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1 DATE 12 JUL 2006
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1 NAME Howard Bangerter
1 ADDR 4646 W. Brookridge Lane
2 CONT Highland, UT 84003
1 PHON 801 756 2255
1 _EMAIL hbangerter@gmail.com
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1 NAME Henry Marcene /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Henry Marcene
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 18 NOV 1896
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 SEP 1969
2 PLAC Salt Lake City, UT, Utah
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 SEP 1969
2 PLAC Elysian Burial Gardens, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
1 ENDL
2 DATE 6 JUN 1923
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F3992@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 2 JUN 1906
1 REFN 35GG-9C
1 EVEN Part I
2 TYPE Biography
2 NOTE
3 CONT
3 CONT History of Henry Marcene Hamblin and Duella Eyre
3 CONT by their Daughter, Geraldine Hamblin Bangerter
3 CONT
3 CONT
3 CONT My folks had just moved from Cumberland, Wyoming, where my father was
3 CONC a coal miner, to Erickson Lane just a few days before Mama went to the
3 CONC L.D.S Hospital to have me. The setting was Spring 1924. Mama was 30
3 CONC yrs. old, Daddy-28 and Ivan-3 yrs. old.. Erickson Lane was graveled
3 CONC with slag from the Murray smelter and when a small child fell down,
3 CONC especially a girl, it was curtains for the tender-fleshed knees on the
3 CONC sharp edged rocks. A girl always wore dresses no matter what the age
3 CONC or activity. The white picket fence contained a two-room frame home
3 CONC with a lean-to quarters added on the back. A door entering into each
3 CONC of the 3 quarters was prefaced with a simple, rough-board porch. The
3 CONC quarters changed purposes at intervals. For example, the big bedroom
3 CONC became the family living room, the kitchen lean-to became a bedroom,
3 CONC and the middle big room shifted at times from kitchen to family room.
3 CONC With the plumbing all being outside, it didn't matter which room was
3 CONC the kitchen. We could carry water into one room as well as another.
3 CONC Gracing the dirt yard was a rather large building we called the
3 CONC washhouse. There the laborious task of washing unfolded every Monday.
3 CONC A good long day of 8 or 10 hours to get it done. At times, Mama did it
3 CONC all by hand. I remember seeing her blistered knuckles from the
3 CONC scrubbing on the washboard and the chloroxing. She hung a proud line
3 CONC of white dishtowels. A coal stove in the washroom allowed her to boil
3 CONC the whites to get them whiter. I can remember seeing her cut the
3 CONC laundry-bar soap into chips before putting it into the water, when we
3 CONC eventually had an antique washer with board sides. Sometimes it was my
3 CONC job to cut the chips into the water.. Mama started the wash with the
3 CONC whitest of whites, i.e. the garments, then the sheets and pillowcases
3 CONC were the next batch. As each  was wrung through the wringer, a little
3 CONC more soap was added and a little more hot water. Then the dishtowels
3 CONC and towels, then the colored and then the overalls (not levis) and
3 CONC work socks, then the floor rugs and rags. The water was saved and
3 CONC carried out by the bucketsful to scrub the 3 porches and finish off
3 CONC the washhouse floor. Water was plentiful but the good soapy water was
3 CONC an asset. The job then was not complete until all the clothes had been
3 CONC brought in from off the clothes line, folded and put away. The ironing
3 CONC was dampened for the next day. One cannot say much for the "good old
3 CONC days" when it comes to the task of keeping the family cleanly clothed
3 CONC and pressed. It was solid hard work. Even the ironing was a big job.
3 CONC Material was. all cotton, often muslin sheets and clothes took
3 CONC starching to look their best, which made ironing an art. I can
3 CONC remember when Mama did the ironing with "flatirons" as they were
3 CONC called, heated on the stove. On a hot summer day, to keep the irons
3 CONC hot made the kitchen as hot as Hades.
3 CONT
3 CONT The washhouse was a porched-in affair with screens all around about
3 CONC half way up the wall. It made a delightful summer bedroom for us kids.
3 CONC There as we lay awake looking out at the stars, listening to the
3 CONC rustling leaves, we could hear the musical sound of the water running
3 CONC incessantly from the lifegiving artesian well. It was here in the
3 CONC washhouse we were sleeping--I suppose that night of all nights for a
3 CONC purpose-when Grandma Eyre came out of the house to tell us we had a
3 CONC new baby sister. I was 9 1/3 years old--Val Sundwall had just
3 CONC delivered his first baby after starting his practice. Mama never told
3 CONC us she was expecting.  The closed-mouth approach bordered on
3 CONC modesty--maybe embarrassment. The story of the stork never rang true
3 CONC when asked how she got here. It was a mysterious and exciting event
3 CONC that had dropped out of heaven--an answer to prayer as I had prayed
3 CONC all my life for a baby sister. We all helped in the naming. It wasn't
3 CONC until after the blessing that I discovered she would be Darlene and
3 CONC not LouJean or Lujean as was discussed.
3 CONT
3 CONT No one could have felt wealthier as owners of a gold mine than we did
3 CONC as owners of our artesian well. This was an extension of our home
3 CONC facilities. The cold water was carried in buckets to engrace the
3 CONC kitchen "washstand'. A tin cup or a dipper was part of the convenience
3 CONC in either getting a drink of water or carrying it to where it was
3 CONC needed. The other part of the system of watering was a tea kettle,
3 CONC which came conveniently hot on the coal stove and a copper boiler.
3 CONC Keeping the boiler filled on the end of the stove was a daily chore
3 CONC for some of us--mostly it was Ivan's responsibility. But my father
3 CONC probably thought he had never had it so good in conveniences as
3 CONC compared to his childhood where his parents had to have water hauled
3 CONC from the river and up a long steep bank to the log cabin home on the
3 CONC Black's Fork River. The few feet to the well from the house was a
3 CONC pleasure by comparison. The water from the well furnished the water to
3 CONC wash our faces and hands in the "washdish" on the "washstand" where
3 CONC the bucket was kept. Once a week we had the Saturday bath. The
3 CONC galvanized round wash tub was placed in the middle of the floor. The
3 CONC smaller children got in first, and then a little more hot water poured
3 CONC in from the "boiler" or tea kettle was added for the. next one, and
3 CONC this until the last and oldest was bathed. Then the Mother and then
3 CONC the Father had their turn--all in the same water. When their turns
3 CONC came we were tucked off in a bedroom until all was safe to come out.
3 CONC We loved bath time. The cozy room by the warm stove, the clean
3 CONC feeling, and a big job out of the way.
3 CONT
3 CONT The chores of keeping house and people clean required a certain amount
3 CONC of art and organization. Spring cleaning was a real thing. After a
3 CONC winter of being closed in and the wood and coal burners had allowed
3 CONC some soot and smoke to escape, the white curtains showed the evidence.
3 CONC The walls had taken on an even, but darker shade of grey and at the
3 CONC first signs of a warm day in spring, everything came out of the house.
3 CONC The springs and mattresses were moved out in the sun. Then we beat
3 CONC them good for dust. Mama washed and starched the curtains and pinned
3 CONC them on frames to dry. The rugs produced the wire rug beaters, and we
3 CONC all took turns giving the carpets a beating over the lines on which
3 CONC they were extended. Washing the walls and woodwork produced black
3 CONC water. There existed a material called wallpaper cleaner, having the
3 CONC consistency of and looking much like our modern day play-dough. We
3 CONC would start at the to p of the wall making a straight stroke downward
3 CONC and off would come the smoke from the wall. A cleaning with wallpaper
3 CONC cleaner would do for two or maybe three years...done once in the
3 CONC spring each year and then it would need new wallpaper. Mama and Daddy
3 CONC were expert wallpaper hangers. Daddy did the heavy work, Mama did the
3 CONC exactness of matching and staying on the parallel. A scaffold was
3 CONC built so she could work the ceiling moldings and upper areas. The big
3 CONC "dishpan", the pan we washed dishes in, held the paste. Mama made the
3 CONC paste from flour and water. As soon as she finished making the paste,
3 CONC we had refreshments. We would each take our bowls, put some of the
3 CONC paste in it, sugar and cream in and sit down to a delicious taste. I
3 CONC always hated to see them spoil the good food by putting the paste
3 CONC brush in it and going to work.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama and Daddy were artists as they measured and cut the roll of
3 CONC wallpaper for a whole wall at once--putting one panel upon another-in
3 CONC the order they would come. As the paste lapped over the edge of one,
3 CONC it fell on the upcoming panel in perfect order.
3 CONT
3 CONT Springtime was paint-up time too for the baseboards and cupboards.
3 CONC Then the windows were cleaned and the curtains hung. The appliances
3 CONC for cleaning the floors were a broom and a dust mop. A "mopstick" with
3 CONC a well-selected rag in it for washing the floors was always handy for
3 CONC spills. But to do a weekly floor scrubbing with the "mopstick" as we
3 CONC called it was a slovenly way to do it. A good job was consistently on
3 CONC the hands and knees. This way one could wipe carefully the mop boards
3 CONC along the wall, get in the corners and scrape up carefully the spills
3 CONC that were hardened. After a good scrubbing came the waxing. We thought
3 CONC the last of the great inventions had been made Johnson's produced the
3 CONC "liquid" wax that shined without any polishing. We first approached it
3 CONC with skepticism, but soon adopted the easy way. The kitchen floor was
3 CONC covered with linoleum which had a wearing time of only a few years.
3 CONC Worn-through spots around the sink were soon covered with a throw-rug
3 CONC ... often one made from rags on a homemade loom. These were the best
3 CONC rugs which lay down well. How great the invention of linoleum-type
3 CONC floor covering that never wore down to the bare, black, tar-paper-type
3 CONC backing to show the ugly evidence of being old and used. The outdoor
3 CONC toilet was the only thing we knew until about 1940. It had its annual
3 CONC moving day, too, and was a project for Daddy to dig a deep hole six
3 CONC feet deep or more. He did the cover-up without fanfare or worry but as
3 CONC a part of his fatherly chore. It was usually pushed over along  with
3 CONC all the other toilets in the neighborhood at Halloween time. It
3 CONC contained the Sears Roebuck catalogue so popular in those days both to
3 CONC read and use as toilet tissue. Mama took care of the job of emptying
3 CONC the pot under the bed for night use. Before bed time, we all took a
3 CONC trip to the outside.
3 CONT
3 CONT When one speaks of three rooms and a PATH, I understand completely. I
3 CONC can remember tripping along on a moonlit night over the crusty snow in
3 CONC my bare feet. Fear of the darkness was MY weakness, and I'd coax
3 CONC someone to come with me. Mama would never refuse if asked and as I
3 CONC would ask her, "Are you afraid of the dark?", she would reply, "Naw,
3 CONC what's there to be afraid of?"...I grew up knowing that Mama was the
3 CONC bravest woman in the world. I truly knew she never knew fear. (This
3 CONC conversation was repeated years later when we lived in the timbers and
3 CONC Daddy .was away, and while we were alone up there, we'd hear the
3 CONC errie, forlorn howl of the coyotes, sending chills up my spine. To
3 CONC this she answered, "Naw, coyotes won't hurt anybody. They're fun to
3 CONC listen to. I love the sound of coyotes"...Mama was brave). Back to the
3 CONC story of the outdoor privy. I was in senior high school when we
3 CONC purchased a toilet made by the government workers. It had a cement
3 CONC floor, one good seat only (instead of the two-holer) and a lid. We put
3 CONC chemicals in it for the first time, and it was respectable and painted
3 CONC with a door on a hinge that helped it to shut automatically. We were
3 CONC on high. But it was still mortifying to have my friends from Murray
3 CONC come and see this high-class facility. Their homes had never known an
3 CONC outdoor toilet. I felt it a stigma against me although my friends were
3 CONC many and they loved to come to our place which seemed more out in the
3 CONC country to them. So you can see what a great transition it was when in
3 CONC 1940, Daddy put in an indoor bathroom. Ivan had just left for the Navy
3 CONC and dug the cesspool before he left. We had at last gone mod.
3 CONT
3 CONT The Hamblin place on Erickson Lane had 3 large Poplar trees with the
3 CONC trunks at least a yard or more in diameter. This furnished ample shade
3 CONC and summer air-conditioning. But on the rest of the .7 acres were 7 or
3 CONC 8 large fruit- bearing trees of different varieties. Also 3 or 4 pear
3 CONC trees and two plum trees. A piece of land about .3 or .4 of an acre
3 CONC was reserved for a garden. When I spoke of life giving well, it is
3 CONC true. Daddy worked hard and so did Mama to produce enough vegetables
3 CONC to last us the year around. Celery, cabbage, potatoes, corn (always
3 CONC dried as we had no way to store it otherwise--corn drying was a big
3 CONC task) ... carrots, beets, cucumbers for pickles that were so vital,
3 CONC green peppers, swiss chard and tomatoes, egg plants, turnips,
3 CONC parsnips, and onions. Daddy had an irrigation system all his own,
3 CONC turning the well on full force to get it watered. When the garden
3 CONC wasn't being watered, the water hose was running somewhere on the
3 CONC grass and flowers. In the winter, the well continued running partly to
3 CONC prevent it from freezing up--consequently, grotesque ice formations
3 CONC formed around it. The water was diverted down a small ditch which
3 CONC wended itself a block away along neighbors' fence lines to the creek.
3 CONC In the spring, we picked watercress from its edges.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama used the garden produce beginning with the early peas, lettuce,
3 CONC rhubarb, and radishes, and every night we found some delicious
3 CONC vegetable dish and salad on the table. They were cooked perfectly and
3 CONC presented piping hot to watering mouths. Mama made every meal a
3 CONC banquet and took pride serving it and not just dishing it out. She was
3 CONC an artist as a cook. We must look beyond the apparent ease with which
3 CONC it was served. First, there was the picking it, cleaning or shelling
3 CONC it, which took time and effort. Mama couldn't just pick the vegetable,
3 CONC but weeded it as she went. The cleaning of the vegetable took place at
3 CONC the well, with a scrub brush, paring knives, and dishpans for handling
3 CONC them. The refreshing atmosphere by the singing well and a cool drink
3 CONC from its inviting font reminded us of the luxury we enjoyed as owners
3 CONC of this well. Daddy built a box around the well with a shelf inside
3 CONC the door. The 4-inch pipe went up through the box and served much as a
3 CONC coil on a deep-freeze. The beads of water on the pipe's exterior
3 CONC inside the box reflected its cooling capacity. This helped us do away
3 CONC with the old icebox to which we paid the ice man for ice when he came
3 CONC around with his truck.
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy was often heard to say that their well had the best and coldest
