133. Samuel Miles returns from Mormon Battalion, gets married, starts his family and fills a mission to California
This is the 3rd entry from Samuel Miles' journal. Entries # 128 and 130 tell of his early life, and his time in the Mormon Battalion. Blog # 131 is a brief history of his life, written by his granddaughter, my aunt Sarah. This begins after he returned home from California, after working a year at Sutter's Fort after being in the Mormon Battalion. We arrived at the fort in the Salt lake Valley on the 10th of September 1848. The families who followed the pioneers were living in a fort built of logs and adobes. I found my brother Ira and wife here he having come with the company who followed the pioneers and had returned with some of the Battalion men going to the frontiers. I made my home with them and we bought a log house in the fort where we lived through the winter. I sent one hundred dollars to assist my folks to the valley. I learned of the death of my father who died December 22nd 1847 in St. Louis Missouri on his return from a trip he had taken to see h