Eliza Marie Ivie b 1842, Florida, Monroe county, MO. m Warren Foote, 2 March 1856, Salt Lake City, UT.

Married first, Warren Foote b. 10 Aug 1817, Dayden, Tampskin, NY

d. 23 July 1903, Glendale, Kane, UT

Eliza Marie was the second wife of Warren Foote. They were married in the office of the President, with Bringham Young officiating. She was 14, Foote was 40. They had 7 children.

The family was living in Scipio when Foote was called on the Muddy Mission in 1865, becoming the Bishop of the St Thomas Ward, and the Branch president in St Joseph, Nevada.

Married second, Peter Mack Elliott

Theda Ann Elliott

b 16 Nov 1878 - Salem, Utah, UT

d 9 Aug 1964 - Roy, Weber, UT

The Ben Minchey mentioned, the one that married Olive Foote, is the son of Pleasant Minchey and Emaline Sophia Degraw. Ben's younger brother William Edgar Minchey married Theda Elliott, daughter of Eliza Maria Ivey and Peter Mack Elliott. He was the first of Thedas four husbands. Theda and William Mincheys first child was Edith Delilah Minchey, my great grandmother. Their youngest child Dizella, is the one that hates the Footes. I wonder if she would read this!!

Edith Minchey Anderson is my g-grandmother, Thedas oldest child, was raised by Maria) but I didnt remember the details so I asked my dad. The story went that she was a young girl, around 11ish, churning butter when the Indians came to the house (tent?). An indian put his finger in the butter to taste it (which ruins the butter) and Maria slapped him. He got so angry that he and two others took Maria away with them and after a few miles, seeing how ghostly white and silent she was, they freaked out and let her go.

Married third, Henry Orson Davis

b 25 Aug 1846, Mt Pisgah, Union,Iowa

d 24 Sep 1928 - Ogden, Weber, UT

bur. 27 Sep 194(2)8, Salem, Utah, UT

Orson Gilroy Davis, born October 23, 1881 in Muddy, Emery, Utah, son of Henry Orson Davis and Eliza Maria Ivie Foote. This would make him only three years younger than Theda Elliott, his half sister.

Owen born August 9, 1883

Excerpts from the

relating to his second wife Eliza Marie Ivie

The following is taken from the Autobiography of Warren Foote, from the transcribed copy held by Bringham Young University. I have not footnoted it, as it follows the same chronological order as the transcript. The original is over 500 pages long. I have included only those sections having to do with the Ivie family, Warren Footer's second wife Eliza Maria Ivie and their children.

1856

About the 18th day of Feb. 1856 I went to Provo after Eliza Maria Ivie Daughter of James N.(R) Ivie and Eliza M. Fawcett Ivie. I returned the 20th. The roads were very muddy. On the 2nd day of March Eliza Maria Ivie was sealed to me by President B. Young in his office at Salt Lake City. She was born the 29th day of March 1842 in Monroe County, State of Missouri. (Eliza Maria Ivie was only 14 when she married Foote, who was 40)

Dec 25th 1856. My wife Artemisia was taken very sick about the middle of last Oct. She was so bad that I went to the City and got Dr. Williams to come out and see her. He said that she had the typhoid fever.

He doctered her awhile but she continued to get worse and was deranged the most of the time. I waited on her and watched over her day and night, asking the Lord to spare her life. Satan was doing his utmost to destroy her. For instance, she said that something told her plainly, that I had prayed for her to die. She said that it was a voice that told her so. I knew very well that no good spirit told her that, for I never prayed for her to die, but on the contrary that she might live; and raise up her children in the way of righteousness. During the summer and fall, there had been a jealously existing between my wives, which caused me a great deal of trouble; my second wife did not use that wisdom that she should have done; and I sometimes began to think that such a state of things would end in apostacy and the breaking up of my family. This was an idea that I could not think of enduring. On a certain occasion after there had been quite a war of words between them and neither of them would listen to my counsel; I retired to a secret place, and poured out my soul to my Father in Heaven, and wepted before the Lord. because of the state of feelings that existed in my family, and I prayed the Lord that, rather than any of my family should apostatize, that he would take them away, so that I might have them in eternity. I am satisfied that the devil heard this; and told my wife that I had prayed for her to die. I prayed what I have stated, before she was taken sick, and I know no one heard me; that is, of mortals. It was with great difficulty, that I could convince her that it was a lying spirit that spoke to her. My wife got very low, and I think that all had given her up to die but myself. I besought the Lord continually to spare her live and thanks to His Holy name. He heard my prayer, and He raised her up and restored her to health. During her sickness our babe Irene who was over a year old was taken down with the mountain fever. By my constant care she recovered from her sickness but lost her hearing which is a cause of much sorrow to us.

1857

March 6th The winter has been very severe. The snow is now all gone and the grass is starting. I started for Provo today with my wife Maria, to visit her folks. We staid over night with David Adamson at American Pork, (now called Lake City). The next day we arrived at Provo, and stopped with Father Ivie. There was a meeting in his block at night which he invited me

to attend. I found the reformation spirit running very highwith a great deal of enthuseasm, I was asked to speak, and spoke a short time, on the necessity of living above the law, and then we need not fear it.

8th Sunday. Went to meeting. J. Hovey addressed the congregation, forenoon. At the intermission several were rebaptized, who were required to make stronger covenants than I would like to make. We took dinner with John Ivie, Maria's brother. He being a member of the High Council was one of those baptized. In the afternoon James Snow, President of this place, and Dominicas Carter delivered some very enthusiastic discourses, and

I think, intermixed with some false doctrine. I think that they are carying things too far in this place,--more wildfire than sound sense, but time will show.

1858

On the 20th day of April my second wife's first born son was born. She had very hard labor and the child was dead when born, caused by the unskillfulness of the midwife. We named him Hiram.

Soon after this I moved my family down to the mill as the people had nearly all moved from Union. I soon sent Maria to Provo to stay with her father until things got into a more settled condition.

1859

I should have stated that my wife Maria went to Mt. Pleasant in Sanpete Co. the last of May to stay with her Mother during her confinement (Her Father had sold out in Provo and moved to that place). I received a letter from her the last of June that I had a son born on the 22nd of that month. As soon as she was able to ride without danger she came home. We called our son

James Franklin. .

1860

During the summer season we were rather slack of grinding. My second wife (Maria) lived in a house belonging to James C Walker. It was not but a short distance from my house.

1861

Oct 31str I had a daughter born to me of my wife Maria which we named Eliza Olive.

I moved my wife Maria up to my house, in Union, in the beginning of the winter. Where she stayed until the spring of 1862 when I moved my first wife and family up, and my second wife back to the mill.

1862

Father Ivie and sons having moved from Provo to Rhode's Valley on the Weber River, sometime previously. I had got him to take my sheep and keep them for me through the summer and also to winter them there. I made several trips to that place. (There is some confussion here. Did the Ivie family go to Rhode Valley from Provo, or from Mt Pleasant?)

1863

During my stay at the mill I had got a good wagon, a span of horses,and harness, and had wheat to bread my family one year. My sheep had increased to about 50 head, and I had paid for taking care of them. Flour had continued low during my whole term. My wives made our own cloth, from the wool of my sheep.

On the first of Apr. I moved all to Union. I could not see any prospect of making a living on the little land that I had, and ,I concluded to seek some place where I could get more. Rhode's Valley being a very cold place. Father Ivie, and his sons came to the conclusion to leave there and go south to some

place where they could raise grain. As he had my sheep and young cattle, keeping them for me I concluded to go with them. The time set to start was about the first of Sept.

During the summer I and my son David made two trips to Sanpete Co. for grain, in exchange for tobacco tc. I made very well with the grain but the last trip, I foundered a horse which had cost me $200.00 from which he never fully recovered. (I sold him a year and an half after for $65.00). Father Ivie and company came along at the appointed time, and I took my

wife Maria, and my son David, with all my stock and started out not knowing where we would make a stopping place. James Allread a cousin of Father Ivie was also along. He had about 300 head of Cattle, which with the Ivies made a pretty large herd, and consequently slow traveling. We arrived at Chicken Creek in about 5 days. The next day we drove to the Sevier Bridge. There being abundance of grass here we stopt a day or two, and send some ahead to look at Round Valley. I was chosen for one, also James A. Ivie and J. Allred. The distance was 10 miles. We went on horseback. We found a small settlement, and on enquiring of the facilities of the place, we learned

that there was another valley, laying east, containing a lake and an abundance of grass, we concluded that it would answer our purpose, although we learned that there would be considerable opposition to our locating there. We returned to camp, and reported. It was agreed that we would move over. Accordingly we gathered up our stock and drove about a mile east of the old

settlement, and camped. We found that the people were very much divided. One party were greatly opposed to our settling there, and the other party were as much in favor of it. The Presiding Elder was of this last party. We went to the upper valley and cut some grass for hay for winter. David and I

put up quite a large stack and returned to Union, for supplies. We soon went back to Round Valley, and hauled logs and built a house on a town lot in the new town site, which had been surveyed on a place selected by President Young. Father Ivie, and sons, also built on the new town plat. After I had moved Maria in the new house David and I returned to Union. Sometime

in Nov. we went back again and put up the walls for another house for Sidnie my first wife, and returned again to Union.

The 26th or 27th of Dec. I took a load of household goods, with my sons, David, and Warren, and started again for Round valley. On the 24th of Nov. 1863 my son Sidney Wallace was born of my wife Meria. We staid in Round Valley until the forepart of February 1864, during which time we finished the house for my first wife. I obtained another team and wagon, and went to Union to move all away.

1864

During the spring, and summer, the old settlers, nearby all, built on their lots in the newtown. There was still quite a division among the people. Jesse Martin had been sent there to preside in place of Bro. Pierson, resigned.

By request of the people, I got up a petition, in the spring for a Post Office with my name for Postmaster. This was granted and in due course of time my Commision arrived. We also organized a Mass Quoram of Seventies, of which I was appointed President, and David Ross Secretary. I raised an excellent crop of wheat, my share amounting to 100 bushels. In the last of Aug. President Young, with several of the Twelve, and quite a company, went south on their annual visit. James A. Ivie and myself, and another person were appointed to make arrangements to entertain them; as they would be obliged to stay over night. President Young, and his immediate attendants, with some of his family stopped with J. A. Ivie. Five of the Twelve Apostles stopped with me, namely George A Smith, Amasa Lyman, John Taylor, and wife, Wilford Woodruff and wife, and Franklin D. Richards, also Henry Miller, who was traveling with G. A. Smith, and Gabriel Huntsman, who brought Amasa Lyman from Fillmore. There were some others also, that

eat at my house. They all seemed to enjoy themselves well. Robert T. Burton was Marshall of the company. They were in the habit of keeping a guard out every night. Being pretty well acquainted with Bro. Burton, he asked me if I would see to the guard that night,said he had been broken of his rest a great deal, and if I would take charge of the guard he could lay down, and rest, and feel all right. I told him I would do so. I soon found enough men, that I could rely on to guard, I was out all night, looking after matters, for I would have felt very bad had anything hapened through my neglect, after having been entrusted to my care. The object of guarding in a town, was principally to see that nothing befell their animals through the night. All were well in the morning, and they started out for Fillmore. On their return, the latter part of Sept. they stopped over night again, and held a meeting. John Taylor, and wife; and F. D. Richards, drove to my house, and staid all night again. James Ivie concluded to accompany the President's Company on their way home, as they intended to go by the way of Sanpete

Co. As I was intending to go to Salt Lake City soon; I accepted the invitation to go with James, Father Ivie, and Mother Ivie, also went along.

We went to Gunnison the first day. Here they held a meeting. the next day they went to Manti, and held meeting in the afternoon. Some of the Twelve went on to Ephraim, and held meetings. The next day they drove to Mt Pleasant and the following day held meetings, after which they drove to Fairview, and staid over night. I stopped with my Niece, Irene Clement, wife of John Sanders. We all started very early next morning, in order to drive to Springville by the way of Thisle Valley. We arrived there before night and James Ivie drove on to Provo.

When I was in Mt Pleasant, Sanpete Co. James K. McClenahan wanted to engage me to run his gristmill at that place the following winter. He owned but one half of it, and run it one half of the time. His two partners, run it the other half. He was building a house and when I was not working at the mill. I could work on the house. I did not see any chance to make any thing in Round Valley, so I concluded to take McClenhan at his offer.

