Sunday
25 October 1846—Still encamped on the West side of Soap Creek. Joseph Knight,
George Wardle, and John Rushton were to unload the Captain’s Wagon in order to
fetch corn. Knight had to call on the Camp to assist him to empty it. McFate,
Green, Meeks, and Corbett making cow jokes all day, Wardle and Bennett making
bows in [the] afternoon, 5 yokes were completed. Whitehead and Lytle blacksmith
all day. Berkelow hunting. A warm day, large clouds floating in the air. I was
baking, carrying water, nursing, organizing Harmon and Wilson, hunting cows
&c &c. My Wife washing, altho’ so very sick that she had to leave the
wash tub to vomit, and when spreading her clothes on the ground to dry, had to
lie full length on the prairie, and had to go and wash again, receiving no
assistance from any one, altho’ single women and women with only one child were
on each side of our Wagon. About four o’clock in the evening a man was
purchasing goods from the brethren. Sister Savary let the Bishop have six
plates, which he sold to the man for forty eight cents. Brother Samuel Savary
returned to the Camp from hunting his cattle and commenced abusing his Wife
with his tongue. She then told him, to “get them again then.” He went to the
Bishop to get them and was very near being the means of causing the man, not
trading [to quite trading], nor of our getting corn for our cattle. The Captain
returned with the Bishop to Savary’s Wagon. After some words, Savary said he
would not take six bits for his plates, [as] he thought more of his plates than
his Wife and such like expressions. When the Captain said he would give Savary
a dollar for his Wife, Savary agreed. The Captain offered it to him, [and]
Savary said “give it to my Woman.” He did so, [and] she accepted it. The
Captain then went for the Clerk to make out the writings. When they got to
Savary’s Wagon, Savary said he would “not sign any paper [as] he considered he
was an honorable man, his word was his bond, he did not repent of his bargain”
and many similar expressions. The Captain then went to the Wagon, began
conversing with Sister Savary, when brother Savary went up to him and said “you
have no business talking with my woman.” Captain Allen replied “You have no
Woman, you have sold her, I have bought her and shall claim her in time and
thro’ all Eternity.” Savary then ordered Captain Allen away several times,
became very abusive in his language to the Captain. For proof of this, call
George B. Gardiner, Solomon Wixom, Thomas Bullock, Stephen Perry, and Jesse P.
Harmon. (Thomas Bullock, Journal entry for October 25, 1846, in The Pioneer
Camp of the Saints: The 1846 and 1847 Mormon Trail Journals of Thomas Bullock,
ed. Will Bagley [Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier 1;
Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997, 2022], 85-86, emphasis in bold added)
