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Show .RSCGHD Oi 'lr or~i-).5 D Y Born 2 Sept . 1814 Propert~ of Fannie utott ayson , Utah RLM I NI S CENCJ1S. ~hen a boy , my father intended me fer the blacksmith ' s trade • He was a machine blach.smi th and 'las expert in his calling . Being the o~ly son I was , of course , a pet . Yy father was of a merry ~onvivial disposition and for some years much gi ren to drink ~~ ~other ~as of a more serious turn of mind ~ About a year before my father died , he tooK me out one Sab ath day for a ~alk c~ the green hillside and in the church yard of • Pointihg to tbe church he r emarked that he should never enter that building before he ~vas carried there , "for , " h·J said , ui do not believe in the truth of ~he creed taucht there or that c~ an other church . I believe , however , that the true gospel of Jesus will be given to the vJorld in tl1e future . He showed me tLe graves of his .,-,o~her ar-.d eldest son James , ~vho died at the age of two year·s , and charged me to see that , is body was laid besjde them when his end shculd come . He had refor~ed froa dissipation and his mind had be come contruplative upon·h:gher t}ings . I vas 0orking ~ith hia and i~ cons~~eration for him 'as paid five shilljngs a week . Soon after his death , I ;as infor~ed that they could pay me only fcur shillings if I continued in the service of the machine corrp&.ny . As this "':/as about all 1.7ith Tr..rh.ich myself , 7.1Y mother and three yo unger sistsrs Nere sup1Jorted , I decided to lPave and went to Kidit~inster , and ~orked in a carp0t factory about t .'!Jo y .. ars . Bu+ di~satisJ.·ac~-j en arose among thE. c:-nployees on account of reducti~n in ~ages , a ~ixteen - ~est strikG ensued acco~panied by rj_ots :n whic~ I :toad a silo~t obsarv~r ~ut took no p~rt . · t the |
