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had left four days before and we felt that our fervent prayers had been heard and answered hy the kind Father above. My horse, 'Frank' lead us out of our lost condition toward camp before the storm broke, show ing us the superior instinct of animals." "The next time we started around for home we were successful, hut we took no chances and followed the wagon road around by Short Creek and Hurricane Hill. The night before reaching home (Cedar City,) we ran into a hunch of freighters, some going north towards their homes, and some going south towards Silver Reef. Some of the latter were loaded with whiskey. This was, I believe, the toughest comhination of men that it has been my misfortune to fall in with. Had it not been that a very short time after our reaching this camp my partner was laid out 'proper' for the night, I would had saddled up and hit the trail for home, this time heing at the head of Black Ridge, something over twenty miles from home. As I recall it, there were about thirty men and boys, hut as it was late when we rode into the camp, quite a number were overloaded, laying around on the ground. Some were so far gone that they could not put up a n ohjection when their friends put them to bed. I t was a wonder that some of them did not freeze as it was a winter night. From what was told me later, some of the older ones, I think from Payson, were apostates from the Mormon Church, and those are the kind of people that descend lower than any ordinary people hy way of foul talk, and making light of sacred things. Notwithstanding, I being about the ynungrst one in camp, I put u p an earnest protest against some of the sacrilegious things they engaged in, such as asking the hlessing over the ha~.rel whiskey, and goin- through a form of prayer, etc. Finally, of some of the more decent ones started up some athletic sports, and as there was no such thing as tryins to sleep, I joined in the sports, it heing a moonli-ht night. The next morning I routed my partner out for an early start, and we arrived honie ahout noon." I t was late in the fall of 1878 while camped at Antelope Springs west of Cedar City, that Kumen ran into the cattle rustlers building the corral. Shortly a f t u this hectic summer and fall of cattle rustling, Kumen was married to hiary Nielson Dec., 19, 1878 in the St. George Temple. It is interesting to note that the three older Jones brothers were all married in the year 1878. ~ u m e n ' w r o t ethe following about his marriage and a dream that he had: "At the breakfast tahle the first morning after returning home from St. George, Utah, whzre Mary and I were married in the Temple, I told the family of a dream I had during the night. The main features of the dream were about as follows: ( I n company with others, most of whom were strangers to me, including Indians, we were all husily engaged at the building of a large stone building, in which the

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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	had left four days before and we felt that our fervent prayers had been heard and answered hy the kind Father above. My horse, 'Frank' lead us out of our lost condition toward camp before the storm broke, show ing us the superior instinct of animals." "The next time we started around for home we were successful, hut we took no chances and followed the wagon road around by Short Creek and Hurricane Hill. The night before reaching home (Cedar City,) we ran into a hunch of freighters, some going north towards their homes, and some going south towards Silver Reef. Some of the latter were loaded with whiskey. This was, I believe, the toughest comhination of men that it has been my misfortune to fall in with. Had it not been that a very short time after our reaching this camp my partner was laid out 'proper' for the night, I would had saddled up and hit the trail for home, this time heing at the head of Black Ridge, something over twenty miles from home. As I recall it, there were about thirty men and boys, hut as it was late when we rode into the camp, quite a number were overloaded, laying around on the ground. Some were so far gone that they could not put up a n ohjection when their friends put them to bed. I t was a wonder that some of them did not freeze as it was a winter night. From what was told me later, some of the older ones, I think from Payson, were apostates from the Mormon Church, and those are the kind of people that descend lower than any ordinary people hy way of foul talk, and making light of sacred things. Notwithstanding, I being about the ynungrst one in camp, I put u p an earnest protest against some of the sacrilegious things they engaged in, such as asking the hlessing over the ha~.rel whiskey, and goin- through a form of prayer, etc. Finally, of some of the more decent ones started up some athletic sports, and as there was no such thing as tryins to sleep, I joined in the sports, it heing a moonli-ht night. The next morning I routed my partner out for an early start, and we arrived honie ahout noon." I t was late in the fall of 1878 while camped at Antelope Springs west of Cedar City, that Kumen ran into the cattle rustlers building the corral. Shortly a f t u this hectic summer and fall of cattle rustling, Kumen was married to hiary Nielson Dec., 19, 1878 in the St. George Temple. It is interesting to note that the three older Jones brothers were all married in the year 1878. ~ u m e n ' w r o t ethe following about his marriage and a dream that he had: "At the breakfast tahle the first morning after returning home from St. George, Utah, whzre Mary and I were married in the Temple, I told the family of a dream I had during the night. The main features of the dream were about as follows: ( I n company with others, most of whom were strangers to me, including Indians, we were all husily engaged at the building of a large stone building, in which the 74
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1154.pdf

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