3 CONC water anywhere in the world. I have since traveled half the world and
3 CONC can verify that he told the truth.
3 CONT
3 CONT We always had a cow until I was about 16 years old. I shall never
3 CONC forget some of the cow-milking experiences. I looked forward as a
3 CONC small child to go with Daddy up the lane to the neighbor's pasture to
3 CONC milk--delightful fun, carefree times! Our dog Prince looked forward to
3 CONC it too and would rustle up 5 minutes ahead of Daddy and have the cow
3 CONC there waiting for him. Daddy got a kick out of that.*??? I shall never
3 CONC forget how tragic it seemed when we learned our last cow had Bangs
3 CONC Disease or undulant fever. This meant she had to be sold to the fox
3 CONC farm. It would cost $40 to get another one and that was an
3 CONC impossibility.
3 CONT
3 CONT They always raised a weenling pig or two from spring to fall and then
3 CONC butchered it about Thanksgiving time for our winter meat. Mama and
3 CONC Daddy took the hams and either cured them themselves or had it done.
3 CONC We had two wooden barrels filled with brine and the hams were put in
3 CONC there to cure. We always had a ham hanging in our outer shed during
3 CONC the winter and when Mama needed meat, she just went out and cut off a
3 CONC few slices.
3 CONT
3 CONT We always purchased baby chicks in the spring from the hatchery and
3 CONC fried meat was had all summer and fall long. We always had enough
3 CONC chickens to furnish our own eggs. Mama's job was to feed the animals.
3 CONC Pulling weeds for the pigs and throwing wheat to the chickens. We kids
3 CONC gathered up the fallen apples and any other old produce. Mama didn't
3 CONC just feed the animals, she enjoyed watching them go down on what she
3 CONC gave them. I remember saying to her many times, "Come on, Mama, don't
3 CONC watch them any more!"  The swill or slop bucket was our disposal and
3 CONC took care of the whey, the old milk and peels.
3 CONT
3 CONT I can remember helping Mama make cheese. She put the curd in gallon
3 CONC cans with the ends cut out and then put heavy weights on top and left
3 CONC it to cure. I enjoyed the curd but her cheese was delicious.
3 CONT
3 CONT Churning the butter was my job with the butter churn in a glass
3 CONC bottle. It was a monotonous job as it had to be turned slowly and it
3 CONC took a long time. Watching Mama pat the water out and season it with
3 CONC salt was intriguing. The place kept Mama and Daddy busy. At 5:00 in
3 CONC the morning you could hear Daddy outside hoeing the garden and working
3 CONC at cultivating. He kept at it until he came into the house to get
3 CONC ready for work. Breakfast was hardy--a large bowl of well-cooked
3 CONC Germade mush, fruit, and two eggs, meat, toast, and milk..
3 CONT
3 CONT When Daddy left Cumberland his first job in SLC was at the Bennion
3 CONC (Murray) flour and feed mill. He was the truck driver and lifted
3 CONC hundreds of sacks of grain and flour off and on those trucks for
3 CONC years. He loaded and delivered. His travels took him to Bingham,
3 CONC Tooele, Granger, South Jordan and all over the Salt Lake Valley. When
3 CONC he went to Bingham or a place far away, he would often come and get
3 CONC one of us children to go with him. That was a great delight to me and
3 CONC Ivan and Dale.
3 CONT
3 CONT The hard work at the mill took its toll on Daddy. The heavy sacks of
3 CONC grain made him round shouldered. He was affectionately nicknamed "Ham"
3 CONC but some called him "Slim". When one of the fellows at work called him
3 CONC "Crook"-- brought on by his round shoulders, he let him know he didn't
3 CONC like it. When the guy called him that again, Daddy let him have it.
3 CONC The result was a fight in which Daddy lost his front tooth. For many
3 CONC years, he had that wide space there-- too poor to do anything about
3 CONC it.
3 CONT
3 CONT As little children after our naps, Mama would get us ready and we
3 CONC would walk up toward Murray to meet Daddy coming home from work in the
3 CONC old Model "T" Ford. How fun it was as we encountered each other.
3 CONT
3 CONT I remember Mama and Daddy saying how glad they were that he didn't
3 CONC have to work in the coal mines. But I also remember that the money he
3 CONC earned at the mill was never given him in one paycheck but just $5.00
3 CONC at a time as he would go ask for it. I remember the house payment was
3 CONC $13.00 a month, and it took effort  to save up enough from month to
3 CONC month. The only other utility bill to pay was the light bill. We had
3 CONC very few appliances so it only served to pay for the 3 bulbs hanging
3 CONC from each of the three rooms on an electrical wire--no shade-or
3 CONC fixture around it, just a bulb. Mama and Daddy thought it great after
3 CONC having had gas lanterns only, out in Wyoming. They never thought of
3 CONC much more. They had no need for electrical outlets ... no iron, no
3 CONC toaster, no radio, no clocks, no vacuum or mixer, etc.
3 CONT
3 CONT Disaster struck in the form of a depression when I was 6 years old. If
3 CONC we thought we were poor before, we were now devastated. To keep the
3 CONC home was the prime objective. One winter we packed up to go to Panaca,
3 CONC Nevada, where Daddy thought he could sell washing machines with my
3 CONC Uncle Levi Blad married to Daddy's sister. We stayed like what seemed
3 CONC a long time-maybe two months. Daddy wasn't successful at selling
3 CONC anyway, but we got word that my Grandpa Eyre had died in California,
3 CONC so they loaded us all up on a cold February day and in the old Model
3 CONC "T" went back home. The one thing I remember about this was that Mama
3 CONC had made me a little fur coat out of my Aunt's fur coat. I just loved
3 CONC it, was attached to it. She suggested that I was growing out of it and
3 CONC I should give it to my younger cousin. I rejected the idea in horror,
3 CONC but when we arrived back in Murray, my coat was gone. I cried
3 CONC uncontrollably, not only from the loss of the coat but from the
3 CONC trickery of my mother. I got over it after Mama explained the
3 CONC situation.
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy always went to work but it is not clear to me just what he did
3 CONC in the next 2 to 3 years. Darlene was born in the middle of the
3 CONC depression and for 6 months of the year, he worked in the timbers--and
3 CONC this until Darlene was 6 years old and went to school. Mama and Daddy
3 CONC still planted the garden and this furnished some of the supplies while
3 CONC we lived in the timbers.
3 CONT
3 CONT The years living in the mountains became our legacy, they were choice
3 CONC times of family association but hard work and little pay for the
3 CONC folks. We had chickens in the yard in the mountains. One time, Daddy
3 CONC traded 2 of them to the sheepherders for a whole sheep. Mama did great
3 CONC things with food in the mountains... baking in an old sheepherder's
3 CONC stove our bread. We had cakes and goodies baked also. Mama turned out
3 CONC delicious meals out of nothing. Daddy, Ivan, Dale, and I would leave
3 CONC to walk a mile up the trail to cut trees--Dale and I peeled the logs.
3 CONC We worked hard and about. lunch time, Mama could be heard coming up
3 CONC the trail singing us a greeting. Sometimes it was the song "Little Sir
3 CONC Echo". Darlene was trailing along with her. The fare would be bread
3 CONC and butter and a gallon thermos jug filled with home-made soup with
3 CONC the usual garden vegetables but with corned beef as the meat base.
3 CONC Nothing ever tasted more delicious. I was about 15, Dale about 12 yrs.
3 CONC old, and Ivan about 17. When we passed through town for supplies, the
3 CONC newspapers were talking of war. We were glad to be far from these
3 CONC threatening worries.
3 CONT
3 CONT When Daddy left the work in the mountains, he hired as a laborer for
3 CONC our neighbor who was a home builder. This began his career as a
3 CONC carpenter. He picked it up fast. Times got better. We began to improve
3 CONC our place. Somewhere along the line, the Veterans of World War I were
3 CONC given some back pay compensation. With that Daddy and Mama bought
3 CONC living room furniture. Earlier than that they purchased one of the
3 CONC first radios in town ... the old "Atwater Kent". Many evenings we
3 CONC spent listening to our favorite shows while we worked or did the
3 CONC dishes: "Lux Radio Theater" with Don Amechie –  Busters –  One Man's
3 CONC Family –  Myrt and Marg –  and Amos and Andy... were some of the
3 CONC favorites . The George Burns and Gracie Allen show ... The Jack Benny
3 CONC show –  Fibber McGhie and Molly... We were great at playing ????
3 CONC gummy. We never considered cards bad and this is where I became quick
3 CONC with numbers. Tiddley Winks and Jack Straws were other good games we
3 CONC played and Parcheesi. Music with Mama playing the piano kept our home
3 CONC filled with happiness. When Ivan and I were just 6 or 8 years old, she
3 CONC had us singing in church programs. Ivan had a good voice but he hated
3 CONC to sing in front of people and this ended my career early as a singer.
3 CONC But for several years we sang all over. Mama persevered in teaching us
3 CONC a new songs. One time she had us perform over the radio on the
3 CONC "Children's Hour". I sang "Little White Daisies".
3 CONT
3 CONT As children, we knew no want or hunger. We knew no fear. We felt a
3 CONC complete freedom from earth's cares. The Erickson Lane home was a
3 CONC child's paradise. We worked first and played second. We each had our
3 CONC own apple tree to climb. Ivan fell out of his one day onto a 50 gallon
3 CONC drum, hitting his lip on the edge cut- it wide open, the scar of which
3 CONC he carries today. We ran through the pastures and after a big rain
3 CONC storms went with Mama there with our gunnie sacks in hand to gather
3 CONC the mushrooms as they popped up--the fare for the evening meal would
3 CONC be mushroom gravy over bread. We swam in the big cottonwood creek a
3 CONC block away and floated down it on homemade rafts. We built swings in
3 CONC the trees and swung for hours. We played Cops and Robbers, Hide ‘n
3 CONC Seek, and Kick the Can endlessly.
3 CONT
3 CONT When I was about 12, 1 grew to my full height rapidly. I was gangly,
3 CONC awkward and all arms and legs. Outside the house was still where I
3 CONC found the most fun. One day Daddy must have noticed in me some inkling
3 CONC of a young woman. Now you have to remember that Daddy, having been
3 CONC raised on a Wyoming homestead with only a fifth grade education, was
3 CONC not given to white-collar speeches but he had a message to give me. He
3 CONC said in his loud natural voice, "Dotter, I gotta shot-gun handy fer
3 CONC the first feller that comes a callin' that ain't a Mormon!" How well I
3 CONC remember my quiet blushing response, "Oh, Daddy!" It wasn't a long
3 CONC speech but he got his message over. I have since learned that Daddy
3 CONC was "speaking with the tongue of Angels"...
3 CONT
3 CONT We made up many of our toys and play things ... stilts to walk on,
3 CONC rubber guns made with clothes pins, milk cans made to fit the shoes.
3 CONC We took turns riding down the hill on 45th South in the little red
3 CONC wagon--we wore one out every year.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama made all my clothes up to the end of junior high school and then
3 CONC some of the time we bought them. I, as well as my brothers, had our
3 CONC best and only shoes .... ??? shined up for Sunday. Most of my clothes
3 CONC were made from cast off old dresses of my aunts. Mama was a good
3 CONC seamstress and could make a dress copied from one she had seen in the
3 CONC store.
3 CONT
3 CONT As a little girl, Mama would often put my hair up in rags. I didn't
3 CONC mind the funny look the rags gave but I did mind her trying to comb
3 CONC out the kinkie hair. She was my barber and after the style of curlers
3 CONC in rags, I wore it "shingled", they called it, and then it went in
3 CONC waves. She put it up with "wave-set" made from flax-seed at home. I
3 CONC enjoyed this style as there were no rough tangles and it was easy to
3 CONC comb. My hair, being naturally curly, took to this and all my friends
3 CONC in grade school wanted hair like mine. One day, Aleen Robinson came
3 CONC home with me with permission from her mother to have my mother cut her
3 CONC hair. Mama did and fixed it cute the first -time, but Aleen's hair was
3 CONC straight as a string so it never looked as well.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama tried to teach me manners. If company was there it was impolite
3 CONC to interrupt and if I did she would say in a kindly way, "Little
3 CONC children should be seen and not heard".
3 CONT
3 CONT I was with her to run errands shopping down town in Murray one
3 CONC afternoon. She was dressed nicely and wearing a hat which she always
3 CONC did in those days. As we were walking along, I was skipping ahead and
3 CONC jumping up to touch the fringe of the awnings over the store windows.
3 CONC I said, "Look Mama. I can touch the fringe!" "Yes" she said rather
3 CONC quietly, "but it's not very lady-like". I never jumped up again in my
3 CONC life to hit the fringes.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama wanted her girls in dresses and frills. I envied my brothers who
3 CONC hid no worries in hopping fences or climbing trees. Mama did not
3 CONC relent. I remember one day deliberately going to the rag box where I
3 CONC had seen her throw my brothers worn out overalls. At last I could have
3 CONC a pair of my own. I didn't care if they were ragged. I put them on and
3 CONC went about my playing. Never had I felt so at ease. It was some time
3 CONC later when Mama saw me and then she said with apparent surprise,
3 CONC "Well! Whose little boy are you?" I shied and hung my head. It was
3 CONC many years later before I ever wore boys clothing again.
3 CONT
3 CONT Our good times were very much centered around family and old friends.
3 CONC Every week we visited someone it seemed. This was the outlet from work
3 CONC and worries –  it didn't cost anything –  visiting and laughing and
3 CONC playing together. Not many weeks would pass that we didn't go to
3 CONC Grandma Eyre's and take something from our garden for her to eat.
3 CONC Often the visits were more important than going to our church meetings
3 CONC it seemed. Church was most generally held at 7 p.m. at night and no
3 CONC one seemed to worry if we missed. Sunday school was the most
3 CONC frequently attended meeting. Mama always had a calling in one
3 CONC organization or another to play the piano or organ or lead the music.
3 CONC For years, it was Relief Society, but would change from one
3 CONC organization to the other, even to the MIA and Primary. In later
3 CONC years, she was the ward organist.
3 CONT
3 CONT The pre-World War II years saw us coming out of the backwoods so it
3 CONC seems. Daddy added another large room and at that time he put in the
3 CONC bathroom. They owned all the appliances a person could want and even a
3 CONC good second-hand car. They were at last able to have some of the finer
3 CONC things.
3 CONT
3 CONT It wasn't until after I had graduated from nursing in 1946 that they
3 CONC were able to get a refrigerator. It was the only one they ever owned.
3 CONC I had been the Private Duty nurse for Andrew Easton's wife and took
3 CONC care of her the night she died. He came to me afterward and said he
3 CONC would like to do something for me. He owned a store that sold
3 CONC appliances and asked it there was something we would like to buy. I
3 CONC mentioned the refrigerator. He said, "I have one in my store window,
3 CONC if you want that, I will sell it to you." And so he did. That was just
3 CONC after the war when appliances weren't available yet.
3 CONT
3 CONT
1 EVEN Part II
2 TYPE Biography
2 NOTE
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy was an athlete. We had seen pictures of him with the Lyman
