till the first of July. Spent most of the time at Brother Wm Crosby’s. He and his wife went home with me. Sister Crosby gave me a pair of cotton stockings, some bleached cloth for my boy, Platte, some shirts and a box of pins, a box of wafers

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and a cheese weighing and 16 pounds, a can of whey for vinegar, and Sister Elizabeth Brown gave Platte some calico for a dress. 4th. July. Had green peas out of our own garden. 5th. Brother Summy worked a half day at our house. 6th. Same as yesterday. 7th. Brother Summy worked at the house all day. Sister Caroline came home and went back next day. Paid $1.50 for 12 lbs flour. July 8th, 1849. Attended Sister Abbot’s funeral. Paid Brother Sunny $4.75 in gold dust and some cheese. 9th. Brother Summy worked on the roof, and Brother Hughes on the chimney and next day finished it. 10th. Visited Brother James Ferguson’s. 11th. Sister Caroline came home to stay, having finished her school. 13th. Paulina moved out of the fort on to the lot by us, and will occupy one room of ours, if it is ever finished. 18th. Went to the warm springs to bathe. 21st. Have some flour made from wheat which was grown this year. We are in hopes we will not be troubled any more for bread, as the harvest has commenced. 22nd. Stayed home all day. Have been very busy all the week, preparing for the feast which is to be enjoyed in the bowery on the 24th. 23rd. Made a shirt for Brother A. O. Smoot. 24th. Tuesday. Great celebration which we all attended. Took dinner with the Cottonwood Ward. Had a pleasant time. Plenty of victuals, music and mirth, and some good preaching. Wednesday and Thursday, washed etc. 18th. August. Maria Lyman sent us some red calico for Platte a dress, a birth-day present, also a dress pattern for Caroline and me. 20th. Platte De Alton Lyman, one year old to-day. Made a dinner in honor of the event. Sister Billings, Warner, Burke, Walker, Paulina and Pricilla Lyman, Emily Young and Sarah Clark took dinner with us. Not a man there, but one who will be a man if he lives a few years. 25th. Sister Clarissa Robison, Eliza Dusset, and Catherin Foutz visited us. 28th. Sister Caroline and I went to Sister Keziah Burk’s. 2nd. September. Attended meetings. Heard P. P. Pratt preach in the forenoon, and Erastus Snow in the afternoon. Brother Frederic gone to Cottonwood for wheat. Brother Crosby and Tinney here to be called, is very uncomfortable, the logs laid up, part of the roof on, and a very little chimney in it. 4th. Mother visited at Bro. Risero. 5th. Wednesday took my year-old babe and went to the field to glean wheat. I spread a quilt under the wagon in the shade for the bay while I gleaned, but the sun was so warm that I could not work long. 6th. Made a baby dress for Sister Rich for which I got a pound of wool. Brother Kimball called on us. Wrote to Brother Lyman. 7th. Visited Lewis Robison with Sister Caroline, Lydia and Paulina. Took two quilts to piece for Sister Billings, also a shirt to finish.

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8th. Received 6 lbs. 3 ounces of wool from Cottonwood to be divided between several of us. Brother Frederic put up an adobe wall between the rooms. (Due to the strain on my eyes, and for lack of time, I albert R. Lyman, copying this journal, shall copy from here on, only the parts which seem to me to have the most value historically. I would like to have it all; every detail of the labors of this worthy woman, but this undertaking has already been hanging fire a number of years, and I fear if it is not completed soon, it may not be completed by me at all.) September 17, 1849. Gleaned wheat. 29th. Read two letters from Brother Lyman, one to Caroline and one to D. Frederic. 1st October. Received some goods which Brother Lyman has sent from California to his family. 3rd. Several of the friends from Cottonwood here to dinner. D. Frederic divided the goods that Bro. Lyman sent; 11 ½ pounds of coffee to each woman of the family, counting s. White and wife and Sarah Clark in the family; 13 lbs of sugar, less than a pound of tea; 18 yards of cotton cloth to the most of us, one bolt calico each. Lydia one bolt, mother a half bolt, Brother Tinney one bolt, John Gleason one bolt. He also sent one bolt pants cloth, one doz. Hickory shirts, one bold white flannel, one red, two bolts of blue drilling which has been divided into dress patterns of which we each took one, that is, seven of us. I let mine go to Sarah Clark to pay for one that I had been under the necessity of getting from her before the goods came. 1850. November 15th. Commenced weaning Platte De Alton. September 29 1850 Brother Lyman returned from California. 1851. March 10th. Brother Lyman stayed with his family through the winter, making preparation to take part of his family to California, in the spring, as he and Brother C. C. Rich have been called there to preside over the saints who may gather there. 11th. Brother Lyman started with all his family except Paulina and I and our children, Oscar and Platte. Everything looks like desolation and very lonesome we are as Sister Caroline has gone too, but I have mother and other friends here yet. July 25th. Have had a very uncomfortable summer so far, as my health is very poor. August 1st, 1851. My oldest daughter, Carline Eliza, born in the morning. 1852 July. My baby very sick for several days. December 20th. The baby recovered from her illness and is growing finely. Brother Lyman and Caroline and the boy Marion returned from California, making glad the hearts of us all. April 1st 1853. Marth Lydia Lyman born, she is the daughter of Sister Caroline. 20th. Brother Lyman started for San Bernardino after staying here for the short space of four months which the short, has passed pleasantly away, and all that I regret is that the time is no longer. He gave me the privilege of going with him as far as Sanpete, which I accepted, but did not enjoy the trip very much , as Sister Caroline was yet sick in bed.

