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Show Twl vn Family iliat ory 3 ine t111.ng l rel'IIISDl>erJ F'athel' pioked up a .aok and mot har tade ue a pair of pa.nt;a out of it. She thought she ·ooul d. v.;a•h out the btrmd aft er •h• had r.nde thorn_ but ehe oould nott and there •re t hroe.":Xe• down or.to of tho le"'a' but I had tc wefU" t hem, and :me glad to ~()t t h.am. !'hey were all I ho.d or a 1 011g t:lr1h :tn Sixty... t hree nw brother wn't bo.ok t o .,@t erni.e;:nmt Q wl tLl a yoko of oxen and 'l'.tlgon. It took all summer to r:ake t h.e t rip• o went t·wioo aoroaa the plains a."ld part way the third time. IG had one Bl.W'llSr at homo, nnd the next auaner ho \vent to .f:lght Indiana and put i n a sunner tho e. :r: • . as a 'boy; m.s a guard o:t hct'ixh I used t o guard at the Provo River br i d~a. Some t i mes father woul d go m th t:10 £or oomoa11y., but r,,ot hor di<l not like me to 50. t'Oet of the men had gone, tho old me,n loft to gUtiitd were oalled the "Silver "ro.yen, somo woro od l$d clnute men. a.nd had t o· be rot\dy at a ndnut oa not iot. ut w uovol" got '* ua,r rtlth the Indians in Provo. but twelve .miloa south in S1,an.i.1h Fork., t hey fouc;ht nt ;;he oou.th ot $ am.eh Fork canyon• T'ney .ldllod onEJ r.an and eoalped h1.m. Th.ls wns t ho fil'ot nan ! •vor ,fhlW with hi1 ttoa)p ott. rat Spl'ii'.l(gV'llle the Indiana wero driving odf' hundroda ot cattle. and ou.r 'tlen obargoct them, Qll.d a. nan roda r i e;ht into them a.nil they killed him and left him. Our mon pioltea hita up nnd brour;ht him to Spriugvi.lle tthero I oo.w him. In thoso day• e weN all f rigl tened o£ Indiana. 'l'b.ey wore killir.1g 4'0ple off all over the country. That wa$ i n 1804. 1 thil'lk, that i n l BGC oy brother John :n. 'l'wol voe 1011t into Oo.npet e to f'1ght the l nd:lan.11. o wen't e.nd •s r;one all summer and r.tero lad :ror him t o oot:Je, baok to UIJ• Tho next euf.'llnez- he went out to J'&\tad& to haul hay tor the overland .tailJ and the ne.xt surtner we iffil"ked i n the South Fork of 'r ovo Canyon to r:;et lumber to build him a houae. part of whloh stBJ1<l1 now. |
