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Be it knownth~t, I, Mrs. E~ White Guthrie; whose
present r es Idenee is Harri~vi11e, WeberCounty1 Utah,
a m, on this 15th iay of a~ri1 1931, herein stating
the history of my life.
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AND: ' Be it known that'this Ihcumint is malie of my own free
will ani consent.
AND: Be it further-knG1WIl th8.t-no d~cument rela.ting t. my
life's history is authentic .without nr;r signature Whieh
appee.rs en the 19,st and eonclu«ing sheet of this a.ecument.
I was born in Lontion, England, November21st, 18'2
Mymilther's name being Rebecca 'White, my father's name being
Samuel White.
MyFather jeined the Mbrmon Church in 1850, at Lon4on,
Englanc..1 was perseme.lly baptized in this Chureh when I was
eight years tif age, 'kf Meltherwas never baptize •. in this Churoh.
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:My
Father was Porter in fruit 's.nti vege-table market,'
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knewn a s theC.'ovent Garaen, in the City of LenGlen. This' Market
was the largest market of its kitit in existanoe at that time,
Fruit~, vet.etables ani flowers 'being shipped to this market
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all ·arts of the oountryoJftance~ ete}. T.h.iSpcsit.ion rrf'J
~ Father held long before nr;r birth and up until his ieparture to
America , which will be stated later in this ioeument.
On
the 1st day .f April, 1852, ~self ani my Father
left LQnion, Engle.nd.fer Amerioa.The views of myMother
regardin, the Mermon Ohurch were Inet in accordance with these
of my Father and myself, ant it was for this reason that'we
two left Lencion, leaTing Mother behd.nd , Wehaa. one thing;
in mint, which was: 1ft.•• go to the City ef Zion." We had been
converted inte the Mormon religion by Mermon Missionaries who
worked in London.
As statea., on the 1st lay of April 1852, we left
LiTerpool, Englant, (LiverpoQl be'i.ng one huniree. miles away
frem L~ndon.) There were four hunirei people set sail en
this cate, including men, womenaha. ehilQren, all convertei
to the Mormen Religit'm, ami our slogan was, "Weare all Zion
beun~.1t The name of the ship on which we traveled was,
"The Interne.tiona 1. "
Wewere en boara this ship exactly sir weeks ani
three tays,from the time we leftlLiverpool, England. until
we iis-embari:ei. at NewOrleans, Leuisie.na.
~ _Our averag~.' :Efeti nder normal weather eontiitiens,
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was iIiJY miles per ~'7 on this ship, but frequently we -
eneourrt.er-ed what is ltiJ.~Wn as "head-winds" and. in such cases
it was our experience to be iriven back forty or mere mlea,
cue to these Ithead-wind~"

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The trip in general, for these «ays, was about, as
pleasant as we eouU -expect. Mt Father brought with him quite
a supply of fooi, such as breaa~ whiGh'we calle« "ginger brea~"
This: 1Ii8.S ll'.a<ie.
into large s~;iees: of t08.st_, which. ml8 'mo8tl~' wr
f00". The shl.!, allowea. us a certain suppl~" of foo., but.
mo:stlyeur feod consisteci of curjCilWn breac., as that whieh'
was suppliecl by. the s'hip was @ntY in Tary small quantities;
a ni for liquid, we were allowed a certain amount of water.
F~r il}stance, rrrJ Father was all~wed one pint Q)f water per .ay,
ani mYself beingund:r age , I wfs allewed. one half ~il1t ef
water. We brought wl.th us our fr'tea, and from thl.S water
allowed us we were permiM.ed to go to a certain part .t'
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the ahi, where we eouli heat th s water te make our-tea.
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Occasionally we were allew-e •. a small quantity .f hot water
with which to make this tea in ~cidit.ion to that which we were
usually albwed.
. Our sleepin~ quarters were all below teck, the beis
beion.. called "bunks" and were sri
arrang. eel that' ene l'iaS above
the other. Each ind. iV iiual ha" their -.wnbunk. The De.in
tiEickwas used only fer pleasure, sueh a.s Walking arou:nd,
holc.ing meetings etc. Every evening we held meetings on
board ship. . I. ..'
