Winter Quarters
What was the
underlying principle that determined the layout of Winter Quarters?
a.
The lay of
the land
b.
Adoptive families
assigned to certain sections of town
c.
Nauvoo wards
staying as same wards in Winter Quarters
d.
First come
first served
Yesterday’s answer:
(A)
Food
Abigail Cox
Heaton recounted how her parents, who helped settle Manti, were amply supplied
with food until a summer when “droughts left them almost in the throes of
famine.” Like other families in Manti, the Coxes lived on greens that summer
until even they became so sparse that “women and children returned one
afternoon with a “few spindly weeds” that “were scarcely enough for one person,
let alone a family of seven, and the children were crying for food.” That
night, “the family prayed in humility for something to eat.” The next morning,
they knelt again in prayer before a reluctant, but obedient, Walter left to
search for greens. According to Abigail’s account, he was successful: “In a
short time he returned to the dugout with a basket of crisp stalky greens; even
his mother was amazed. He was almost breathless as he told her of having found
a large patch of the luscious weeds just as if they had been planted in rows,
and on the same ground where many had been searching the previous day. Never
had they eaten such good greens, and for days the people of the Manti Valley
gathered baskets of greens that seemed to satisfy their hunger and even, some
claimed, put flesh on them.”
Nearly Everything Imaginable, Walker, Ronald W., Doris R. Dant ed., (Provo,
Utah: BYU Press, 1999), 243.
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