we had brought along a pair of cast iron 'hand irons ' Soon after I had spoken, Dr. Sprig brought the hand irons out of the vestry and placed them on the front of the stand. The saints appeared quite excited and well pleased at the sample of cast...
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...
dedicated on Christmas day, which day will long be remembered among us. In the morning the Indians [Pihedes], to the amount of some 300, women and children included, gathered into the Fort. We preached to them in their own language and made them a...
thousand head, which had just crossed the South Fork of the Platte, and he came on a lope going west after the herd and, but for me firing a shot from my revolver at him in the head which turned him close by the hind end of the wagon, he would have...
CHAPTER XIV
BACK TO CEDAR FORT 1857
eturned missionaries were required to report their rnission to the proper authorities in Salt Lake City, Utah before they - . were released. Henry fulfilled this assignment after arriving n back i Utah when he...
MOUNTATN MEADOWS 1857 enry came home from his mission afker three years finding the situation in the peacefiil settlement of Cedar City very much changed. Aside from the fact that Brigham Young advised hern to move the site of the town once more,...
with the poiiticians in Congress. When the excitement ends, we can talk to them. We do not wish to place ourselves in a state of antagonism, nor act defiantly toward this Govenunent. We will fulfill the letter, so far as practicable, of that...
Islands, and to various places in the United States. President George Q. Cannon, Counselor to John Taylor, said that besides the names sustained as missionaries, it should be understood that the Twelve Apostles are standing missionaries and should...
baptisms were of fiequent occurrence in those days, 1 now understand that our brethren who are laboring as missionaries may justly be temed 'gleaners,' going forth, as it were, at the eleventh hour and gathering grapes when the 'vintage is o'er.'...
Later Thon~as'sfather lost his eyesight. Thonias was the fifth child in a family of seven, friur sisten and two I~rothers. When Thomas was 20 years of ase, lie was conlarted hy the I..D.S. missionaries and Ileca~r~c interested in the I I o r n ~ n...
Thomas Jones worked with the Deseret Iron Company through this time and lost about all of his wages through the failure of the undertaking." At the industry's peak, the population of Cedar City grew to 928 inhabitants and with its abandonment, the...
to l~ecome Kumen's horse, and later when Kumen went to San Juan in 1879, he took "Old FranPwith him." Each of the towns to which Lehi delivered mail had a colorful history, and he became interested in the details of their colonization. In 1869, the...
In 1894, Lehi's younger brother William, at the age of 35, was sent on a mission to Wales, leaving his wife and family in order to serve the church but was released from his mission because of ill health. O n Dec. 3rd of that year, Lehi and...
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They had a steak fry in their back yard, attended an Episcopal study group, all of which were interesting for him." Monday, Iuly 15th: "Still in New York, we got off to a rather late start but made the day...
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school. The other 5 of us went to the Metropolitan Art Gallery where we barely skimmed the surface in 3 hours. Many wonderful objects, so many, in fact, that it was hard to absorb them: Whistler's Mother, the Thinker, Renoir,...
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Jackson (President of the New England Mission) who invited us to dinner after church. After a good shower we went to another Howard Johnson to eat, then drove around through the most mixed up and crooked...
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a meeting of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, then continued on to Mexico City, and to six countries in Central America. This was while Steve was on his mission there, and they were able to visit him...
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Church service having been missionaries, mission president, fist stake president in Mexico, regional representative and eventually President and Matron of the Mexico City Temple. John O'Donnal had grown up in...
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with the sheer bulk of the paper.. .The conglomeration is badly in need of legal attention. A finding of fact is a written statement of the ultimate facts. A proper requested finding is not a recitation of favorite...