One of the MormonMissionaries by the name of -
Captain Bro~n, Was in eharge eflthe four hundred Converts,
He left Liverpool,with us # and ~s in ehar ge throughout the
trip_from l:iiver-pool until we le.llded in "Zion."
As previ€lusly stat~i,lw~ landed, in l'iew Or-Leans, Is..
six weeks and three clays from the date we set setil from
Liverpoo~, this llVlking our Iand ing . in New Or19$1..ns;La,, a beut
the miidle of May in the year lS52.
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Mter le.nding in £ ew (tlrleans, we 're~inecl there enly
long enough to get eur belenginfs together, anti.' cur Ca]?tain
thEm leaded us on a.
steam ship on which we saileW.-up'the Missouri
River to st. Louis, Mo. A Short e.istan-ee from St. LeuIs was
our Call1pJing
Grounti~ where e.rrangements were being matie to cress
the Plains to theoity of ~ien.j
At this camping ground the equLpmerrt, e ons isted
of wagons ana Oxen teams. 'Ther? were generally what is
called three yoke of oxen to each wagon •. ( a yoke' consisting;'
of two oxen) 1fhere were forty f-gons tcil our -Train. (A train
being the entii'e cmtfit of wagars I exen, ete.) In a few
eases there were four yoke of oxen to a wagon, but not often.
. .. We rema~ned at this L;ground a few weeks I
iuring ,whioh time the eqliPmentlwas being put" in order for
our tr;p to IIZ ion." Oxen had t be purchased, wagons equippei
with bows and. eGVers~_etc.. I.
We left thl.s eampl.ng ground headed far Salt Lake
Va.1ley •. preVious to ~ur erossipg'these plains, surveyers hat:
surv~yed pra<?t.ieally all the rOf<i, and there had been s eme
travel ever same, enough so thB,t it was known to us which
was the road. Scar ce Iy anyone ros,e Quring the entire trip

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from the callPing gr eund in MisLuri'to Salt I..e.keVall"y. ~e
all walked, as our clothing beating, provisions, etc. took up
~ll' the room in .the wagons, an1 it 'was only when one be C II. me .
~ll, or some manner u.nable to walk, that they w~re permitte«
to ride. It was only when we came- to rivers that we would rid.e,
ana when coming to these, natUliallt they haa to be foraed
and we would ricie across such waters.
Our llVlin trouble was IWith the Indians. '1'his was the
tribe of "SiEnn" Indians. 'PheYj ere a very wealthy tribe
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Indians, highly painted and dressed, in their style, and roi.e
the most beautiful of ponies. They ?10uld. halt our train €If
wag-on ani demand fooi. There IViasno use in trying, to fight
them, as in such an event they would fight to kill. Our only
way outcf such a predicament ~o~li be to fee. them. In such
cases where we were attacked 'qy the InGtie.ns, our Captain
n~de each family of the ent ire 400 Converts t give unto the
Indians a certain amount of our supplies, suoh as one half
pint of sugar from' each family ~ and other fef)~.s we had, in
proportion. Sugar, these IndiJns were very fond of, and made
special demanis fer this. These Intiians were equ Lpped with
bow anti arrow,' scalping knives, and in a few cases of the
wealthier ones , they haea fire ~rms. The main fooi en which
these Inaians lived was the Buffalo's they would kill.
Encountering t.heeae I,ndians so frequently, and havin~
to give a certain portion ef eur' food. products to them, we
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...,-..-..,.were- a.fr-aia we were g,oing, t.CLrun short Q.i' foo'_ for eurselves,
ani on every occasion we tried to holci out from giving them
foed, but they were wieked and wouli kill in the .ark. On ene
occasion they came in th e night and frightenei our cattle,
causing them to stampede. In ene case I recall now, ~ur cattle
were frightened away and scattered, to the extent that we were
two days getting them rounded u~ and r eady to pull off again •
.1 might say, as nearly as I can reoall, we had
three full months of traveling across the ~lains, walking all
the way from our camping g. ~lnd in St. Lauis to Salt Lake Vall~.
