The World of Joseph Fielding: Chapter 36 Pioneer Life on e Farm Pioneer life tested e ingenuity and perseverance of ese faiful saints. Wi limited ability to purchase anying ready-made, ey produced every needed item or traded for it wi frugality and resourcefulness. 1 Joseph Fielding, his sister Mary and eir families lived on adjacent farms in Millcreek. Accompanying structures and shelters for animals were dugouts wi log walls and atched 2 roofs. Mary s home was made from clay brick adobes, and is house stands today at e This Is The Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake City, which is along e route e pioneers took out of e mountain into e valley. Likely most of e Fielding and Smi family members would have been involved in making e adobe bricks for eir homes. Wooden forms shaped e clay mixture and en were slipped off, e bricks left in e sun to Mary Fielding Smi s small adobe farm home cure. In Mary s home, a ladder led to a small attic has been preserved. where Joseph F. and John slept. The home was heated by a fireplace, but food was prepared and cooked in an outdoor kitchen. A spring was curbed to create a well in front of e home. The 3 animals were housed nearby in a dugout barn. The 1850 census shows Mary on her farm wi ree children of Hyrum Smi s, John, Jerusha and Sarah. Mary s two children wi Hyrum are shown, Joseph and Mara. Hannah Grinnell and George Mills were also enumerated here. Joseph Fielding s home was made from logs, which Joseph had cut in e mountains and en dragged home wi his horse which had come across e plains. Joseph notched e logs and built four walls, covering e dirt floor wi straw. The logs were en plastered wi mud, making e -537-
one room home warm and comfortable, as Rachel Fielding remembered. She also remembered at eir property near e Millcreek River was overgrown wi willows. Her faer cut and wove e willows into a chicken coop, chinking e branches wi mud as he had e house to 4 keep e warm in. Joseph Fielding and his two families were enumerated in eir home on 2 West in e 16 Ward on e 1850 census. nd I cannot explain why his plural wife Mary Ann was enumerated as Mary Ann Bullock, widowed. While enumerated in Salt Lake City, e family lived on eir Millcreek farm much of e time. Rachel had many memories from e early pioneer days. In ose days work and appetite were about e only ings we had an abundance of. Rachel had a favorite memory of being in e field wi e cows and coming across beans, belonging to a neighboring farmer, which had not 5 been gaered in e harvest. Invoking e rule of e gleaners, Rachel raced home and told her moer, who returned to e field wi her. The two of em gaered about ree cups of beans, which ey enjoyed immensely. Hannah worked hard to be rifty and not discard anying which could later be used. One of her sayings was, A woman can row out e window more an a man can bring in rough e door. 6 Rachel kept a small tin box wi remnants of scorched cotton clo. In order to start a fire, she would strike a flint and steel togeer, letting e spark fall on one of ese scrap of clo, and en she would fan it into flames. However, on some occasions her parents found it necessary to obtain red coals from e neighbors. Ashes were saved for lye. In addition, all animal grease, even grease from e dishpan, was saved to make soap. Soap was such a precious commodity at where possible, e family used sand and scrub brushes. Rachel wrote: The cry was Use plenty of elbow grease and spare e soap. The same animal fat which was needed for soap was also used for candles. Rachel wrote, We -538-
were counted rich indeed if we could get enough grease to make two or ree kettles of soap and enough tallow to make two or ree dozen candles. Hannah had purchased a spinning wheel, perhaps from a miner in 1849, and Joseph had been able to buy a loom for Hannah, an experienced weaver. Joseph was able to acquire sheep which he sheared to provide wool which was carded and en spun into yarn. Hannah wove all e fabric for eir cloing, e dyes coming from weeds and plants on eir farm. Wi a family of almost a dozen people, just providing cloing was an enormous undertaking. One of e younger children s many chores was to wind e bobbins for e loom which Hannah used to weave fabric for eir cloes. 