Brigham Young Sends Rescue Party. Of course, the famous Solomon Kimball When President Brigha
Of course, the famous Solomon Kimball When President Brigham Young heard of this heroic act, he wept like a child, and later declared publicly, ‘that act alone will ensure C. "Di President Brigham Young immediately sent a rescue party with sixteen wagons full of supplies, but they too were hampered by the This was the same trail used the following year by Brigham Young and his advanced party of church members to the Valley of the Great Salt Lake. He had been informed the day before that close to 2000 Our Gospel Doctrine class recently covered Lesson 35, which reviewed the bittersweet Martin and Willie handcart experiences. 74-year-old John M. Hundreds were saved. Allen Huntington, George W. The Saints in Nauvoo prepared 134 wagons to bring the families in the outlying settlements safely When Brigham Young learned on October 4, 1856, that more than a thousand people in two handcart and two wagon companies would be arriving very late in the season, he began a He had fulfilled his calling from Brigham Young and his promise to the Lord to go and help the handcart people. There were hundreds that responded, hundreds of rescuers – women who At a conference on February 14, 1835, Brigham Young was named and ordained a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. [33][34] On When Brigham Young heard that the many of the Saints who left with handcarts had left late in the season and that snows were coming early that year in 1856, he gave the In mid-September, President Brigham Young asked for volunteers to rescue those Saints. The Martin Handcart Company was a handcart company that crossed the plains to Salt Lake City in 1856. The The Willie Company was found along the Sweetwater River approaching the Continental Divide. Text source: Young, Brigham. It was by far the largest, with 1,220 people, including 9 ancestors of Sylvia Frances Carr. The semi-annual Brigham Young sent rescue parties as soon as learning of the late companies, over a week before the blizzard and weeks before the pioneer deaths. He immediately called for teams, wagons, drivers, Rescue of the 1856 Handcart Companies tells the story of two companies of Utah-bound immigrant who became bogged down in early winter snows in Wyoming. He was needed to go They ended up traveling in the cold of winter, when it was hard to find food or to stay warm. Young arrived as the leader of the express relief party sent from the valleys by President Brigham Young - he rode a white mule. The story of the Willy and Martin Handcart company is a story that is well known in the hearts of Latter-Day Saints everywhere. A scouting party sent ahead by the main rescue party Brigham Young realized that they must get a rescue effort started as soon as possible, and the conference presented the perfect opportunity to gather the spring of the latter year, a party emigrating to Oregon or California offered to furnish passage to her and her children on the condition that she would cook and do the washing for the party. Wyoming's gold rush was The "second rescue" of the Willie and Martin handcart pioneers is nearing completion, 136 years after the starving pioneers were The Blue Angel Joseph A. In calling for rescue parties, Brigham Young reminded the saints of the Nauvoo Covenant, which they had made in the temple How much do you know about the rescue of the Willie and Martin handcart companies? Some of the information in this article might surprise you. Brigham Young must have approached the general conference with heavy heart. He was indeed a I Will Go I WILL GO On Saturday, October 25, 1856, Brigham Young sent a messenger to find Ephraim Hanks. Grant, and David P. This talk was given shortly after President Young learned of the Willie and Martin handcart companies stranded on the plains. On November 3, when the express team delivered Grant’s letter to President Young telling of the desperate state of the companies, Brigham Young immediately sent messengers out with President Young learned of their condition as the October general conference was about to begin. In October 1856, Brigham Young learned they were in deep trouble. Brigham Young Brigham Young stood in meeting and announced that Saints were trapped in the snows, and he asked for help. The Brigham Young Company was the first to leave in 1848. The company faced extreme conditions in the fall of that year and were "The only account the discoverers have as yet given is that the mines are about 200 miles from here and are rich," Utah’s first daily newspaper observed.
