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fire and set it inside the covered wagon to keep the children warm.

Father took up that part of the old farm west of our O. S. L. Depot and on Clark lane in the spring of 1849 and intended to reside on a lot he took up in Salt Lake City, 2 1/2 blocks west of the Deseret News or old Council House corner. He rented the farm to a man who built a cabin on it in 1849. This man went back on his contract and father and his little family moved on the farm on April 3, 1850.

Sister Mary Elizabeth was born at North Canyon November 25, 1849. Mother says father was always glad that this man backed out, thus changing father's plans from residing in the city.

She says they did not plant a garden at North Canyon but that father fenced and cultivated about 1/4 or 1/8 of an acre north and northwest of the Winter Quarters cabin.

Jacob Secrist and wife and one child occupied a home about four or five rods straight north of theirs at Winter Quarters and Aunt Paulina lived about 100 yards south of our home.