Show S sari aft juan utah by albert it lyman 24 that hole in the rock company was composed mainly 0 of men and women who had been called by the church from various in utah but most ly IV from the south yet there was nothing to hinder any one not no called from going with them if i he wanted to go so the company had with a few adventures wanderers and prospectors A meng these wanderers was hn an old man with a most unusual background a man with no fam ily na no immediate kindred no na more definite objective than to get away from himself and from the sorrows behind him his wagon was old and dilapidated id his team jaded his ment poor and scanty he was a veteran of the famous mormon battalion at the call of general genera allen alien atwitter quarters in Is 18 48 he had taken leave of his wife and children in the mormon camp and taken up his long march over ever weary wilderness mountain and desert thirst and tribulation to the turbulent shore of the pacific letters between him and his wife and family somehow were infrequent and of uncertain delivery and when lie he was due to arrive in salt lake city where his wife was eagerly waiting for him he was not with the company she could not ascertain where he was or whether he was still alive what it could be but death that delayed I 1 him tor for a long long time she could not find out and why his messages were not delivered to her we do not know with no tidings fro bhim as the monno from him as ai the months went by she decided he was dead then in her poverty and hardship she met a man who sympathized with her and loved her and wanted to marry her she agreed and the ceremony was solemnized but and herein is the tragic phase of the story repeating in real life the tale of enoch ard en the mormon battalion man was not dead instead he was ex erting ill all his powers to get back to his loved ones from whom he nid had been so long separated al thou K he had not heard for a long time from them he had no doubt they had received his mes sages and would be eagerly waiting for him to come he was counting the days and the hours before he met them ile he arrived the day after his wife had married the other man the shock stunned him like a blow from which it was hard to gather himself it hurt not only him but his wife and the other man and the battalion man was great enough of soul so ul in spite of his own pain to appreciate preci ate theirs with hearts that ached tb they ey looked one at another and not what to do the terrible spell had to be solved and the brave battalion man took on himself to solve it the best and only way he could bearing it himself to relieve them he told them hed go away and never return he drifted into i southern utah broken and distressed but he lound bound no peace nor comfort in all his wanderings and when he knew that the company com pany wa was preparing to start for the new and faraway san juan he prepared as best he could to go with them it was thirty two I 1 y years ars now since he had parted with wi th his wife at W winter anter quarters he was old and weary of life nothing in the way of trib could be worse than what he had gone through any thing different would relieve the killing monotony ke he took part with the company in all their long and difficult journey but when they stopped slopped there by the mouth of cottonwood wash to begin mak ing bluff he laid his weary bones bone s down in death there was no lumber with which to make him a coffin so they took his old wagon box to pieces and made a coffin and he became lh tha first one in what was to be the bluff cemetery roswell koswell siemens qt mens was buried by bythe the sand hills west ot of town but later tavy y moved him on the gravel hill where their permanent cem eatery has been growing ever since |