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Fort singing Christmas songs which serenaded the town most beautifully. Then they returned to the schoolhouse and partook of some refreshments, received some instructions, and danced again until daylight. The house was most beautihlly decorated with evergeemi interspersed with artificial flowers and a number of pictures hung around the room On Christmas day the entire town met at 1 p.m. for a meeting. Henry and Ellen dined with the Walkers and a small party after the meeting and had an excellent d i i e r of roast beef andplum pudding. e Everyone m t again at 6 p.m. and continued with dancing and amusements until late at night. They gathered donations of food to give to the Indians. So ended the second Christmas in the settlement of Cedar City. On Sunday, December 26, Henry delivered a lecture on the duties of children and parents in regards to getting an education and speaking good E n g l i ~ h . ~ was probably one of the best educated He men in the community,having received his schooling in England under a strict school system. (This was probably the reason he was usually chosen to be secretary and keep journals for the church and Iron Works). Many of the settlers could not read, much less do any writing. On Thursday, December 30, Henry wrote in his journal: Very fine warm day, no frost and remarkably muddy. Made another trial of the iron ore in the cupola [a re-heating furnace] at the Iron Works. M e r a good trial for about 15 hours, there was no iron and it is the judgment of all that there is something in it that eats the iron away. I attended prayer meeting in the evening and read a proclamation which Brigham had published &the Deseret News last year respecting the first day of the new year. It should be kept as a day of praise and thanksgiving unto the Lord. I also invited them to give liberally of their abundance to the poor so that they might rejoice with us and we would
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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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