3 CONC Basketball team in his teenage years. We had seen the medals he had
3 CONC won while broad jumping and high jumping and racing while in the army
3 CONC in France. We had seen his catcher's mask from the war days. We sat at
3 CONC the round oak kitchen table he won from foot-racing. He often said
3 CONC he'd furnished their first home in this way -  all but the piano -
3 CONC their prized and first big purchase. We have seen him jumping in the
3 CONC picture to what he said was 6'6" -  just like a grasshopper - his head
3 CONC higher than his feet as he pulled his legs up under his chin.
3 CONT
3 CONT Now he played on the Murray Eagles softball team. The CCC boys or
3 CONC those in the Civilian Conservation Corp ... a government-formed corp
3 CONC to give young men something to do during the depression years had
3 CONC built an impressive amphitheater around the ball diamond at Murray
3 CONC Park. This is where we hurried to about three nights a week as soon as
3 CONC supper was over to watch Daddy play ball. For us kids, it was the
3 CONC swing and slippery-slides most of the time.
3 CONT
3 CONT If Daddy was the athlete, Mama was his counter part in the. music
3 CONC world. For over 20 years she sang with her special friends from
3 CONC Millcreek Ward--Lou Metcalf, Lucille Gehring, Cloe Park, Enid Park,
3 CONC and Ella Croxford and Jessie Rowsell the pianist. Mama was in her
3 CONC early 30's when they began singing together. Mama had a rich, low,
3 CONC contralto voice and her pitch was true. One by one, her little group
3 CONC passed away, but she and her friends, Cloe and Lou, sung together when
3 CONC they were in their 70's at special parties, churches, and funerals.
3 CONC Their old voices were astonishing to hear and one could not help but
3 CONC feel a tinge of nostalgia.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama organized another such group of younger women in the Murray 8th
3 CONC Ward and she was their accompanist. They now have sung together for 20
3 CONC years.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama was in demand as an accompanist. She had a special talent to lift
3 CONC a person to do their best as they performed. She was a buoyancy to
3 CONC their performance.
3 CONT
3 CONT Once again, we must look beyond the performance to the hours of
3 CONC practice in session after session in order to be prepared and then to
3 CONC the unseen, unsung, accompanist, who was hardly noticed. If we wanted
3 CONC to spend time with Mama, it was best to call and make an appointment
3 CONC as she may be at a practice or a performance. Daddy and Mama enjoyed
3 CONC being where the people were. I doubt they ever missed the State Fair
3 CONC or County Fair in  Murray. I remember that for several consecutive
3 CONC years, Mama won the milkmaids contest at the county fair.. Daddy
3 CONC wouldn't miss the horsepulling contest for anything.. Their own
3 CONC preparations for the fair were to add their produce, plants and flower
3 CONC arrangements to be judged with all the rest--the result being piles of
3 CONC first and second place ribbons. They were enthusiastic participants.
3 CONC Even today, something quickens within me when I think of the Salt Lake
3 CONC County Fair in Murray. The footraces, the pie-eating contests and the
3 CONC enjoyable family program in the evening, the ferris wheel, the
3 CONC Merry-go-round and the cotton candy, the band concerts that I played
3 CONC the trumpet in for six years, and last but not least, the rodeo. Why,
3 CONC wouldn't I emit a special exuberance -  the real me - on our first
3 CONC date when Grant took me to the County Fair Rodeo? What better romantic
3 CONC setting than Love-at-first- sight at the Fair?
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama and Daddy had box seats and were earnest fans of the Salt Lake
3 CONC Bees, a baseball team. The folks were pushovers for a parade. They
3 CONC enjoyed people. They often went with their crowd of friends from the
3 CONC Millcreek Ward days to the "Rainbow Rendezvous" and later to "Coconut
3 CONC Grove" which later became the "Terrace Ballroom".... I disliked the
3 CONC nights they went dancing as I didn't like babysitters.
3 CONT
3 CONT They never missed a picnic or an outing and because they went,
3 CONC everyone had a good time. They never missed a wedding or a funeral.
3 CONT
3 CONT I have often said that while they moved from Wyoming, they really
3 CONC never left there. As they attended as many activities of importance as
3 CONC possible through the years. The Fourth of July Celebration in Lyman
3 CONC was the outstanding event of the year. Daddy still continued winning
3 CONC all his relatives in the track races as long as I can remember. It was
3 CONC a thrill as we could hear the crowd shout for their favorite runner.
3 CONC "C'mon Marcene!" could be heard from many. Daddy often told the story
3 CONC that it was the urging shouts from Grandpa Eyre who surged him to win
3 CONC over his younger brother Robert (Uncle Bob) after which his mother,
3 CONC Grandma Hamblin, chastised him for doing so.
3 CONT
3 CONT It was the great occasion of the year as Mama prepared us to leave for
3 CONC a visit to Wyoming. I remember the trips in the Model "T" Ford. The
3 CONC road after you left Parley's Canyon was dirt road all the way. You
3 CONC couldn't find places to stop for food. Consequently, the car was
3 CONC packed with blankets, clothing, and then plenty of food. We ate
3 CONC delicious handouts from Mama all the way. It was a good 10 or 12 hour
3 CONC trip (now 2 and a half hours). Going up the mountains was a slow task
3 CONC as the radiator would heat up and we would have to stop to let it cool
3 CONC off. We could ride all day and never see another car coming or going.
3 CONC Daddy was prepared for any event with shovels', tools, jack and extra
3 CONC gas and water and not least, a tire pump and patching. I was near 18
3 CONC before we had a car that could make it over the Parley's Summit
3 CONC without stopping. I recall the day we all gave a laughing shout when
3 CONC to our own surprise, we did it. The War years were busy. Mama worked
3 CONC at the Arms plant making bullets. Daddy worked as a carpenter in the
3 CONC arms program building buildings, etc. at the Toole Ordinace Depot and
3 CONC at Clearfield. I graduated as a nurse near the end of the war. Ivan
3 CONC and Dale were both in the Navy. The war effort required gas rationing
3 CONC and rationing of some food items like sugar. .Everyone had a Victory
3 CONC Garden. While Mama and Daddy were saving money, many things were not
3 CONC to be purchased as factories that manufactured refrigerators were
3 CONC manufacturing things for the army. There were no new cars to buy, etc.
3 CONT
3 CONT The years were more affluent than the depression days. While I
3 CONC belabored our poor circumstances, we were not alone. Most everyone we
3 CONC knew was poor but we came out of it unscathed except the hard times
3 CONC were never forgotten by we who went through it.
3 CONT
3 CONT I was now out of nursing and had not found a companion. Our boy
3 CONC friends, who went to war, many times never came back. Some married
3 CONC girls in areas where the army took them. So it was slim pickin's.
3 CONC Daddy could see this and as I was approaching 26 to 27 years old, he
3 CONC gave me one of his adroit lessons. "Now don't be like some women I
3 CONC know who flew around all the daisies and lit in the garbage." This
3 CONC lesson struck home and as I dated I wondered, was he a daisy or was't
3 CONC he?
3 CONT
3 CONT As I mentioned earlier that steady attendance at Sacrament meeting
3 CONC seemed lacking. Yet, we understood that we were fully active Mormons.
3 CONC In my growing up period, 20 percent attendance at Sacrament meeting
3 CONC was normal. Sunday School was well attended by all the family, but
3 CONC this too could be missed without too much being said. However, my
3 CONC parents helped me to gain a testimony early, and I can never remember
3 CONC wanting to stay home from church on Sunday.
3 CONT
3 CONT For nearly 60 years, Mama held a calling in music. Daddy was not a
3 CONC leader but was a home teacher for years. When I was a senior in high
3 CONC school, he was called on a 2-year stake mission and did a great job
3 CONC with his companion, going out two nights a week to teach the gospel
3 CONC and they found success in baptizing. The last ten years of his life he
3 CONC was active in the High Priests quorum ... most of the time being the
3 CONC secretary and he was a good one.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama and Daddy loved to go to General Conference to the last day
3 CONC especially--on Sunday. Here, they would run into friends and family
3 CONC from all over. This was traditional before the church got so big and
3 CONC television took over. Daddy had a testimony of tithing and from my
3 CONC childhood on up can remember him asking Mama if the tithing was paid.
3 CONC He always wanted to make sure of that.
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy had a great appreciation for his pioneer heritage and would
3 CONC enjoy telling stories by the hours. He revered the life of Jacob
3 CONC Hamblin and read his history many times. One time, Grant's parents and
3 CONC my parents took three days off together and drove through the areas in
3 CONC southern Utah which Jacob spoke of in his history. We had a tremendous
3 CONC time as each related their favorite story. Daddy embellished it with
3 CONC some of his own. We should write these stories.
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy never found fault with the leaders. On the contrary, he was one
3 CONC who could enjoy each one for his differences. Daddy was the one who
3 CONC could be depended upon when it came to skills and muscle work, whether
3 CONC it was putting up the tables and chairs for a banquet or putting in a
3 CONC day at the welfare farm, or a night at the cannery or a special
3 CONC building or repair job at the church. I don't believe Daddy every
3 CONC said, "No" to anything. He was a man's man and when he went the men
3 CONC enjoyed him. If a chapel was being built, he was there working on it,
3 CONC sharing his tools, showing others how to work as well as accomplishing
3 CONC his own labors. His place during the meetings was by Mama who sat by
3 CONC the organ. He supported her 100% in all her callings.
3 CONT
3 CONT It was September 1969.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama was ill in St,. Marks Hospital suffering from cancer. Daddy was
3 CONC visiting her twice a day. Her room contained dozens of arrangements of
3 CONC flowers which he would bring her every day. He would pick them himself
3 CONC and do his best to arrange them and then another beautiful bouquet
3 CONC would appear. His unstinting devotion and love for Mama found
3 CONC expression in flowers, candy, in his cheerful voice, in his
3 CONC encouragement to her and dozens of little ways his imagination could
3 CONC think of. It is rare to see this kind of attention to a loved one. He
3 CONC tried so hard to help her to live and do for her when she was sick.
3 CONC Mama reciprocated by trying the best she could also and showed her
3 CONC love and appreciation, too.
3 CONT
3 CONT Daddy called me one morning to tell me of the pain he had in his left
3 CONC arm that had kept him up much of the night. My husband Grant was on
3 CONC his way to work and said he would stop by there. I was getting the
3 CONC children off to school and then I would go over.
3 CONT
3 CONT While Grant was visiting with him, he said, "Do you want to run a few
3 CONC errands with me?"... and so they went. They picked up Daddy's trousers
3 CONC at the cleaners, went to the bishop's house to pay his tithing, drove
3 CONC to the president of the high priests quorum to take his monthly report
3 CONC and left money in an envelope to pay the paper boy. Daddy was wrapping
3 CONC up his business for the last time.
3 CONT
3 CONT I came by soon afterward and drove Daddy to the Veteran's hospital.
3 CONC The doctor gave him and EKG and it showed nothing. He wanted to take
3 CONC him for a chest X-Ray and it was decided because he found nothing
3 CONC wrong that I would run a quick errand in down town Salt Lake. To my
3 CONC unhappiness, when I returned an hour later he had had a heart-attack.
3 CONC I have always felt sorry that I left him for that hour when he needed
3 CONC me most. He was put in intensive care and three days later, passed
3 CONC away. This was about September 12, 1969...on a Sunday.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama knew he was in the hospital and when we told her she said, "Darn
3 CONC him, why'd he have to go first?". Mama left the hospital long enough
3 CONC to go to the funeral and to the family meal served afterward. She was
3 CONC in her robe in a wheelchair.
3 CONT
3 CONT Mama stayed in the hospital a month longer ???It," with us for the
3 CONC next 3 months.  This was a precious time for our family to have the
3 CONC privilege of having her there her last days. We remember the
3 CONC experiences we had as she managed Grant as he made the harnesses for
3 CONC the ponies. She suffered pain in a cruel manner and took it like a
3 CONC champion. She was patient in suffering. She enjoyed the noises of the
3 CONC home and the company of the children. One day she said to me, "I don't
3 CONC believe you realize the precious atmosphere you have in your home. You
3 CONC have a wonderful spirit here and the sounds I hear are wonderful." I
3 CONC considered that a compliment. I then tried to look into the heart of
3 CONC the home a little better.
3 CONT
3 CONT One day, I was visiting with her to get her opinion on us moving to
3 CONC Alpine. I presented the negative  features ... we were comfortable in
3 CONC Granger, in 10 years the children would be mostly gone so why go to
3 CONC the bother. I pointed out the work involved to get moved and the chore
3 CONC to set up a new home, etc. After I had expounded all this, I repeated
3 CONC that I wanted her opinion on what I should do. With all the energy her
3 CONC weak frame could submit, she answered with one word, "GO!" This I felt
3 CONC read a lot into her courageous nature.
3 CONT
3 CONT It was New Years Day, 1970, when Claudio dos Santos and Mary came to
3 CONC see us in Granger. Mama hadn't wanted to get up in a chair all day. I
3 CONC tried to entice her by telling her I wanted her to hear Claudio sing.
3 CONC She, with my help, got up against her good wishes. Cory was seated at
3 CONC the piano and they had a song ready to sing when I walked in with
3 CONC Mama. Instead of sitting in the chair I had all ready for her, she
3 CONC walked straight to the piano bench and sat down by Cory and said,
3 CONC "Move over, I'll play for him." She did, and it was the last piece she
3 CONC would ever play. Her hands were supple, nimble, and flexible even more
3 CONC than anyone I have ever known. The Lord preserved her hands and her
3 CONC musical spirit to enjoy until her dying day.
3 CONT
3 CONT She passed away in our home on January 11, 1970.
3 CONT
3 CONT
1 FAMC @F3992@
0 @I14@ INDI
1 NAME Wallace /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Wallace
2 SURN Hamblin
2 NSFX (Twin)
1 SEX M
1 TITL (Twin)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 APR 1862
2 PLAC Santa Clara, Washington, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 30 SEP 1937
2 PLAC Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming
1 BURI
2 DATE 3 OCT 1937
2 PLAC Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming
1 ENDL
2 DATE 14 DEC 1881
2 TEMP SGEOR
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F37@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 1870
1 REFN 1B56-9L
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1 FAMC @F37@
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1 NAME Wallace Eugene /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Wallace Eugene
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX M
1 NOTE Line 58001 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:   MARR DATE
2 CONC 9 APR 1912 (DIV)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 DEC 1882
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 16 OCT 1918
1 ENDL
2 DATE 19 APR 1903
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F3992@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 30 AUG 1891
1 REFN 60WG-ZW
1 FAMC @F3992@
0 @I16@ INDI
1 NAME Addie Minerva /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Addie Minerva
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 6 FEB 1891
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 12 MAY 1933
2 PLAC St. George, Washington, UT
1 CHR
2 DATE 6 FEB 1891
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 BURI
2 DATE 14 MAY 1933
2 PLAC Panaca, Lincoln, NV
1 ENDL
2 DATE 15 NOV 1911
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F3992@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 22 JUL 1899
1 REFN 3KVG-12
1 FAMC @F3992@
0 @I17@ INDI
1 NAME William Clark /Hamblin/
2 GIVN William Clark
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 20 SEP 1893
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 14 AUG 1963
2 PLAC Rock Springs, Sweetwater Co.
1 BURI
2 DATE 17 AUG 1963
2 PLAC Rock Springs, Sweetwater Co.
1 ENDL
2 DATE 5 NOV 1965
2 TEMP SLAKE
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F3992@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 5 JUL 1902
1 REFN 1B56-3K
1 FAMC @F3992@
0 @I18@ INDI
1 NAME James Robert /Hamblin/
2 GIVN James Robert
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX M
1 BIRT
2 DATE 7 OCT 1901
2 PLAC Cumberland, Unita, WY
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 MAY 1971
1 ENDL
2 DATE 4 JUN 1924
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F3992@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 2 JUL 1910
