Show NOTES OF STRANGE THINGS HELPER utah january jtb 1897 I 1 commenced the jurney j burney of life no vember ath 1819 was boro born in erie brie county pennsylvania dear the state line between pennsylvania and now new york the county was sparsely settled at that time in that region of country the people bad to make all their clothing and whatever they used in 1825 my father moved six miles west through burough a dense forest took a I 1 claim of oue hundred acres of land and commenced to clear and cultivate it and make a home the following year another family moved in and located two miles west of us ua fattier father and myself went to see our neighbors and the meeting was pleasing to all when meal time arrived we were in viled voted W 0 o lola join them and partake of their did it ure e which we willingly incredulous to some but would be I 1 will state the be fade facts their broad bread was mixed and baked in blocks of leh leech wood set before a fire the chief dish used was a trough ot of fallen tree out out and made smooth a piece of clean homemade home made linen spread over led across the log the top A cow was dish the cloth the and over placed the milking done acting as a a strainer carefully moved to one the cow was adde de broad bread was crumbel crumbed in and armed rilo odwith with wooden enjoyed n 11 excellent mea meal I 1 tho alt mill or beech slump out cut oversaw eriah wag waa a huge bilge in the center until burnt oft off on top and it t was of n t depth to form a 8 smoot smoothed bed out it was wab mortar theo then was waa used ae 98 a 1 pill and no a wooden pestle ve rizer this thie done s broad hoop alb JO was placed on it 8 buckskin back akin burnt koirat in ID it to let the slid od small weal meal through and train the hulls bulls wore ware several of us ex in 1826 there in the do denee nee forest Pl floring oring our place that measured elm tree there wa ives a big 29 feet feel in ila thai in the country was M the largest one tall and straight and ana it was va S wonder out to a wonderful lui ite it bra branc nobes bei spread this tree was a hollow bollow extent cloae lose by olt f depression dep relon in the earth probably over twenty in twelve feet deep and diameter curiosity led me to go down bittern I 1 was the to tolt IL when near biall b baab asti and as I 1 re to a boas leaflet ed my hold bold I 1 beard a sharp ring I 1 beban an to tug at the bush and adalid I 1 sound cona com ringing heard beard the game the looms leaves leave 1140 nood digging away land nd dl dirt rland and at a distance dia tance of two reel feet I 1 found a bell of ef a peculiar make as ae I 1 workman it wa blade by a master oval in shape no ight eight inches long weld vold or learn vi Bible bles had been brazed with a metal ippei on OB the be outside of an luch inch sod hd braw brass of time bad wast but we the lapse the bell was of 0 od d it to in ame game that AR not corroded when I 1 not got hold bold of the bell I 1 oom cow bened luenser to ring it my father AD those with him biln came to the place where I 1 fe foaud und lt it I 1 har took it and inspected it closely it was the he belt beat bell he had eve avei eon superior to those of 0 the present time the people wat that made it must have lived here long before the in I 1 n cisne alln inhabited this country thai bell was a marvel to 90 all who saw it or heard beard its tone it was wa kept in the thirty years and I 1 do family for over not net know what became of it after teaming learning of the e early inhabitants 0 our native amerl america Cs through the divinely inspired record the abe book bok of 0 mormon I 1 have often wished for an opportunity to via it the place I 1 hav dorl bed ibea and thoroughly explore it father cather sold bio bin place and moved to brie in 1880 these incident are all fresh in my mind and since thou then I 1 have gathered WADY many important items concerning the early inhabitants ol of this country all going to prove or give external evidence of the correctness td inspiration of that acord ballou is ie book of mormon J H VAN NATTA NATT A |