Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies, Allen to Barton

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HISTORY OF JA1ffiS BARNETT: PIONEER 1866, CONT'D. Page 2 and three days. They landed in New York 6 June 1866. They journeyed on to Utah, coming part way by boat and train, then were met in wyoming by teamsters to cross the plains. During their journey, about 100 head of their cattle were stolen by the Indians, and as they traveled on they came on to the Government wagon train which had been left a foot by the Indians. They were nine weeks on the plains. They arrived in Salt Lake City, 15 Sept. 1866. They then went to West Jordan, Salt Lake County, to live, where they stayed about three years. The step­daughter had married one of the teamsters on the plains. James and son John ~re sent to Wanship, Summit County, to help settle the place. In 1871 Jame~ wife, Mary Ann, and daughter Eliza came to join the other members of the family Who had come between 1866 and 1871. On 24 June 1872 James and his wife Mary Ann v~ent to the Endowment House where they had their endowments and were sealed together for time and all eternity, how great must have been their joy after having to have been so many years striving to get all their family to Zion. In 1875 they moved to the •sandridge" which was later called West Layton, where they homesteaded 160 acres, and belonged to the Kaysville Ward, Davis County. While they lived here they were both very active in the Church. James was called many times to administer to the sick, and Mary .Ann was a midwife and nurse, and she delivered many babies and helped care for their mothers. In 1877 while they lived in Kaysville he was ordained a High Priest by Phineas Young. The Ward at Kaysville covered a large area at that time. One of James assignments was to gather the Fast offerings and deliver them to the poor. This he did in a horse drawn carriage, their means of travel in those days. He was very faithful in this service, but on one occasion his horse ran away and he was badly injured, and from the effects of his injuries he died 22 Oct. 1894 at the home of his daughter Lucy Thurgood in Bountiful, Davis County, Utah. His remains were brought to Kaysville for burial.