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Aug 26, 1847

Journal Entry

August 26, 1847 ~ Thursday

26th The pioneer camp with a large number of the Battalion
Harnessed up our horses this morning & bid farewell to our
frinds who was to tarry I put A pair of mules on my carriage
& Brother Stillman drove them I rode on Hors back I went
through the corn & Potatoe fields which which has been
planted one month this day the corn was about tosseling
out the nearly one foot high the Buckwheat looked well
we drove to a spring 15 miles from camp & spent the
night I drove Broak my whippletree & had to make a new
one It was exceding dusty 15 miles

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
The morning the Pioneer Camp with a large number of the Battalion harnessed up our horses and bade farewell to our friends who were to tarry I put a pair of mules ion my carriage and brother Stillman drove them and I rode on horse back On the 4th day of our journey we were met by our messengers E. T. Benson and companions who had been on to meet the camp of Saints bound for the Valley of the Great Salt Lake They were truly welcome messengers for our anxiety to hear from our families had been great. The coming ^camp^ numbered nearly 600 waggons and were divided into 9 companies. I received three letters from Mrs Woodruff and one from A. O. Smoot. My father was coming along but Mother Woodruff had gone back to Iowa to live with my sister Eunice and her husband.

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Aug 26, 1847