Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies, Campkin to Curtis

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on the river bank when a tall young man came up and asked them why they idn't go across. Brandmother's reply was they did not know how to do it without getting their feet wet, so he said he would show them. He pick-ed them up, one under each B.rm, waded across and set them on the other bank. Each day Grandma was loosing weight. She weigh ~ ed 175 pounds when she started out. · The company arr1. ved in Salt Lake City, August 31, 1860. I , Edwin H., their first child. was born December 3, 1860. Just before the son was born, Grandma weighed 75 pounds. Two other sons, William and Joseph were born there. After living in Salt Lake City about six years, Gr~andfather and family moved to Logan in the fall of 1863. The only vacant building in the town was a new jail just finished by the town people. This was located just west of the old Z.C.M.I. building on 1st North Street. Grandfather was given permission to live there until he lcould do better. It was in this building that their son, Albert James was born. In the summer of 1867, their son Joseph was stolen by the Indians at the age of two and a half years. Two squaws had picked him up while he was playing in front of the house and put him in a sack and took him away . They went west to 1st West and then south toward the willows, but just be ~ fore they reached them, little Joe began to cry rather loud. Mrs. Susan Martinuesu and her daughter, Elvira, who lived on the corner <:)11 21s':h.!Wes<t) ~n~ ~~at~~ l !~Fee* ~ t hehbd the baby cry and saw the squaws just entering the willows with the sack between them. They started in pursuit toget­her with Brother William Watterson whom they met,before they came to their camp- ~ they did not make any inquiry, but started to search the wig-warns and finally found him covered up with old blankets and sacks. The Indians made no protests when they took the boy from them and returned him to his home. He died in Salt Lake City; November 22, 1869. The next in the family was a daughter, Fanny, who was born in Salt Lake City, March 22, 1869. She died in Logan February 13, 1887. Grandma moved to Logan in the s~r1ng of 1874. A daughter, Edith