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Show Dal ley recalls history of Summit I permanent location to Summit. Also in 1859, the few families there, wrote to President Brigham Young stating a need for more people. They wrote they would provide the new colonizers with 160 acres of land and the waters of the creek for irrigation j each Friday. This section of the i Summit Field is still spoken of as f the Friday Section and one sixth j of the water supply is still bought and sold as the Friday Share. ' Some of the colonizers who answered an-swered Brigham Young's call were the Aliens, the Whites and the Winns. A history of Summit would not be complete without including j Sylvanus Cyrus Hulet. He and his wife, Catherine. Stoker, were driven from their Missouri-Illinois Missouri-Illinois home and followed the saints to Utah. They were called from their productive farm in Springville, Utah, to help St. George in 1801 . Prior to 1872, Mr. Hulet had purchased land in Summit and as a result he tried to run both pla es. Finally in 1872 he moved his family to Summit. The Hulets built the first brick home in Summit--you may see this splendid structure today as it is standing on the north side of the street towards the western part of town. Jean Hendrickson Inoframtion taken from the History of Summit by H. Dalley and others. The area surrounding Summit Creek had been used as a herding ground for the herds of cattle and horses brought into the valley by the pioneers. A block house had been erected for the herders to use in case of an Indian attack. But the Walker War threatened their safety and the herders would not stay there so isolated from the Community. Thus the herding ground was deserted. The San Bernardino Company had planned to make a stop over at Parowan while its leaders, Apostles Charles C. Rich, Parley P. Pratt and Amassa Lyman met and conferenced with Apostle George A. Smith who Was in charge of the group that had settled Parowan. But the Sari Bernadino Company had so many animals with their party that there was not sufficient feed for them in Parowan. They then traveled on to Summit Creek where there was feed for the livestock. This "happened sometime between the time the herding ground was abandoned and the year of 1856. A baby girl was born in the Summit Creek area while the San Bernardino party was there. This was the first white child born in the Summit Creek area. But when the company had to continue con-tinue on three wagons were left to stay until the mother was strong enough for the journey. However, the father of the newly born child worried lest they become separated from the main company and so began traveling. The little mother was too fragile and died when they reached Cedar Valley. According to Dr. William R. Palmer, noted Southern Utah historian, she was the first white person to die in Iron County, lie reported the family name was probably Collett or Swartout. The little mother was taken kick to the settlement of Parowan for burial. She was buried in a coffin made of the lumber of the wagon which had served as the birthplace bir-thplace of New Samuel Whitney. She was buried outside the fort, in the northwest part of town in the place known as The Cedars. With Elder Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards presiding, a Parowan Stake Conference held in Cedar City, November 21, 185U, directions were given to found a settlement at Summit Creek. However, troublesome Indians detered settlement for several years. Because of its altitude, being six thousand one hundred thirty feet above Sea Level, Summit has its name. It is located on the talus apron built up by Summit Creek. It is said to have the highest elevation of any town along U.S. 91 in Utah. Samuel T. Orton, a native of Carlton, Hill, Nottinghamshire, England, who had come to Utah in 1856, was the first person to make his home in Summit. He lived there in 1857, living in a dugout for the first winter. Other men joined Samuel T. Orton in the spring of 1858, taking up ten acre farms. Labon Worrell was the first to break ground at Summit. "One day Samuel T. Orton was plowing a field where the Summit cemetery is now located. It was on an Indian burial mound. His oxen stopped suddenly, sud-denly, and all his coaxing and whipping were to no avail. He finally unhitched and went home. The next day he started again, but when the oxen reached the same spot they stopped again. No type of persuasion could get them to go on. On the third day he hitched up to plow again, determined that nothing could keep him from his work, but when he approached the spot where the oxen had stopped and refused to go on the two previous days, they stopped a third time. Samuel was very provoked by this time so he proceeded to lead the oxen past the spot. He was greatly surprised when he beheld a great battlefield with the Lamanites. Samuel was convinced con-vinced he was standing on the battleground where they had fought, a great battle. After the vision had passed, the oxen plodded on without further trouble" (History of Summit by II. Dalley) William and James Dalley had wanted to settle in Summit earlier, but had been disturbed by the Indians and so had their families living at Johnson's Fort. It was the spring of 1859 when they moved their families for |