| Show A PlOiMRS LIFE CoHtmutJ from page mint slock fiom chance of being ttimpcdfd by lime wily Indian Earl in July he party arnvtlat Fort IIlIdjr where they met with vry dlscctiravmg tepoits h rtiirlto I SIlt Lake valley a point towards to-wards which thsj wire now aiming One old trapper ard mountaineer ngeea to gie a thiusmd dollars lor ill first ear ol corn railed in lint I valley feeling sure tint note ci u d be produce Jin that desolate sandy waste At Green River Samuel flrannin u 10 ha lie I I a company nl l Mormons to GUI fornla by way ef Cape lord mt the advance part a d true d his hi t co per shade tl e leaders to push on to CMIoi ntawhtrahe was making n nor to loco e hit pill In the spleen age culiuril va Icy ui UK Sin Jmq iln But Tie ident Yung would not near lo any lMiiit in 1 lib plus A ler a terrible imizgle of a out twin y iavrthe pi > lecis got through the mat terrible rage 01 l moan ain east ol But Lake having in many places to clear the timber and cut t roads t trough ot cruise I impassible l plans arriving in Salt Lake valley one on-e J4th hy o July Immdutely or on in sam di par Us I were set to work at plowing and potatoes peas bens md a hew other vegtabhs were plant d tight on the pot where the Giant cl y ol Salt Lake now stand tin season being tool far I gone for other harm products ol ilowrr growth to mature elore winter et In Mr Ueiler with torn others turned upon their trail lo meet ani I bring on their lam Ha + who were hollowing all o nil m arrived ar-rived In the valley about the last ol October Oc-tober In the all ol 188 President Wing proposed a plan for a dnum s ef my and liming lots which p ovd sails factory to al and a suhble partition w s made In the same year Mr Weiler built a house of adobes making the must ol them himell and doing must of the carpenter work Ihis was a 16 by t5 oot house I on his city lot Having thus located his faro y Mr IVelcr turned his attention to urmlng a b SIne SI-ne with which lit was fimlar and his line followed 1 with very good success In the summer ol 1854 hall Lake alley uae vlSitd by a great pet In the shape of immerse swarms of grasshoppers lhir des rayed r nil sor the wheat jots j-ots Mr Welter concluded 13 plant some corn late as It ws in hope the pet might past over before it sprouted Atr hiving finished phnting this crop Mr Ueiler says lie knelt down and ar ntstly pr yeti God to protect It from harm tint lir mljht i have food for Ills little ones He never raised such a rrop before or snce on I tint the demand for it was such tint he cou d have sold every grain at < 5 a busbe bu feeling that he would nut bs ju tified in asking llh aa exorbt nt pries toll it out to neig rhoes in accord nice with their sat s-at jl solo foo per luhel I The gnld fever creaking out in Cal lornh in 1850 was of very considerable advantage lo the Mormons ol Salt Like City It opened upn ae ire entgralin through their country bait Lakj City becoming a kind of wav itation where exchanges ol needed supplies from the Lait could be nude for food requited for trains going go-ing through to the 1aciflc coast which of course added murh to the early pros petty 01 the city ol Saints On October list liijo Mr Weiler was ordained a High 1tiest I the Church at the hands ol llishop nUard Hunter and il the winter 1857 he was ordained Ilishop 10 preside over the Ililid Ward bat I Lane which once he hela until the close of hU file In Ihe autumn of 1857 he married Elizabeth McElriy Punter a widow hiving ho daughters one six and the other four years of age In Ihe fall ol 1858 her son Jacob Leo Weiler was burn who lived to be but file years otC age rcltn the spring I of iSjS the whole Church n ItS5 Church moved out of fault Like val ey on account of the threatening aspect of the United States army sent to their neighborhood Mr Weiler moved his fitinly and per onal possessions into U ah valley about 50 miles soulh where they lemaineJ until September when they returned the threatened dilliulties with the governmtm hav ng ill the meantime been settled wilhout bloodshed blood-shed In 1S56 Anna Mina his first wife alter a long lines t borne with Ciinstian patience and resignation passed away In ib6S he manned Harriet Har-riet Smith BellewooJ The result of this marriage was a iiiuehier Hiiritt hcrn In N vcmber 1819 In Novell her 1869 he and his wife Elizabeth made an extended visit t n Imiens I and relatives in the lat not having teen them for tinny years lie spoke of hating been tnatd by them with con ilJtralioi and kindness and great respect re-spect uih only a very few exceptions by those who duigreed with him in re llglOUS view On returning home in March 1870 he bind IIH uife llainet quite ill She lingered along mill July wncn she died her little girl following her the next month In Set ember lSSa Mr Wtilcr with Im wie Elizabeth cloned on a still more extended tilj to the East listing some lour months during when he visited a brother James Uiler n bou hrn Kansas Again June 63S the laciliius for easy and mfjrlible t travel if having really l incieised and Mr We lets increasing age Invin induced him lo withdraw from the mace art uuut dunes cf he with an issured Income that warranted him in taken his case he will dirt Ehibe h Wei i cr again tint d for ihe Eastern States on a social vslt In 1891 he speaks 01 his trip be log veiy tnoyabli saying that Al thoigi many ol our old friends hid pas d I awy and great chanes lia J oc curled wherever we went yet we wire cordially met aid kindly treated by all Time bend to be a change in the mlnjb slid hearts 01 maiy toward us and our Church atd people and they eru di po = ed lo trea uinutas cutrastt as was too aunt ih I case herttof re We hid IritiUs in eight dill creed States and greatly enjoyed iluiraocitiv and in imttfd klidnw and especially so in niliddihla and WCS Chester aid we now ofici thn k cf ths vLlt with much sail fiction end wish we could live It over again but I dj note not-e able to underlain so log a journey aynin i In 1885 the writer visited Mr Wtller and Ins good wife Mr i > Weiler at their plosant home la bait Lake City A kindly welcome greeted us a Ge tin hitevcr this p nets of their Church their nll ioj seem d to le love and 1iudnest towards these felon beihgt and had ore to do gjod and live tightly to the be t of theca ablllly In the sight ol the blessed Master A b |
