five A.M. before
I reported to Elder Rae the situation of the folks behind . He immediately got up some horses , and the boys from the valley started back about midnight to help the ox-teams in . The night was very severe , and many of the animals were frozen . It was five A.M. before the last team reached the camp . `` I told my companions about the old man James and his little boy . They found the little fellow keeping faithful watch over his father , who lay sleeping in my quilt just as I left him . They lifted him into a wagon , still alive , but in a sort of stupor , and he died just as they got him up by the fire .