"Sunday [ ] did not travel [ ] the deseas spoken of still continues in the camp but not fatal [ ] they have nearly all had it [ ] I went in company with several of the brethern back to the ferry to help 5 of our men across that were going to meet their families and when we got there we met some of our soldier boys returning from the Army at Pueblo [ ] they left the rest of the detachment at the Platt ferry [ ] we got our men over the river and then returned to camp"
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The battalion men who joined the pioneers were Thomas H. S. Williams, Thomas Bingham, John Buchanan, William W. Casto, George S. Clark, Francillo Durfee, Samuel Gould, Allen Hampton, James Oakey, Benjamin Roberts, Andrew W. Shupe and Jesse J. Terrill.
The names of pioneers and now these men are intriguing because here in Mesa there are so many whose progenitors are living right here. In this group there are many Durfee's that live here as well as Oakey's and Shupes. In the actual names of the pioneers here in Mesa we have Pomeroy, Sirrine, Shumway, Benson, Burnham, Decker, Driggs, Ellworth, Gibbons, and Harper. I'm sure there are more that I'm not aware of. Charles has a house here that he built in the late 1888 not long after the original Mesa pioneers started the city. It is on the corner of Lehi and Center. It is still standing, but there is a freeway wall there now a few short feet from the house. It used to be way out in Lehi but the land is now freeway. My father has been in the house; I have not.