On the 13th of Nov. I let Thomas Robbins have my sheep for one year on shares. Warren H. Ferguson moved to Round Valley this fall. The last of Nov. I took Maria and children, to Mt Pleasant and went to work for McClenahan, and let Warren Ferguson live in Maria's house. I was to get 1/3 of the tole when I ground and Irr bus wheat per day when I worked on the house. We moved into Bro McClenahan's old house which was quite comfortable.

1865

Every thing went very well until about Feb. 17th 1865, when a messanger came from Round Valley bringing the sad news of the death of my beloved son Jacob Alfred, and that all my family were down with the measels. My son died Feb 16th 1865. My wife Artemisia was also sick with the measles, and wanted me to come home immediately. I got a horse of Bro McClenahan and started just before dark.

May

We now began to prepare for our Journey to the Muddy. Before I left Mt Pleasant, John Ivie, (my wife Maria's brother) made up his mind to go with me as far as St George, and take a load of flour, and trade for molasses to take back to Sanpete. He arrived in Round Valley the last of Apr. Having all things in readiness, we started the first day of May 1865. My son David

and I took a few hundred Ibs of flour. We had two yoke of oxen to our wagon. John Ivie had three. We got started at 10 o'clock A.M. and traveled 12 miles.

I found that it was very hard times here for bread stuff (in St George). I disposed of what flour I had to spare for molasses, which I was to get when I returned home. John Ivie disposed of his load, and started for home very much disgusted with the country.

When I returned home(to Scipio in Aug) I found my dear little son Sidney

Wallace sick with a diarhea. We could not get any thing to stop it. He

continued to pine away, as he had no appetite to eat, until the eighth day of Sept when his spirit left his little body. He was a son of my second wife, and always wanted to be with his Pa. Two of my dear little pratling sons was taken from me, within nine months. 0 may they be restored to me in the

resurection.

I now set about preparing for our (return)journey to the Muddy. I sold my two lots in town to father Ivie for two yoke of oxen and wagon,and gave him a two year old heifer to boot.

I had sold my sheep to Tho. Robbins for a yoke of oxen, and was

now able to fit out three wagons, two of them with two yoke of oxen each, and one with one yoke, it being a light wagon. I fixed the stove in one of the large wagons so as to make a fire in, when needed, for Artemisia S. and also one in the light wagon for Maria, which made them very comfortable About the first of November, Bro. Bennett came along. We had gathered up all our stock but one cow, which belonged to David. He spent two days more hunting for her, while we loaded our wagons, but did not find her. Franklin Ivie offered him a cow in place of her, which he accepted. All things now being in readiness we started out very early and drove up in the Kanion south of Round Valley and stopped for breakfast. Besides the five yoke of oxen we had eight cows and six head of young stock.

At St Joseph on the Muddy

We built only temporary buildings, to do us until we could build on our City lots. On the night of the 5th of Dec. I had a son born to me of my wife Maria. He was born in the wagon. We named him John Ammon.

I soon got my house so as to live in and put Artemisia and family in, and was not long building one for Maria, and soon got comfortably sheltered.

In a short time our adoba cabins were strung around the Square.

We had good meetings, and all seemed to enjoy themselves. The weather

seemed almost like Spring. At Christmas I noticed that the blades of Sugar cane left on the stubble was not yet killed.

I built a house on my lot, and purchased a two and an half acre lot across the street to put out a vineyard on. On the 6th of March 1868, I bought 2150 grape cuttings of Jacob Hamblin for which I paid him $57.50 in flour and cotton. Flour was 10 cents per Ib. I built a house on this 2b acre lot for my second wife. On the 11th day of November 1868 I had a son born of my second wife whom I named Charles Lane, after my Mother's brother.

1871

Muddy Mission abandoned

I will briefly review the Muddy Mission. The main object of this Mission was to raise cotton to facilitate our home manufacturing of cloth. I went voluntarily on that mission with the second company of volunteers. My reasons for leaving Round Valley were as follows. The climate was too cold and frosty, and it appeared very doubtful if fruit could be raised to any great extent, besides the people were were very much divided. I felt that it would be better for me to go to a warmer country where there would be no uncertainty of growing fruits of various kinds, but above all I felt impressed by the Spirit to respond to the call of the servants of God to assist in opening up that country. Hence I went with a full determination to stick to it, and make a pleasant home for my family. I took five yoke of oxen, eight cows and six head of young stock, making twenty four head of cattle. I also had three wagons. I traded my heaviest wagon and one yoke of oxen for a span of mules, and both of them died a short time after I got them. The Indians killed one yoke of my oxen, and three cows. I had two yoke of oxen mired through the carlessness of one of my neighbors.

I had let him have them to assist him to take a load to St. George, and as he was going on up the river to Virgin City after his family he was to take the oxen to Toquerville and deliver them to Thomas Forsythe for the mules. But instead of leaving them according to agreement, he kept them to help haul his loading to the Muddy. He got into St. Thomas after dark and instead of delivering them to me, he turned them loose up in the alkaline hills. There had just been a rain, and made the gullies very mirey. The oxen had undertaken to cross the gullies, and the next day they were all found mired and dead. I never got any compensation for them. I put all my labor into improvements, and in the fall of 1870 I valued my property in land, vineyards, and houses, &etc. at about $3,000.00. For all this property I never received a single cent. Six years of my hard labor was thrown away. I must say that this was a great trial to me, to leave my beautiful vineyard, that I had expended so much labor to level and terrace,--scraping down the sand knowls, and just as we were beginning to enjoy the fruits of our labor to come away, and leave it for that scoundrel Jennings to enjoy. Our little cottonwoods that we had set along our streets had grown to be large enough for fence poles. I felt as though we might have saved a great share of our property, had the people kept their senses. I brought away two old horses one old wagon and two cows.

Neither myself nor family had scarcely any decent clothes to put on. I

made considerable at the mill and generally raised good crops, and grain

was generally at a high price, but clothing and groceries were as high

accordingly. I paid $40.00 for a plow, but I paid in flour at $10.00 per hundred. Prints was 40 cts a yard, brown sheeting about 50 cts. B1 cached 70 cts per yd. Sugar 50 cts per pound, Saleratus 70 cts. Soap 50 cts per bar of one pound. Hoes $2.67. Gined Cotton only brought about 25 cents per 1b and part of that in store goods. It will be seen from the foregoing, that it cost something to live in that country, but we had conquered the worst, and began to get in very good circumstances. For the first three years, we had but very few of the luxuries of life, but always had plenty of bread and generally had plenty of molasses, because we could raise the articles. Hogs done extremely well. I paid one year into the Tithing Office 30 bus of wheat, which was the tithe of my wheat, crop. The amount of my share of grain that I made at the Mill was 1102 bushels. Bishop Leithead's was 1608 bushels. Total 2710 bushels. A great deal of labor was thrown away in diging ditches, by not diging them in the right places.

It seemed as though every body was taken with large ideas larger than we

were able to cary out, for the strength we had. This was especially the

case with Mill Point and afterwards Saint Joseph. When Bro. E. Snow visited us, he brought his Counselors with him, instead of counseling with the brethren living there. This was more especially so the first years we were there. I suppose that hundreds were called to go to the Muddy Mission during the six years we were there. The most of those who actually went down there staid but a short season. They would make some excuse to go north, and then forget to come back again. This made it very hard for those who had stamina enough to stick to it. At one time nearly all had left but the old volunteers. They stuck to it "like a dog to a root" as Bro. E. Snow expressed himself at the Conference in Salt Lake City when asking to have more called to assist in the Mission.

In leaving the Muddy my faith did not fail me. Although I was set very flat with regard to property, having no home-no shelter for my family, and very poorly clothed. I felt that the Lord had not forsaken me, but that He would open up the way before me, in such a manner that we would not suffer. I had proved Him before, and He had never failed me, for which I praise Him.

About this time my daughter Nancy got a letter from her husband stating that he had returned to Salt Lake City and wanted her to come to him if she possibly could. One of my horses had died, so I was without a team. My second wife was very desirous of visiting her mother and relatives in Round Valley (Her Father had been killed by the Indians during the Black Hawk war.) and I saw plainly that we would have to get some breadstuff from some quarter. I concluded to get another horse if possible and go to Salt Lake City. J. W. Young wanted a hand to hew timber for his sawmill. I contracted for an old gray mare, for which I was to pay

$60.00 in work at $3.00 per day. On the 10th day of August, (my birth day) I commenced hewing timber. I worked 5t, days and then prepared for going to Salt Lake City. On tuesday the 22nd I started out with my wife Maria and her 4 children and my daughter Nancy, in company with John R. Young who was going to Red Creek...The 25th I drove to Beaver, and staid over night with Thomas Wi Ills. Here we made up our minds to go to Minersville and see Jerome Zabriskie and wife, and Campbell Billingsley and wife. Their wives are Maria's sisters. I drove down there the 26th and staid until the 28th when I started on our journey and drove to near the mouth of Wild Cat canon...The 31st I drove to Round Valley (Scipio) and stopped with Mother Ivie. I staid here one day, and getting a fresh horse of Mother Ivie, I took Nancy, and my son Franklin and started for Salt Lake City, where we arrived on the 5th of September,

(Returning later)

From this place I traveled to Scipio without any particular

incident. Here Franklin Ivie gave me 5 or 6 bushels of wheat and Henry

McArthur gave me two bushel. Campbell Billingsiy had given me an order

on Hiram Ivie for 5 bushels which I got and took it all to the mill at that place and got it ground. I had got near 1000 Ibs of flour. I got a mare of James Ivie to work with the one I got of J. W. Young, as my other horse was very thin, not having fully recovered from my trip to St. George when I started for the City. This mare I got of J. Ivie had not been worked for some time, and was inclined to be balky when first hitched up. I had had some thoughts of leaving my wife with her mother through the winter, but when I came back from Salt Lake City she had no desire to stay. She said that she had rather go home and live on bread and water than to stay there.

1872

On the 9th day June 1872 my wife Maria had a son born. It was a very puny babe and only lived about two weeks. We called his name Edwin Moroni.

I now began to prepare to take my first wife and her children north to visit our daughter Nancy and our old neighbors at Union and others. I got David to attend to my corn and potatoes during my absence. We started on our journey on the 12th day of August

The 17th we arived at Scipio and put up with James A. Ivie. We

traveled from this place to Sandy very pleasantly, where we arrived on the 21st and found our daughter Nancy well.

Nancy wanted Artemisia to stay with her and we finally concluded

to let her stay. About the 23rd of September we started for home. On

arriving at Scipio James Ivie concluded to let me have a horse to work

home in the place of the mare I had used so long. The horse was old but

seemed in good plight, and was large and stout.

1873

Glendale, Long Valley, Kane county, Utah

One year ago this spring I got fifty apple trees of John Oakly at Saint George, and set them out, part of them on my town lot and some on the west side of the creek where I intended to build a house for my wife Maria. I bought some sawed logs of Bro Wm. Black to build it. In the summer I moved her over there into a kind of tent which we fixed up with a wagon cover under a large cedar tree. I got the house up during the summer and moved into it. It was very comfortable. I covered it with shingles. I built close to the millrace where water was always handy.

1875

During the spring and summer, James Maxwell and Jacob Minchey kept goods at my wife Maria's house for her to sell, taking butter, eggs, &etc in exchange. I kept a strict account of every thing. Towards fall they wanted me to take quite a stock of goods to sell. There was but one room in Maria's house, so I thought that I would take the goods to my first wife's house there being more room and made arrangements accordingly. As soon as they found out that I was going to take the goods there, they and Maria objected. Not being willing to be dictated by them what I should do or not do, I refused to have their goods on my premises at all, or to have any thing to do with them. Maria got very mad, and made some threats, but seemed to be about as usual, after her passion was over. I have always wished to treat my wives impartially and it was not for benefiting my first wife and family more than my second that I wanted to take the goods there, but it was on account of more room, and more convenient to the public. In fact I never consulted my first wife about it, as I supposed that I was the head, and was able to judge in these matters.

