DANIEL T . LEIGH Biography 1852 - 1927 Daniel T . Leigh was born July 14, 1852, on the banks of the Platte River in Nebraska. The family came to Salt Lake City with the Dan Jones Company and were later called to lron County to work in the Iron...
proposed by the nine southern counties. Unanimous. Mayor Whetten reviewed t h e meeting he had held with Metamora Craft a n d Morton Metalcraft Companies regarding these industries moving into Cedar City. Dec. 2 1 , 1 9 7 2 . . .Mayor authorized to...
tickets cost $3.00 and could be paid in produce. W have e been unable to unearth documentation of activities of the Dramatic Association beyond 1880, but it is safe to say that a community tradition had been set which no doubt led to support and...
the hopes of one day being reunited.' He canied a letter from her which he had read many times over. In answer to Henry's note advising her that he would be coming to visit her, Martha had written the following, dated November 30, 1 8 4 8 : ~ I...
Henry was twelve years old when his father died, September 19, 1836.~ burial record in Wybunbury stated that Randle Lunt was The 70 years old and was of Bagnall in Eccleshall, Staffordshire. At that time, Henry's older brothers were ages 29 and 27....
Henry worked in the store with the idea of saving his earnings, not to be a merchant, but to travel to America to be with other Mormons. Jeter Clinton was in charge of organizing the 402 Saints who boarded the ship Argo. They left England Jan. 10,...
City, so the population grew very quickly. The residents looked forward in anticipation to each new company because, not only were they glad to see relatives and friends who had followed, but they always brought mail with them from Kanesville which...
respective wards. Each ward was to be organized into a quorum of Elders with E. H. Grove over them, and Henry Lunt was put in as Clerk of said quorum. Smith also advised, "be carefil not to indulge the Indians in their laziness, for they have their...
CHAPTER X
THE WALKER WAR
1853
W
hen the Mormons were colonizing the Utah Territory, they went out of their way to keep on fiiendly terms with the Indians. The Mormon people kept a fiiendly attitude towards the redmen and continued to give them...
was a good sized branch of the Church in South Molton and, as there were some existing difficulties, my visit was much needed and much good was done. When I had walked to Barnstable, twelve miles from South Moulton, I took off my shoes and found my...
protection. As the train meandered across central Arkansas, it grew to more than forty wagons, including several hundred blooded horses and a thousand head of cattle; the total wealth of the caravan was $70,000, by far one of the richest to cross...
Republican platform compared the doctrine of "plural marriage" to "slavery," and they adopted a decided stand against the Mormons. It was resolved that the constitution gave Congress power over the temtories of the United States and that it was the...
The problem of wlonization was particularly difficult during the Utah War because of the large number of people called back to Utah. In addition, two to four thousand immigrants were brought into the tenitory each year by the pioneer companies....
headquarters was i the Church Tithing Oflice located on Main Street. n After a short time the telegraph office was moved into the parlor of the Hemy Lunt home on Lincoln Avenue and First East which was known as the Lunt Hotel and Stage Stop....
founded outside of Utah in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho and Wyorning. Al1 told, at least a hundred new Mormon settlements were founded outside of Utah between 1876 and 1879, as well as many new colonies being settled in Utah in remote...
same age as he was and sometimes people thought they were twins. Heaton was very dark-complexioned and Frank was quite light for a Mexican. At first, Frank worked for fifty cents a day, but eventually worked for room and board and went to school to...
Vil, went on to El Paso by train and Heaton went back to return the mules he had borrowed. He went back to Corrales and eventually was able to get two of his own horses and his wagon and carne back done, n just he and his old dog, Pinto, which was...
CHAPTER XXX
RETURN TO MEXICO
1915 - 1921
arah spent over three years waiting for the revolution to subside so that she could return to her beloved home in Mexico. That opportunity came in the fall of 1915 when Anthony W. Ivins asked her to care...
Eventually five of the eight brothers, as well as Edgerton's wife, Ama May, purchased farms near Duncan with the intention of living there permanently. Owen's wife, Velma, was expecting a baby and was very excited about it, especially since she had...
reached. In Southern Utah, the telegraph covered some areas that early, but it wasn't until later that this service extended from Southern Utah into Nevada. I t was this area that was covered by the mail contracts handled by one man nanied...