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be pulled apart, after which the Indians mounted their horses and rode away very angry. Chief Black Hawk was not at this meeting. He had had a long and friendly relationship with the settlers, but he was well aware of the troubles in the valley. Black Hawk had been baptized a member of the Mormon Church and had been a student of Jesse Fox in the very first school in Manti in September 1850. My great-grandfather, James Farres Tooth, and his wife, Sarah Chadwick Tooth, settled in Manti with their son, James Chadwick, in 1853. They befriended Black Hawk and he them. James and Sarah had previously invited Black Hawk to their home for dinner after the Sunday church service, so when they asked him to come to dinner this day, April 9th, he accepted. They were eating when several Indians rode up to their home at full gallop One came to the door and asked for Black Hawk. All the Indians seemed very excited and the animosity of the group was evident Black Hawk went outside to talk to them and in a few minutes came back into the house to say he must go. He could not be pursuaded to finish his dinner and left immediately with his Indian brothers, not saying what had taken place. Thus began the Black Hawk War. Little did James and Sarah know when they invited Black Hawk to dinner after the church service this beautiful Sunday, events taking place elsewhere in James Farres Tooth Home, 95E. Union, Nanti, Manti would change the lives Where Black Hawk. Had dinner just before the of everyone living south of Black Hawk War started in 1865 Picture taken Prove for years to come. 1915-1920 108 |
