George Freestone

GEORGE FREESTONE

"I was born of English parentage of Prince Edward Isle, 12 Aug. 1838.  When I was under two years of age, my parents emigrated to America and settled in Hardin County Ohio.

"When I was about 13, an Elder of Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints visited us, converting my parents, and we started for Utah. One year later we arrived at Mt. Pisgah, Iowa, one of the impoverished camps of the Mormons who were emigrating westward.  The hardships of the winter were intense.  The next spring we came on to Winter Quarters, where we found a company of Saints preparing to cross the plains to Salt Lake City.  We joined them and I drove a four-yoke of oxen on a heavy laden freight wagon to Utah, where we arrived September 9, 1853.  Our captain was Daniel Miller."

-Story quoted from his autobiography he wrote shortly before his death.