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1853. August 20th. Platte De Lyman is five years old today, and has had some of his little friends to eat dinner with him. I fixed a low table for them so that they could sit in their little chairs, and they were indeed a lovely sight and caused me many reflections as to what might be their lot in the future. They were now so innocent and had yet to learn the follies and wickedness that is practiced in the world. Would they be able to withstand that evil influence which they would surely meet as they pass on to manhood and to womanhood. Can it be said of them when they shall have reached the end of this mortal life that they have filled the measure of their creation and accomplished that thing they were sent here to do? Will they be able to bear the ills and sorrows of this life? May the Lord surround them by guardian angels who shall have special care over them that they may never go astray from the paths of rectitude, but may be prepared when they are called to leave this earth to return to their Father pure and unspotted and enter into exaltation and glory. The names of the company were: Platte D. A. Lyman, his sister Caroline Eliza, his half-brother, Oscar M. and Rowell M. Lyman, Emily A. Young and her sister Caroline, Marthan Brown, George Bankhead, and Morris Holmes. February 7th, 1853. Sister Lydia married to Amasa M. Lyman. 7th April 1854. My brother Edward called to go on a mission to the Sandwich Islands, which will leave us without man or boy to do anything, but it is all right. 24th. Made a coat for Brother Hadyn Church last week for five dollars, and am very busy now helping my brother to get ready to go on his mission, Bro. James Fergusen gives us tickets to go to the theater occasionally, for which we feel very thankful, as it helps to break the monotony of our lonesome lives. 2nd May. Received letters and presents from Bro. Lyman and others in California, by the kindness of Bro. Blackwell. 6th. Received letters from Bro. Lyman, his wife Cornelia, and son Marion. Heard that Bro. Lyman will come home next fall, which is very welcome news. 9th June. I have employed myself so far this spring and summer with very hard work, such as working in the garden, doing house and work and washing, ironing, spinning, taking care of the children, and in attending to the education of my little boy myself at present. 15h. September. Two Indians hung by the government officials on the west side of Jordan. Bought a loom and fixtures of Nancy Stevenson for sixty dollars for which I am to pay in work or any way we choose. 1855. January 8th Sewing for Bro Callister to pay for milling, etc. Sister Caroline and I are weaving for Sister Elvira Holmes to pay for butter, cheese and flour. February 20th. Commenced a coat for my little son, Platte. December 1st 1855. Bro Lyman arrived from California, bringing his wife Dionitia, his son Amasa, Charles Flake and Josiah Hendricks. Dioneta lives with Paulina, and the rest with Carline and I. 1856 February 19th. During the last eighteen months we have done weaving to the amount of 102 dollars, besides a great amount of other work, such as sewing and spinning, coloring, house work, tending garden, and almost every kind of work that a woman was ever known to do.

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March 18th, 1856. We eat our meals without bread for the very good reason that we have none, although we have a pound or two of flour for the children who are having the measles. Mother is sick at Sister Emily’s. August 20th 1856. Platte D. Lyman eight years old today. 28th. P. D. A. Lyman baptized by Bishop Hoagland, and confirmed by his father Am. M. Lyman. September 2nd. Bro. Lyman started for California, taking with him his wife Dionetia, his son Amasa, and the boy Charles Flake. May he be prospered on his journey while he is absent from us, and return to us again in peace. October 12th. Sunday morning, 15 minutes past 6. Frederic Rich Lyman born. He is the son of A. M. and Caroline Partridge Lyman. Was blessed by Bishop Hoagland when he was eight days old. December 13, 1856. Joseph Alvin Lyman born Saturday morning at half past eight. Blessed when three months old by Bishop Hoagland, son A. M. and Eliza Lyman. 1857. January 4th. Edward Leo Lyman born at five o’clock in the morning. He is the son of A. M. and Lydia P. Lyman. Blessed by Bishop Hoagland on the 13th of March. March 24th. Eliza M. Lyman, Lydia P. Lyman and Platte D. A. Lyman re-baptized by Bro. Nancott. Mother and Sister Caroline rebaptized the same day. Platte going to school to Mrs. Sarah Kimball. June 3rd. Bro. Lyman and son Marion returned from California. 1858 January 13. My brother Edward Partridge returned from his mission to the Sandwich Islands where he has been laboring for some years. While there he visited his Aunt Mercy Partridge Whitney, our father’s sister, who has been a missionary in those islands for many years. She went there with her husband who was a Presbyterian minister about the year 1820 or 21, and has remained there ever since, sending her children to the United States to be educated. She did not believe the doctrine my brother taught, but chooses to remain in the dark. She lives on the islands, and will probably remain there as long as she lives. 1860 Some time ago in 1860, Bro. Lyman started on a mission to England, leaving us to do the best we could, which was not very well, as we were as usual in very poor circumstances. We had poor health and no means to help ourselves with. August 26th. My daughter Lucy Zina Lyman born. At this time my sister Caroline was very sick in the next room, and had been for nearly two months. She had a babe who was also very sick. We had to have watchers every night for them, and girls to do the work, and not even flour in the house to eat, nor soap to wash our clothes with. We were at least reduced to the necessity of calling on the Missionary fund for help to take us through our sickness. This is always very trying to me. To ask help is far from being pleasant to me, and I do hope if ever I do leave this state of existence that I shall find myself a little changed from what I have had them here. My sister’s health was so poor that she could not nurse her babe, Annie, so I undertook to nurse both her’s and mine, I succeeded very well for a few weeks, but had to give it up at last, as I could not attend to both. July 1863. Brother Lyman and a part of his family moved to Fillmore. I stayed in Salt Lake to take care of my sick mother. We moved to my sister Emily Young’s where I stayed about three months, then I left my mother to the care of Sister Sarah Gibbons

