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Show ( ( Pioneer Personal Interview Ut ah Historic Records Survey Federal Writ ers' Projects' Vi.PA Mabel Jarvis, St.George, Utah. now and then on the Sabbath. And when rather Gibson punished, he. never-slighted the job in the, lfeast. '!he wounds thus made in the he art of t his girl were sl.ow to heal., though she thinks. now of waya tha t she might have ,voided much of the trouble then endured. In 1861 the Gibaons came to th.a Dixie Mis.sion, settling at first in . what ia now t he town of Grafton. Her sister Laura had married Jame s, Andrus and. after a time she came to live with t hem in St.George, and after some time Jamea as·ked her t .o become his plural. wif e. She did not c.onsent at once, although she did not ffspit in his f a ce tt aa she had vowed she would do should any man ask her to enter polygamy. Then in 1862 James was called to help D. n. M:c.Arthur go back to the Platt River and es.cort a company of emigr ant s to Utah.. Manomas went to Salt Lake with her sis t er Ul.ura in t i me to meet the men on their return, aud while t here t he marriage to her sister's husband was consumated in the old Endowment house , a step in life she has never felt to regret, al though f or many ye.ars it meant par t i al isolation f r om eommuni ty life , and plenty of hard work. The, fir st f'i ve years of her married life wer e spent a t Duncan, which was an impor t ant locati on. f or her hus,band who ran. his, ca.ttle and horses. be t ween there and Cannaan. He, was also appoi nted as. a Captai n in hel pi ng to quell t he I ndians who wer e giving a good bit of troubl e during t he early aixties. In 1864 he r son George ~udson was born, and in March of 1866 she bore a daughter whom they named Medora. In Sept ember of that year the lo cal Church Bishop requested the people in the nearby settlements to congregat e ,, at Grafton for grea t er prot ection .. Baptain Andrus had been sent t o Salt Lake City for supplie s and ammuni t i on, but bef or e goi ng had arranged for his wi fe and childr en t o be moved into a place he had secured f or them. But when the hired man got them t o Gr afton it was just to find the house t hey had expected t o have was already occupi ed and scarlet -fe,ver was pr eval ent. The only place -8- |
