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sickness and also of your son, Lehi. We hope by this time that you are well and that he is better and that peace and plenty prevail with you in the midst of all your calamities of which you have had a good portion. r But, we would say to continue to I ~ e a it with patience and strive to preserve your children that they may live and become mighty men and women to hclp to carry on the great Latter-day work. We are happy to hear that you had plenty to eat and we hope that you may always have plenty." "You stated that you have had a hard winter. I can assure you that we saw the hardest winter that we have ever had, cattle have suffered grratly lxtween severe frost and snow and thievcs. They have gone it steep this winter. Beef is now selling from 25 cents to 30 cents per pound and miserahle stuff it is surely at that. 'l'hings are very dull herc. Xot much can he done on account of the cold weather, hut we think that we shall (have) an abundant harvest and President Young promised so in the conference so, all is well. You talked of coming u p this summer. We would he glad to see you but the journey is long and the climate alters. You should he very cautious and not rome too early or leave it too late. O u r ronference is over - we have had good times. -41~0, convention our met and a ~ r e c d keep their prices as last year. We have no news parto ticular hut what we suppose you are familiar with through the newspapers. We had grcar cannonading here today -- rejoicing of the U.S. Troops over the surrender of General Lee to General Grant. T h e particulars you can read in the news." "Owen and Sarah are well and send their respects, William and his wife also. Give our kind respects to William Leigh and lct us know if he is married or not. Tell him that Henry, his \rother, is not quite gone. Tell his father that he has been a very good hoy - he has not taken up with had company -he has respected himself as a Latter-day Saint as far as I know. I cannot hclp saying this for Henry ( n o flattery.) O u r respects to his father and mother and please accept the same yourself and family. \Ve arc wcll, thanks he to Almighty God. Even so, Amen."" si,ved Edward and Jane Ashton Sage was an independent woman and h e was determined to give her children all the advantages that could 11c had. ;\bout two years after Thomas died, shc decided to take hrr young family to Salt Lake City tn \.isit her family there. Shc had written a letter to inform her family that she was going to make a visit and the precedir~g letter from her sister was ;In answer to that letter. Sage was anxious to make a ~ o o impression on d hrr frirnds and a11 the people she knew along the way. She worked ver\ hard to make new clothing for all the children hefore they left. She even

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Title	Lehi Willard Jones: Biography
Creator	Jones, York F., 1925-; Jones, Evelyn K.
Subject	Jones, Lehi Willard, 1854-1947; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History; Mormon Church -- Utah
Description	Life of Lehi Willard Jones, centering in Cedar City, Utah, 1854-1947, and history of much of the development of Southern Utah
Source	Lehi Willard Jones
Date Digital	2008-01
Date Original	1972
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Contributing Institution	Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah
Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
Rights Management	Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved.
CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

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Description	sickness and also of your son, Lehi. We hope by this time that you are well and that he is better and that peace and plenty prevail with you in the midst of all your calamities of which you have had a good portion. r But, we would say to continue to I ~ e a it with patience and strive to preserve your children that they may live and become mighty men and women to hclp to carry on the great Latter-day work. We are happy to hear that you had plenty to eat and we hope that you may always have plenty." "You stated that you have had a hard winter. I can assure you that we saw the hardest winter that we have ever had, cattle have suffered grratly lxtween severe frost and snow and thievcs. They have gone it steep this winter. Beef is now selling from 25 cents to 30 cents per pound and miserahle stuff it is surely at that. 'lhings are very dull herc. Xot much can he done on account of the cold weather, hut we think that we shall (have) an abundant harvest and President Young promised so in the conference so, all is well. You talked of coming u p this summer. We would he glad to see you but the journey is long and the climate alters. You should he very cautious and not rome too early or leave it too late. O u r ronference is over - we have had good times. -41~0, convention our met and a ~ r e c d keep their prices as last year. We have no news parto ticular hut what we suppose you are familiar with through the newspapers. We had grcar cannonading here today -- rejoicing of the U.S. Troops over the surrender of General Lee to General Grant. T h e particulars you can read in the news." "Owen and Sarah are well and send their respects, William and his wife also. Give our kind respects to William Leigh and lct us know if he is married or not. Tell him that Henry, his \rother, is not quite gone. Tell his father that he has been a very good hoy - he has not taken up with had company -he has respected himself as a Latter-day Saint as far as I know. I cannot hclp saying this for Henry ( n o flattery.) O u r respects to his father and mother and please accept the same yourself and family. \Ve arc wcll, thanks he to Almighty God. Even so, Amen." si,ved Edward and Jane Ashton Sage was an independent woman and h e was determined to give her children all the advantages that could 11c had. ;\bout two years after Thomas died, shc decided to take hrr young family to Salt Lake City tn \.isit her family there. Shc had written a letter to inform her family that she was going to make a visit and the precedir~g letter from her sister was ;In answer to that letter. Sage was anxious to make a ~ o o impression on d hrr frirnds and a11 the people she knew along the way. She worked ver\ hard to make new clothing for all the children hefore they left. She even 33
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