
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.
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