In keeping goods for Maxwell and Minchey, they very often stopped there in passing to and fro, which lead to an acquaintance with the Minchey family and also the Degraws. Maxwell had two of Sister Degraw's daughters for wives, and some three years before this when living at Mt. Carmel they were sick and Maxwell came up and wanted Maria to go down and take care of them. I consented to let he go for a week or two. This was her first acquaintance with them. Maxwell was a rough character and kept rather a rough set about him, althoug they professed to be Saints. Maria was never the same after this, but began to be rebellious and unwilling to listen to my counsel in many things as she did before. She began to drink in a very rebellious spirit after I refused to keep the goods. But there was no particular outbreak until the following spring, which I will relate hereafter.

The winter of 1875 and 1876 was a very hard winter and snow was very deep on the divide, which made our mails very irregular. Ben Minchey was caught on this side of the mountain and made his home at my wife Maria's house. I discovered before the winter was over that

he was courting my daughter Olive. I was very much opposed to it, but I

found that Maria encouraged him. As the fellow pretended to be sick, I did not feel like driving him away, but I was very glad when the weather got so that he could leave. My objection to him was this. He was a stranger to me and there were some reports of his character which was not creditable to him. I commanded Olive to not make any engagements with him until we knew more about him. But her mother seemed determined that they should be married. In the spring he was back again occasionly. He found out that I was opposed to letting him have my daughter, and Maria told him not to ask me for her because I would insult him if he did. She concealed his visits from me all she could.

I talked with Olive, and she promised me that she would not have him. Maria's rebellious spirit caused me much trouble, for I felt that she was bringing herself and daughter into trouble, which the sequal will show.

1877

The latter part of August Joseph Sanders and wife came up from North Creek (near Virgin City) and made us a visit. He is a cousin to my wife Maria. We got my daughter Olive to go home with them, as Ben Minchey was still after her. They thought that they could get her off the notion of marrying him. After she had been there some time she wrote to me that she had given up having him. About the 18th of Nov. Joseph Sanders brought her home, and through the influence of her mother and Minchey's secret visits, she consented to marry him, and on the night of the 26th of November, Minchey got young Jim Little to come over from his ranch and marry them in the dead hours of the night. All these transactions were kept a profound secreet from me. In a week or so

after they were married my wife went over to Ben Minchey's father's pretending to go on a visit. She took my little sons John Ammon and Charles L. with her. After she had been gone a few days, my son Franklin told me that Olive and Ben were married. Olive was still at her mother's house, I went over there and gave her such a talking to as she never had before, and Franklin also, because he was knowing to all these things and, in fact was an accomplice in rebelling against my authority. I said that their mother would have to suffer for her rebellion, and she should bear the sin of their disobedience to me, because she had 'influenced them to disobey me. A few days after this a team was sent over from Minchey's for Olly and her things. I went over to the house in the morning that they were to start and found that they had packing up all the things that Maria had left, dishes, clock, stove &etc ready to load in the wagon. I made them unpack all but Olives own clothing, and told them that I would take care of the other things. They were very much disappointed. Franklin had sometime previous asked me if I had any objection to his marrying Ben's sister Emiline. I told him I had not. Whether his mother wanted him to have the use of them during her absence or whether she was intending to leave me for good I could not tell at that time, but I found out afterward.

Now I had intended in Nov. Nov to go down to the Washington Factory and get some cloth for our winter clothing, as I had quite an amount due me

there. But the spirit impressed me not to go, but to send down by my son David. I found out afterwards why I was so impressed. I had five hogs fattening at Maria's place, and I learned that they, and Ben were intending to kill them as soon as I was gone and take them and what other things they could get hold on and clear out. But they failed. On Christmas day my son James Franklin and Emiline F. Minchey were married at Hilisdale. Franklin came over soon after and said that he with his mother and Ben Minchey were going to Round Valley to visit his mother's folks. I told him I had no objections and gave him some pork and some corn to feed their animals on their journey.

(Later that year)

My son Franklin came back here, and I rented my land to him and

my son George. He moved his wife over, and lived in his mother's house. I let him have his mothers dishes, stove &etc to keep house with. He left his mother and Ben Minchey in Round Valley.

I heard from my wife Maria occasionly through the summer, as she wrote to my son Franklin. About the middle of Nov. I received a letter from her from which I extract as follows.

Scipio Nov. 8th 1877

Dear husband, I thought I would write you a few lines, since you weighed me on the heavy side of the scales. I want you to weigh in your mind all I have said and done, and the causes for it, and then your own, and if you think they are about even, let me know, and I will meet you half way in doing right. Dear Warren I had almost made up my mind never to see you again, and leave this country forever. But thank God I have not done any wrong, for I have not talked with the man, and I refused to see him when he was here, and went to Thistle Valley with John Sanders, and was to see him this fall. You accused me of wanting to have Jake Minchey and did not know but I would have some young Ramsey. This and all other yarns that was told you, you was ready to believe, and refuse the truth when I told it to you. This with many other things has caused me to do what I have. I am willing to bear all I am guilty of in Olive's case and no more. It was your own threats that caused her to marry the way she did. If you want me to come back, I will forgive all that has been said, and ask your forgiveness also. I will try on my part to regain love and confidence for the sake of our children. If this meets your mind let me know it, for our Nevada home is waiting for an answer. You will think it strange all this is done without me, but it is so. I will tell you sometime,-it would not do to mention names at present. I would like to see you, and have you come for us if you can. I never wanted to see you until now, for I thought you hated me, and only wanted the boys but if you think enough of me to pray for me you will not be unkind when I go back. I would like to tell you something I have heard that Sidney has said, but it is of no use, it is

you and me for the future. May God bless us and help us to renew our covinant and live purer and happier lives is my prayer. From your wife, Maria Foote.

I received the following from Ammon and Charles in the same letter. Dear Father

We was so glad to hear from you, and was a heap gladder when Ma promised us that she would go back. We will be good boys and work for you both. 0, Father we love you and mother so well we cant hardly wait to be with you. Ma says she dont know when we can go, without you come for us, or send Frank. If Ben and Olley is going back we dont know. It is getting so cold now. Our school will be out in two weeks, and Ma has to pay half money. If you can please send two dollars when you write again. Oh Father may the Lord spare our lives until we meet again. I am so glad I dont believe I can sleep till I see you and Frank. Ammon and Charles Foote.

When I got the above letter Franklin had gone down to Silver Reef, but I expected him back soon, so I wrote to Maria that as soon as he got home I would send him after them. I sent the two dollars to pay their school bill. I was preparing to go to St. George to work in the Temple, and could not go after them myself without a great deal of inconvenience. I sent some cloth from the Washington Factory to make them some winter clothes, and money to get the boys some boots. Franklin came home by the way of Panguitch and Hillsdale, (as his wife was over there on a visit in about three weeks after I got the letter from his mother.

Since writing the foregoing I have found two letters from Ammon and Charles written in October, and my answer, which should have been copied before the above letter and as they will explain some that is written in them I will insert them here I think this is the answer to the first letter that I wrote to them.

Scipio Oct. 12th 1877 Dear Father; I received your letter, and was glad to hear from you, but was sorry to hear that you were not well. But I hope this will find you much better. I was sick with the putrid sore throat when your letter came. I would like to see you and live with you and ma both I could not think of leaving her to come back. We are going to school and we will be just as good as if we were with you. I wish you and mother would make it up. She had a good cry, and said she had good reason for not writing to you. She heard after she wrote to you at Hilisdale, that you did not want to see her or hear from her in twenty years. I want to see Homer and Dolphy and all of the boys. You had better send us some clothes. Ma is running a bill in the store. They say you must keep us. The folks wants ma to sue you, but Charly says 0 dont it will kill pa, and I want you to make it right and live together. I dont want a step father in mine. There is a very rich man wants ma. Maybe she will have him, I dont know, when we ask her she says, " I will have to do something, we cant live on nothing." We will be good boys for your sake. God bless you. Goodbye From Your Sons Ammon and Charles.

This is my answer to the above letter. Glendale Oct. 28th 1877 My dear little boys, Ammon and Charles; I received your kind letter last Wednesday and was very glad to hear from you, and that you are well. My health is better than it was. I read your letter to Franklin. He felt very bad, and could not keep back the tears, when I read about your mother marrying. I had heard before, by the way of Minersville, that your mother was about to marry a gentile. You say you want ma and me to make it up and live togather. My dear little boys I am willing to do anything that is right, but I do not know what your mother wants. She has never informed me. The way she wrote to me at Hilisdale, and the way she wrote to Franklin last spring, I expected that she would come back when she got her visit out. As for me saying that I did not want to see her or hear from her in twenty years, I have no recollection of saying it, but I was very angry when I found out that she had got Olive married, and might have said it. But ask her if she remembers of telling me that she would be glad if she could never see me again. That is longer than 20 years. You, and she knows that I have worked hard to make her and you a comfortable home here, but if she will not live on it, I cannot help it. I intend that you and Franklin shall have it, if she will not enjoy it. I cannot support her there. You know very well that I never told her to leave her home, and I have never refused to support her. You know that when she went away I expected that she was only going to Panguitch and would be back again in four or five days, and when I found out she was going to Sanpete, I supposed that she would come back in the spring. And when Franklin came back, he said he expected she would come back this fall. If she has any charges to make against me, why does she not come here and make them if we cannot settle our difficulty ourselves. Here are the Church authorities to settle it--l will abide their decision. 0 my little boys my heart aches for you. I am willing to put up with all that is required of me in righteousness for your sakes, and leave the event with God our Father. Has not your mother sense enough to know that if she goes to law that she will get nothing, but will only rob her children of what little I intend for them, as it will take all for costs. She knows that I have not got much any way. Our stock is nearly all gone, we cannot find but little I suppose that it has been stolen. Whoever is advising her to sue me is as foolish as she is. I got a letter from Olive yesterday. She writes a very kind letter. Franklin is here now. He has taken Emiline to her mothers to stay this winter. He talks of going to Leeds with a load of lumber and maybe: work there next winter. Olive thinks that they will come here next winter. If she does I want you to come with her. Sister Leithead's mother and brother are here, and are going to St. George and back home through Scipio. If I can get them to take some cloth I will send it to you. Now my dear little sons do not forget to pray to our Father in heaven, and if you get sick ask Him to heal you, and remember that your loving father prays for you daily, and your mother also. I commit you into the hands of our Father and God, who knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. I believe that He will preserve you to become men, that you may do a good work in your day on the earth. Write to me as soon as you get this. May the Lord bless you is the prayer of your affectionate Father, Warren Foote.

In reply to my letter Maria sent the one already recorded on page 258, and not long after my sons wrote the following.

Dear Father we got your last letter two days after the first. I could not answer it until I worked a day to get some money to buy stamps with. We are all well, and hope this will find you the same. We got our boots and hats and was so thankful to you for them. The boots was two dollars and forty cents, my hat was eighty cents and Charley's was ninety. We will let you know when we get those things, (meaning the cloth I sent by Sister Leitheads brother.) The folks says Ma is a fool to go back and live in hell as she has done. I am in a hurry to go to school, and Ma is to go out to work, so goodbye till we see you which I hope wont be long. From your sons, Ammon Foote, A Charles Foote.

On the 27th of Oct. I received a letter from Olive dated Tintic Oct 16th 1877.

Dear Father; It is with pleasure that I sit down to write a few lines to let you know that I am well and hope this will find you the same. I want to see you so bad. I have wrote one letter to you and never got any answer, so I will try again. Ben is cutting wood here, and I am cooking for 8 men. He gets $2.50 per day cash. I guess you think that I had forgotten you but I was waiting for an answer to my letter. I never had better health in my life than I have this summer. I think we will go there next winter. Ma is in Round Valley. Ben lost one of his horses. I dont know whether he is stole or not. There was a lot of horses stolen about the same time he was missing. I saw Emma Porter in Sanpete. Arlington is a big boy and looks just like David. They call him George Porter. It is getting dark and I must close. Give my love to all and accept a share yourself. Write soon. Your affectionate daughter Olive.

