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Show 1AMF..S HOMPBRIEB BIOGRAPHY I , 1amaa BUmphriea, wee bon 11. 28th ot March, 1831, 1n tr.e town ot Bradford on .A.Ton, Wilts, England. lly father's name we.a Gile Bumphrlea, my ·mother' a maiden name was lUi zebeth Lane. They had born to them 10 children as tollowa: J°Qhn, W1ll1ru1, George, Charles, Deborah, 'l'hom.e.s , J"emaa. Thurza, 1abe and Matilda, I ffas the seventh child and I can truthfully say that my. pa.rents were good and--honest people . , , -I shall a~arc ly eay e.~llina ot m-, early lite , but when nine years of. age, , thouch young·, · I labored an4 boal'ded and clotJ1ed tlyaelf. Even attar, l wns·. aomewhn,· given to reaming until I was 1$ years ot age , t.hcn· I , wanted to see the· extent ot this little world, so ma.de up my mi nd to GO-to Australia. · · · . Australia t hen was Tory young and the gove:rnm.ont· wanted volunteers to aettle the country. .Yust Df' cllanoe. ·but along crune an obstacle.. None wanted only married me1l.. I wus only past 18 yaora of age; not daunted at that I applied ror a passage and went courting e. young l ady, ju.st past 16 7eare ot age. I told her rr.y intentions , nncl we both soon agreed on one point• that was to g o. Thon I was 19 years ot age on tlle 28 or March, 1850, t hen August ot the sem.e year we were mr.n·ricd; in one woek from t hat time we len home tor the tar oft oountry, and was over three , weeks on·the water. El landed in th.at tar ott countr y about the f'irtst , of Dee~m.ber • 1860,. Just with about 6 ah1111nga in money to start through ,tho world i t h . • , e prospered pr&tty weU, but in ie64 along crone the Elders pr eaching Mormonism. I accepted, alao rq wife, and was baptised Nov,. 4 t he snme year . ln the beginning ot 1865 I wes called with eight others by the ~ldera to go to ~ion and waa to be ready early in April. Me and ID1 wi fe tmd 2 children were ),"eady and soon on the ocean. '','hen Qeing out three days I was ordained a teacher. '!'here were ebout 36 saints from different parts of Australia, and I cen truthtu.lly eay I done m7 duty as a teacher to t he beet ot my ability. lben being a sea tour weeks, my · wi t e wao t a.ken Tery sick , the baby had -to be weaned then 1, waa taken aiok, also my wife wsa sick tour weeks . But being on ••a tiTe |
