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Sarah or Sally Ada Adair

Female 1815 - 1852  (36 years)


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  • Name Sarah or Sally Ada Adair 
    Born 27 Dec 1815  , , Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 5 Jul 1852  near Loup River Ford, Platte, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 5 Jul 1852  near Loup River on the Mormon Pioneer Trail, Platte, Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I1891  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Thomas Adair,   b. 25/25 Oct 1771/1777, , Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1858, , , Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Mother Rebecca Brown,   b. 3 Nov 1784, , Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 20 Dec 1846, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married Abt 1803  of Laurens, South Carolina, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F883  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family William Mangum,   b. 25 Dec 1811, , Maury, Tennessee, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Feb 1888, Circleville, Piute, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 76 years) 
    Married Abt 1833  of, Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Armelia Caroline Mangum,   b. 21 Mar 1834, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Dec 1916, Garland, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 82 years)
     2. Thomas Jefferson Mangum,   b. 8 Dec 1835, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1839, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 3 years)
     3. Sarah Frances Mangum,   b. 11 Sep 1838, , Pickens, Alabama, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Oct 1889, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     4. Cyrus Franklin Mangum,   b. 29 Sep 1840, , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1896, Corinne or Trinidad, Box Elder, Utah, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years)
     5. William Young Mangum,   b. 5 Oct 1845, , Itawamba, Mississippi, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1847, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     6. Marinda Elizabeth Mangum,   b. 7 Oct 1850, Mount Pisgah, Union, Iowa, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jun 1852, Mormon Pioneer Trail, , Nebraska, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F374  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. From Don and Carolyn Smith from one of three part writings of Samuel Newton Adair. [When asked who has the original of this, Carolyn referred me to Becky Hamblin [bhamblin79@hotmail.com] to try to locate the original of this; Becky in turn believes Collins Chapman in Mesa may have it since Collins' mother is the granddaughter who hand wrote it for Samuel. It has not yet been located by Becky. The following is one of the three parts [see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full quotation]: "Luna, New Mexico, October 7, 1919. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know about my mother's folks. My grandfather's name was John Mangum and he married Rebecca Noles, so my grandmother's name was Rebecca Mangrum, my grandfather Mangum was a revolutionary soldier with General Morgan (one of his minute men.) He was taken prisoner with a lot of other men by the British soldiers and they set them on a log and split their heads open, all but my grandfather's and he had some kind of varmint skin cap on and that and the skull stopped the force of the sword and it glanced off and cut his ear nearly off and they turned him lose. He married after the war was over as stated above. Their children are: Cyrus Mangrum, Joseph Mangrum, John Mangrum, William Mangrum and James Mangrum. The daughters' names were: Jeney Mangrum, Gemima Mangrum, Rebecca Mangrum, and Lucinda Mangum. They were all my uncles and aunts. Joseph Mangrum married Emiline Hanner, William married Aunt Sally Adair, John married Aunt Mary Ann Adair, James Mangrum married Jane Clark, my father's niece. I don't know who uncle Cyrus Mangum married. Jeney Mangrum married George Crawford, Gemima Mangrum married Samuel Jefferson Adair, my father. Rebecca Mangrum married Joseph Adair, my father's cousin. Lucinda Mangrum married James Richey, my father's nephew." [I have seen both the names Sally and Sarah used in various entries of this individual on family history websites.]

      2. From Don and Carolyn Smith, one part of three writings of Samuel Newton Adair. [As to source, Carolyn referred me to Becky Hamblin [bhamblin79@hotmail.com] to try to locate the original of this; Becky in turn believes Collins Chapman in Mesa may have it since Collins' mother is the granddaughter who hand wrote it for Samuel]: "Luna, New Mexico, January 22, 1920. I, Samuel Newton Adair, will write what I know about my father's folks. My grandfather on father's side was named Thomas Adair. He married Rebecca Brown. He lived at Lawrence County, South Carolina in 1806. My father was the oldest son of Samuel Jefferson Adair. Thomas Adair was the next oldest son. George Adair was next oldest son. John Wesley Adair was the youngest son and went with the Mormon Battalion in 1846. The girls names were Eliza Adair Price, Sally Adair Mangum, died on the plains in 1852. Mary Ann Adair Mangum married John Mangum."

