[William Clayton Journal] This day is gloomy, windy and cold. About 8 the Camp were called together and organized. 2 Captains of 100's viz. Stephen Markham and A[lbert] P. Rockwood were appointed, also 5 captains of 50s and 14 Captains of 10s. There are 143 men and boys on the list of the pioneer company 3 women and Lorenzo Youngs two children. 73 wagons. O. P. Rockwell has gone back to Camp with J[esse] C. Little. Bishop Whitney, Lyman, W[illia]m Kimball and J[oseph] B. Noble return from here to Winter Quarters. The following is a list of all the names of this pioneer company. To wit:
Wilford Woodruff, John S. Fowler, Jacob Burnham, Orson Pratt, Joseph Egbert, John M. Freeman, Marcus B. Thorpe, George A. Smith, George Wardie, 2nd 10 Thomas Grover, Ezra T. Benson, Barnabas L. Adams, Roswell Stevens, Amasa Lyman, Stealing Driggs, Albert Carrington, Thomas Bullock, George Brown, Willard Richards, Jesse C. Little, 3rd 10 Phineas H. Young, John Y. Greene, Thomas Tanner, Brigham Young, Addison Everett; Truman O. Angel, Lorenzo Young and wife, Bryant Stringham, Albert P. Rockwood, Joseph L. Schofield, 4th 10 Luke Johnson, John Holman, Edmund Elsworth, Alvarnus Hanks, George R. Grant, Millen Atwood, Samuel Fox, Tunis Rappleyee, Harvey Pierce, William Dykes, Jacob Weilar, 5th 10 Stephen H. Goddard, Tarlton Lewis, Henry G. Sherwood, Zebedee Coltrin, Sylvester H. Earl, John Dixon, Samuel H. Marble, George Scholes, William Henrie, William A. Empy, 6th 10 Charles Shumway, Andrew Shumway, Thomas Woolsey, Chancy Loveland, Erastus Snow, James Craig, William Wordsworth, William Vance, Simeon Howd, Seeley Owen, 7th 10 James Case, Artemas Johnson, William A. Smoot, Franklin B. Dewey, William Carter, Franklin G. Losee, Burr Frost, Datus Ensign, Franklin B. Stewart, Monroe Frink, Eric Glines, Ozro Eastman, 8th 10 Seth Taft, Horace Thornton, Stephen Kelsey, John S. Eldredge, Charles D. Barnham, Almon M. Williams, Rufus Allen, Robert T. Thomas, James W. Stuart, Elija Newman, Levi N. Kendall, Francis Boggs, David Grant, 9th l Heber C. Kimball, Howard Egan, William A. King, Thomas Cloward, Hosea Cushing, Robert Byard, George Billings, Edson Whipple, Philo Johnson, William Clayton, 10th 10 Appleton M. Harmon, Carlos Murray, Hoarace K. Witney, Orson K. Whitney, Orrin P. Rockwell, Nathaniel Thomas Brown,35 R. Jackson Redding, John Pack, Francis M. Pomroy, Aaron Farr, Nathaniel Fairbanks, 11th 10 John S. Higbee, John Wheeler, Solomon Chamberlain, Conrad Klinenman, Joseph Rooker, Perry Fitzgerald, John H. Tippets, James Davenport, Henson Walker, Benjamin Rolfe, 12th 10 Norton Jacobs, Charles A. Harper, George Woodard,36 Stephen Markham, Lewis Barney, George Mills, Andrew Gibbons, Joseph Hancock, John W. Norton, 13th 10 Shadrach Roundy, Hans C. Hanson, Levi Jackman, Lyman Curtis, John Brown, Mathew Ivory, David Powell, Hark Lay, Oscar Crosby,37 14th 10 Joseph Mathews, Gilbird Summe, John Gleason Charles Burke, Alexander P. Chessley, Rodney Badger, Norman Taylor, Green Flake Black Ellis Eames.
72 wagons 93 horses 52 mules 66 oxen 19 cows 17 dogs and [] chickens.
The names of the females in this Camp are Harriet Page Young, Clarissa Decker, and Ellen Sanders. The names of the children Isaac Perry Decker Young and Sabisky L. Young, making a total of 148 souls who have started to go West of the mountains as Pioneers to find a home where the Saints can live in peace and enjoy the fruits of their labors, and where we shall not be under the dominion of Gentile governments, subject to the wrath of mobs and where the standards of peace can be raised, the Ensign to the nations reared and the Kingdom of God flourish until truth shall prevail, and the Saints enjoy the fulness of the gospel.
The following are the names of the Captains of 50's as appointed at this organization Viz. Addison Everett, Tarlton Lewis, James Case, John Pack and Shadrack Roundy. The Captains of 10's are as follows:
Wilford Woodruff, Ezra T. Benson, Phineas H. Young, Luke Johnson, Stephen H. Goddard, Charles Shumway, James Case, Seth Taft, Howard Egan, Appleton M. Harmon, John S. Higbee, Norton Jacobs, John Brown, Joseph Mathews.
Stephen Markham was appointed the Captain of the Guard and ordered to select out of the Camp, fifty men for guard, such as he had confidence in who are to be considered as a standing guard, to attend to the wagons each night, 12 of them to stand at a time, and to have 2 sets each night, that is 12 each watch to stand half the night. In cases where the horses and cattle are tied some distance from the wagons at night an extra guard is to be selected from the balance of the company or Camps. The standing guard not being permitted to leave the immediate neighborhood of the wagons. After the organization was over I wrote a letter to Diantha, and put it into the hands of Bishop Whitney, together with the one I received yesterday from father and I[] McEwan, also the one from Ellen to James [Case]. Up to 12 o'clock M. I had no w[h]ere to put my Trunk and clothing, and did not know what to do with them. However soon after Heber told me to put them in Appleton M. Harmons wagon, which was done. At 2 the camp started out to proceed on the journey. I bid farwell to Bishop Whitney and his brother Lyman and son Joshua, who all returned from this place, also William H. Kimball and Joseph B. Noble. We traveled about 3 miles and encamped in a line about 600 yards from timber, where there is plenty of Cotton Wood and some rushes. This night I slept with Philo Johnson, but having only one quilt, and the night severely cold, I suffered much, and took a very bad cold. The country in the neighborhood of the Elk Horn is one of the most beautiful I ever saw. The bluffs on the East are nicely rolling and beautifully lined with timber, and some very nice Cedar groves. From these bluffs a little above the Ferry you can see the meanderings of the Platte River, and the beautiful level bottom on the north of it about 15 miles wide for many miles up the river. The Horn is a beautiful River about 150 feet wide and about 4 feet deep.
[source: George D. Smith, An Intimate Chronicle; The Journals of William Clayton, Signature Books in association with Smith Research Associates, Salt Lake City, 1995, http://amzn.to/william-clayton]
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