Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Phillips Camp Biographies, Campkin to Curtis

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- 11 - When Sarah and I were married her father had come up the day we were marr­ied. We started for St. George, traveled about three miles and camped. It rained that night. The next day we traveled a few miles and came to a place where Father Miller was acquainted. We laid over that day, May 31, 1870. It snowed all day. We then traveled on to St. George. Later we went about one hundred miles west where two of my wife's brothers lived then, returned to St. George, later returned to Farmington. In the fall we went to Clarkston, Cache County, where we made our home for sixteen years. While living there I was field committeeman, committee on irriga­tion, constable for two years, postmaster about twelve years, Justice of the Peace for six years. After Bishop Jardine came there I was one of a committee on getting the land about Clarkston surveyed. I was Chairman of a committee on building a meetinghouse, also on a committee on raising means for building the Temple. I was president, director, and manager of the Clarkston Co-op for several years. I, in connection with other directors, brought it up from almost nothing until it stood about the best of any store in the valley, so the manager of the Co-op told me. I was bishop's counselor for nine years, Assistant Superintendent of the Sunday School for nine years and school trustee several years. I was ordained a High Priest in Clarkston May 22, 1877, and set apart as Bishop's Counselor the same day. In the spring of 1888 I went to Parker, Idaho, worked there through the summer, moved up in the fall arriving ther~ the first day of November. I took a nice bunch of stock there in the spring. While we were down to move up they foLlowed a herd down below Market Lake. Our winter set in very early. On the 15th of November we had about two feet of snow. Ed and Will put in the most of the winter gathering stock and we lost the most of them. The 15th of November was a very bad day. We lost six cows that day -- they were drowned in the river. Soon after we got to Parker I was taken for Bishop's Counselor by Bishop Parker, which place I filled for nine years until Bishop Parker was released. Then I was put in the High Council. I was also school trustee several years. I was ordained a Patriarch January 20, 1902 by Apostle John Henry Smith. About the middle of February, 1902, I had a sick spell. Before I got well my wife was taken sick on the 22nd of March with sore throat and sore tongue, which proved to be cancer. My son William started to Salt Lake with her. When getting to Rex­burg they consulted a doctor who thought he could cure her. We doctored with him for about two months when he said she would have to go to Salt Lake City.