Show MRS DUZETTE march at an I 1 have seen een nothing recently from this part of faraway dixie I 1 thought I 1 would write a few item of pioneer history to abo many aroy readers reader of the NEWL I 1 am the daughter of samuel ewing the third child of a famIlY Of nine DIDO children I 1 we wa born bora may 81 1838 1833 in lancaster county penn little britain township I 1 I 1 was waa 18 yeara of age whom we crowed crossed the we were lu jedediah Jed edlah M branti brother noble Nobl ells hayes hayea aou and 10 we burled buried my mother fifteen miles mile this side aide of laramie she ene was the first white woman of the latt erday gospel who laid allu down her life in seeking freedom in that journey and will no ao doubt be cumb ri ered with who the martyn we prepared her for her lost resting place the best beat that our limited favill bacill ties tie would allow we wrapped her in a quilt and having nothing with which to make a conlo coffin we laid her in a deep vault dug in a deeper grave sawed the table up to cover the vault then filled the grave with rocks brush and earth to prevent the he prairie wolves from disturbing all that was waa earthly of our dear loved one then we left her in her eold cold and lonely resting place to continue our lad and and lonely journey with heavy bearta beara and weary apepe leaving it seemed halt hall our oar life and all its it sweetness behind us as our oar feelings fee linga can better be imagined than described it was waa a scene that beggars beggan description but ucb such things were endured with the best beat possible grace all for we be love lore of the truth surely such auch suffering buffering will not go and a time come when we rejoice for all the bardt hips we have endured for the gospel and even now we are proud to know knew that we are counted worthy to boffer for him who laid down his hi life lor for Us out our long lonely and tedious jour ney terminated october 7 1847 when our eyes ayea rested on the valley of 01 the great salt bait laks lake As an soon BOOB as aa we had rested a day or two father began making ad and on christmas Chri atmaa day we moved into a small mall room built by fathera father a own hands hande antho IB the spring pring he planted his hia grain but it responded more than was waa inquired of its it lor for it oame came up twice leaving us ua with no broad bread tor for grain that cornea comes up twice la Is rarely harvested d the crickets cricket assisted aa its if second coming up and it if it had bad not been for the great whito winged gulls gulli I 1 lost fear the story atory of the pioneers Pion eera would never have been told but bat divine aid car interposed in out our behalf at that ume time la in the biform form ot of be beautified white gulls guile in ia preserving prea erving us ui from famine with all its ita horrors hor rora but where when they oboy came from and where they went to I 1 think la 14 a matter of conjecture I 1 WM was food fond of standing tandl ng in our door and watching the gulls gulla those woman gets gera of deliverance aligns align in the fields field of grain and gorge themselves thema elvea ben ban ily fly to the bench and disgorge dla gorge then return to the fields fielda and repeat repast the operation which they bey continued doing till the crickets retired from the scene of bottesi Bott efi and ceased to the grain but the indiana ever ready to in crease their stock alok of provisions provi alona and not overly particular from what hoarce ho a portion of the great array of 01 crickets as aa food what they hey could not use cue treah fresh they dried ground them in a coffee will mill when they could got get one often tried to got get our the ground driz dried crickets serving an aa weal meal or flour and service berries crua crus beO boO waltr or milk oaken were made from this sub ab danee and baked in she be sun un these they tried to dispose of to the he hall half famished fam libed pioneers pion eera for broad bread we were also alao among the first to move to provo we benad had live five bushels of corn which father bought of peregrine sessions Soa alana that did duty as ai broad bread till the next harvest barvett bar veat out our principal food consisted oon of flab fish milk and cheese por for three months montha we ate our breakfast dinner and minus nice beautiful warm biscuit and aad butter indeed I 1 think we would willit gly have paid one dollar tor for one and 1 doubt if we could have obtained out one sot lot that I 1 have seen my father go to his hia work many maey a time reeling for want of laou we not only suffered privations tor for the lack of food and shelter but from hostile indiana Indians when we retired at night we were in doubt an aa to being able to find and our scalps in their proper places in the morning but we endured and lived through it all in 1862 1 I was waa married to edward P duzette the great and famous drum mer of joseph joeeph smithy time I 1 doubt it if his bia equal an aa a hammer was wai or Is ie found kinoe nee the first farat musical entertainment was formed after the creation he was certainly a master maiter hand wibb the drum he was one of the prophet prophete Prop bete true friends frienda a as well as ai his hia favorite drummer soon after we came to dixie dixieland and were weri among the first to subdue this wild and forbidden deserts where it tests the faith of evens even a saint also alo the strength and health and he not being very tory strong the privations he suffered ered his bia health and aad on the of december 1875 he left the trials trial of this life to enjoy the toward reward prepared tor for the faithful in the next since which time I 1 have lived in ID widowhood and fought the battle ot of life alone I 1 have bays in my possession pou eion now BOW the word sword that the he prophet gave to him in he sold old the drum to lo cyrus jennings Jenn ingi who lives taylor in arts aril there Is much more I 1 could tell but I 1 think this is sufficient I 1 have a sister later living la in castle gaathje valley warrion to miles miller one of the hat battalion tallon boys boya also alao one in provo who la Is married to robert hill MABY A |