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Pioneer trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847 to 1869
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HARMON
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Father of Appleton M. Harmon
X Jesse Parce Harmon
Born
Died
wife
Mass
Anna Barnes Harmon Born
Died
Born
Died
{Father and Mother of {George Stringham Born 1790 [---] Died 1876
{Polly Hendrickson Stringham B.
Died 1885 Holden. Utah
Rulla MO.
Died 1914. Holden Utah.
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George
3
1841
an Elder by
was ordained a Seventy in the 11th
Quorum
was ordained a President in the
11th Quorum
P. Harmon
1857
o N.
YorkBaptized
Dunam
Dec 1 Dec 1846
-noon
1849
Baptized
Stringam
Died
6 oclock A.M.
Born
City Utah Baptized
ordaned a priest By B J Stringam. ordained
an Elder
3 o clock A.M.
Born
Lake City Utah Baptized
1866
Toquerville
* Winter quarters is now known as
is 2 miles South west and was the name of
a camp. ground
4
Born
Lake City Utah
Died
Born
died
Born
Salt Lake City U.T.
1931 Died at
Heart and Kidney Complaints following FLU
(Influenza Pneumonia) attended by
Born
County
Dixie Utah T.y.
Died
Born
Died
5
Born
P. M.
Co Utah T.y
Born About 4 o clock P.M.
at Toquerville Washington Co Utah
1922 - Died
*Thromlosis - or Diabetes Mellitus [---]
(High Blood Pressure) [---]
at Toquerville Utah.
Born at
Died at
Born
Born Salt Lake City
Died at Holden
7
Children
18 1874at
Died
at Holden Utah
Died
Born
8
Children.
Children
9
Their children were
Born at
Born at Holden Ut.
Died
Anna Harmon married
Cherrington
Children
Born at
born at
10
Children
Born at Holden
Child
Born at
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married (
Born
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PHONE 47 REG. NO. 252
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Wife
Children
Ida Elizabeth Grimes
13 1853
M A R C H
we got our goods past the Costom
house officer with out paying duty
on one single article. our luggage
and pasengers ware taken from
the ship to the
with a "jobs Boat." twenty of
our Number went in the Cabin
and two hundrend and forty
sevn (eaqual to adults counting
two from 3 to 12 years old for our
a dult.) in the "Stearage"
Elder
in securing our births, or in
makeing our contract. I com-
menced my liveing on th
steamer and found it mutch
supprsion to that on the
"
snugly on board[---] and have
ing taken a good strool through
the "Cresent City" we set of
a bout 8 o clock in the evening
Sugar plantation and took on
a quantity of sugar, during
which time we had a fine
strool on Shore and in the
old planters guraden
and was envited in to the
house which was richly furnished
They must have kept upwards of one hundred slaves who
seemed perfectly happy, their
Hute forming quite a little
viledge. the yard was richly
ornamented with Shrubery
mutch of which was in fall bloom
on both sides of the
is kept from over flowing the
the rich fertile bottoms by
means of "leveying" or
embanking at this time
the water in the river is from
2 to 5 feet higher than
the land for hundreds of
miles even the greater part
of
than the river . we pased
similar we stop from 3 to 4
times a day to wood or [---]
take flat boats in tow and
wood whilst ruming to masd
evening we saw the first
high land . and passed
o clock in the evening
15 A P R I L
lef
4 hours after we have in sight and in less than
half an hower passed us (*) called
at the town of
state of
a letter to the New Orleans post Master
to have him for ward my letter
to
rambling on the shore.
in the evening the Cabin
pasengers assembled to geather
and ware enter tained by our
breathen
ing and Sisters singing and reciteing in which I bore
a part. and finished up
by danceing &c
was presented to
signed by 20 of the Cabin
pasengers with the approval
of the Captain preying him
to preach to them which he
done at 2 o clock P.M. They
listened with great attention
while Elder Gates layed down
in plainness the first and
leading principles of our church,
after service several of the
pasenger felt diposed to
dismiss, bu they got us good as they
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and on our depart ure left
two of our breathering who
ware on Shore purchaseing
some provisions, they got
on to a nother boat which
soon passed us and they
waved to us as they passed
The weather is gitting coolder,
the land higher
towns we have the state of
-tuckey
at allmost every wood yard
we saw whare there was a
flat boat loaded wood.
we have a Ball every night.
of the
Called at
Coal. the deck pasengers purchas-
ed some provisions at an
extortion of a price. and then
we went on up the
faceing a Strong wind which
greatly checked our headway
passed several small towns &c.
wooding every operthunity our
boat is So large and heavy
loaded. that She requires an imense
quantity of wood.
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about 2 o clock we passed
officers came on board looked
through the pasengers and
on being
no sickness gave us a pass
and we went on and
landed at
3 o A.M. in the morning
we found Elder
and
at 4 o clock we Shiped
170 or 80
is to be our starting place
I went to washington Av. between 7th and 8th
St whare I find a comfortable
home.
Barns
of the Saints to Keokuk. and
Saw
the Evening the Steamer
Young
in the Consert Hall whare Elder
Pratt addressed a full house
on the subject of Marage &c
to a sermon on the Subject of
Poligamy.
the last 15 days is lost. but
Suffice it to Say that I went
on a Steamer
to
went to
Ill.
returned to Keokuk helped to
arrang the waggons and as
fast as the
form them in to camp &c
this day I set off in company
with a
to the State of
herd of 800 head of Oxen. rode
on horse back to
Cross the
new Bridge at reduced fare with
our cattle and waggons while
returning
rode 30 ms Crossed
and feet up at
Dutch town and tarven . the bed
was so slipery that it would not
hold me.
rain. passed
at a farm house 36 ms.
and put up at
River
thence on by the sooner ferry of the
and put up at
who had came by water from -
that place 2 hours before me
had taken a nother road now
came up. and took breakfast. We
had been joined by
Boonvill one of the Same party. who
had wated my arrival. 12 ms
which was soon mad brought
Jones
o Mo
one hour previous haveing came an
intire different route from other of us
and been bothered in Crossing the
Streams we met here
Russel
to Contract. 780 head of oxen . and
purchased 24 head more. we got
so mutch in to his good graces
that he gave to my self. J.W.
