This blog is to share memories, thoughts and stories
from the Salt Lake Jordan Stake Pioneer Trek of 2012.
Please email, text, photos and video clips to have them
added to this Blog so many can enjoy the music, stories,
photos and video.

email: sljordanstaketrek2012@mail.com or contact Pam Johns

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Salt Lake Jordan Stake Trek 2012 Logo Contest

Attention Everyone!!!!!!!  We are going to have a Trek Logo Contest for 2012.   Click the following link for details

Stake Trek Logo Contest

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Christmas for Early Pioneers – Ensign – 2011-pg 71

Harsh winter months made for difficult times for most pioneers, and resources for Christmas presents and celebrations were often scarce. Yet that didn’t deter the early pioneers from creating special memories during the holiday season. 
My, How Time Flies
“One night when I was sixteen years old, Father gave a Christmas party for his own children and their families and the nearest neighbors.  We danced.  My brothers were the musicians.  We knew it was Fathers; aim to end the party at ten o’clock, which he did right in the middle of a square-dance by ordering the musicians to stop.  But Father didn’t know that my brothers had lifted me up to the clock many times that night.  Each time I turned it back thirty minutes.  It must have been past midnight when the party broke up.”  From Christian Olsen Family Records, in Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage

Brother Dennis Johns' - Great great grandfather

James Bosworth, age 17, was born in Borrowash, Berryshire, England, on April 28, 1844.  He was the son of Jon and Sarah Bunting Bosworth.  In 1851, he moved with his parents to Nollingham, and in 1852 was baptized in the Latter Day Saints Church.  He left for America in March 1857 on the ship George Washington.  In the spring of 1861, with his parents he started across the plains for Salt Lake City with an Independent Wagon Train, David Cannon was their Captain.  James drove cattle for Truman Egley from Florence to Salt Lake City.  In 1864 he made a trip with Stringham’s Freight Wagon Train, taking twenty missionaries who were on their way to preach the Gospel in Foreign Lands, they had trouble crossing the Platte River and was held up for three days in water and quicksand, they had trouble with the Indians.  On his way back from his trip he was staffed at Fort Carney by the government to fight Indians, and held on guard to do picket work.  James Bosworth made three trips to Missouri to guide different companies of Mormons to Utah.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Have you heard the NEWS????????

All the youth in the Salt Lake Jordan Stake are invited to attend the Trek in 2012.  All youth between the ages of 12-18, seniors who graduate in the year of 2012, are welcome.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Sister Catherine McAleer walked in Margaret's honor on the 2007 Trek:

MARGARET DALGLISH
Born 2 May 1825, Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Alexander Dalglish and Elizabeth McNee. Her parents soon moved back to Glasgow, Scotland. They had come to Ireland for work. Margaret’s mother died when she was only 8 years old. Margaret was baptized in Glasgow on July 18, 1842, when she was 17. Margaret later told her grandchildren “I saw the valley before I ever left Scotland.” Margaret got the opportunity to come to Utah through the Perpetual Emigration Fund, sailing on the Thornton, with the Willie Company. Margaret’s captain of 100 was William Woodward, a returning missionary, and clerk who kept the company journal. Margaret was assigned to tent #3, with 18 others, including the Kirkwood family. It is reported that Margaret pushed her handcart over a cliff at the end of the journey and walked into the valley “with nothing but her gaunt bones, her empty hands, and her stout heart.” Most of the Willie carts were left at Ft. Bridger, so the event may have happened there. Diaries record that some carts were pulled behind the rescue wagons into the Valley. On April 12, 1857, Margaret became the second wife of Andrew Cowan, also from Scotland, who had come to the valley from Nauvoo. She lived in SLC and had one daughter, Margaret, and two sons, William, and Robert. Her grandchildren record that Margaret was a “student of Scripture and had the Gift of Tongues. She also was a lover of the soil and spent much of her time in her flower garden. She passed on to her reward September 23, 1905, and was buried in the City Cemetery.”

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

2012 Stake Youth Committee

We are excited to announce and introduce our New Stake Youth Committee.  Angelia Tuckett; 1st Ward Scott Bolton; 1st Ward, Melinda Hartley; 3rd Ward, Nic Park; 3rd Ward, Krista Bird; 4th Ward, Schylar Whipple; 4th Ward, Allison Jensen; 6th Ward, John Duffy; 6th Ward, Kim Tabligan; 7th Ward, Dylan Proffit; 7th Ward, Marleen Maynes; 8th Ward and Kevin Ponce; 8th Ward.   Welcome!!!!!