Memoirs of John R. Young, Utah Pioneer, 1847

Salt Lake City, Utah
The Deseret News
1920
Words are the soul's ambassadors who go Abroad, upon her errands to and fro, They are the chief expounders of the mind, And correspondence kept 'twixt all mankind. They place in memory's clasp, truths we have read, Beautiful words, of both living and dead. Helping us cherish, and nurse as they grow, Elysian plants, from thoughts that we sow. Bringing to memory, and waking to life The form, and face of a child, or wife, The choicest treasures to mortals given, The golden thread that leads to heaven. O, may the thoughts in this book penned, Prove sweet, and pure, to kindred and friend, To a child, or grandchild, as the case may be. Loyal scions, from the ancestral tree; Whose pulse will quicken, and brain will throb, As they view the path the grandsire trod.
Appreciation
With pleasure I express thanks to Professor N. L. Nelson, Historian Andrew Jenson, Elder Walter J. Lewis, Sister W. Lyle Allred, and to my son, Newell K. Young, and to you, my many friends, who have given words of encouragement to
THE AUTHOR .
Birth.—Childhood Recollections.
Camp on Sugar Creek.—Brigham's Charge to the Exiles.—Death of a Noble Woman.—Free from Mobs
Petition Governors.—William C. Staines.—Captain James Allen
Thomas L. Kane's Description of the City of Nauvoo, and the Exiled Mormons
Daniel H. Wells.—Baptism for the Dead.—Lorenzo D. Young's Mission.—Wilford Woodruff.—Saved by Prayer