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Lehi M. was old enough to be able to round the cows into the corral and the girls helped with the milking. Every two or three days, a new cow was hrought in to be h~uken milk. Henrietta would rope the cow and to tie her to a post and proceed to milk her with what help the boys could give her. She wore a n old hat to keep her hair clean and would put her head so tight to the flanks of the cow that the cow couldn't possibly kick her. The cow could kirk backward5 but not to the side where she was milking. Henrietta was very adept at this - she milked the cow with extreme speed while the cow was kicking and bcllering and putting o p an awful fuss. Henrietta ran the dairy herd very efficiently without any help except f~-om children. The girls, young Henrietta and Ann, hcr along with Lehi E l milked the tamer cows; Will and Rass ran the calves v . back and forth to get a little milk from their mothers and then into another corral while the rows were being milked. Henrietta milked all of the wilder cows. Willard, Kumen, and Henry were not living there at the time - Willard was married and working in Salt Lake, Kurnen was working in town and Henry was working with the Jones sheep.' Lehi's and Henrietta's children had many interesting experiences working with the sheep and cattle and the dairy herds. Henry says that he didn't go to school, to his recollectio~~, ).ear in all his early school a full days. One year in early spring, about the last of Feh.. his father sent him out to take the herd of sheep from the Cedar Valley to the F.sralante Desert. H e had a cart and a pair of mules named Hank and Bud. "Bud was a worthless, lazy, good-for-nothing, mean little devil, and Hank was just the opposite." The cart was built like a wagon hut had only two wheels. I.ehi stacked a hig pile of lome hay on the cart and Henry perched hiniself on top of it. Henry said that he headed the sheep out past Iron Sprin,qs and then toward the desert. The hay that he had brought for the mules was soon gone, so he started hobbling the mules out a1 night and catching them in the morning. Lehi's boys learned to do the work of men while they were still very young and they wcrc always $hen a great deal of responsibility. Henry rerr~enil~ers coming down the mountain with this same pair of mules hitched to a cart. These carts were not equipped with any kind of brake to slow them down. Just as he went over the top of the mountain and was starting do* he met a man. named Evalyi Parry, who was walking along the road. Henry offered him a ride and he readily accepted, as he had a long walk ahead of him. Each time the cart gained too much momentum, Henry ran it off the side of the road into the brush to slow down. This happened frequently because of the steepness uf the road, as it was where the road passes through the lava rocks down Cedar Mountain -it was also very bumpy. W h a l the road was built, 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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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

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Description	Lehi M. was old enough to be able to round the cows into the corral and the girls helped with the milking. Every two or three days, a new cow was hrought in to be h~uken milk. Henrietta would rope the cow and to tie her to a post and proceed to milk her with what help the boys could give her. She wore a n old hat to keep her hair clean and would put her head so tight to the flanks of the cow that the cow couldn't possibly kick her. The cow could kirk backward5 but not to the side where she was milking. Henrietta was very adept at this - she milked the cow with extreme speed while the cow was kicking and bcllering and putting o p an awful fuss. Henrietta ran the dairy herd very efficiently without any help except f~-om children. The girls, young Henrietta and Ann, hcr along with Lehi E l milked the tamer cows; Will and Rass ran the calves v. back and forth to get a little milk from their mothers and then into another corral while the rows were being milked. Henrietta milked all of the wilder cows. Willard, Kumen, and Henry were not living there at the time - Willard was married and working in Salt Lake, Kurnen was working in town and Henry was working with the Jones sheep.' Lehi's and Henrietta's children had many interesting experiences working with the sheep and cattle and the dairy herds. Henry says that he didn't go to school, to his recollectio~~, ).ear in all his early school a full days. One year in early spring, about the last of Feh.. his father sent him out to take the herd of sheep from the Cedar Valley to the F.sralante Desert. H e had a cart and a pair of mules named Hank and Bud. "Bud was a worthless, lazy, good-for-nothing, mean little devil, and Hank was just the opposite." The cart was built like a wagon hut had only two wheels. I.ehi stacked a hig pile of lome hay on the cart and Henry perched hiniself on top of it. Henry said that he headed the sheep out past Iron Sprin,qs and then toward the desert. The hay that he had brought for the mules was soon gone, so he started hobbling the mules out a1 night and catching them in the morning. Lehi's boys learned to do the work of men while they were still very young and they wcrc always $hen a great deal of responsibility. Henry rerr~enil~ers coming down the mountain with this same pair of mules hitched to a cart. These carts were not equipped with any kind of brake to slow them down. Just as he went over the top of the mountain and was starting do* he met a man. named Evalyi Parry, who was walking along the road. Henry offered him a ride and he readily accepted, as he had a long walk ahead of him. Each time the cart gained too much momentum, Henry ran it off the side of the road into the brush to slow down. This happened frequently because of the steepness uf the road, as it was where the road passes through the lava rocks down Cedar Mountain -it was also very bumpy. W h a l the road was built, the 146
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