Chapter Ten
Communication in Pioneer Days
Beaver's Early Mail Service
Beaver's first mail service was the freight wagon train. The drivers would deliver mail to the Bishop, who in turn would distribute it in Church. Then an office was maintained in...
In those days, Mrs. Bradfield said, they danced until midnight, a big supper was served, then they danced on 'till dawn. A DAY'S EXPERIENCE Mrs. Bradfield said she came here one time to go to Frisco on the train, to work. It was a cold, wintry...
The passengers all piled into the open rig and hadn't traveled very far until they found they were stuck again in another drift of snow. Mrs. Bradfield says she can see "Bally" Sackett now as he looked that day. So bald he was, he seemed rightly...
of Milford. He was interested in farming and mining. He owned a farm at Reed. His sons were William J. and Harry Forgie.
Mrs. Hanks, daughter of John Forgie, built the present Milford Hotel on the spot where her father had oper-ated the hotel which...
After a little while McKeon and the girls appeared. They asked Mr. Smithson if he had had any passengers that night. He replied, "Yes, two young women and the squirmiest baby I ever carried." Thereupon they began to chuckle, and when Mr. Smithson...
Jeddy and Heber Dean of Beaver, freighted to Frisco for many years, hauling lumber and merchandise. John Brooks was an old veteran freighter of Beaver. John W. Myers says, after relating experiences in freighting, "Those were hard times, but happy...
CHAPTER TWENTY STAGE COACH AND FREIGHTING DAYS MILFORD AND THE STAGE COACH Milford was on the old stage route. The route from Salt Lake followed the Mormon Trail to Kanosh, then turned west at Kanosh and on to Antelope Springs, which in the...
in. As the passengers loitered about, he noticed a lady passenger who had a sick baby. He overheard the lady ask one of the men to assist her.
The man answered, "No, I am not a baby tender." After the stage had gone, McCarty got on his horse and...
About 1912 the I. 0. 0. F. Lodge sold the building to the Masonic Lodge. Dances continued to be held on the first floor until the Arion Hall was built. EARLY CARS IN MILFORD The first car that was ever in Milford was called a Smith. The owner of...
The third car in Milford was a Stanley Steamer roadster, painted white. It, too, was used on the mail route and was bought by Bill Martin.
One time when Bill Richards was driving this car on the trip, loaded with mail and passengers, it caught fire...
GRONWAY R . PARRY Biography 1889 - 1969 Gronway Robert P a r r y was born February 2 2 . 1889, in Salt Lake City, Utah. His f a t h e r , Gronway, was a Salt Lake builder; his mother. Althea Gardner P a r r y , was the daughter of Pine Valley...
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,...
found such a concentration of steamboats. They stretched for four or five miles, curving with the river itse& sometimes two and three deep. By night, the procession of boats on the lower river was one of magical splendor. Hundreds of lights glanced...
and invited a number of saints to a sumptuous supper. September 22: Brother Walker and I left Philadelphia on board a steamboat for New York. We decided to sail on the fine sailing vessel, Constitution, to Liverpool and paid our passage by...
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...
purpose of purchasing supplies for to fit out the companies of saints at Florence on the Missouri River near to the old Winter Quarters (The railway went only about fifty miles to Muscatine]. We stayed at Muscatine until eleven p.m., when we went...
some fifty other brethren and sisters for Salt Lake Valley. There were nineteen wagons in the company, all ox teams. I had two yokes of cattle and one wagon and three passengers with their luggage and provisions. The passengers were Sister Sinclair...
possible for him to spend some time there, which gave him the opportunity to get better acquainted with Edward's daughter, Sarah Ann. When Henry passed through Nephi on the way back from conference, he picked up Sarah Ann and she accompanied him to...
of Beaver. It was written on the cerhficate that she was to "renounce forever al1 allegiance and fidelity to al1 and any foreign Prince, Potentate, State and Sovereignty whatsoever, and particularly to Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland...
In 1867, Josiah Rogerson, who was schooled in the operation of the telegraph, came from Beaver to Cedar City to give instruction to interested people who could hegin operating the telegraph line in Cedar City. Among those to be instructed were...