The Willie Company reached Florence, a distance of 277 miles, on 11 August 1856. They worked on their carts to make them more travel worthy. Levi Savage told the leaders they could not pass the mountains this late in the year without sickness and death. He was voted down. On 19 August 1856, the company left Florence. The teams could not haul enough flour to last the journey, so they placed 98 pounds of flour on each cart. Flour rations were set at a pound per day for each person, fresh beef occasionally, and each hundred had 3 or 4 milk cows. The carts were constantly breaking down causing delays to repair them. As they reached Wood River (a few miles above Grand Island, Nebraska) the whole country was alive with buffalo. One evening they stampeded and many of their cattle ran, too. The men tried for three days to find them. Thirty head were never recovered. They reached Fort Laramie about the 1st or 2nd of September. The provisions which they expected were not there. So to try to provide food for a longer period it was resolved to reduce their allowance. When they reached Independence Rock, the night of 17 September, they had their first frost and it was very severe. When they arrived at the upper crossing of the Platte River, they had to reduce their rations again, to 10 1/2 ounces for men, 9 ounces for women, 6 oUnces for children, and 3 ounces for babies. The day the storm hit they had some dry bread and a little dried apples, some rice and a little sugar. They decided that Captain Willie should take another rider with him and go west and see if they could find relief. John's sister said they boiled raw-hide to make soup; boiled willows and thickened it for gravy, they made holes in the ground too catch water for use. She said, "The storms increased and the roads became terrible. Father and my oldest brother stopped to help bury a member of our company. Mother waited with them as she was helping to draw the cart with the heaviest load. The children went on ahead with our load until we reached a river, which we could not ford. It was snowing and blowing and father's strength gave out." In the Church History Sunday School Lesson for November 8, 1931, it tells of John Chislett, who was appointed to help the rear of the company along As he was helping the tired people pull their handcarts, he came upon..........."an old gentleman and his family sitting by the roadside. The old gentleman, whose name was James, was unable to pull his handcart any farther. John Chislett could not place him in the wagon because it was already too crowded. "This elderly gentleman had a shot-gun with which he had provided food for his family on many occasions. John Chislett took the gun from the handcart, tied a small bundle of necessities on the end of it, gave it to the old gentleman, and started him on his way, accompanied by his twelve year old boy. The old gentleman's wife and two daughters who were older than the boy took hold of the handcart and pulled it along. soon all reached the summit of the hill." After journeying on for several hours, they overtook two more wagons loaded with sick, and several handcarts being pulled by tired-out immigrants. When they tried to cross a stream, one of the oxen broke through the ice and refused to go any further. John Chislett was sent on foot to find the main company and secure aid. "Soon he came upon the old gentleman James and his little boy sitting by the roadside. The old man was worn out. John Chislett got him to his feet and helped him along a short distance. Realizing that he had to hurry on to get help for his struggling party, he took the quilt which he had wrapped around him, and rolling the old gentleman up in it, left him by the roadside. He told the little boy to walk up and down by his father and be sure not to sit down or he would freeze to death." After getting help....."The brethren found the old gentleman James as he lay sleeping wrapped in the quilt, and his little boy walking up and down, faithfully keeping watch over him. Father James and his son were placed in the wagon and taken to camp. However the old gentleman died before morning." John's sister said her brother was badly frozen and unconscious and it took quite a while to bring him back to life. "I can see my Mother's face as she sat quietly holding the sleeping baby (John). Her eyes were so dead that I was afraid. She did not sit long, however, for my Mother was not one to cry. When it was time to move out, Mother had her children ready to leave and she put her invalid son in the cart with the baby and we joined the train. We felt that she would see us through anything. My Mother was a strong woman." said Mary Ann. "The time came when we were all too tired to move so we gathered together and huddled in