Show OUR PIONEERS william gibson continued from last week N eek in the year 1858 aae moved to council bluffs and in 1858 we amov ed to 0 florence we would have crossed tn th plains with the hand cart company but church officers advised us a to wait until the child ren o 0 ere older I 1 had the chills and fever at this place while in florence one fourth of at july some n en and boys alone along ith ray my help secured a condemned can non load d I 1 i with sod to tire fire ott oft at day brea when ve we did it ex plodded one piece just my head the nan man sho ho tired fired it waa was truck struck on the leg ie which caused his death later on it vu was n thu this town that we lost our father in the year IMO we e went sent to salt lake city by ox at team in captain warren walling a train to years later in captain jc joeph ph horn a train aarom the plains bait wt alter after more immigrants coming to utah that tall fall I 1 hauled rock tor for the salt lake in 1843 1 I drove an ox team back across the plaint in captain korton horton L If tights train and in the year IBM INS made another trip across the plains la n captain john allisrn i train in summing up my travels across the plains I 1 here have stall the buffalo stampede and many interesting things too numerous to mention but will say ay that I X rember wu tta ale ea lure sure the dances we had coining coming back in lit the year IW 1864 1 I vent went to kam as in rhodes valley to uve live it was here I 1 met mary lambert Lra ibert who latr tame t ame my wife during the indian van of 1853 1863 and 1870 1 I helped build two forts one at peas ard the other at ka mas while I 1 as helping to build I 1 fort at pecia I 1 va nent ent up weber can I 1 yon near that place to chop and haul down some logs log I 1 havene camped I 1 looked around I 1 to find the best place to commence ork As I 1 came cime up LP to a bh having berries on out stepped a grizzly bear taller than myself A hot flash passed over me I 1 was afraid to run and not having a weapon with me I 1 decided to try the power C cf my eyes to overcome him I 1 gazed at him never ank ing for a time he gazed back at last he rolled tolled his eyes side ways a tirre or two then ran I 1 was made captain captala in the utah militia with john C lambert as m my lieutenant we made many 9 tripe after indians to rescue sto to en horses the trips were to numerous to go into detail while one one at 0 these trips to brush creek in the year I 1 first saw ashley valley which impressed pressed te me so favorably I 1 decided thon that if U evir ever opportunity tvs ce to settle sett this valley I 2 would come coo here hen to make my botn cc pu PLO vast william gibson I 1 continued from page pue ithen I 1 then secured a position iroil mr standish sh to haul freight from montana to 8 S L C mr standish sh later booc me to Em emmaville maville south ot of salt lake city to keep account ct of the ore he s as sh ill epping from the emma mine in small acta to wales while in the employment of mr sh e decided to go up to the little ton of alia alta as I 1 re member it the snow wa was very deep and we were unable to see a house all of a sudden A e found we were close to a atme pipe that smoke was fusing from we began looking around and fourd stepi steps shaped out of the snow which we followed leading us to the business section of this little bosn 1 there were tunnels leading to ether business busl places sith ath steps leading out in the ear 1172 may the fth I 1 married mary A lambert in the endowment ut house in salt lake mary A lambert who was sas born september 11 1851 was the daish ur ter of john lambert and 4 adella groesbeck Or my father was as of english origin for several generation said mrs gibson while my mother v as american bom born as were her ance for some generations but bae bate some dutch extraction just one rear year after my parents came to salt lake city I 1 r raa as born in an adobe house of four our rooms t two 0 down and 1 two 0 up stairs situated on ath and at ath east we I 1 lied i ed at this place until I 1 R as nine years old I 1 attended the c ty schools and helped to herd my father fathers s sheep up on the bench as we called it ahn lat er on the raa ras wilt on this bench in the spring of the year of 1881 1861 we se moved to rhodes valley to get more land said mr gibson it was a beautiful spring morning when we se started from bait salt lake city on our journey I 1 was help ill my brother drive the sheep mill ve e reached wanship manship where itea snowing and was so cold I 1 had to stop because bemuse I 1 had no stockings to v tear ear we camped two or three days until the weather seather mod aerated crated then hen we wert sert on to beaver creek ln in rhodes valley where kamas is now situated we wa lived alere tt ere until I 1 wu was about fifteen when we moved to peoa geoa in the fort because of the black blask war we stay ed there f all 11 summer and then moved back to kamas there wad was a tort fort there that we move into because our house was so close by 1 i 1 I 1 went sent to school about three month months a year until I 1 vaas twenty when I 1 married we had a large family art arl ar t we all worked hard to I 1 keep them fed and clothed well in ithe the spare spire time me e worked in the 00 ool A e had to p ack ck and wash it I 1 by hand this as sent to the cardin ing machir at froio and made into rolls which we girls spun or a large sp nning heel sheel after my mother had finished dying it colors such as red blue and black us ng the black and white to make gray the eray gray and 1 white was as twisted to nake make salt and pepper design when se e had all the colors we se wished we se sent sea it to the seme semes s to make into cloth we had a lot of sewing 1 to do for our family as well vi ell as ourselves we also did a lot of quilt making we could complete one in a day after I 1 was married I 1 took the first sheep skin sheared it with ordinary scissors washed and picked the wool spun ta it knitted it into for my fir 1 child and husband said the p mother to his life mr gibson continued NN e nude our first honie hone in kam kim AS it as at this place our first two children ver were born jamea james 4 L and mary E Z I 1 I 1 carried the DULU MAU between aveen KIM as and hiber in a boat shaped sleigh in the inter winter drawn by a lorse horse when it idas as possible lor for a it I 1 to travel when it s as not I 1 walked the mall mail en my back 1 in summer I 1 rode my horse this I 1 did tor for tuo two yer years it was as in this c u country some were frozen to death every dear on one occasion oc clon a R knock came at our door at it 11 p in shile alle a ter blizzard was raging s sam miller had managed to come as lar tar aa as my place but could go no further he ile eald said it if you yott can go cut out in the mountains seat est of here probably you can save wn wm 0 andrson and Andrs cn and joseph war irom from freezing to death otherwise they hill will d e as they can go no lurther further I 1 got ray my horse and carted over mer the mountain I X scan found joeeph jodeph war bine in the enow snow lie ile as almost frozen I 1 lifted lilted him on my horse and told him to give her the re rens ns ard she would take him home this the horse hone dd d d but he had to fail au oil off the horse the man inside heard the horse and helped him in he was to so bearly gone he could rot r ot speak I 1 sent on foot toot alter after ier ander son calling his name all the time after a shile alle I 1 heard him with my help he as able to sak fn n tt t t as unable to balk alk away as his feet ere so badly frozen some of his toes tte ee e lost both men lit hied ed next W week k |