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Grandma Lunt held the lantern high over her head while Henrietta operated the gun. Henrietta fired a volley in the direction of the bear which, undoubtedly missed him, but she succeeded in frightening him away, which is all they really intended doing. Another time, when Henrietta and her mother heard the telltale commotion among the cattle, they were afraid to venture out to investigate, so they placed the table and all the movable furniture against the door. While they were in the process of stacking these objects, they could hear something moving around the house. The two women became frozen with fear as the door began moving, a little a t a time. They were certain that it was a gigantic bear lunging at the door. When the door finally flew open and the head of their old saddle horse poked through the opening, they almost wept with relief. Apparently, the horse was looking for cover as he, too, had been spooked by the bear." Henry says that he doesn't think his father and mother ever proved up on Jones Hollow, the first piece of mountain property which they attempted to homestead. They must have been looking for a more suitable spot, possibly where there was better feed, or fewer bears. Durins the winter, on Feb. 2, 1881, Lehi and Henrietta's second child was l~orn, another boy, whom they named Kumen Lunt Jones. In Lehi's writings hc states: "At this time (when he got married) I was engaged in farming and looking after cattle. (The Cedar City Co-op Cattle) I n hlarch 1881, ( a month after Knmen L. was born) David Bulloch and myself went by way of Short Creek and Long Valley into the Lower Herd Canyon to look after cattle we had there. We spent about a month. The snow was just g o i q off and we found little feed there, and a great many deer that were very thin. We had no gun so we stated before, the lower herd was on the east threw rocks at them." (a fork of the Virgin River, a few miles east of Zion Canyon) "During our stay there we came across a hear with two little cubs one afternoon. When we first noticed them, they were abont a mile away, so we started direct for then). We had three dogs and two pack hones. We got within about two hundred yards of them before they noticed us, but we struck right after them, dogs harking and us yelling. As we sot close to them the mother hear would run and leave the cubs then stop until they cayght up. Finally, we crowded her so close that she ran awa! and left them. WE rode up to them - they were out of wind and backed up to an oak tree and showed fiaht. We decided to kill them so I stayed and watched the cubs and Brother Bulloch went to see if he could see anything of the old hear. H e came back in a few minutes and said he could see nothing of her. There happened to he some black rock about the riqht s i x , so I sot off my horse and commenced throwing the hlack

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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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Publisher	Woodruff Printing Company
Language	eng
Genre	Biography
Website	http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lehiwillardjones.html
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CONTENTdm file name	1334.cpd

Title	Page 89
Description	Grandma Lunt held the lantern high over her head while Henrietta operated the gun. Henrietta fired a volley in the direction of the bear which, undoubtedly missed him, but she succeeded in frightening him away, which is all they really intended doing. Another time, when Henrietta and her mother heard the telltale commotion among the cattle, they were afraid to venture out to investigate, so they placed the table and all the movable furniture against the door. While they were in the process of stacking these objects, they could hear something moving around the house. The two women became frozen with fear as the door began moving, a little a t a time. They were certain that it was a gigantic bear lunging at the door. When the door finally flew open and the head of their old saddle horse poked through the opening, they almost wept with relief. Apparently, the horse was looking for cover as he, too, had been spooked by the bear." Henry says that he doesn't think his father and mother ever proved up on Jones Hollow, the first piece of mountain property which they attempted to homestead. They must have been looking for a more suitable spot, possibly where there was better feed, or fewer bears. Durins the winter, on Feb. 2, 1881, Lehi and Henrietta's second child was l~orn, another boy, whom they named Kumen Lunt Jones. In Lehi's writings hc states: "At this time (when he got married) I was engaged in farming and looking after cattle. (The Cedar City Co-op Cattle) I n hlarch 1881, ( a month after Knmen L. was born) David Bulloch and myself went by way of Short Creek and Long Valley into the Lower Herd Canyon to look after cattle we had there. We spent about a month. The snow was just g o i q off and we found little feed there, and a great many deer that were very thin. We had no gun so we stated before, the lower herd was on the east threw rocks at them." (a fork of the Virgin River, a few miles east of Zion Canyon) "During our stay there we came across a hear with two little cubs one afternoon. When we first noticed them, they were abont a mile away, so we started direct for then). We had three dogs and two pack hones. We got within about two hundred yards of them before they noticed us, but we struck right after them, dogs harking and us yelling. As we sot close to them the mother hear would run and leave the cubs then stop until they cayght up. Finally, we crowded her so close that she ran awa! and left them. WE rode up to them - they were out of wind and backed up to an oak tree and showed fiaht. We decided to kill them so I stayed and watched the cubs and Brother Bulloch went to see if he could see anything of the old hear. H e came back in a few minutes and said he could see nothing of her. There happened to he some black rock about the riqht s i x , so I sot off my horse and commenced throwing the hlack 89
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1169.pdf

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