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Show ·- 9 - ful family, and become one of the .splendid women of Mormondom.ljlc ~braham provided a home for his families and began ~ork at odd jobs so numerous in a new country. It was his intention .to remaln there, no doubt, nnd th'2re build :1 is home and fortune, but Zion was growing and expanding her borders; men of Abraham 1s type were needed ln that undertaking. In the Spring of 1852, President Brigham Young, the great modern colonizer, sent a number of families to settle at a place called Springville and Abraham was among themo During his residence here he~became almost indispensable to the people, for his mechanical skill was sorely needed. It was he who built their first grist mill and constructed the first three threshing machines in that part of the countryo He had never been permitted to attend xk school, except for a few months, but his talent of creative skill was used to solve their problems o~ his day and increase his usefulness wherever he 1jght be located. The man 1ho can go ahead of his fellows in any line of endeavor is a man who is always in aemand. braham Nas practical, thoughtful, studious and ambitious, and these are the basic virtues of all great ~en. l'Then ..... I•ringville was incorporated as a city in 1253, he was chosen as the ]~ayor, and served in that capacity until he came to Wt. Pleasant in the summer of 1860, accompanied by his wife, Charlotte, and their six children. Their first home here was inside the fort, but as soon as possible Abraham bought a ranch, west of the toNn-site on the bank of the Sanpitch River, erected a frame house and moved his family into ivo rarming now began on a big scale~ Father and sons plowing and planting, cultivating and harvssting their ~tore of treasures, lmmolested, unafraid~ Tillers of the soil and toilers of the fi lds are the ~orld 's gre&te2t benefactors, and the fruit of their la ors furnish the bread of :i:~,.for mo~t of the earth 1s inhabitants. · Farning ~a~ man 1s first occupation and farming was paramolmt and all impo:!."'ta.n·~ uusiness of the pioneers That ·vas the source c: ~~eir liv~ng, hence rost of che first settlErs of Utah became land owners and thrifty agriculturists and their good '!'vivss ke_ft pace '·lith them~~ J:·Jo matter .. ~ldt th ir inclihnations for other lines of work might be, they accepted the challenge, and walked bravely along the path of duty with a calm first step that .vas indeed heroic 9 If we had visited the home of Charlotte Day some fifty years ago we should have seen a frail , little woman , the mother of twelve children and years of hard work behin~ her, still carrying the load 'dhich every pionr:~er moth:·r must bear, 7vi th only two hands to manipulate the crude facilities of household labor, by which their food, clothing and in fact tk all their daily needs |
