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Show THE CENTERVILLE Page Four October, 1944 NEWSETTE GLIMPSES INSIDE THE SAGAMORE CAMP,D.U.P. PIONEER RELIC CABIN, WITH LOIS CLAYTON You may not have paid much attention to it, but we have one of the best relic cabins in the whole Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization and we have a fine col- lection of relics in it, too. Some of the things were imported, but many of them were made and used when Centerville was young and we think youd like to know about some of the things your grandparents and used. yellow roses surround the log and mortar cabin and give an atmosphere of days that deepens as you open the door and step inside. . . . great-grandparen- Old-fashion- ts ed by-go- ne and their children. Another book, owned by Elizabeth Drake Bellamy Roundy (1858 pioneer) has pictures of church authorities like many of the albums did in those days. Other familiar names apEliza pear in the third book Graves Rich, Mary Philips Rich, William Streeper, Amelia Richards Streeper. The little bible was given to Elizabeth K. Dalton, pioneer of 49, by Quincey Knowlton in San Francisco in 1848. The yarn flowers were given to Mary Jane S. Allen by her daughter, Ann Eliza, and what a lovely gift so much care went into the elaborately detailed flowers. kettles were brought across the plains, too. The little mother rocker in front of the fireplace looks comfortable and is. A woman could sit in it and peel vegetables or sew or knit while using her foot to gently rock the cradle, and Amelia Cherry Smith, who owned it, probably did so for many hours. The chair was owned by the Relief Society of that time it was given to them by Margaret Cherry. On the hearth is a dull, but curiously fashioned, piece of wood that looks entirely unfamiliar. Its a boot jack and was used by members of an early Centerville prayer circle to remove their boots before entering the prayer room. Beside it are a pair of boots (owned by Angus M. Cannon) that look as though they would need something to get them off. In the rafters above the fireplace is lodged a heavy wooden ox yoke. It looks like a big enough load for a team of oxen without adding anything more, but it was used on a team belonging to William II. Rice to haul timber from these canyons to build a mill race. Behind the cradle is a table on which are $ome odd gadgets used in the kitchen a chopping bowl used by the O. M. Deuel family and a chopping knife owned by Henry A. Cleveland. Good mincemeat was made a with these. A small time many old-fashion- ed for grinding cereals and spice (found in the town dump, by the way), wooden bowls, a butter mold are all there. And we couldnt miss mill the 7 year old Joan Sessions rocks dolls in old cradle Amelia owned by Cherry Smith, wife of Joan's great grandfather, William The table and the globe of yarn flowers catch your eye first. The leather-boun- d family albums and the fat little bible dont look so outstanding, but notice them again (perhaps many hours were spent entertaining friends with them) and see the pictures of early Centerville settlers Antoinette Cleveland and Philo Dibble, Nathan T. Porter and Rebecca A. Porter, John Adams and a family group Margaret D. and Samuel Rigby T IN w CARR PRINTINS CO.. BOUNTIFUL. UTAH wooden churn. This is just the beginning, we havent visited but a small part of the cabin so well be seeing you next month. R. homey-lookin- g Smith The rock fire place with its crude plank mantel and open heartli next draws your attention. It looks as tnough a roaring fire in it would make the cabin warm and cozy, but it was used for both heating and cooking and the cabin would be drafty and it would be no easy task to cook dinner in the big, heavy iron kettles hanging on the crane. Aaron Cherry brought the heavy fire tongs from his home in Kentucky in 1847 and some of the -- Lino Cut by CLEVELAND COOK |
