Twelve Mormon Homes : Twelve Mormon homes visited in succession on a journey through Utah to Arizona.

Twelve Mormon Homes, page 057

drooping heads, and an air that said, "I really have taken the last step I can make. Now I'm going to lie down"; and again and again they were coaxed forward at a slower than funeral pace, before we finally halted in front of Bishop Thompson%. Our pretty hostess, "Aunt Lydia," was sick; a little girl said, opening the gate into the enclosure in which both houses stood, "and Mother expected us this time." The door was opened to admit us, by a slender, elegantly- dressed young lady. "Mrs. Thompson ?" I inquired, hesitatingly. "No," she answered, smiling and blushing. "I am only a guest like yourself. Mrs. Thompson will be here in a moment: Sister Lydia is sick, and Mrs. Thompson thought some biscuits she had been baking would tempt her appetite, so she has run across with them. Here she is! " "Sister Loraina Thompson " looked like an elder sister of Mrs. Lydia's, but was no relation. She had a large family of children, but seemed not in the least disconcerted by the addition to her household of our fellow-guest, her husband and baby, although she had to entertain Mr. Staines3' and young Kimball also; and to care for the invalid next door. My husband now entered with Mr. Joseph A. Young and his brother Mahonri,33 who had joined us the day before; and tak- ing a wee baby from the arms of the lady who had opened the 321t is curious that at this point Mrs. Kane does not hesitate to use the name of Staines instead of Potto or Potteau as she has before. 33Joseph A. Young was the son of Brigham Young and Mary Ann Angell. Joseph was instrumental in building the railroad in Utah. In partnership with John Sharp he took sub-contracts for the work through Weber Canyon. Earlier this same year ( 1872) Joseph Y oun g was appointed to preside over the Sevier district of the 57