[Apostle Wilford Woodruff Journal] A new city has been laid out 10 miles north of the Temple Block Another About 10 miles South. All the lots surveyed had been taken up & An Addition had been made running to the mountains on the East side. ...
Brothers Daniel Browett, Allen And Cox were all killed by A Band of Diggers in the Calafornia Mountains As they were exploring A new Pass through the mountains. They were surrounded when Asleep And killed with stones. $100 worth of gold dust was found on the ground which belonged to Brother Allen. Their bodies were striped of their Clothing And then buried by the Indians. This occurd 40 miles from the settlements on the Sacramento....
[Source: Wilford Woodruff's Journal: 1833-1898 Typescript, Volumes 1-9, Edited by Scott G. Kenney, Signature Books 1993, http://amzn.to/newmormonstudies]
The full names of the last 2 men were Ezra H. Allen, and Henderson Cox. They were "murdered by the Indians" per Comprehensive History of The Church 3:369. It logically follows that they were buried by whites who by chance found the bodies.
ReplyDeleteAccording to above source, the place is still called today "Tragedy Spring" in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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ReplyDeleteAccording to the sources in comments #3 thru #5, the 3 men were murdered on June 27,1848 and their bodies were found by the Jonathan H. Holmes/Samuel Thompson Company (1848) on July 19,1848.
ReplyDeleteThe 3 men were returning Mormon Battalion veterans.
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