our covers and close together for warmth. It was snowing and we were so tired," she continued. The relief trains arrived with food and much needed help to get fire wood and supplies. they put all of the people in wagons and took them to Salt Lake City. Mary Ann said it was hard to leave most of their belongings and carts in the snow. They were sent to them the next spring. She said they arrived in Salt Lake the 9 November 1856, and were cared for as tenderly as the saints could possible do. Bishop Johnson of Springville had sent for a family of emigrants for whom he was willing to care. They were chosen, and the next day they started for springville. Her Mother found places for her older children to work for their board, and being a very independent spirit was soon located in a poor shack, without furniture in which she kept the little children alive until spring. Jane lived in Springville a year, then she moved to Salt Lake, where she located for four years. John's early life has been described as he lived it with his family. He turned four years old while they were on the plains. He was baptized in Springville when he was five years old, with some of his sisters. The saints often renewed their covenants in this way after the ordeal of crossing the plains. John and his older brother George, had to use every resource possible to help provide for their Mother and themselves. His daughter, Isabell said he had worked in the mines and had carried freight with teams. On 12 March 1878, he married Elizabeth Salisbury Warner. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, 12 October 1878. Elizabeth was the daughter of William H. Warner and Emma Deliva Thompson. Their daughter, Emma Elizabeth James was born 1 January 1881, in Provo, Utah. John's first wife died 1 January 1881, at child birth. The baby was taken care of by John's mother, Jane and his sister Martha James Richmond when she was an infant and early childhood. When she was about 13 years of age she was adopted in the Utah County Court by her Grandfather Warner who lived in Nephi, Utah. She lived with her Mother's family until she married 11 August 1898, Fredrick William Wright. They moved to Cardston, Alberta, Canada area and raised 11 children. On 22 March 1883 John married Janet McKinlay, daughter of Robert McKinlay and Isabell Wauson. They were married in the Edowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. John's niece, the daughter of his brother George, said she could remember how happy John and Janet were. She said John was a quiet and serious man. Janet was laughing and bubbly, her big brown eyes would dance as she would laugh and joke. Janet's parents were moving to Teton, Idaho with other people pioneering the Snake River area. John helped them move and secured some property near the McKinlay's for himself and family. While they were moving John had to get out in the river to correct a problem and became badly chilled. He was running freight wagons for a living. He had to take a run to Colorado. He contracted typhoid fever and died in Colorado. He was buried 11 Aug 1887, in Glenwood Springs Cemetery. His son John William (called Will) was age 3, and his daughter Isabell was age 6 months.
Thursday, April 9, 2015
John Parley James Life History
John James was born 12 August 1852, at Pinvin, Worchester England. John's father was William James, an agricultural labourer, son of Lee James and Sarah Price. John's mother was Jane Haynes (Haines), gloveress, daughter of Celia Haynes.
John's brothers and sisters are: Sarah, born 14 or 16 August 1837; Emma, born 3 June 1839; Reuben, born 16 June 1841; Mary Ann, born 15 or 16 December 1844; Martha, born 8 June 1846; George, born 16 June 1847; Jane, born 9 September 1853.
John's family joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints in Birmingham Branch in 1850. They wanted to come to America and Utah while all the family were together. Father, William, had health problems but they thought maybe they could make the trip.
William James family sailed from Liverpool, England 4 May 1856, on the ship "Thornton". They arrived in New York Harbor, 14 June 1856.
The company traveled by rail through Albany, Buffalo, Chicago, and reached Iowa City on 26 June 1856.
On 15 July 1856, they set out for the trek. James G. Willie became the captain for the Fourth Handcart Company. The company comprised of 500 persons. They had 120 handcarts, 5 wagons, 24 oxen, 45 beef cattle and cows. The company was divided into 100 persons to a group. They were led by a sub-captain. They had 5 round tents, with 20 persons to a tent, and 20 hand carts or one to every 5 persons, one Chicago Wagon, drawn by 3 yolk of oxen to haul provisions and tents. Each person was limited to 17 pounds of clothing and bedding.
