Eye to Eye with the Mob

Jacob Cloward

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Blacksmith, Jacob Cloward was asked to do what by the mob or else they would destroy all that he had. What did the mob want him to do?

a.                  Make guns for them

b.                  Make a cannon for them

c.                   Deny his testimony

d.                  Give them the key to the temple

Yesterday’s answer:

D   An apple tree

From the life of Ane Marie Hansen Christiansen:   Ane Marie had a passion for growing things. As a little girl, she loved to smell the flowers in her mother’s garden in Denmark. Young Ane Marie helped her mother dry rose petals that were later placed in “linen drawers” and pick rose hips that were used in making dessert toppings.

When her family heard the missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ane Marie, at the age of twelve, was the first to be baptized.

When the family decided to immigrate to America, her heart longed to take something from her Danish homeland. So into her wooden travel box, came Danish flower seeds.

Then, inspired, she dug up a small apple tree, wrapped its roots in fabric and, when the family set sail for America, Ane Marie carried an apple tree in her hand.

Ane Marie packed her tree on board the pioneer ship, “Franklin,” carried it on to the trains from New York, on to the steamboat across the Mississippi and placed it in the wagon as she went across the plains.

Young Ane Marie walked across the prairies with her brother Hans, age six, picking wild flowers, berries and gathering buffalo chips as cooking fuel.

Arriving in the Salt Lake Valley, her family was assigned to go to the Cache Valley where Ane Marie’s first home was a dugout.

But by springtime, the family had a log cabin and it was here she planted her prize Danish apple tree. Later, Ane Marie grew flowers indoors and outdoors, giving them to her friends and providing flowers for funerals. She helped to bring babies into this world and nursed the sick.

She assisted other immigrant families, taught herself to read and write English and raised silkworms, weaving the silk into lace.

But the apple tree she brought all the way from Denmark was the first apple tree in all Cache Valley to bear fruit.

Pioneer Women of Faith and Fortitude, Daughters of Utah Pioneers: (International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: 1998), 1: 579-580.