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towards building up the Church and Kingdom of God. On July 24th the flag was raised and the cannon fired and, this being the day the pioneers arrived in Great Salt Lake Valley, we had a celebration. The cannon was fired, had a fine procession, marched to the Bowery where aJl assembled. Some appropriate hymns and songs were sung and some good speeches were made. Concluded with a ball in the evening at Brother Shirt's house. All enjoyed themselves and good will pre~ailed.~ In the program Henry sang a solo, entitled "Old Adam Was a Gentleman." The first marriage in Iron County took place on July 29, 1851, when George A. Smith married Robert Callisby to Phoebe Dart. It was noted that the girl was of age and she married contrary to her father's wishes. Smith wrote the following entries in his journal: "July 28: I employed Joseph Claws to build an ash house and privy containing an apartment for chickens. Wednesday, July 30: Brother Webb made me a door and some shelves for my books. A good many of the brethren are busy getting hay and harvesting some early patches of grain." By this time the food, originally brought by the settlers, was getting very scarce. There had been a few shipments of flour from Salt Lake, but there would be no vegetables until the gardens began to produce. Smith noted on August 2, that he had a mess of new potatoes and obtained fifteen pounds of beef which added very much to the scanty variety of bread and water. The women learned to use every method possible in preparing different types of bread and pastries from flour. Smith wrote that his wife, Zilpha, was a good cook who baked corn meal pones in a bake kettle and fried doughnuts in a little three-legged ~killet.'~ Many years went by before she had a cook stove in her house. On August 4, the voting polls opened at 10 a.m., after the firing of the cannon to announce election day. The following candidates were put in by unanimous vote: John M. Bernisel--delegate to Congress,
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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