Thanks for your new blog entry. Do you know if this journal entry
was written in his own handwriting? If so, Do you happen to have a copy
of it? I have a typed copy that was given to me years ago (can't
remember by whom) but it isn't quite the same as your blog entry. Yours
has more detail. Do you know if a complete journal exists for Isaac
John Wardle?
I have attached some research that I have done.
Iva Beckstead
According
to The Journal of Langley Allgood Bailey, edited by Allen C.
Christensen, “I was taken down with a hemerage (hemorrhage) of the bowles
(bowels). I was unable to walk. Had to be hauled on Bro. Isaac J. Wardle and
my brother, John’s cart. After reaching Florence (Nebraska), a Doctor was
consulted. (The Doctor) said I must not
go another step or I would die and be buried on the road side. A captain named Tune would not administer to
me—said he did not have faith enough to rais(e) the dead. Mother, on hearing that Apostle F. D.
Richards and C. H. Wheelock had arrived in camp, got them to administer to
me. They promised me I would live to
reach the vallies (valleys). All this
time I was uncounsis (unconscious) of what was going on.”
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One
account written by a granddaughter of Isaac, Ollie Palmer Parkinson, states: “I
remember grandfather telling us how he left bloody tracks in the snow as they
came across the plains, and how he prayed for a pair of shoes and he came on to
a pair by the side of the road. They
were small for him and hurt his feet, but how good they felt to him, and he
knelt and thanked his Heavenly father for them.”
Another
time Ollie states that her grandfather said, “They almost starved to death and
more than once they singed the hair off the hides and chewed that. The longer they chewed, the larger it
got. They would take it out of their
mouths and cutoff another piece and chew again.”
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They
had to cross streams and rivers that were filled with ice chunks. On page 5 of the book Of Dugouts and
Spires by Ronald R. Bateman, 1998 published by the South Jordan City
Corporation it states, “Isaac J. Wardle helped bury twenty people in a single
grave in that desolate white wilderness.”
Charlie Wardle I think I heard that Isaac lost couple toe's.
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