      3. Censuses:
      1830 US: Pickens Co., Alabama, pages 111-112. The first three related families are all on the same page, the next four related families are on the next page, and James Adair (with son Joseph) is on p. 129:
      Thos. Peeks, males 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
      John Mangum, males 5-10:1; 10-15:2; 15-20:1; 60-70:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 30-40:1.
      Cyrus Mangum, males 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 15-20:1.
      Saml. Carson, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1; 80-90:1.
      Saml. Adair, males 20-30:1; females 20-30:1.
      Thos. Adair, males 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 10-15:1; 40-50:1.
      Daniel Clark (next door), males 0-5:1; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 20-30:1.
      James Adair, males 0-5:2; 15-20:1; 20-30:2 (Joseph b. 1806); 60-70:1; females 15-20:1; 20-30:2; 60-7-:1; no slaves.

      1840 US: Northern District, Itawamba Co., Mississippi, related families from full survey of county census:
      P. 136a: Samuel Adair, males 0-5:2; 5-10:2; 30-40:1; females 0-5:1; 30-40:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 144a: John Mangum, males 15-20:1; 70-80:1; females 10-15:1; 15-20:1; 50-60:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 150a: Joseph Adair, males 30-40:1; females 20-30:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 156a: Thomas Adair, males 20-30: 1; females 0-5: 1; 15-20:1. No slaves listed.
      P. 157a: William Mangum, Jr., males 5-10:1; 20-30:1; females 0-5:1; 5-10:1; 20-30:1. No slaves listed.

      1850 US: Dist. 21, Pottawattamie, Iowa, p. 137b, dwelling and family 1166, neighbor with John Price:
      William Mangum, 39, AL.
      Sarah, 33, AL.
      Caroline, 15, AL.
      Sarah, 12, AL.
      Cyrus, 10, AL.

      1851 Iowa State: Pottawattamie County. FHL film 1022203. The entire state was counted but only Pottawattamie listed everyone by name in the household and their ages; other counties only listed the head of the household and a numerical count without names of the various ages by sex in the household. No date is given when the census was taken but it was certified in Dec. 1851; however, the other counties show a Sep 1851 date which also appears more likely for Pottawattamie as well in light of ages given some children with known birthdays in October. Census return:
      Mangum: William 39, Sarah 36, Amelia C. 16, Sarah F. 12, Cyrus F. 10, Marinda 0. [Note next door neighbors are the Thomas/Mary Adair and John/Mary A. Mangum families. The Samuel Adair {with Samuel's daughter John/Permelia Holden family next door to him} is also listed but half the census away in a different part of the county. No other Adairs, Mangums, nor any Richeys listed in census.]

