Show t FIRST PLOWED By HEBER J. SESSIONS As I passed along Second West street and Second North in Bountiful a few days I observed the progress on the construction of the two ward IT brought back many memories of my boyhood days as this is the site of my father Sessions original family home and First I quote from the best and most accurate that this chapel WHEN father first arrived in Bountiful he found a small spring of water at the junction of Big Hollow from the south and a hollow from the east and a grove of cottonwood The Rock Cornia barn now standing is on the north slope of the Father's first effort was to dig into tiie west building a dugout with cottonwood grass and dirt for with roof and animal hide for a This served for family shelter until other provisions could be USING a stump of a he for their water This spring continued until flowing wells in West Bountiful drew the supply source The new Bountiful ward now taking shape at North is the site of the first plowed ground in After building the shelter he made effort to plow and From all accurate information available the first land plowed was where this chapel will FATHER'S property was bounded by the present Third First Second Fourth West and to Third My memory is clear about the fruit orchards that Big orchard was south to what became grandmother Patty MY mother's home was of this to Second and East of Second West to First East was divided later as home sites and garden plots for other members of the The apartment house on the corner of Second North and Second West is on the site of the Sessions Molasses Immediately south of this was the old Sessions A family motel for the traveler and post I HAVE kept within accurate quotations as far as available and now suggest it as history in relation to the new |