Saints by Sea. . . Liverpool October 6th 1854, I, Charles South left England intentionally to emigrate to the valley of the mountains to mingle with the Latter-day Saints on board of the ship America. I was the only Saint on the ship. I had good health during my journey across the Atlantic Ocean and the sailors was rebellious to the captain and officers. We had about three hundred passengers on the ship. I arrived in New York with my father and mother, sister and a friend on the last day of November in 1854 all in good health. [p.61]
We had one death during our passage across the sea. We started off the ship one night and we got on board the steamboat at six o'clock p.m. and started up the Hudson River to Albany. We arrived in Albany at seven a.m. We took the cars [at] four o'clock p.m. Arrived in Rochester [at] four o'clock a.m. We started from Rochester, ate breakfast, took the cars at 7 o'clock a.m. Arrived at the Niagara Falls at 11 o'clock a.m. and then we arrived in Beamsville, twenty two miles from Niagara. It is some part of it on low land. [-] two thousand five hundred inhabitants [p.62] I stopped there [Canada] two weeks and then took the cars for Brantford. It is very pleasantly situated on a hill on the Grand River, seven thousand inhabitants, a railroad station. I stayed there about nine months with my father and mother and I took the cars for Buffalo. Stopped to see my friends today and then I took the cars for Cincinnati. Came through Cleveland. I arrived in Cincinnati in December. . . . [p.63]
. . . I started from Cincinnati to Florence on the 14th day of May in 1856 on the steamboat [-].
Arrived [at] St. Louis on the 18th.
I started from St. Louis 20th.
Arrived in Omaha City on the 28th, seven miles below Florence.
Arrived in Florence on the 30th. . . . [p.64]
. . . 27 I started from Florence, 26 wagons, [with] people that spoke the English language . . . [p.65]
. . . Sept. 22 I arrived in Great Salt Lake City, 1856, in good health . . . . [p.67]
BIB: South, Charles. Diary, pp. 61-65,67. (CHL)
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