      4. The following is a small excerpt of a larger listing (see Samuel Newton Adair's notes for full transcription), which was received in digital form from Don and Caroline Smith, 2003. Regardless of the title - "Family Records of Samuel Newton Adair" - I am not sure if this is really a transcript of records kept by Samuel Newton Adair or not. Some death dates given for some of the individuals are after the date Samuel Newton Adair himself died. I spoke in person with Collins Chapman of Mesa, Arizona, in Feb. of 2006. He did not recognize it. Collins' family is the source of most of the biographical information on Samuel and Collin's mother was responsible for the autobiography of Samuel Newton Adair who dictated it to her. The following came to me as an addendum to a typed copy of that autobiography; however, I have now seen a portion of the original handwritten dictation and find no such attachment. The following therefore has no documented source that I can find thus far and should be used with caution:
      [A.] "Father: Thomas Adair; Mother: Rebeca Brown; Children:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair
      Fairby Adair
      Margaret Adair
      Eliza Adair
      Sally Adair
      Thomas Adair
      George Washington Adair
      Mary Ann Adair
      John Wesley Adair
      Laney Adair"
      [B.] "Thomas Adair – Married Rebeca Brown:
      Samuel Jefferson Adair - Born at Lawrence Co., South Carolina, March 28, 1806. Baptized by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 27, 1845. Confirmed by Elder John Dowdle, Nov. 30, 1845. Ordained an Elder by Daniel Thomas, a High Priest by John Young in 1855. Married Jamima Mangum. Filled a mission to Southern Utah in 1857. Migrated Mississippi to Nauvoo, Illinois on Jan. 10, 1846. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona, July 6, 1889.
      Fairby Adair - married Daniel Clark
      Margaret Adair - married William Richey
      Eliza Adair - married John Price
      Sally Adair - married William Mangum. Died of cholera on the Plains in 1852.
      Thomas Adair - married Fanny Rogers. Died at Showlow, Navajo County, Arizona.
      George Washington Adair - married Miriam Billingsley. Died at Orderville, Utah.
      Mary Ann Adair - born at Pickens co., Alabama, July 5, 1824. Baptized by James Richey, 1844. Confirmed by Daniel Thomas in 1844. Married John Mangum. Endowed at Endowment House, Salt Lake City. Died of asthma at Pahreah, Utah.
      John Wesley Adair - born in 1820. Died at Nutrioso, Apache County, Arizona. Was a member of the Mormon Battalion.
      Laney Adair - married John Winn."

      BIOGRAPHY:
      1. From Pioneer Heritage Library in the LDS Family History Suite (book "Our Pioneer Heritage," v. 16, p. 434): "Sarah Ada Adair Mangum, dau. of Thomas Jefferson Adair, was born Dec. 27, 1816, in Gibson County, Tennessee. She was married to William Mangum about 1843 [incorrect; should be 1834 estimating from order of children's births]. Her family, with the exception of her father, joined the LDS Church and soon were making their way west. Sarah and her family suffered from exposure and deprivation during the persecutions in Nauvoo and were forced to leave unprepared which hardship took its toll in health. From Winter Quarters, Iowa, Sarah and William traveled as far as Loop Fork along the Platte River. Sarah was still ill and her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, July 3, 1852. Having nothing to spare in which to bury her, William pulled the bark from trees in which he tenderly wrapped her and buried her in an unmarked grave beside the trail. - Ina C. Iverson"

      2. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "William Mangum was born December 25, 1811 in Maury County, Tennessee, the son of John Mangum and Rebecca Canida Knowles. He grew to manhood in Alabama and married Sarah Ada Adair (the exact date of this marriage is not known). Their first Child, Armelia Caroline was born March 21, 1834 in Pickens County, Alabama. On January 15, 1846 William left Itawamba County, Mississippi with his family for Nauvoo, Illinois, arriving there March 20, 1846. He was here for a week and then crossed the Missouri River and traveled west to Mt. Pisgah, Union County, Iowa where they stayed for four and one half years. From here they moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa where they remained the following winter and then moved on to a settlement on the Bongo River which was a stopping off place for the Westward Emigrants. At Loop Fork on the Platte River, Sarah took sick on the 3rd of July 1852 and died the following day. She was buried by nine o'clock in the bark of a large tree because they had no coffin. One strip was over her and one under. Both ends were joined and she was buried near the bank of the river. The cause of her death was Cholera... Sarah Ada Adair, first wife of William Mangum, was born Dec. 27, 1815. She was the dau. of Thomas Adair and Rebecca Brown, born at Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Sarah and William's first Child, Armelia, was born March 21, 1834 at Pickens Co., Alabama. She was the mother of six children before they took their family and moved to Nauvoo, Illinois to be with the main body of the Mormon Church. Sarah, William and their family stayed one week in Nauvoo and then crossed the Mississippi River and traveled west to Mt. Pisgah, Union Co., Iowa, where they stopped for one month before continuing on the Council Bluffs, where they stayed for four and one half years. While at Mt. Pisgah their son, William Young Mangum died and was buried. In the spring of 1852 they buried their daughter Marinda, who had died with the cholera at the age of one year and eight months. Fifteen days later as they traveled west, they buried Sarah. She died on July 3, 1852 and was buried July 4 with no coffin. A strip of bark from a large tree was placed under her and another over her. She died in the night and was buried by nine the next morning, or the morning or the fourth. The following is a poem written by her daughter, Armelia Caroline:

