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COOLEY, Andrew Wood: A pioneer devoted to family

  • November 29, 2021
December 25, 1885. I wish I could have had the privilege of spending Christmas with you at home, but it is our lot to spend it apart. I hope you have spent it in a different way from what I have. We had a good dinner. The warden did the best he could to make the prisoners happy, but when a man’s liberty is gone, he can’t be happy when he has a family at home. I have thought of home the whole day long and so I do every day. I shall never be a happy man if I cannot enjoy the society of those that are my own flesh and blood which my family is. Things look dark to me, but I must hope for the best. God is at the helm
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WADLEY, William

  • July 13, 2020
In most respects William Wadley was typical of many other people who joined the LDS Church in the mid-1800s in England. Many of them migrated to the Utah Territory, many…
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ALLEN, Elihu Moroni

  • June 29, 2020
About 1863 the Allen family settled in Huntsville, Weber, Utah where the last 7 children were born. Their first home in Huntsville was a two-story log house. Elihu made a lot of the furniture they used. He made chair frames from pine trees and made the seats from braided leather that he cured to a very soft pliable seat.
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