The following is answer to the foregoing letter, Glendale Oct 28th 1877

My Dear Daughter Olive; Your kind letter came to hand yesterday. I was very glad to hear from you. Yes, I thought that you had forgotten me, and turned against me like your Mother, and I wondered at it too, for I thought that we parted good friends. My dear girl I thank the Lord that my children have got an affection for their father, notwithstanding the course their mother has taken. I wish my children well, and will do all I can for their well fare. I am glad to learn that your health is so good. I got a letter from Ammon and Charley last week. They were well. Olive do you know that your mother is thinking of marrying a gentile? Can it be possible that she is so far sunk in darkness that she will disgrace herself and children by doing such a wicked act. 0 my heart aches for my poor little boys. This is what Ammon writes. "The folks wants ma to sue you, but Charley says, '0 dont ma, it will kill pa, and I want you to make it up and live togather. I dont want a step father in mine." It does seem that if your mother had any feeling or respect for herself, she would pause and reflect. Olive, you know that I have labored hard to make a comfortable home here for your mother and children. You know that when she went away, she pretended that she was only going to Panguitch, and I supposed that she was coming back in four or five days. You know that I did not drive her away from her home but expected to support her and the boys as well as I could. Now if she will not enjoy her home I cannot help it. I cannot support her in Round Valley. Had she taken my counsel things would have been different from what they are today. You know the spirit she has manifested to me for two years past before she went away. It was "I will do as I dam please." I suppose she has the spirit yet. If she has any charges to make against me, why does she not come here and prefer them. I am willing to do what is right. As long as I have a name and standing in the church, her future destiny is in my hands, and no man can take it from me. She may marry as many gentiles as she pleases she will have to foot the bill. Ammon writes again, "There is a very rich man wants ma. Maybe she will have him, I dont know. We have asked her, she says, 'I will have to do something we cant live on nothing. This shows that she intends to have him, does it not? I think that if you have got any influence with her, you had better write to her and reason with her before she finally seals her doom forever. She will not write to me--has never answered my letter I wrote to her last spring. So you see I don't know what whe wants me to make up, or what she demands of me. 0 Olive I sometimes think my troubles are greater than I can bear. But I trust in the Lord. It certainly will not be many more years that I will have to bear it. A few more days or years at least, I shall go to that place where the weary are at rest and the wicked cease from troubling. But I hope to live to finish my work here on earth. I have got the "Foote Geneology" the book you have heard me talk about, and it contains something about three thousand names of our relatives, for whom some of us have got to do the work for in the Temple. 0 that we were all united so that we could go into the Temple and do their work as well as our own. I pray God that my sons and daughters may be led to take up this work and continue it after I am gone behind the vail. I want you to come and see me, and I think you had better bring your mother and the boys with you, if she will come, if not bring the boys anyway. Well Olive I wish you well. I think that I have been badly treated, but I hold no spite against any, one. All I have to say, let the Lord judge between us. I never got the letter you say you wrote to me. I want you to write as soon as you get this, and may the Lord bless you and give you his spirit that you may discern the right way and walk in it is the prayer of your affectionate Father, Warren Foote.

I received in reply to the foregoing letter the following. Fountain Green Nov. 27.

Dear Father; I received your kind letter, and was glad to hear from you. We are well. I did hear Ma say she would marry a gentile but I thought she was joking, and did not think any more about it. I did not think Ma would do it. Some of her brothers wanted her to write and tell you that she would sue you, and it would scare you, so she could get all her things in the house. She would ask Ben and me what we thought about it. We said do what you think best, but if I was you, I would go back home, for we did not think any body ought to have the raising of the children but you. Charley always said he did not want a stepfather in his. Ammon said he would go back anyhow whether ma did or not. I know that you have worked like a slave to make homes for your family. I dont know what she wants to make up, for I never heard her say. I am glad you got the Foote Geneology, and I dont think there will be any trouble about being united. I want to see you so bad. I got a letter from ma, and she said she had made up her mind to go back, and you dont know how happy it made me feel. I dont know whether we will go up there this winter or not, if not we will come in the spring. I am going to school this winter. Ben and I send our best respects to you and all the folks. I have prayed every night that the Lord would bless you and ma, and that you might live togather and that we all might be united yet and live so as to be a comfort to each other. Write as soon as you get this. From your affectionate daughter Olive.

I replied to the foregoing letter immediately which I may as well insert here.

Glendale Dec. 9th 1877 Dear Daughter Olive; I received your letter, and was glad to learn that you were well. We are well as usual. Artemisia has been quite poorly but is getting better. I am nearly worn out by work in the mill. I have been busy day and night for two months. I shall quit the last of this month and go to Saint George to commence work in the Temple. Franklin started for Leeds three weeks ago yesterday with a load of potatoes and corn, and I have not heard from him since. He was to have been back in ten or twelve days. Eugene Minchey went with him. I do not know what is keeping him. I have been waiting for him to come, so we could make some arrangements to get your mother back here. I got a letter from her and the boys. The boys are happy to think they are coming back. They say they will work for me, and they want to see me so bad. I sent them money to buy their boots and hats, I also sent them cloth for two pair of pants and coat each, and twenty one yards gray lindsey. I wish they were here. I want to see the dear little ones. Ammon says that the folks there say your mother is a fool to come back here and live in hell. I wish you would tell me which ones of her brothers wanted her to sue me. I think that she has had some very poor advisers. She says that she refused to see that gentile, but was to give him an answer this fall. Now Olive, I want to know if you know any thing about this affair more than you have written to me. It is a terrible thing, and I would like to know all the facts in the case. Your Mother writes that she thanks God that there is no wrong done. I hope it is so. I am willing to do what is right and acceptable in the sight of the Lord as far as I know, or can find out. I have never sought to wrong her, nor no one else. I do not want to do any thing that will bring a disgrace on my children or myself. It is for the life to come that I am trying to live for. I have never had much happiness in this world, nor do I expect to have, but dear daughter, I feel that there will be a better state of things in the life to come. I desire to meet my wives, and children there beyond the power of Satan, where we can be united forever, and no evil designing person will be able to tattle and make discord and dissentions in our midst. There the pure love of God will fill our hearts, and we will be free from the temptations of the evil one. No sorrow, no mourning, no parting, but an eternity of hapiness before us. It is to attain to this glorious state of existance that I have been striving for all my life. I have waded through poverty, sorrow and tribulation, and much of my sorrow has been caused by the feeling that have existed in my family. Now Olive I pray that the Lord will give me strength to endure to the end, and that He will not suffer the devil to lead any member of my family away, so as to become lost forever. Now as regards Ben I will say, that I do not consider that he has treated me with that respect which is due me as your father. He took a wrong course and cannot be justified in what he has done. He knows that it is contrary to the law of the gospel, but as I wrote before, I hold no spite towards him. I wish him well. May the Lord bless you, and direct you aright is the prayer of your father. Warren Foote.

A short time after writing the foregoing letter, I received another letter from Maria which astonished me greatly to learn how quick her mind had been changed. It is as follows.

Dec. 11. Mr. Warren Foote; I have tried to make up my mind to go back, but the more I try the further I get from it. I know what I have undergone for your sake. You know I have stood many a slap from your family, and never went back on you for what they done. You know what has passed for two or three years. I cant stand any more trouble in the way I have done. If I must have more it must come in some other way. I demand a bill of you immediately. If you dont give it I will consider myself free from you. I have sent my grivence to John Taylor asking for the same. The children are well and I intend they shall go and see you once a year, and when they want to go to live with you I will not try to stop them. The things you sent them came yesterday. This will be my last letter to you. From your once loving wife, Maria.

We can see from the foregoing how hard it is for a person who has received the ordinances of the House of the Lord and made the sacred covenants required in the law of Celestial Marriage, when they get into darkness and transgression to repent and retrace their steps. As for the trouble she speaks about, she made the most of it herself in not listening to my counsel. I do not know what she has refference to by the "slaps" for she has lived in her own house, and done as she pleased for several years, without any interference from my first wife and family. After receiving this letter from her I wrote the following to Olive.

Glendale Dec. 24th 1877 My Dear Daughter Olive. I write to inform you that I got a letter from your mother demanding a bill of me. In the letter she sent me just before I wrote to you last, she calls me "Dear Warren," in the last it is Mr. Foote. I suppose likely she has concluded to take that gentile. My heart aches for those little boys. They felt so happy to think they were coming home to live. They must be teribly disappointed to find that their mother would not come. Ammon has not written to me since. Franklin was going after them, but it is of no use now. He is over to Bro. Minchey's. It may be that they have written to him before now. Emiline has had a boy. Jacob Degraw is here to mill now. He says she is getting along well. Now Olive, what do you think of the course that your mother is taking. What hopes can she have of a future state. I told her three years ago that the course she was taking would lead her to hell. You know that she opposed me in every thing, and turned a deaf ear to all my counsels. Had she taken my advice, she might have been here now in a happy home with all her children instead of having them scattered to the four winds as they are today. She says she has suffered a great deal for my sake. Olly do you know what I have suffered for her sake? No you do not, nor no one else, but that Being who knows the thoughts and intents of the hearts of all. It was a father's love that caused me to oppose your marrying Ben until he had proved himself innocent of those things he was accused of, by living a straight forward and honorable life. And I now think that you would all have been better off if you had listened to your father, and not been so headstrong. I cannot but think, that the course that Ben took in defiance of my feelings and counsel, is one cause of your mother's being where she is today. These things will come home to him some day should he ever become a father. But as I said in my last letter I hold no spite towards him or any one else. I think that he will yet see the day, if he has not already, that he will regret the course he took. I want him to bring Ammon and Charley to me, that I may see them again. I will meet him as a friend if he wishes it. I am not his enemy. I hope that he will do well, and from henceforth live according as the gospel requires. Dear daughter, I liked the spirit of your letter. You expressed a desire and a feeling that we would all be united again in love. What will be your feelings when you learn the course your mother is taking. You have one parent's sympathy. I feel for you and your brothers, when I think of the disgrace your mother has brought on herself. My dear girl, I ask you to seek to the Lord for strength and comfort, for wisdom and understanding, and he will not leave you comfortless. Were it not for the faith I have in the promises of the gospel I should have been borne down long ago, under the enormous load of trouble that has been heaped upon me. I trust in the Lord, and I commend you to His grace. I want to start for St. George next week. I shall probably stay there two months if nothing prevents. 0 I wish you could go there with Ammon and Charley and help me in the Temple. What is Ben doing that he cannot take you down. I have rented a room of Bishop Milne's wife to stay in, he is on a mission. Direct your letters to St. George, and write often if you cannot come. May the Lord bless and comfort you is the prayer of your affectionate father. Warren Foote

I have written these letters in my journal for the purpose of preserving them to my posterity (if this record is preserved which I trust it will be) so that they can learn the truth with regard to my wife Maria in the course she has taken. It may be that my children by her, and their posterity will see it some day. If they should, I certify to them that these letters are correctly copied. They can judge by them who -is to blame, and who will have to bear the responsibility, and may the Lord direct them aright, that we may all be savedin His kingdom is my prayer.

1878

On the 20th of Jan. I wrote to my daughter Olive being the second I wrote to her after getting the letter from her mother demanding a diverse. The following is a copy.

St. George Jan. 20th 1878

Dear Daughter; Franklin did not get over to Glendale before I left home. So I have not seen him since I wrote to you last. They were well the last I heard from them. Your brothers and sisters were all well when I left home. George came down with us and went back last thursday. Little Homer C. is with us here. Auntie wishes you were here. She wants to see you very much, and sends her love to you. We shall commence work in the Temple next tuesday. I wish you would write once a week while I am here and I will do the same. I was in hopes to get a letter from Ammon and Charley before I left home but did not. I saw your Aunt Amanda last night. Her health is not first rate, neither is bro. Sanders. I will send you a few postage stamps. 0 my daughter I know

that you will shed many a tear when you think of your father and mother. You will never know the sorrow and anguish of my heart, and the sleepless nights that I have passed through, caused by the course your mother has taken, but you are all in the hands of the Lord, and I trust He will overrule all things for our good. May the Lord bless and comfort you my dear daughter. Rely upon Him under all circumstances, and He will deliver you. I remain your affectionate Father. Warren Foote.

Soon after I went to St. George I received another letter fror

daughter Olive. It was dated Fountain Green Jan 10th 1878.