7 Until ey could afford shoes, Joseph made e children s moccasins from e skins of eir 8 animals. Ellen later told her daughter at she helped her faer wi farm chores in addition to 9 helping her moer wi dying, weaving, spinning, making soap and candles. All e women were involved in knitting shawls, gloves and scarves, and Hannah conducted quite a 10 manufacturing industry in her own home. Rachel wrote at each of e girls kept a read board on which ey saved any ravelings from clo. They twisted e ravelings into read which ey used for sewing. All eir bedding was made by hand, wi Rachel remembering at ey had to make enough soap to wash e wool before it could be spun, woven and en dye bo sides of e fabric. Rachel gaered ragweed for brooms until her faer planted broom corn, which made superior bristles. They also grew straw and fashioned eir own hats. When squash and beets froze in e winter, e family made syrup from e juices and substituted is for sugar. Starch was needed to keep a crisp look to eir cloing. Rachel soaked potato peels and en used e water for starch. She wrote: Those were days when we made most everying we used or wore, even to our shoes. I am glad ose days are past and I hope my children will never have to pass rough such experiences as ose we passed rough in e early days of e settlement of Utah. It was not wiout its lesson, however, for it taught us valuable lessons in patience, and appreciation and we constantly felt our dependence on our Heavenly Faer and He never failed us. 11 Joseph Fielding s youngest daughter, Sarah Ann, later told her children, Everying was scarce except hard work. Her only toy was a yellow cat, which she dressed and played wi as if it were a doll. Hannah found e time to teach her children to write a legible hand, and to do a little wi figures, a biographer wrote. She also taught em to read e scriptures and to understand and 12 appreciate e Gospel. Hannah had a beautiful voice and enjoyed singing, and she would have encouraged her daughters to sing wi her. Mary Fielding Smi taught young Mara Ann skills at Mary surely had learned from her own moer, Rachel Ibbotson Fielding. Mara Ann learned to spin wool, and as a young teenager -539-
Mara could spin four skeins a day. Mary also taught Mara Ann to knit, measuring off a specific amount of yarn which Mara had to knit before a meal. As Mara Ann became more skilled, she learned to weave fabric and dye clo for bedding and cloing. She even learned to weave denim for men s work cloes. 13 1850 Brings More Pioneers and More Improvements The summer of 1850 brought almost two ousand pioneers across e plains. Apostle Orson Hyde crossed quickly, traveling in a horse-drawn buggy in six weeks. Apostle Wilford Woodruff led a company of two hundred. Stephen Markham, Edward Hunter, Lorenzo Dow Young and oer prominent men led companies at year. Five freight trains brought merchandise to e valley from e east, often hiring Mormon converts to drive eir teams. Apostles Charles C. Rich and Amasa M. Lyman, who had spent e previous year in California, returned to e valley at summer, describing difficult trips and problems wi e Native Americans along e way. Archibald Gardner built mills in Mill Creek and later in Leland. About 1850 Archibald Gardner built a saw mill which was powered by e water running from Mill Creek. Joseph Fielding would have been able to have logs cut here, and wi e cooperative help of neighbors he likely built a more substantial home for his family. 14 James and Mercy Fielding Lawson Settle in Iron County In 1850, Brigham Young directed George A. Smi to settle Parowan, 250 miles sou. Many LDS pioneers, including Howard Egan, found income in supplying and piloting miners to California. Late in e fall of 1849, Howard meticulously mapped his route, counting e stops along e way and detailing e conditions of camping grounds. Broer Egan observed obvious iron deposits along e route in souern Utah and is 15 information was given to President Young. The early pioneers were desperate for iron, often collecting old rifles and oer implements along e plains, bringing em into e valley and turning em into plows and oer tools. The next winter, after e crops of 1850 had been harvested, Brigham Young called Apostle George A. Smi to lead a company to build e new town of Parowan, near e iron -540- By 1850, pioneers were settling along e route to California.
