Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-04-27
VETERANS RECOLLECIIONS,
James P. Terry Nlrratss Many Inter
tslihg Experiences


ROCKVILLE, Utah, April 10, lsy4'
Editor DESERT NciUG
Seeing an Invitation glven-o re-
austin the DEsERET WEEKLY i'r
any person that felt Disposed to give
M account Of biz carly experience aud
seeing that two or three have complied,
| thought | would venture aud con-
tribute Tow items Of my recollcc'lons'
1 will begin by saying my ialheFs
name was Parshall Terry. lie was
BORN at Fort Niagara, YORK state, sep
tember 30, l55s. My mothsr Hannah
Terry Whose maiden name was Terry
was born ut Goshen, Ulster county
New York state, October 8, 1850. My
parents moved before was bora 10
what was then called Upper Canada,
now Ontario, where 1 was born Janu'
AIRY !, 1889. In February, 1888, one Of
my sisters brought twU Mormon mis'
sionafles In n cutter to our place. They
were Theodore Tuflcy aud Robert Is.
Thompson. Through lies that weic
told, my iathUfh anu some OF my brothers
were much prJudiced against the
M0rmUns, and my father talkoi pretty
ugly and cross to the ElIers, telling
them what he thought OF them; but he
gave them liberty 10 preach In
udr h0usr, anu before they got
through he was satisfied that the doc
thine they taught was ,fuc, AMI tho
result was that most Of our iamily Whs
baptized few days later In our mill
pond alter cutting hole through two
feet Of Ice for that purpose. l femem.
bsr hearing Brother Tufley say alter
ward that when they received thelf
h,ttlng out Or lecture by my iaihof he
thought they hAd come TO pretty
tough place 10 make Mormon converts.
ls,, ours was the only family IN the
nsig hbofhood that Joined the church.
will here relate what l consider
miracle or a remarkable occurrence:
My sister who brought the Elders To
our house had borrowed Book Of
Mormon from them 10 read, aud her
h island was NO much oppossu In It that
ne took II out Of her hands and went
and threw II open Into tho rfo and
stamped II down with his foot. My
q i,lef went from the farther part Of the
room where she was reading whom he
took the book from her, and on taking
u nom the IRE she found II not even
10 much ~ scofched, though they had
ON Au old.faahioued Canadian wlntcf's
fire, rs II was very cold. heard my
sser relate this before tue
Elders aud my brother in. Law
who sanctioned it Ms bolng true.
| now regret that dld not get a depO.
sitiOn OF these persons before they
d ised awBy, but 1 have two Sisters
anu q brother yet living who will tos.
tiy TO having heard our sister relate
this remarkable Incident. We saw
he book ailefward.
My father moved with his family TO
Mia ouu In the summer OF 1855 In
ume TO be driven out by tue famous or
Infamous exteImiuatiug order Of Gov
efnOT Bogga. On day Ia November,
lust at sundOwn, two men rode up ~
our house and without any pfOv0catiOn
ordered my father 10 begono from there
the next Jay by 4 O'Clock q. m. or they
would come, tie him up to n tree aud
give him = hundred lashos; and N that
wouldn't do. they would burn the
house over our heads. My father tried
10 reason with them, telling them his
teams were away, (my broIher.in-law
being gone 10 move n family To
AdAm-On-di-Ahman) and that his
family was sick (my mother not nav.
ing been able 10 go across tho room
for two months without helpl. hut
they became boistefOue, would
not listen to reason aud left.
The troubles became 20 bad
that the family which my bfothor.in.
law went 10 move did not 40 all the
way, 90 ptovidentially he got nome In
the night. 30 my iather loaded what
lie could VI his effects In the wagons,
but he was unable 20 take any OF our
winter supplies aud had 10 lVavs quite
an amount OF outstanding accounts.
We started out about O'Clock In the
afternoon. We Travelled about two miles
aud cAmped a. best We could In the
timber and snow for ihe night My
brothef-in-lAw, who stopped behind 10
attend 10 some aiiairb and watch the
movements of the mob, informed us
that M we went cut OF sight OF our
home into tho timber, the mob, aaid ~
he 800 strong, came In sight from tue
opposite direction evidently intending
10 carry out their threats, but as we
were gone they did not follow ".
One day while We were travelling Wa
met 100 OF the mob militia In heavy
snow storm going up TO Far West. VIZ
were forced to turn out In tho snow TO
let them pass. There were some other
teams with Us and the mob searched
their wagons for guns. One man Of OUT
company was not n Mormon, but his
vile was. The mob searching hi,
wagon threw = box Of books inlo the
snow, pretending 10 hunt for guns,
TIE captain OF the boat that feTflrd u
across the river NJ Quincy M We wont
into Missouri was along with tho mob
Rud think no was the captain OF the
company. He told them they needn't
search our wagons, for he searched
them when we went into Missouri AM
that We had no guns then, Hut my
father did have gun when We Wen
into aud also when we went oui o
Missouri. When We reached the Ms
sissippi opposite Quincy ths river wa
running full OF Ice aud the ferry bgA
was 20 crowded that We could not 20
across that afternoon. Ia the nign