"Dear Father

is with the greatest of pleasure that I write you a few lines to let you I that we are well. I have not heard from Ma for three weeks. She then wrote and told me that she was going to marry a man by the name of Peter Elliot-Payson. That is all I know about it. She said she might as well stay here and die as to go there and die. So all my happiness was for nothing. I want to see you all so bad I do not know what to do. It

is to cold weather to go down there although I want to come. I am going see Ma and try to get the boys to go up with us in the spring. I pray God to bless you and Ma if she is married and the boys. I try to live right as I know how. I feel well in the gospel. They have good meetings here. I hope it will not be long before we meet. There is a tear and I cannot help it. Every time I think of you and Ma, I have to cry. I think I will live so as to be a blessing to you in your old age instead of a curse. I again ask the Lord to bless you. From Your affectionate daughter Olive

On the 25th day of March I wrote the following letter to my daughter Olive. I had received a letter from Franklin informing me that she and Ben Minchey had parted.

Glendale March 25th 1878.

My Dear Daughter Olive; I looked for a letter from you sometime before I left St. George, and wondered what the matter was. Since I came home I 1earn that you and Ben have parted. The cause of your parting I have not heard seems strange that it should be so, when I think of the last letter you wrote to me. You said you would come and help me in the Temple and Ben said you might come if it took four years. I want to know if you have changed mind, or if you are still willing to come. My dear girl dont you begin to think it is best to take your father's counsel? Do you remember the letter you sent me when you were down to Joseph Sanders? You said that you would obey me, and not go contrary to my advice. Now do you not think it would been much better for you today, if you had kept your promise? Would you not have saved yourself, and me also, a great deal of trouble? 0 my dear girl I do not wish to harrow up your feelings, for we cannot help what has passed but we can take a course in the future that may redeem us in a measure. You

are yet young and ought to be under your father's care. Now I will promise you, if you will come to me and obey my counsel from this time forth, you will be blessed of the Lord. You cannot now realize the joy you will experiance in the Temple of our God in laboring for the salvation of our dead relatives. From those kind and affectionate letters you sent me, I had formed the fond anticipations of soon seeing your face. Now shall I realize those anticipations, or will you go on in disobedience to your father and add sin to sin. 0 my daughter remember the prodigal son, and do likewise. You shall have a

home with me. Resolve in your heart to do right, let others do as they will. Remember that the Lord's eyes are upon you, and if you do right He will bless you, but if you take the opposite course, there is sorrow and trouble for you. Now why did you not write to me and let me know your trouble. You certainly must know that I am your best friend. Let me know what your troubles are. I feel anxious to hear from you. Why does not Ammon and Charley write to me. I suppose you are with them from what Franklin wrote to me. Tell them that I want to see them and shall expect them to come and see me. I want you to write as soon as you get this. We all want you to come home. May the Lord bless you is the prayer of your affectionate father Warren Foote.

In July I wrote to my sons Ammon and Charles, and fearing that they would not get it, I enclosed my letter in one to the bishop of Salem asking him to send for the boys and deliver the letter to them and to counsel them in a fatherly manner. I was afraid that if my letter fell into the hands of their mother they would never see it. It had been a long time since I had a letter from them, and I believed it was her fault. In the forepart of Aug. I received the following note from the Bishop:

Salem, Aug 1st 1880 Bro. Warren Foote: Yours received yesterday. Where it has been until that time I cannot say. I sent for Ammon according to your request and read your letter to him. The boy was affected and burst out into a flood of tears. He promised me that he would go and see you this fall. You may depend upon it that I lost no opportunity to maks an impression upon the boy and to use my influence to go and live with you. I told him to come to me and I would write him a letter to you at any time. From what I can learn his mother is living in adultery with a man here. She says she is married to the man she is now living with. I am tracing the matter up and expect she will be cut off from the Church. Your Brother in the Gospel, Bishop Charles D. Evans"

I will say that Maria had left Elliott, and had taken up with, and living with a man by the name of Davis. She had a daughter by Elliott. As soon as she learned that I had written to the Bishop and sent the boys letter to him to deliver to them, she became very angry and wrote to me the following letter:

1880

Salem City Aug 10th 1880 Warren Foote, Sir: In your letter to the boys you accuse me of leaving you without a just cause. You know there never was a woman more true to a man than I was to you. You still claim me as your wife; on what grounds I would like to know. You recollect that Brigham Young told you we would have to be sealed over. Do you recollect when I had my Endowments you refused to have me sealed to you over the alter, and that Brigham told you that you would see the day you would be sorry? You think you have got me, but recollect al] you hear can't be depended on. Remember the investigation between you and me will come as soon as you are prepared for it. As for the boys you will never see them if I can help it unless you come where they are. Now you know that every woman will claim her offspring, so you will have to take mine if you take me, but that will never be in this world nor the world to come. So for the children, if you want them to write to you, you must quit slandering their mother. You could not of insulted them any worse than by directing their letter where you did. They have some of the Foote blood in them (Signed) Maria."

I should not have noticed the foregoing letter, but I discovered that she was teaching my sons that which is false, and I felt my duty to lay the facts before them, consequently I wrote them the following letter:

Glendale Oct 13th 1880 My Dear Sons Ammon and Charles: I feel it my duty to write to you again and correct some of your mother's statements in her letter to me. She is teaching you things that are not true with regard to our marriage. If we were not legally married according to the law of the gospel, then you are bastards, and if we were legally married then her other young ones are bastards. But I tell you that we were legally married by the highest authority on the earth and you are not bastards, but are lawful heirs to the Priesthood and have a right to enter into the Congregation of the Lord. Your mother is just as much bound to me as if she had been sealed over the alter. She will find that the Priesthood is greater than the alter. My dear sons, I know about these things. I have worked in the Temple at St. George about three months and am pretty well posted in these matters. Brigham Young never said to me that I would be sorry if I did not have your mother sealed to me over the alter at the time she got her endowment. I told him the reason why I could not do it then, and he said that I should have my first wife sealed to me first. Ask your mother if she did not make a solemn covenant in the Endowment House, that she would not have sexual intercourse with any man except him to whom she was given in lawful marriage by the Priesthood? Then ask her if she was given to Elliott by the Priesthood or the man she is living with now. Your mother was given to to me for time and all eternity, not only by the Priesthood, but by her father and mother in writing. The Priesthood has never taken her from me and given her to another, and never will as long as I retain a standing in the Church. These are the grounds on which I claim her. She has committed adultery, which acts will debar her from acting the part of a wife in this life. She will have to atone for her sins in breaking her most sacred covenants before the Lord and his servants. After she has paid the debt, and if she does not shed innocent blood, she will be redeemed and brought forth and receive all that was pronounced on her when she was sealed to me. Her sins do not release her from me. It takes two at least to dissolve a contract. Therefore, I would advise her to confess her sins, and from henceforth let all men alone, and humble herself before the Lord, that he may have mercy on her according to his abundant mercy, This course may mitigate her punishment in a measure, but if she still continues on in her present course, then she may expect that the law of God will be executed upon her as recorded in the 41st verse, Section 132 of the Doctrine and Covenants which says, "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, if a man receiveth a wife in the new and everlasting covenant, and if she be with another man and I have not appointed unto her by the Holy Anointing, she shall be destroyed." Now my sons that is the word of the Lord; Read it and understand it, for it shows your mother's situation exactly. Your mother seems to think that I think that I have got her where { can handle her. Tell her that I do not expect to have anything to do with her in this life. I do not wish to harm a hair of her head; but on the contrary I would do her good if I could, but she has placed herself beyond my power in this life. She is in the hands of our Father in heaven who will reward her according to her works. Now my sons, listen to the words of your father who loves you, and feels for your welfare. Obey me and the Lord Almighty will bless you in this life, and will reward you with eternal lives in the world to come. I do not want you to go from this territory; and if your mother wants to go, let her go. I want you to come here and see me. And I will say to you, if you do not, the time will come when you would give anything in this world if you had done so. Remember that the judgments of God are abroad in the land and the wicked will be destroyed from off the earth, and if you put yourselves among them how can you escape. I want you to grow up in the midst of the saints of God, that you may become men of God, seeking to build up His kingdom that you may have an inheritance therein with your fathers, when the Lord Jesus shall come; for I tell you that His coming is near at hand. If you live to the common age of man, I am satisfied you will see the time of his coming. But if you are not prepared to meet him at His coming, you will be destroyed with the wicked. Life and death are before you, which will you choose? Obey your father and keep the commandments of God, and Glory honor and eternal lives are yours. But if you disobey and set a naught the commandments of God, woe woe be unto you, where God and Christ are you cannot come. Remember the words of your loving father and live. Your mother disobeyed me and where is she today. I hear that she is shunned and despised by the people there, whereas, had she stayed here and been obedient,she might have had a good home, and been respected, and have received all the ordinances of the House of the Lord and eternal life hereafter. Here is Olive, who would give everything on earth if she had it to be placed back where she was four years ago. She will always regret that she did not take the counsel of her father instead of her mother. Now my sons take warning and listen to me. You took your mother's counsel and ran away from me. Have you been prospered in so doing? have you had much happiness since? Remember the prodigal son, and shun the like fate. Now dear sons if you never hear from me again, remember the words I have written to you in this letter for they are true. And inasmuch as you keep the commandments of God, and seek to build up his kingdom, I pray God to bless you. If your mother still persists in influencing you against me, in trying to prevent you coming to see me as she says she will, then let the sin be upon her head. I wrote to your bishop that she left me without any just cause, and married Elliott without a divorce from me. I say so yet, and she knows that it is true. You know that it is true also. Then wherein have I slandered her? I think that you do not understand the meaning of the word slander. It is to tell a falsehood maliciously to injure another's character. So you see that telling the truth cannot slander anyone. If I have wrote any lies about your mother let her tell me wherein I have lied. A liar I dispise, and I never had the name of being one. I hope that you will always tell the truth and never lie or swear, or steal. A liar can never be believed; even when they speak the truth no one knows whether to believe them or not. Now my sons I want you to write tome, and if we never meet again on earth remember the words I have written to you. I will now bid you good bye. I remain Your Affectionate father, Warren Foote.

My son James Franklin moved here from Hillsdale about the last of April and lived in the house where his mother had lived. It was by a letter his mother wrote to him that I learned that she and her man Davis was intending to leave Utah and go to Arizona or New Mexico, and take my boys with them. That explains why I wrote as I did in my letter not knowing as I would ever hear from them, or see them again. I went before the Lord and earnestly besought him to hedge up their way so they would neyer be able to drag my sons out of Utah from amidst the Saints. That the Lord heard my prayer will be seen hereafter. To make sure that my sons would get the foregoing letter I directed it to Bishop Evans to hand to them. On the 7th of October previously to writing the last letter I wrote a few lines to Bishop Evans asking if he would be so kind as to inform me in case they should leave that place as I had heard they intended.

I received an answer as follows dated October 16, 1880:

"Dear Bro. Foote, yours of 7th inst at hand. I scarcely think it possible to see your boy on account of the prejudice of his mother. I believe she literally hates me because of what I said about her in a Pristhood meeting sometime ago. There is not the slightest doubt but that she has apostasized to all intents and purposes, and what counsel to offer under the circumstances I scarcely know. I only hope you can'persude the boys by letter to go and live with you, but I fear she may intercept 'your letter should you write to them. I can inform you when they start from this place south if they really intend to go. Should chance occur to see the boy I will talk to him (Ammon). I feel very sorry for you and the children and only wish I could be of benefit to you. Your Brother & C. Charles D. Evans"

About the first of Nov. I received a reply from Bro. Evans in regard to the foregoing letter which I addressed to him asking him if he would see that Ammon got it.

Salem Oct 26 1880 Warren Foote Esp. Dear Brother: Your sons are in Payson and I have handed your letter to Bishop Tanner of that place who will read it to them and give them good advice. I spent half a day last Saturday in going to Payson to attend to the matter. This is all I can do. I hope the boys will be advised for their good. Yours in the Gospel, Charles D. Evans.

