Show First Settler Of Bountiful are SESSIONS excerpts of He was a true the pioneering was spelled with To analyze and iS a your building S remain 1 for l others to en-l iER f into this his entire was was to 1814 in David Z S early was THE entire family were diligent religious searchers for He was converted to the gospel of the Latter-day Saints church in July 1834 and soon began moving west which brought him to Farr West then back to where he became one of the body guards to the prophet Joseph It is quoted in his diary that he received a coat of tar and feathers intended for the prophet and it was a good When the saints were driven from Nauvoo he the river on the ice and his wife Julia Ann died and he was forced back for her Me then continued on to Winter WHEN THE western trek over the prairies was being organized he received an as- as captain over 50 men to go ahead and kill buffalo and other wild game and lower the meat into wells they dug so following companies would have meal to This delayed his arrival in Salt Lake with Brigham Young's first but he arrived September The following day he rode a horse to what is now Bountiful and found plenty of feed and water for livestock and After reporting to Brigham Young what he he returned September HIS first home was a dugout in the bank of Big Hollow where now is West and 2nd His home was made of grass and dirt with an animal hide for a His efforts then were to plow and Log houses were built the following winter and These log houses were later converted to weaving rooms for family and community needs after substantial homes were built for his it is recorded he made the first wagon and plow tracks north of Salt Lake THIS area was known as Sessions Settlement for several years until at a conference Brigham Young commented on the crops and Father arose and suggested the name be changed to Bountiful which was accepted and made The following spring other pioneers followed and soon settlements were established In other locations throughout what is now Davis IN addition to establishing his own family he SESSIONS made six round trips to Winter Quarters to assist other families to A feature to this effort was that the Put man family moved into my mother's home which had Just been and they lived there until the following spring when father gave them a team and wagon and a cow and started them for settlement of the Utah AS conditions developed members of his own family joined in pioneering several locations in southern northern Utah and Star Wyo later Big Horn His great ambition was to cooperate in establishing industries to handle the agricultural products of the He promoted the first fruit projects including seeds planted for trees in his own He first brought plum from Maine to produce the Sessions plum some of these are still found throughout the HE built and operated a saw mill in Mill Creek He also built a blacksmith He and operated a molasses mill to handle the community sugar He established the first threshing machine for community This threshing machine was operated by a two horse tread mill for He had a hobby of trapping bears in Mill Creek and Holbrook The between is still called Sessions Home fuel was logs brought from mountains mostly by drag His generosity with the Indians kept them always FATHER'S entire 55 children spent their early life under this pioneering plan of life in The large two story adobe home was a center of family Five of these mothers Jived together as sisters until suitable homes were built for each Prayer always the family theme with cooperation and work and family love-as the guiding Half brothers or sisters were never Always they were certain sons or FATHER spent 15 years missionary work traveling over Two years spent in His family has always been cooperative with whatever community they have lived I |