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Show BIOGPAI'HN‘AL SKETCH OH LUCINDA II A WS HOLDA \VA Y in some serious trouble. My team was the last one. We had to cross a stream with a very steep bank. My team plunged into the stream and the wagon nearly stood on end. My horses balked and I could neither get out of the wagon nor make them pull the wagon out. Fortunately. there was a man walking behind‘me who helped me get the team through the stream. We were now getting into the mountains on this side of the Sweetwater River. ("1111' wagons were loaded with machinery and our teams were just about given out. Our bread stuff w as all used up except some whole corn, which 1 made hominy of and we lived on this until we reached Salt Lake Valley in September. 1850. Here and there. in the little city were patches of grain and vegetables. We lived in our wagon until my husband managed to get the walls of a small adobe house up. We I put a portion of our things in the little house and stretched a domestic wagon cover over the place where the bed stood which would shelter us for awhile until my husband had time to put a roof on it. He had to get the wagons unloaded and haul hay and wood for the winter. We were living on the Big Cottonwood Creek at this time. There was no floor, no roof and no door in the house. ,It had been raining for three days-was still raining--and in the midst of this, on Nov. 4, 1850, my second baby was born. Everything in the house was wet through and streams of 'water poured through the wagon cover onto my bed. We set pans to catch the water. The baby, which we named Timothy, lived but. a few minutes and I came nearly dying also. (")n the 28th of December we left for Provo. I drove in an open wagon all the way: It was Just about the coldest weather 1 ever experienced. V‘ e camped out two nights and reached .th" 1< ort on the last day of December, 1850. We could not get a house to live in, except an old log: cabin \vith Eiust the walls and a dirt floor. It wash t very good for winter use but. we fixed a roof on it and stayed Evans first took charge. of runn1ng>g 1t and then! my husband. Soon after, he built a blaclfsn'nths iop. In December, 1851, my third child, William Shadrack, was born. About the middle of bolvemr; be)", 1852, my husband married my Sisteih, f 11: y Haws. January, 1853, was the date otbnt o , summer g. followni The David. Amos fourth child, we had to move into town because the Indians were getting" so hostile, and it was not safe for the peopve to live in a scattered condition. By w1nte1, we: had built a little house almost on the same spho where we live now. The follownig April, Jo n . . . 2'3 d; "t it 0 I 3‘ We then built us a log cabin on the other side of Provo itiver. It was neither chinked nor plastered, but lot was a paradise compared with the ones we had lived in betou‘. Next, my husband built a machnie shop and set up the first carding machinery brought. into this counBishop David Evans helped to put it up and . try in ()ctober it. was ready to begin work. Brother "t there until March, 1851. "a" ‘ "‘N. . .I.‘ w‘twuwfi'lw-Hklnh . ‘ 1?; ‘ . f.:-..;. .;...-.‘.....‘..‘.y ,s.‘ ._ 2:1. l2 |