deposits, two hundred and fifty miles sou of Salt Lake City. No one volunteered to accompany him, so President Young personally sought men wi e ability and energy to make is a successful settlement. James Lawson, age irty-one, wi his valuable skills as a blacksmi, accepted e call. Only a few mons after e community was founded, e population surpassed ree hundred, wi 16 Mercy and Mary Jane included. Cities in souern Utah began to flourish at is time, wi settlements in Harmony, Cedar City, Nephi, Springville and Provo. 17 Mercy Rachel Fielding Thompson was enumerated on e 1850 census in e 16 Ward as Mercy R. Thompson, living between her broer Joseph Fielding and William McMillan Thompson. The 16 Ward was enumerated on June 1st, 1850, before Mercy left e city. Mercy would have turned 43 on June 15. In some parts of Utah, e 1850 census was enumerated in 1851. Thomas Bullock was e enumerator for Iron County, which included Parowan. He took e census on May 12, 1851. James Lawson was enumerated at e bottom of page one. He is shown as a machinist wi $1000 in possessions, from Scotland. The enumerator counted 360 residents in Iron County in May, 1851. James was not enumerated in Salt Lake City on is census, indicating at when he returned he obtained e lot next door to Mercy s home. Mercy, shown here as Mercy Lawson, and her daughter Mary Jane were enumerated at e top of page 2. Mercy s age is not accurate, which was not uncommon on any census, but she is shown as being from England. Her daughter Mary J. was given e age of 10 instead of 11, but is shown correctly as being born in Missouri. The Parowan pioneers constructed a foundry near Paragonah, e name being derived from what e Native Americans called e location. There ey produced a substantial volume of pig iron. While e settlement of Parowan was located in a beautiful area, farming proved difficult and e town never had a large population. By e next summer, Mercy had returned to e 16 Ward. -541-
Sarah Ann Fielding, e Last Child of Joseph Fielding, was Born in 1851 Joseph Fielding, by now fifty-four, managed to keep two homes, wi his family spending much of eir time in e home where his family lived in e 16 Ward, possibly making it easier for e 18 children to attend school. This is where bo of his families were enumerated for e federal census in June of 1850. Sarah Ann, Joseph and Hannah s last child, was born in is home in e spring of 1851. Joseph traveled e six miles from e home to e farm to work, certainly by 19 wagon, bringing produce and supplies from e farm. Hannah was forty-two. Surely Mary Ann, age forty-five, was e midwife for Sarah Ann s bir. This was e last child Hannah would bear, leaving her wi four daughters and two sons. Mary Ann was raising her two young daughters. Bo moers had buried infant sons in Winter Quarters. There is no question Mary Ann was aware of e five children she d had wi her first husband, ree of whom were still alive. Joseph, Robert and Thomas were all enumerated in eir faer s household in Kirtland in 1850, whom e census taker erroneously named Greenwich. Mary Ann Peake Greenhalgh Fielding s ree sons were enumerated wi eir faer William on e 1850 Kirtland census. William had remarried a woman named Elizabe who had a ten-year-old daughter. William s broer Robert was shown on anoer page. Their broer Nehemiah had relocated to Detroit where he was enumerated. Mary Fielding Smi, Potatoes, and e Tiing Office The Fielding family s immediate neighbors included William McMillan Thompson, considered a son by Mercy, and who had crossed e plains wi Mary Ann, Hannah and Joseph Fielding. William was e clerk at e tiing office. Young Joseph F. Smi, who turned irteen in 1851, recalled an experience wi his moer and Broer McMillan. His broer John, who helped wi e potatoes, was about nineteen: I recollect very vividly a circumstance at occurred in e days of my childhood. My moer was a widow, wi a large family to provide for. One spring when we opened our -542-
potato pits, she had her boys get a load of e best potatoes, and she took em to e tiing office.... I was a little boy at e time, and drove e team. When we drove up to e steps of e tiing office ready to unload e potatoes, one of e clerks came out and said to my moer, Widow Smi, it s a shame at you should have to pay tiing. He said a number of oer ings at I remember well, but ey are not so necessary for me to repeat here. He chided my moer for paying her tiing, called her anying but wise and prudent, and said ere were oers able to work at were supported from e tiing office. The tiing office was located at e corner of Main Street and Sou Temple, where e Joseph Smi Memorial Building stands today. My moer turned upon him and said, William, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. Would you deny me a blessing? If I did not pay my tiing I should expect e Lord to wihold His blessings from me. I pay my tiing, not only because it is a law of God, but because I expect a blessing by doing it. By keeping is and oer laws, I expect to prosper and to be able to provide for my family. Joseph F. Smi was a counselor to President Lorenzo Snow at e time of e April 1900 general conference when he told at account of his moer. His broer John, who had been e Presiding Patriarch of e Church for almost fifty years, was sitting on e stand of e tabernacle behind him. President Smi continued wi is well-known story: Though she was a widow, you may turn to e records of e Church from e beginning unto e day of her dea, and you will find at she never received a faring from e Church to help her support herself and her family, but she paid in ousands of dollars in wheat, potatoes, corn, vegetables, meat, etc. The ties of her sheep and cattle, e ten pound of her butter, her ten chicken, e ten of her eggs, e ten pig, e ten calf, e ten colt a ten of everying she raised was paid. Here sits my broer, who can bear testimony to e tru of what I saw, as can oers who knew her. She prospered because she obeyed e laws of God. She had abundance to sustain her family. We never lacked so much as many oers did; for while we found nettle greens most acceptable when we first came to e valley, and while we enjoyed istle roots, segoes and all at kind of ing, we were no worse off an ousands of oers, and not so bad off as many, for we were never wiout cornmeal and milk and butter, to my knowledge..... When William Thompson told my moer at she ought not to pay tiing, I ought he was one of e finest fellows in e world. I believed every word he said. I had to work and toil myself. I had to help plow e ground, plant e potatoes, hoe e potatoes, dig e potatoes, and all at sort of ing, and en to load up a big wagon-box full of e very best we had, leaving out e poor ones, and bringing e load to e tiing office. I ought in my childish way at it looked a little hard, especially when I saw certain of my -543-
