In Dec A.D. 1833. The day that I was Baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. One of my horses newly calked kicked my hat off my head and had he struck
two inches lower would probably have killed me instantly. In Ten minutes after while driving the same
horses down a hill on a sled with loose bottom boards without a box the boards slip'd forward under the roll
caught the ground turned endways & fell on the horses backs throwing me between them under the sled
they run to the bottom of the hill draging me by the lines head foremost with the sled top of me abo[u]t
Twenty rods over a vary smooth snow path I escaped unharmed however in the midst of both dangers
In 1834 while travelling in Zions Camp to Missouri A rifle was accidentally discharged & the
ball passed through Three tents with a dozen men in each & lodged in a waggon Axletree without injury
to any one it passed within a few inches of my breast & many others escaped quite as narrow as myself
a few months after a musket was accidentally snaped with the muzzle pointing at my breast within
a few feet of me h[e]avily loaded with buck shot but it missed fire & my life was again preserved
In April 1839 while in Rochester Ill. I was riding upon the running part of a waggon without
any box I was siting on the foreward Axletree and the boult came out fastning the four wheels togeth
this left the hind wheels, & my weight on the forward boulster & tongue turned the coupling pole
clear over onto the horses backs turned the stakes upside down & shot me up fast between the bolster &
tongue but in such a manner that my head and shoulders draged on the ground my horses took
fright & run out onto an open praire and they draged me in this position for about half of a
mile when I managed to guide them so as to run them into the corner of a high worm fence
whare we landed in a pile together I was considerably brusised but escaped without any broaken
bones and after one days rest was enabled to attend to my labour again.

On the 15^th day of October 1846 while with the Camp of Israel building up Winter Quarters
on the west side of Missouri River then Indian Country, I passed through one of the most painful
& serious misfortunes of any of my lifife. I took my Ax and went 2 1/2 miles onto the Bluffs to cut
some shingle timber to cover my cabins. I was accompanied by two other men and while falling the third
tree I steped back of it some 8 feet whare I thought I was entirely out of Danger but when the tree
fell their was a kocrook in the tree which struck a knowl and shot and ways back of the stump and
bounded & the but of the tree struck me in the breast & knocked me several feet in the air against
a standing Oak and the falling tree followed me in its bound & caught me against the standing tree and
I came down between the two trees one falling & the other standing but before reaching the ground I was
cleared from between them & struct upon my feet it badly bruised my ^left^ thigh the whole length of it
& my hip. Also my left arm It also broke my breast bone into & 3 ribs on my left side it also bruised my
lungs vitals & left side in a shocking manner. After the accident I sat upon a log untill Mr John Garrison
went a quarter of a mile & got my horse, notwithstanding wI was so badly hurt I had to mount my hourse
& ride two & a half miles over an exceding rough road & had to dismount twice in consequence of mirey
places my breast & vitals was so badly torn to peaces that each step of the horse went through me like an
arrow I continued on horseback untill I arived at Turkey Creek on the North Side of Winter quarters
I then became exhausted & was taken off & carried in a chair to my house I was met in a thee street
by Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball W. Richards ^& others^ who assisted in carrying me to my waggon
& family before laying me upon my bed they laid hands upon me & rebuked my pain & distress in

In Dec A.D. 1833. The day that I was Baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. One of my horses newly calked kicked my hat off my head and had he struck two inches lower would probably have killed me instantly. In Ten minutes after while driving the same horses down a hill on a sled with loose bottom boards without a box the boards slip'd forward under the roll caught the ground turned endways & fell on the horses backs throwing me between them under the sled they run to the bottom of the hill draging me by the lines head foremost with the sled top of me about Twenty rods over a vary smooth snow path I escaped unharmed however in the midst of both dangers In 1834 while travelling in Zions Camp to Missouri A rifle was accidentally discharged & the ball passed through Three tents with a dozen men in each & lodged in a waggon Axletree without injury to any one it passed within a few inches of my breast & many others escaped quite as narrow as myself a few months after a musket was accidentally snaped with the muzzle pointing at my breast within a few feet of me heavily loaded with buck shot but it missed fire & my life was again preserved In April 1839 while in Rochester Ill. I was riding upon the runing part of a waggon without any box I was siting on the foreward Axletree and the boult came out fastning the four wheels togeth this left the hind wheels, & my weight on the forward boulster & tongue turned the coupling pole clear over onto the horses backs turned the stakes upside down & shot me up fast between the bolster & tongue but in such a manner that my head and shoulders draged on the ground my horses took fright & run out onto an open praire and they draged me in this position for about half of a mile when I managed to guide them so as to run them into the corner of a high worm fence whare we landed in a pile together I was considerably bruised but escaped without any broaken bones and after one days rest was enabled to attend to my labour again.

On the 15th day of October 1846 while with the Camp of Israel building up Winter Quarters on the west side of Missouri River then Indian Country, I passed through one of the most painful & serious misfortunes of any of my life. I took my Ax and went 2 1/2 miles onto the Bluffs to cut some shingle timber to cover my cabins. I was accompanied by two other men and while falling the third tree I steped back of it some 8 feet whare I thought I was entirely out of Danger but when the tree fell their was acrook in the tree which struck a knowl and shot and ways back of the stump and bounded & the but of the tree struck me in the breast & knocked me several feet in the air against a standing Oak and the falling tree followed me in its bound & caught me against the standing tree and I came down between the two trees one falling & the other standing but before reaching the ground I was cleared from between them & struct upon my feet it badly bruised my left thigh the whole length of it & my hip. Also my left arm It also broke my breast bone into & 3 ribs on my left side it also bruised my lungs vitals & left side in a shocking manner. After the accident I sat upon a log untill Mr John Garrison went a quarter of a mile & got my horse, notwithstandingI was so badly hurt I had to mount my hourse & ride two & a half miles over an exceding rough road & had to dismount twice in consequence of mirey places my breast & vitals was so badly torn to peaces that each step of the horse went through me like an arrow I continued on horsback untill I arived at Turkey Creek on the North Side of Winter quarters I then became exhausted & was taken off & carried in a chair to my house I was met in the street by Presidents Brigham Young, Heber C. Kimball W. Richards & others who assisted in carrying me to my waggon & family before laying me upon my bed they laid hands upon me & rebuked my pain & distress in