by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
GATHERED IN HIS ARMS Margery Smith was a 51-year-old widow from Dundee, Scotland, who was emigrating with five children and a close friend of the family, Euphemia Mitchell. Margery’s oldest son, Robert Bain, had emigrated in 1854, where he went to Lehi, Utah,...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
HOPE Ellen Parkinson was 5 years old, the sixth of 9 living children of John and Ellen Smalley Parkinson, when she traveled with her family in the Martin Handcart Company. In 1837, John and Ellen were among the first converts to the Church in Preston, England. John...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
I ASKED GOD’S HELP Ann Jewell Rowley wrote: “There came a time when there seemed to be no food at all. Some of the men left to hunt buffalo. Night was coming and there was no food for the evening meal. I asked God’s help as I always did. I got on my knees,...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
I WILL GO On Sunday, October 26,1856, Brigham Young issued yet another of numerous calls for rescue of the handcart companies from the public pulpit. Many responded as quickly as possible, but Ephraim Knowlton Hanks had already been called by a voice during the night...
by Plait Marketing | Apr 20, 2021 | Stories
I’LL NEVER LET GO Elizabeth Simpson Haigh Bradshaw was born into a family of wealth. Although she was orphaned at age nine, she continued to be raised as a child of privilege. By the time Elizabeth was 48 years old, she had been widowed twice, had five living...
