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lumber out in readiness for early spring hauling. Lehi was among the men who undertook this difficult task in the middle of the winter. Lehi's younger brother, Thomas J. Jones, assisted George Ashdown as supervisor of all the carpentry work on the tabernacle. They started holding meetings in the new building late in 1886. The fint Sacrament Meeting that was recorded was March 20, 1887. The tower was finished later. The placing of the gallery was done when Lehi was Bishop, and his brother Thomas had the work in charge. The fence and landscaping took place in 1891-2.' However, the rock slab on the front of the building had the inscription: "Cedar City Tabernacle, erected 1885." Eight years after Lehi's brother Kumen had gone on the San Juan Mission, he returned to Cedar City in hopes of obtaining cattle to take back to his country. He told how limited they were in that area because they didn't have anything to work with -although they had wonderful country and unlimited rangeland, there were very few ~ a t t l e .The ~ number of cattle in San Juan County in 1870 was 267 and in 1880 was 17,100.' Lehi and Kumen, undoubtedly, had a great deal of discussing to do about "if and how" to take cattle to Bluff. The Hole-in-the-Rock road was still being used and Kumen knew that route only too well, as did Jens Nielson, Kumen's father-in-law, who was with Kumen. Both had been with the first expedition through Hole-in-the-Rock in 1879. The church was still "calling" people to the Bluff area because of the srnall population, and the hardships were still at hand. An example of this is given in Jody's Diary written in 1882 which reads as follows: (From "The Escalante Story by M'oolsey) (Josephine Wood and her family had been called from the pulpit to go to San Juan, just as the people who had left in 1879) "Four families from Cedar City left October 17, 1882, with aching hearts, after saying goodbye to our loved ones, and the homes we loved, not knowing when, if ever, we would see them again, and not knowing where rve were going. We camped at Johnson's the first night. Oct. 18 -There was nothing to do 11utlie back in our wagons to think and weep. This was surely a trial. We stop at Parowan. The children want to go back. Oct. 19 --The children were cross all night. It is very cold. Oct. 24 - Children cried all night. Mamie's baby John is still not well, and we are all quite homesick. Sister Willden is sick. We are anxious to get over the Escalante mountain today. Our guides say it is not so bad if we get over it before it storms, and

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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
Type	Image; Still image
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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

Title	Page 98
Description	lumber out in readiness for early spring hauling. Lehi was among the men who undertook this difficult task in the middle of the winter. Lehi's younger brother, Thomas J. Jones, assisted George Ashdown as supervisor of all the carpentry work on the tabernacle. They started holding meetings in the new building late in 1886. The fint Sacrament Meeting that was recorded was March 20, 1887. The tower was finished later. The placing of the gallery was done when Lehi was Bishop, and his brother Thomas had the work in charge. The fence and landscaping took place in 1891-2.' However, the rock slab on the front of the building had the inscription: "Cedar City Tabernacle, erected 1885." Eight years after Lehi's brother Kumen had gone on the San Juan Mission, he returned to Cedar City in hopes of obtaining cattle to take back to his country. He told how limited they were in that area because they didn't have anything to work with -although they had wonderful country and unlimited rangeland, there were very few ~ a t t l e.The ~ number of cattle in San Juan County in 1870 was 267 and in 1880 was 17,100.' Lehi and Kumen, undoubtedly, had a great deal of discussing to do about "if and how" to take cattle to Bluff. The Hole-in-the-Rock road was still being used and Kumen knew that route only too well, as did Jens Nielson, Kumen's father-in-law, who was with Kumen. Both had been with the first expedition through Hole-in-the-Rock in 1879. The church was still "calling" people to the Bluff area because of the srnall population, and the hardships were still at hand. An example of this is given in Jody's Diary written in 1882 which reads as follows: (From "The Escalante Story by M'oolsey) (Josephine Wood and her family had been called from the pulpit to go to San Juan, just as the people who had left in 1879) "Four families from Cedar City left October 17, 1882, with aching hearts, after saying goodbye to our loved ones, and the homes we loved, not knowing when, if ever, we would see them again, and not knowing where rve were going. We camped at Johnson's the first night. Oct. 18 -There was nothing to do 11utlie back in our wagons to think and weep. This was surely a trial. We stop at Parowan. The children want to go back. Oct. 19 --The children were cross all night. It is very cold. Oct. 24 - Children cried all night. Mamie's baby John is still not well, and we are all quite homesick. Sister Willden is sick. We are anxious to get over the Escalante mountain today. Our guides say it is not so bad if we get over it before it storms, and
Digitization Specs	JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner.
CONTENTdm file name	1178.pdf

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