Day in the Life
Journal Entry
May 12, 1854 ~ Friday
Friday 12 we again visited walker at his tent this mor
ning He was still in the same unpleasant mood did not wish
to talk & left his tent & went into the willows
and others talked they had a sick child & they wished the
Elders to lay hands upon it then President Kimball Benson
& Wells Administered to it Also Dr Sprague left some med-
icine for it & for several others that was sick the Indian
said if the child died He would have to kill an Indian child
or a mormon child to go with it (as this is their tradition
the interperter told him he must not do it that it was wrong
that when Mormon children died we did not kill any child
to go with them & they must not do it for it was not right
the Indian said his heart was not so he wanted to kill some one
to go with him. He said He wanted his child to get well &
then He would go with us but do not wants to go till his
child gets well. He said walker was a great chief & President
Young was a great chief & what he said was true that he
could not say any thing wrong. Petetnet spoke & said
that that would be good & not steal nor kill any body
that one could now go alone & not be killed their would
be no blood in their path. Walker wished President
Young to write a Letter so he could show it to the people
& let them know that we were at peace so their would
be no difficulty with the people. President Young wrote one
Dr Sprague gave medicine to the sick child & gave
Walker directions how to deal with the child & 10 others
which Dr Sprague had left medicine for 2 of which was
vary sick they all got well. (Sister Lorenzo Young allso
was quite sick with the Lung complaint Dr Sprague gave
medicine to her she got well & several others in the camp
was under his care) On parting with walker at his tent
He said we now understand each other that they were now
to have all pease so all could now go on the road in peace
& not be afraid could now put in wheat & corn & one
alone without for somebody to kill them He now wanted to have
the road clear without any blood in it He wished for
peace all the time both shook together then all the company
shook hands & the pipe of peace was smoked Walker rece[ive]d
his presents & killed a beef for the Indians to have a feast they
also treaded swaped blankets for Horses & bought 2 children
that were prisoners. After making peace & got through
traeiding we left walkers camp & rode to the severe &
Walker Grosephene & squash head with many others went
with us we spent the night at the severe we made a
Raft & crossed all our waggons over in 1 hour & 30 minutes
I spent all my leasure moments with T Bullock In writing a
history of the Journey
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Young, Brigham
1 Jun 1801 - 29 Aug 1877
3440 mentions
Apostle, Family
Chief Peteetneet
unk.-abt. 1861
2 mentions
Native American
28 mentions
Native American
Wells, Daniel Hanmer
27 Oct 1814 - 24 Mar 1891
799 mentions
Apostle
Benson, Ezra Taft
22 Feb 1811 - 3 Sep 1869
378 mentions
Apostle
2 mentions
Native American
Kimball, Heber Chase
14 Jun 1801 - 22 Jun 1868
1456 mentions
Apostle
Young, Persis Goodall Richards
15 Mar 1806 - 16 Sep 1894
2 mentions
Sprague, Samuel Lindsey
1807-1886
41 mentions
Bullock, Thomas
23 Dec 1816 - 10 Feb 1885
128 mentions
3 mentions
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