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Show Lakeside Review, Wednesday, November 13, 1985, 7D rmington .CHERYL ARCHIBALD 400 churchgoers...taller folks had to sorta clutch their legs under the front benches, wrote Mrs. 'Review start ' FARMINGTON Before the Rock Chapel was Hess. built, local LDS Church meetings The 40- - by building had were held in the upper room of two vestries built on the east side. the first Davis County Court- The y annex had a vestry house. upstairs and one down and potBut construction on the chapel bellied stove in each. The rooms began in 1861 and was finished were for classes and priesthood in; 1862 under the supervision of and bishops council meetings. Brigham Young. Young girls had the jobs of The 160 families living in Far- cleaning the potbellied stoves, mington, then called North Cot- filling the lamps and cleaning the tonwood, hauled rocks, gravel chimneys. and sand from the foothills. A large hallway was the library, Wood was gathered from Farwith cupboards along the walls mington Canyon or was donated for books, and a door at each end by the people. of the hall. In My History, the history of By the little stairs was a little Farmington written by Margaret white room called the Prayer Steed Hess, Mrs. Hess tells the Room. It was very sacred to all of . ,. story of the church building. us," wrote Mrs. Hess. ; ;1 . . When they started the meetw . At the east end of the building inghouse there was only $12 in was a padded velvet rostrum with cash among all the pioneers, but tassels enclosed in a carved ballisthey were willing to put every- ter. J, ?;'-thing they had into the House of It was in this building that the the Lord. They held a prayer cirPrimary organization of the LDS v vjrA.4wit.tfSr4 cle to ask the Lord what to do. Church for children was institut?After a bad storm, there was a ed. landslide that brought down all Mrs. Hess wrote, for every fuf She sand and rock they needed, neral in the chapel, dear little br-HvMjjjhey felt it was a provisional act Emily Walker would decorate the h ,4 m i j ti"Ti of the Lord. This was a real char- banister and pulpit with a ,, , T fVi rlovely acter builder, Mrs. Hess wrote. HI pwhite crepe material. One time 1 ij ; f' Total cost of the building was she neglected to take it down and M lO; & I ' t $15,000. 4 that night a program was held Most of the work on the rock there. One man stood f up in front chapel was done by volunteers. of the rostrum and said, Id like ' 'Women in the Relief Society to know who is dead in here, and ' ' Al CvV I J ; a t s cooked and served meals for the why this stuff hasnt been re.:..'h k. ?T- 'men and boys who laid rock. moved. I dont think it was ever .& .. ' " rt. y. Even small boys helped by carry-in- g forgotten again. . In '"1 'i' '?if ' J water. AChairs for the chapel were cushfSt. ' r - However, some carpenters and ioned with red velvet made by 'fiiasons were paid a wage. the Relief Society. . j ? An English stone mason, In those days the sacrament wa'Charles Bourne, and carpenters ter was passed from hand to hand 'Morgan L. Hinman of Massachin a tall silver cup with large hanHistoric Rock Chapel in Farmington was built in 1862 under the supervision of LDS Church leader Brigham Young. usetts and James Leithead of Sco- dles. Mrs. Hess sat in church tland supervised construction. once next to a man whose musadd 15 classrooms and imake took turns pumping. pel. They were cleaned and filled when Orin , Wilcox, janitor, -- The foundation has lasted 115 tache was stained with tobacco One time the choir and conevery Friday or Saturday so the burned Christmas tree boughs in changes in the chapel. years, and yet it was not layed in juice. were and the gregation wicks would bum evenly and not the stove. A bucket brigade was singing In this sacred building there the ground, but over it. Heavy I took my handkerchief and boy who was supposed to be blacken the called. I, Margaret Steed, sat in was glass sides. ' timber, laid flat, supported two, carefully wiped the cup before speaking in tongues and the pump forgot to keep up with his the shade and watched it all, three-fowalls. A wood interpretation of tongues, prophefrom it. He gave me He work and stood looking around. burning potbellied Mrs. Hess wrote. - A good solid floor was full of drinking the in middle the of stove cies, wonderful testimonies, healchapel gave me a dirty look and from The organist folded her hands in center the those knots, but well laid, Mrs. Hess then on I was more particular of and looked ings, confessions and forgiveness sitting kept adLater, as Farmington grew, disgusted, but the rethe Those hot. at edges .'report says. sitting who I sat by in church." ditions were made, again through of sins, etc., and many children singing went on uninterrupted," Inside the chapel, roughly mained cold. A hand pumped organ was inreceived their early religious Mrs. Hess said. volunteer efforts and donations. low benches seated about stalled behind the choir and Coal oil chandeliers lit the cha The roof was set afire once In 1941 $76,616.44 was spent to training here," Mrs. Hess wrote. boys -- Farmington 60-fo- ot two-stor- - r. - -- .... - . 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