Show FRIENDS HONORm HONOR MRS nH 0 VI PEERY PEER Recalls Pioneer Hardships On Birthday Anniversary Thursday marked 1 the tho th e arrival l are vaI oi of 01 tile first eighty-first milestone In tho th life ot of o Mrs Irs David Henr Henry ole ot of Utah's pioneer and an ot of D H If reer who a was naone ODe of Ogden Ogden's foremost and business men I Throughout tho rho afternoon many man I of ol lier lter friends visited her In th and 1 her congratulations J Peery tery congratulations The day and andt nd t ping was spent In the happy Y asso asso- e IOnS members of hr hOr farm farmand t rind and many pioneer whom sli alF d known for years ear FamilY I birthday din enjoyed a Q r M-r tr with liar her Ier In the evening I i excel nt Mrs Pecry ler appears In health despite des pile her 81 rs el app the day da f lI n 1 Peery Is of ot the fast fast- j 1 Mr ra Ianda jot bunds-jot of pioneers who wi wic In InI ino tho rho plains to Utah came c unc a ross rosa suffered early days das and who I o Sir Sh and nd ie e hardships I with an nn team ox-team convoy 1111 In Inthe the e summer of 1864 18 H after ant I nearly x months month of ot arduous travel f Peery P ery was born January 13 16 at t Nauvoo III and when tree ire ee months of ot age ag ns was taken by to 10 Council Bluffs to- to toI bar sr r parents ither with L-D L L D S church mems mem- mem Food thence its 15 s and cam her parentI parents came scarce and en Burka Burk Garden Carden I ben ren located In w Mr Mrs Ferry spent Belt her da days she left Vir On March 30 SO 1864 nil with her ber mother and broth broth- broth l i and lister and nd joined al an ox ost bound for tor Utah t am convoy viti Henry reer who wl had mar mar- mard mar r marl Peery In Vir- Vir Ir-i Ir ed l d a sister lister of Mrs Ir nl but whose w wife had died died v ith hh th the arrival al ot of o their first also a a member me of ot the ild lid was I rt bound for tor Utah t nOD In nS s t They traveled tra to Omaha after Jj 1 ving been set upon by robbers which they managed od to save 1 Ir horses and nu 1 money Six oz ox t m ma and end three wagons made up ir party In addition to tour four other other t ons belonging to Sam WIlliams slid d his family They followed the dd d Mormon trail after leaving Fort Kearney Kearne Neb eb and In theL the L lack Hills came camo Into contact with roux Joux Indians Trouble started when hen Oscar Harmon a brother who wa was a practical joker laughingly IY told ti-o ti two Indians that he would trade daughter o ot of Captain Pritchett commander of ot the train for two horses h after Iter the Indians had or of- of offered ot-f ot red to buy her bel i INDIAN X TROUBLES The Indians soon arrived cd th the horses horse and after they discovered ered erd that the proposed deal was as hut but a joke they were angry and th there re was difficulty In getting rl rid 1 next day the In- In Ind Indiana W o of them The A UV v diana d ns tried to stampede stamped the horses hors s sap ap aid jid 1 one of the young nan men with lIh an nn arrow The convoy was fired upon of often of- of often ten In the days that followed and It ft was necessary to organize with other her freighters and stand guard guarda a ate all times until the party had bad nearly reached Utah One day the emigrants sudden suddenly saw aw Indians mounted upon horses and wearing war paint dash down down upon them from the hills The wagons were thrown into a II circle and preparations made to fight tight It was Il a great greot re- re re relict for tho emigrants to find that the Indians were and friendly to the whites but at war with the Sioux and looking for them to give battle During the trip across the plains Mrs Peery cooked cooked- for tor the men and joine joined 1 with Ith other women In inthe inthe tle the convoy con In casting bullets The women omen alternated alternated In riding upon tile the big bic wagons and walking One of ot the joys jOS of ot the trip came when the band reached reachel Echo canyon can can- canyon yon on and a peddler from Salt Lake appeared onions and pota- pota potatoes potatoes toes The Thc trin-elers trin travelers ato ate onions like they were ere apples apple apples so overjoyed were wre were they thy they to obtain fresh vege- vege vegetables vegetables tables During the trip there had been no fresh meat ment killed and the food was dr dry Arriving In Salt Lak Laki Lake August 31 31 1864 1 the ho emigrants camped on Emigration square During part of the next win winter Mrs Peery and members of the family were quartered tHe 1 at Midway ay In Provo Prove valley alley Later the they went to Cottonwood where here D H Peery was teaching school Mrs Peery was married at Hole Hole- what what Is now on on April 10 1865 by Elder Winlow Wins Wins- Winslow Winslow low Farr zarr father of o Winslow Lorin and Aaron Farr of o Ogden OGDEN 1 IN IX 1866 1666 That summer ummer they were visited by John C Thompson and his hie wife from and they In- In Invited Invited them to come to Ogden Mr and Mrs Peery mo mowed mo cd to co county nt- nt In the fall tall of 1866 and Mr Peery became the partner of ot Mrs Mr Thompson In the operation of o a 1 machine Later Mr Peery was appointed general man man- manager manager nger ager of ot the Z 2 0 O M I 1 store when it it was opened In Ogden Ofden and then began h his hi business career which made him one of ot Ogden Ogden's foremost builders and business men |