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and my sister Emily, and went to Fillmore to join my sisters there, and also my son Platte who went when they did. Bro. Lyman seemed to feel uncomfortable in his mind, and I thought many times did not enjoy that portion of the spirit of the Lord that a man in his position should, he being one of the twelve apostles. I did not know what was wrong with him, but I could see that he was very unhappy. He left his family mostly to their fate, or to get along as best they could, although he was with them; it was about this time that my sister Caroline’s son Walter, and my sister Lydia’s son Frank were born. In the spring of 1864 I moved up farther into the town, and occupied a room in Bro. Lewis Bronson’s house. In the fall I moved into an unfinished brick house of Bro. Lyman’s where I lived for several years. April 1867. My son Platte was called to go to England on a mission. This was a great trial to me, as he was not yet nineteen years of age, and had never been away from home, and knew nothing of the traps and snares which are set to catch the young and inexperienced, and he had no one but me to counsel or help him in any way (his father having apostatized and been cut off the Church). I did what I could, and gave him to the care of the Lord, knowing that He would be his friend when all others failed. May 11th. With some others I went with him as far as Salt Lake where he received his endowments and married Adelia Robison (May 18th) We stayed there a few days, when I started for my home in Fillmore, leaving my dear son to go his way out into the wicked world to meet temptation in every form, as unsuspecting and honest a child as can be. Will the Lord keep him from being overcome by evil-minded persons? Will He have regard for him on account of his youth, and his desires to do right, or will He leave him for the wicket to prey unpon, and let hi be led away by gypocrites, and those who make it their business to trap the unwary? These and a hundred other doubts and fears oppressed me for the first few months of his absence, but I prayed mightily for him, both day and night that the Lord would preserve him from every evil influence and make him a useful man in His kingdom. The Lord heard my prayers and answered them to my satisfaction and I feel to glorify His name for His great goodness to me and my children. Although my lot through life has many times been anything but pleasant, yet the Lord has led me better than I could have planned for myself, and I thank Him for it. When I reached my home in Fillmore, it looked desolate and lonely. May 24th. I felt as if I were returning from a funeral. I had a family on my hands, but had on one to provide for us. Brother J. V. Robison and wife and his brothers Albert and Alonzo were very good to me. They brought me many things for my comfort and cut my wood which was a great comfort in my helpless condition. I always think of them with feelings of gratitude, and hope they will always find friends if I never have the privilege of befriending them. December 7th, 1868. I commenced teaching school in the State House, had about 60 scholars. In about two years and half my son Platte returned from his mission, having done a good work, and with the sanction and approbation of those who presided over him. During the winter following his return I with my family, stayed with Bro. J. V. Robison’s children while he and his wife visited some of their friends in the east. They were gone about six months.

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In the spring of my son Platte was called to move to Oak Creek to preside there, so that I was left without a provider again. About this time I got a situation in the Fillmore co-op store and received a dollar a day for my services, which enabled me to support my family, but took me away from them through the day which was not very pleasant. My sister Caroline and her family also went to Oak Creek, which left but few of us in Fillmore. I stayed in the store over two years, some of the time getting nine dollars a week. When I left the store I did not see how I was to get a living, but I have always had something to go on with. Many times it has come from some place where I least expected it. On the 10th of August, my first grandchild was born at Oak Creek, Millard County Utah. He was the son of Platte D. and Adelia Lyman, and was names for his father, Platte D. Alton. We always called him Alton. I visited at Oak Creek occasionally. My son Joseph stays with his brother Platte a good share of the time, as I cannot make work for him at home. My second grandchild born Jan 13th, names Eliza Adelia. Taught school in Fillmore about this time, three terms. October 21st, 1875. My son Platte started on another mission to England, leaving his affairs with his brother Joseph, and his wife and children in Fillmore with me to stay through the winter. Children bad with whooping cough and a wife not well. December 12th. Evelyn born. She is the daughter of Platte D. and Adelia Lyman, and my third grandchild. March 1876. Adelia went to her mom in Oak Creek, leaving Eliza with me. I and my children have done everything which could be done for her while she stayed with us. November 1876. Started with my son Joseph to go to York, the terminus of the rail-road to meet my son Platte, who is just returning from his mission. The weather is very cold, and there is snow on the ground. The first night we camped a little north of Scipio and camped four miles north of town in company with William King and Lyman Robison. The night was very cold, and should have been quite comfortable in a house. The next day we arrived at York where we met my son, and were much rejoiced to see him. Came back to Salt Creek and stayed all night at Bro. Joel Grover’s where we were made very comfortable. The next day we traveled to the Sevier Bridge and camped again the cold. We found Paulina Lyman camped here also. She rode with us to Fillmore the next day. When we got to Fillmore, we found that my daughter Carlie and others had invited a few of our relatives, and prepared a splendid dinner in honor of her brother’s arrival, to be enjoyed the next day, as we did not get home till after dark. Our friends who came were E. Partridge and wives, his daughter Harriet, and her husband, A. Kimball; F. M. Lyman and two wives, Bishop Thomas Callister and two wives, G. Finlinson and Paulina Lyman, who, with our own family, were over twenty. All seemed to enjoy themselves well in talking together of the past and of different missions. The next day my son Platte started for him home in Oak Creek, meeting most of the inhabitants, about three of four miles before he reached the town, coming out to bid him welcome, and escort him to his home. December 9th. Mother gone to Oak Creek to spend the winter with my sister Caroline.

