[Apostle Willard Richards Journal] Locust Creek Encampment, Middle Fork. Morning cloudy and cool, wind south. About 10 a.m., the fifth company removed their encampment from the middle fork of Locust Creek to the edge of the prairie about 1 mile west of the main encampment. A turkey was brought into camp by one of the hunters of the first 50. (Clark) Edmund Ellsworth [Young], another hunter of the first 50, reported that he had killed a deer and a turkey, but was so completely bewildered by following the game from rough to rough, and no sun or compass, that it was with great difficulty that he got in camp, leaving the game in the forest without its benefiting the camp. Brother Lorenzo Clark, another one of the hunters, left camp about the same time and has not been heard of as yet.
A part of the first 50 were employed in herding cattle while the President and others were repairing their wagons and carriages. The rain through the day brought up the water in the creek about midway of the banks and still raining. About 8 evening, Captain Benson [Young] and A. P. R. [Young] came into the post office and suggested the propriety of having a blank form drawn up in which the employment of each individual would be set forth daily, and from the returns of which the conduct and behavior of every person in camp would appear. This would be doing justice to all parties and would furnish the historian with all the doings of the whole camp. Decided that J. D. Lee [Young] should draw up some blank forms to that effect.
[source: Apostle Willard Richards Journal]
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