Franklin Neff

Among other distinctions, Great-Grandpa Franklin Neff, the miller (after his father) of Winter Quarters and of East Mill Creek, is remembered for growing his hair and beard long, by assignment from our Uncle Brigham Young, and accompanying his brother-in-law, our Uncle Orrin Porter Rockwell, on missions of pacification to the Indians. The indigenes, it seems, would not take short-haired emissaries seriously. We’re told that if we could see the back of his head in this picture, we’d find a long braid.