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May 6, 1850

Journal Entry

May 06, 1850 ~ Monday

6th We stoped about 2 Hours at Bloomfield & Brother Branch
went to the grave yard with two or three other Brethren had a
grave dug & buryed his child I obtained A paper Here which
gave an account of the barren state of the plaines No
grass & oxen could not live some were turning back

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Autobiography 1883 Tullidge's Quarterly Magazine Notes 2
On the we stoped about 2 hours at Bloomfield and brother Branch went to the grave yard and buried his child that had died of the worm fever News met us on our way up the river that many were coming back from the Plains and selling out their teams and going home and so the price of oxen was falling. They had made a rush to the mines before any grass had grown to sustain their oxen. We started for St Joseph's on the

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May 6, 1850