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Show 12 The smooth springy floor, delightful music, brilliant lights and the refinement I encountered on all sides was greatly in contrast with the rough floors, one violin, tallow candles, and unpolished manners that I had always been accustomed to.3 After four or five weeks in Salt Lake City assisting a Sister Robison with sewing, Ellis received word from her father, who at that time had two wives, that he was planning to move one of his families to Sanpete County. Though she chose not to go with him, she immediately left the city in order to spend some time with her family before their departure, remaining for a couple of months afterwards with the young wife of her father who was staying behind. The two eased their loneliness by spending much of their time with the Hawley grandparents. For the next while, bouncing back and forth between Pleasant Grove and Salt Lake City, Ellis became better acquainted with Zebulon Jacobs, a stepson to Brigham Young through his wife Zina, while renewing associations with her home-town group in peach parings, parties, and dances. Milford was again on the scene. Here is Ellis's update: Five years had passed and during that time I had heard occasionally from Milford Shipp. He had married, lived with his wife something over a year. Their union was blessed with a son. President Young had sent a summons for him to accompany Frank Farnsworth to Europe on a mission to proclaim the Everlasting Truth. He obeyed the call, left wife and child, father, mother, brothers, sisters and friends, business and home, and started in the short time of two days. After he had been absent a short time, the mind of his wife became prejudiced against him by the influence of her friends, and they finally succeeded in persuading her to have a "bill of divorce," all on account of his religion. |
