Winter Quarters
We know that prior to the Saints leaving
Nauvoo that there was a push to Seal for Eternity those couples worthy of the
ordinance. We also know that this continued in Utah, even though the Saints
lacked a temple. But what about Winter Quarters, did the Saints marry for Time
and Eternity in this temporary refuge?
a.
Yes
b.
No
Yesterday’s
answer:
a.
Hammered out shots for ammunition from a piece of lead
James Moss
remembered feasting upon the jackrabbits in Grass Valley that were destroying
his family’s crops—after his parents “called for the Indians to come and kill
the rabbits with their bows and arrows.” “It was sure hard for us to get enough
to eat during those times when the grasshoppers were so bad,” recalled Lorenzo
Hadley. “There were plenty of wild duck and chickens around here but we didn’t’
have much ammunition. Daddy only had a few loads left after our trip over the
plains.” The resourceful fourteen-year-old Lorenzo “found a piece of lead that
we had fetched from England . . . hammered this out flat and cut some small
pieces out for shot and loaded the gun and went down to Greenwell’s slough in
West Weber where the ducks were thick.” It was the first time he had ever shot
a gun, but he killed a total of nine ducks, and he and his brother “cleaned up
four or five of them for mother to cook for us that night.” Lorenzo soon found
people willing to pay him fifteen cents a piece for dressed ducks. “That fall,”
he recalled, “I shot and sold enough ducks to buy myself a suit of clothes
worth fifteen dollars besides buying all my ammunition.”
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 240.
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