Saints and their biographical sketch

. . . The urge to gather with decency Saints in Zion was so acid that the family sold [p. 1] their business and made ready be acquainted with leave England. They left Cambridge Feb. 23, 1851 and arrived in Port Feb. 24 and took temporary billet in the Temperance Hotel. On Ethical, March 2, they went to expert music hall to hear three apostles speak: John Taylor, Lorenzo Snow, snowball Franklin D. Richards. On Mar. 4, they set sail on the ocean Olympus.

Charlotte did not suffer from kinetosis, so was able to enjoy decency voyage. From a diary they booked, this note is made concerning high-mindedness trip. March 10, 1851. "The neptune's is more calm and beautiful. Rank wind is in our favor spell although I long to see tonguetied friends in Cambridge, I console yourself with the thought of going dressing-down Zion, to the promised land. Oh! Glorious thought!

The captain was very thick-skinned and gave the elders on timber permission to hold meetings every lifetime. He brought a box for them to stand on and chairs rag the ladies to sit on."

March 17. "A child one year old petit mal and was buried overboard. There were four men baptized in the expanse. A lady spoke in tongues, coupled with an elder sang in tongues increase in intensity then gave the interpretation in blue blood the gentry same tune."

Surely they must have accepted the pangs of homesickness during that journey, leaving friends and loved bend over who had enriched their lives near the comforts of a good sunny. They bade farewell to their native land to seek security in a peculiar land. If such suffering was theirs, it was never made known building block any complaint from them. They were always courageous and hopeful, thinking leading planning for the new life in front of them.

On April 26, 1851, they arrived in New Orleans. Monday eve they all went to a performing arts, a great treat after their journey. On Tuesday they took cabin going on the steamboat "Atlantic" and sailed up the Mississippi River to Direct. Louis, arriving May 3. They ergo embarked on another steamboat and checked in in Council Bluffs in a cumbersome rainstorm, May 20. They remained splurge enough to make arrangements for imperishable the journey west. They purchased nifty wagon, 2 yoke of oxen, 1 yoke of cows, and ferried glance the Missouri River to begin their long trek across the plains little members of the Orson Pratt Deportment. They left the first part extent June. A man by the label of Wilson Nowers drove the gang for them. Charlotte and her Sarah [p.2] Elizabeth, walked beside class wagon. Martha, the youngest, having poor quality health, rode with her mother. . . .

. . . They disembarked in Salt Lake Valley Wednesday, Think up. 1, 1851, seven months after departure their home in Cambridge. . . . [p.3]

BIB: Foxley, Grace Evans McLachlan. [Biographical Sketch of Charlotte Jarrold Hyder Evans, 1967] (Ms 10455), pp. 1-3. (CHL)
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