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16th. I moved some of my things to Oak Creek to stay through the winter. Shall occupy one of Sister Caroline’s rooms. Left Carlie in Fillmore to do some sewing to pay for wood we had burned. I have omitted to mention the death of my sister Lydia; she died on the 16th of January 1875, after a very painful illness of 16 weeks. Disease was rheumatism, which terminated in dropsy. She was never able to help herself at all from the first day of her sickness. She left three children, one son and two daughters. The girls live with me, and the son, a young man, lives with my sister Caroline. Her daughter Ida, aged 15, sat up a part of every night with her mother, with the exception of two nights. She was buried on Sunday, the 17th in the graveyard at Fillmore, that being the town she had lived in the past few years. After her girls came to live with me, it was thought best for me to move into my sister Lydia’s house, there being more room, and the house being more convenient than mine. I think I moved in some time in the following march, and remained there until I moved to Oak Creek, which was on the 16th of December 1876. January 4th, 1877. I am at home with mother. Platte’s little boy Alton Sick. 5th. Spent the day at Platte’s. Alton in bed all day. 6th. Stayed at Platte’s and helped take care of the other children and fixed some garments for him Alton is not much better. 7th. Spent the day at Platte’s. Most of the family gone to meeting and Sunday School, also attended meeting in the evening. 8th. Still staying at Platte’s. Alton is very sick. 9th. Alton much worse. I stayed there all night, and sat up most of the time. 10th. 1877 Alton very sick indeed. Sister Caroline, Carlie and others staying there to assist in taking care of him. Spent the forepart of the day writing for mother, but my mind was so much on my little grandson that I could not finish my writing, but laid it by and went to see him. He lived till about two o’clock, when he died in his father’s arms. His spirit passed away quietly, not even a struggle to show when it departed. His father and mother and friends mourn for him, but not without hope of meeting him in that better world where parting will be no more, and where we will enjoy the society of our friends forever and ever. His father was greatly rejoiced at his birth and was always laying plans for him in the future, and prayed the Lord to give him wisdom to bring him up to be a good man and an honor to those with whom he was connected, but the Lord saw fit to take him from this world, which was a great sorrow to his parents. I have never seen a man sorrow for a child as his father has over this, although he acknowledges the hand of the Lord in this, as in other things. If we could see why things as they are, the trails would not be so severe. We have to walk by faith, and not by sight. Fred, Joseph, Eddie and Peter Anderson sat up with the corpse. Platte and wife and the two remaining children went home with me and stayed all night. Carlie and Martha made the clothes. Bro. Scow made the coffin, Bro. John Dutson attended to the digging of the grave and whatever was to be done. 11th. Busy making preparations for the funeral of my dear little grandson. Platte and Fred helped my mother to walk to see the remains of the dear boy. Went to the grave yard at 4 o’clock and saw the remains of the dear one laid in their last resting place, peacefully to rest till the resurrection morn. Platte and family stayed with me another night.

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12th. Platte and family went home to stay, and I went with them to stay nights for company. Ida washed the clothes that had been used about Alton. 13th. Busy at various things, my girls keeping house while I stay with my bereaved children for company. 30th. Carlie and I went to Fillmore with Bro. and Sister Callister. 31st. Mr. Lyman (the father of my children) quite sick. Feb. 3rd. Mr. Lyman very sick indeed. 4th. Mr. Lyman died at a little after five in the morning. Carlie and I went with Henry McCollough to see the corpse. Sent word to Oak Creek to my son Platte about the funeral, so that he and his brothers might attend. 5th. Platte and his brothers, Joseph, Fred and Edward arrived in Fillmore about daylight, very tires and cold, having ridden all night. Went to the funeral about twelve; heard an apostate, John Kelly preach, also Reuben BcBride said a few words. Bro. T. Callister took charge of the meeting. Wm. Beeston and choir furnished excellent singing. Went to the grave at three o’clock, and returned about sun-down. I shall not attempt to describe my feelings that I had when I saw the father of my children sleeping the sleep of death. He who had been an Apostle of the Lord and one of the leading men of the Church, proclaiming the everlasting Gospel to the nations of the earth, and being once a great and good man. But how is it now? I could only say in my heart “How are the mighty fallen.” He had denied his religion, the doctrine he had taught to others for many years, and during his last days suffered himself to be severed from the Church of Christ, and to associate with apostates and spiritualists and disaffected person. Instead of being buried in the robes of the priesthood, he requested to be buried in the black coat and pants. It was grievous to think of the change a few short years had brought about in his case, and how easily it is to be overcome with evil if we are not continually on our guard. March 6th. 1877 Mother is over 83 years of age, and does a great deal of work, such as braiding straw hats, piecing bed quilts and sewing carpet rags, making buckskin gloves, knitting mittens and sox and stockings, and mending the boys clothes and making herself useful in more ways than a person of her age could be expected to. 10th. Carlie and her sister fixed Alton’s grave 11th. Platte made a fence around his little Alton’s grave. 18th. Went to meeting. There was a call for donations towards building a temple in Sanpete. I gave five dollars in money. Mother gave some buckskin gloves, several pair. 19th. Platte and others spent the day hunting through the hills for an insane woman who was seen near here the day before. They followed her track many miles, but night comingon, they had to give up the search. 20th. My sister Caroline and I commenced to do our cooking together; her girls to do the work one week, and mine the next. April 20th, 1877. I am 57 years old today. 23rd. Assisted in getting my brother Edward ready to start on his mission to England. 25th. May. Mother no better. Platte feeling nearly well again. When my brother arrived in Salt Lake City he was released from his English mission on account of public