playmates and early associates of childhood playing, riding horses and having good times, and who scarcely ever did a lick of work in eir lives, and yet were being fed from e public crib.... Well, after I got a few years of experience, I was converted, I found at my moer was right and at William Thompson was wrong. 20 George Greenwood, Hannah Fielding s Broer, Dies In 1851 Hannah s widowed broer George died in Preston, England. Of his four children, only e youngest son, his namesake George, and his only daughter, Ellen, survived him. Young 21 George inherited his faer s grocery business at is time, being only nineteen years old. The younger George was a faiful member of e LDS Church, still attending meetings and associating wi e oer converts. Ellen was also a member of e Church, having joined two years before her broer. 22 1852 Mary Fielding Smi Dies The old adobe tabernacle was finished in e spring of 1852 and stood in Temple Square on e site of e current Assembly Hall. A distinguishing feature is a half-dome apse on e nor end. The tabernacle faced Sou Temple Street. Joseph Fielding attended many meetings and conferences in is building. In e summer of 1852, Mary Fielding Smi attended a church meeting in Salt Lake City. It s probable at is meeting was held in e new adobe tabernacle which had been completed in time for e April General Conference earlier at year. It was built on e souwest end of e temple block and was large enough to seat twenty-five 23 hundred people. On her way home, possibly being driven by her broer and neighbor Joseph Fielding, Mary fell ill. Seeking a blessing, Mary was taken to e nearby residence of Heber C. Kimball. Unfortunately, Mary never regained enough streng to leave e Kimball home. Many stepped in to care for e revered widow of Hyrum Smi, including Brigham Young and his family, who offered assistance. 24 25 Mercy had eier already returned from Parowan or came at is time to help care for her sister. st Mary, only fifty-one, died eight weeks later, on Tuesday e 21 of September, at e Kimball 26 home. Mary was e second of her adult siblings to pass away, following John, who had died in 1839. At Mary s dea, Mara Ann, who had just turned eleven, raced from e Kimball home and prayed at she too might die. Joseph F., almost fourteen, fainted. 27-544-
President Kimball, speaking at Mary s funeral two days later, said: As regards to Sister Mary Smi s situation and circumstances, I have no trouble at all, for if any person has lived e life of a Saint, she has. If any person has acted e part of a moer, she has. I may say she has acted e part of a moer, and a faer, and a bishop. She has had a large family, and several old people to take care of, and which she has maintained for years by her economy and industry. One ing I am glad of, and I feel to rejoice in e providence of God at ings have been as ey have. She came here sick on e Sabba, eight weeks ago last Sunday, for me to lay hands upon her. She was laid prostrate upon her bed, and was not able to recover afterwards. I felt as ough it was a providential circumstance at it so happened. She always expressed at she knew e ing was dictated by e Lord at she should be placed in my house, ough accidentally. She probably would not have lived so long, had she been where she could not have had e same care. On Tuesday evening, eight weeks and two days since, she came here sick; from at time until her dea she was prayerful and humble. I have never seen a person in my life at had a greater desire to live an she had, and ere was only one ing she desired to live for, and at was to see her family; it distressed her to ink at she could not see to em; she wept about it. She experienced is anxiety for a mon previous to her dea., and she wept and prayed at e diseased place might be opened. She was never left alone, after she became sick. My family, and Broer Brigham s family, and oers, waited upon her all e time. She had every attention paid to her at ever was paid to a sick person. This she expressed, herself, times and times again. Sister Thompson has been here ever since Sister Mary was taken sick, and she paid every attention to her. I say, wi regard to my family, if ever ere were good feelings shown to any person, ey have manifested em to her, so also have Broer Brigham s family, and oers who live around here. I will say so much in eir behalf, and for e consolation of e friends of e departed. I am ankful to e Lord God at I have had e privilege, wi my family, to do Mary a kindness; it is a consolation to me. Do I regret it? No. I never regret a good deed at I have done in my life. If I regret anying, it is at I have not e ability to do more good. Let us do all e good we can....i know Sister Mary has departed in peace; she has gone home. I never heard her murmur against Broer Brigham in my life, nor against me. If I went to see her, it was well; if not, it was all e same. She has come to see me, sometimes once, and sometimes twice a week. When I have seen her, I have said to her, I have no time to come and see you Mary, erefore you must come and see me. She never considered it too much trouble to come and see me and her breren. I am satisfied she desired to live for e benefit of her children. I know she has given em good counsel, and if ey will follow it ey will never be in trouble....and I am glad I did right to Sister -545- Mary Fielding Smi died in 1852 in Heber C. Kimball s home at e age of 51.
