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Catherine Reese Clawson and her two daughters drove
their two wagons across the plains to the Salt Lake Valley. How old were
Catherine’s daughters?
a.
7 and 15
b.
6 and 12
c.
9 and 13
d.
8 and 14
Yesterday’s
answer:
D The tithing
yard
From the life of Mary Bjork Cederlof: When Mary was about twenty-three years old,
a young man, John Monson Cederlof, came to the Bjork home to attend a religious
cottage meeting. John believed the Elders and in 1862, joined the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mary believed it too and joined as well as
her parents. She had now fallen in love with John, the young missionary.
One day, Mary told her family she was going to
America, with a girlfriend. John was going on the same ship. Her parents
followed about a year later. In 1865, she bade her home good-bye.
Aboard the ship Mary and her sweetheart were married
by the Captain at sea.
Finally, they landed in New York. They crossed the
Missouri River in a heavy rainstorm. When they reached the opposite riverbank,
there was no shelter, and they just “laid in the brush,” in the rain.
Next, they continued to Winter Quarters and to Weeping
Water, Cache County, Nebraska, staying for one year while Mary gave birth to
their first of seven children.
In 1866 they started out by ox-team and wagon. The
outfit did not belong to them it belonged to a man named Oblad.
One day, the Indians made off with ninety head of
oxen. So John built a little cart, their baby and few small personal belongings
were placed inside and Mary and John walked-pulling the little cart.
Upon arrival, in 1866, they went to the tithing yard
where they lived in a cow stall for two weeks. During this time they lived on
bread and water. They moved to a dugout.
Pioneer Women
of Faith and Fortitude, Daughters of
Utah Pioneers: (International Society Daughters of Utah Pioneers: 1998), 1:
530.
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