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Show The Life and Times of Dudley Leavitt By Juanita Brooks Utah State Historical Society 1973 © Copyright 1973 Utah State Historical Society 300 Rio Grande Street Salt Lake City, Utah 84101 Library of Congress Card Catalog Number 73-620222 ISBN 0-913738-24-7 Second Printing 1998 Contents Author's Statement vii 1 From Canada to Illinois 1 2 Tragedy and N6w Beginnings 15 3 The Leavitts Head for Zion 29 4 Settling in Tooele 43 5 On the Santa Clara 55 6 Rumors of War 70 7 First Indian Missions 79 8 The Family Grows 91 9 The Settlement of Dixie 100 10 At Hebron and Gunlock 114 11 The United Order at Bunkerville 125 12 Dodging the Officers 140 13 The Closing Years 151 Appendix A: The Leavitt Coat of Arms 163 Appendix B: Genealogy 166 Illustrations between pages 99 and 100 VI On the Ragged Edge Come, Let Us Anew Come, let us anew our journey pursue, Roll round with the year, And never stand still till the Master appear. His adorable will let us gladly fulfil, And our talents improve, By the patience of hope and the labor of love, By the patience of hope and the labor of love. Our life as a dream, our time as a stream, Glides swiftly away, And the fugitive moment refuses to stay. The arrow is flown, the moments are gone, The Millennial Year Presses on to our view, and eternity's here, Presses on to our view, and eternity's here. 0 that each in the day of His coming may say, "I have fought my way thro,- 1 have finished the work Thou didst give me to do." O that each from the Lord may receive the glad word: "Well and faithfully done; Enter into my joy and sit down on my throne, Enter into my joy and sit down on my throne." This has become the family song of the Leavitts, to be sung at the funeral services of the older members. |
