Coaster, Old Town, & Mormon Battalion Vistors Center

Waiting for the Coaster to come...


Riding the Coaster...

Testing the covered wagon...

Rocking in the chairs at the Visitors Center.

Panning for gold

Holden wanted to be alone in this picture. This is so him right now, it is impossible to get him to LOOK at the camera when taking a picture...

Ken and Josef having lunch at the park.

We took the Coaster down to Old Town to go to the Mormon Battalion Vistors Center. The forecast was for rain, but we lucked out again with beautiful weather. The boys had fun panning for gold, and going through the interactive presentation with the sister missionaries. At the end, we looked up an ancestor that was part of the Mormon Battalion, George Wilson, I think we would be my 5th great uncle, probably brother to Guy Carlton Wilson. I am so grateful for such faithful ancestors. I think it is funny that later in life George helped to settle Holden, Utah.

George Deliverance Wilson
Born - December 28, 1807; Shelburne, Chittenden, Vermont
Enlisted - July 16, 1846
Description - 5 feet 11 inches tall, blue eyes
Occupation - Wheelwright
Family - Left a son in the care of a relative.
Significant Facts
Discharged - Member of the Willis Sick Detachment, which left the Rio Grande River in New Mexico on November 10, 1846. Arrived in Pueblo on December 20, 1846. Arrived in the Salt Lake Valley in 1847.
Later Life - Helped to settle Monroe, Marysvale, Scipio, and Holden in Utah.
Died October 18, 1887; Hillsdale, Garfield, Utah
Quote - On arriving in Pueblo in January 1847 as one of the last stragglers of the Willis Sick Detachment, he wrote, “This was the nearest death by cold and sickness and oppression and the narrowest escape of my life.” While in Pueblo, he wrote on April 6, 1847, “The last few months have been those of the greatest persecution I have ever experienced.”