I will state here that they did not leave Salem this year. I have been preparing for two years or more to build a good house, and have been paying Brother Charles Cram a little along for three years to build it for me. He commenced it about the 20th of October his son Victor helping him. I paid him this fall 40 bushel of wheat and 20 bushel of corn and quite a lot of potatoes, wheat and corn at $1.50 per bushel. My daughter Olive stayed here through the summer and got acquainted with a young man by the name of Bebee who wanted to marry her. Ben Minchey got into some difficulty down at Richfield and left the country, going to Arizona. We heard that he was killed there, but there was nothing definite about it, and I told her she had better get a divorce. Oscar Bebee showed me a recommend that he brought from a Bishop from some place north. It was a good one, and I told him that I had no objection to his marrying Olive provided she got a divorce releasing her from Minchey, and he went to the Temple and were sealed. He got a recommend from Howard 0. Spencer, acting President of this Stake, and said that they would go by Toquerville and get a divorce from the Probate Judge. He had a brother, living in Virgin City and he would stop with him until the divorce was obtained. His mother went with him. When they got to Toquerville they found that it would be sometime before they could get a divorce, so they concluded to go on to St. George and get married in the Temple if they could. Ben Minchey had become a very notorious character for stealing horses, etc. and most people believed he was killed. Under these circumstances they concluded to seal Olive to Oscar Bebee. Now I do not know whether Ben was guilty of these crimes or not. At any rate he turned up alive somewheres about St. Johns, Ariz. I never considered that he was legally married to my daughter. I do not think that young James Little had any authority to marry them. Olive was sealed to Oscar Bebee on the 22 day of Dee 1880. Oscar Bebee's mother left her husband about 18 years before this, and had never lived with him since. She was never sealed to him, she said, because he married a woman having a reputation of being a very bad character. I recollect of hearing very bad stories about her before Bebee married her several years ago when I lived in Union. Oscar and his mother continued to live in this place, also his sister Allice who was married to John Jones.

I spent the spring putting in crops. After we got the lower floor laid in my house Bro. Cram stopped working on it and we did not do much more at it until fall. My son Franklin made the adobas for the chimnies and helped me to lay them up. I sent to Panguitch and got brick to top out the chimneys. In Oct. Bro. Cram commenced work on my house again. I assisted him to lay the upper floor and some other work. I then commenced putting on the lath. My daughter, Olive Beebe continued to live here and on the 5th day of Oct. brought forth a son whom they named Joseph Oscar. Sometime in the spring my son Franklin or Olive got a letter from their mother stating that they were going to Arizona. Davis (the man she was living with) had no team of his own, but had engaged a man to haul them. They got as far as Salina Canyon when they had a falling out, and Davis, and my sons, with their mother were left. A railraod was being graded in that canyon that summer, and Davis went to work on that. Thus my prayers, as previously mentioned was answered. Davis had not the power to take my sons out of the Territory of Utah, for which I was truly thankful. I wrote to my sons about the first of Oct. asking them to come and live with me, and about the 20th I received a few lines from them as follows, dated October 17th 1881:

Dear Father: We received your letter on the 14th and was glad to hear from you. We are all well, and hope this will find you the same. We would like to come and see you all. Will you do as well by us as you have the other family. I am talking of going to work on the railroad a month or two. We are living on Muddy Creek, Castle Valley. Write soon as you get this. Direct your letter to Salina, Sevier Co. From your absentson, Ammon Foote.

Charlie wrote a few lines as follows:

Dear Father; I would like to see you all. Ammon wrote most all the news. We have no way of going or we would go and see you. There are plenty of good land and water here and we are going to take up some land for us. No more at present. Write as soon as you get this. From your son, Charles L. Foote.

The latter part of Nov. my son Franklin and Oscar Beebe went to the Muddy Emery County to see Franklin's mother and his brothers, and as they had no land they wanted to look at the country with a view of settling there if it suited them. Franklin returned on the 24th of Dec. bringing Ammon and Charles with him. It was a joyful meeting with my sons, it having been five years since they left here. I learned from Ammon that they had fared very hard since they left, working hard wherever they could get a job. They got low wages and sometimes poorly paid. I asked Ammon why he did not come home. He did not reply, but I knew very well what was the reason. It was the influence his mother had over' him with her misrepresentations. It is a great wonder that she allowed them to come with Franklin. I do not think that she would if Franklin had not promised to move there in the spring. I was lathing my house (the north room) when they came and Ammon joined in and helped me. I was preparing this room to move into until I could get the others finished.

1882

I continued putting the lath on my house preparatory for plastering. About the 20th of Jan. we moved out of the old log house into the north room of my new house.

Jan. 24. This being the fifty third anniversary of my wife's birthday, my daughters Mary Irene and Artemisia got up a surprise dinner and a little before noon all my living children with their families (those who were married) began to gather in and to my wife's surprise, my daughters began to set the table, and to put upon it a well prepared and sumpuous dinner. It was a very interesting gathering. There were all my posterity now living, by both of my wives, gathered in my new house, a sight I never expected to see again in this life. There were eleven of my sons and daughters and fourteen grand Children. There were two son-in-laws present, (Oscar Beebe had not yet got home from the Muddy, Castle Valley) and two daughter-inlaws. The time passed off very pleasantly and will long be remembered. During Feb. and March I continued to work on my house. Charles L. Cram came to work again and we completed the carpenter work and I finished putting on the lath.

April 8. Ammon was rebaptized, and Charles was baptized for the first time. They were baptized by Homer A. Bouton and confirmed at the water's side by myself and H. A. Bouton.

April 12. Ammon and Charles started for home, going as far as Salina with Morion B. Cutler who was going to Salt Lake City. It is called 60 miles from Salina to Muddy Creek. They said that they could get a chance most anytime to go from Salina home. I would have been glad to have them stay with me, but they got anxious to go to their mother again. Franklin and Oscar Beebe gave up moving to the Muddy and went to work cutting and haul ing logs to Seaman's sawmill.

On the 15th day of May my daughter, Olive Beebe, lost her little son Joseph Oscar. He was seven months old and a very promising child. Soon after he died I wrote to my son Charles L. and the forepart of July I received the following few lines from him:

Muddy, Emery Co., Utah June 19th 1882 Dear Father: It is with pleasure that I write you a few lines and let you know how I am getting along. I am well. It was sad news to us to hear that Olive's baby is dead. I wish that Franklin and Oscar would come here. Our wheat is in the boot and the other crops look beautifu1 , I wish I had some of your apples. I saved the seeds of those apples we brought home and planted them. There are four little trees come up. Ammon is still carrying the mail and is well. From your son, Charles L. Foote.

In August I received a few lines from Ammon, and Charles again. They were well and Ammon was still carrying the mail from Salina to Ferron's City past their place.

My son Franklin and Oscar Beebe worked for J. Seaman cutting and haul ing saw logs to his mill through the summer. In the fall they concluded to move to the Muddy and take up some land. They left here the latter part of Sept. The last of Oct. I received a letter from Olive. She writes that she had been sick ever since she got there, which is the reason that she has not written before. She thinks they can make good homes there. The letter was dated Oct 20th 1882.

1884

Jan. 24. Two years ago today all my living children were here to celebrate my wife's birthday. I never expect to see them all together again in this life. I have been helping David on his house. I got a letter from my son Franklin day before yesterday. He feels well in the gospel. I will make a short extract from his letter: "Father will you let me know whether mother has been cut off from the church or not, for my own satisfaction. She is talking of being rebaptized, and I want your mind and will on this matter." I said to him, she should not be allowed to be rebaptized without counsel from the First Presidency.

February 14. Our mail is very irregular this cold stormy time. It got in from the north tonight at II o'clock, and brought letters from my children. Olive, Ammon and Charles. They are all well and seem to feel well, and attend their meetings.

April 11. Cloudy the most of the day but no storms. Yesterday I got a letter from my sons Franklin, Ammon and Charles. They are all well. Ammon and Charles is living with Franklin.

I got a letter from my son Franklin a few days ago. He writes, "I have just got home from conference. We had a good time, and I think the time has come that it stands us in hand to exercise faith in the Lord Jesus, so we can have his spirit to lead us. I feel well in the work I have started out in, and I hope that I may ever be found trying to do my duty. I have been called to be Superintendant of the Sunday School in this ward. You wanted to know who ordained me a High Priest. It was President C. G. Larson. I was ordained and set apart as counselor to the Bishop here on Sept. 2nd 1882. Mother saw the President of this Stake Bro. Larson, to see what she would have to do to get rebaptized. He told her just what she would have to do, and she think it will be doubtful about getting back into the Church. She sees her situation now plainly and hopes that others will take warning by what she suffers. Write soon. From your ever loving son, J. F. Foote"

Muddy, Emery Co. Utah June 19th 1884 Mr. Warren Foote, Sir: Having laid my grievance before the priesthood of Emery Stake of Zion, and being advised of the same to apply once more personally to you for a bill of divorce, now request you to send me a bill of divorce and save further trouble, (signed) Maria Foote

Brother Foote: Please answer the above immediately. (Signed) Casper Christensen, Bishop of Muddy Ward

The following is my answer:

August 2nd 1884 Casper Christensen, Bishop of the Muddy Ward, Emery Stake of Zion,

Dear Brother: Last week a received a letter which reads as follows: "Mr Warren Foote, sir: Having laid my grievance before the Priesthood of Emery Stake of Zion, and being advised of the same to apply once more personally to you for a bill of divorce, I now request you to send me a bill of divorce, and save further trouble (Signed) Maria Foote" Also a request from you to answer the above immediately. Out of respect to you I will answer it to you individually, otherwise I should have paid no attention to it. My answer is as follows: Firstly, I am not aware that the Priesthood of the Emery Stake of Zion have any jurisdiction of this matter. Secondly, if the person signing her name Maria Foote has any grievance to make with regard to myself, she will have to make it in Glendale Ward, Kanab Stake of Zion, where such a person once lived and had her name on the ward record. I find that she has been disfellowshipped for the crime of adultery. Lastly, I have no authority to grant divorces. If I understand it aright, and I think I do, a person demanding a divorce, be it a man or woman, has got to show a legal cause why a divorce should be granted and that before the regular constituted authorities of the Priesthood in the Stake of Zion where the parties were living. I infer from the foregoing letter that the Priesthood of Emery Stake of Zion supposes that a man can sit down and write out a legal divorce of his own will and pleasure and thereby annul I the most sacred and holy covenant in the gospel - breaking assunder those whom God through his Priesthood has joined together for time and all eternity. I cannot dare to assume that authority and responsibility. I will not do it. This is all I have to say on this subject at present. Respectfully your Br. in the gospel, Warren Foote.

During July I received kind letters from my children in Emery Co. I will make a short extract from Franklin's dated July 14th "You wanted to know what President Larson told mother. I cannot tell all he told her, but this much he told her that she would have to get a bill from you, if you do not claim her as yours. Father, hold her if you can for your children's sake. He said she would have to get a bill from Elliott also and a recommend from Brother Leithead. I suppose you have got her letter asking for a bill. She is determined to come back into the Church if she can anyway, and I believe she has deeply and sorely repented of her folly, and God knows I hope she has."

Bro. Snow told me today that she who was my wife Maria had written a lengthy letter to him accusing me of many things. The principle being that I did not support her, etc. I told Bro. Snow that I was ready at any time to have her charges investigated. He said he did not want to go into an investigation, only to make some inquiry with regard to the trouble between us. He said her own words condemned her. He wanted to know why I did not give her a divorce before she married Elliott. I told him she did not give me time to do so; after I found she wanted one before she was married. He asked if I wanted to divorce her now? I told him that my children by her wanted me to hold on to her if I could, and I asked him if she was not as well off now as she would be if she had a divorce? He said he thought she was. He made some enquiry of James Leithead as to the cause of her leaving me. He said he did not know exactly but the principle cause he thought was her harboring Ben Minchey there and getting my daughter Olive married to him unbeknown to me and contrary to my wishes. I told Bro. Snow that I would write out a statement of the whole matter and send to him.

Dec. 9. This morning I showed Bro. E. Snow the place that was Maria's. He looked over at it a few moments, and then exclaimed, "The foolish women!"

I will now copy the letter that I wrote to'Bro. E Snow with regard to my wife Maria's complaints to him, as mentioned on Page 101. It should have been copied in the proceeding chapter, but it makes no particular difference, as I have never heard anything from Bro. Snow with regard to it since he stayed overnight with me in Dec. 1884.