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business, he being probate judge for Millard County, and returned again to his home in Fillmore. 26th. We went up the canyon to the saw mill which Platte and others had erected there. June 3rd, 1877. Sister Robison and Owens here to visit Adelia. 8th. Platte’s little daughter Eliza is sick. I have stayed there all day. 12th. Platte gone on a cattle drive to Holden, the other boys in the canyon. I am busy all the time taking care of mother and doing what else I can. July 19th. I went to Fillmore with my son Platte and his wife. 20th and 21st. Attended Conference and was present at the reorganization of this stake of Zion. I. N. Hinckley was appointed president with Brother Edward Partridge and J. V. Robison as counselors. Aug. 1st. My daughter Carlie 26 years old today. I went to the canyon with Platte and rode home on a load of lumber. 4th. Fred, Joseph and Edward have bought half of the saw mill. 10th. Five years today since Alton was born, and seven months since he died. Mother much better so that we do not have to sit up nights. Carlie quite bad with dropsy. 21st. Platte sawing at the mill, the other boys logging. August 28th, 1877. Carlie quite sick all night. Mother still gaining, can walk across the room. My time taken up all summer as it has been with sick folks. January 8th, 1878 Joseph and I went to Fillmore to get Sister Wilcox to come and stay with Adelia a few weeks. 9th. Started for home about 8 o’clock, taking Mrs. Wilcox with us. Arrived at home in the evening and found Adelia in bed with a little daughter which was born in the morning. 10th. Just one year today since Alton died. 11th. Our darling little Eliza taken sick in the night with croup. We did everything in our power to stay the hand of the destroyer but could not prevail, and she died on the evening of the 12th, after an illness of about 25 hours. She seemed to get better at the first attack, but the difficulty in breathing returned and remained with her to the last. 13th. Our darling little girl was buried on her birthday, being just four years from the time of her birth. 14th. My family and I are staying at my son Platte’s for the present to take care of Adelia during her sickness, and partly for company as they feel very lonesome after losing their little girl. February 1878. (After a trip with Platte and Edward Lyman and her daughter Carlie through snow storms and bitter cold to Salt Lake she makes this entry:) 18th. Went to the endowment house and saw my daughter sealed as wife to Bro. Callister. April 20th, 1878. I am 58 years old today. It does not seem to me to be possible that I have lived so long. When I see others that age, I think they are very old, but I do not feel so. I started today with my son Joseph for Salt Lake to witness his marriage to Nellie Roper. May 8th. Mother is still very sick. WE have set up with her nights ever since I came home.

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17th. I am and have been very busy attending mother who is getting no better. There are five of us to do the work for a large family and sit up nights which brings us on every other night. Ida, Annie, Lucy and Sister Caroline and myself. June 9th. My dear mother breathed her last at ten minutes to seven in the morning. She slept the last four hours of her life and passed away without a struggle. Starting on the 8th of November with Annie Lyman and William Dutson, she faced a long cold and disagreeable trip to Salt Lake where they saw Edward Lyman and Mary Callister married; and they had too much load for her to come home with them, and she waited there, doing what she could to provide for herself till the 18th of December, when she returned to Oak Creek on a high load of freight in still more cold. January 15. 1879 Last evening I attended a mass meeting of the ladies of Oak Creek to protest against the proceedings of the anti-polygamous ladies of Utah, and also to appoint a delegate to attend a similar meeting to be held in Fillmore on the 18th. I was appointed the delegate to attend the meeting. 17th. Went to Fillmore with my sister Caroline and my daughter Lucy in Bro. Lovell’s wagon, his son Brigham driving the team. Arrived at my brother’s in the evening and found him quite unwell. January 18th, 1879. Attended the mass meetings of the ladies in Fillmore to protest against the proceedings of the anti-polygamous ladies of Utah. Mrs. B. M. Pratt was chosen as president, and Mary M. Lyman and Mellisa Brown Secretaries. There were many speeches made and read by the sisters expressive of their feelings in regard to the course pursued by those who have no part with us, but are continually trying to destroy our institutions, I wrote and read the following: Strange as it may seem in this enlightened age, we a few of the ladies of this republic, are called upon to vindicate our rights and institutions which have been assailed by the Anti Poygamous Ladies of Utah. The Prophet Joseph once said that the time would come when not only the government of the United States would be against us, but also all the nations of the earth. For as the kingdom of God grown in power, so also would the opposite influence gain strength. But he never said, that I know of, that the ladies would array themselves against us and seek to tear in pieces our domestic relations, try to have Congress enact laws which, if carried into effect, would separate wives from their husbands, and children from their parents, and scatter them to the four winds, unprotected and uncared for. If this is what they desire to see, let them go to their own cities where hundreds of children are wandering up and down the streets, sleeping upon the pavements or in the gutters, or where ever night overtakes them; having no protectors nor homes, and leading dishonest lives as no other way seems to be open before them. There is a chance for these anti-polygamous ladies to do good, to reclaim their outcasts, to place them where they can earn the bread which their wicked fathers withhold from them. So unlike the polygamous fathers in Utah who feed, clothe and educate their children, whether they are the children of the first, fourth or tenth wife, it is all the same to him. They are his children, they bear his name, and he takes care of them. The polygamous ladies of Utah are the honorable wives of honorable men, and have no desire for anyone to interfere in their affairs. We are happy with our husbands and children, and do not need the sympathy of the outside world, nor do we thank them for it. Let these who would destroy our institutions, travel through the cities of the United States and see if they can not find some of their fallen

