ESLTRS-1880-08-24-From,SnowErastus,UtahCottonwoodCreekEmery-To,AshbyElizabethRebecca(Snow),UtahStGeorge

ESLTRS-1880-08-24-From,SnowErastus,UtahCottonwoodCreekEmery-To,AshbyElizabethRebecca(Snow),UtahStGeorge

Cottonwood Creek 60 miles East of Sanpete and sixty West of Green River [Cottonwood Creek, Utah]    Aug 24th 1880 [Tuesday 24 Aug 1880]


Mrs. Elisabeth R. Snow [Elizabeth Rebecca Ashby Snow]  St. George [St. George, Utah]


Dear wife.  We held a few meeting at Castledale [Castle Dale, Utah] 7 miles up this creek last Saturday and Sunday [21 and 22 Aug 1880].   There are several settlements in this region.   It is a semi Dixy [Dixie] country.   Yesterday (Monday) [23 Aug 1880] Prest Dame [President Dame] arrived with my things you sent me and with him a boy and Jos. Huston [Joseph Huston] with baggage wagon so we are now all together & soon set sail for San Juan [San Juan, Utah] across Green and Grand Rivers, then south to Silas Smiths camp and on to New Mexico via Fort Wingate to Louai [?] and the Little Colorado and home by Lees Ferry & Kanab where we expect to arrive about the last of September [Thursday 30 Sep 1880].   We are all quite well and have a good outfit of provisions, feed and comforts for ourselves & teams.    Have 4 men & 3 boys 6 spans of animals 1 Wagon & 3 Carriages.   Ashby [Ashby Snow] enjoying himself well with B. Youngs [Brigham Young Jr.] boy about his age.


Please write me at Sunset, Apache County Arizona [Sunset, Apache, Arizona] & give all the news.   The mail carrier is waiting to start for Salina [Salina, Utah] & I must close.   Shall write again when opportunity offers.   Love to yourself & children and all family & friends.   Ashby [Ashby Snow] says he is not a bit homesick.

Yours effectiontionately [affectionately]

Erastus Snow