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Show ( Personal Pioneer Interview Utah Hist oric Racer ds Survey Federal Writers' Projects ViPA Mabel Jarvis, St.Ge orge, Utah. With the coming of spring t hey resumed their journey to Utah, cont inuing with sock detatchment frcm the Iv10rmon Bata.llion under Captain Brown, and arriving in Salt Lake Valley July 29th., 184'7, :four days after. 1the main c:aravan of Pioneers. 'lhere was almost a celebration over t heir safe arrival, as there had been great anxiety concerning them~ '.lZhe Gi.bsons remained in Salt Lake during the summer and winter _of 184'7 and Manomas r emembers taking a hand with h er brothers and sisters and the others in the war waged on the cricke.ts. '],he . children were given small wooden mallets and di.d all they could to help exterminate the insects. 'filan came the &rea1t flocks of gulls. She shuddered as she recounted the way the gulls .gorged on the crickets till they could hold .. no more, then disgourged themselves and took on a. fresh feeding.£, untel finally the cricket horde was destroyed • . the family moved to Big Cottonwood in the spring of 1848, where they erected first just a shelter of willows and her f a t her did some farming. 'Phay brought some tools with them, when they came across the plains, a heavy ax, a sort of ; a.pade shovel, and her f ather had a few carpenter tools. She was too small to· recall anything concerning the plant life along the way except that it was. spring when they l eft Jtieblo and the green grass and brush along the way was us~·a. for f eeding the oxen when they camped at bight. She remembers that food was not too plentiful, but has no recollections of what meat supplies were s·ecured as they traveled. along. Soon t lley had a log house~ or cabin in Cot.,t onwood, but just a very small place, and plenty crowded., even though their , .. -----,,, possessions were very meager. '!hey had only "Johnny cake"' mos t of the time for the family, but her father aimed to secure a l.i ttle :tlourr along for her invalid mother. But they did. have a pretty plenty of meat most of the time as her f ather was handy at killing·the wild rabbits and pine hens, and there were lots of fish in the stream not far from their home. They also dug sego -3'- |
