Thoughts and stories, by Pal

    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 o...

Last night, with a few minutes before bed, I decided to post the story of Richard and Ann Kirk Henwood.  I couldn't get it to copy and paste, so I did a "print screen", and I decided it was to small to read good, so I'm rewriting it today, condensed, and with information about handcart traveling, which Richard did.  I hope this gives their sweet story more exposure: ---- JOHN HENWOOD, AND RICHARD AND ANN KIRK HENWOOD written by Gladys Tregenna Dayton Eckman My Grandfather, Richard Henwood, born 5th December 1837, at Plymouth, Devonshire England, was the son of  John Henwood and Jane Tregenna Henwood.   (Note, Glady's middle name is Tregenna, and that name is the maiden name of Richard Henwood's mother.) Richard came to Utah with the Captain Edward Ellsworth Company in 1856, the very first handcart company, pulling the handcart of a widow with five  children who were bound for Utah. His father, John, step-mother Elizabeth, and  sister Elizabeth, were...

I decided tonight to do a quick post -- Actually I have enjoyed this so much, I don't really want to give up doing one blog a day -- but I probably won't do every day.  Please watch for it --   This is about Wayne's mother Gladys' grandmother and grandfather, and was written by Gladys Dayton Eckman. This is about Ann Kirk, (and her husband Richard Henwood) who was the daughter of Phillip Kirk, whose story is told in blog # 61, Phillip Kirk -- burned in effigy.  I have copied 4 pages in the history, which are below.  Ann was one of the 3 children the parents sent over to America four years before they had money enough to come.  She married Richard Henwood, who came with the very first handcart company in 1856.  The first few companies that year came without incident, but the last two were the Willie and Martin companies, we've all heard about a lot.  Richard came with his sister, and his father and stepmother.  He was 18 years old, and we've hear...