Charles HUFF

                   Proxy baptism also done 6 Oct 1967.
From Biography of Thaddeus Wilton Huff by daughter Malta Lorene Huff Smith:
Moved at young age with family to Walker Co., Georgia, (Early Records of Walker
County, Georgia, Vol. 1 and 2.)  Moved to Hancock County, Georgia, where he is
listed as a taxpayer in the year 1812.  Married there.  Moved to Chambers
County, Alabama, then to Pontotoc, Mississippi.  Here they met Elder Thomas, a
missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who converted
them to that faith.  They were baptized in 1850 in Pontotoc.  Soon thereafter
they made plans to emigrate to Utah. They were traveling north on the
Mississippi River on the steamboat Saluda which had been chartered to take a
company of Saints up river to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Near Lexington (Ky?) a
boiler explosion caused the boat to sink on April 9, 1852.  Among lives lost
were John Tillery Mitchell, husband of Rebecca Huff and Alivia Huff Felts and
husband Asa Felts and one of their sons.  The family lost nearly everything,
but a small chest containing some family heirlooms.  Thaddeus Huff was
responsible for saving the lives of several family members.
They refused an offer of Dr. John C. Gunn to finance their return and aid them
financially if they would give up their "foolish idea" of going to Utah, but
they refused.  In 1853 they started for Utah with the Moses Dailey Company.
Thomas drove one of the Church teams.  They settled in Bountiful, Utah, where
they remained until 1855, when they moved on to California to pioneer the
wilderness near Anderson, Shasta County. Thomas died there in 1855.  Arrived in
Utah in 1852.