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Show B icgrB ply cf Sylvester Low Jn v- I i ; . .V ( s . . ' ;- . That future generations may know something of my life, my associates, experiences in lifes labors, Civic and religions I set forth to assemble them together in this stcry of my life, they have been profitable to me, and I hope they may be of value to my posterity; My Guides through life have been: 1st-' My Mother, 2nd- My Wife Lillian, to whom I was sealed for Time and Eternity Etern-ity the Mother of my children, who was taken from me by death shortjy after her mission as a Mother in Israel was finished, 3rd- To Margaret Griffiths to -whom I was married for time only, a companionship mariage that' to both was congenial and Oiappy. I was born in Providence Cache Co. . Utah . Dec. 22, . 1862 Son of Sylvester' and Ann Allen Paton Low, in a log house with a dirt root and no floor, with a piece' of sheeting for a window and a fire place to heat and cook My parents have, told me it was a very severe winter the snow very deep, and., extremely cold( In the fall of .1863, my parents with others were called to settle set-tle in Bear Lake Valley, they moved to Ovid 5 miles North of Paris, Idaho. Here they went through the hardships of pioneering pioneer-ing a new home, remaining there until August, 1S65: feeling tiiey could not face another winter in that dreary frost bitten Valley, their grain being frozen for the 2nd-year in succession, they loa(L ed their few belongings into theiB wagon, tied their remaining cow. behind the wagon, and headed for there former home in Providence Cache county, via Emigration canyon and mink creek. T'was on this journey that an Incident occure,d which is the first that I can vocall in 'my life There is a place in the Strawberry Straw-berry canyon that was difficult to pass, aisd a dugway was built called the "Danish Dugway" Steep to climb up and high on the montain side, one of the oxen hacked while going up, he layed down and refused to pull, it was a serious predicament, I remember remem-ber how anxious mother was, how serious father looked as he endeavored to persuade the ox to move, and yet feared that when h e did move it might be off the road and tip us down into the canyon, some travelers came SYLVESTER LOW JR. my nose sa ne on a bench and permitted me to remain until recess, re-cess, then seat me home to my mother. I received a common school education, my teachers were: Charles Wright, William A. Noble Sr. and Ellen Langton. Leaving school at the age of 14, having mastered reading, writing writ-ing and arithmetic. Spelling was more of virtue than grammer, the stU:Iy of which was just introduced int-roduced into the grade school curriculatiom as I quit school. Our, 4 roomed house we occupied occu-pied when the family had grown to young manhood, and woman hood. The home from which we all in the course of time swarmed swarm-ed out of, to build "A hive of our own." The impressions of home jnvironment, parental discipline, dis-cipline, horn ; teachings obedience to parents and honoring- the priesthood , enabled us to live in harmony and thus be happy family, 4 brothers and 6 sisters, father being engaged first as a miller, then as a clerk in the Coop store, we boys were deprived depri-ved of the privelege of his association as-sociation in out door life, as we grew older he fitted us out with a pair of mules, harness and wagon, with which we endeavored endeavor-ed to farm a little, go to the canyon for wood, do odd jobs, to help in the obtaining a livelihood (Continued on Page. Five) along and helped us up the hill. Years laijer I discribed this situation sit-uation to my parents and they verified it, I was then but three years., and 8 months old. In passing through Smithfield my father obtained employment in the grist mill as miller, he obtained ob-tained a city lot and built a home which became the permanent home of his family. Here on this lot my father built) three houses the first, a 1 room log, the 2nd 1 room log with a leanto, 3-rd i a i room frame house lath and plaster inside, and out, each ot kera marked an Epoch in my life. In the first home I had jny first Pir of shoes "copper toed," bought from the first store In Bmithfinid, owned by a ftenrard gold fo Eamuell Ros-tj Ros-tj and becme -the Coop stow. : It vai the loss of these shoes tht burned into my sonl, more than the joy of having them, for they were "Utterly burned." It was a -winter day and snowing, when I got them, and I must waded In the snow most of the day for when I removed theta from my feet they were like wet sponge, so I quietly slipped them into the oven tjo dry and next morning father an early riser made the fire, and went to attend at-tend outside chores and of course t;he shoes were baked to a frazzle fraz-zle when discovered. My parents were poor and 1 pair of shoes : was all they could afford for each, per year, this wa.s also true in other pioneer families In the early days. I think I was man grown before I could afford af-ford a pair of Sunday shoes. Our 2 roomed house was I where most of my young child- ' hood days were spent, and In which many of my sisters were born, also from its door I first trudged to school, my old teacher Charles Wright nsed to often tell that I came one morning having followed my older brother James y karrying unde my arm a ropy of -'The Scottish Chiefs." he wipd (HERB'S MORE ABOUT) Sylvester Low Jr, ( Continued from Page One) for the family I think maybe the venture was more of a debit than a credit. However, he later purchased pur-chased a pair of mares for us and and this probably helped to determine de-termine our future, brother Os and I, for he became a rancher and I & farmer. At the age of I 16 I was employed with my father in the High Creek flour mill for a short time, then I was employed by J. W. Hendricks to I work on his farm in Cove, in! July of the same year I went to Montana railroading, employed by Ricns and Hendricks Construction Constru-ction company, engaged in laying lay-ing track or the Utah Northern now O. S. L. Railroad, began work at Red Rock Montana remained re-mained with the 'company for 2 summers or until the line reached Silver Bow which ended their contract, then came home and en gaged in farming again. We had been successful in raising a few colts from mares father bought. So we now had some nice teams brother Os went railroading and 1 took care of the farm, the next 2 years which had increased in size by the school section coming com-ing into the use through lease, and father had 20 acres under Jease, also we had acquired the dry farm south east of Smith-field, Smith-field, also helped to widen the Logan and Richmond canal and acquired water stock, to furnish water for the school section land. (Continued next week.) |