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Show John Tanner and His 392 Family from my pocket and in this finasial crush Bro. Amasa and myself ware forst to prison for the simple sum of $16. We left the latter part of July for Missouri and hired a man to move us to Missouri and pay him after we got there. We had a pleasant pasedg Then we lost our wayan a large on that trip til we got nearly there. vale in the perary that we mite be able on a our left heigh wagon perary to find it agan. We left our famelies and team near nite and made our way torge a strip of timber in the direction we wanted to go. When we got to the timber, a road run along side the timber and we did not no which end of the road we wanted. We had got the name of sum peopple We folloed one end of the road till on the road that we wanted to find. We ware on foot and we got discuredg and then went the other way. dark. for doges barking after We listened sum time it was taird and very or bells on stalk that mite lead us to some house. At last we heard a bell and it was a long way off in the timber. We traveled till we found the bell on a mair with a small band of horses which seamed to be lost as there was no sines of improvement near them. We caught the bell mair and Br. Amasa used the bell strap for a haulter and after much truble I got a fine looking horse heded up into the top of a fallen tree and climbed up on a lim whair I could leap on his back. I did not no whether man had ever sat on him or no but took chanses. He made a few lively bounds and away we went. The old bell mair led the way and after a long and sumwhat croucked rout we came to a house and roused the inmates and began to inquair for the bretheren that war looking fore when a young man walks up to the bell mair saying if that mair had a bell on hur I would claim hur. Amasa shook the bell and he new the mair and was much pleased to find their horses that had ben gone six months or more. We found our friends near by. The man whos horses we found helped us finde our wagon and folks the next morning from the knoledg he had of the country, as we had no knoledg whair to find them. In finding our friends that nite we run into a stream and got badly wet and it was very cold. But our friend had a big hickry fiar and plenty of roast turk and corn bread which we relished that knite. We got our team and went on to Far West whair we met our meny friends and had a good time. Hear I met my brothers in the flesh as wal as in the Church and my wife met hur sister all the blood kin she had in the country. We had found a pairadice. The land was deliteful and my brother had secured sum good timber land in Clinton County nearby had built houses broke up land was then makeing rails to fense the land and we ware invited to a social party of spliting rails. Our wives ware not invited. I wirked at this time with a will to prepar for the winter. Went to Fort Levenworth and worked for $10 pr month abut 2 months with Sidney Tanner and John Tanner and Amasa M. Lyman to rase a little money. On the 26 of Jan., 1838, I got hom to Far West. I brought with |
