175 years ago today - Jul 10, 1847

[Wilford Woodruff]
The subject was brought up again concerning the emigrant Company who perished in the Mountains last winter [Donner Party]. They were mostly from Independance & Clay County Missouri And were A mob company & threatned to drive out the mormons that were in Calafornia & started for Calafornia with that spirit in there hearts. But it seemed as though they were ripe for Judgment. The snows fell upon them 18 feet deep on a level & they died & eat up each other. About 40 persons parished & were mostly eat up by those who survived them. Mrs L. Murphy of Tenn whom I Baptized while on a mishion in that Country but since Apostitlzed & joined the mob was in the company died or was killed & eat up. Her bones sawed to peaces for her branes & marrow & left stre[we?]d upon the ground.

[Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]

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