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sisters who would gladly receive the sympathy they are so anxious to bestow on us. I would venture to say they could find hundreds of them who would gladly return to friends and home and earn an honest living if some kind friend was found to assist them; many who are not living that degraded life from choice, but have been driven to it by the cruelty of their employers. Let these ladies, who are sending their circulars to every clergyman in the United States to be presented to their congregations for signatures praying Congress to enact laws which shall utterly destroy polygamy; let them, I say, devise some means whereby the destroyer of innocence may be brought to account, and the fallen ones reclaimed. Talk about the degraded women of Utah! It is now about thirty-six years since the Prophet Joseph Smith taught to me the principles of Celestial Marriage. I was then married by that order, and have since raised a family of both sons and daughters in what is called polygamy, and I am not afraid to say that it is one of the most pure and holy principles that has ever been revealed to the Latter-day Saints, and one that is necessary to our exaltation. The Anti-polygamists say the law of Celestial Marriage is a curse to our children. We are not afraid to compare our children with those born and raised in monogamy. Perhaps they do not know the Lord preserved some of the most noble spirits to come forth in the last day s to perform the great work He has begun on the earth and which He will consummate in spite of all opposing influence. Our enemies say that if we will drop polygamy, we shall have equal rights and privileges with them, can they tell us why we are persecuted before there was any plurality of wives known in the Church. Was it polygamy which caused a body of armed medn to go to my fathers house in Jackson County Missouri and take him to the public square and cover him with tar and feathers. Was it because the Lord had revealed this holy order of marriage that the exterminating order of Governor Lillburn Boggs was issued and the Latter-day Saints driven enmasse from the state. No it was not, for no such principle had been taught to the saints at that time. Why did they not destroy and drive from the earth , the Kingdom of God when it was very small, composed of six members, or even before that, when the prophet was trying to translate the Book of Mormon? They tried as hard then as they do now, but they did not succeed, and they never will succeed, although every clergyman does his best, and although every ant-polygamous lady signs their petition; it will only spread our principles father, and bring hundreds and thousands at a knowledge of the truth, who now know but very little if anything about us. We had been driven from one place to another by our enemies for years before polygamy was known among us, and many no doubt think they are doing right in persecuting us for they know not the facts in the case. Would it not be well for them to investigate a little before they go too far, lest they commit a great error which in a future day might cause them sorrow? We are glad for the privilege of representing ourselves, and if the inhabitants of the earth would believe our testimony, they would see that their conditions are much worse than ours; but the most of them prefer to believe lies. If they were not afraid we were right, they would let us alone; but they fear the truth. They do not want the Kingdom of God to have a place on earth and they put forth their puny arm to destroy it, but it will continue to increase as it has, and no power on earth can stop it. We know in whom we trust. Let them petition congress, let them send their circulars to every part of the Union, let them get other nations to help them, if they please, yet they will utterly fail for the Lord is more powerful than they, and His works and the principles He has revealed to His people will stand forever. Then let

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us rejoice my sisters, that we are numbered with the people of God, and that we have embraced the celestial order of marriage, and happy shall we be in a coming day, if we have never spoken lightly of sacred things. As an American citizen I offer my most fervent protest against this most unhallowed crusade, and firmly believe that congress has no right to enact laws interfering with our religious liberty. Every person should have the privilege of serving God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and as loyal citizens of the United States we claim this privilege. 26th February. Platte and his family gone to their home in Lemington. March 7th, 187 Carlie very sick indeed, sent for Platte in the night. Delia came in the morning. Sent to Fillmore for Sister Ann Carling did not get here till 7 in the evening. About half past eight, Carlie was delivered of a fine son weighing eight pounds. Carlie’s sufferings during this day were past description. Nor mortal but a woman can suffer so and live. May I never witness such suffering again. Platte stood by her like a brother, and his wife Adelia did all she could, as also Sister Caroline and others but no one could do any good till Sister Carling came and she soon brought relief, and the best sound I ever heard was when I heard the baby cry. 13th. Carlie appears to be getting worse all the time, has fever all the time, has had ever since the baby was born, and has no appetite. Her milk has come alright, and she nurses the baby some. Afternoon: she seems more comfortable and natural than she has since the baby was born. 14th. Carlie has had a fearful night; her pains seem almost unendurable; she has given up all hopes of getting well, and wants her brothers and husband sent for. She has named the baby Joseph for one of her brothers, and given it to me, saying it will be such a comfort to me, but oh she little knows the anguish that fills my heart when I think of parting with her. I sent for her brothers Platte and Joseph who came immediately; they were about 12 miles away. She talked to all the family separately, giving them good counsel, said she had no fear of death, said she was perfectly willing to go, for she had many good friends in that other and better world; said she should meet her brother Platte’s children which she loved as if they were her own, and many more things, wanted me to live near my sister Caroline, and charged everyone to be kind to her mother as she was. There was nothing that she thought would add to her mother’s comfort but she would do it if it were in her power. I sent to Fillmore for her husband, Bro. Callister, ad she was very anxious to see him before she went. He and his wife Hellen arrived in the evening. He was much grieved to find her so low, and tried to make her think she would recover. She told him it was of no use to think of her getting well, and she wanted him to give her up, as she felt that she could not endure any longer and suffer as she had. She requested all but him and me to leave the room as she wanted to talk to us alone. She told him she must surely go and leave her darling babe, which she wanted her mother to have and keep, which he said should be as she requested. She said she wanted me to teach him to love his Pa, as he would not be likely to see him much. 19th. It was plain to be seen that she was sinking very fast. We did all we could to alleviate her sufferings which was very sever, but it was of no use for no earthly power could save her, and although many prayers were offered in her behalf, yet the Lord took her from us at half past 12 on the morning of the 20th. Great has been her sufferings, and great will be her reward.***