Mary, and took care of her, and at my family had e pleasure of nourishing her.... 28 President Young also spoke at Mary s funeral. Later her son, Joseph F., gave is tribute: Noing benea e Celestial Kingdom can surpass my dealess love for e sweet, true, noble soul who gave me bir my own, own moer. She was good. She was pure. She was indeed a Saint, a royal daughter of God! 29 Mara Ann would later speak warmly of her moer: Oh, how I loved my moer. I feared to displease her, I would raer burn my hand an vex my moer....my moer to is very day is perfect in my mind s eye. God bless her memory. 30 Mary was buried in e Salt Lake City Cemetery, an area on e mountainside nor of e city comprising twenty ousand acres which had been set aside as a burial ground in 1847. The Children and Step-Children of Mary Fielding Smi Moer Grinnell, who continued to live wi e family and care for Mary s two children, plus Hyrum s children, died e following year. Hyrum s oldest daughter, Lovina, did not arrive in Utah wi her husband until 1860. The oer surviving siblings were John, age nineteen; Jerusha, age fifteen, and Sarah, age fourteen. Apostle George A. Smi, Hyrum s cousin, took e family 31 under his wing and supervised eir upbringing wi fondness and dedication. This photo, likely taken in e 1860s, shows Joseph F. Smi on e left, his sister Mara Ann Smi Harris, eir aunt Mercy Rachel Fielding Thompson, and Mercy s daughter, Mary Jane Thompson Taylor. After e sudden dea of Mary Fielding Smi, Mercy took young Mara Ann into her home. -546-
Jerusha Smi was 16 at e time of Mary Smi s dea. She married 2 years later. Sarah Smi, e daughter of Hyrum Smi and Jerusha Barden, had lost all her parents by e age of 14. After Moer Grinnell s dea e following year, Mary s sister Mercy took Mara Ann into her 32 own home. Mercy felt it very important to become a moer to her niece and nephew, and she remained close to Joseph F. and Mara Ann roughout her life. 33 Jerusha and Sarah Smi bo married in 1854. They raised large families and eir husbands each took a plural wife. Their broer John Smi married in 1853, and at at time Mara Ann 34 returned to e farm where she lived for four more years. When he was only twenty-two, John was ordained e Church patriarch in 1855, nine mons after e dea of his faer s uncle John Smi. John served as e Church patriarch for fifty-six years, until his dea in 1911, giving many patriarchal blessings, including one to his cousin, 35 Rachel Fielding Burton, in 1874. In 1857 John took a second wife. He remained on e farm he had inherited from his moer, 36 raising a large family. At is time, just before Mara Ann s sixteen birday in 1857, she married William Jasper Harris, ree years her senior. Mara Ann had been fond of William, but ere were no plans for marriage before his mission. However, in receiving a blessing from President Young before he departed on his mission, President Young learned of William s feelings for Mara Ann. Brigham encouraged him to marry her before he left Salt Lake City. He ran from e Lion House and raced to e Smi farm in Millcreek. There he said to Mara, Get your sunbonnet! Those words were followed wi, We are going to get married! 37 Two days after eir marriage, William left for a two-year mission in England. Mara moved to Provo, into William s widowed moer s home where she was a plural wife of Abraham Smoot. -547- Hyrum Smi s son John became e Church Patriarch in 1855. He remained on his moer s farm in Millcreek.
