Autobiography Volume 3 circa 1865-1866
I felt some better to day yet very sick
but I was enabled to sit up a little. I was quite excited in
the evening. Wilford and Moroni was ploughing in the
big field four miles from home and at about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon one of the horses came home upon a run with a part of
the harness on. We did not know but the boys were killed
until we sent a man down into the field with the horse. He
found the boys not hurt. The horses had run away with
the plough. In jumping over the bars they left the plough
sticking into the post with the doubletrees. They broke the
whippletrees and harness to peaces but I felt thankful the boys
escaped unhurt. One was my own son and the other my
Indian boy.