1885

Glendale, Jan. 1885 Apostle Erastus Snow, Dear Brother: In answer to the complaint made to you by my wife who left me eight years ago, I will make the following statement. She was sealed to me by president Brigham Young in March 1856. I had seven children by her, four of them are now living. When we were broken up at the Muddy, I lost nearly all my property. Consequently we were very destitute when I came to this valley, but by the blessings of theLordwe did not suffer for the common necessaries of life, although our clothing was not of the finest kind, being mostly cloth manufactured at the Washington Factory. After brother James Leithead got his grist mill running in this place, I rented it of him, and we began to get along very well with what I made in the mill and on my farm, and we were in what I consider comfortable circumstances. About a year before my wife left me, she got very intimate with James Maxwell's family and the Minchey's, and I began to notice a change in her feelings towards me. Ben Minchey frequently stopped at her house and an intimacy grew up between him and my daughter encouraged by her mother before I was aware of it. I knew nothing about the man, only from reports, which were not very good, and I counseled my wife and daughter to beware of him until we knew more about him. They paid no heed to my counsel and as matters grew worse I finally forbade them harboring him about the place. After this 1<did not see anything more of him around. My daughter told me that she would not have anything more to do with him, I supposed that he had left the place. This was in the fall of 1876. In the forepart of December she went over to Minchey's place near Hilisdale, as I supposed on a visit. She took her two little boys with her, leaving her eldest son and daughter to keep house, After she had been gone a week or so, her eldest son informed me that Ben Minchey and my daughter were married. Minchey had got young James Little to come over from Little's Ranch and married them in the dead hours of the night. You must know that I felt very much vexed, but as they had been married about two weeks, and my wife and Minchey both had gone, I did not see how I could help matters. I talked to my daughter, and told her the consequences of her disobedience, etc. She wept most bitterly. My wife Maria's eldest son, was by my consent engaged to be married to one of pleasant Mincey's daughters on Christmas day, so he and his sister went over there. I expected that their mother would come home after the wedding But my son came over and said they wanted to go on a visit to my wife's mother in Scipio. I consented to this and let my son have provisions and grain for their team which belonged to Ben Minchey. My son returned the latter part of winter, and in the spring moved over into his mother's house and had the use of her dishes, stove, etc. I also rented him some land. He occasionally received letters from his mother during the summer. In the fall I got a letter from one of my little sons informing me that they needed some clothing, hats, and boots for winter. I sent them some cloth by Sister Leithead's brother, who was here on a visit. I also sent them money by mail to buy them some boots and hats. About this time my wife wrote to me, that she would come home if I would send for her. She seemed to be quite humble, and my little sons f'elt to rejoice very much to think that they were coming home again. I wrote to her that I would send her son Franklin after her as soon as we could get him ready. But before he got ready to go, I received another letter from her demanding a divorce, although she said it would make no difference she should consider herself free at any rate. The next thing I heard of her she was married to Elliott of Salem, Utah County and was living there. The foregoing is a brief statements of facts. (She received her endowments about five years after we were sealed in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. We never had any particular difficulty until she was determined that her daughter should marry Ben Minchey, although she was often in trouble with some of her neighbors through her tat I ing to which she was very much addicted. She had a good loghouse, as good as any in this place, a good young orchard, and three fat hogs in the pen when she went away. She also had three cows which I called hers and chickens, etc. I knew no difference in my wifes or children in providing for them. t never abused her in word or action. If I have erred atall it is on the side of mercy. My daughter was led to disobey me through the influence of her mother. Minchey made her. believe that he had a great many cows, and they could go somewhere and run a dairy and do great things, but my wife found out to her sorrow that he had no cows or anything else but a span of horses and an old wagon, and she became as anxious after she had married Elliott to get her daughter and Minchey separated, as she was to get them married, which, she finally accomplished. My daughter came back to me with her babe. Minchey had to flee a fugitive from justice. She subsequently married Oscar Beebe, a son of Bro. Beebe by his first wife. My four children by my second wife are living at the Muddy, Emery Co. at this time. The eldest, James Franklin is a counsellor to the Bishop of that ward. You asked me if I wanted to give my wife a bill of divorce. I answered that I did not, I consider that she is just as well off, and perhaps better than she would be with a divorce. My children wishes me to hold on to her if possible. I have not done anything to forfeit my right to her and if it is possible to save her, I wish to do it. This is the way I feel at present, but I hold myself subject to counsel from the authorities of the Church. I told Bro. Snow when he was here, that I would get Bro. Leithead and others to make a statement with regard to me not supporting her, etc. which are as follows:

James L. Leithead's Statement. Jan 25th 1885: I became acquainted with Brother Warren Foote and his family about the year 1865 while living on the Muddy. After I purchased the gristmill he became my miller and ran the mill for me until we left there. After leaving the Muddy we moved to Long Valley, and settled in the same town together - Glendale - and as soon as I got the gristmill in operation he again ran the mill for me. I was Bishop of the ward then and brother Foote was one of my counsellors. I was intimate with brother Foote and his family, and never knew of any particular trouble in his family although they visited at our house and we with them. There never were any complaints made officially or otherwise and knew nothing but what they were living comfortably together. Their circumstances I considered better than the average of those who came from the Muddy, because he having the mill was enabled to obtain many necessaries in the clothing line etc. that others did not have. Kanab and other places brought in goods of various kinds to trade for cornmeal, etc. and I believe that Bro. Foote provided as well or better for his family than the majority of the families resident in this place. I had every opportunity to know this being closely connected with him in a ward as well as business capacity. After Sister Maria left Glendale, as we supposed with the intention of visiting friends in the north, and when she had been gone a year or more, Bro. Foote sent her a roll of cloth for herself and children. This I know, because he sent it to her by my wife's brother who had been making us a visit. I know also that Maria acted very unwise, and much against Brother Foote's wishes in harboring one of the Mincheys and who finally married her daughter Olive in a clandestine manner much against Brother Foote's wishes and even knowledge. I think she was led astray by Minchey's representations of wealth, that he was possessor of, but it turned out otherwise, and he had to run the country for his thieving proclivities leaving his wife and babe. This I think was about the beginning of their troubles. (Signed) James Leithead.

Statement of Silas Harris. Glendale Jan 25th 1885: To WhomitMay Concern: This certifies that I have lived neighbor to Brother Warren Foote since I came to Glendale twelve years ago and have been acquainted with his family. As regards Maria I vie Foote in my judgment, considering the privations the people had to undergo in settling a new place, she was reasonable cared for, and I do not know of any reasonable excuse she had for leaving Bro. Foote. Respectfully Silas Harris. I also certify to the foregoing, Sariah Harris.

Statement of Bishop Royal J. Cutler, Jan 27th 1885. To Whom it May Concern: In the matter relating to Brother Warren Foote and his wife Maria, I will say I have been very well acquainted with Br. Foote and his wife Maria from before the time they moved to this place and to the best of my knowledge, brother Foote has been a good provider to both his families, and further, Sister Maria, at the time of her leaving, had as good a house and as comfortable surroundings as the majority of families in this place. (Signed) Royal J. Cutler, Bishop.

My son J. Franklin has given up herding sheep, so will not come back. Sept. 25th my daughter Olive writes that he is over to the Sevier River working for grain, and Ammon was going to Ferron to work for grain. All well. On the 30th of October, she writes that there are a few cases of Typhoid Fever there, but her family and brothers were well.

About the 3rd of December I got a letter from my daughter Olive, which I will copy:

1887

Muddy, Emercy Co, Utah Nov 25th 1887 Dear Father: I will write you a few lines. I and my family are well, but Franklin and Ammon are very sick with the typhoid fever. They appear a little better this morning, but it is hard to tell, it is such a curious disease. They appear better one hour and worse the next. There is a great deal of sickness all through this country. Our Bishop's wife died two weeks ago. She left 8 children..... Oscar says he will leave here next spring. I would like to see you all, but can't tell when that will be. Give my love to all the folks and accept a share yourself. Write as soon as you get this. From your affectionate daughter Olive Beebe.

The forepart of Dec. the weather turned very cold and many of the people here were gone north for breadstuff. About the 12th of Dec I received a letter from Emiline and Franklin dated the 4th and 6th. Under the first date she writes that Franklin is a little better. He has been sick three weeks and as low as he could be and live, but he has been in his right mind all the time. She also writes that Ammon appears better and was in his right mind then. He had been delirious for fourteen days. On the 6th she wrote in the same letter that Ammon died that morning, and a man by the name of Miller also died and they would be buried tomorrow. Franklin was still better.

I got a letter from Olive the same day I got Emiline's as follows:

Muddy, Emery Co. Dee 6th 1887

Dear Father: It is with a sorrowful heart that I write to you this morning. Ammon died this morning about six o'clock which has thrown us all into great grief. He had the Typhoid fever and was sick three weeks. He was delirious all the time, and talked a great deal about you. It seemed like we could not give him up, but the Lord knows best. Father, I wish you could have been here. Franklin is getting better. From your loving daughter. Olive Beebe.

The death of my dear son filled my heart with grief and sadness and all my family here. Poor boyl He was taken from me when he was little, and I never saw him but once after. He and his brother Charles came home with Franklin late in Dec. 1881 and stayed until spring, but I have received many kind letters from him since that time. He has seen pretty hard times all his life, working to support his mother and her illegitimate children. He has gone to rest, but it seems sad that he should be cut off so young and leaving a wife and a little son who was very dear to him. The Lord knows what is best for us. Perhaps he was taken away from the evil to come. It remains for me to see that his Temple work is done, that he may come forth in the resurrection morn with my children who are gone before. He was born Dee 5th 1865 about nine o'clock at night, consequently he was 22 years and about nine hours old. I cannot help but mourn for him. 0 how lonely his brother Charles will feel. They have been together through all their toils, and hardships and it will be a long time before this sad bereavement will wear off of his mind if it ever does. May the Lord comfort him and spare his life.

1888

January. Through the blessings of our Heavenly Father, my wife has continued to improve in health, so that she is able to do considerable work about the house. Things jn Glendale remain about stationary - not much improvement. I am spending my time this winter mostly in writing my history.

My son Franklin wrote to me on the 23rd of Jan. and I make the following extract: Dear Father and Auntie and Brothers and Sisters: I set myself down to write a few lines to you. We are all well once more. There is not any sickness here now, thank God. I miss Ammon awfully. I can't hardly stand it at times. I had a load of flour at Salina and was going to start for it. I was not feeling well, so he said he would go for me. He was not very well when he started, and being exposed to the cold weather he took cold. I was not able to go and see him, neither while he was sick, nor after he was dead." Franklin's wife writes in the same letter that Ammon *s wife feels very lonely and has gone to live with Jed Knight and his wife.

February. About the 20th of Feb. I received a letter from my daughter Olive Beebe with regard to Ammon and his mother which I will copy.

Muddy, Emery Co. Feb 9th 1888 Dear Father: I will write you a few lines about Ammon's death, which is a sorrowful thing for me to do. Ammon when he was sick, seemed to want a long talk with you about yourself and mother, which seemed to trouble him very much. He said if you could not forgive mother and have her baptized back into the Church, he did not want anything to do with the Church or you either; if she was the only one to be damned, when others who had done as bad or worse than she had, could be forgiven. He said his mother was more to him than anybody else in this world. She had always taught him to do right and honor his father, and he wanted me to see that you forgave her and had her baptized back into the Church. Mother has wrote to the First Presidency of the Church, and they forgave her, and it was left for you and her to settle between yourselves, and she is going to keep at you till you will have to do something to help her get back. Father, it seems to me like you don't think much of us children, if you can't forgive her when she humbly asks it. If we cannot forgive, we cannot expect to be forgiven. What can be settled in this life, it seems to me to be better settled, than to have to go behind the veil to be settled. She is determined to keep at the leaders of the Church until they will make you do something for her. Oscar and I are going over to Salina to visit and I will write to you again. Father, for our sake and Ammon's as it was his main trouble, think of this and forgive mother so she can come back into the Church. (Signed) Olive Beebe.

Before answering the foregoing letter I concluded to write to my son, Franklin and Ammon's wife to learn if either of them knew anything about this conversation of Annon's. I learned that they did not. Ammon's wife writes that all she ever heard him say about me, was when he was out of his right mind - he said he would like to sit in my chair. She also says his mother had a great deal of influence over him, and was the cause of some trouble between Ammon and her. Franklin writes that the Church authorities in Emery Stake had not forgiven his mother, but he believed the Salem ward did.

