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Show -23- David and Phobe and Chell Hall and wife had started back for Huntsville. ·ry He had missed them near Heber for they had taken a short cut and we had gone up through Parley's Park. The latter pa.rt of October father started back from Huntsville. He had leased about 150 lead of stock. Mark Hall and sister, Mary, Charles A. Nye , and my sister·, Katie, with one child and Osbern R. Nye came with father. During December of '?8 all the men living in Dry Fork came together and split poles and hued t hem down and put them down for a floor in Mark Hall's house making what is called the hunching floor. They had a dance on Christmas night. Harvey Meaks came and played for us. The winter of '78 and ' 79 was a very mild winter, very little snow. The young cattle gained. They came out in better condition in the spring. In the spring of '?9 we put in some wheat west o4 Dry Fork town and made a water ditch. The water came down one week and then dried up. We had no more water all summer and very little rain. That summer some of the springs on the mountains dried up.· 'rhe wheat, laid in the ground all summer and came up early next spring about one third of a crop. 'rhe stock got poor and we lost two or three old cows. Early in the fall of '79 father made arrangements with Captain Doods to get. flour from Heber. He traded poles for flour. My brother, David, when with a four horse team_ and hauled the flour in .• On June the 1st 1879 at a special conference ~eld in Ashley Valley Pres, Abraham Hatch and others came out and held meetings. The saints who had settled on the Ashley Fork and on Green River were now organized into three districts name Incline (now Jensen), Ashley Centre and Mountain Dell wihh Fred G. Williams, Jerimiah Hatch and Thomas Bingham Sr. as their respective presidents. Along the first of October 18?9 the Indian Agent, Meeker, who was a gent of the uncompogry and White River I ndians at Meeker in Colorado was having some trouble with the Indians and fearing they might have an outbreak, he sent for a company of soldiers. The Indians heard he had sent for soldiers, but Meeker denied it. The Indians put out spies to watch. When they saw the soldiers coming they ca.me into the agency and gave notice killing Meeker. Then they opened fire on the soldiers. Captain Thornburg was killed. The Indians went back to the agency took Meeker' s wife and daughter and left. 'l'his caused quite an excitement in Ashley . The people were advised by Uncle Jerry Hatch and I. J• Clark to fort up for protection. The people on the bench came together at the fort. Uncle Jerry ·Haiich and Clark had a talk with the Indians. The Indians said they wouldn•t cause any trouble. Most of the people forted up for the winte r . Later Meeker"s wife and daughter were rescued from the Indians. |
