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Show City and on to Parowan . Tired• toot eore, elmoet a1ee't'8leea and he.tl••• l 111"11.Yad in Parowan on t he 3rd. day of April , Hms. I etey.ed there all 9Ullll'ler, not being eati sf'ied·, in November, I again r olled mt blon.kets e.nd ott tor Salt Lake City; ! got there about the latter part of NoTelflber , tir ca again, toot aore and weary, not knowi ng even a t riend. Af ter dol ng the beat l oould t or about t hr ee weeks, l f ound a fri end inde~d~ Although a .stra:ng•r, he took me 111 and gave me work all winter. !hen we moved · to J .lgden, but while 1 n Salt Lake 01\y I we.a or dained &' Seventy, ·but f r om the tbne when I l eft 117 home in Aua\;r-alia to the . time I got t o Salt· :r.ske Cit:,, was three year,; and eight months . After bei ng :ln Ogden ror a t ime I :merr ied again, a. young l ady on t he 12th day ot May• 1861. Her name was Dolly M. Allan. In the fall of 1861 t here waa a great call by Pr esident Bri gh~m Young to settle the Pixie country~ Allot ffl7 wite'• tolka we.a cal led. In the spring o~ l.863 , I was on the rofid f or Di xie, e. volunteer tor that country. In two and a half yoars the Indians ceme upon ua, we had to leave everything where we lived a,nd t ort up at Virgin City. Had to tight t he !ndinns and live very hard. After the Indi an tights we h~d gras.,_ hoppera t wo y-eart,. People bad to eat cane -aeed f l our and broom aeed tlour, and eaoh t 20:oo per hundred, to be pe.14 back trom our further crop. Had 1lo work n r7 hard on di tches and roads, ditch tax after being Co,oo·' to $15 .• 00 per acre. Afte,:, living 1n Virgin City f or .about three years , I as appoi nted. aexton, aoou atter 1 w a appointed and set apart aeorete.ry aa there were many donationa at t~ time, al.so secretary ot th~ United Order. In 1884 I wae set apart ae W8:l'd olet-t, on aocount or Goo.rge IIOm•s death. 18$6 I was ordained pr ea1dent of the ,9th quorum of' seventies ,, In 1896, I was ordained a high priest under t he hand.a ot Frat101• M. Lynian. I l abored as ward olerk 23 years without r eoe1T1ng one cent. '!'he next two yea.rs , I r a oei ved 135. 00 one year and " 45.00 t he second year. Then t he war d was broke up and I was eet apart as pr esi ding elder, no, receiving any pq, and I am still sext on, and he.Ying been sexton 38 7eara and old neTer receiving one dollar. Now I Bm ?9 years and last year I lost ell ot my |
