GATHERED IN HIS ARMS Margery Smith was a 51-year-old widow from Dundee, Scotland, who was emigrating with five children and a close friend of the family, Euphemia Mitchell. Margery’s oldest son, Robert Bain, had emigrated in 1854, where he went to Lehi, Utah,...
GATHER ROUND Jens and Elsie Nielson worked alongside others in Iowa City in preparing tents and handcarts for their journey. The Willie company was organized into five groups with approximately 100 Saints in each group. It was further organized into 5 tent-groups...
FRIENDS FriendsOne week after the first call for rescue, Brigham Young drove out on the rescue trail himself, with Arza Hinckley as his teamster. Upon reaching Big Canyon Creek, Brigham became too ill to travel and Arza had to return him to Salt Lake when he was...
FRIENDLY GUIDEPOST Just as the Willie handcart company was facing their darkest hour to that point, four men rode up from the west. “Such a shout as was raised in camp I never before heard,” Joseph Elder said. These men were express riders who had been...
FIRST RESCUE (EMILY HILL AND JOSEPH A. YOUNG) Emily Hill, age 20, and her sister, Julia, age 23, were members of the Willie Handcart Company. Faithful to the cause they espoused, the sisters’ deeds were consistent with their beliefs. In traveling through Iowa, Emily...
