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File Manuscript S dcial.Collections & Archives 2013-07-16 001 8 AUTOBIOGRAPHY of EDJ&UND ELLSWORTH„-II (son of Edmund7, Jonathan6, Israel5, Samuel', Samuel3, Josias2, Josiasi) Edmund Ellsworth, the son of Edmund and Elizabeth (Young) Ellsworth, was born October 7, 1845 in Nauvoo, Hancock Co., Illinois. My grandfather, Jonathan pliswerth, at the time of my father's birth, owned and occupied the whole tract of land upon which is now built the village of Paris in the State of New York, which my father says rightfully belongs to him to this day. There were but two children born to Jonathan and Sarah: Edmund and Char- lotte. MY Aunt Charlotte was born in March 1817; my father Edmund was born July 1, 1819. Charlotte married William Cogswell, a furnace man in Pulaski, Oswego Co., New York, by whom she has born two sons and one daughter, Cogswell went to Ottawa, where he went into partnership with a gentleman and built a foundry. He sent for his wite, and they have resided there since, so far as I know. I know but little of my grandfather's origin, further than that his father was an American, and fought under Gen. Washington in several battles. My grand- mother, Sarah Ellsworth was of Scotch descent. Her father was Captain James Galley. He had a large family of children by his wife Rebecca, who was also of Scotch des- cent. His son, William Galley, Jr., lived and died in the town of Ellisburgh, New York, leaving a large family of sons and daughters. Quoting further from my father's journal, he says that at the time of his birth, his father was absent to Innesbeck where he went with one of his uncle's with a raft of lumber down the St. Lawrence River. Soon after his birth, his mother got a letter from his uncle stating that his father had recently died with the yellow fever and that he had willed all his proper- ty to him (the uncle) although he always failed to produce the writings to this af- fect. However, he succeeded in driving his mother with her children from her home and disposing of all the property that belonged to Jonathan Ellsworth. My grandmother's second and third marriage made no home for my father. He went down the Mississippi River. He finally joined the Mormon Church and in September 1841 started for Nauvoo, Illinois, where he arrived October 7th. On the 10th of July, 1842, he and my mother were married. She was the oldest child of Brigham young. Her name was Elizabeth. On July 1, 1843, my oldest sister was born. She was named for her Aunt Charlotte. At this place, Nauvoo, also was the place of my birth, October 7, 1845. my parents endured all the hardships incidental to frontier and pioneer life. In 1847 we crossed the plains to Utah. My father was one of the pioneers. My mother came in the second company, Captain Daniel Spencer commanding. My earliest recollections are of the early days in Utah. Some may have fared worse than I did, but all suffered with hunger during the famine of the early fifties. I saw aged Indians feeding dried grasshoppers to their little ones to sus- tain life. I have seen little boys take their cows to herd in the bottoms sc::,,h of Salt Lake City without breakfast, and have dug with them for wild artichokes ail 0..ay. I have seen the big spotted snake in our house in the 13th Ward, Salt Lake City, In 1854, I drove some of my grandfather's cows from his barn in the 18th Ward, Salt Lake City, to the first mill on Cannon Creek. I felt sure of one good meal, going to where flour was made. Judge my disappointment when my aunt, who lived at the mill, gave me one half of a small bran biscuit, which was all she had, and nothing with which to make more. But I knew no better at the time than to eat the last mouthful she had, and tramp back home. In 1854, my father went on a mission to England; returned in 1856; and in 1857, he with my uncle Joseph A. Young, went into the lumber business and there I commenced logging. My father sold his home in the 13th Ward, Salt Lake City, and . BYUI Special Collections & Archives 2013-07-16 002 bought property in the southeast part of the city which he owned and where I lived until 1867. In 1858, which is known in Utah as the year of the move, I drove team between Salt Lake City and Provo, where my father located with his family for the season, while Johnson and his army of U.S. troops passed through Salt Lake City on their way to Camp Floyd in Skull Valley. In 1860 I was engaged in herding cows in the mountains east of Salt Lake, when Johnson's army broke camp and started back east. When the troops wore passing up through Emigration Canyon, an officer gave me a fine horse - one that he had rode from Camp Floyd that day, near one hundred miles. The horse had given out and was so tired that I could not lead him home until the 'next day; but with rest and good care he soon got alright and proved to be as fine a saddle horse as I have ever seen, About this time my father bought saw mill property in Mill Creek Canyon, southeast from Salt Lake City where I went to work chopping and logging. When we first went into this, it was a very common thing to see bear, occasionally a grizzly, but mostly the brown or cinnamon. In the spring of 1865, we were engaged in chopping and sliding logs in read- iness for the sunmerls business; when, on the first day of April, I, with three others, John Bowen, Thomas Pierce and Robert Spergeon (alias Jacob Sylvester ;;tout, Tiere caught in a snow slide. Bowen caught hold of a limb on the lower side of a tree and thereby saved himself. The other three of us were swept down the mountainsici near half a mile, where I was thrown against a large tree which held me until the snow went by. I sustained one or two broken ribs and otherwise badly bruised -- which, by the way, I did not notice until the next day. As soon as I could a7ctrat myself from the snow which seemed more like ice, I started down the mountain lookin for the others. I had not gone far when I was joined by Bowen, who I supposed had been buried with the others. We then went together a short distance when we heard groans from below. We hastened to the spot from whence the groans came. There we found Tom Pierce the worst piece of mangled humanity with life in it that it has ever been my lot to behold. One leg broken in three places, with the knee and hip out of joint and the leg twisted round a small tree which held him from further descent; all his ribs on one side were broken and his head was so badly smashed that we could see his brains. Still he was alive and spoke to me, but he lived only a few minutes. The other man Stout we did not find until a month later. He was buried where the snow was piled deepest in the ravine; well preserved, no broken bones, - suppose he smothered. In 1866, my father sold his property in Mill Creek Canyon, and moved most of his family north into Weber County where he traded for a large tract of land, He resigned his command of the second battalion of the Nauvoo Legion. I was pro- moted to the office of Major to succeed him, which office I held two years, or until I left Utah; and I understand the organization was abandoned the following year. The Spring of 1867, Ellen Cornelia Blair and I were engaged to be married. This year and the preceding one I worked the farm and hauled lumber and wood from the canyon. I Wilt a two roomed brick house on a piece of land that my lather gave me, though I never got the deed. When I had the house nearly finished, I was called to Arizona on a mission to settle and build up the Muddy country. On the 5th day of November, 1867 I married Ellen Cornelia Blair,. gy granr"- father, President Brigham Young, performed the ceremony in the endowment house-., Sa:i Lake City. Soon after we were married, my father sold the house I had built and al; that he owned in Salt Lake City to one Dan Cliff, He received in payment a lot of f-Nld shelf-worn goods that were of little value to anyone. • • On the 13th of November, 1867, we started south on our mission to the Muddy, with a single team of small horses, an old narrow tracked wagon, which was not fit f.).1.- the trip, as most all wagons in the south were wide track. Preston Blair, my BYUI Special Collections & Archives 2013-07-16 003 3 wifets brother and Charles Johnson started with us. Throe days later we fell in with other parties; some going to southern Utah and others going to the Muddy. All went well until crossing the black ridge south of Canary, where Ellen took sick. M. stopped for a short time. All the teams left us.
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