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wrote the following about the accident: "I was husy helping as father went to lift the water out of the kettle, I was right in the road and Pucell hollered to father and said to he careful as the boy was right there. Father lifted up the bucket suddenly to miss me, but the edge caught on forehead and dumped the contents of boiling water down my back. They carried me into the house and took my clothes off. I had on a wool shirt and the flesh came off with the shirt." Henry was burned so serionsly that his mother held him on her lap on his stomach on a hoard for months. Ann was to he born in June. After Lehi had left, grandmother, Sage T. Jones, Lehi's mother, had a dream about little Henry. She saw sister Paramore, a practical nurse, carrying Henry up a steep mountain where she eventually reached a ledge that she couldn't climb over. Grandmother Jones then dreamed that she saw herself at the top of the mountain reaching down over the ledge, and she pulled Henry up. When she awoke, she went immediately to see Henrietta, and told her of the dream and that some changes had to I J made at once in the treatment, or they were going to lose Henry. They ~ removed the bandages from Henry's back and found that his back was nothing hut proud flesh. They had Francis Webster give Henry a blessing and they obtained help from Dr. Higgins from St. George. When he saw Henry he didn't have much hope for him but said he was an awfully strong boy and that he might pull through. They obtained different medicine and changed the treatment completely and from that day on Henry began to improvc. It took almost a year for him to recover.'' Imagine the dismay and misgivinp Lehi had, having to leave his wife with four small children and another on the way, and his young son, Henry, burned so severely that he wasn't sure whether he would live or die. I t seemed that no sarrifice was too g e a t to make for the church. During this time, many men left families to serve the L.D.S. Church on missions, and it seems that the wives and children at home learned to take the responsibility and gained strensh from it. Lehi wrote: "The thing wan, nineteen months missionary experience. I t took me some time to get worked in as it was so foreign to the experiences that I had. I got adjusted after a while and enioyed my labor fine." While Lehi was on a mission, his mother-in-law, Mary Ann Lunt, wrote him a letter telling him of the arrival of his new daughter, Ann, June 15th 1888. The letter is asfollows: "My Dear Lehi, Have been a long time writing to you. It is not because I have not thought about you sufficiently to do so, but there has hecn so much work to do since we came home again that it seem'd I never could find time to write; now today, felt it was almost a duty, so that you mig-ht be posted ;I little how affairs are at home, a fine ljouncing
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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

Title	Page 105
Description	wrote the following about the accident: "I was husy helping as father went to lift the water out of the kettle, I was right in the road and Pucell hollered to father and said to he careful as the boy was right there. Father lifted up the bucket suddenly to miss me, but the edge caught on forehead and dumped the contents of boiling water down my back. They carried me into the house and took my clothes off. I had on a wool shirt and the flesh came off with the shirt." Henry was burned so serionsly that his mother held him on her lap on his stomach on a hoard for months. Ann was to he born in June. After Lehi had left, grandmother, Sage T. Jones, Lehi's mother, had a dream about little Henry. She saw sister Paramore, a practical nurse, carrying Henry up a steep mountain where she eventually reached a ledge that she couldn't climb over. Grandmother Jones then dreamed that she saw herself at the top of the mountain reaching down over the ledge, and she pulled Henry up. When she awoke, she went immediately to see Henrietta, and told her of the dream and that some changes had to I J made at once in the treatment, or they were going to lose Henry. They ~ removed the bandages from Henry's back and found that his back was nothing hut proud flesh. They had Francis Webster give Henry a blessing and they obtained help from Dr. Higgins from St. George. When he saw Henry he didn't have much hope for him but said he was an awfully strong boy and that he might pull through. They obtained different medicine and changed the treatment completely and from that day on Henry began to improvc. It took almost a year for him to recover.' Imagine the dismay and misgivinp Lehi had, having to leave his wife with four small children and another on the way, and his young son, Henry, burned so severely that he wasn't sure whether he would live or die. I t seemed that no sarrifice was too g e a t to make for the church. During this time, many men left families to serve the L.D.S. Church on missions, and it seems that the wives and children at home learned to take the responsibility and gained strensh from it. Lehi wrote: "The thing wan, nineteen months missionary experience. I t took me some time to get worked in as it was so foreign to the experiences that I had. I got adjusted after a while and enioyed my labor fine." While Lehi was on a mission, his mother-in-law, Mary Ann Lunt, wrote him a letter telling him of the arrival of his new daughter, Ann, June 15th 1888. The letter is asfollows: "My Dear Lehi, Have been a long time writing to you. It is not because I have not thought about you sufficiently to do so, but there has hecn so much work to do since we came home again that it seem'd I never could find time to write; now today, felt it was almost a duty, so that you mig-ht be posted ;I little how affairs are at home, a fine ljouncing 1115
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