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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 105 water. Here some cattle had died two years before, and the skeletons remained with the skins dried on them. This ther pulled off, cut in strips and warmed over a fire, and chewed to extract what little glue might remain in Many died of starvation, fourteen were buried in one it. grave one morning. When Thomas awoke one morning he found himself between two corpses, his companions having passed silently away in the still watches of the A rescue party from Salt. Lake finally reached night. them, gathered them up in wagons and brought them on In to the city, where they arrived November 9, 1850. February, 1857, he came to Manti with Bishop Warren Snow, and worked for various persons till he accumulated enough means to buy a farm. He followed farming many years, and built a comfortable home in town. In 1804 he returned to the river for emigrants. He married in Manti, October 25, 1805, Hannah, daughter of Eowland and Hannah (Askew) Braithwaite, born in WestmoreTheir children are as folland, England, May 7, 1839. lows: Thomas B., Hannah E., John W., Bobert A., Mary E., Sarah A., Ida L., deceased, Amanda J. and Nettie M. Mr. Boyington was a hard working, honest, upright man, of a retiring disposition, when he died September and Manti 6, lost a good citizen 1897. BRAITHWAITE, GEOBGE, City Sexton, son of Boland and Hannah, was bora in Kendall, Westmoreland county England, March 5, 1834. He learned The the trade of a shoemaker. Father died in 1852. family joined the Mormon Church, he becoming a member in 1847. In 1803 the family came to Utah, crossing the ocean in the Amazon, the first sailing vessel charThey tered from London to carry Mormon emigrants. crossed the plains in^Capt. Daniel McCarthy's company, an ox train, arriving in Manti in October, 1803. Mother died here in 1875. He took part in the Black Hawk war, standing guard and doing his share. Worked for nine years in constructing the Temple and terraces. Followed his trade for some time and was City Sexton for several years and now occupies that position. Is a stockholder Was married in Manti December 4, in the Co-op store. |
