Show PIONEERS PIO kEERS OF THE EARLY DAYS in collecting collect ng ilia history ot of kanab and adne cou county n ty the members ot of the daughters or of the utah pioneers 0 of hana I 1 an and nano anno county have found faund it very ary difficult to obtain reliable rell ablo inform atlon regarding the pioneers who first bottled n kanab and rano kane county prior to 1870 1970 the time when levi stow stew art and lite his company were first vent here by president Dr brigham ighani young wherefore theredo rhe o upon request from her bar many ny kanab friends and from tho the editor of the standard mra afro Af maunda alinda p parker aker roundy of salt lake city once a participant or of early pioneer days in this county has bas kindl kindly y contributed for publication the following history of 0 t the early settlement of this county in the spring ot of 1866 1865 lorenzo I oronzo W R roundy jerad 0 roundy myron S and william ford ford settled in upper up per kanab K acab in that part of the county counts now called alton walter smith mith william smith charles partridge and their families together with a few other families also settled here hera about this time tima these pioneers built log cabins cabins just west of the place where the kane county dairy was at edwards erected that tall fall the roundy brothers returned to center vine ville davis county to get the rest ot their famil leEf soon after they word were gone the remaining families at upper kam I 1 b were called to strengthen lower kanab these settlers left everything and did as an they were bid lorenzo roundy roundly and his families came on to kanab a little later that fall all john D parker who was also on one e ot of these pioneers was delayed on account of sickness but started south from levan juab county the lashof last of november on account of the hostility of the indians along the sevier river he went ment py by way of F allmore ill more beabe county toquerville rockville and pipe springs lie arrived at kanab the third day of 0 january 1866 P through throe feet of snow the snow has never falon so io deep in chanab kanab since that winter the same evening brother parker arrived his little four foai year old son eon died of scarlet fever ever three days after the Park parkers ershad had mooned at pipe springs robert whitman an and james mcintyre were murdered n by navajo indians the sad bad news of tills this terrible mur der was written on an envelope by a herd boy who had escaped and was waa brought to kanab by a pluto plute indian the people looked to L W roundy as a leader although he was not a bishop at that time however lie he called tor for volunteers to carry th the a message to president snow at st georgo georga byron D roundy and oran dark clark answered to this call and were soon boon they started from kanab at 9 p m and reached st george the boxt morning at 10 byron roundy afterward often said that it 4 was the fear oi of that dark I 1 nights ride expecting every moment to be surrounded by Lama lamantea that caused him to be bali bald headed the bodies of the two murdered mer dered men wore were taken to st george where they were cared tor for by loving friends that winter the people of kanab fought savages on one side and death by scarlet fever favor on the other john D parker burled buried two children that win winter and L D roundy burled buried one the smith family also lost one continued on beck ba ck page continued from pago page one the tour four little graves IM aj due west from the north cast corner ot of tho the old jort fort on the hill between two cedar trees in january a company accompany of 0 morl men were sent to from tile the settlement in dixie to help guard the tort fort as the in diens were very hostile at this time the tort fort was waa guarded night and dy day however every lark dark at 0 the moon the ilia indiana got their booty the settlers wore were never molested nt at ull full moon Ilo however wever in every raid they made they succeeded in stealing cattle horses and sheep the men wore unable to catch thorn them although onto the savages savages wore were forced to leavo leave their meat broiling on the coals in order to escape colonel andrews Androws told the inori men not to ire fire the firk trot shot and so BO regret of soma bome no indiana wore killed v in february ot of that year a little son aon wa was born to the wife ol of ne ney in a 0 dugout dug out it proved to bo its as nice as aa any baby the first ot of march tho settlers of 0 11 kanab acab were asked to leave and go to long valley to strengthen that place blaco it took look them five days to travel the distance Ili tance ot of fifteen miles allea the teams teama were poor and the loads heavy one oxen dropped dead on tho the ML alt carmol carmel bill when mr parker one ot of tho the company took oft off alio yoke ke the night they the cAmp camped edat at three lukes lakes a baby girl was waa born to tho the alie of oran dark clark who was waa one ot of tile tha express riders crops wore were plant edas soon as aa they arrived nt at mt ali carmel that spring thy berry boys and ono one of thier wives were killed near short creek joseph nerr berry when found wai waa leaning between the wheels wheela am alq th alo wagon bed dead robert kobert and the woman were lying dead on the ground an an indian brought the news newa ma maar berry written ritten on jon an by willfam william berry a brother ot of the victims and who had bad gone to meet ineat thorn them the dead were taken to st george ana and burled buried by sor sorrowing rowin friends this same month 13 1 D roundy ana alid orlein bliss wore called to go BO on a nab mission ionno eo the missouri river arver to escort ot immigrants to a 2 or 79 0 ox teai teams ni AN ite lj ja bijj in june june hardly throe three 1 1 ewt in ait carmel cannel tho ilia final cull call came tor for tile the people liv ing ln in mt carmol carmel anil and long volley valley to move to dixie tia tha crops they lind had planted looked beautiful but they made mad 0 ready and wore were soon on wheels again tho the first day out a little tour four year old boy ot of brother spencers Spon Spen cors of upper long valley foil fell from rom a horse and was run over by a 1 wagon and killed instantly st tho the company stopped tor for a lay day to bury him beneath a large tree president snow sent a company ot of men from the dixie country to guard the people on the way at short creek they stopped to water their teams when colonel andrews saw two indian chiefs charlie and coal creek john riding down the canyon colonel andrews and L W met them at a little distance from tho ilia company they shook hands and talked until the tha wagons were corralled and tho ilia women placed in them all of 0 a sudden a shot was heard one of the boys had laid his gun in III the jhb wagon and it had exploded this thia caused a great deal of excitement among tho the company as tile the 11 nerves arves of everyone was strained to the limit in tho the tumult it 11 caused william berry got hla his run gun and threatened to kill the two chiefs because ho he thought they had killed his brothers it took tour four men man ht his two wives and his mother to calm him and to take ills his gun awny away front from him the tumult subsided the indians indiana promised to go hack back up the canyon and lot let the company pass in peace the men not to stop to oat ant but everyone eve took a sandwich and wore were soon on the way again As darkness began tolover to hover bover around them the capt captain alif andrews discovered three flickering lights on top of the mountain in a trian triangular guar shape andrews was an an indian scout and know tho the meaning og 0 the tire fire signals ot of the Ind indians lame lie ila informed tho the company of the signals and advised them not to stop that night for fear ear that they might ight be massacred so on they went all the women who were able were asked to drive rl a team that night so that the men and boys might guard tho the stock and teams several mothers drove teams that night might with babes in their arms by in morning orning the tha company had reached rockville unharmed they crossed tho the virgin virgia river near st Geor george 90 whore where I 1 they h by camped three days to rest word was sent to L W roundy to take hla his part ot of the company and go to Ka narra iron county and help build up that village the rest of 0 the tha company were allowed to go to their former homes in the dixie settlements elsewhere th roundy company got to the tha second of july just in time to celebrate the fourth ot of july that fall all president snow took L W roundy to salt lake city and ordained him bishop of Ka Ha narra which position he held until may hay 27 1876 when he was drowned la in the colorado river in 1872 the author 0 of this sketch was waa married to william heber roundy and with her husband and his brother byron returned to upper kanab where permanent homes were established I 1 still tool feel that I 1 am a pioneer ot of tile the ka kanab ila b S stake tak 0 of zion MALINDA PARKER ROUNDY |