"While in the city lodging with John Bigg and wife I got acquainted with George Terrell and his wife and also Jemima Turner. They was stoping with their sister Martha Biggs untill they could get some place to go to. John gave a shelter to all until George Terrell and family whent to Cedar Fort to live. And Jemima still living with her sister in the city. It was their I got acquainted with Jemima. I hased her when William Turner was coming. She said she did not know has she had left him behind with the understanding that she was no longer his wife. Edward came in and I sent him to American Fork to live with Palmore untill I could finish my work and come down there and help them with the house. They did so and I continued to work in the city. 

"William Turner reached Salt Lake City and came to John Biggs home where Jemima was staying. But she wholud have no more to do with him for his ill treatment towardes her in old England. She applied for a bill of devorce and it was granted by Judge Smith by both paying for it. My work was nearly don in the city and George Palmore wished me to come home and help them with the house for their were two families in the one house. Bro. William Paxman and myselfe was working for J.B. Merideth helping him to make mollasses. I thought it whould come in handey for the winter. I told Brother Biggs that I should hask Jemime to go to American Fork when I was ready to go. He said I whould do well if I could get her to go with me has a wife for he new her to be a good girl in the old countery. Thinks I to myself that whould sute me if it should so happen. So one evening we was talking together. I hasked her if she should like to go to American Fork to live with us this winter. The reply was yes if your will devide your blankets with me when I get there. Says I if necesity required it I whould. 

So I concluded to go down to American Fork and get the new room built up ready for Edward and wife, myself and Jemima if she concluded to come. 

"Now think I before going home I will try and sell a load of potatoes for Brother Palmore and myself had been raising quite a patch on Bro. William Kelleys bottom land. My brother Edward had been working in my place with Bro. Palmore in getting them up. I suckceeded in selling quite a few bushells to Bro. Bailess for chairs and a tabel. 

"I then started for American Fork leaving Jemima in the city to work with Sister Orseley as I saposed. In reaching American Fork I found there was quite a bit of labour to be performed on the house before we could go into it. Brother Creek had not finished laying up the adobe walls. Now what was to be don for lumber foe the floor. Edward sais I have an order on Brother Miller at Provo for driving a team part of the way across the plains. He told me I could have anything in pay that he had got. He also told me that he had a saw mill. Now sais I, just what we whant. I will borrow a team and let you go over to Provo and see him- which I did do. In reaching there the old gentelman behaved very kind to him. Told him to unyoak the cattell and come into the house and get something to eat. He introduced him to his family and hasked him to stay over the night with him and he whould go to work sawing the lumber for him in just the kind he wanted. Edward came back next day with the joists and flooring. We thought we had don well. Edward says shat shall we do for nails. We must have woodin pins. 

"Now the weather was getting cold and I was getting anghous to deliver those pototoes I had promised and find out where Jemima was stopying. I hired Bro. James Creeks Yoak of cattell wagon loaded up on the potatoes and started off. Found the roads very bad and mud allmost knee deep in places. I was very late in reaching the city that night, so much so that the people had gon to bed. I spread som hay open on the waggon and covered some quilts over me untill morning. I then started off in serch of Jemima. And found her living with Bro. Adems alont the road wast of the city. Bro. Daved and Sister Adems maide me quite wellcom untill the next day during the time I whent around and delivered the potatoes. Got my chairs, a small tabel and som other things that whould be useful in housekeeping.

"Now Jemima cherfulle informed me that she had been hearning a wash tub and some other things that whould be usefull in housekeeping. I took it for granted that she ment what she said. Sister Adams enquired of me if I had come to take her hired girl away. I said yes if she was ready. Jemima looked at me with a smile on her countence saying is the new room ready to move into. I said no not yet. But we was gettin along perty well with it. Edward had been to Provo and got what was due him in lumber. And when I got back we could soon put the flooring down. I also said I thought she had better come and help to fix it. So we baid them good by and started for American Fork thirty miles south from Salt Lake City, November 1862. We started on our journey very earley that morning. The wind was blowing very cold so much so that we was compelled to lap the quilts around us to keep warm.

"We arrived in American Fork about 4 o'clock in the evening. Edward and Elizabeth was somewhat surprised in seeing Jemima with me but pleased to see us both and was welcomed home. Now this threw us all six together in the one house. But two rooms in the house. This made it rather ill convenant for us. But however we made the best of it. Edward and myself slept together and Jemima and Elizabeth to gether for a twile. We continued working at the new room. It being very short days and cold weather it took us along time to get it ready to live in. We had to work to a great disadvantage for the whant of tools and nails. I whent to Brother John Hindley and Hasked him if he could let me have some nails on the dept he owed me. He said yes so I got two and a half box and half a pound of teach which came to 5 dollars. I took them home and used up the nails and found out we needed more. I then took back the half pound of tea and hasked Sister Hindley if she would take back the tea and let me have some more nails. She said yes for the tea was a cash artcle. Tea was worth 5 dollars per pound. So I manedge to get five pounds of nails for three and quarter days work. I thought that was a hard way to get nails but it was the best I could do. 

"Bro. William Paxman came down to see how we was getting along and me and Jemima to come and eat Christmas dinner with them. We excepted the offer and whent up into his dugout to spend part of Christmas day. With them. Hafter eating dinner Bro. Paxman and his wife Ann seemed to be in real good umer and said to us I don't see why you two don't get married. She laughed and I said there is no one to marrie us as I know of. Bro. Paxman said Bishop Harington will soon come over and marrie you if you go over and ask him. I said I did not like to go over to his house. Bro Paxman and myself left the women in the house whilst we whent out to cut some wood. The bishop soon came along that way to feed his stock. Bro. Paxman said nows your time to hask him. I told him I did not like to but I whent to hask him. And he said yes, whair is she. I shall have to be quick about it for I've promised to go to supper to night. I said she is in Bro. Paxmans house. He siad and what is her name. Jemima Henson I replied and is she a Daneish women. No ser. She is a English women. He came down into the house and shuck hands with us all. And hasked Jemima if she was willing to be married to Bro. John. She smiled and said yes. But I did not know that he was going to fetch you hear now for that purpas. He then hasked me if I was willing to take Jimima Henson to be my lawfull and wedded wife. I said yes. He then and there pronounced the seremoney and told us to kiss each other and we did.

"So now this was unexpected to us when we left home. Now under these circumstances we was compelled to change around again. Palmer and Diner, Edward and Elizabeth took the frount room, myself and Jemima made shift in the back room untill we had fineshed the new one. 

"We then whent to work, borrowed a yoke of cattell to fetch some stringers from the mountains to put on a dirt roof. Hafter getting on the roof we mooved into it before it was plastered leaving Palmer and his wife with the two rooms. This being winter and cold weather and no wood we was obliged to go out and cut sage brush to burn and this kept us going the balance of the winter. We could get along perty well with sagebrush in the daytime but at night it bothered us for light, candels being very scarce and hard to get. So to make out for light in the evenings we whould save the ends of the sagebrush to give us a light in the heavenings. So that we could see to read the papers and this was a very poor light for that work.

"We had started housekeeping with but very little to do with most of the winter we had to make shift with bread and mollasses, salt and potatoes. Sometimes the women whould do some work and get a little butter once in awhile Palmore whould go out shooting rabbits and bring us two or thre. And thus we got along untill spring.

"Early in the spring of 1863 I started off with Bro. George Palmore and Sam Patfield to burn lime over at the west mountains. We was gon about two weeks to burn the first kiln but with very poor sucksess. It was very poor limestone. Our lime was not worth much. I left the job and came home with the other two with 2 loads of burned rocks which should have been lime.