What happened to them ‘four Mormon brothers’ that were mentioned earlier in this thread??
“What happened to them ‘four Mormon brothers’ that were mentioned earlier in this thread??”
Someone noted that the Donner Party rescue was in 1846, a year or so before his/her first Mormon ancestor moved into the Salt Lake Valley in 1847, IIRC. That part of the discussion died right there. (If accurate info, that is as it should be. I like heroic ancestors as much as the next guy, but see no need to make them up.)
I think that poster was confused as to the party that was rescued. There were some young men (four I think) that did some extraordinary work in the rescue of the Willey and Martin handcart companies that got trapped in bad weather crossing the plains in 1856.
The young men of the rescue party (accounts mention George W. Grant, C. Allen Huntington, David P. Kimball, and Stephen W. Taylor) spent much of the day pulling the carts and carrying many of the emigrants across the river. Andrew Jensen later stated that some of the young rescuers died from the effects of the exposure.It has been said of those four young rescuers
They saw a need and they responded immediately, even at the risk of physical injury to themselves. They weren't perfect - they were rough-and-tumble Utah boys, and they were strong. ... It affected them but they did it.It mentions in all the research that I have done that these four young men carried most of the survivors over the Sweetwater river. The four young men suffered from the exposure, and it led to their deaths in later years.