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March 23rd. As I am now in my 59 year and have this young babe left to me to take care of, I shall be under the necessity of doing whatever is for his best good. My daughter-in-law, Adelia will nurse him for the present, if I will go with her to her home in Leminton. So I shall break up house-keeping for the present. My nieces, I da and May will stay with my sister Caroline, and my daughter Lucy and baby and I will go to Lemington and board with my sons Platte and Joseph who, with their wives, are very good to us. The place is very lonesome and we are very uncomfortably situated, but we must do the best we can for the present. Their houses are so small that we have to take our beds out of doors in the day time and bring them in at night and make them down on the floor. By Carlie’s request, Platte has been added to the baby’s name, as she wanted it for both of her brothers, which makes it Joseph Platte Callister. April 26th. Went to Oak Creek with Platte and Adelia, carried the baby with me. Went back the next day. May 8th. Moved to Oak Creek, as Platte has sold his home in Lemington. I shall occupy a room in his house, so that Delia can still nurse the baby. The baby weighs 13 and a half pounds, and is as good as need be. June 7th. Adelia has not milk enough for the baby, so I have to get him nursed wherever I can. 11th. Moved my bed and rocking chairs to Brother Alvin Roper’s so that his wife, my niece, can nurse the baby, as his Aunt Adelia has not milk enough for him. September 17th, 1879. Platte and baby Lydia, who is very sick, have started to the city, also my son joseph and his wife Nellie and brother Walter. They returned on the 29th, Lydia still very sick. They brought a baby carriage for me to take Carlie’s baby in, as he is too heavy for us to carry much. October 6th. Lydia has been getting worse ever since they got home, and this morning she has left us for that better land where sickness and death are unknown. 12th. We shall stay at Bro. Roper’s till my boys, Platte and Joseph start for San Juan, when I expect to occupy my son Platte’s house during the winter, or until some of the boys come back. October 20th. Platte has sold his house and lot to George Lovell, but I have the privilege of living there, and have the fruit from two rows of trees, and a part of the Lucerne till Platte comes back, which we expect will be sometime in the summer of 1880. 21st. Platte D. A Lyman and company, consisting of Joseph A. Lymand and wife Nellie, Edward B. Lyman, Ida and Lydia May Lyman and Walter Lyman, started on their journey to San Juan with a small herd of cattle and horses belonging to themselves, and to some of us who are left behind. May the Lord watch over them and keep them in health and peace until they can perform the work they have been sent by the apostles to do. October 31st. Platte’s wife Adelia is staying with us, but intends to go to Fillmore. December 25th. Christmas, not a merry one for me, cannot think of anything but the cold, and my friends who are camped on the banks for the Colorado River without house or tents, and exposed to the inclemency of the weather. May the Lord preserve them from suffering, is my prayer continually.

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March 4th, 1880. Do not receive letters now from my children and friends who have gone to San Juan, as they have crossed the Colorado, and are beyond the reach of Post Offices. I am omitting many little details which, though seemingly trivial in themselves, taken altogether, bespeak the unfaltering love and faith and devotion of this woman, whose record is a huge inspiration to me, and I wish I could copy it all. The way she moved her place of residence from place to place for the sake of the baby, Joseph Platte, getting up six or eight times during the nights to have him nurse, being in her sixty-eighth year, is a mark of splendid integrity. She was very much devoted to Carlie, in fact to all her children, but she took the bitterest situation calmly, and never hinted a compromise of her faith in the Gospel as taught to her by the prophet Joseph Smith. She reproduces here a blessing given to her by Patriarch Morley, and this too is an indication of her unwavering trust in the providence of the Lord. March 12th 1880. Received a letter from my son Platte dated at Smooth Rock, 17 miles east of the Colorado River, which I answered in the evening. April 19th. Received a letter from my son Joseph, and answered it in the evening. One year ago tonight—what sorrowful remembrance that night brings to my mind. To see a beloved child suffering the pains of death, without the power to relieve them in the least, is almost too much for human nature to bear. On that night my dear daughter Carlie suffered till she could endure no longer, and her spirit took its flight to a land where sickness and death do not come, and where sorrow is unknown. May I with the rest of my family be prepared to enter into the same rest with her and my mother and friends who have gone before us is my prayer both morning and night. August 20th 1880. This is my son Platte’s birthday. Thirty two years ago today I was traveling in the Black Hills with a company of saints in search of a place where we might dwell in peace and worship God according to the revelations He has given us. But our enemies follow us and say we shall not keep the commandments of the Lord, but shall walk in the path that they make out for us. We shall see which is the greater power. October 19th. My son Platte and his brother Walter returned from San Juan. 20th. Platte gone to Deseret to visit with his Uncle, Edward Partridge. (During this year while she was waiting in Oak Creek for her sons to return from San Juan, she was often very short of the necessities, and her sister Emily and Emily’s children gave quite liberally to her, generally at a time when she was about to the end of her resources. Sometimes it was partly worn clothing, but it was generally cash. Don Carlos gave her $25 at one time, and Mamie Hardy also gave liberally.) November 5th, 1880. Started on a journey to San Juan County Utah, in company with my daughter Lucy, and grand-son Joseph P. Callister, who is about one year and a half old, also my son Platte and family, my sister Caroline and family. We came out about 8 miles and camped for the night. We found that we were too many for the teams, so my sister Caroline concluded to go back to her home in Oak Creek and stay

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another year, or until there should be grain raised on the San Juan, so that she could come without taking so much provisions. November 6th, 1880 (Eight Mile Creek) We remained in camp all day while one of the boys took sister Caroline and her daughters, Annie and Harriet, back to their home. Her sons, Fred and Walter came on with us, with the teams, which made us more comfortable. Bluff, May 9th, 1881. My son Platte started to Colorado to buy flour, and expects to work on the railroad to get the money. He took two wagons and six horses. His wife Adelia and the two children went with him. July 18th. Edward L. Lyman has returned from Colorado, having earned a load of provisions etc, and has started today for Oak City, Millard County to get his family. Sister Ida and Nellie G. went with him. 24th. The weather is much cooler than in May and June. Crops lost for the want of water. I had some green corn for breakfast, the only ear we have raised. I have busied myself during the summer raising chickens, making cheese, and doing whatever I could find to do. Are having very lonesome times, as so many men and families have gone from here. There are now only six men in Bluff City, and plenty of Indians all around us. There is nothing but the hand of the Lord that preserves us here, as in all places. August 20th. During the past week we have had a powerful flood which came down the Cottonwood Wash. The water was wider than the San Juan River. It lasted two or three days and nights. The river was also very high, and has washed away a good many hundred dollars worth of our brethren’s water ditch. This is my son Platte’s birthday. His wife, Annie Maude, presented me with a nice lace collar, and ruffles for sleeves, made with her own hands. September 29th 1881. My son Joseph A. started in company with Brother Lemuel Redd and Hyrum Perkins to try and recover some horses which have been stolen out of our fields by two white men. The thieves have one day and part of two nights the start of them, but the Lord is able to stop them and help the brethren to get their horses, which I pray my Father in heaven to do, and return them to us in safety. October 5th. Brother Redd has come home bringing word that my son, Joseph has been wounded in the leg by a shot from one of the thieves. He was shot while pulling the boat to shore on the Colorado River. They were shot at many times while crossing the river, but the Lord preserved their lives, and they recovered the stolen horses, and would have come home all right but for this shot. But I feel to thank the Lord that it as no worse, for the bullets came like hale, and there was every chance for them to have been killed if there had not been an over-ruling power to defend them. 6th. Started for Clay Hill, a distance of eighty miles in company with Bishop Nielson and L. Redd with a carriage to bring Joseph home, if he can stand it to ride over such a rough road. We found him more comfortable than could have been expected. Sister Haskel was doing the best she could for him and the brethren were very kind. 9th. Started home with him. We stretched a blanket across the top of the box and put his bed in on that, so that he could swing all the time and not feel the jolt of the carriage. He came very comfortably, but I had a most uncomfortable time for two days and a half; had a very small space to occupy during the day, and no place to lie down for two nights.

