a.
Injury
b.
The baptism of
her neighbor
c. Her baptism
d.
Ending his
mission
Yesterday’s answer:
(C) Snowshoes
From
the lives of George Washington and Betsy Elizabeth Kroll Bradley: Behind these two events lie much of Manti’s
early history—snow, short food supply, Indian trouble, sickness, and misery of
many kinds. They were better written on history’s pages and in George’s own
words to the Manti Sentinel than could
ever by described here. Suffice it to just touch the highlights of this story
and say that young Jerome Bradley was almost twenty-one years old, had a steady
girlfriend, and was engaged to be married when he volunteered to take his
father’s two teams and wagons and head a party returning to Salt Lake for badly
needed supplies of the settlement.
He visited his sister and brother-in-law, Amanda
and Daniel Henrie, at Bountiful, and he was persuaded by Amanda to let them
return with him to her folks for a visit. She said it would be sort of a
delayed honeymoon trip.
Indian trouble delayed them for two weeks at
Provo, so the friendly Chief Walker sent his brother, Tabanaw, and another
friendly Indian along as their guides. They were caught in a terrific snow
storm in Salt Creek Canyon. It snowed every day for three weeks, and snow was
about the willows along the creek and at least four feet deep on the level in
the valley.
One team and wagon, whose horses were
strong, continued on through. The other wagons were trapped till the following
March. Amanda, Jerome, Daniel, and the other teamsters lived on the corn meal
supplies in their wagons for as long as they could, and when a sick Indian came
to their camp, they shared their food and nursed him back to health. He paid them
back by saving their lives when other Indians would have killed and scalped
them.
The Indian guide, Tabanaw, and August Dodge
finally set out to take the word of their desperate plight to their families.
They wrapped their legs with sacks and wrapped up the best they could and set
out. The Indian made it to the outskirts of Manti where he was found. He
delivered his message, but Dodge was left by an old oak tree west of Ephraim.
He was completely exhausted and was found by a recue party more dead than
alive.
An expedition headed by George W. Bradley
and Daniel Funk supplied with hand sleds, blankets, and snow shoes which Indian
Chief Walker had showed them how to make, brought the party out of the canyon
in a weakened condition. Due to exposure and privations suffered on this trip,
Jerome Bradley contracted pneumonia, a sickness from which he never fully recovered.
He died July 16, 1851, just three weeks before his wedding date. Since he had
many friends among the Indians, many of them joined with this white friends in
mourning at the funeral and followed the cortege to the cemetery.
Chronicles of Courage, Lesson Committee (Salt Lake City: Talon Printing,
1997), 8: 77-78.
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