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Ellen. Your brother and well wisher, H. Lunt. Wednesday moming, Oct. 28. Dear Brother: 1 am busy choring about home while the boys are at work in the field digging potatoes. Please give our kind love to your Uncle David and wife. 1 can't see to l read at a,neither can 1 read my own writing. 1 would have much liked to have written you a good long letter, but you must take the will for the deed. Cultivate a meek and humble spirit, be watchful and prayerful and you will prosper in aii your ways, both spiritually and temporally. We have no frost up to date, Oct. 28th, which is unprecedented on these mountains. Love to my wife and al1 the family. H. LuntS Henry wrote the second part of the preceding letter on the back of the first letter. Daniel E. Matheson manied Alice Maude Lunt April27, 1897. It took a long time for mail to travel back and forth between Cedar City and Pacheco. Henry mentioned newspapers were several months old when he received them. He was happy to have any news of any kind no matter when the events had taken place. He was very homesick for his former life, but never seemed to complain or outwardly express any misgivings or regret about his decision to move to Mexico. When he was asked by Erastus Snow, an Apostle of the Mormon Church, to go to Mexico, he did not question it, especially since he was being pursued by the "Feds" because of polygamy. The church always came first. Heaton said that while living two years on the Williams farm, Sarah was able to save a little money by making cheese. They wmbined this with the money they got from seliing whatever else they could and made a down payrnent on a home and some property in Corrales. The place was always referred to as the Spencer Ranch. Sarah and her boys moved there in the spnng of 1897 when Broughton was sixteen years old, Parley, fourteen, Edward, hvelve, and Heaton, nine. She also took the younger boys , Alma, Owen and Clarence, but they were not yet old enough to help on the f m . Each
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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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