(69) 1877. Sally comes to Leeds, Caroline stays in Orderville - Pres. Young dies

Zemira’s wife Sally arrived in Leeds from Orderville, on the 6^th of August, with her three youngest children Emma (10), Newel (7), and Joseph (3).  Now that his family was with him, they wasted no time in getting to work gathering peaches and drying them. 

Leeds was a very good area for peaches and grapes, and a couple of weeks later they made an arrangement to take Brother McMullin’s orchard to dry on shares. That meant that they had a whole orchard of peaches to pick and to dry, and for doing so they would receive a certain amount of the dried fruit.  It may have been half, as “dry on shares for half” was a common arrangement.

Zemira’s wife, Caroline, and her five unmarried children stayed in their home at Orderville.  She was expecting another baby in December, nevertheless she kept busy.  In the history of Caroline’s daughter, Arletta, who was married by then, she had written one short paragraph mentioning this particular time:

“Mother with others returned to Springdale that fall to dry fruit on shares for the Order. Father and Aunt Sally also worked at Leeds drying grapes for the Order.”

Also Zemira commented on August 29, 1877,   “Our much esteemed Pres. (Brigham Young) of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints died at 4 o’clock this afternoon at Salt Lake.”