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Show FANNY AEEIVES AT SALT LAKE CITY. 173 Both families made preparations to travel, and early in the spring of 1849 they started, and with the usual adventures of a journey across the plains,- arrived safely in Great Salt Lake. City. When Fanny arrived, her uncle and family called on her, and conducted her to a comfortable residence. She was some months in the city before she would consent to see her mother, who was residing with her Uncle Lorenzo, as husband and wife. Her father, having had some disagreement with this spiritual wife, left her, and when Fanny arrived he was very badly off. At the time Mrs. Littlemore related to me these extraordinary episodes in her life, her father was caring horses and cattle on the pasturage beyond the River Jordan, in the Salt Lake Valley. She is now on affectionate terms with her mother. Her husband, Mr. Terry Littlemore, became a Mormon, and was baptized into the faith of the latter day saints. Mrs. Littlemore never became one. She told me her husband will never bring home a spiritual wife while she lives. Her two sisters are spiritual wives of their uncle, who is one of the great lights of the Mormon church. She seemed happy and contented, and enjoys herself. She has all the comforts, and many of the luxuries of life, and her husband is devoted to her; they live on Mill Creek, some few miles from the city, and Terry is proprietor of a flour mill, and as well-cultivated a farm, as fine teams of horses, as choice stock, and as beautiful and lovely a wife, as any man in Utah. I subsequently learned some of the above facts from other sources. Mrs. Littlemore told me very nearly the words and substance of the foregoing, voluntarily. I |
