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Show -5- The sick detachment under Captain James Brown and the Mississippi Company left Pueblo May 24th, foll owing the trail of the pioneers. They e_ntered Salt Lake Valley on the 29th of July five days after the arrival of the first pioneers. To the wife of one of the members of the battalion, Mrs. Catherine Campbell Steele, wife of John Steele, August 9th 1847, was born the first white child, young Elizabeth Steele . Grandfather Erastus Bingham Sr. and family didn't arrive in the valley until September 19, 1847. This was grandmotherts fifteenth birthday. In the spring of t 48 or '' 49 Uncle Sanford and his brothers took a herd of dry cattle into the canyon south of Salt Lake and west of Jordan. The canyon •as named Bingham Canyon after the Bingham Brothers. John Holladay and family settled south of Salt Lake City at a place which is now called Holladay. On the 6,th of Sept. 1849 father was married to Caron Happoch Holladay, daughter of John Holladay and Katherine Higgins Holloday. They were married by President Brigham Young in Salt Lake. Father and his wife moved to Ogden in the fall of '49. They took up a farm there, which fann. in 1850 was laid off in the city of Ogden. At this time the farm house was on 7th street south, which street is now called 27th street. GREAT GRANDFATHER'S HISTORY WILL BE CON"'TINUED VHTH GRANDFATHER'S I was born August 12th, 1850 at Ogden, in a one room leg ~ouse at the foot of a hill near a spring east of Washington Avenue. March 24th, 1851 a company of saints for Southern California was organized for traveling at Payson, Utah and comraencing the journey the same day under the presidency of Apostle Amsa M. Lyman and Charles c. Rich accompanied by Parley P. Pratt and a party of missionaries going to different countries to preach tha gospel. Father and the Holladay family were called to go on this mission and help start a settlement. We arrived in San Bernadine, California, June 1st. 1851. Father assisted in the building of the settlement ot San Bernadina. He worked in the mountains most of the time sawing lumber and making shingl es. I . can remember attending the funeral of my Aunt Kaziah Hollad4,,t y Boyle, wife of Henry G. Boyle. I was then between 3 and 4 year old. My sister, Mary, was born Sept.ember 18, 1852 at San Bernadina. My second sister Lucinda Katherine, was born the 3rd of Nov. 1854 at the same place. Father and family left California April 18 ,1855. Twenty-seven were in the company which started back to Salt Lake valley. We arrived there in the middle of May. Father purchased a farm at Bingham's Fort afterwards called Lynn. Father lived at this place till the spring of '56. |
