Show ii V V iy She was a pioneer of ot Utah Seventy Seventy Sev Sev- enty years of her life had been spent in the Salt Lake alley valley When as ns a a. girl of ot 19 years cars she left her home In England leavIng leaving leaving leav leav- ing father ather mother and all that she might come to the promised land on that long journey she en endured lured hardships that are al almost almost al al- most unbelievable able fur for she was with the lost company of the handcart handcart handCart hand- hand Cart pioneers under the command of Captain Edward Martin Monday Monday Mon Mon- day she was laid at rest in the City cemetery 1 his was Mrs Annie Hicks Free Sh Slip had aided In every way possible to make the Sat at Lak Lake valley and Utah what they al are ae e to toda today today to- to da day ad she lived to see the city to which she came as a girl grow glow from a straggling hamlet to one of or the most beautiful cities clUes in the theland theland theland land of her adoption The rho story of ot the handcart brigade brigade brigade bri bri- bri- bri gade has been told and retold and yet It can can never ne be told as It was of the horrors of ot the long trek of ot 1300 miles The story i is pathetic In the extreme Take Tale the history of ot Mrs Free It is similar to others told me by the pioneers The Tile company of which she was a member mem member mem- mem ber her when it left Florence Neb on August 25 1856 consisted of or 76 persons They had handcarts and seven wagons When the compan company com corn pan pany arrived in Salt Lake CIt City on November 30 1856 after more than three months on the journey it had been reduced to a handful of people their handcarts had been left scattered scat scat- along mountain and plain and I many many graves dotted the prairie prax- prax rie ne and range where a devoted people peo peo- lle had joined the great majority in their effort efort to reach their mecca Inthe in inthe inthe the moun mountains Relief parties partied had been sent to meet the several severa companies of the handcart brigade and the one und under r Captain Martin which was afterwards afterwards afterwards after after- wards known as the belated company company com corn pany was reduced by death to a handful Daniel W. W V. V Jones who was wasa a member of the relief force sent to the aid of the lost lost in his narrative of ot the rescue says Having seen the sufferings of Captain James G G. G Willies Willie s handcart company we ve more fully realized the danger the others were in tn There were several se hundred people with Captain Willie and they had a few teams but they were too weak weal tobe to tobe tobe be of much service When we came in sight of or Edward Martins Martin's company company com corn pany and the Ben Den wagon company which had camped at Red Bluff the conditions condition's were as bad as Js those found in the first company we had passed The They had given up all alt hope Their provisions were exhausted and most of ot then sick and worn out As we rode lode into the camp we were declared to be angels from heaven but I 1 told them that I thought we were better than angels for this oc occasion oc- oc c casion slon as we w were re good strong men come to help them into the valley and that our company and anti wagons loaded with provisions were not far away When the company was started for camp the hand cart company compan ascending a long muddy lull hill was wasa as h j ja I Ia a condition of distress such a as i had never seen before or since The train was strung along for Inree or four miles There were old men oen pulling and tugging their carts sometimes loaded with a SICK wire vine or 02 children women pulling sick husbands hus has bands little children 6 to 8 II r rold old struggling through mua d ll snow and as night came on the mud would freeze on their clothes and feet That night several members mem- mem bers beis of the company died And this was what this aged piOneer pioneer pio plo neer who has just passed on went through in order older that she might worship her hen God as aR her hel conscience dictated Her lIer memory will alwa always s be cherished |