| Show MORE to J R E 0 OF F OUR W UK T W WORTHY aff Y PIONEERS r h I 1 IPA J JK im S MA THE PIONEER MOTHER we present above the hie kindly benevolent features of mrs bethiah wells the pioneer mother of box elder county lit in march 1851 mrs rs wells well and her ter husband lyman D wells in connection with jonathan S wells samuel madiam wife and two children john M N mccreary cCreary NI wife and child moved up from O ogden oden I 1 den to lo find a home in box elder county they settled on oil willow creek and immediately began the struggle which is terminating so gloriously in making box elder one of the most fruitful and desirable in all the world mrs wells was born in oakland oakland county michigan in 1831 to elijah and bethiah fordham it was wa s lier ter father it will mill be remembered who built the wooden oxen in the nauvoo templo temple and who abbo is associated with the events of early mormon history lie ire was quite closely associated with the lie prophet joseph smith and he it was upon whom NN the remarkable healing caling li 7 manifestation afi so well weil known in ill church history was made in commerce mrs ir s wells as a young girl was present at the time and recalls with great vividness the incidents of the occasion and bears fervent testimony of the miraculous power manifested slie she has gone through many and varied experiences which she has borne with great equanimity and is able to present us its today the lie tender cheerful womanly countenance represented above site she has ha s borne nine children four of whom are arc still living to lionor honor and reverence mother wa 14 T t ii P I 1 MARTIN L ENSIGN tried tested and proven lq Is martin artin Nl ii ensign faithful loyal and true a kind husband a loving father anti and a devoted follower of christ lie ile has not cared greatly for the treasures of life but lias has h kept hept ept constantly in view the things that count tor for most in the plan of eternal salvation A L typical home man luan one who loves his hig home hoine and family and whose ambition has been to rear an honorable family in this lie he has been remarkably successful anil and lie ho lias has now a numerous posterity to call him blessed mr ensign was lorn born in westfield IIa Ira roden inden county sets march 11 1821 1921 and bons eons is fr now biow in h IDS year ric ile ind ili his family ame t tj brigham in ls Is ibo twenty families here living in the fort of those living here then mrs susannah Sus aDnah boothe is tile the only surviving member in brigham consequently mr ensign and his wife are the next oldest of brig liams hams pioneers in connection all the older settlers he endured many hardships and priva lions which seemed only to strengthen and purify his nature in 1858 although lie was in very straitened circumstances lie accepted a call for a mission to england although lie he left his wife and children with avith hut but twenty pounds of flour in the house lie left with the lie full assurance that the merciful father whom lie served would provide for him and liis his family and that all would b be well with them this great faith and devotion to his religion his has been hi highly bly characteristic or of his life and whatever lie has been called to do lie he has done with no thought I 1 it of it being a personal sacrifice but lit with the idea that it was in an opportunity and add a 1 blessing to be called into tile the service of his all master allster ster I 1 JONAH MATHIAS lit in july 1843 there was horn born in south wales a boy whom we ave ire are delighted to lionor honor today is as another of brighams Brig hams grand and noble pioneers li 11 onest ODeSt industrious arious steadfast trustworthy loyal and god fearing is jonah 11 malhias athias when vh n the boy was six years old id lie emigrated with his parents to america crossed tile the plains with the liand cart eart company in 1852 spent his ili first winter at farmington and the next spring came to brigham city where lie he lias has since resided the family joined the halt half dozen other families then living t in fu the old fort in the northwestern part of town when the city was laid out in 1851 5 the family moved out into the southwestern part of the city where mr mathas father thomas mathias built the first lo 10 log house constructed outside the fort on this block mr mathias has since lived and his comfortable home tome surroundings toda today y preach louder than words the blessedness of building a home and staying with it to spend a half century or more on a little spot of ground called home is to appreciate the full significance of the word for sacred memories attach to every shrub and tree and inch of soil surrounding mr mathias Mat bias home tome is a magnificent row of box elder shade trees among the oldest in brigham which lie he carried down front from the canyons on ili his back when they were saplings anti and planted here to plant to water to care forand for and to watch grow makes one feel fee that lie he antl and god are arc working to gether his is the thought that has bas predominated in tile the life of mr mahia s many a time perhaps when th tho frost has bas nipped ins props aps ops and blighted his big hopes hope J j horst hor st if hp has experienced moments of dige discouragement oura ement but these were hilt temporary anti and lie lis it ms set to work again erdinc fir arini in i v rv id I 1 ali hr h r ia aim m crofit unta lint the tu in v id 11 in r v iri in arf farst st 10 nal nfl 1 1 stayed and man mail would have such doi dominion ninion as to enable lint to raise whatever fruits grains and vegetables lie hu desired ile he feels that lie has indeed seen the land hand of god in the tempering of tin the elements and in the education of man mail so that man and nature havi come to work harmoniously together in the production of our bounteous harvests mr air mathias has been a very active and energetic man the only kind of 0 value in genuine pioneer ing work three times limes lie he crossed the plains for immigrants and for many years lie was an active member of the territorial militia of minute men a met member indeed during the entire life of the organization ile he has been also during liis his entire life a consistent anti and devoted latter day saint and lias has filled many positions of trust both in civil wild and ecclesiastical affairs ile he lias has IL a bright native active mind and is chock full of most i interesting lite resting C reminiscences of brighams Brig hams early days As lie he is now dow but lit 67 years of age and in splendid health we have every reason to believe eliat th it lie he will yet spend many ciany fruitful years and amon among other filter 0 good works for which we ave shall hall look we ave expect him to be one of the sources from which much authentic material concerning t bri hanis growth crowth and history will be derived when the historian if comes to give our fair city her 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