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Show 4 ~ clothing and bedding . 11· had a wife and two children. Thomas Smatt, was president of the Church at Franklin, S. R. Parkinson and Jas . Sanderson counsellors . Presider.t Brigham Young and company came to Frru1klin in the month of June, and Presto_ Thomas was appointed Bishop. I with others were working on a water ditch from High li eek , to the Southfield .!hen l resident Your1g came to Franklin. We lived i our wagon through the s I.illler . ..othe ditch was made from 0. Ki ler, and South Canyons called Senderso 1's ditch, as Bro . Sandt-rson was the contractor. Still anot.1t;r ditch was made from Hie,h c .. ~ek called tne upper ditch. All the people owning l a:nv. under the ditch j\rere required to ·r.rork on it. It wa in.:.::;ll..,d in Jul • rlw Ind~ C:UlS '.vere troubleso. e t is ear, an~ for mutual rotection -ue ::nov&d . ..~ur '!Vag 1u prdtty close - o~etner . To show the state of Indiml affa· rs, I will jus~.~ 1 ention that J •. • .• : eid~ Thos. ~le .. t~r, Jas . 'cowan, &nd oth ..... , were gJ.i ·c on a visit to ;:,tater-.ville, when passing through Smithfield, some in ians had escaped-c_ d 1flred t this little com )any, killed John Reid a.nd wounded James crow·an: tnis was on the 23rd of Ju y. On the 2 th of July we h· .d a funeral instead of a celebration. ~ro . Reid was a good han . I helped to .dig Bro . Reid's grave . Our co v~rs, and animals had to be hearded--Bro. Sc.unue 1 Han y, :vas the herdsman. Our hay was cut on the co-onerative plan. After Lne best of the hay was cut, ''le gleaned r, hat hay we eould a11d pre par d J. Jr i 1ter . I I I /1 I I I I I I I built a log cabin, a correi.l and ha.1 vested rirf grain. Our houses built ir: rows' and ve lived Jr~t ty close together in the form of 9. square. lived on the G.st side of the Fort. 1fe h d about l'J acres of land within t e Fort . HJe stood guard every nieht through the spring, summer an·~. fall . Jn the 13th of December, I had a son born na:ned John: in Fran~lin. ~ wife Jane had a very ,1ard time before t'1is boy was born. 1861 This ye: r Bro • . John Doney and me *66 ed together a great deal. Through the winter I ·.vorked a gro t .:,eal Q.n a water ditch on the west side of Cub RiV-er cc..lled the "Thomas Ditch". Many a day I worked faithf ~1 on this ditch. Bro. Doney and me rented land of A. Stalker which te put into grain . ·Busy this season, on farming getting vood, and a variety of different ·inds of NOrk . I was never idle . During harvest time, I had the privelege of going to Salt Lake City with my ~7ife ~no. getting rey endowments . Bro . Doney and Jos. Perkins went along also with their wives , I owned an old we~on . I borrowed a 1~heel of Mark relson before I started but t'·1is gave out on the way . I wove sticks in it and got to Willard with it; here I left it and got another one to to to Salt Lake City . We travelled nearly night and day, and when near the Hot Springs my ,,vife was taken sick, she said she ·v-as struck with death. Ve bathed her with Hot Spring ·qater and did what we could for he:b. ·re got our endo·ll'nnents next day. I was ordained an Elder in the endowment house. My .;rife was sealed to me. We trcvelled as rapide as we could going back to Franklin as our grain wae in the field , in the shock. "Nilford Woodruff sealed me and Jane my wife • •'V hen vre arrived at Logan my wife said she had lived as long as she wanted to, and requested me to bury her 's decently as I could--to have her ~ashed with· soap and laid peacefully ar~ay . She died a week from the day she made the request of me. October 26th. I he.d been to Logan grist mill, and stayed away one night, and when I returned she was making pancakes . She said she could not make any more . Sister Ho·vell and Doney sat up that night with her, she died next morning, the date above mentioned . She said before her death I would have seven women sealed to me, |
