. . . In the year 1851 my son's death brought me to reflection and was the means of my joining the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was baptized May 21st, in the year 1851. In the year 1856, I left my situation to go to Utah after working for Mr. Bent 16 years. On March the 19th I left Birmingham for Liverpool, went on the river on the 21st and set sail on the 23 Easter Sunday on the sailing vessel Enoch Train, and we arrived at Boston on the 30th. From there we went to New York, thence to Iowa City, thence about four miles to the camping ground where we stayed 6 weeks and 3 days waiting for handcarts, being made for myself and wife and six children. Took up our march with the first handcart company that ever crossed the plains. Myself and two of my children pulled two carts for fourteen hundred miles. My wife was confined soon after we got to Utah and she had to walk all the way with the exception of one half day. This was a hard trip but I never complained but always made the best of it. We stayed few days at Florence then started to cross the planes and we arrived in Utah on the 26 day of September with all of my family alive for which I thank God. [p.63]

BIB: Argyle, Joseph. Reminiscences and journal (Ms 340), p. 63. (CHL)
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