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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNTY. 481 twelve life guards, and after the killing of Joseph and Hyruni, went to Carthage and rescued Apostle Taylor, who was wounded. James worked on the temple while in Nauvoo. On February 7, 1846, father and two brothers started west, and on May 20th James followed with three brothers, meeting at Pisgah. At Council Bluffs James enlisted in the Mormon battalion in company A. They went to Santa Fe, from which place he and others returned to Pueblo on detached service, and in '47 again started west under Capt. James Brown, reaching Salt Lake City July 29th, where he was discharged. He went to making adobes, but was called to help settle Sanpete. In May, 1849, he was sent with ten others, by President Young, to construct a bridge across the Platte river. They ferried teams at |4 each wagon, at the rate of seventy per day. He cleared f 1000 and returned to Salt Lake City with an outfit of two wagons, four yoke of oxen, four cows and a heifer, with all kinds of merchandise picked up on the river, having been left by emigrants. He brought a good supply of seed w heat, which was taken to Manti in Capt. Isaac Morley's company of 30, which reached there in November, 1849. He also took a r whip-saw and sawed lumber there and in other settlements. The first winter was severe, and he lost nine head of stock and fed most of his seed wheat. On March 22, 1852, he and father, with their families, came to Spring City, being the first on the ground. He brought a log house ready to put up, and erected it the first day, covering with boards. The company consisted of James, his wife and two children, father, his wife and son Andrew J., three grandchildren and Charles Whitlock, George M. Allred and James F. Allred, with an Indian boy and girl he had bought from the Utes. Others came in the fall. On July 29, 1853, they lost all their stock and had to return to Manti on account of Indians. In October they returned to Spring City, but had to leave again December 17th. On February 4, 1854, they went to Ephraim and helped build the fort. In May, 1855, he was called to the Las Vegas Indian mission as an interpreter, and remained two years, returning to Ephraim. In '64 was |
