| Show met on the ship coming to America walked all the way carrying their nine-week-old son Their first child had died after living only ten days After arriving in the Salt Lake Valley in 1859 Peter was advised to continue south to the Sanpete area by President Brigham Young He arrived at Fort Ephraim and went to work helping harvest the crops and hauling wood Having no place to live Peter and Mary builtdug-out withroof of willows and dirt and here they made their first home When summer came he made adobes and builthouse It was orlyone-room house withstone floor but it hadglass window and was better than living incellar However when the rains came and it vasvery long difficult winter much of their time had to be spent in the cellar because the roof of the house leaked and they could not keep iry As their family grew so 41d their protlems Times were very hard and there was constant fear of the Indians When the Indian War began in 1865 Peter was called to go and serve as were many others He was also called to joingroup who went to help work on the railroad at Echo Canyon in 1868 where Brigham Young was the contractor This gave them may things that they had not been able to get before Peter brought Mary her first stove and many of the badlyneeded supplies He continued his industriousness by buildingfive-room house and planting an apple orchard Beinggood carpenter Peter made many fine pleces of furniture for his family and others Believing that true principle that strom tooksecond fron Sweden These the practice of plural marriage waswould bring great blessings Peter Ahlwife girl of nineteen who was also two wives bore Peter 21 children In 1874 he was called to go to St George to help bulld the first temple in Zion which he felt wasgreat privilege few years later when work began on the Manti temple Peter was givensteady job ascarpenter andblacksmith to repair the tools used on the building He builtshop on the hill which he used all the time the temple was being built He would work six daysweek and then walk seven miles to Ephraim to see his families -73 |