1 REFN 60WH-2D
1 FAMC @F3992@
0 @I30@ INDI
1 NAME Oscar /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Oscar
2 SURN Hamblin
2 NSFX SR.
1 SEX M
1 TITL SR.
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2 CONC 1879 05 JUN 1957 AZ
1 BIRT
2 DATE 4 APR 1833
2 PLAC Salem, Ohio (Bainbridge, Geauga Co.)
1 DEAT
2 DATE 8 NOV 1862
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 BURI
2 DATE 10 NOV 1862
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 BAPM
2 DATE 8 MAY 1846
2 PLAC Between Nauvoo, Illinois and Mt. Pisgah, Iowa
1 ENDL
2 DATE 23 MAY 1860
1 SLGC
2 DATE 5 JUN 1957
2 TEMP ARIZO
2 FAMC @F90@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 8 MAY 1846
1 REFN 1BQC-V0
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F90@
0 @I31@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Ann /CORBRIDGE/
2 GIVN Mary Ann
2 SURN CORBRIDGE
1 SEX F
1 NOTE Record for baptism also given for 3 sep 1847.  Rebaptized?
1 BIRT
2 DATE 12 MAR 1836
2 PLAC Thornly, Lancastershire, England
1 DEAT
2 DATE 13 FEB 1916
2 PLAC Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, UT
1 BURI
2 DATE 16 FEB 1916
2 PLAC Minersville, Beaver, Utah
1 ENDL
2 DATE 23 MAY 1860
2 PLAC Endowment House, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
1 SLGC
2 DATE 19 DEC 1878
2 FAMC @F98@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 12 MAR 1844
1 REFN 2WX3-4W
1 FAMS @F37@
1 FAMC @F98@
0 @I32@ INDI
1 NAME Mary Adeline /Hamblin/
2 GIVN Mary Adeline
2 SURN Hamblin
1 SEX F
1 BIRT
2 DATE 30 OCT 1860
2 PLAC Santa Clara, Washington, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 10 MAY 1861
1 ENDL
2 DATE CHILD
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F37@
1 BAPL
2 DATE CHILD
1 REFN 2WX3-GM
1 FAMC @F37@
0 @I33@ INDI
1 NAME William /Hamblin/
2 GIVN William
2 SURN Hamblin
2 NSFX (TWIN)
1 SEX M
1 TITL (TWIN)
1 NOTE Line 58141 from GEDCOM File not recognizable or too long:   MARR PLAC
2 CONC St. George, Washington, Ut (St. George Temple)
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 APR 1862
2 PLAC Santa Clara, Washington, Utah
1 DEAT
2 DATE 23 DEC 1903
2 PLAC Frontier, Lincoln, WY
1 BURI
2 DATE 29 DEC 1903
2 PLAC Lyman Cemetary, Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming
1 ENDL
2 DATE 12 JAN 1881
2 TEMP SGEOR
1 SLGC
2 DATE BIC
2 FAMC @F37@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 1870
1 REFN 1F7J-PG
1 FAMC @F37@
0 @I36@ INDI
1 NAME James Henry /ROLLINS/
2 GIVN James Henry
2 SURN ROLLINS
1 SEX M
1 NOTE
2 CONT
2 CONT James H. Rollins held account number 188 in Joseph Smith's Red Brick
2 CONC Store in Nauvoo, Illinois.  The store's Day Books, some of which are
2 CONC available for perusal at the current store in Nauvoo, listed him, with
2 CONC other citizens of the city, along with a number of purchases made at
2 CONC the store, in 1843.
2 CONT
2 CONT 				Howard Bangerter, Nauvoo, 1 July 1996
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT Sysnopsis of Journal
2 CONT
2 CONT 1. Taken from James Henry Rollins Journal -- Father died. Raised by
2 CONC aunt, who was wife of A. Sidney Gilbert. Moved to Mentor, Ohio, 1825.
2 CONC Moved to Kirtland, 1826. Clerk in Gilbert Whitney store. Arrival of
2 CONC LDS missionaries, fall of 1830. Vision. Met Joseph Smith first day he
2 CONC arrived in Kirtland, 1831. Association with Smiths. To Independence,
2 CONC Missouri, 1831-32. Zion's Camp, 1834. Difficulties at Far West,
2 CONC 1837-38. Married. To Illinois. Called to live at Nauvoo. Worked in
2 CONC Joseph Smith's store. Carried water to store for use in endowments,
2 CONC 1844. Went to work at temple after store closed. To Iowa, 1846.
2 CONT
2 CONT To Utah, 1848. Trip to California with C. C. Rich, 1849. Long account
2 CONC of trip. Called to go to San Bernardino, 1851. Married Hannah Hues.
2 CONC Taught school briefly.  Clerk in store. Took goods to Salt Lake City.
2 CONC Returned to California, 1855. Elected assessor of San Bernardino
2 CONC County, 1857. Called back to Utah, 1858. Lived at Parowan a year.
2 CONC Balled to be bishop of Minersville, 1859. Found first lead mine in
2 CONC Utah Territory. Member of legislature, 1867. Resigned as bishop.
2 CONC Postmaster of Minersville. Lost all his money because of dishonest
2 CONC mining partners. Thinking of going to Wyoming to live with children,
2 CONC 1898.
2 CONT
2 CONT [Reference: Guide to Mormon Diaries & Autobiographies. Bitton, Davis
2 CONT Journal of James Henry Rollins]
2 CONT
2 CONT
2 CONT From: THE MORMONS IN SAN BERNARDINO
2 CONT By: Ida Rollins Hamblin (daughter)
2 CONT
2 CONT 	James Henry Rollins was born in Lima, New York May A, 1816, the son
2 CONC of John Rollins a rid Kaziah Katura Benthuysen. On June 1, 1839 James
2 CONC was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
2 CONC Saints in Independence, Missouri. In the spring of 1848 James, with
2 CONC his wife Eveline Walker and children crossed the plains to Utah. On
2 CONC February 4, 1849, Nancy Eveline was born.
2 CONT
2 CONT 	James was one of the men who went to the gold fields of California in
2 CONC 1849. In 1850 he returned to Salt Lake City and the following year
2 CONC took his family with him to San Bernardino. Just prior to his
2 CONC departure he married Hannah Humes as plural wife, When the Saints
2 CONC arrived at Sycamore Grove Mr. Rollins taught school during this period
2 CONC of waiting for the purchase of Lugo rancho. Here on July 13, 1851,
2 CONC Eveline gave birth to a daughter who was named Malissa Kaziah. While
2 CONC living in San Bernardino two sons, Charles Lyman, born November 10,
2 CONC 1852 and James Watson, born May, 1856, came to gladden the hearts of
2 CONC James and Eveline. Hannah also gave birth to two children while living
2 CONC there, a daughter, Caroline and a son, George. Sadness, too, entered
2 CONC their lives when Eveline's little daughter, Nancy Eveline, died as a
2 CONC result of an ear injury. While residing in the little Mormon colony,
2 CONC James took an active part in its development, especially in the field
2 CONC of education. Besides teaching he also served as school commissioner.
2 CONC An unexpired term of Quartus Sparks as district attorney was filled by
2 CONC Mr. Rollins.
2 CONT
2 CONT 	Seven days after the call was received to return to Utah, Henry was
2 CONC on his way with his families and five wagon loads of merchandise.
2 CONC While they were traveling over the desert the wagon in which Eveline
2 CONC and her children were riding forged ahead of the others. Her grown
2 CONC son, John Henry, was anxious to get back to Utah. Suddenly two Indians
2 CONC jumped out from behind a large rock frightening the animals. Eveline
2 CONC jumped from the wagon with the baby, James Watson, in her arms. As she
2 CONC brushed against the wagon one of her gold earrings caught in the
2 CONC canvas and was torn from her ear. John raised his whip to strike the
2 CONC Indians but just then the other wagons came in sight and they fled.
2 CONC When they reached Parowan, Hannah gave birth to another son, Frank, on
2 CONC May 18, 1858.
2 CONT
2 CONT 	The family later settled in Minersville where Hannah died September
2 CONC 30, 1896. James and Eveline moved to Wyoming with other members of
2 CONC their family and here Mr. Rollins died February 7, 1899, seven months
2 CONC after his arrival. Evelyn survived her husband thirteen years.  She
2 CONC passed away September 25, 1912 and was laid to rest beside her husband
2 CONC in the Lyman cemetery in Wyoming.
2 CONT
2 CONT
1 BIRT
2 DATE 27 MAY 1816
2 PLAC Lima, Livingston, New York
1 DEAT
2 DATE 7 FEB 1899
2 PLAC Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming
1 BURI
2 DATE 10 FEB 1899
2 PLAC Lyman, Uinta, Wyoming
1 ENDL
2 DATE 30 DEC 1845
2 TEMP NAUVO
2 NOTE
3 CONT Transcript from the original record of James H. Rollins and Evaline
3 CONC Walker's Endowment, 30 Dec 1845.
3 CONT
3 CONT From Heber C. Kimballs Journal (also known as "Book 93")
3 CONT November 21, 1845 to January 7, 1846
3 CONT
3 CONT Photocopy of the original journal
3 CONT in BYU Library Special Collections
3 CONT Jerald and Sandra Tanner
3 CONT Modern Microfilm Company
3 CONT June 17, 1982
3 CONT
3 CONT Electronic Text by Howard Bangerter
3 CONT Oct. 21 1997
3 CONT
3 CONT [begin citation]
3 CONT
3 CONT
3 CONT   Tuesday, December 30th 1845.
3 CONT
3 CONT The morning was pleasant, and at an
3 CONT early hour a very large number were at
3 CONT the Temple waiting for their washing &
3 CONT anointing -- they having been notified
3 CONT the day before to attend at an early
3 CONT hour -- Geo. P. Sykes - messenger(?)
3 CONT
3 CONT      At 10 minutes past 8 o'clock
3 CONT commenced in the male department,
3 CONT washing & annointing the following
3 CONT            washed by Milli(?) Snow & Geo. P Dykes
3 CONT            annointned by A. O. Smoot & (??)
3 CONT persons. vis.
3 CONT
3 CONT              High Priests;
3 CONT ...[one name]
3 CONT
3 CONT              Seventies.
3 CONT ... [one name]
3 CONT James H. Rollins -- [born] May 27. 1816
3 CONT ... [9 names]
3 CONT
3 CONT       finished at 22 minutes to 10. -------
3 CONT
3 CONT -----------------------------------------------
3 CONT
3 CONT In the female department the following
3 CONT persons were washed and anointed, com-
3 CONT mencing at 20 minutes after 8. viz;
3 CONT ...[8 names]
3 CONT Eveline Rollins born May 21. 1823
3 CONT washed by C.C. Spencer. Annointed by Thisja(?) Cahoon
3 CONT ...[[6 names]
3 CONT ----- Finished at 25 minutes to 10. --------
3 CONT
3 CONT At half past 9 o'clock 18 bottles of oil
3 CONT which had been prepared with perfume,
3 CONT were consecrated for the annointing in
3 CONT Pres. Young's room, the following persons of
3 CONT the quorum of the Twelve being present
3 CONT and clothed according to the Holy Order, viz;
3 CONT Pres. Brigham Young, Elder H. C. Kimball
3 CONT Parley P. Pratt, Amasa Lyman & George
3 CONT A. Smith, also Pres Joseph Young of the
3 CONT Seventies ----- Pres. B. Young was mouth,
3 CONT for the first 12. and George A. Smith for
3 CONT the other six.
3 CONT
3 CONT At 10 o'clock the Bell rung and ...
3 CONT to recieve into the upper department those
3 CONT whose names are above written who have been
3 CONT washed and annointed this morning --
3 CONT Persons officiating as follows, viz;
3 CONT P.P Pratt, as No.1 Orson Spencer as No. 2
3 CONT Erastus Snow as No. 3 in the upper department
3 CONT and in the middle department, as follows,
3 CONT George A. Smith No. 1 C. C. Rich No. 2 -
3 CONT Lorenzo Snow No. 3  John D. Lee " 4
3 CONT F. D. Richards " 5 ---
3 CONT ------------------------------------------------
3 CONT At 10 m. before 11. John M. Bernhisel
3 CONT brought in a suit of garments for the use
3 CONT of the persons receiving their endowments..
3 CONT Robes. Garments, Apron. Caps.
3 CONT Moccasins & Socks
3 CONT
3 CONT             Dec. 30.
3 CONT At 10 minutes past 11. commenced
3 CONT receiving the first company into the upper
3 CONT department in the following order:
3 CONT [19 names listed...]
3 CONT James H. Rollins [by] L. Mecham
3 CONT Eveline Rollins [by] J. H. Rollins
3 CONT [8 other names listed...]
3 CONT
3 CONT Finished at 20 minutes past one.
3 CONT Lorenzo Snow and Catherine C. Spencer
3 CONT officated as prompters, also Artemisia Snow
3 CONT
3 CONT ...
3 CONT [Other sessions follow.  An intersting note by Brother Kimball at the
3 CONC end of the day...]
3 CONT
3 CONT      Dec. 30.
3 CONT
3 CONT The labors of the day having been
3 CONT brought to a close at so early an hour
3 CONT viz; half past 8. it was thought proper
3 CONT to have a little season of recreation.
3 CONT Accordingly, Brother Hanson was invited
3 CONT to produce his violin -- he did so, and
3 CONT played several lively airs, among the
3 CONT rest - some very good lively dancing
3 CONT tunes. This was too much for the gravity
3 CONT of Bro. Joseph Young, indulged
3 CONT in a horn-pipe; and was soon joined
3 CONT by severl others, and before the dance
3 CONT was over several French fours were
3 CONT indulged in.  The first was opened by
3 CONT Pres. B. Young with Sister Whitney and
3 CONT Elder H. C. Kimball with Sister Whitney
3 CONT The spirit of dancing increased until
3 CONT the whole floor was covered with dancers.
3 CONT After this had continued about an
3 CONT hour, several excellent songs were
3 CONT sung in which several of the brethern
3 CONT and sisters joined -- The Upper California
3 CONT was sung by Erastus Snow.  After which
3 CONT Sister Whitney being invited by Pres.
3 CONT Young, stood up and invoking the gift
3 CONT of tongues, sung one of the most beau-
3 CONT tiful songs in tongues that ever was
3 CONT heard.  The interpretation was given
3 CONT by her husband, Bishop Whitney, it
3 CONT related to our efforts to build this
3 CONT House, and to the priviliege we now
3 CONT have of meeting together in it. ---
3 CONT of our departure shortly to the
3 CONT country of the Lamanites, and
3 CONT their rejoicing when they hear the gospel,
3 CONT and of the ingathering of Isreal ----- ---
3 CONT Altogether, it was one of the most
3 CONT touching and beautiful exhibitions
3 CONT of the power of the Spirit in the gift
3 CONT of tongues which was ever seen ---
3 CONT (So it appeared to the writer of this)
3 CONT After a little conversation of a general
3 CONT nature, the exercises of the evening
3 CONT were closed by prayer by Pres. B.
3 CONT Young -- and soon after most of the
3 CONT persons present left the temple for
3 CONT their homes.  The persons present at this
3 CONT interesting meeting were, Pres. B. Young,
3 CONT Elder H. C. Kimball, Orson Hyde, Joseph
3 CONT Young, erastus Snow --- John D. Lee
3 CONT Bishop N. K. Whitney, Elisha Averetto -
3 CONT David Candland L.R. foster John
3 CONT L. Butler -- Lewis Robbins -- Chapman
3 CONT Hans. C. Hanson - Horace Whitney
3 CONT Wm. H. Kimball -- little Joseph Young
3 CONT Bishop Whitneys Son John and Sisters Kimball
3 CONT Whitney, Artemi[?] Snow, Eliza R. Snow
3 CONT Mercy R. Thompson Sisters: Bains - S.
3 CONT M. [?] & Margaret Moore and
3 CONT Catherine Lewis
3 CONT    At 10 o'clock most of the bretheren who
3 CONT staid had prepared their beds, some
3 CONT on the floor, and some on sofas, and
3 CONT were ready for sleep. ---
3 CONT Amasa Lyman came in at 12. --
3 CONT and with Pres. Young, [?] and 5 or 6 others
3 CONT remained in the Temple over night.
3 CONT
3 CONT ...[interesting message by Brigham Young after another dance on
3 CONC January 1, 1846]
3 CONT
3 CONT ...After dancing a few
3 CONT [?] Pres. Young called the attention
3 CONT of the whole company, and then gave
3 CONT them a message, of this import,
3 CONT viz.;  that this temple was a Holy
3 CONT place and that when we danced
3 CONT
3 CONT         January 1
3 CONT
3 CONT we danced unto the Lord, and that no
3 CONT person should be allowed to come on
3 CONT to this floor, and afterwards mingle
3 CONT with the wicked.  He said the wicked
3 CONT have no right to dance, that dancing and
3 CONT music belonged to the Saints -- And he
3 CONT strongly expressed upon the minds of
3 CONT those present the impropriety of mingling
3 CONT again with the wicked after having
3 CONT come in here, and taken upon them
3 CONT the covenants which they had --  He
3 CONT spoke pointedly to his daughter Vilate
3 CONT and told her that if she should do so
3 CONT after this, she might expect to meet
3 CONT the frown of a father who held the
3 CONT keys of the Priesthood --.  He was followed
3 CONT by ? R. Foster, who  concern[?] in the [?]
3 CONT of Pres. Young, and said he would like to
3 CONT have the question put, that it might be
3 CONT known how many of those present
3 CONT were willing to make a covenant to this
3 CONT effect, that they would not mingle with
3 CONT the wicked any more in their amusement
3 CONT
3 CONT [more good stuff follows!  Need more time to transcribe!]
3 CONT
3 CONT
3 CONT [end citation]
3 CONT
1 SLGC
2 DATE 18 OCT 1894
2 FAMC @F3695@
1 BAPL
2 DATE 1 JUN 1832
2 NOTE
3 CONT
3 CONT 	The Conversion of James Henry Rollins