The Willie Company reached Florence, a distance of 277 miles, on 11 August 1856. They worked on their carts to make them more travel worthy. Levi Savage told the leaders they could not pass the mountains this late in the year without sickness and death. He was voted down. On 19 August 1856, the company left Florence. The teams could not haul enough flour to last the journey, so they placed 98 pounds of flour on each cart. Flour rations were set at a pound per day for each person, fresh beef occasionally, and each hundred had 3 or 4 milk cows. The carts were constantly breaking down causing delays to repair them. As they reached Wood River (a few miles above Grand Island, Nebraska) the whole country was alive with buffalo. One evening they stampeded and many of their cattle ran, too. The men tried for three days to find them. Thirty head were never recovered. They reached Fort Laramie about the 1st or 2nd of September. The provisions which they expected were not there. So to try to provide food for a longer period it was resolved to reduce their allowance. When they reached Independence Rock, the night of 17 September, they had their first frost and it was very severe. When they arrived at the upper crossing of the Platte River, they had to reduce their rations again, to 10 1/2 ounces for men, 9 ounces for women, 6 oUnces for children, and 3 ounces for babies. The day the storm hit they had some dry bread and a little dried apples, some rice and a little sugar. They decided that Captain Willie should take another rider with him and go west and see if they could find relief. John's sister said they boiled raw-hide to make soup; boiled willows and thickened it for gravy, they made holes in the ground too catch water for use. She said, "The storms increased and the roads became terrible. Father and my oldest brother stopped to help bury a member of our company. Mother waited with them as she was helping to draw the cart with the heaviest load. The children went on ahead with our load until we reached a river, which we could not ford. It was snowing and blowing and father's strength gave out." In the Church History Sunday School Lesson for November 8, 1931, it tells of John Chislett, who was appointed to help the rear of the company along As he was helping the tired people pull their handcarts, he came upon..........."an old gentleman and his family sitting by the roadside. The old gentleman, whose name was James, was unable to pull his handcart any farther. John Chislett could not place him in the wagon because it was already too crowded. "This elderly gentleman had a shot-gun with which he had provided food for his family on many occasions. John Chislett took the gun from the handcart, tied a small bundle of necessities on the end of it, gave it to the old gentleman, and started him on his way, accompanied by his twelve year old boy. The old gentleman's wife and two daughters who were older than the boy took hold of the handcart and pulled it along. soon all reached the summit of the hill." After journeying on for several hours, they overtook two more wagons loaded with sick, and several handcarts being pulled by tired-out immigrants. When they tried to cross a stream, one of the oxen broke through the ice and refused to go any further. John Chislett was sent on foot to find the main company and secure aid. "Soon he came upon the old gentleman James and his little boy sitting by the roadside. The old man was worn out. John Chislett got him to his feet and helped him along a short distance. Realizing that he had to hurry on to get help for his struggling party, he took the quilt which he had wrapped around him, and rolling the old gentleman up in it, left him by the roadside. He told the little boy to walk up and down by his father and be sure not to sit down or he would freeze to death." After getting help....."The brethren found the old gentleman James as he lay sleeping wrapped in the quilt, and his little boy walking up and down, faithfully keeping watch over him. Father James and his son were placed in the wagon and taken to camp. However the old gentleman died before morning." John's sister said her brother was badly frozen and unconscious and it took quite a while to bring him back to life. "I can see my Mother's face as she sat quietly holding the sleeping baby (John). Her eyes were so dead that I was afraid. She did not sit long, however, for my Mother was not one to cry. When it was time to move out, Mother had her children ready to leave and she put her invalid son in the cart with the baby and we joined the train. We felt that she would see us through anything. My Mother was a strong woman." said Mary Ann. "The time came when we were all too tired to move so we gathered together and huddled in our covers and close together for warmth. It was snowing and we were so tired," she continued. The relief trains arrived with food and much needed help to get fire wood and supplies. they put all of the people in wagons and took them to Salt Lake City. Mary Ann said it was hard to leave most of their belongings and carts in the snow. They were sent to them the next spring. She said they arrived in Salt Lake the 9 November 1856, and were cared for as tenderly as the saints could possible do. Bishop Johnson of Springville had sent for a family of emigrants for whom he