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    JAMESON, Charles: Haun’s Mill Survivor

    Charles Jameson was one of the Haun’s Mill victims that survived. “Oh, what a time that was! [Charles Jameson] was shot several [4] times. He crawled into the brush. The men followed him. One said, ‘Shoot him.’ Another said, ‘No, let him suffer. He’s dying anyway.’ But he did not die; he lived to go to Utah and lived to a good old age (6).” They were able to extract one bullet, but Charles carried the other three slugs with him for the rest of his life.
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      WOOD, William Sr.

      He was with the body of the Saints on their western movement when the call came for 500 of their gallant men to volunteer to fight in defense of the Government against Mexico. He enlisted in the Mormon Battalion July 16th 1846, marching with the company from Council Bluff, Iowa over a trackless plain where foot of man had never trod. On that perilous journey he helped to make roads, dig wells, and suffered untold agonies from hunger and thirst while marching on the desert day after day in the blazing sun. He was discharged at San Diego, California on July 16 1877.
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