In October, Zemira’s oldest son, Alma, and wife Alzada and family came from Panguitch, also their daughter Lydia and husband John Kartchner stopped by. They were on their way to Arizona as they had been called to go there on a mission. The Kartchners had joined the Order at Orderville in November of 1876, and had a farm there 9 miles up the creek (When they were still living there, just before moving to Leeds, Zemira wrote of one of his grandchildren being sick at the Kartchner Farm and of himself and wife Sally going there to see it, and of finding the child better—June 17, 1877.)
While the two families were in the area, they took the opportunity of doing important work in the St. George Temple. Quoting from Zemira’s journal: 1877, October 25, 26 - “In the Temple. Had our son Alma Zemira, & two twin daughters Mary & Martha who were born before we had our Endowments, sealed to us. This being according to the law of the Lord. Our children bid us goodbye for how long we cannot tell, as we do not expect to see them again previous to their going to Ariz.”
From Zemira Palmer's journal on dates mentioned.
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