was willing to care. They were chosen, and the next day they started for springville. Her Mother found places for her older children to work for their board, and being a very independent spirit was soon located in a poor shack, without furniture in which she kept the little children alive until spring. Jane lived in Springville a year, then she moved to Salt Lake, where she located for four years. John's early life has been described as he lived it with his family. He turned four years old while they were on the plains. He was baptized in Springville when he was five years old, with some of his sisters. The saints often renewed their covenants in this way after the ordeal of crossing the plains. John and his older brother George, had to use every resource possible to help provide for their Mother and themselves. His daughter, Isabell said he had worked in the mines and had carried freight with teams. On 12 March 1878, he married Elizabeth Salisbury Warner. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, 12 October 1878. Elizabeth was the daughter of William H. Warner and Emma Deliva Thompson. Their daughter, Emma Elizabeth James was born 1 January 1881, in Provo, Utah. John's first wife died 1 January 1881, at child birth. The baby was taken care of by John's mother, Jane and his sister Martha James Richmond when she was an infant and early childhood. When she was about 13 years of age she was adopted in the Utah County Court by her Grandfather Warner who lived in Nephi, Utah. She lived with her Mother's family until she married 11 August 1898, Fredrick William Wright. They moved to Cardston, Alberta, Canada area and raised 11 children. On 22 March 1883 John married Janet McKinlay, daughter of Robert McKinlay and Isabell Wauson. They were married in the Edowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. John's niece, the daughter of his brother George, said she could remember how happy John and Janet were. She said John was a quiet and serious man. Janet was laughing and bubbly, her big brown eyes would dance as she would laugh and joke. Janet's parents were moving to Teton, Idaho with other people pioneering the Snake River area. John helped them move and secured some property near the McKinlay's for himself and family. While they were moving John had to get out in the river to correct a problem and became badly chilled. He was running freight wagons for a living. He had to take a run to Colorado. He contracted typhoid fever and died in Colorado. He was buried 11 Aug 1887, in Glenwood Springs Cemetery. His son John William (called Will) was age 3, and his daughter Isabell was age 6 months.
The Willie Company reached Florence, a distance of 277 miles, on 11 August 1856. They worked on their carts to make them more travel worthy. Levi Savage told the leaders they could not pass the mountains this late in the year without sickness and death. He was voted down. On 19 August 1856, the company left Florence. The teams could not haul enough flour to last the journey, so they placed 98 pounds of flour on each cart. Flour rations were set at a pound per day for each person, fresh beef occasionally, and each hundred had 3 or 4 milk cows. The carts were constantly breaking down causing delays to repair them. As they reached Wood River (a few miles above Grand Island, Nebraska) the whole country was alive with buffalo. One evening they stampeded and many of their cattle ran, too. The men tried for three days to find them. Thirty head were never recovered. They reached Fort Laramie about the 1st or 2nd of September. The provisions which they expected were not there. So to try to provide food for a longer period it was resolved to reduce their allowance. When they reached Independence Rock, the night of 17 September, they had their first frost and it was very severe. When they arrived at the upper crossing of the Platte River, they had to reduce their rations again, to 10 1/2 ounces for men, 9 ounces for women, 6 oUnces for children, and 3 ounces for babies. The day the storm hit they had some dry bread and a little dried apples, some rice and a little sugar. They decided that Captain Willie should take another rider with him and go west and see if they could find relief. John's sister said they boiled raw-hide to make soup; boiled willows and thickened it for gravy, they made holes in the ground too catch water for use. She said, "The storms increased and the roads became terrible. Father and my oldest brother stopped to help bury a member of our company. Mother waited with them as she was helping to draw the cart with the heaviest load. The children went on ahead with our load until we reached a river, which we could not ford. It was snowing and blowing and father's strength gave out." In the Church History Sunday School Lesson for November 8, 1931, it tells of John Chislett, who was appointed to help the rear of the company along As he was helping the tired people pull their handcarts, he came upon..........."an old gentleman and his family sitting by the roadside. The old gentleman, whose name was James, was unable to pull his handcart any farther. John Chislett could not place him in the wagon because it was already too crowded. "This elderly gentleman had a shot-gun with which he had provided food for his family on many occasions. John Chislett took the gun