Geology Trip to Toroweap Valley
and Grand Canyon
YDA, Gilbert, Wendell, Thresa,
Gaorgia, George, Kate, Wes,
Red, Fat, Dave, Thora, Mable,
Frank, and two Arthurs left the
B. A. C. Thursday, March 13, at four
o'clock in an automobile, two Fords
and...
Wah Wah Springs we followed the road almost due west across Pine Valley to Potsum Paw Springs, then west on the so-called "Old Bailey Wood Road," between the Indian Peak and Mt. Home Range leading into Hamblin Valley. We went to Frisco for our...
Emery County (Utah); San Rafael Swell; Recreation; Eastering; Richards, Drew; Wakefield, Addie; Buckhorn Draw
Drew Richards and friends went to the San Rafael Swell over Easter weekend in 1928. Drew and friends recreated on the San Rafael on Easter weekend for many years, as did most of Emery County residents. The tradition of going to the Swell for Easter...
JOHN VARLEY ADAMS Biography 1832 - 1919 John Varley Adams was born August 17, 1832, in Rounds, North Hamptonshire, England, the son of Thomas and Rebecca Varley Adams. He was t h e fifth son of eleven children. John was p u t to work early in life...
beautifid new land. They passed along great swamps of cypress trees which were nonexistent in England. Finally they reached their destination, New Orleans, which was the portal through which most immigrants going west entered. Upon arrival, one of...
shalt raise up a posterity that shall hold the Priesthood and be saviors on Mount Zion, for thou art a faithful heir to the Priesthood and thou art of the blood of Joseph who was sold into Egypt. Thou hast a right to all blessings that were sealed...
organization for Iron County. Our f i r e m s must be kept ready and in order, and it's necessary that we appoint captains to form companies and report to the head of the military or of the State. We do not want a mean man to settle in Iron County....
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FORT LOUISA - 1851
(Parowan) inally, thirty-eight days afier the first wagon left the Salt Lake Basin, the pioneers in the Iron County Mission reached their destination, Center Creek (Parowan), January 13, 185l.' Being in the rniddle...
He wrote the following, dated November 5, to the Deserez News: Yesterday a site was surveyed for a fort and stock corral on Coal Creek, twenty miles from Parowan. Today a company has been organized to commence operations immediately in the...
In humility before God, together with the rest of my fellow pioneers, I dedicate the ground just surveyed, the surrounding land, the minerals, the water, the timber and grass to the service of God in the manufacture of iron, machinery etc., that...
which were organized on the ship. There were 539 Scandinavian Saints out of a total of 575 passengers on board. Henry was often invited to eat with Captain Decan in his cabin. The voyage from London to Philadelphia was made in five weeks. They...
sisters who had the legal right to vote come to the polls on election day and exercise the right of female sufiage. Mary Ann Lunt, along with several other rnembers, expressed a desire to carry out the instructions they had that day received in...
CHAPTER XXI
ST. GEORGE TEMPLE
1874 - 1877
eorge A. Smith, who was in St. George, Utah, wrote a letter, dated November 26, 1874, to Joseph F. Smith in Salt Lake City. He told of the trip with President Brigharn Young to St. wrge and how i
Beuna Vista leavirlg Liverpool Fch. 25, 1849, under the direction of Elder Dan Jones, with 249 \Vclch S a i n t on hoard.' Their destination wnc New Orlea~is, Louisiana, in the United Stntrs of .\merica. Thomas Jeremy, m e of the company, dcseribed...
stories and laughing, they agreed to do a little betting on their teams as to how much they could pull. Dan and Atoat had several fine horses in their teams. Once the betting started, it continued most of the day. First one team was tried, then...
After returning home, Lehi again took over the Pony Express. The mail route was an extremely difficult job in many ways; however, as long as Lehi, and later, Kumen, were carrying the mail, things ran smoothly and the mail always got through....
The horses had been tied up to the wagons and everyone was asleep. Henry was riding a desert mustang which, as soon as the cattle made a commotion, took off over the wagon tongue and over a nearby fence, in the opposite direction from the herd. The...
5, 1917. 'This involved Lehi's and Henrietta's three youngest sons, Lehi Rass and Will. Two months after the United States declared war, Rass married Martha Langford on June 20, 1g17> the Salt Lake Temple. in Rass and Martha met in Cedar City when...
Family Man
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They were married December 23 in the Salt Lake Temple by Ann's uncle, Elder Bruce R. McConkie, and a beautiful reception was held at the Lion House that evening, complete with a Christmas tree." Family Travel Family travel was often...
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Three Score and Ten in Retrospect
serene resignation that life's journey is about to end, has not thought about the eternal destination and what might be there? Centuries ago the man Job, so long blessed with material blessings, only to find...