After William s return in 1858 during e Utah War, William and Mara Ann raised a large family togeer, ultimately settling in Provo where Mara Ann became well-known for making beautiful leaer gloves, an occupation which went far in 38 supporting eir family. In 1854, Joseph F. was notified from e pulpit during e April general conference at he had been called to serve as a missionary in e Hawaiian Islands. He received his endowment and was ordained an elder by Apostle George A. Smi. Joseph F. later spoke about is time: My whole interest is in e work of e Lord. I have been in it from boyhood. I started out in it when I was about fifteen years of age on my own account, wiout even moer to guide me and only memories of her life and teachings to sustain me in foreign lands and in e midst of e worst of temptations at ever a you was subjected to in e world; but wi e memory of my moer and e memory of e covenants at I made in e days of my you here in is city before I left on my mission, I was able to keep myself unspotted from e world. I am not ashamed to say is, alough it may seem boastful for me to say it, but I don t say it in my own streng. It was not my streng, it was e memory of my teachings in my you, it was e consciousness at I felt in my soul at I was in e Master s service, at I was following in e footsteps of my parents, and of e noblest and best men at I had ever known in e world, ose who stood at e head of e Church, and I stood by it and I am standing by it to e best of my ability at e Lord gives me and to e utmost of e streng at I have in my being. 39 Joseph F. Smi was called to serve a mission in e Hawaiian Islands when he was 15 years old. Mara Ann Smi and her husband William Jasper Harris raised a large family togeer in Provo. Apostle Parley P. Pratt set him apart for his mission. Sons of prominent LDS leaders were among e group of twenty-four missionaries called at is time, including a nephew of Brigham Young and two Smi cousins, including Samuel H. B. Smi, e sixteen-year-old son of Joseph Smi s deceased broer Samuel. Joseph F. was e youngest of e group, just fifteen. The mon following conference, leaders of e Church, including Brigham Young, traveled wi e new missionaries as far as Cedar City, where President Young stayed to visit e -548-
souern settlements. Elder Pratt accompanied e young men on to San Bernardino where ey met wi Apostles Amasa M. Lyman and Charles C. Rich. Once in California, e missionaries found various employment opportunities, wi young Joseph F. making shingles. There ey earned enough money for ship fare nor to San Francisco where ey would again meet wi Elder Pratt, who had traveled ahead to secure eir passage to Hawaii. It is probable at Joseph F. encountered George Q. Cannon, who at age twenty-seven had just returned from his four-year mission to e islands while e missionaries were in San Bernardino. Elder Cannon had translated e Book of Mormon into e Hawaiian language, and wi e Church press in San Bernardino, was publishing it. He was also working wi Elder Pratt on e latter s autobiography. During is period Parley P. Pratt prophesied to young George Cannon at someday he would succeed him in e Quorum of e Twelve 40 Apostles, information which George kept secret. Joseph F. would ultimately become proficient in e Hawaiian language, and e Hawaiian people became a source of love and joy to him roughout his life. His family encouraged him during his mission, wi his sisters and Aunt Mercy writing frequent letters. 41 1853: Cornerstones of e Temple are Laid Elder Taylor returned from his European mission late in e summer of 1852, as did e oer apostles who had been away, including Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, and Ezra T. Benson. Orson Pratt, who was president of e British Mission, was e only apostle not 42 in Utah at spring. Elder Taylor had crossed e Atlantic on a steamship in less an two 43 weeks and was present for e general conference on April 6, 1853. On at day ousands gaered on e temple grounds, coming from e farest settlements in Utah, to see e soueast cornerstone laid for e Salt Lake Temple, which was placed amid tremendous fanfare, speeches and hymns, including marking e day of e organization of e Church twenty-ree 44 years earlier. The ree oer cornerstones were placed at day by different quorums. President Young told e congregation at afternoon: George Q. Cannon was returning from his mission to e Sandwich Islands at e time Joseph F. Smi was called to serve ere. I had not enquired what kind of a Temple we should build, because it was represented before me. I scarcely ever said much about visions or revelations, but five years ago last July when here I had seen, in e spirit, e Temple, where we have laid e cornerstones, I had never looked upon e ground since but e vision of it was ere as plainly as if it were reality before me. It will have six towers. 45-549-
