. The Stevens genealogy, embracing branches of the family descended from Puritan ancestry, New England families not traceable to Puritan ancestry, and miscellaneous branches wherever found, together with an extended account of the line of descent from 1650 to the present time of the author. can date his first lessons in elocution amiaruiimetic from her training. Ihev crossed the western ])lains and tlic \\ asatch range of ;uid arri\ed in .^alt Lake valley on Se])tember 20. 1848; in the. 11 SKIITCH LINE OF DR. ELNIKA STEVENS liARNEV. 261 first company of that year^ of
. The Stevens genealogy, embracing branches of the family descended from Puritan ancestry, New England families not traceable to Puritan ancestry, and miscellaneous branches wherever found, together with an extended account of the line of descent from 1650 to the present time of the author. can date his first lessons in elocution amiaruiimetic from her training. Ihev crossed the western ])lains and tlic \\ asatch range of ;uid arri\ed in .^alt Lake valley on Se])tember 20. 1848; in the. 11 SKIITCH LINE OF DR. ELNIKA STEVENS liARNEV. 261 first company of that year^ of which Zera Pulsipher was captain,having been some five months in transit. The Pioneers and onecompany had arrived the }ear l^efore. On her way across the plains the buffaloes were frequently seen on the hills in droves of hundreds. The meat of these animals was . usetl as food and with buffalo chips the emigrants baked their bread. Having traveled nine hundred miles by ox-team, we find th.^sn])ject of this sketch by the side of two yoke of oxen with her sicksister Jane and brother-in-law, Philip B. Lewis, with a broken arm, allunder her care. They here came to the first fort built by the Pioneers oflogs, with dirt roof. In her diary, she says: The sight of thegigantic mountain peaks, seemingly towering above the shining sunin the clear, azure sk}, brought a cheer from the weary now is a beautiful city, we saw nothing but tall sage brush,sand, grashoppers and crickets. ( )ne
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