Erastus Snow preached a delighthl discourse which caused the hearts of the people to rejoice. After the meeting was dismissed, the brethren were requested to ''tarry'' to transact some business. The meeting lasted until 4:00 a.m. Henry kept the...
The flood that Henry referred to was the crowning blow for the Iron Works. It swept over the site, completely submerging the equipment and buildings, and carried away some of the property. Also, with the diversion dam washed out, there was no water...
that time. The following account was taken from the minutes of the meetings: The first session was held at 11:OO a.m. and present of the Twelve were Elders Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards. The Presidency of the Stake was J. C. L. Smith, John...
to provide the needed protection for the settlers. This required many hours of labor. It was a City Ordinance that 'Wo person or persons shall cut or make any hole or doorway through the wall of this Fort without making a door or shutter, bullet...
settlements, amongst a homogeneous population of over seventy-five thousand inhabitants, it is worthy to record that I never heard any obscene or improper language; never saw a man drunk; never had my attention called to the exhibition of vice of...
banlefield more than a miliion men and a debt of millions of dollars and thousands of lives. The state of Missouri, where the saints have received their persecutions, is now the great banlefield of the west. It is now man against man and neighbor...
the preceding day attended by President Erastus Snow [President of the Southem Mission], Elder Richard Robiion of Pinto Creek, James H. M a y of Harmony, John Hamilton of Hamilton's Fort, Patriarch Elisha H. Groves of Kanarra, Bishop Willis of T o...
Letitia Newcomb Johanna Palmer Elisabeth L. Pany Sarah Pugson Eliza Ann Root Elua Shepherdson Christina Sherratt Ann Smith Betsv K. Smith K. ~ a r i a r e t t a Smith Mary Usher Smith Mary Ann Stewart Elisabeth Tait
Mary Ann Thorley Mary Ann...
Two quilts made from Lisey and Calico had been sold for $8 each, and the sisters were working on three more. The wife of Erastus Snow wrote a letter to the Relief Society encouraging them in their efforts. Bishop Lunt said that he was pleased with...
1. Albert Winkler, "The Ute Mode of War in the Conilict of 1865-68, Urah Historical Quarrerly, (1 992), p. 301. 2. Utah State Archives #1520, Salt Lake City, Utah 3. Albert Winkler, op.cit., p. 309. 4. Erastus Snow, Erastus Snow Joumal,, Chapter...
schools. Our Cooperative store paid thirty-one per cent on a capital stock of $4000, one thousand of this being invested in a threshing machine. Our Sheep Cooperative herd brought, d things considered, about i $450, and we are indulging in the...
so rank that the husbandman wiil have about as much trouble to clear it off and prepare for another crop as to cultivate it as above mentioned. Some of t h s growth of weeds wiii be ten or twelve feet high. 1 have been into the fields to observe...
present in the Melchizedek Priesthood stand: Pres. Brigharn Young and his counselors: John W. Young and Daniel H. Wells. Also, of the Twelve Apostles: John Taylor, Wilford WoodmE, Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Charles C. Rich, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus...
On August 29, 1877, the wires conveyed to us sad news, n o w g us of the death of President Brigham Young. This was a sad loss and especially at this particular time when the Liberals and govemment oficials were doing al1 i their power to break up...
Apostles Erastus Snow and Wilford Woodmff were present at a conference held on March 23 and 24, 1878. At that time the Parowan Stake contained five wards-Parowan, two wards; Paragonah, one ward; Summit, one ward; and Cedar City, one ward. Kanarra...
see him. Father picked up a piece of pie and ran to Webster's, a neighbor, to warn him that the officers were there.' President JohnTaylor died July 25, 1887. Taylor had done much to hold the Saints together during the polygamy persecutions....
Henrietta wrote about workmg as a telegraph operator, but she was manied and had four children before Henry and Sarah Ann left. Her husband, Lehi W. Jones, was called on a mission to the Southern States in January of 1888, shortly a
Ellen. Your brother and well wisher, H. Lunt. Wednesday moming, Oct. 28. Dear Brother: 1 am busy choring about home while the boys are at work in the field digging potatoes. Please give our kind love to your Uncle David and wife. 1 can't see to l...