Wilford leaves for the Salt Lake Valley with the first company of pioneers.
Day in the Life
Journal Entry
May 21, 1847 ~ Friday
21st Before we left the encampment Br Clayton put up a guide board
with the following inscription for the benefit of the next camp
from winter Quarters 409 miles from the Junkction 93 1/4 ceder
Bluff 36 1/2 Ash Hollow 8 miles, & 133 from Fort Laramee
we travled to day 7 1/2 miles & nooned in the Afternoon 8 m[iles]
& camped for the night. we saw 8 or 10 Buffalo today but
have not seen but few for several days we saw some deer &
Antilope to day I killed A Bagger with the jaw bone of a
Buffalo. Just as we got to A camping place two Indians came
from the Bluffs riding towards us & made signs for us to come
to them several of the brethren went, it was A sioux Indian & his
wife they talked by signs awhile & went away distance of the day 15 1/2 miles
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Clayton, William
17 Jul 1814 - 4 Dec 1879
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James Jackson Woodruff born (only child of Mary Ann Jackson and Wilford).
Mary Ann Jackson and her 19-day-old son James start journey to Salt Lake Valley with Wilford's father Aphek.