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Show HISTORY OF SANPETE COUNT*. 374 m Nauvoo, and in '47 started foi* Utah, was married first with no outfit, and had to remain at Kanesville two years. In the spring of '49 lie started for Utah with two yoke of cattle and a cow, in ("apt. Silas Richards' company, arrived in Salt Lake City in November and loHe conducted a hotel and sold provisions to Calcated. ifornia emigrants till '51, when he removed to Union In '51: he moved to Springville, where he ran the Fort. He came to Fairview in '62, first threshing machine took part in the Black Hawk war, and has been in the employ of the Government almost all the time, carrying Every traveler in Sanpete is familiar with the mail. "Uncle Henry." He works a small farm. Has had six wives and served a short term in the penitentiary for polygamy. The wife with whom he is now living w as Ruvina Siler nee Mount, born in Erie county, Pennsylvania, May 14, 1S34. They have four living children, Cynthia M., Amasa X., Lula A. and Lydia M. She had two children by first marriage, Samuel H. and Hiram B. r OWER, SARAH daughter of Lindsey A. and Brady, was born in Union Fort, V / Salt Lake county, Utah, November 30, 1852. She was married in the Endowment House, Salt Lake City, in 1867, to John A., son of Henry and Susan Mower, born August 3, 1851. He was a prominent citizen of Fairview and took an active part in the Black Hawk war, Served as losing a team by the Indian depredations. road supervisor for a number of years. Was president of the Y. M. M. I. A. and superintendent of the Sundayschool, and at the time of his death, June 30, 1894, was president of the Seventies' quorum. He owned a farm of fifty acres; was stockholder in the Co-op. store and [Y\ 111 Elizabeth M., Ann and an earnest worker and much respected There are ten children living, John W., Susan M., Marion H., Jordan, Mary E., James A., Martha C, Sarah M., Milla T. and Rosalie. grist mill, citizen. pT\ OWER, JOHN L., farmer and stockraiser, son of Henry and Elizabeth, was born in Springville, I / Utah, January 9, 1859. The family removed to Fairview when he was a child and he was brought up 111 |