      How sad is my heart
      When I think of the anguish
      That filled my young breast
      On that sorrowful day!
      And to see my poor father,
      Whose soul seemed to languish,
      To droop with despair,
      As our camp moved away.

      From the grave of my mother
      Near the banks of the river,
      Where naught but the wild beasts
      Could visit her tomb;
      While her husband and Children,
      Dear friends and relations
      Must travel far Westward
      To find them a home.

      But the Holy Ghost whispers
      Away with that sorrow
      And hopefully await the Millennial Day,
      When all eyes be dry in that hopeful tomorrow
      Where spirit meet spirit in perfect array.

      At that sweet resurrection
      With Lord's of perfection
      You will meet with your mother's kindred soul.
      Oh how joyful the greeting,
      When friends meet with friends
      On that beautiful shore.

      And now my dear father
      Has finished his mission
      Assigned him on earth,
      And has gone home to rest;
      To meet and to mingle
      With his loved wife and Children
      And others there dwelling
      In the land of the blessed.

      On that sweet resurrection
      In robes of perfection,
      I shall meet with my parents and kindred once more.
      Oh! How joyful the greeting,
      Will be at that meeting;
      When friends meet with friends
      On that beautiful shore."

      3. The book "John Mangum, American Revolutionary War Soldier and Descendants," 1986, pp.32-33, by Delta Ivie Mangum Hale: "Diary of Armelia C. Bigler a she wrote it: 'January 1, 1885. I (Armelia Caroline Mangum Bigler] was born March 21, 1834 at Pickens County, Alabama. Moved from there with my parents (Sarah and William Mangum) at the age of seven to the state of Mississippi, Itawamba County and in December 1845 was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by a Brother George Steward, confirmed by him and a Brother Gibbs. Started to Nauvoo about the 15th of January 1846 and arrived there about the 20th of March the same year. Stayed there one week and crossed the Mississippi River and traveled west. Sometimes camping one month at a place. Arrived at Mt. Pisgah (a settlement of Saints) the day the Father Huntington was buried, Sister Zina Young's father, and my baby brother was buried close to him in a few days. Stayed there four years and a half and moved to Council Bluffs. Stayed there one winter and moved to a settlement on the Bongo River. Stayed there one winter; became acquainted with my husband, Jacob G. Bigler. Was sealed to him on February 12, 1852 by Ezra T. Benson. I was eighteen years old the next month. In June of the same year, crossed the Missouri River and started across the plains for Salt Lake City. On the 28th of June, my youngest sister died with cholera - age one year and eight months; there we left her lonely little grave. We traveled 15 days and buried my mother without a coffin. So many of the pioneers died, there was no coffin for her so they stripped the bark from a large tree. They dressed her in the best they had and with one strip of bark under her and one over, they joined both ends and dug a deep grave to protect her body from the wolves and buried her. She also died with cholera, was taken sick at night and was buried before nine o'clock the next morning. She left two children besides myself, one sister thirteen and a brother eleven years old. We arrived in Salt Lake City on September 23, 1852."