3 CONT 	to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
3 CONT 	by Howard K. Bangerter, 1988
3 CONT
3 CONT
3 CONT      In the Autumn of 1830, James Henry Rollins was a fourteen year
3 CONC old boy working as clerk in the mercantile store of his uncle, A.
3 CONC Sidney Gilbert in Kirtland, Ohio.
3 CONT
3 CONT      One day, Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer and Ziba
3 CONC Peterson arrived in Kirtland on their missionary journey to the
3 CONC Lamanites.  These men preached the gospel to Sidney Rigdon's
3 CONC Campbellite congregation, of which James' family and others in the
3 CONC neighborhood were members.  While most of these (Sidney Rigdon, the
3 CONC Newell K. Whitneys, Gilberts, and Frederick G. Williams included)
3 CONC joined the church, James was not baptized, "as I did not thoroughly
3 CONC understand it, but read the Book of Mormon through, and I had to read
3 CONC at night by firelight, as candles were very scarce at that time, and I
3 CONC lay on the floor on my back with my head to the fire and read at
3 CONC nights, the only time I had to read."
3 CONT
3 CONT      At that time in Kirtland, some individuals were experiencing
3 CONC manifestations of "different kinds of spirits, such as receiving
3 CONC revelations on parchment, and professing to receive them from Heaven;
3 CONC others lying like they were dead, in meetings, or rushing to the river
3 CONC and going through the form of baptism in the flowing ice until they
3 CONC had to be taken out, as was the case with Burr Riggs."  The Elders
3 CONC that Oliver and Parley put in charge were afraid to denounce the
3 CONC actions of these individuals.
3 CONT
3 CONT      In December of 1830, having observed these things, James plead
3 CONC with the Lord to show him if this was His spirit.  After much praying,
3 CONC he records, "I was shown in a dream or vision Joseph and Hyrum.  I saw
3 CONC them standing side by side.  They beckoned me to follow them to the
3 CONC door.  They received me in a very pleasing manner as I entered.  After
3 CONC a very short time they bade me to follow them, which I did.  They
3 CONC crossed a very long hall, the end of which I could not see;  then we
3 CONC three entered another door.  I cannot describe the beautiful things I
3 CONC beheld.  Nothing on earth can compare with the things I seen in my
3 CONC dream.  They then passed to  another door, which they opened and
3 CONC entered.  If I entered myself, all remembrance was taken from me of
3 CONC that place.  After this I was shown by a guide, which was at my
3 CONC side... many things which has transpired since, and are being
3 CONC literally fulfilled to the very letter.  He then showed me many things
3 CONC which I would have to pass through.  He told me to hold fast the Iron
3 CONC Rod, which, at that time, I did not know the meaning of, or neither
3 CONC did he explain it to me."
3 CONT
3 CONT      James first met Joseph Smith in the Gilbert and Whitney Store.
3 CONC When Joseph was told that James was not Sidney's son, but his wife's
3 CONC nephew, Joseph remarked, "Well, the Lord has shown him great things."
3 CONC James later recorded, "I truly had seen Joseph and Hyrum in my
3 CONC vision."
3 CONT
3 CONT      James became well acquainted with the Smith family, from Joseph,
3 CONC Sr. to William, with whom he would go on "shooting expeditions up and
3 CONC down the River", to Don Carlos: "Don Carlos and myself were great
3 CONC chums and were quite attached to each other.
3 CONT
3 CONT      After the conference of the Church held in Kirtland (June 3-6,
3 CONC 1831), many had been appointed to travel west to Independence Missouri
3 CONC (D&C 52-56).  When Sidney Gilbert and his family left for
3 CONC Independence, James, was with them.  They arrived in July 1831.
3 CONT
3 CONT      When Joseph and other brethren arrived in Jackson County Missouri
3 CONC in April, 1832, for a conference, he visited the Gilberts at their
3 CONC home.  After "saluting them, he came to me and said, 'Henry, I want to
3 CONC baptize you if possible before I leave.'  I was working in my uncle's
3 CONC store and asked him if I could go with him, that he wanted to baptize
3 CONC me.  My uncle said that he could not spare me that day, for the
3 CONC majority of the people came in on Saturday to do their trading, and he
3 CONC had no other help that he could depend on but me.   I was finally
3 CONC baptized by John Carroll on the 1st of June 1832."
3 CONT
3 CONT      Years later, in Nauvoo during the spring of 1844, the prophet
3 CONC made good on his offer to baptize James:  "I was alone in the store,
3 CONC when Joseph came in with his cane in his hand.  He stopped opposite me
3 CONC and eyed me for a moment.  Joseph told me to meet him later at the
3 CONC river near the old printing office.  I went, supposing he would send
3 CONC me on an errand, as he sometimes did.  When I arrived, I saw that he
3 CONC had been baptizing several individuals.  He said to me, 'Do you
3 CONC remember I promised to baptize you at Independence?  I want to fulfill
3 CONC that promise now, if you are willing?'  I said I was very willing.  He
3 CONC then took me in the river and baptized me, after which I took a seat
3 CONC on a rock, and he confirmed me and placed many blessings on me head.
3 CONT
3 CONT     James Henry Rollins, a quiet, hard-working young man that was
3 CONC clerk at the Whitney - Gilbert store, remained faithful to the Church
3 CONC throughout his life.  He witnessed first hand and patiently endured
3 CONC every phase of persecution the Saints went through: Kirtland, Jackson
3 CONC County (when 18 members of the Church were murdered at Hauns Mill,
3 CONC James was ready to ride and avenge the killings, until they were
3 CONC restrained by the Prophet), and the expulsion from Nauvoo.  He and his
3 CONC young family crossed the plains, then were sent immediately to found
3 CONC the community of San Bernadino, California.  As was likely for an
3 CONC individual of his experience, he opened the first store in that town.
3 CONC They returned to Utah when the U.S. Army threatened, but stopped in
3 CONC Minersville to mine lead.  Here he lived most of his life, until, at
3 CONC nearly the age of 80, they moved out to Lyman, Wyoming.  We are
3 CONC indebted to his daughter, Ida Minerva Rollins, who took down his
3 CONC history in long hand as he, over 80 years old, dictated it to her.
3 CONT
3 CONT [End of Conversion Story]
3 CONT
3 CONT
1 REFN 1CZ8-PH
1 EVEN Part 1 (1816-1838)
2 TYPE Autobiog
2 NOTE
3 CONT
3 CONT Life Sketch of James Henry Rollins
3 CONT
3 CONT A short sketch of the life of James Henry Rollins, which was dictated
3 CONC by James H. Rollins [in 1897 at age 80] and written by his daughter,
3 CONC Mary Osborne, and re-written by his youngest daughter, Ida M. Rollins
3 CONC Hamblin, and assisted by his daughter, Melissa R. Lee Reyborne, Sept.
3 CONC 7, 1924 in Cedar City, Utah.
3 CONT
3 CONT James Henry Rollins was born May 27th, 1816, in Lima, Livingston
3 CONC County, New York, the son of John Porter Rollins, born in Rutland, New
3 CONC Hampshire, about 1796, and Kaziah Katura Van Benthuysen born May 15th,
3 CONC 1796, in Albany, New York.
3 CONT
3 CONT The Rollins lived in Vermont and New Hampshire.  There were three
3 CONC brothers emigrated to America and settled in the Eastern States a
3 CONC while, then two of the brothers went south.  Their names were James,
3 CONC John Porter and Henry Rollins.  My father, John Porter, was interested
3 CONC in cattle, and sheep, and he was going on a trip to Canada with a
3 CONC large boat load of cattle, when a storm came up and wrecked the boat,
3 CONC and he went with the load to the bottom of Lake Erie, about the year
3 CONC 1820 or 1821.
3 CONT
3 CONT My mother was left a widow with three small children, myself and two
3 CONC sisters younger than me, Mary Elizabeth and Caroline.  My mother's
3 CONC sister, Elizabeth Van Benthuysen, then the wife of Sidney A. Gilbert,
3 CONC took me to raise as their own.  They moved from New York to Mentor,
3 CONC Ohio, in 1825, and a year after that moved to Kirtland, Ohio, at which
3 CONC place my Uncle Sidney went into the mercantile business with Orson
3 CONC [Newell] Whitney, and I did chores for them, and as soon as I was old
3 CONC enough was employed in their store as clerk.
3 CONT
3 CONT I continued working thus until Oliver Cowdery and Parley P. Pratt, and
3 CONC some other brethren came to Kirtland and brought the Book of Mormon in
3 CONC the Fall of 1830.  These brethren were on their road to find the
3 CONC Center Stake of Zion.  They preached the Gospel to my uncle and aunt
3 CONC and the Whitneys and several others, and they were converted and
3 CONC joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  I did not
3 CONC join them, as I did not thoroughly understand it, but read the Book of
3 CONC Mormon through, and I had to read at night by fire-light, as candles
3 CONC were very scarce at that time, and I lay on the floor on my back with
3 CONC my head to the fire, and read at nights, the only time I had to read.
3 CONT
3 CONT Brothers Cowdery and Pratt put some Elders in charge and they were
3 CONC afraid to denounce the actions of individuals who were at that time
3 CONC operated upon by different kinds of spirits such as receiving
3 CONC revelations on parchment, and professing to receive them from Heaven;
3 CONC others lying like they were dead, in meetings, or coming to rushing to
3 CONC the river and going through the form of baptism in the flowing ice
3 CONC until they had to be taken out, as was the case with Burr Riggs. After
3 CONC seeing all these, I pleaded with the Lord to show me if this spirit
3 CONC which was operating on certain individuals was His Spirit.  After much
3 CONC praying I was shown in a dream or vision Joseph and Hyrum.  I saw them
3 CONC standing side by side through a wall which seemingly was transparent
3 CONC and was the color of amber.  The light which enveloped them and me was
3 CONC not as the light of the sun but such as penetrated me from head to
3 CONC foot.  They beckoned me to follow them to the door, which opened to
3 CONC the north.  They appeared as though they were waiting for me, and they
3 CONC received me in a very pleasing manner as I entered.  After a very
3 CONC short time they bade me to follow them, which I did.  They crossed a
3 CONC very long hall running east and west, the end of which I could not
3 CONC see; then entering a door which opened to the south, we three entered;
3 CONC they showing and pointing out the beauties of the place.  I cannot
3 CONC describe the beautiful things I beheld.  Nothing on earth can compare
3 CONC with the things I seen in my dream.  They then passed to another door
3 CONC to the south; they opened it and entered, if I entered myself all
3 CONC remembrance was taken from me of that place.  I never could think of
3 CONC anything I seen if I entered. After this I was shown by a guide, which
3 CONC was at my side.  He showed me many things which has transpired since,
3 CONC and are being literally fulfilled to the very letter.  My guide also
3 CONC showed me a liquid billow of fire, on either side of me; as it rolled
3 CONC along it consumed everything upon the earth, the extent or the length
3 CONC thereof either way I could not discern.  I asked my guide as I stood
3 CONC over this fire which had no flame, what it was; he said, it was what
3 CONC is to come, and the destruction which was to roll over the earth to
3 CONC cleanse it, and make it pure.  He then took me back, and showed me
3 CONC many things which I would have to pass through.  He told me to hold
3 CONC fast the iron rod, which, at that time, I did not know the meaning of,
3 CONC or neither did he explain it to me.
3 CONT
3 CONT The adversary, previous to this had tried hard and was determined to
3 CONC crush me.  I plead with the Lord to help me, and said, ‘O Lord, take
3 CONC it away.  I want none of it, don't let it follow me.' It immediately
3 CONC vanished and my spirit was taken from my body at least for 10 hours
3 CONC before it returned.
3 CONT
3 CONT And all these things shown me has surely been an anchor and a solace
3 CONC to me in the many trials and tribulations which I have passed through.
3 CONC I am now 80 years of age, and am having this written from what little
3 CONC I can remember, thinking perhaps some of my children and descendants
3 CONC would like to read them when I have passed away.
3 CONT
3 CONT My first acquaintance with the Prophet Joseph Smith:
3 CONT As early as February, 1831, I first met Joseph Smith in my Uncle
3 CONC Sidney Gilbert's house.  This was the first day he arrived in
3 CONC Kirtland, and while he was in the house conversing with my uncle and
3 CONC aunt.  I, being at the front gate, saw a wagon turn over as it was
3 CONC coming down the slippery hill and heard a woman and 2 or 3 children
3 CONC screaming.  This was Joseph's family.  I ran in and told Joseph and
3 CONC uncle about it, and Joseph ran to assist them without his hat.  My
3 CONC first impression was, that if any of the occupants were hurt seriously
3 CONC that Joseph could heal them, but none of them were hurt.  Joseph and
3 CONC my uncle returned to the house.  He asked my uncle if I was his son.
3 CONC He said, ‘No, I was his wife's nephew.' ‘Well,' he said, ‘the Lord has
3 CONC shown him great things.' I truly had seen Joseph and Hyrum in my
3 CONC vision in Dec. 1830.
3 CONT
3 CONT After the turning over of the wagon, Joseph and his wife, Emma, came
3 CONC to my uncle's house for the purpose of finding a house to suit her,
3 CONC but they found other quarters as none of our rooms suited her.  Soon
3 CONC after this, more or all of the Smith family arrived in Kirtland.  From
3 CONC this time on I became personally acquainted with the Smith Family.
3 CONC Joseph Sen., his wife, Lucy Smith, Hyrum, Samuel, William, Don Carlos,
3 CONC and Lucy Smith, the youngest daughter; also Jenkins Salsberry and
3 CONC wife.  All these I saw almost daily while I remained in Kirtland.  I
3 CONC first saw Father Joseph Smith's wife, Lucy, and Don Carlos, on Sunday,
3 CONC the next day after they arrived at a meeting held at Isaac Morley's
3 CONC house.  They were very much fatigued from their journey, and during
3 CONC the meeting Don Carlos fell asleep in his chair, and after several had
3 CONC spoken he awoke and arose and bore as strong a testimony as I ever
3 CONC heard of the truth of this work.  Samuel H. Smith was a man of few
3 CONC words, and was very industrious and hard working.  William Smith
3 CONC afterwards came to the store and asked for me to go with him on his
3 CONC shooting expedition up and down the river.  They often consented to
3 CONC let me go with him.  Don Carlos and myself were great chums and were
3 CONC quite attached to each other.  In a short time I took leave of the
3 CONC Smiths to prepare to start westward.  Joseph went to Kirtland in the
3 CONC spring of 1831, and the first conference of the L.D.S.  Church was
3 CONC held in that place.  During the summer of 1831 many Elders were sent
3 CONC westward to Missouri, according to a revelation given June 1831,
3 CONC Joseph Smith, Sidney Rigdon and Sidney Gilbert with his wife
3 CONC accompanying him, she being the first Mormon woman that went to
3 CONC Independence.  I accompanied them, and the first of October we
3 CONC prepared to start, as we had to go from Kirtland across the western
3 CONC reserve to the Ohio River, which we did in wagons; taking the families
3 CONC of W. W. Phelps, Isaac Morley and several others' families; also my
3 CONC mother's family, two sisters and myself.  We were delayed when we tot
3 CONC to Arrow Rock, one hundred miles below Independence, on account of the
3 CONC great flow of ice.  The steamer turned back, and we remained there
3 CONC with W. W. Phelps for at least 5 weeks, when the wagons came from
3 CONC Independence, where we arrived about the 1st of January, 1832.
