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that day, Tuesday, to take all the guns and amrnunition. The Bishop hoped to get us away before they came. They had made brags to get the guns and then they would kill the men and do as they pleased with the women and children. Everyone was at the public square on Tuesday morning waiting for the word to go. Poor Grandmother Lunt was an invalid who had not been i n a wagon for twenty years, but that morning as we loaded a feather bed, a trunk, a few quilts and changes of clothes, she climbed up in the wagon herself, she was so excited. She rode down a rough mountain road for thuty miles sitting up on a spring seat. It was in the rainy season and had rained every day for a month, until the whole country was nothing but a bog hole. But the day we lefi it did not rain on us, aithough it rained all around us. The teams were all weak from being hid for so long and were not able to pul1 their loads. As we traveled along, tninks, boxes and other things were taken from some wagons and left by the side of the road to be picked up by someone who could take them. It was a pitiful sight to see children walking by the road. Our captain, David Black, kept riding up and down the line urging people to travel as fast as they could, but to keep together because he did not know what was ahead of us and he expected the rebels to meet us at any minute to take our guns. We met about 300 'Red Flaggers.' They were ail well armed and had a wagon at the side of the road to load in our guns. AU this delayed our company and, when we got to Pearson, the train had gone on without us. We had to stay there al1 night and Grandmother neady died of a heart attack. We did not know whether we would get h a across the border or not. Due to a shortage of cars, we did not leave until about noon and then the
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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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| Description | that day, Tuesday, to take all the guns and amrnunition. The Bishop hoped to get us away before they came. They had made brags to get the guns and then they would kill the men and do as they pleased with the women and children. Everyone was at the public square on Tuesday morning waiting for the word to go. Poor Grandmother Lunt was an invalid who had not been i n a wagon for twenty years, but that morning as we loaded a feather bed, a trunk, a few quilts and changes of clothes, she climbed up in the wagon herself, she was so excited. She rode down a rough mountain road for thuty miles sitting up on a spring seat. It was in the rainy season and had rained every day for a month, until the whole country was nothing but a bog hole. But the day we lefi it did not rain on us, aithough it rained all around us. The teams were all weak from being hid for so long and were not able to pul1 their loads. As we traveled along, tninks, boxes and other things were taken from some wagons and left by the side of the road to be picked up by someone who could take them. It was a pitiful sight to see children walking by the road. Our captain, David Black, kept riding up and down the line urging people to travel as fast as they could, but to keep together because he did not know what was ahead of us and he expected the rebels to meet us at any minute to take our guns. We met about 300 'Red Flaggers.' They were ail well armed and had a wagon at the side of the road to load in our guns. AU this delayed our company and, when we got to Pearson, the train had gone on without us. We had to stay there al1 night and Grandmother neady died of a heart attack. We did not know whether we would get h a across the border or not. Due to a shortage of cars, we did not leave until about noon and then the |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 998.pdf |
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