      4. LDS Church History Department, Iowa Branch Index, 1839-1859, Shirts Branch (except as noted), 1848-1851:
      Rebecca F. Mangum, dau. of John.
      Sarah Mangum, wife of Wm.
      Sarah F. Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Siras Mangum, son of Wm.
      William Mangum, bro. of John.
      Caroline Mangum, dau. of Wm.
      Elmina D. J. Mangum (blessed).
      Elmina Drucila (Buoyo Branch, 1850) with the Michel Stephens family.
      Emaline Mangum, ?wife of Joseph Mangum.
      John Mangum.
      Mary Ann Mangum.
      Murthey L. Mangum (possibly Martha Elizabeth, 4th child of John)

      BIRTH:
      1. Online Ordinance Index FHL film 446343, p. 302, Ord. 5103. Alt. film with same page and ord. numbers is 170542. Relative/proxy was Rebecca Mangum Adair 20 Sep 1877. Notes birth as 27 Oct 1815 in Tennessee with death as 3 Jul 1852. Enid Willardson gives date of 27 Dec 1815 at Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama. Ordinance Index also gives date of 27 Dec 1815 in Tennessee. In the 1880 census, two children say their mother was born in Tennessee and one says Alabama. Death information with the Benjamin Gardner journal as noted below records death on the trail on 5 Jul 1852 with age being 36 years, 11 months, and 27 days - this would put birth 9 Jul 1815.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Date of first child born was Armelia Carline Mangum (21 Mar 1834-15 Dec 1916).

      DEATH:
      1. East of present day Florence, Douglas, Nebraska along the Mormon Pioneer Trail. Enid Willardson gives date of 3 Jul 1852; death of Cholera, Loup Fork on Platte River, Nebraska.

      2. Online Ordinance Index FHL film 446343, p. 302, Ord. 5103. Alt. film with same page and ord. numbers is 170542. Relative/proxy was Rebecca Mangum Adair 20 Sep 1877. Notes birth as 27 Oct 1815 in Tennessee with death as 3 Jul 1852.

      3. Mentioned in daughter's biography in the book "Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude," Daughters of Utah Pioneers, p. 3338, see Sarah for full quote: "Sarah Frances Mangum Richey Cazier White was born 11 Sep 1838 in Pickins County, Alabama, to William Mangum and Sarah Ada Adair... pioneer of 1852 Wagon Train... Sarah Francis was born at Pickins County, Alabama, 1838, into a family of six children. She was eight when her parents arrived in Nauvoo on Jan. 15, 1846. They arrived to find they could not stay. Persecution was forcing every one out of Illinois and Missouri and by weeks end they were following the Saints across the Mississippi River traveling West. They stopped for one month at Mt. Pisgah, and while there Sarah Francis' one year old brother [William Young] died, and was buried in the Mt. Pisgah burial grounds. The family continued to Council Bluff and stayed four and one half years, another short stay at the Bongo River where Marinda Elizabeth, a one year eight month sister died of cholera and a few days later, at Loup Fork, Sarah's mother became so ill from the disease that her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, on July 3rd, 1852. Sarah Francis was near her fourteenth birthday when they reached the Salt Lake Valley. The family spent the winter in Brigham City and in the Spring of 1853, William married Delight Potter, then the Mangums moved to Payson for four years. Sarah, for a while lived with her aunt Lucinda Richey, and for three months was James Richey's wife also. She did not like that marriage, got a divorce and went, with her brother Cy Mangum, to Nephi..."

      4. From the book "Brigham Young, American Moses," by Leonard Arrington, p. 135, in describing Young's 1847 pioneer trek from Winter Quarters remarks on Loup Fork which they reached about 12 days after starting. Heber Kimball remarks: "...the Loup Fork of the Plate to be navigated, a tributary three to four feet deep and very rapid and about 300 yards straight across. When I jumped into the river I was astonished at the strength of the current, for it was all I could do to stand on my feet... We saw that it was wearing the men and teams down and they could not long endure it. Pres. Young gave orders that no more wagons should cross tonight... The wagons make a noise when crossing the quick sands, as though they were rolling over a very rough stone pavement and it seems as though they would shake to pieces."

