others say it was east. C. T. Stoney was postmaster, 1894-99. He was called on an L. D. S. mission and Robert Stoney filled the vacancy. Ernest Hodges served from 1899 to 1904, in the same location. Other postmasters serving in this building were:...
All the machinery for mine and mills, all the supplies and food for the camp, was freighted from Milford, more than 150 miles away. The agent, directly in charge of these shipments and supplies of all kinds, was P. B. McKeon, located at Milford. It...
fit for habitation." The desert he traversed was named after him, Escalante." Another wise man said, "The old desert takes its toll of everything you get out of it." But another man, whose life was more closely linked with the desert, said, "I...
land farming was, in this section where it had been tried, a failure. Most of this land later was sold for taxes and bought by sheep and cattle interests. In 1913, the Delta Land and Water Company constructed the Rocky Ford Dam, which is at the...
smoke. A table and benches had been erected, and by nightfall a hot dinner was prepared, a dormitory, for the boys had been arranged in the second story of the old Administration Building. (This building was formerly the offices of the officers of...
Thurs. Jan. 27, 1898: Wea. Cold & Cloudy Done some printing and took a group of 16 men. Friday 28: Wea. Cloudy commenced snowing and blowing about 11 am. we went and took a picture of the school size 8x10 snow began to fly shortly after school...
Sun. Sept. 18, 1898: Ther. 1-20 pm. 87º., Wea. clear. I went to Sunday School and meeting also attended the Seventies and High Priests meeting after the afternoon meeting was out. Monday 19: Ther. 1-20 pm. 87º., Wea. clear We hauled four loads...
Wed. Mar. 29, 1905: Ther. Warm. Wea. South wind. T. clds. We took dinner with W.R. Rain, one mile east and about a quarter south of the school house. canvassed around two sections north-east and came back to the school house shortly after five pm...
Sat. Oct. 14, 1905: Ther. Warm., Wea. Clear Norther shortly after dark. We picked cotton for Mr. Small the old gentleman only picked ninety six pounds while I got an even hundred and Elder Allred beat me twelve pounds. 169) (3
Wed. Nov. 8, 1905: Ther. Cool and threatening. Wea. Rain. Rain all afternoon Worked on to the Base line then east a mile the[n] south again, took dinner with Mr. R.S. Wofford on the first line south. It commenced to rain shortly after noon, we...
MATTHEW CARRUTHERS Presiding Elder 1852 Matthew C a r r u t h e r s was born J a n u a r y 15, 1811, in Scotland. He married Isabella McDonald in 1841. After his arrival in Cedar City late in 1851, t h e position of presiding Elder was assigned to...
JOSEPH T . WILKINSON Biography 1847 - 1919 Joseph T . Wilkinson was born in Manchester. England March 26, 1847. His f a t h e r , Charles Wilkinson, a n d mother, Sarah Hughes Wilkinson, together with t h e t h r e e childrenJoseph Thomas, Sara J a...
labors, and reverently called upon Him to bless u s in the i u t u r e and to enable u s to maintain ourselves in this desert land, also to protect u s from the wiley Indian and help u s to accomplish the mission we were sent to perform, namely,...
chronicler put i t , "the fact that the present site was not the proper one on which to permanently locate the iron works." A s if to reassure himself that even this cloud had a silver lining, he noted that "the freshet also brought down from the...
to their feet. It took all day to get most of the company across, so those who were able to ford the stream camped and waited for the rest of the group to cross the next day While yoking the cattle, the men discovered that some were missing....
One of the letters was written to inform him that his wife, Sarah Ann, had died of consumption.' The latest Washington paper was dated April 13. Henry received a letter from Martha Bristol in England, dated February 22, 1851. She wrote: My Dearest...
attended the wedding. At twenty minutes to seven we left Cedar City for Parowan in two carriages--one drawn by four horses, the other by two. As we started, a salute was fired with guns which echoed through the mountains, and the city had the...