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The first mountains Ii recall coming to, was whG,t is
known as the "Little Mountain," and Eoho Ca nyon. I recall my
Father taking me ~ the hand and standing on top of Little
Mounta.in, and looking over into Salt Lake Valley.
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We la.nded in Salt lake Valley Oct. 1st, 1852,
• full six months journey from Liverpool. We camped on
what is known as "Immifration squar e ," which was very near
the place th9.t is now known as "Temple Square. II No one was
allowea on the place exeeptthe immigrants. Our Captain.toli
us that we would, not have to reina-in on this "Immigration square"
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vel'~r long, as there wouli be members of the MormonChurch who
."oul.- come and get us and take us to their homes. Fortunately
for nw Father a nd myself we were taken by Mr. William C:. StEdnes,
who was a. high member of the·Chhrch and later a high man in ~e
organization of Brigham Young. We reaained here all winter at.
which time :myFather took a notion to leave Salt, Lake Gity ,
and &;0 North,taking me with him.· We came North from Salt I..ake
Valley ani lecatei at Bingham's
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later known as ~nn war.)

4. this Bingham's Fort was all en~~osed by a high Muclwall, as a
protection against the Indians~ This protection, as was thought,
was really not much protection against the IncHans t but acteci
as frl a feeling of safet~r in the minds of the people. My
Father worked in this vicinity approximately three years,
building fences and digging ditches, working for other people
who located here previous to our coming.
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~ Father and myself lived in a log cabin which
he built himself. Phe winter of 1855 we.S known as the "Hard
Winterlt 'Terrible colci, so muchlso that cattle ciiecl from
exposure. The snow wa so deep ani the weather so Celli that
the cattle, in trying to feed themselves, by eating the bark
from the trees at the river botrQ~$, would freeze to death
standing up. It woul. be dHficult for me to say how we
lived during that winter. I could probably best answer this
question by s9.ying,"weclicin't lire." However, I recall my
Father bringing home a bushel of wheat, from a man for whom
he had been working, and he took it to a small mill ani. h8i. it
ground. We ate the best ef' it and then were forced to' eat
the balanoe, which we would nowlcall bran, 0r pig feel.
I also recall one incident where my Father woulcl
goto the river bot.t eme, wilth a sl~a Fha bai: built, and cut the
rear quarters from the cattle which had frozen to death in the
river bottoms, and bring tliem home. Here he would io what we
called "jerking" the meat. That is slicing it in fine slices,
salt it and dry it. In this ma~~er we haa two bt~lap ,~~~, $acks
full of this kind of "drieci meat."
In the Fall of 1857 Jahns on' s Ar~T came in and.
it wa""their intentions to kill .ff all the Mormons. They were
held back in the Mountains by the Mormons all during the winter
of 1857. They had sufficient gtain for their mules, and they
killei wi1. game for their own support. They were hell back
in the mountians by the MQrmonsuntil they were about starved
out. In the spring of 1858 Brigham Young issuea orders that
all Mormons, except a few rear. guards I were to leave this
Valley ana go down South. 'I'his was done. Then, as statea
above, Johnson's Armf was about starved out, and finally sent
word in to the Guards of the Mo~monsthat if the Mormons woulc1
anew them to come in they woulli not fight. Word 1'8 passed on
to Br Igham Young and on tre promise of J ehns onjs ArJJJ!f ot ton
fight, they were a-ll.wed in, ani they came. 1het went iireetly
to wmt is now known as Fer t Ji)oJglas, and oommeRcedbuiliin&
what is now know as ttFort Douglas. n They hired the Mormon
boys and paid them i~ Actual Money. ~het had. plenty of money
but no provis ions. ihis was dOI1ewhile the majority of the
Mormons were down Sout.h , then after being; down South severs.1·
months I quiet seemed to reign in the Salt Lake Valley ani Brigham
Young orciered all of us to return to our homes, which we dit.
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It was after eur return from the Southtaat Father
and I went North ani located in~hat is now mf home in
Harrisville, Utah. It was whil~ I was on this farm with Father
that I met ~liomas B. Guthrie, w}i0mI Iat er married. My Father
~Hecl in 1878. I was married pr-ev Leus to nw Fathers ieath,
and gave birth to five girls and four beys , nine in all, six