I was born in Beaverly Canada 25 Jan 1830 My parents were George William Mann and Elizabeth Cook, Ellena, Daniel, Lydia C. and Cynthia Elizabeth, Lewis Poston Rovert Nelson, Alexander and Mary Jane and George William were my Brothers and Sisters.

Geo, my father went far a load of potatoes and when he returned he was very sick and died in a week or two of billows fever in Missouri. In the spring David Barclay Adams wife and two little daughters Annie and Mary died of Cholera on the steam boat Mary. I married David who had four little children. I was only 17 when I was married. That summer every bodies crops were burning up for want of water and we went to Conference, and one of the Twelve got up and ask the people if they wanted rain and they all said they did. There was only one little cloud in the sky to be seen. It soon commenced raining people started for their teams and wagons, but the apostle told them that they had wanted rain now they must stop and take it. So they stopped and it rained for three days and nights and the rain caused everything to be flooded so they had to call a fast and pray for the rain to stop and it did. One night during the storm our team came to the door and whinnied three times and then went off and we could not find them for two weeks, we found them drowned. In July my first baby was born a little boy named George William but he only lived 15 months and then was called home. We traveled on to Corn Creek it rained all night and David hired a team and buggy and went back after a Doctor woman but she wouldn't come so a woman waited on me and my baby Gilbert was born. The next day we traveled into Parawon I got out in the snow and washed out some baby clothes. Then we went on to Cedar, we lived in an old fort and the baby and I took sick and was real bad but some of the neighbors came in and took care of us and we soon recovered. We lived four years here but was up to the Iron Works and were alone some one shot through our house, but we never found out who it was that did it. Robert and Lizzie were born at Cedar. We lived on bran and pigweeds and I nursed my babies and took care of my large family.

One day we had a little soup and after we got through eating a man came we gave him what was left so he said he would eat the soup and take the bread home to his family. We told him alright and he did. It was every morsel we had in the house and did not know where we would get the next mouthful, but there was a woman who gave us a pair of bran occasionally and some times a pair of shorts.