The following day President Young presented to e congregation a pair of fire irons which had been made from iron forged at e foundry in Paragonah. Later in e meeting President Young asked Elder George A. Smi to preach an Iron sermon. Elder Smi held one of e fire irons in bo hands, raised it above his head, and in using e word stereotype to indicate an image which represented a eme or even a challenge, he simple said, Stereotype edition! The 46 congregation erupted in cheers. Chapter 36 Endnotes Pages 537-550: 1.The 1860 census indicates Joseph s and Mary s farms were next to each oer. In Moer of e Prophets, page 104, Leonard Arrington wrote at Mary s farm was at what would later be designated as 27 Sou and Highland Drive in Salt Lake City. nd 2.Memoirs of East Mill Creek, auored by e East Millcreek 2 Ward, is found on LDS film #908729, a copy of which is in e H. B. Lee Library at BYU. Information about e construction of e early pioneer homes in Millcreek was given. It might be important to note at e stream of water is called Mill Creek, but e ward and area around it have been called Millcreek. 3.Daughter of Britain, pages 254-255. 4.Sketch of e Life of Rachel Fielding Burton, 1914. 5.Ru 2. 6.This quote came from e autobiography of Josephine Burton Bagley, e youngest grandchild of Hannah Greenwood Fielding. She wrote at her moer Sarah Ann often quoted is, it being a saying of her grandmoer s. This autobiography was included in e Burton Family Genealogy Histories. 7.Sarah Ann Fielding Burton 1851-1938, by Marian Gardner Fluckiger. Sarah Ann specifically named is job as hers. 8.History of Hannah Greenwood Fielding obtained from e Daughters of e Utah Pioneers. There are several biographies, none wi clear auors. They made shoes for e children from skins until ey could buy shoes. 9.Ellen Fielding Burton, by Mercy Rachel Burton Stevens. 10.History of Hannah Greenwood Fielding obtained from e DUP. 11.Sketch of e Life of Rachel Fielding Burton, 1914. 12.Biography of Hannah Greenwood Fielding from e DUP. 13.Mara Ann, Daughter of Hyrum and Mary Fielding Smi, by Ru Mae Barney Harris: 2002, pages 81-82. 14.Memoirs of East Millcreek, page 19. 15.A Trial Furnace, Souern Utah s Iron Mission, by Morris A. Shirts and Karyn H. Shirts: BYU, 2001, page 8. Howard Egan appears to have made several trips to California. Journal History, 9 December 1852, image 349, mentions his return from Sacramento wi e mail. 16.A Trial Furnace, Souern Utah s Iron Mission. James Lawson is named on several pages. Angus Cannon was also one of ese Iron Mission pioneers. -550-
17.Journal History, 7 December 1852, image 347. Letter from George A. Smi to e Deseret News. 18.Sketch of e Life of Rachel Fielding Burton, 1914. As time passed on and we children began to get larger, faer became anxious about our education, so he obtained anoer piece of land near Salt Lake City where we could all go to school and to meeting; he himself going back and for to work from ere to e farm. I was about twelve years old at is time. Rachel was twelve in 1851. I have two records which show at Joseph Fielding owned a portion of a lot in e 16 Ward next to Mercy Fielding Thompson s residence and have assumed is is e property to which Rachel was referring. Her faer was a counselor in e bishopric of e 16 Ward by 1849 and was enumerated in e 16 Ward in June of 1850. Perhaps Rachel was unaware at her faer was given is property upon arriving in e valley. 19.Sketch of e Life of Rachel Fielding Burton, 1914. When I was fifteen my parents decided at going e six miles between e farm and our home each day was too hard on faer, so we moved back to e farm. While living in Salt Lake City, my sister, Sarah Ann, was born, she being my moer s seven and last child. 20.Life of Joseph F. Smi, pages 158-160, 21.Biography of George Greenwood, by Geoff Smi, 1949. 22.According to Church records, Ellen was baptized on 11 March 1838. George was baptized on 25 November 1840. 23.Journal History, 6 April 1852, image 279, mentions at e conference was held at e new tabernacle. The site was where e Assembly Hall now stands. The Endowment House stood on e site of e nor museum which currently holds e Christus statue. The temple, obviously, was under construction in its current location. 24.Mara Ann, page 83. Moer of e Prophets, pages 105-106. Journal of Discourses, pages 246-247. 