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Show .. . --- • • FEDERAL WRITERS Pioneer Personal Ristory Mrs. Eliza Barne a Brim;s Utah HRS 314 Revised 3-9-37 El vera Ma ful den, Ut ah \"1eber Oo nty December 1939. Mr s. El i za. Barnes r i gr,s was born i n Go l dbaum , Lanca s re , England on Ju l y 5, 1859. Her mother, .Alice Ann Burg-as s B ... r net=1, diad w en ,;liza was but six weeks old and later her fat 1er narried a ga i n . Tiis second wife was Susanna Poiret . "Father was t he hand man over t he carding mac ines in a woolen o i.11 in En gland. Vihen I wn.s tan years old, in 1869 , my stepmother and I carae to America a nd Jtah. I remember t he trip over on the boat because i t was t errible. ·he boat wo l d r ock u a nd do,m . Thev used tin cups and J.ates so as to p r event breakage. 'lfnen we arrived i n Jew York, we got on a t ra i a.nd we:it to Counoil Bluffs or sot'lewhere along t here and we ha d o at of'f t he t rain then and we r ode i n a. wagon for t wo days . This t1ms beca u s e the railroa d tracks were washed out. The wagon vms dra rfI1 b • a t e&m1 of horses and I sure thour.;ht t hat v..1ls a funny wa to trt1vel . we were a bl e to get back on th~ t rain l a t er and oor.pl ete our trip rail but d ont remot:1ber ·, st who re i t .,,-as . The tra n we c f.L e o was one of t he f i rst trains t ha t name to Ogden a nd there were n m y pe ople dmYn at t he elt!1pot t o see us arri ve . Thev carried s kets of food for t he emigrants. \.e didn' t have ver much rr..onev a , ' I step mother was very proud a nd wouldn 't ask any one for help , I know miny t i r.ies she a nd I would go o t and di g gr oens to c k for our meal as that W'l:\S all there was to eat . 1 .en we first can e we didn ' t have a n_v place to go so e. n n d his ,:,li f e who were also pa ssangers on the train wh en w came to Utah invited us to s t ay with them until we oo l d fi:nd a ol co . Tho r , ad com, |
