40 miles from Nauvoo. We lived in Salem about a year until we made enough money to take us to Council Bluffs, Iowa. From 1847 to 1849 everything was quiet in Council Bluffs. In 1849 George A. Smith called for help to take him to the Great Salt Lake Valley, My father, with the help of several others, fitted him with a yoke of cattle. We lived in Council Bluffs about a year until 1851 when we left on May 10 for the Valley. We traveled in Captain Day's Company. We had five yoke of cattle, one span of ponies, three wagons and four cows. My father and I drove the oxen and cows while mother drove the ponies. We stayed in Salt Lake City one night and arrived in East Weber (Uintah) on Sept. 19. At the 1852 spring Conference Father volunteered to meet emigrants coming into the valley that Fall. When the time came Father could not go so I had to take his place. I started for Salt Lake the last of August with three yoke of cattle and a good wagon, and picked up three yoke of cattle belonging to Bishop Hunter. We met several companies which were all in good shape. At Big Bend on the Sweetwater, the Captain, named Hunter, instructed me and 'Dad' Blodgett to take 16 yoke of cattle and meet the last Company. I was then a boy of 21 and Dad Blodgett was 60 years past, and a cripple at that. On the second or third day a big snow storm came up. We pulled into the will¬ows to camp for the night. Imagine our surprise the next morning to find all our cattle gone. They were finally located across the creek several miles from camp and on good feed. We caught the Sugar Train which was one day ahead. Forty head of their cattle had frozen the night before. They had to abandon 10 wagons and had to go back to get them the next Spring. We arrived in the Valley in November and I returned to East Weber. In the Spring of 1855 I married Abigail Higley. She was born in Port Leydon, New York, October 6, 1838, a daughter of Myron Spencer and Priscilla Ebberson Hig¬ley. She spent her girlhood with her parents in Canada and New York. Her family first heard the Gospel preached in Port Leydon. They joined the Church in Nauvoo and crossed the plains in 1852. The Higleys also settled in East Weber and endured many hardships there. We were married March 12, 1855 by my fath¬er, Abiah Wadsworth, Bishop of the East Weber Ward. There was not enough food to last through the Winter and the livestock was turned out on the range. Many were lost because of the cold and meager feed. A 125