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Show INTERVIEW: Alva Matheson and Inez Cooper Page 15 else. That wheat was all she'd had to eat in all that time. C: Didn't the Indian squaw bring some meat? M: I think the Indian squaw when she came back with the metaie brought a little dried meat and ground that up with the flour as part of it. C: So she actually saved your grandmother's life, then? M: I would say that, from what I've heard. At least she saved her health. I don't remember just how long it was before the wagons got back, but it was quite a long time. C: How long did you say that the people were there before they had to leave because of Indians? M: Well, this group of people lived there, I think it was just a little over two years. But the Indians never became friendly, and at the outbreak of the Black Hawk War, the Indians became more hostile, and it looked like real trouble. So the white people picked up and came back to Parowan. They never returned back to Panguitch. Later, when they went back to settle the town as it is now, they also built a fort. And many people, in fact, I've talked to several of the older people in Panguitch, lived there all their lives and they never heard of this fort. They called it Fort Sanford. But I've known people who lived at the Fort, grew up there and they swear that it was there and in some records, some of the early history records, it speaks of Fort Sanford. |