25.Journal of Discourses, page 247. President Kimball specifically mentioned at Mercy Thompson was at her sister s side. 26.Journal of Discourses, page 247. Funeral Address Delivered by President Heber C. Kimball, September 23, 1852, On e Dea of Sister Mary Smi, Relict of e Martyred Patriarch Hyrum Smi, And Who Departed This Life At e Residence of President Kimball, September 22, 1852. Oer records give Mary s dea date as st Tuesday, September 21. President Kimball seems to begin a ought and en redirects. But one line in his st sermon convinced me at Mary died on Tuesday, September 21. On Tuesday evening, eight weeks and two days since, she came here sick; from at time until her dea she was prayerful and humble. 27.Mara Ann, page 83. 28.Journal of Discourses, pages 246-247. 29.Quoted by Jane McBride Choate, Mary Fielding Smi Moer in Israel, The Friend, July 1993. 30.Mara Ann Harris, page 83. 31.Moer of e Prophets, page 106. 32.History of Mara Ann Smi Harris by Carole Call King, easily found online. Mara en went to live wi her moer's sister, Mercy Fielding Thompson, in Salt Lake City, where she attended school. 33.Life of Joseph F. Smi, page 190. One of e comforting features of his mission which tended to buoy him up rough all its trying scenes was e tender love expressed in e letters he had received from his sisters and from his aunt, Mercy Rachel Thompson, who felt it her duty to be a moer to him after e passing of his own beloved -551-
moer. 34.Biography of Mara Ann Smi Harris, by Carole King Call. 35.This blessing was given on e 29 of June, 1874. Rachel was just a few days shy of her irty-fif birday and was e moer of nine children. In is blessing, she was promised, Thy last days shall be y best. In 1902, Rachel received a second blessing under e hands of George W. Larkin, e Weber Stake Patriarch. In at blessing she was told, y prayers shall be combined to be answered wi great blessings on e heads of her children. 36.John Smi and his family were enumerated on e farm next to Joseph Fielding s in Millcreek. 37.Biography of Mara Ann Harris by Carole Call King. 38.Biography of Mara Ann Harris by Carole Call King. Mara always worked hard to support her family. While she was in Salt Lake she paid $30.00 and gave six weeks work to learn e glove-making trade. For twenty years she made forty to fifty pairs of gloves each fall and sold em for prices up to $7.00 a pair. She bought buckskins and beaver furs from Indians as ey passed rough on eir way to winter camp. Some of e hides she tanned by herself, but for e finer gloves she had e hides dressed at Provo Woolen Mills. She made hundreds of pairs of gloves--some beautifully embroidered and beaded--also e high gauntlets and work gloves. People came from all over to buy em from her....for many years Mara Ann was recognized as an auority in making temple aprons and laying away e dead. She gave many temple aprons away, and also sold em to e General Relief Society in Salt Lake. She made hundreds of em, sending twelve finished aprons every two weeks to e Women's National Relief Society, Burial Cloes Department. 39. Boyhood Recollections of President Joseph F. Smi, page 64. 40.The Apostleship, by Bruce E. Dana, Cedar Fort: 2006; page 105. 41.Life of Joseph F. Smi, pages 164-190. 42.Journal History, 12 August 1857, image 37. A letter was written to Orson Pratt Sen., who was presiding in Great Britain, advising him to return home.... Elder Pratt was not on e list of apostles who were present at e placing of e cornerstones. 43.Life of John Taylor, page 240, states he crossed e Atlantic on e Niagara, confirmed by e Mormon Immigration Index. Several records state at Franklin D. Richards was e Church Agent in Liverpool, confirmed by a headline of a 21 August 1852 Deseret News clip about Abraham Smoot s company, but I cannot learn e company or ships on which e oer apostles crossed or determine at ey traveled togeer. While I know at Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards and John Taylor departed for European missions in 1849, it s clear at Ezra T. Benson was also returning from a mission in 1852. The Deseret News of 4 September 1852 states at Lorenzo Snow arrived on e 30 of August and implies he was wi e Abraham Smoot Company. The Deseret News of 7 August states at Erastus Snow and F. D. Richards left Liverpool on May 8. 44.Journal History, Wednesday, 6 April 1853, images 188-196. In his concluding sermon, President Young mentioned at he and Elder Kimball had not been ordained High Priests, at ey were still members of e Aaronic Priesood, and at Joseph Smi had known and felt it was not necessary for em to be ordained. A summary of events indicates at all four cornerstones were laid at day. 45.Journal History, 6 April 1853, image 197. 46.Journal History, 7 April 1853, image 198. -552-