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11th. Met Bros. Woolsey and Walton and my daughter-in-law, Annie, coming with a wagon to meet us, so that I was more comfortable after that. 13th. Arrived home and met my son Platte and his brother Walter, who had come from Colorado in advance of the teams to see what could be done for Joseph. I had Joseph moved into my house, as his wife was away visiting her folks. 16th. Joseph taken sick with fever, had all the symptoms of lockjaw. 21st. Begin to see some signs of improvement in Joseph’s condition. By the prayer of faith, and by simple means, we have been able to conquer the lockjaw, and he begins to have a little appetite. His leg bothers him bad at times, but for the most part is tolerably comfortable, which he thinks is in consequence of the faith he and the brethren had in the power of the Almighty. November 24th. Today my son Joseph, assisted by three of the brethren, got off the bed where he had lain for six weeks, and sat in a chair for three quarters of an hour. His knee looks like he might be in bed a long time yet. We have had to sit up nights with him most of the time. The wound is healing up all right, but the knee and leg are badly swollen. His brother Platte has taken twenty pieces of bone and a small piece of lead out of the wound. My son Platte has lived with me, or we have cooked and eaten together since he came from Colorado. It takes us all to take care of Joseph and keep one kitchen. Jan 6th, 1882. Joseph getting his health much better than we thought he could so soon. Today Adelia has begun to cook by herself, so we shall not have my son Platte to eat with us only part of the time. 22nd. Spoke in public meeting for the first time in defense of polygamy. February 9th. My son Joseph has been out doors for the first time in seventeen weeks. He went on crutches, with some one to carry his sore leg. July 1st, 1882. My son Joseph, who was wounded last October has this day come to take the lead again in family prayer. He cannot bend the sore knee, but he has to kneel on a chair. My son Platte D. L. has attended to prayer with us and for us the last nine months. August 3rd Mary, daughter of Platte and Adelia Lyman, born. September 24th. My son Joseph and wife have commenced to cook and eat by themselves. He has lived with me for nearly a year, and I have done all I could for his comfort, also for his wife who has had poor health, and should feel much better satisfied to have them stay with me if it had suited them. My family is too small to suit me, but I will try to be content with anything that pleases the rest. My family now consists of my daughter Lucy, my son Joseph Platte and myself. October 4th. Lydia May Lyman started for St. George in company with Kumen Jones and his wife Mary and others. September 24th, 1883. My daughter Lucy started for St. George in company with Bro. L. H. Redd and wife and three children. November 3rd, 1883. Went with my son Platte and his wife Adelia on a visit to Montezuma. Had a very pleasant time at Sister Angeline Hyde’s, also attended meeting. Came home on the 5th. April 20th, 1883 My daughter Lucy and her husband’s wife Eliza, my niece, Ida Nielson, and my daughter-in-law, Nellie G. prepared supper for me on this my 54th birthday. There were present at the table besides those I have mentioned, my

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daughter-in-law Adelia and family, my son joseph and my grandson Joseph P. Callister, Joseph Nielson, L. H. Redd, Kumen Jones and Hyrum Perkins and wife. We had a very pleasant time together. My son Platte was away from home, so did not make the visit quite complete with me. The table was spread at Bro. Jones’ as he had more room than the rest of us. May 11th. Met with a few friends at Sister Mary Jones’ to eat roast turkey and other good things. August 15th. Started from Bluff, San Juan County in company with my son Joseph, his wife Nellie, and baby daughter, my daughter Lucy and my grand-son Joseph P. Callister. My son P. D. Lyman came with us a day and half to help us with his teams. August 1883. Traveled on all right till we came to Green River, where we took the train on the 27th, Lucy and the little boy and I. Arrived at Leaminton on the 30th and rode to Oak Creek with Sister Caroline and Alvin Roper. June 15th 1885. My son P. D. Lyman and his wife Adelia and my brother visited us and went home on the 17th. In October I visited my son Platte and family at Scipio, had pleasant visit. December 23rd. Bought some land, six by eleven rods, to build on. (She died at Oak City, March 2nd, 1886-age 59) This account has been copied, and somewhat abridged by Albert Robison Lyman, son of Platte D. Lyman, son of Eliza Maria Partridge Lyman, and has been done off-hand, when sickness, quarantine or something else held him from other things. It has never been proof-read, and the mistakes in it should be corrected patiently by those who receive it. It has been copied over two carbon sheets making it impossible for any reassures. A. R. L. keeps the first copy, and gives the other two to his sister Cretia, and his brother Edward P. One mistake recalled in here, is where Grandma’s age is made ten years greater than it was at that time.)

A. R. Lyman’s copy, finished during the measel quarantine January 24th, 1927