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Show A. 0. Smoot proviaed the way for the Butler family to come to come to Utah. John Lowe Butler was soon callea to go to Spanish Fork, which w~s settled in 1850. He wu.s the first Bishop there. He died. ana was buried at this place, leaving three families. My grandmother was the mother of twelve children, being left a widow for fourteen years with eleven living chi laren and under ve.ry hum-ble circumstances. About 1865 the family wo.s called to go to Southern Ut&h, and settled. at Paragona. Later they moved to Panguitch to settle that part. Later Panguitch was abandoned on account of Indian trouble. They then moved back to Paragona where they lived for a time. In 1871 they returned to Panguitch to repossess what they hau left. Mrs. John Lowe Butler was a very remarkable worna·n. At Nauvoo the Relief Society ~as caLled upon to make some contribution to help finish the No.uvoo 'J:emple. Sister .dutler aid. not have any money but was anxious to. ao her part. In tr~velling through the wooas, she founa u. aeaa buffalo so f'a.r uecc..yeo. tnc.;.t the hair or wool vould slip off. She g~thereu this materi&l, washed, carded and s pun it into yarn ~nd knitteo. ten pairs of mittens ana donatea the same for tt1e working rnen hanaling rock, etc. for the builaing of the Temple. She was a staunch member of the Church c:.t her dec..th. The chilciren of these parents shoula oe proud, having been born of goodly parents as spoken of in Nephi 1:1, Book of Mormon. My mother aiea at Panguitch, August 14, 1892, while I wc.1.s on a mission in Tennessee. Mother passed through all the haraships of pioneer life, &lways willing to aiviae what she had with the poor. She believ£ci ana haa full faith that Joseph Smith was a ~ro phet of Gou, tnat Brigham Young was l1is successor, as she was a living v.'i tness that Brigham Young spoke in tne ffi~ ! ltel of Joseph Smith. Lhe also - 8 - |
