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What did Mary do to help spread the gospel in England
during the early 1850s?
a.
Provided her home
for the missionaries to teach in
b.
Sang at the
meetings
c.
Provided
referrals
d.
Went on
missionary splits
Yesterday’s
answer:
D Peas
From the life of Ada Cemantha Hemenway/Hemingway
Davidson: Ada Cemantha was raised in a
very religious home. She was a member of the Young Peoples Temperance Society,
pledging to neither buy or sell intoxicating drinks and neither chew, smoke or snuff
tobacco. Ada and her parents joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in 1844 and moved to Daysville, Illinois to join the Mormons. The family
lived there for seven years where they raised fruit on their farm.
In 1852, when Ada was ten years old, the family made
the journey to Utah. It was Ada’s chore to pick up wood and “buffalo chips” for
the fire. They had trouble with the Indians. One day a terrible storm blew
their wagon over and they had to stop to do repairs.
They suffered much sickness and hardships. It took
them six months to reach the Salt Lake Valley in 1852.
Ada’s father had brought seeds and plants with him so
they were able to start a nursery. Ada loved the trees, plants and flowers. She
learned the art of tree grafting. She learned the art of spinning, knitting and
weaving cloth for the family’s clothing and bedding.
During the time the grasshoppers were so thick and
food became scarce, the family was without bread for six weeks. They dug roots
and used nettles and pigweed for food. They planted a patch of peas which
became almost a miracle patch because it yielded peas nearly all summer. Ada
used willow branches to swish the grasshoppers away so the plants could live.
She gleaned wheat by hand and ground it in a coffee mill.
Pioneer Women
of Faith and Fortitude, Daughters of
Utah Pioneers: (International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: 1998), 1:
761.
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