| Show shoemakers three millwrights five blacksmiths one Indian interpreter one gunsmith two chairmakers four cvopers one merchant one tailor We must remember that in 1850 Manti was the only colony in Sanpete few people were scattered in the valley but not many because of the real fear of Indian depredations Myfarmer mason my buckets great grandfather Beal at the age of fifteen was listed as Mary Thorpe Bealbrother Thomas Thorpe wasstone great grandfather Hansen wascooper who made barrels churns laundry tubs etc On February 14 1854 about fifteen families Spring City because of Indians and who had moved to the fort at Manti made preparations who the had abandoned safety of to establishtown which Twenty-five men under the direction of became Ephraim Sanford Allred arrived at Pine Creek Ephraim to build Captainfort At age nineteen Henry helped build this fort and was one of Ephraimfirst settlers By the end of March they had finished the fort and built their enough rock and adobe housing to accommodate families Mary Thorpe Morris crossed the plains and arrived in Salt Lake City September 11 1853 five months latercompany was called to enlarge Manti She was in this company July 1854 Henry Allen Beal and Mary Thorpe Morris were the first couple to be married in Ephraim They lived in the second house built inside the fort When trouble with the Indians decreased he built an adobe house outside the fort and laterrock house mext to it mow 193 North Main Street In the fall of 1854 Scandinavian families on their arrival in Salt Lake were sent directly to Ephraim to strengthen the colony This was typical of Brigham Youngplan for colonization Immigrants as they arrived in Salt Lake were sent where they were needed Within two years there were about eighty families fifty who spoke Danish the remainder Americans English and Welsh My motherson Hansen said before they could Danish immigrants craftsmen Danes shoemakers history of her Danish grandmother Bendicta Jeppthat in Denmark all children had to learntrade graduate from school So most first-gemeration differed from other settlers in that they were were blacksmiths bakers wheelurights coopers carpenters masons tinkers etc Converts from Sweden England and Wales also had skills Arrington says From one point of view theE Co was simply an organizational device for recruiting and supplying the laborers needed in building the Kingdom One of the Perpetual Emigration agents stated that in the selection of those to be emigrated from England with Perpetual Emigration Funds occupation was an important consideration second only to integrity and moral worth This helps us understand why pioneers were able to build rock and adobe houses in Ephraim and Manti whereas in most settlements such as Chester stone was not used because they had no knowledge of stonemasonry When they came to Sanpete the materials available |
