Peter Stubbs

Immigration Sailed from Liverpool. England on the ship Elvira Owen on this date - Feb 15 1853 - Liverpool, England

Military Service #88 on muster rolls - May 8 1866 - Provo, Utah, Utah Territory, United States

I, PETER STUBBS, SON OF PETER AND JANE STEELE STUBBS WAS BORN AT NEWTON, MIDDLEWICH, CHESHIRE ENGLAND, ON DECEMBER 13, 1824.  THE DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD WERE NOT FILLED WITH HAPPINESS; DEPRIVED OF A HOME, MOTHER’S LOVE AND FATHER'S CARE WERE UNKNOWN TO ME, LEFT A WAIF AS IT WERE UPON THE COLD WORLD. IT IS HERE I ATTENDED SOME PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND WENT TO WHAT WAS KNOWN AS A "NATIONAL SCHOOL", BUT THIS WAS FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY AND SO FAR AS AN EDUCATION IT HAS BEEN ATTAINED IN THE COURSE OF THE PRACTICAL LIFE I HAVE LED.

    ABOUT FEBRUARY, 1840 WHEN I WAS FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE, I WAS IN THE COMPANY WITH SOME BOYS OF MY AGE AND WENT WITH THEM INTO A MORMON MEETING, MORE AS A BOYISH PRANK THAN FOR THE PURPOSE OF LISTENING TO WHAT WAS SAID, BUT MY ATTENTION WAS GAINED BY THE SPEAKERS ON THE OCCASION, THEIR EARNESTNESS AND SINCERITY, THE STRENGTH OF THE TESTIMONY THEY BORE OF THE MINISTRY OF AN ANGEL UNTO JOSEPH SMITH, HAD A WONDERFUL EFFECT UPON ME AND A STRONG IMPRESSION IN FAVOR OF THE NEW DOCTRINE TOOK POSSESSION OF MY MIND. 

    ON THE FIFTEENTH OF FEBRUARY, 1853 I EMBARKED ON THE SHIP ELVIRA OWEN WITH 345 SAINTS UNDER THE DIRECTION OF JOSEPH W. YOUNG. WE HAD A QUICK VOYAGE BUT THE PLEASURE OF OUR SHORT PASSAGE WAS MARRED BY SMALLPOX BREAKING OUT ON BOARD SHIP; 

    WE LANDED AT NEW ORLEANS MARCH 31, 1853 WHERE WE TOOK PASSAGE ON THE RIVER BOAT UP THE MISSISSIPPI TO ST. LOUIS, WHERE I LEFT THE COMPANY AND VISITED MY SISTERS EMMA AND MARY.  AT EMBARKING ON THE SHIP, ELVIRA OWEN, I HAD PAID MY FARE THROUGH TO SALT LAKE CITY, IN WHAT WAS THEN KNOWN AS THE TEN POUND COMPANY, BUT PERSUADING MY BROTHER-IN-LAW JOHN HINDLEY, CONTRARY TO HIS PREVIOUS PLAN, TO LEAVE ST. LOUIS AND GO ON TO SALT LAKE CITY THAT SEASON; THEREFORE TO BE IN COMPANY WITH HIM AND MY SISTER MARY I SOLD OUT MY INTEREST IN THE TEN POUND COMPANY AND AGREED TO JOIN HIM IN CROSSING THE GREAT PLAINS. 

    AFTER A PLEASANT JOURNEY ACROSS THE PLAINS WE ARRIVED IN SALT LAKE CITY ABOUT SEPTEMBER 25, 1853.

    IN THE SUMMER OF 1854 I FARMED ON SHARES FOR JOHN SINGLETON AND IN THE FALL OF THAT YEAR THE GRASSHOPPERS CAME IN SWARMS AND LAID EGGS.  THE NEXT SPRING I STARTED PLANTING GRAIN AS EARLY AS I COULD.  THE GRASSHOPPERS HATCHED OUT AND DESTROYED MOST OF THE CROPS, EATING OFF THE GRAIN AS FAST AS IT CAME UP.  THIS IS TOLD IN FEW WORDS, BUT THE SUFFERING BROUGHT UPON THE PEOPLE IN THE LOSS OF THEIR CROPS BY THE PESTS WOULD TAKE PAGES TO TELL.

    AT THE APRIL CONFERENCE 1855, I WAS CALLED ON A MISSION TO THE ELK MOUNTAINS (THE “HOLE-IN-THE-WALL” PARTY), AMONG THE INDIANS AND ALSO WITH A VIEW OF ESTABLISHING A SETTLEMENT. OUR COMPANY NUMBERED FORTY (4O) MEN WITH OX TEAMS AND A FEW HORSES. 

    IN 1857 THE U. S. GOVERNMENT SENT AN ARMY AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF UTAH, INFLUENCED BY FALSE REPORTS FORWARDED TO WASHINGTON BY JUDGE W. W. DRUMMOND. OUR PEOPLE TOOK THE ALARM AND THE ELDERS WERE CALLED HOME FROM FOREIGN MISSIONS AND THE SAINTS WHO HAD SETTLED IN CARSON VALLEY ON THE SALMON RIVER, GREEN RIVER, IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WERE ALL CALLED HOME. THE ARMY DID NOT COME IN THAT SEASON, BUT THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF BRIGHAM YOUNG, THEN GOVERNOR OF THE TERRITORY, THE MILITIA WERE CALLED OUT AND THEY HARASSED THE ARMY THAT THEY WERE FORCED TO CAMP AT BRIDGER FOR THE WINTER AND COOL THEIR COURAGE IN THE SNOW.

    PETER STUBBS DIED AT PROVO, UTAH - JUNE, 1, 1906 (Extracts from "BIOGRAPHY OF PETER STUBBS" - included in "Memories")

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m1. 19 Oct 1856 Salt Lake City - Elizabeth Dunn Stubbs (18 Jan 1840-22 Aug 1922)

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