3 CONT
3 CONT Joseph Smith the Prophet came to Independence about the last of April,
3 CONC or the first of May.  He came to my uncle's house and saluted my uncle
3 CONC and aunt, then he came to me and said, "Henry, I want to baptize you
3 CONC if possible before I leave." I was then working in my uncle's store,
3 CONC and on Saturday, Joseph came into my uncle's store and asked him if I
3 CONC could go with him to the Whitmore settlement, that he wanted to
3 CONC baptize me.  My uncle said he could not spare me that day for the
3 CONC majority of the people came in on Saturday to do their trading, and he
3 CONC had no other help that he could depend on but me.  When Joseph
3 CONC returned from the Whitmore settlement, he authorized Oliver Cowdery to
3 CONC baptize me instead of him, which he did not get to do.  I was finally
3 CONC baptized by John Carroll on the 1st of June 1832, about 1½ miles west
3 CONC of the Temple block.
3 CONT I will say good-by to the Prophet as he has started on his journey
3 CONC down the river, the exact date of his starting I do not remember.
3 CONT
3 CONT Camp of Israel:
3 CONT  I will now pass on from May, 1832, to June 1st, 1834, at which time
3 CONC came the first Herald of the Camp of Israel.  The two men, namely,
3 CONC Amasa Lyman and Almon Babbitt came to the Hill farm which was occupied
3 CONC by Sidney Gilbert.  They told of the near approach of the Camp, and of
3 CONC their escape from the mob at Fishing River.  In a day or two after
3 CONC this the Camp arrived.  Joseph the Prophet and his brother, William,
3 CONC with Dr. F. G. Williams and several others stayed at our place, but
3 CONC the majority of the Camp went down Bush Creek, some three-forth's of a
3 CONC mile from us to the farm of John Burk, where many were stricken with
3 CONC cholera and died.  There was five died at our house, namely, William
3 CONC Weeden, a Brother Judd, Jessie Smith, a cousin of Joseph's and Sidney
3 CONC Gilbert, and Phebe Murdock.  During this time of sickness I was sent
3 CONC by the Prophet and Dr. Williams to Liberty for medicine, and by Joseph
3 CONC to Brother Partridge's, Morley's and other places, with dispatches, or
3 CONC word to other brethren who lived at a distance from the Camp of Israel
3 CONC about the cholera and the brethren dying, as I had a pony and could go
3 CONC during the time of this terrible scourge.  George A. Smith and Jesse
3 CONC Smith, both of them about my own age, we three were out in the road
3 CONC trying to get a ball out of a pistol which had got wet at Fishing
3 CONC River. We were all three quite merry and were laughing a great deal,
3 CONC when Jesse made the remark, ‘We had not ought to be out here making so
3 CONC much noise, while there are so many of our brethren sick and dying in
3 CONC the house.  We don't know how soon some of us may be taken.' We then
3 CONC opened the gate and went in at the east door of the house.  In a short
3 CONC time after entering the house this noble boy was struck with the
3 CONC cholera.  Joseph and his brethren worked over him, and with all they
3 CONC could do for him it availed them nothing, and he died lying on floor
3 CONC of our largest room.  We wrapped him up in his bed-clothes and carried
3 CONC him and the other brethren that had died, and put them in graves that
3 CONC had been dug for them.  We carried them through a terrible
3 CONC thunder-storm; we laid them in their graves without any coffins and
3 CONC covered them with Mother Earth.  Joseph took the death of this noble
3 CONC boy very hard, as he undoubtedly had been entrusted with his care by
3 CONC the boy's parents.  At this time Joseph was reprimanded by the Lord
3 CONC for trying to stay His hand, and I think the Lord told him at this
3 CONC time that He would smite him if he tried more to stay his decree of
3 CONC afflictions as promised.
3 CONT
3 CONT About this time the Camp disbanded, and I bid good-by to Joseph and
3 CONC his brethren as they took their departure for Kirtland and its
3 CONC vicinity.
3 CONT
3 CONT I next met the Prophet, his father, mother, and brothers in Far West,
3 CONC Caldwell County, Missouri, where the Saints had gone to build up and
3 CONC settle in this county.  I think the Smiths left Kirtland for Far West
3 CONC in 1837.  After this, I saw each and every one of them almost daily,
3 CONC and Father Smith and family and Joseph and Hyrum were on the square
3 CONC after they arrived in Far West.  Difficulties were encountered by the
3 CONC Prophet and Sidney Rigdon in obtaining the Presidency of the Church,
3 CONC as John Whitmer was the President and had been presiding during
3 CONC Joseph's absence.  Oliver Cowdery, John Whitmer and W. W. Phelps were
3 CONC opposed to Joseph taking the Presidency, and when Joseph arrived there
3 CONC was dissatisfaction among some of those who wished to rule, and have
3 CONC their own way, independent of the Prophet, but failed to accomplish
3 CONC their designs in all matters.  As time went on the Prophet and his
3 CONC brethren had considerable trouble from those that dissented and took
3 CONC sides against him and remained antagonistic until Boggs' army entered
3 CONC Far West and took Joseph and Hyrum and many others prisoners.
3 CONT
3 CONT I will now return to what happened before Boggs' army came, in as
3 CONC short a manner as possible.  Difficulties had commenced in Davis
3 CONC county on the day of election which was at my place of business, and
3 CONC in a bowery by the side of the house.  About 12 or 1 o'clock in the
3 CONC day, the majority of votes then on the list were for Judge Warren, a
3 CONC Democrat, who was a great friend to our people, in helping them to
3 CONC corn, bacon, etc., when the people first went to settle the country.
3 CONC At this time, William Pennington, the Whig candidate, got angry at
3 CONC this, and jumped on an empty barrel and made a great commotion and
3 CONC excitement.  About this time, Dick Walden struck Shoemaker Brown, one
3 CONC of our brethren, over the head with a three-foot board.  This caused a
3 CONC great stir among those present.  John Butler and Price Nelson knocked
3 CONC down 3 or 4 of the opposite parties which caused an uproar, and broke
3 CONC up the election, and broke me up also.  Soon after this transaction,
3 CONC our brethren who had settled on Grand River were being driven in by a
3 CONC mob, partly to Diamon from other settlements.  About this time it
3 CONC seemed that something must be done to protect (Adam-ondi-Ahman), and
3 CONC the brethren, Joseph and Hyrum, with David Patten's hundred men
3 CONC equipped themselves at Far West for Adam-ondi-Ahman.  But before
3 CONC starting for Di-Ahman, 10 young men were chosen and were well
3 CONC equipped.  Their names are as follows: Jesse D. Hunter, Darwin Chase,
3 CONC Chauncey L. Higbee, Joel Miles, Elisha and Elijah Everett (twins),
3 CONC Frank Higbee, James H. Rollins, Benson Williams Kurith and sometimes
3 CONC Ira Miles were with us.  We arrived at Adam-ondi-Ahman in the night,
3 CONC and our 10 camped in Lyman Wight's cornfield, and before we got our
3 CONC breakfast in the morning, a messenger arrived telling us to appear to
3 CONC Uncle John Smith's fully equipped with arms, which we did promptly. We
3 CONC were taken by the Prophet and his brother to the west side of
3 CONC Adam-ondi-Ahman.  They there gave us instructions and orders which
3 CONC were to go to Millport as speedily as possible, to see if the mob were
3 CONC there in force, as had been reported.  But they had heard of our
3 CONC coming and had left with a cannon which they had threatened to blow up
3 CONC Adam-ondi-Ahman with.  We saw no one as we entered Millport, but a
3 CONC woman sticking her head out of a window.  On returning toward
3 CONC Di-Ahman, we met several men going to Millport armed with a hundred
3 CONC rounds of ammunition on each man.  We did not harm them.  Finding that
3 CONC the mob had left Millport with the cannon* [*This same cannon is in
3 CONC Salt Lake at the LDS Mission]  and was making their stop at the
3 CONC Methodist Camp ground, 25 miles distant.  We returned and reported
3 CONC what we had done and seen, then Joseph and Hyrum and David Patten's
3 CONC hundred traveled swiftly through their camp ground where we found the
3 CONC cannon in a very mysterious way.  It was buried near the house and was
3 CONC discovered by Stephen Hale, the butt of the cannon had been uncovered
3 CONC by an old sow rooting the dirt away.  Our men hunted under the house
3 CONC for balls and powder.  We found sacks of powder there; also a cart was
3 CONC provided to carry the cannon, and it was taken to Di-Ahman that same
3 CONC day that we left Di-Ahman in the morning.
3 CONT
3 CONT In a few days after this, we returned to Far West and were kept
3 CONC constantly on the move, to watch the movement of the mob.  About this
3 CONC time a mob collected west of Far West on Crooked River.  As soon as
3 CONC the news was heard of their collecting, many of our brethren with
3 CONC David Patten at their head went to surprise the mob.  At this time
3 CONC David Patten was shot and some others killed and wounded.  David
3 CONC Patten died.  The next day after this the mob gathered at Haun's Mill
3 CONC and pounced on our brethren, killing 18 of them.  Among these was a
3 CONC young man by the name of Oliver Cox, who was my wife's foster brother.
3 CONC When he was leaving home the girls cried and did not want him to go,
3 CONC but he said, ‘Never mind, girls, if I die, I will have my boots on,
3 CONC and I will not be shot in the back.' And he was not; he was shot in
3 CONC the abdomen, and when he called for water, as he did not die
3 CONC immediately, the water would run out of the place where he was shot,
3 CONC and the mob drug him all over the shop for his boots as they were new
3 CONC ones.  He was thrown in the well with the rest that was killed there
3 CONC and covered with mother earth.  There were several others wounded at
3 CONC this time.  On this same day, Col. George M. Hinkle ordered 50 men to
3 CONC go and relieve, or guard them, but only our ten volunteered to go.  We
3 CONC were determined to go and help our brethren.  As we rode across the
3 CONC Square, the Prophet came out of George Robertson's house, where David
3 CONC Patten and O'Banion lay dead.  He came out without hat or coat and
3 CONC stopped us and asked us where we were going.  We told him we were
3 CONC going to Haun's Mill to assist the brethren there.  He told us that we
3 CONC were his men, and that we must not go.  If we did go against his will
3 CONC there would not be one of us left to tell the tale tomorrow morning.
3 CONC He was very pale, and, said he, ‘Go put your horses up and help us to
3 CONC bury these two brethren.' And we did just as he told us.  This, my
3 CONC children, was a sad day for us as a people.  And soon after this it
3 CONC was noised around that Gov. Boggs was raising the militia of the state
3 CONC to come against us.  Preparations were made by our people to defend
3 CONC themselves.  We tore down many log houses and made breast-works of
3 CONC them.  This was continually going on.  Boggs' army appeared on Goose
3 CONC Creek with five thousand men.  I was on guard most of the night, which
3 CONC was a little rainy and very dark.  The captain of the guard told me he
3 CONC would go home to get something to eat and would return in a short
3 CONC time.  But he did not return; he buried his own sword and did not
3 CONC appear among us any more.  The next day, as we were all gathered at
3 CONC the breast-works, we seen four men approaching us from the army with a
3 CONC white flag.  Two of us boys were ordered to go and meet them with a
3 CONC flag of truce, namely James H. Rollins and Chauncey L. Higbee.  A
3 CONC considerable fuss was made by Hinkle to get a piece of white cloth. At
3 CONC length, one man tore off his shirt flap, and tied it on a stick, and
3 CONC we both started, armed with our pistols, and knives, myself carrying
3 CONC the flag.  We went and met the men who were coming up from the army;
3 CONC they were to wit, a Mr. Huggins, a Mr. Gingell and two of the Pomeroy
3 CONC brothers.  They talked very saucy to us because we met them with arms,
3 CONC they having none.  I told them that we did not know what kind of men
3 CONC we were to meet.  They asked many questions regarding the people that
3 CONC were in Far West, Sister Adam Lightner and family, John Clemison's
3 CONC family to come out of town and they would kill all the rest.  I told
3 CONC them that Mrs. Lightner was my sister, and she did not want to go and
3 CONC leave the town, and I said I would stand by her regardless of life or
3 CONC death.  Soon after this the army came up near our breast-works, which
3 CONC was west of the town, nearly half a mile. Here they formed themselves
3 CONC into a hollow square.  Col. Hinkle had given up the town to General
3 CONC Clark, and others of the army, and we were ordered first to march out
3 CONC to the army and give up our arms.  We marched out, playing with the
3 CONC band, Washington's death march.  We marched into the hollow square. At
3 CONC this time I saw, as I turned around, two of the Jackson County mob
3 CONC whom I knew, namely Tom Wilson and William Baker.  They jumped the
3 CONC barricade with the horses.  I then threw my drum from my shoulders and
3 CONC gave it a kick which rolled it into the square and followed those men
3 CONC up into town, where I found them before John M. Burk's tavern talking
3 CONC with two women, namely Mrs. George Harris and my Aunt Elizabeth
3 CONC Gilbert.  I charged them severely for talking to such men as they were
3 CONC our enemies, and had come to destroy us as a people.  They said to me,
3 CONC ‘ Why, Henry, we will not hurt them.  We did not come to destroy the
3 CONC women; but wanted the men to be subject to the law.' These men went
3 CONC riding over the town after this, while the brethren were giving up
3 CONC their arms in the square, and prisoners were being taken out of their
3 CONC number that were in the square.  Joseph and Hyrum were taken prisoners
3 CONC and threatened by many of the officers of the army to be shot or hung,
3 CONC but General Donaphon and Atchison who were at the head of the Liberty
3 CONC Grays, said they would leave the army entirely if such proceedings
3 CONC were carried out. It was finally decided to spare their lives at that
3 CONC time, and they were taken with 40 or 50 of our brethren to the
3 CONC Richmond Jail.  Joseph and Hyrum, Lyman Wight, Darwin Chase, and some
3 CONC others were put in the jail, there not being room for the others. They
3 CONC were put in the court house with a hundred men to guard them - that
3 CONC was inside the court house.
3 CONT
3 CONT About this time the Lightner brothers came up with a wagon, a prairie
3 CONC schooner, and they took Clemison and family, and Adam Lightner and my
3 CONC sister, his wife, and family into this wagon.  I was assisting them in
3 CONC loading their bedding and they pled with me to go with them, and take
3 CONC my young wife along, whom I had married on the previous September 4th,
3 CONC 1836.  They finally persuaded me to go and they secreted me in the
3 CONC bottom of the wagon lying with my face downward, and they threw
3 CONC bedding on top of me, and when they left I was in this position and
3 CONC remained thus until we had passed safely through the army, and for
3 CONC several miles distance, when I was relieved of this tiresome position.
3 CONC We camped some 15 miles distance from Far West that night in the open
3 CONC prairie, and made our beds on the ground, and when we awoke in the
3 CONC morning there was 2 or 3 inches of snow above us.  We got our
3 CONC breakfast early and pressed on our journey towards Richmond, passing
3 CONC through that place without stopping.  We arrived at Pomeroy ferry
