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Show Sheet 2 . Stephen I;Ia.rkham. "Ever praying for your peace and prosperity we r emain. .,,- Yours respectfully, / /\ ~ 1 ,,"\ ' Si gned, John H. Redd \ Clerk of ni ranch . And sent to President Brigham Young in Salt Lake City . r,,h,• , 0 _-~ The organization was report ed to t he :General Conference d t . r~ qt accepted and ordered on record. fEOERAL WRITER::. ~ _ l'ROJ£t;f _A,-. In January 1852, Spanish Fork :Branch consisted of a good ma r. 'S_)j1~ose names were all on the record. In Stephen l1/iarkham.' s family there wee s wives , Mary and Hannah. Oriille Sanford, who was born to Stephen and ];'fary in Salt Lake in 1851 . David, Stephen' s youngest son by his f mr st wife HannaJD'.. Louisa Houghton daughter of Ornon Houghton and his f irst wi fe , !Kar y ' s sister, Edgar Stratton Ioughton, son of Jruu-y, by her first hu sband Ornon Houghton. ( (t. .,., ._ I March 15 , 1852,: a water 1 company was organized . J . W. Berry, Stephen lJarkham, and w. w. Willis , being appointed as speci a l cor:Uni ttee to run t he water out and make a ditch, to be known as the South Ditch. Soon after obtaining a City Charter , a Company of ome Guards was organized f or the purpose o~ defending the citi zens and t heir property against Indian r a ids , with Stephen Markham, lifajor ; Vl . \' . Willis Capt aina and J . w. :Berry and Silas Hilman, Lieutenants . 1I1he winter of 1852 was a very hard winter , causing great loss to tie people in stock. The people who settled in Palm.vra were very poor . Pr es ident Stephen Liarkham deserves special mention f or his fatherly care over the people in supplying them with seed grain. He took all the money he could raise of hi s ownt and all he could borrow and b ought seed f or the people and loaned it to them untill after harvest. ---~ The first house in olmyr,l.l.. was built by Pr esident Stephen 1:fiar kham in September 1852. 1 _..,, l ,, C...~"-/ { (k.) - wA-" /1_ 1/ ,;,,/, In July 1852, :Bro . George A. Smith lo cated and s veyed the tvnm of I:.almyra., which consisted of sixty f amilies . The first house was built i n August , a good adobe school house, t hirty- five f eet long, and t wenty-two feet wide, ins ide measurement . In September and Oct ober emigrants ca.me in suffi cientl y to increase the population to seventy- five f amilies. When the town was located, W. i. Willis was chosen as fir s t Major and the home guards were chosen, Stephen Markham as Major; and w. w. Willis as Capt aill. \I December 26, 1862, Bro. George A. Smit h wrote, "I have sought out the Ci ty of Palmyra. and procured the survey of t hree hundred and sixty lots contained one hundred rods II groualg each, a. Temple square of thirteen acres and four schooi:e s quares of two and one-half acres each. Streets six rods wide. Sillty miles :rrom Salt Lake City and contains s ixty f amilies wi th Stephen Markam as President." January l , 1853, t he schoold house i n Pall?cy'l' a. hav i ng been fini shed a meeting wa s held for the dedicatory pr ayer. A dance was held in the evening and the house was filled and a very pleasant recreation was enjoyed by all. President Stephen Markham dedicated the house . January 5 , it was proposed by Bro . Markham that in as much as Bishop Pace lived so far away from town that Brother John J. :Berry, who lived in Palmyra, shouild act as a :Bishop of Palmyra in the absence of ]3ishpp Pace. Silas Hillman was appointed clerk . |
