Autobiography Volume 2 circa 1865
The morning the Pioneer Camp with a large number of the Battalion
harnessed up our horses and bade farewell to our friends who were to tarry
I put a pair of mules ion my carriage and brother Stillman drove them and
I rode on horse back
On the 4th day of our journey we were met
by our messengers E. T. Benson and companions who had been on to
meet the camp of Saints bound for the Valley of the Great Salt Lake
They were truly welcome messengers for our anxiety to hear from our
families had been great. The coming ^camp^ numbered nearly
600 waggons and were divided into 9 companies. I received three
letters from Mrs Woodruff and one from A. O. Smoot. My father
was coming along but Mother Woodruff had gone back to Iowa to
live with my sister Eunice and her husband.