3 CONC about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  The women and children were taken
3 CONC in the yowl, and the wagon and team were taken in the ferry boat.  The
3 CONC ice being very bad, floating down in great chunks.  The boat with the
3 CONC women and children in were ready to start.  The ferryman wanted Mr.
3 CONC Lightner to get in the boat and leave me to go over another time.  Mr.
3 CONC Lightner said to him, ‘Mr. Harwood, I want you to understand that when
3 CONC I go, he goes, and if he stays, I stay also.' Consequently when the
3 CONC small boat came back, we both went, and arrived at the landing where
3 CONC the wagon was waiting to take us on to Abner Lightner's, near
3 CONC Lancaster, Missouri.  I remained at Lightner's house some 5 days with
3 CONC the others that were with us, and as I was reading the family Bible
3 CONC alone in the room, there came a knock at the door.  I bid them come
3 CONC in.  A man stepped in the room and asked if Mr. Rollins was there.  I
3 CONC told him I was the man.  His name was Raglin, whom I knew very well in
3 CONC Davis County.  He said to me, ‘Can you pay me for a horse that you
3 CONC bought of me?' I told him that he knew very well that I had nothing;
3 CONC that my pardner, Slade, in Far West, had all my property, and he
3 CONC (Slade) would pay it.  At this time, two other men rapped at the door
3 CONC inquiring for me.  As they entered they said they had been sent for me
3 CONC from Richmond.  I asked them what they wanted me for, and if they had
3 CONC any papers.  They said, ‘No,' they were under martial law, and I was
3 CONC wanted for a witness against others.  I asked them if they would allow
3 CONC me to enter another room to put on a clean shirt.  The men watched
3 CONC outside.  They then ordered me to get on to one of the horses behind
3 CONC one of them.  It was snowing very hard at the time.  We went to the
3 CONC river where the ferry boats were lying awaiting their return.  We
3 CONC crossed the river among the flowing ice.  The ferryman, Mr.  Harwood,
3 CONC grinning at me, by whose means I was traced to Lightner's house.  I
3 CONC then mounted as before behind one of the soldiers, and arriving at
3 CONC Richmond court house, when General Clark appeared at the door, the men
3 CONC saying, ‘Here is the man you sent us for.' He said, ‘You get down off
3 CONC the horse, and go in the bull pen with the rest of them, which was the
3 CONC first intimation I had that there were any others in there.  When I
3 CONC had entered, I was forced into the bull pen where, sure enough, there
3 CONC I found some 40 or 50 of our brethren, such as Bishop Partridge, Isaac
3 CONC Morley, James and Isaac Allred, and many others that I will not
3 CONC mention here, that were old men, and many of my former 10.
3 CONT
3 CONT
1 EVEN Part 2 (1838-1845)
2 TYPE Autobiog
2 NOTE
3 CONT
3 CONT I was called the next morning when court had convened and the state
3 CONC prosecutor read the charges which were treason, murder, arson,
3 CONC larceny, burglary.  He asked me if I was guilty of any of these.  I
3 CONC told him, ‘No, sir, I am not guilty of none of them.' About 11 o'clock
3 CONC the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum were brought into the court department
3 CONC which was situated on the same floor where we were kept.  A pole was
3 CONC stretched across to keep us back from Judge King and his court.  I
3 CONC stood, close to the pole, at the back of Joseph and Hyrum and the
3 CONC lawyers Donathan and Atchison.  A man was brought in as witness
3 CONC against me, by the name of Odell, who testified that I had burned his
3 CONC house.  I spoke openly, as I stood behind Joseph and Hyrum, that he
3 CONC was a curly headed liar.  Joseph turned his head toward me and said,
3 CONC ‘Straw, Henry, don't say anything.'  This saying caused some
3 CONC consternation in the court room.  What was done about it, I don't
3 CONC remember.  We were kept prisoners for several weeks.  At last it was
3 CONC agreed that we could bail each other out, one of the brethren basting
3 CONC another.  Sometimes one would go bail for three or four of the
3 CONC brethren until they were all bailed out but myself.  Isaac Allred
3 CONC having agreed to bail me out previous to this, but did not.  I got one
3 CONC of the guards to go with me to find him.  I asked him about it and he
3 CONC said he couldn't, as he had already bailed out four or five of the
3 CONC men.  I was then taken back and put under guard until evening.  Some
3 CONC one came and told me that my young wife had come to see me, so I was
3 CONC allowed to go and see her, and if any one appeared as an angel, she
3 CONC sure did to me.  She had ridden on a horse from Lexington, 35 miles.
3 CONC She was dressed in a black silk dress and looked very beautiful.  And
3 CONC the warden said to her, and took the name of the Lord, and said, if as
3 CONC beautiful women as you are has a husband in jail you sure shall see
3 CONC him.  She had been left at Lightner's among strangers all this time.
3 CONC Donathan and Atcheson, the lawyers, took me to Cudgels Hotel to see
3 CONC her.  They said I should stay there with my wife that night.  They put
3 CONC us in a room 6 by 8 with 2 guards inside the room with their heads
3 CONC against the door.  I was taken very sick in the night and my wife was
3 CONC obliged to go out over the guards bed to hunt the nurse to get some
3 CONC medicine to relieve my pain.  The guard was determined to not let her
3 CONC go out, when my brother-in-law, Mr. Carr, said, ‘O let her go.' He was
3 CONC one of the mob.  The next morning at breakfast they set me and my wife
3 CONC at the head of the table.  All eyes were turned upon us.  About 10
3 CONC o'clock in the day I succeeded in obtaining bail.  My bail was fixed
3 CONC for all these crimes and I was signed by the notorious Beaugard
3 CONC Methodist preacher, Nathaniel Carr, my brother-in-law.  Soon after
3 CONC this was settled, I obtained a horse, saddle, and bridle, and started
3 CONC with my wife on the same horse for Far West, 35 miles distance.  It
3 CONC was quite cold, and we had to ride and run alternately to get warm
3 CONC until we arrived, wearied at Far West in the night safely.  We had not
3 CONC been home long, Beaugard appeared in Far West and exacted my
3 CONC step-father's hotel, my father-in-law's hundred acres of land, and 40
3 CONC acres of my own land, at least a thousand dollars worth of other
3 CONC property for security for the five hundred dollars for my bail, or he
3 CONC would take me back to prison.  Some of the land that he wanted lay 3
3 CONC miles from Haun's Mill.  I had not heard whether my wife's father
3 CONC would consent to Beaugard's requirements or not.
3 CONT
3 CONT About this time, my wife's brother, William Walker, brought a horse,
3 CONC saddle, and bridle and portmanteau, and told me to take the horse and
3 CONC skip.  Beaugard, that evening, took me up stairs and told me if I
3 CONC didn't produce those men to go my security the next day, he would take
3 CONC me back to prison.  That night I saddled up the horse and mother gave
3 CONC me $16 to start with.  C. L. Higbee and myself started together.  The
3 CONC young people of Far West had gathered at a house half a mile out of
3 CONC town to bid us good-bye.  We left them and rode 25 miles that night
3 CONC and came to a deserted house.  After feeding our horses some corn that
3 CONC was in the crib, we laid down and remained there until daylight and
3 CONC pressed on our journey, and at sunset that day we crossed the mouth of
3 CONC Grand River, 100 miles from Far West, when we put up at a house on the
3 CONC south side of Grand River, where we stayed all night.  Next morning we
3 CONC started on our journey towards Quincey.  We stopped again that night
3 CONC and put up at a hotel, when we learned that the Mississippi River was
3 CONC full of ice, and were not able to cross.  A great many of our people
3 CONC were there.  C. L. Higbee parted with me here.  This is the fifth day
3 CONC of our journey.  I followed down the river alone and crossed the
3 CONC Illinois River 20 miles from the city of Alton.  I crossed that river
3 CONC and got into Alton 9 o'clock that night having rode the same horse 350
3 CONC miles in 5 days.  I found my brother-in-law there.  I found a home and
3 CONC a resting place.  The next day I went with my brother-in-law to Lower
3 CONC Alton where I found Chapman Duncan, a clerk in the American Hotel,
3 CONC where I was taken with the bilious colic, which was very severe.  My
3 CONC brother-in-law and another man took me to upper Alton where I had the
3 CONC attention that a famed y and doctor were able to give.  I was several
3 CONC days in a very bad condition, but hearing about this time that
3 CONC Beaugard was in pursuit of me, I saddled my horse and rode some 60
3 CONC miles in to Magovina County.  When I stopped to rest my horse and went
3 CONC to making runs for a man by the name of Hains.  He was a young married
3 CONC man with one child who had come there from Kentucky.  He had bought
3 CONC two hundred acres of land which lay next to a skirt of timber, where I
3 CONC made the rails.  I worked there for several days, and telling the
3 CONC people that I was on my way to Louisville, Kentucky, where I had a
3 CONC sister and calling myself James Henry.  On the last day I had worked
3 CONC for them, which was Saturday, this day I had cut a large burr oak
3 CONC tree.  I made 40 rails of one half of the butt, out.  I then ate my
3 CONC lunch and layed down on the flat side of the other half of the oak and
3 CONC fell asleep, and while lying there I received the plain, audible
3 CONC words, saying, ‘Your wife, Eveline, is in Alton, if you want to see
3 CONC her, hurry!' I sprang from the log to my feet and looked around,
3 CONC expecting to see some one near by me, but to my great surprise I saw
3 CONC no one.  I immediately gathered up my ax and dinner bucket and started
3 CONC for the house, which was some half or 3/4 miles distant.  When I
3 CONC arrived at the house, the lady saw I was very pale and asked me if I
3 CONC was sick.  I said I didn't feel very well, and I thought I would go on
3 CONC my way in the morning towards Louisville.  She replied, ‘Would you
3 CONC like to stay with us? We don't want you to go.' Her husband did not
3 CONC come until evening.  I was very uneasy and could hardly content myself
3 CONC until Mr. Rains came home.  I told him my determination to move on the
3 CONC next day which was Sunday.  He tried to prevail on me to stay and
3 CONC offered me a great many inducements to stay, but it was of no avail.
3 CONC The next morning, after settling up with me, and gave me the money he
3 CONC owed me.  It was a very bad morning, snowing and blowing and covered
3 CONC the way, so I could not see the road, and it was dangerous to cross
3 CONC the prairies.  I went that day and settled up for the keep of my horse
3 CONC and returned and stayed that night with Mr. Haines.  The next morning,
3 CONC Monday, was clear and nice, the wind having cleared the road.  I then
3 CONC started and rode across the prairie 18 miles and came to a small town
3 CONC and stopped and secured my horse to a rack outside of a small grocery.
3 CONC On the platform stood a man of medium size.  Said he, ‘I have been
3 CONC waiting for you to come.  Come in and warm.' I told him I was very
3 CONC chilly.  We went to the stove which was situated in the back of the
3 CONC room.  After warming for a short time, I went to the door to see if my
3 CONC horse was all right.  This man followed me as I went to the door.  He
3 CONC then asked me if I would take something to drink.  I said, ‘No, I
3 CONC never drank anything, but if he had some sweet Metaga wine, which the
3 CONC bartender said he had.  I went to the bar with the strange man and
3 CONC drank a small glass of the wine, and he said nothing.  I went to the
3 CONC door again to see my horse, and he followed me again.  I then went
3 CONC back to the stove.  He said he wanted me to go home with him.  I said
3 CONC it was impossible for me to go.  He said, ‘I know you are in a hurry.'
3 CONC I then went to the door again, but he did not follow me this time, so
3 CONC I shut the door and was in my saddle and off in great speed.  This man
3 CONC seemed a very mysterious man.  I hardly knew how to take him or what
3 CONC he meant by his curious actions.  I meditated on my journey
3 CONC considerable about the strange man.  He was a very fine looking dark
3 CONC complexioned man and seemed very interested in me.  However, I wended
3 CONC my tiresome journey, very anxious to arrive at a place, to where I was
3 CONC so eager to stop, thinking I might find a resting place for a while
3 CONC for I was worn out for sleep and worry.  While riding on my journey
3 CONC that day I met a boy at Wood River bridge one mile from Alton.  I
3 CONC quickly inquired of him if my wife was in Alton.
3 CONT
3 CONT He said, ‘Yes, she is very bad at her brother John Walker's, and if
3 CONC you want to see her alive, hurry!' The same words that was said to me
3 CONC when I lay asleep on the log.  I surely did hurry my jaded horse, and
3 CONC landed on the doorstep of John Walker's house.  There I found my
3 CONC warning true in every sense, as the doctor and women were just putting
3 CONC my wife in bed as I arrived.  She was expected to die for days
3 CONC previous to this.  In a few days after my return, she began to
3 CONC recover.  When she was well enough I rented a house and my family and
3 CONC Wm. Walker's family moved together in to the house, which I had
3 CONC rented.  Soon after this, Adam Lightner, my brother-in-law and wife
3 CONC returned from Louisville, Kentucky, and they lived in the same house,
3 CONC also, it being a very large house.  We All remained there during the
3 CONC summer season.  I then moved to Clifton, 6 miles Above Alton, where we
3 CONC found a house empty, large enough for 3 or 4 families to live in.  We
3 CONC here desired to build a large flat boat for carrying wood to Alton and
3 CONC St. Louis.  This boat we constructed during the winter.  Previous to
3 CONC this we hired a smaller boat and loaded it with sugar maple for the
3 CONC Alton Mall.  As we arrived with the boat near the mill we endeavored
3 CONC to land the boat and fasten it to the shore.  The boat in turning,
3 CONC dipped water.  I took the rope and swam to the shore and fastened the
3 CONC line.  In coming around, she filled with water and sunk.  The wood
3 CONC above the gunnels of the boat was taken off by the current, and
3 CONC floated down the river.  We succeeded in raising the boat and emptied
3 CONC it of its contents that remained, and we tied the boat that night to
3 CONC the place where we had loaded it in the morning.  After resting a few
3 CONC days, we went to on our large boat, which we finished in the spring
3 CONC and loaded the boat with wood for St. Louis.  The trip was made
3 CONC successfully.  We paid 20 dollars to steamboat in St. Louis, to tow it
3 CONC up to our landing place.  After making another trip to St. Louis, I
3 CONC disposed with my share of the boat to my other partners, and myself
3 CONC and wife went to Alton and boarded the steamer, Austria, and set sail
3 CONC for Montrose in Iowa, opposite Nauvoo, staying there over night at
3 CONC Isaac Bebee's.  The next morning started out afoot, myself and wife,
3 CONC being very anxious to get home to my stepfather's, John M. Burks,
3 CONC which was 9 miles from Montrose west, being a fatiguing journey for my
3 CONC wife to walk.  She of course, was very tired when we arrived at my
3 CONC mother's house.  We remained there and assisted my step-father to open
3 CONC up a large farm, which we had planted with corn, squash and melons,
3 CONC and produced a large crop of each.  Father Burke and my mother in the
3 CONC spring following moved to Nauvoo.  I soon after their departure
