SMITH, Martha Ann Stewart: Hyrum Smith’s youngest daughter
Brother Brigham
Martha Ann Smith I was born in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois, May 14, 1841, the youngest daughter of Hyrum Smith, Patriarch, who was martyred In Carthage Jail. I am only…
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ROPER, Joseph Benson: A Talented, Civic Minded Pioneer
One Sunday night when Joseph was seven years old his father, William, offered to stay home with the children while his wife, Susanna, attended church meetings. While she was gone William packed his clothes and other belongings. Early the next morning he left home never to see the family again.
COX, Orville Sutherland
Being successful in disposing of their chairs, and securing loads of bacon and corn, they were almost home when an Iowa blizzard, or Hurricane, or cyclone, or all in one, struck them. Clouds and Egyptian darkness settled suddenly around them. They had no modern "tornado cellars", to flee into and no manner of shelter of any kind. The cold was intense; the wind came from every direction; they were all skilled backwoodsmen and knew they were very close to their homes; but they also knew that they were hopelessly lost in that swirling wind and those black clouds of snow. They and their oxen were freezing, and their only hope of life was in making a fire and camping where they were.
DALTON, Charles Wakeman: A True Pioneer
Exploration in the early 1850 's confirmed the southern half of Utah had the potential to grow cotton, grapes, figs, flax, hemp, rice, sugarcane, tobacco and produce iron ore. In May of 1854 Brigham Young sent a group of missionaries under the leadership of Rufus C. Allen to the South. This company arrived in Pine Valley, about 35 miles Northeast of St. George, Utah on the headwaters of the Santa Clara Creek in early spring. Charles W. Dalton and family was in this company.