      5. From Karl Whittington: "Our Pioneer Heritage, Vol. 16: Sarah Ada Adair Mangum, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Adair, was born December 27, 1816, in Gibson County, Tennessee. She was married to William Mangum about 1843. Her family, with the exception of her father, joined the L.D.S. Church and soon were making their way west. Sarah and her family suffered from exposure and deprivation during the persecutions in Nauvoo and were forced to leave unprepared, which hardship took its toll in health. From Winter Quarters, Iowa, Sarah and William traveled as far as Loop Fork along the Platte River. Sarah was still ill and her family could only watch helplessly as her life slipped away, July 3, 1852. Having nothing to spare in which to bury her, William pulled the bark from trees in which he tenderly wrapped her and buried her in an unmarked grave beside the trail. -Ina C. Iverson"

      6. Death from the following journal appears to be 5 Jul 1852 and not 3 Jul 1852 as reported by most traditional reports as noted above. Www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneercompanysearch indicates the following individuals were part of the William West Lane Company of 1852 in travelling the Mormon Pioneer Overland Trail to Salt Lake City. Departure was 24 June 1852 with arrival in Salt Lake Valley 24 Sep. 1852. Approximately fifteen families who had lived since spring 1851 at a welfare "poor farm" forty miles north of Kanesville, Iowa, called Lanesborough, were organized into this company under the leadership of their bishop, William West Lane. Those included in the company of John Mangum's family:
      John Mangum (35)
      Mary Ann Adair Mangum (29)
      William Perry Mangum (10)
      Rebecca Francis Mangum (8)
      Joseph Eslem Mangum (1)
      John Wesley Mangum (Infant)
      Sariah Mangum (36). Died 5 Jul 1852 enroute. [Sarah or Sally Adair - sister-in-law to John, married to his brother William.]
      A. The following is a trail excerpt of this company. The source of Trail Excerpt: Clark, Davis, Autobiography, in Erold Clark Wiscombe, The Descendants of Maria Burr, John Clark and William West Lane, [1975], 12-14. Read Trail Excerpt: In the early spring of 1852, Apostles Orson Hyde and Ezra T. Benson came to the Grove and counselled all to move to the Salt Lake Valley. Bishop Lane acted accordingly and on the 24th of June 1852 the Clark-Lane families crossed the Missouri River to head west.
      Bishop Lane was in charge of the 51st Company with Jacob Bigler and Lorenzo Johnson as counselors. The group traveled only a few days when cholera broke out in camp and several died. Bishop Lane was stricken ill and the camp halted at Look [Loup] Fork for two days to allow him to recover. He felt somewhat better, so the company moved on. Three days later Davis' mother, Maria Lane, became ill with the cholera. She became sick about 9 o'clock in the morning after the company had started. They had to keep moving to reach the next water spot but the wearisome journey proved too much for her in this condition and she passed away at 4 p.m. that afternoon, 5 July 1852. This was on Davis' 20th birthday. The family peeled the bark off from a cottonwood tree to make a coffin for her. She was buried along the trail three days journey west of Loop [Loup] Fork.
      For the second time Bishop Lane had become a widower. The next day the wagon train moved on, but Bishop Lane's condition grew worse. On the 8th of July, just three days after the death of his wife, he too died. The train took some good boxes and patched them together to make a coffin for him. Twelve others, besides Bishop Lane and his wife, died of the cholera. Two other men were shot by Indians.
      Davis now found himself the foster father of a younger sister and brother, Flora and Enoch; four step sisters (Children of Bishop Lane by his first wife); and five little half sisters, the eldest 10 years and the youngest barely three years old. A family of 12 at the age of 20, and not even a wife to assist him. The four step sisters were cared for by others, but he continued to bring the five half sisters on to Utah.
