Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-03
A BATTALION BOY"


Correpordsacs or ne Nrws
sopto, March 20, 1894 Thinking a
sh5u account Of my travels with the
La,ter.Iay Saints might bo welcome
to the readers VI your interesting
paper, submit the following and hope
you will think u worthy Of publication.
Ny father's name was Jlhn =. Mar
tin, my mothers, Matilda Bigler
daughter OF Marx Bigler, who was th'
father Of jacob @. BIgle5 Of Nepui.
1 was born on the llth day Of Apfi ,
1925, In Harrison county, state pi Va
gina. lis now called West virgin A.
The fret Gospel sermon ! near
ufpached by an Elder % the Church
Jesus Christ nf Latter. lay Saints wa
In May, 1881; the EliUi's name wa
Loreuz1 ID. Barnes. lie was preach
ing in the WOODS near the bank Of TIA,
weat fork OF the MOuongahOla river, j
received a testimony that Jay that
Joseph was true Prophet u Coz, am
that testimony has remained with me
from that day to this. Ny father cmi
grated 10 Caldwell county, Missouri,
ia 1883, au1 arrived near Far Ntst
some time In September, ] think.
Soon after our arrival Ia the c UNITY
David Pnttan iOd a company OF th'
Caldwell militia against a mob I'D uy
Bogard. Brother Patton fell woundr
In that battle aud was brought 10
stephen winchesters, where he dicu
about iu O'Clock AZ night | was stand
ing by his bed when he died. The last
words remember hearing him sny
were, "Lord Jesus, receive my SOUL"
did not SEQ Joseph saith Ia MissJurii
he was betrayed BY Colonel Hiuklc
iuto the hands Of the mob aud carried
away before | saw him. | being a boy
about n years old. my mother kept M
hid la tho thick brush, % keep ne out
OF the hands Of the mob, wnO were
carrying boys oil to make Them toll
where their fathers were hidden. ]
len tho state NJ Missouri the
following March. My father tooE
a poor family 10 tho Mississippi
river before he took HE own family,
Tho frst time / saw tho Prophet
Joieph was At clnfofunco nulf
Quincy, Illinois. When he arose O.
speak there was q halo Of lisht afouni
his head. knew then that he was tuc
Prophet After Josuuh moved 20 Nhu'
VOC, 1 visited him 81 his houss 10 see
tho records VI Abraham. lilo took
much pains 20 show mo the records.
Tho last time 1 saw JDsoph alive was
n short time before he went 10 CarthaHc.
He roviswed the Legion, riding bic
iavorlte horse. The next lime l saw
him was in his house NJ Nauvoo alter
hia assassination at Carthage. .oit
Nauvoo on the 9TH OF February, 1915,
driving Que OF George A, smith,
teame; went % the camp OF the
Sainls NJ Sugar Creek. was travel.
ing during tile winter anu sprlug,
through snow aud mud, with the
fett suffering much with cold nni wei,
AZ length arriving at tbs banks OF thr
Missouri river, where |, with live hun.
dfod " the camp OF Israel, enlisted 10
hght the Mexicans. The most Of Us
were marched o. Lower California ami
on tue 18th Of July, 1897, We were
mustered out Of service NJ Llt
Angeles. Then we travelled north G.
Suffers Fort. some forty oi u
stopped anu worked for 5ultef anu
while building saw mill Ia tho
mounlAinsi the gold was discovered.
We worked In the minuA washing gOli
ilr short time. q alto u company
came 10 Salt Lake valley ia Hoplem.
ber, 1915. President Young had a
October (lSisG II was a happy Time
for us after tic hardahips OF our travels
from the Missouri river 10 the Pacific
OCEAN and back 10 Salt Lake valley.
JESSE h. MARTIN.