from the handcart, tied a small bundle of necessities on the end of it, gave it to the old gentleman, and started him on his way, accompanied by his twelve year old boy. The old gentleman's wife and two daughters who were older than the boy took hold of the handcart and pulled it along. soon all reached the summit of the hill." After journeying on for several hours, they overtook two more wagons loaded with sick, and several handcarts being pulled by tired-out immigrants. When they tried to cross a stream, one of the oxen broke through the ice and refused to go any further. John Chislett was sent on foot to find the main company and secure aid. "Soon he came upon the old gentleman James and his little boy sitting by the roadside. The old man was worn out. John Chislett got him to his feet and helped him along a short distance. Realizing that he had to hurry on to get help for his struggling party, he took the quilt which he had wrapped around him, and rolling the old gentleman up in it, left him by the roadside. He told the little boy to walk up and down by his father and be sure not to sit down or he would freeze to death." After getting help....."The brethren found the old gentleman James as he lay sleeping wrapped in the quilt, and his little boy walking up and down, faithfully keeping watch over him. Father James and his son were placed in the wagon and taken to camp. However the old gentleman died before morning." John's sister said her brother was badly frozen and unconscious and it took quite a while to bring him back to life. "I can see my Mother's face as she sat quietly holding the sleeping baby (John). Her eyes were so dead that I was afraid. She did not sit long, however, for my Mother was not one to cry. When it was time to move out, Mother had her children ready to leave and she put her invalid son in the cart with the baby and we joined the train. We felt that she would see us through anything. My Mother was a strong woman." said Mary Ann. "The time came when we were all too tired to move so we gathered together and huddled in our covers and close together for warmth. It was snowing and we were so tired," she continued. The relief trains arrived with food and much needed help to get fire wood and supplies. they put all of the people in wagons and took them to Salt Lake City. Mary Ann said it was hard to leave most of their belongings and carts in the snow. They were sent to them the next spring. She said they arrived in Salt Lake the 9 November 1856, and were cared for as tenderly as the saints could possible do. Bishop Johnson of Springville had sent for a family of emigrants for whom he was willing to care. They were chosen, and the next day they started for springville. Her Mother found places for her older children to work for their board, and being a very independent spirit was soon located in a poor shack, without furniture in which she kept the little children alive until spring. Jane lived in Springville a year, then she moved to Salt Lake, where she located for four years. John's early life has been described as he lived it with his family. He turned four years old while they were on the plains. He was baptized in Springville when he was five years old, with some of his sisters. The saints often renewed their covenants in this way after the ordeal of crossing the plains. John and his older brother George, had to use every resource possible to help provide for their Mother and themselves. His daughter, Isabell said he had worked in the mines and had carried freight with teams. On 12 March 1878, he married Elizabeth Salisbury Warner. They were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, 12 October 1878. Elizabeth was the daughter of William H. Warner and Emma Deliva Thompson. Their daughter, Emma Elizabeth James was born 1 January 1881, in Provo, Utah. John's first wife died 1 January 1881, at child birth. The baby was taken care of by John's mother, Jane and his sister Martha James Richmond when she was an infant and early childhood. When she was about 13 years of age she was adopted in the Utah County Court by her Grandfather Warner who lived in Nephi, Utah. She lived with her Mother's family until she married 11 August 1898, Fredrick William Wright. They moved to Cardston, Alberta, Canada area and raised 11 children. On 22 March 1883 John married Janet McKinlay, daughter of Robert McKinlay and Isabell Wauson. They were married in the Edowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. John's niece, the daughter of his brother George, said she could remember how happy John and Janet were. She said John was a quiet and serious man. Janet was laughing and bubbly, her big brown eyes would dance as she would laugh and joke. Janet's parents were moving to Teton, Idaho with other people pioneering the Snake River area. John helped them move and secured some property near the McKinlay's for himself and family. While they were moving John had to get out in the river to correct a problem and became badly chilled. He was running freight wagons for a living. He had to take a run to Colorado. He contracted typhoid fever and died in Colorado. He was buried 11 Aug 1887, in Glenwood Springs Cemetery. His son John William (called Will) was age 3, and his daughter Isabell was age 6 months.
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