Show annie M hacking i uri annie M hacking one ot of the lery very early pioneers ot of ashley v valley alley observed her seventy third birthday last monday may 11 it I 1 is ajust just menty three years ago in 1803 when hen johnsons army livings came to utah all of the families living at cedar port fort moved to what whit li U now american furk so that the sold soldiers lers could camp at cedar valley mrs as folks had bad moved twice before became because of 0 indian uprisings and then the third time 0 of f the soldiers solda rs shortly after this third move mrs hacking was bom born in a agon being boing the fifth child sh ahr save savis tha many times they hsc bothi to eat it and would becom so hungry she could scarcely arcely u I 1 it corn bred ure id and milk acre ere their re trular rations shortly after her marriage to james hacking they moved to vernal vernot the trip required twenty da from october ath th to october this as in the fall fail of 1879 the road was nothing more fian than a mere trail they coba bosl co sl d te the cr crr k in daniel daniels canvy i ginty nue times t ev n mid ild drop a f tr ir as I 1 two a feet on oil ledges in the road uli hin ulin n they art ed rd nt at ci ct rent crek cr ek they taw saw a rr e pen si ill ft lai 1 11 in t ta s ai i old shiaw the T dear I 1 nd pd left thre ali re to die they et I 1 er out and gave her some food arriving near what hat Is now du chear rip they bere ere met by a man on horse back ho said that meeker had been killed by the in allans and his wife and daughter taken by them they ney dd did not A ant to turn back so they sent ent on an to vernal word was sent by brig brt ham young for tha the is settlers to tort fort up I clr ir and mrs I hacking built their hauso jast north of here the ashley coop co op now stands the house was fifteen by seventeen feel feet and had a dirt oot roof and floor all ali aring luring the first winter there were ere factory vin clows and a quilt door in the house ahn they came out they brought nouh food to last a year but I 1 many of the people did not have enough food to last during the s inter so they divided their ra voris until they were all III gone wren spring came all they had left was a some ome corn meal brought from colorado mrs hacking has been iery uthe in th chunh holding an of fice in the young ladles ladies retrench ment acl ty at the aee age of fourteen at wv enteen she became a teacher i in the sunday school wh h ome she held in cedar fort and vernal the maew aard ard ras as beor garil gabled zed and bishop carl lichens put in in 1850 1830 she was a bellet society teacher there ej ere re po io arda ards and her teachers strict cohered ten miles she always cov ered it usually walking the entire ten miles mr mir and mrs hacking racking celebrated their golden wedding anniversary just a year and a half hall before his death they ney had a family of thirteen children although mrs hacking has suffered from a broken leg she Is still able to g gt t around and Is a as 3 active as her health will permit |