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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This is the twelfth in a series of articles on the early day history of Sngar House. The series is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. While the expensive macliin ery was stored in New Orleans John Taylor and his fiier.ds made the long journey northward north-ward to Kanesville, Iowa where the heavy wagons for transporting transport-ing the machinery to Salt Lake City were waiting. In the Mormon Mor-mon settlement at Kanesville, Elias Morris met Mary Parry, who had been waiting there with her Mormon friends until they could be taken to Utah. During the last week in May, 1852, the couple were united in marriage by Orson Hyde, who was in charge of the colony at that place. Soon after the wedding they were prepared to take their teams and wagons southward and load the precious machinery machin-ery and commence the long trek to the valleys of the mountains. moun-tains. Their honeymoon was spent on the trip down the Mis souri River to Ft. Leavenworth where they were obliged to wait a long time to secure enough oxen to pull the loaded wagons. Fifty-two wagons and more than two hundred oxen had been assembled as-sembled for this important mission. mis-sion. This was a large caravan, almost as extensive as many of the groups of wagon trains that pushed over the Oregon Trail toward the far west. Most of its members were reluctant to detour from the beaten path, that streched across the plains and mountains to the Creat Basin the trail that to:k converts con-verts to Zion with the least time and effort, but here was an important assignment, another mission that must be completed in order to make the desert blossom blos-som and bring health and hap- ' piness to the wilderness-breakers in Zion. |