Uncle (3G) Charles Franklin Decker |
B. H. Roberts, Comprehensive History of the Church, Vol.4, Ch.95, pp.28-30 (continued, paragraphing and emphasis added): In 1852 [Uncle] Charles Decker, bringing in the mail from Laramie had a narrow escape from death at the hands of hostile Indians, on which occasion he met with “Kit” Carson, “to whose intercession he ascribed his deliverance.” On the same journey he met with the following trying experience chronicled by [Uncle] Brigham Young: “Brother Charles Decker arrived from Laramie with the eastern mail. He had to swim every river between this and Laramie. The mail coach and mules were lost at Ham’s Fork, where the mail lay under water from one to seven p. m.; the lead horses were saved by being cut loose. Brother Decker was in the ice water with the mail all the time, and then exhausted, had no resource but to wrap himself in robes and blankets, wet as water could make them, till morning, when he found himself in a free perspiration, fully relieved from a fever he had been laboring under most of the time since he left the city. |
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