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Show Sugar House Scrmoiiclles hy E. Cecil McGavin This be fifteenth in a scries of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The series is presented under tlx' sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. Young de LaMare was in his late twenties when he undertook un-dertook the responsibilities of this perilous enterprise the establishment of a sugar processing pro-cessing plant in the frontier west. His young wife gladly gave up their beautiful home and the luxuries it afforded turning her back upon the scenes they loved so well in their homeland to follow the chain of tourists who flowed from the old world to Zion. Her loyalty and devotion never nev-er faltered for a moment as hardships and discouragement faced them as they sought to carry out their plans in this strange land. Back to New Orleans she and her children went with her husband. Much of the time she and the children were separated from their loving sire and husband as he pushed into the frontier sc-tt'emr-nts and rode the wild Tnnst in ."-nrr-h of oxr-n that : Tf.'.sht be purcha:-"l and pre.-.-orl into the bird service required for the journey to the westland. At St. Louis Ihe children were stricken with cholera, that dread disease that left a trail of graves wherever travelers trav-elers journeyed at that time. This was a trying time for this devoted family, strangers in a strange land, miles from their friends and loved ones, trying hard to bcome accustomed accus-tomed to the rigors of pioneering pioneer-ing in a new land, and then to be stricken with that dread disease that stalked through the camps of the pioneeers with a heavy stride that took many a member from every company as they sought to go Tip to Zion. For weeks thier heads were bowed low in sorrow ; nd fear as their children suffered suffer-ed with the painful lisease. Their hearts were broken and prostrate with grief when their eldest child succumbed to the malady and was buried among Mramy-rs in a strange city. |