The Pope Family

Before Oscar was born, his parents were baptized to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After Oscar was born, the Saints were forced out of Nauvoo. 

The Pope family joined the John B. Walker Company on Oct 26, 1852 in Kanesville, Iowa and entered the Salt Lake Valley on Oct 2. They made their home in Grantsville, Utah.

"When I was 18 years old I had a desire to go to Cache Valley. After promising my parents I would return in the fall they consented for me to go. Daniel Brown, my brotherin-law and myself took our bed and clothes on our back and walked from Grantsville to Hyde Park where we met Brother John Woolf who gave my brother-in-law work for three weeks. Bishop William Hyde gave me work. Then from there we went to Richmond Utah where we worked for [William] Harris the rest of the summer. Then we walked back to Grantsville. I had a very pleasant winter as I had a sweetheart. I had worked and had a little money to make things more pleasant."