      One morning after turning the cattle loose to graze, the Indians slipped down a ravine, and between the stock and camp and stampeded the herd, and fired at the guard. They ran to camp. We had just fourteen horses in camp that had not been turned out. We armed ourselves and mounted as quickly as possible, by this time we could see nothing but a cloud of dust in the distance. We pursued them and overtook them some eight or ten miles away. Some of the weaker stock had given out and laid down.
      We attacked the Indians and fired on them, and they on us; we chased them away and started back with the cattle. We had to leave some on the way that gave out. No water, and the day was very hot. We got back to camp late; there was considerable anxiety in camp till we got back.
      In a few more days we reached game country, plenty of antelope and buffalo. Often we would see hundreds in sight. The people in camp wanted some meat, and I had a good horse, so five men went out and chased buffalo several hours and returned to camp without any. I went out after they returned and killed one bull. They took out several yoke of oxen and dragged the buffalo into camp. After that I kept the company well supplied while passing through the country. Buffalo were now starting to get scarce. I saw one lone bull a mile away. I rode after it and killed it on the bank of a small stream called Le Bout [La Bonte]. I dismounted to take out the tongue, as I usually did, as it was considered a dainty. While in the act, I heard a whoop, and looking up, I saw four Indians on ponys coming lively. I mounted without fear, thinking I could out run them, looking back I saw that I was gaining on them, then I saw some fifteen or twenty more Indians had ridden around the hill and got in front of me. The river was east of me some two or three hundred yards. I made a dash for it, thinking to plunge in, but when I got there I dared not, the banks were too high and boulders below, and the current was too swift. In a moment or two I was surrounded. They were armed with bows and arrows, spears and tomahawks. They drew their weapons and made motions as if they were going to chop me to pieces. I noticed they pulled the arrows to head, would let the strings fly and hold on to the arrow. I could not understand a word of their lingo.
      They took me five or six miles to their camp on the bank of a creek. Their squaws were drying and smoking buffalo meat, spread on scaffolds made of willows. Some of the boys and squaws unsaddled our horses and took them away. The Indians pulled me along with them into a big tent. Some squaws brought in some kettles of boiled buffalo meat. They went to eating and motioned for me to eat also. I did not feel very hungry just then. Soon after, a person came in, I did not know whether he was an Indian or White man. He looked a bit like both. He had on a buckskin coat fringed and beaded, pants made of scotch plaid, a hat on his head and moccasins on his feet.
      He asked me in English how I came to be there. I told him the circumstances. He said he was part French and lived with the Indians. They were Arapahoes out on a buffalo hunt. I asked him what they were going to do with me, but he said he did not know. He did not seem to be very communicative. He asked me if there was any whiskey or brandy in our train. It happened that we had supplied ourselves with a ten gallon keg of brandy and a ten gallon keg of whisk[e]y at Kanesville before starting. An idea struck me that I might make some of that useful in getting back to camp. I told him we had some, but it was locked in a big box in the wagon I drove and slept in. I gave him to understand if he would go with me to camp, I would let him have some. In several hours three ponies and my horse were saddled and bridled and my gun was given to me. They told me to get on and go the [sic] our camp. He mounted one pony and two Indians on the other two. We reached our camp just as it was getting dark. The folks in the camp were getting quite anxious about me. I gave them some whiskey to drink and gave the Frenchman a bottle to take away.
      The next morning the teams were all hitched up just ready to pull out, when some forty or fifty Indians rode up in war paint and armed. Mr. Frenchman came inside of the circle of wagons and acted as the interpreter. The Indians wanted salt, sugar, blankets, shirts, and whiskey. They demanded a certain amount of each for passing through their country. The Indians were all mounted. They were spread in a circle a few yards outside the circle of wagons. They streached over half way around the wagons. The Frenchman stood just at the end of the wagon tongue. I stood on the front rounds of the wagon where I could reach my gun.