3 CONC received a letter written by William Clayton, and signed by Joseph
3 CONC Smith, the Prophet, the contents of which was that I should come to
3 CONC Nauvoo immediately.  I therefore went the next day and asked Joseph
3 CONC what he wanted of me.  He inquired of what I had in Iowa.  I told him
3 CONC I had a few effects.  He said for me to go back and arrange my things
3 CONC over there, dispose of them, and move to Nauvoo, that he wanted me
3 CONC there.  I did as he advised me and moved to Nauvoo.  We lived in with
3 CONC my mother for a short time where my eldest daughter was born.  My wife
3 CONC had been very sick several weeks previous to the birth of the child,
3 CONC and her life was despaired of, and at the same time my little son was
3 CONC very low with measles and canker; they were being doctored by
3 CONC Tomsonian, a doctor from Warsaw.  We remaining in the house four weeks
3 CONC previous to this time.  I asked Joseph to call if possible and see my
3 CONC wife, for she was very sick.  He came and administered to her, and the
3 CONC little boy.  Then he asked the Dr. who was present what he had done
3 CONC for my wife and Dr. said he had given such medicine for her cough.
3 CONC Joseph said, ‘That kind of medicine will do her no good.' He said to
3 CONC my mother, ‘You give her a teaspoonful of consecrated oil with two
3 CONC drops of Lobelia and increase the lobelia until her cough is perfectly
3 CONC loose and she will get well, and take no more of Dr.'s medicine.' The
3 CONC Dr. then left for his home at Warsaw, and my wife soon began to rally
3 CONC and gain strength, and in a very short time after was delivered, which
3 CONC was the third child born.  The first, a boy, Horrie Algernon, died at
3 CONC Clifton, above Alton.  The next, a son, John Henry, was born in Iowa,
3 CONC and the daughter, Mary Amelia, was born in Nauvoo, Dec. 27,1843.  Soon
3 CONC after this I went to Joseph where he resided down on the flats in a
3 CONC mansion, and asked him what he desired me to do.  He said, ‘You come
3 CONC down about 10 o'clock on Monday morning, about the 28th,' which I did.
3 CONC I went with him to his store, and he asked Newell K. Whitney if he had
3 CONC any work for me to do.  He replied nothing that he knew of, that he
3 CONC had sufficient help at present.  Joseph said to me, ‘I have work for
3 CONC you, and he took me thou in the back of the store and showed me about
3 CONC the cords of hickory wood.  He asked me if I were a good hand with the
3 CONC axe.  I laughed and said, ‘Wed , some little.' He said the clerks were
3 CONC too shiftless to cut their own wood.  I asked him if he had a sharp
3 CONC ax.  He turned to Loren Walker and said, ‘Get the ax for him.  I want
3 CONC him to chop up this wood', which I did and piled it up the same day.
3 CONC The next day he came to the store and unbarred the outside cellar
3 CONC door, and he would unlock it from the outside.  When the doors were
3 CONC opened and then asked me if I thought I could straighten up things and
3 CONC I told him I would try and see what I could do.  He was pleased with
3 CONC the change I made in the appearance of the cellar.  Next day, early in
3 CONC the morning Judge Cleveland brought a car-load of hogs.  Joseph asked
3 CONC me if I could cut them up and salt them.  He said, ‘I want it done
3 CONC just as my wife, Emma, tells you.' She came in the cellar soon after
3 CONC and told me to cut out the bones and salt them in barrels.  After
3 CONC taking all the bones out of them and then put brine on them and so
3 CONC much molasses to each barrel, and after laying for a certain length of
3 CONC time take them out and hang them up in the carriage house and smoke
3 CONC them.  I said I was afraid as it was getting quite warm in the day
3 CONC that their being sweet the flies would spoil them.  She says, ‘Fix
3 CONC them as I want it done, if they all Spoil, ' and they did, most all of
3 CONC them spoiled.
3 CONT
3 CONT On or about this time, Lyman Wight and Amasa Lyman and Henry Sherwood
3 CONC came up the river from the south with 25 barrels of Orleans sugar, and
3 CONC several hogshead of the same, and several barrels of molasses, and
3 CONC about this time, Edward Hunter also came with a large supply of dry
3 CONC goods from Philadelphia, which he unloaded at his own house, where he
3 CONC might select some articles for his own use, before he sent them to
3 CONC Joseph's store.  In the meantime, Joseph told me to harness up his old
3 CONC Charlie to the buggy and take Brother Hunter around to view the city
3 CONC and to see Joseph's farm, and to answer all the questions he might ask
3 CONC as near as possible.  This I endeavored to do and seemed to please
3 CONC Brother Hunter very much.  He told Joseph when he sent for those goods
3 CONC to send me, which I took very much pleasure in doing.  The supt. of
3 CONC the store, Mr. Whitney, and two clerks were marking and setting prices
3 CONC on the goods for several days.  At this time a good deal of work was
3 CONC being done on the Temple which the workmen received orders for their
3 CONC labor on the store.  It was very much crowded for two or three days,
3 CONC and as I stood in the counting room door looking at faces in the
3 CONC house, there were a great many very familiar with me, and they came to
3 CONC me as they were waiting for their pay, asked me if I could wait on
3 CONC them.  Joseph being in the store at the time, said to me, ‘Why don't
3 CONC you wait on those people?' I told him when I was ordered, I would do
3 CONC so with pleasure.  He then said, ‘Go and wait on them.' I then went to
3 CONC work behind the counter on the grocery side, and payed off many orders
3 CONC this day and the next, the store being crowded constantly, and at
3 CONC least 50 to 100 people to be waited on from morning until night, and
3 CONC being so very close with so many present was very oppressive to us
3 CONC all.  When Joseph came in and saw us looking tired and pale, he told
3 CONC us to shut up the store that night and not open again for two or three
3 CONC days, which we did, until we got rested, then opened again for
3 CONC business.  A few weeks after this time, Joseph and Emma went to Rock
3 CONC Island, up the Mississippi to visit their relatives.  While there, the
3 CONC sheriff of Jackson County came over the river to take him back to
3 CONC Jackson County, but the sheriff was remonstrated against by the people
3 CONC and Joseph would not be taken, but said if the sheriff would go with
3 CONC him to Nauvoo and there be tried.  Joseph employed up there before
3 CONC starting back, a criminal lawyer by the name of Walker, who was a Whig
3 CONC candidate for State rep., and he would defend him if Joseph would vote
3 CONC for him, which Joseph said he would do.  When the people of Nauvoo
3 CONC heard of Joseph's trouble, many of them started up the river to escort
3 CONC Joseph home, that no accident would befell him.  They met him coming
3 CONC and returning with him a candidate by the name of Hague of the
3 CONC Democratic party who was a candidate for the same office.  A mass
3 CONC meeting was called on the hill west of the Temple by Joseph, and when
3 CONC the people were gathered speeches were made by both parties.  When
3 CONC Joseph arose to speak he told the people he had promised to vote for
3 CONC Walker and he was going to do so.  Said it was a free country and they
3 CONC could vote as they pleased.  After this the municipal court was called
3 CONC and Joseph cleared the accusations they had against him and the
3 CONC sheriff went home disappointed, and when the election came off the
3 CONC majority of votes were cast for Hague, and he was elected as near as I
3 CONC can remember.  Soon after this time Joseph wrote the key to his policy
3 CONC on the government of the United States and declared himself a
3 CONC candidate for president of the United States.  In a short time after
3 CONC this declaration trouble began and kept brewing until the charter of
3 CONC Nauvoo and the dispensation of the Masonic lodge were taken away and
3 CONC Sam Sharp of Warsaw Signal paper was filled with all kinds of rubbish
3 CONC and slander against the prophet and our people Houses, barns and
3 CONC stacks were being burned by the mob which was in the Morley settlement
3 CONC south of Nauvoo, and south-east of Warsaw.  This burning of houses
3 CONC continued for some time.  Previous to the Martyrdom of the Prophet and
3 CONC his brother at Carthage Jail, before the Charter was taken from
3 CONC Nauvoo, the apostates printed in the Nauvoo paper called the
3 CONC "Expositor", which the city council and mayor declared to be a
3 CONC nuisance, and should be removed, which caused a great commotion in the
3 CONC country The work of the mob was egged on by the apostates until
3 CONC Governor Ford's army gathered in Carthage, when Joseph and Hyrum were
3 CONC taken prisoners.  I saw the Prophet in his military costume, standing
3 CONC on the frame building speaking to the people that were gathered
3 CONC around, which was quite numerous.  This was the day before he was
3 CONC taken to Carthage.  When Joseph and Hyrum, Dr. Richards and John
3 CONC Taylor were put in the Carthage Jail, Governor Ford pledged himself
3 CONC and the state, that they should not be harmed, and placed the Carthage
3 CONC Grays to guard them, and he, the Governor, would go to Nauvoo, but his
3 CONC scheme was well planned.  While in Nauvoo the Carthage Grays withdrew
3 CONC and a posse of murderers with blackened faces came from a different
3 CONC direction and stormed the jay, and commenced shooting through a small
3 CONC opening in the door; when they shot and killed Hyrum Smith and wounded
3 CONC Bro. John Taylor, Joseph ran to the window, when he was shot and fell
3 CONC out of the window near the well curb, and was gathered up by the mob
3 CONC and set up by the well curb, when one of the murderers drew a long
3 CONC knife and stepped up to Joseph to sever his head from his body, when
3 CONC to their great surprise a streak of light came from Heaven, and struck
3 CONC this man and knocked him back and stayed his hand from cutting off his
3 CONC head.  The history of this transaction of their assassination is more
3 CONC minutely described in the Church history of this terrible massacre
3 CONC than I am able to write at this time.  Their bodies were brought into
3 CONC Nauvoo, and there they lay in state at the Mansion house, and were
3 CONC viewed by thousands of Saints who were in deep mourning for their
3 CONC Prophet and Patriarch.  The mob and apostates thought if they were
3 CONC killed, it would put a stop to the Church of Jesus Christ of
3 CONC Latter-day Saints, but to their surprise and chagrin, the Lord raised
3 CONC up other men to look after his people, and they have grown and
3 CONC increased ever since that time.
3 CONT
3 CONT I will now go back to the transaction between myself and Joseph.
3 CONC During the spring and summer of 1844, previous to his death, he told
3 CONC me to assist in carrying water and other commodities to the room above
3 CONC the store, which I did, and afterwards found out it was to give
3 CONC endowments to some of the brethren.  A few days after this I was alone
3 CONC in the store, and was standing outside of the counter.  Joseph came in
3 CONC with his cane in his hand and stopped directly opposite of me on the
3 CONC other side, and eyed me for a moment, then he walked across to where I
3 CONC stood and raised his right leg and layed it on my left shoulder; he
3 CONC then took it down and walked back to his first position, when he said,
3 CONC ‘I thought to break you down with the heft of my leg, but you are
3 CONC stiffer than I thought you was.' He then asked me what I was studying
3 CONC about.  I said not much of anything.  He then told me he knew what I
3 CONC was thinking about.  This was about the first of May, while I was in
3 CONC the store and no one being in there.  N. K. Whitney came in and Joseph
3 CONC said to me to come up to the river near the old printing office.  I
3 CONC went, supposing he would send me somewhere on an errand, as he
3 CONC sometimes did.  When I arrived, I saw that he had been baptizing
3 CONC several individuals.  He said to me on my arrival, 'Do you remember I
3 CONC promised to baptize you at Independence, Missouri?' I said, 'Yes, I
3 CONC was very willing.' He then took me in the river and baptized me, after
3 CONC which I took a seat on a rock, and he confirmed me and placed many
3 CONC blessings on my head and sealings, such as I have learned the meaning
3 CONC of since in the Temple of the Lord.  Some two months after this, his
3 CONC store was closed for good.  I asked him one day what he wanted me to
3 CONC do.  He said, ‘Go and work on the Temple.' I moved to a house near
3 CONC Bishop Miller's and went to a stone-shop and endeavored to obtain
3 CONC work, and learn the stone-cutting trade.  I went to Dan and Andrew
3 CONC Cahoon.  They said to me if I would work with them six months that
3 CONC they would learn me the trade.  I asked them if they thought I could
3 CONC support my family and work for them six months.  About this time I
3 CONC went to Harry Standley and brother-in-law to the Cahoon boys.  He said
3 CONC to come to him on the morrow and he then could tell me what he could
3 CONC do.  I called the next morning.  He said he had concluded if I would
3 CONC work with him for six months he would allow $12 for the first month,
3 CONC and raised my wages $5 every month for three months after the first,
3 CONC and $30 a month for the last two months.  I accepted of his
3 CONC proposition, he agreeing to furnish me with provisions if he had to
3 CONC divide his portion which he drew from the Tithing Office.  I commenced
3 CONC work the next day and cut with Mr. Standley's help one of the diamond
3 CONC arch stones which counted to him $5 when finished.  This was my first
3 CONC work in the stone-shop.  I soon became so I could cut one of these
3 CONC arch stones without help.  The Cahoon boys about this time, made some
3 CONC little stir about Standley furnishing me provisions, and complained to
3 CONC their father about it, and so much so they both said to Standley to
3 CONC not let me have any more provisions.  This caused Brother Flyer, the
3 CONC main workman on the wall of the Temple and William Ibicks, the arch
3 CONC architect to-inquire into the matter of Father Cutler, and when Father
3 CONC Cutler said to them and me he desires some provisions, altho it may be
3 CONC little, I will divide the last pound with you.  I then told Standley
3 CONC the decision, and he said, ‘Here are the tools, take them and go to
3 CONC work for yourself, and then you can't be denied provisions.' Stanley
3 CONC said, ‘You can have All the pay for your work yourself.' After this I
3 CONC could do any work as the plaster or arch work that was to be done, and
3 CONC after the two months, Benjamin Mitchell came to me to rough out a cap
3 CONC stone, which he said he would give me $50, which I did for him, and
3 CONC one for Charles Lambert and another for a stone cutter from Quincey.
3 CONC One month after this Brother Player and the architect came to me and
3 CONC told me to take one of the capital stones and dress it.  I told them I
3 CONC didn't think I was capable of cutting one of those stones, but they
3 CONC persuaded me to try it and they would help me out.  I did so with
3 CONC reluctance, but accomplished this task and it was raised on the
3 CONC north-east corner of the Temple wall, being the last capital stone
3 CONC raised on the wall.  I then did other work that was to be done, except
3 CONC the work on the oxen which I declined to do.  They were cut out of
3 CONC stone by the expert hands and were to be placed around the baptismal
3 CONC fount, which was entirely built out of stones.  This Temple, Joseph
3 CONC said, must be built and finished for