I did not answer my daughter's letter until April, but I will insert it here, so it can be read in connexion with the foregoing.

Dear Daughter Olive: I received your letter dated Feb. 9th 1888 sometime ago and would have answered it before now, if I had known where you were. You wrote that you would write again soon, and I have been waiting all this time for another letter. I got a letter from Franklin last Thursday and he says you are living not far from Salina. So I will write and direct my letter to that place. We are all well at present. Artemisia had a boy the first day of this month (Apr.) and Clara is waiting on her. She is up and about house now. Auntie is doing the housework at home. She stands it much better than I expected she would. Now with regard to your mother. You plead with me to forgive her so that she can come back into the Church. You say the Authorities have forgiven her and have left it for her and me to settle between ourselves. I would like to know who the Authorities are who have forgiven her. You seem to think that I am the only obstacle in her way in getting back into the Church. I wish it was so. She has not only sinned against me, but against God our Father, and all his Saints, and brought disgrace and scandal upon the whole Church. If she can be forgiven so as to be received into the Church again, no one will be more thankful than I will. I have always pittied her, and have always been very sorrowful for her. Now your mother has never asked me to forgive I her or manifested to me any signs of remorse of concience or any desire to renew her broken covenants. I am willing and anxious to do what is right and just in the sight of the Lord, and his Saints for her salvation; inasmuch as she truly repents, and forsakes her sins; and from this time henceforth and forever lives humbly and purely, setting a good example before the Church, and my children. Olive, when I received your letter, I was writing up my history, and it so happened that I was writing for the years 1877 and 1878, and when I came to your mother's letter to me stating that she would come back, and Ammon's letter telling how glad they felt, and said he did not think he and Charley would sleep any all night, they felt so happy, how do you think I felt? The fact is, I could scarcely sleep nights, for thinking of those poor innocent boys; how they wanted to come home. They said that they loved pa and ma and would work hard for us. They did not want a step-father. It makes my heart ache when ( think of those tunes. I think your mother must'have had a heart of stone to have resisted the pleadings of those dear little children. How can she think of those times today without weeping, and repenting in sackcloth and ashes? My heart is full and I must close this subject. I love my children, but they have not manifested that love, and respect and obedience to me that they ought to have done; but I forgive them all, and may the Lord be merciful to them and forgive them also, which he will do if they repent and seek forgiveness. I want to meet them all beyond the grave, with all whom the Lord has given to me and enjoy all the blessings sealed upon our heads for all eternity, where sorrow, pain, and death are known no more. I feel to comply with the Commandments of the Lord as they are recorded in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, the 64th Section and 10th verse as follows: "I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive, but of you it is required to forgive all men. And ye ought to say in your heart, let God judge between me and thee, and reward be according to thy deeds. From your father Warren Foote.

May 21 I got a very kind letter from my daughter Olive. Her mother is very anxious to get back into the Church again. She writes that Erastus Snow wrote to her mother saying he did not blame her for leaving me, but she commited an error in marrying without a divorce. On receiving this letter, I wrote to her to inform me when her mother got that letter from Apostle E. Snow, as I thought it very strange he would write such a letter after he was here and stayed over night with me. On the 2nd of June my daughter answered my letter and stated that as near as she can remember Bro. Snow wrote to her mother about three years ago. I wrote to her that it was of no use for her and me to be writing about her mother as we could accomplish nothing, but if her mother was sincere in her desires to get back into the Church, let her write to me and make a confession and let me know what she wanted. I was willing to do what was right in her case. She must write herself.

About the 25th of July I received the following from Maria Ivie, she who was once my second wife.

Salina July 21st 1888 Mr. Foote: I write you a few lines. I don't expect I can make a confession to suit you, but I am sorry for the way circumstances has placed me to cause me to do as I have done. After you told you had been thinking of leaving me, and let me shift for myself, I asked you to take me and go and see Pres. Young, as he was in Saint George, and settle everything between us, but you would not go. When I left there I left with your consent, intending to go back again, but when you sent me word by Frank that you did not care where I went, or what became of me, for you did not want to see me in twenty years, if you had the boys back, I prefered to go to my mothers. After some months consideration, I wrote to you to forgive me, and come and get me. I would meet you and make my part of the wrongs right. But you wrote and told me that you did not forgive me, and if I came back I would come as I went. I showed that letter to Elliott and he said he would take it and show it to Pres. Taylor. He told me that he had seen Pres. Taylor and he said it would be all right - that I did not need a bill. So I married him, but after t found out he had lied to me, and deceived me in that and many other things which caused us to separate. I thought at the time I was doing perfectly right in marrying him. So you see I am not all to blame. I went to some of the best authorities in the Church without going to Pres. Woodruff, and told them as I have told you, and I also told them that you refused to have me sealed to you in the Endowment House, and you promised to take me back in two weeks and have it done, but you did not do it, and they said I was not so much to blame, and that I committed adultery in not leaving you when you did not do as you promised in having me sealed to you when you agreed to. Brigham told you that our sealing would only stand good till a place was prepared. You took Sidnie and went to Saint George and never said a word to me, and had some dead women sealed to you without me knowing it, and leaving me out, and they said if it come before Pres. Woodruff it would have to be settled. You can consider this and answer as you like, but I am determined to get back, for I am as much a Mormon as I ever was. Hoping to year from you soon (signed) Maria Ivie.

Although I did not answer the foregoing letter until October, I will insert it here so as to connect the two together:

Glendale Oct. 21st 1888 Maria: I will answer your letter dated July 21st 1888. You commenced to make a kind of confession, but soon began accusing me of many things. If you had said that you were sorry for the awful sin you had committed, and asked me to forgive you, I think it would have looked more as though you had sincerely repented and desired to live a better life. I never expected to leave you and let you shift for yourself. After you got so thick with the Mincheys, your whole nature seemed to be changed. You gave me to understand that you would do as you pleased in spite of me. You opposed me in everything. The evil spirit took possession of you and led you on to ruin in spite of all my counsel to you. I always expected to provide for you and the children as long as you stayed with me according to the best of my ability. If you supposed I was fool enough to go with you to Pres. Young and bother him with your foolishness, I think you found you was mistaken. There was a Tribunal nearer home if you had any grievances to complain of. If, when you left here, you intended to come back, why did you sell off all your chickens? And why did you and Ben Minchey intend during my absence to St. George, to kill all the fattening hogs and gobble up every thing about the house and put out? But it so happened that I was impressed by the spirit not to go, so your nice scheme failed. And when Franklin and Olive left here, why did you want them to take all the household things, such as the stove, clock, dishes, etc.? When you left you did not go with my consent. I knew nothing about your going, until, I was passing by the house and saw you sitting on the door sill, dressed up, and looking as though you were waiting for someone, I asked you where you were going? You said you were going to Panguitch with Jed Knight to buy you a chest. I asked you where Ammon and Charley were going as I had seen them running across the field dressed up. You said they were going to drive the cows to the herd. I did not mistrust that you were going to take them with you. If I had I would have made them come back. I have plenty of witnesses to prove that you had been making your arrangements for some time to leave me. When I found out that you had got Oily married to Ben Mincey in the dead hours of the night, knowing that it was contrary to my counsel and wishes, and had kept it a secret from me, I was very angry, and I might have said that I did not care if I did not see you in twenty years. I said the curse of the Lord would follow you in taking such a course, and I think that I was not mistaken in my prediction. When you wrote to me wanting to come back, and for me to forgive you, I never answered you as you say I did. I never wrote that I would not forgive you, and if you came back you would come as you went. I wrote that I could not go after you myself, but as soon as Franklin got back from Silver Reef I would send him after you. But before he could get ready to go, I got a letter from you demanding a bill from me, but you said it made no difference, for you should consider yourself free anyway. The next thing I heard of you, you were living with Elliott. Why should I consult you about having dead women sealed to me when you were living with another man? What difference could it make to you how many women I had? As for the sealing in the Endowment House when you got your Endowment, you know very well the reason why it was not done. I did according to President Young's counsel. I do not think that I agreed to go back in two weeks but said we would attend to it some other time. Why should you harp so much on that? Were you not as well of as Sidnie? You were sealed to me by the highest authority on the earth, and Sidnie had only been sealed to me by 6eo. A. Smith in the Historian's Office. Was not your sealing as good and binding as hers? Apostle Erastus Snow preached on this subject at Orderville a few years ago, and said that the priesthood was greater than the alter, and that all the sealing done by the priesthood previously was legal and valid. If that "best authority, next to Pros. Woodruff" you consulted told you what you said they did, it shows that they were not very wise to judge a matter before they had heard both sides of the case. Bro. Erastus Snow told me that you had wrote a long letter to him, accusing me of many things, and said your own words condemned you. He stayed over night with me, and when I showed him the place where you had lived, he exclaimed, "0, foolish woman to leave a home like that." Now Maria, if you had stuck faithfully to me, you could have helped me in the Temple, and have had your work completed as far as endowments, and ordinances in this life are concerned, and you would have been well respected. But you spurned my counsel, and done as you have. I once thought a great deal of you or I would not have put up with what I have. The past cannot be recalled, but you can live for the future an humble and prayerful life. And as all sin shall be forgiven, but the sin against the Holy Ghost, you may, when you have paid the penalty of your broken covenant, come forth and receive all the blessings sealed upon you and stand in your place. God grant that it may be so. W. Foote. I testify that the foregoing is a correct statement of facts. W. Foote.

1890

Feb. 12. I received a letter from my son Charles L. He and his mother are living in Jensen, Uintah Co. Utah. He is going to school this winter and expresses himself as being a strong believer in the Gospel.

Dec. 2. My son Charles L. arrived here today to spend the winter with us. I am very glad he has come. He has never had the privilege of being with me much, and has had a hard time in supporting his mother and her children she has had by Elliott and Davis.

1891

Sept. 30. I received a letter from my son-in-law Andrew Olsen. He writes that Clara has a boy, born the 22nd of Sept. All well. My son Charles L. who has been working in this region, started for the north (near Vermillion) where his mother lives. He took about 800 Ibs. of apples.

1894

I received a letter from my son Franklin dated Nov. 20, 1894.

Dear Father: After so long a time I write you a few lines to let you know how we are getting along. We are all in middling good health and hope this will find you all enjoying the same blessing. It keeps me rustling to get bread and clothes, but the prospects seems to look better for the future. I dont feel to complain as long as we have our health. The weather is nice. Father dont feel bad because I do not write oftener. You know the last talk I had with you was about Mother's affair. I kept putting off having a talk with her, hoping that she would say something on the subject. On the first of last June I asked her which of the three men she intended to belong to in the future. She said to Davis. I tried to show her the great mistake she would make, but she would not see it. She said she would rather have a lesser glory and live with him and his, than live with you and yours. But she would like to have all her children. I told her that could not be. She said that she and Davis was going to get married over. I told her what the consequences would be and she could blame no one but herself. I talked plain and she knows what she is doing. But for Charleys sake I think it would be a God's blessing. He has had a hard row to hoe. I think if that is her choice we had better let her go. Davis will make her miserable, not happy. Let me hear from you soon and often. Your Son J.F. Foote

After writing to me, and making a confession, (see Page 164 second volume.) and getting baptized into the Church again, and assuming my name, I think it is very strange that Franklin's mother should take such a course again and that too knowing that Davis was cut off from the Church in St. Johns Arizona for adultry since he left her. He got a widow women with child, and also ruined her daughter. Now he has come back to Emery, and Maria is going to take him back again. Sure "The dog has returned to his vomit and the sow that washed to her wallowing in the Mire."

By Charles Horace Foote

On page 205 in Volume I of the Autobiography of Warren Foote he wrote the following: "On the 11th day of November I had a son born to my second wife whom I named Charles Lane, after my mother's brother." The baby boy's father was Warren Foote and his mother was Eliza Maria Ivie Foote. He was born in a small adobe house in a Mormon settlement named St. Thomas on the Muddy River in southeast Nevada. St. Thomas is now mostly covered by water of Lake Mead.

Maria became a polygamist wife of Warren on March 2,1856, when they