Young and V. Shurtleff each a pair of
oxen
the oxen with the letter H
and started with our Herd, as we got
fairly under weigh. Mr Russel sent
"uncle ned" with a Jug of whiskey
the English Boys drank so mutch
that we stoped by the way another
had pity and a third and fourth
be came helpless and the remainder
had to guard the cattle all night
in a rain storm.
Crossed the
diffcult ford. the water being so high
that a few feet from the track the
cattle would have to Swim
which was the case with nearly all the
became obstructed in a tree top whare
both Horse and rider came near
gitting dround, we proceeded on
through a timbered uncultivated
Country for several miles lost 3 of
the Companies Cattle and one of my
own. fat up at a neat farm house
got a good pasture for our cattle and
good a comadations for the men
out mutch trouble to
got 4 loads ferried a crossed the
only Crossed 2 loads I bot me a
Sorril Horse which I call Bill
for which I paid $100,00 Sent
a man back for my ox.
boat could not run employed
a steam boat, but could not
git the cattle on to it.
put us all on to the north
side the Missouri and a bout 10
A.M. we got started again, My
ox haveing arived Just in time
drove past the town of
and got a priveledge of
putting our Cattle in to a field
git a field we guarded our cattle
all night in the rain on an open
Prairie. and thus we continued
to travel with exceeding toil through
a new Country guarding our
Cattle on the prair
the roads ware heavey and
mutch cut up with the late
heavey rains. the streams had
to cross and several times we
ware obliged to draw Some
of the cattle out of the mud and
mire with ropes. we crossed
the
at
at
having lost by the way about
7 head of cattle.
Hakie
with me to the
my Cattle.
bought some goods
S.
and make another
and
we traveled 10 ms and camped
cattle. moved on 11 ms to
Wheelock
Called by
met in council with Bros.
Haight, Wheelock,
It was arranged that I should
stop until the rest of the
should arrive and help pit them-
out. and that Wheelock gates
Should each take a company
and proceed.
and goods.
o Fulsomto my father a Coat pattern
worth 17 dollars as a present went
to my Camp at Sugar Crick
arranged affairs the best I could
and sent my waggon ahead
m
started. 22 waggons. Bought
2 pair of oxen for next Company
the landing.
arrived from
each time.
from
o Ill
Cows.
from
the several Companies for whom
they ware purchased.
3 ms west of
over took my own waggon
they ware holding a meeting the
object of which was to lighten
their loads. I spoke some
time on the subject when
thare was several waggon
loads of Boxes and trumpery
throwed away. went to
farmington and Back
Co
m went to
thence to
oxen. Stoped over night at
to take 22 waggons that ware then
readey and start soon as posable
got 95 head of of oxen and returned
to Keokuk.
while yokeing an ox kicked me
on the knee and lamed me
for several days. moved off
10 ms and Camped in good
order
by placings Captains over each
ten thare being 8 tens. about
7 o.clock A.M. I was arrested by a
sheriff from Keokuk on a charge
of larceny. thare had been
drove in Camp a yoke of
Cattle. belonging. to a Citizen
of Keokuk. and not known to
aney one of us. I was taken
before Square Stotts. I called,
for an ajournment until 2 P.M.
the next day. which was granted
me by my depositing $160.
Cash as a Ransom for my appearance
manner handled the case.
mean sarcastict manner asserted
that it was a mormon custom &c &c.
after a trial of about 4 hours I
was discharged . I proved that
I knew nothing about the oxen
they ware evedently drove in
with ours intentionly the night
preveous. and we supposed they
ware ours. and thought to make
us trouble by so doing the Justice
seemed to be an honourable
man.
moved them on to
and Branded all of our Cattle
with the letter H which ware not
done before
waggon tounge near
crossed the
Bridge and Camped 20 ms to day
and my Horse attacked on a
Contrast of
Shoes. I had ether to wait and
Stand trial or fulfill his
contract I chose the latter paid
$24.95/100 and took the shoes.
moved our camp 4 ms lost 2
Cows and found a nother lost
by one of the forward Companies
2 ms west of
sively hot.
Cows of
for taking them up. I soon found
they ware so wild I could not
drive them. I then traded them
for 2 that we could drive
took them to Camp
I called the camp to geather
and layed before them the
position they ware them in
The lateness of the season the
weakness of the teams. the destination
with heavey loads I then asked
them to lighten the loads by
dispensing with their heavey
Boxes jugs, Jars, trumping &c
saying to them it would be
mutch better to do it then than
to halt them Hundreds of miles
wear out the teams git belated
in crossing the mountains over
taken with snow and have to wallow
through it and lighten up. then
they went to work cheerfully and
piled out a bout a tun and
A Half
40$
made 21 ms to day
4 men back for them. removed.
for neglect of duty and added
his men
from to Adwood
arrived and we completd the
organisation of the Company
by ellecting
captain of fifty and my self
president of the Same
Started at 12 noon and made
8 ms. men arrived with the Cows.
ms to day
at
ms to day
by the secretary,
after noon and camped on the public square
took the cattle to the Church yard.
to
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