      Some of the men in camp did not want to comply with their demands. There was some back talk. The Indians commenced going through warlike maneuvers, and some of them had done the same thing they did to me before. Some of the men were getting nervous and the women quite frightened. I too got nervous, grabbed my gun, cocked it drawn down on the Frenchman. I told him if he moved I would shoot him. He saw that I had the drop on him. I told him he could not move from where he was at until the Indians left. Some of the men remonstrated with me for my foolhardiness, but by this time we were all excited. I had gone so far now that I dared not retract. The Frenchman jabbered with the Indians a little while, then they rode off about two hundred yards and bunched up. I then let the Frenchman go.
      The Indians disappeared over the hill. We did not move camp for some time. We finally pulled out with great caution, with every man's gun ready. The guard was doubled for several nights for fear of an attack by the Indians. Several nights some Indians crept close to camp to steal horses. The horses snorted, one of the guards walked toward the Indians, and got shot by them. He died after reaching the valley. Nothing more of note occurred and we reached Salt Lake City on the 24th day of Sept. 1852."
      B. "Trail excerpt with deaths of Elizabeth and Sariah Mangum noted. Source of Trail Excerpt: Gardner, Benjamin, Notebook 1851-1862. Excerpt: "June the 13th 1852 the North Pigeon Company was organized under the direction of E T Benson[,] Benjamin Gardner was appointed Captain of the Company it being the tenth fifty[;] Jude Allen was appointed Capted [Captain] of the guard and Joseph Nichlas [Nicholas] assistant[.] Beverly C Boren was apointed Clerk[.] Crost Misourie [Missouri] river on the 21[st] of June[.] by request of Elder Benson A P Chesley remained there also on the 29 Lorenzo Jo[h]nson[,] JC Hall[,] Agrip[p]a Coopper [Cooper] and Br Read returned to the river order of E T Benson as guard[.] they was furnished with fore [four] horses[,] guns[,] provision June 30 Brother Larson died[.] Emaly [Emily] Marinda Jo[h]nson died the 29[th] aged 2 years[,] 9 months and Elizabeth Marrinda Mangum died on the 30th aged 1 year[,] & 9 mo[,] 8 9 day[s] and Sariah Mangum on the 5th of July aged 36 y[,] 11 mon[,] 27 days[;] on the 5th Mariah Lane aged 46 years [;] on the 8th William Lane aged 55 years [;] on the 11th Alfred Hunt 5 years[,] 4 m[,] 11 days[;] on the 12 LouCrecia [Lucretia] Jane Boren aged 1 year 10 months[,] 2 days[.] The only daughter of B C and M.J. Boren and on William Francis Beal on the 12th aged 2 years[,] 5 months[,] 3 days and on the 16 Hosea Berian Boren aged 12 years[,] 7 mon[,] 11 days and on the 19th Catharine Wilson aged 2 years[,] 7 m[,] 16 days[,] and on the 29th Jude Allen Juneyer [Junior] aged 1 year[,] 1 month[,] 4 days on the 7th of July Lorenzo Jo[h]nson and J C Hall returned to the Company and on the [illegible] night of the 24th of July A P Chesley and Agrippa Coopper [Cooper] returned in Company with E T Benson[,] John Taylor[,] Erastus Snow and [blank space] Richards and others and on the 25th A meeting was held and much instruction given after which E.T. Benson consider[ed] it wisdom to divide the Company[.] Lorenzo Jo[h]nson was apointed to take Charge of the 2th [2nd] division subject to the orders of Cpt g[u]ard then on the 8th of August the first and 2th [2nd] division encamped near to geather[.] the Captains of the tens were Cald in Council with regard to Crossing on the south side of the river[.] after Consulting a few minutes it was motioned by B.C. Boren and Second[ed] by Allen Russel[l] that they we remained on the north side of the river[.] the vote were thence Caled and susttained unianimos [unanimous]"

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. Pedigree chart by Enid Willardson (deceased).

      2. Per Paul Price's website <http://www.softcom.net/users/paulandsteph/tjadair/descendants. html> 3 Jan 2002.