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Jimpeon, Urs.,Tz. .F.
AUG 1 1936
SAMATRA LAKU BBIIIHALL.
PION3ER •VOILAN.
ey her daughter
n'amantha T. Brimhall Foley.
The ðer of this little record arrived on the and day of earehoS5S,
when she was but two weeks old .word cArre that Bailey W. Lilit0 had been killed by
Wiens while in the performAnoe of his duty as a missionary among the Indians
on Salmon River,Idabo. These were ex:siting timestand Johnsons Army was
seat to take oars of the situation. Niling he should do so Noah Brimhall
husband of eumantha Lake Brinhall.took hiti wife and two small ohildren to
the larger settlemoat at 3'eauieh ?ork and left them with friends rtile he went
to Bobo Oanyoa And engaged in thet military affair so familiar to every one.
The six wools old aaey OU3 so ill ia,Jr life mo despaired of. The
young mother was so alarmed, line welled from her door for help, and a passing
veteran „hearing her oall,trudged olives the way with aid of him his sane, and
together they worked over the ohild othloh wasrestored to health by their,
efforts and their prayers.
When pease uad 'seen restored and Nosh Brimhall returned to 3panish porks,
the young widow of Bailey 4. LA4O emeems A member of the family of her sister-1n..1aw
Cache
They all returned to the north and setteled in Hiram, Oath* co. Idaho. DI the year
of 1864 the family moved still farther north some 40 miles away,where there wort
no holies within miles of them. It was a wildolonely spot. The native verdure
had grown in undisturbed splendor sines the morning of oreetion it seemed to
these two women so tar from human habitation,where everything was so wild it
was spelling. The allaprevading silenee of the valley was unbroken essept for
ei rushing mountain streams by day and the roaring wild animals by night and
lay these two pmen who felt this isolation so keenly, set up a wail
to be forgotten( at this did net last long for there was a family of
Waldron to be oared for. They were soon pluying in tll tall grass while
eptton,ers.
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their 1.,-thor eede e eeedreec:e reeeh vela o reale eeriebt eoles,eud fashion
a tAmporary shelter to sheild them from the weather. When this was done, hey
was gathered for ;he ronf,tee floor an the cettle end horses.
An amele stone fireplace soon filled one oorned of the apeewhet
spaeious room. Two wagon teetesarrangsd at opposite sides outeside the living
room,served a.. sleeping quarters for the time being. 3urplus side -boards from
the wagon :Ni!'4 e.ahleeed into e long *ee.:40h .A.th roatm:.5 ut eeeh man end, etei soon
a geo‘kp of happy ehiletrea wore oroonine merry eons5 before u glowing fire.
?ha el -At thine oe ineoetanue 1.'4 the sholt.irlhz c domestiO animals
egeiuot tee eleiesitedes oe 4 threetouing ideho eeeter, eitio:1 wee accumplished
eefore re reel- Gold eether one on there euriae the "tenths of
Jenuere Kett eetreery tee snows 061,6!:43f: to fall ieeeesuntle. eheir road wee
blooftod, aue tety we indeed aiune. eu teeteee vet- i.eee e to ehoe ice in the
streme "he reethme T.Re 11,1 7ero e- y. euee to their nerprise and
eieesure tney aew teo ireiees epernachtee over tee lields of snow ottedee teat
winter. tu iP&j h satisfied teoleeelves thet these their fer--ay
eeieheore wore OA trz rood .1ollitioatthez,. 3tart ed oz; thuir homeward ray,
but they eneoentered a severe storm and wore eoth froe-Jn to. death before tee:
oonld oompleets the trip to their homes. It wee a herd winter,but at leught
eprine eeeeered arc! when the deep snows were nolted,people feew tee eettlemente
below lame to look over our loeation,whitth restated La eeeoral femilioe etttling
near us. Tgis gee, the two Lou 14 the lumen eomnseliouship whinla Loy .eed.
The new settlement wes loceted ueer& widowed part of the aitimlWaL streem
where it vie shallow eaouge for the oxee to feed it eeeily. eel tie' nemed
the settlement just that —o.-lord
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ur eeforee A amill butt001 eke started
truit autuner,b7 Piro* Wary Antra Brice,tnadee the willow porch of her hazes.
ehi Wed no sohool books, but along other thiues, she taught them that there
were seeen eays in a week:, twenty hours in a thy, and sleety minutes la an hour.
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Also demanded that eaoh child learn the day of his or her birth.
Simpson,Mrs01B.T.F.
S 700 SAMANTHA LAKE BIUMHALL. (3)
It was Spring and All the sheep of the settlement were sheared The wool was
washed, dyed, carded and *hex the longer process of spinning was over the
women undertook to weave the wool into cloth In this art Samantha Lake Brimhall
was expert and she did much of the weaving for the settlement,in odder to help
out in a financial way,and to procure the necessary things of life. She wove many
different kinds of cloth. She also became an efficient gardner,and
her beautiful rows of cabbage and other well cultivated vegetables were the mravel o
of the villiage. This she could do without leaving her home° She was strictly
a home woman and seldom left her doorstep. She created her own enjoyment and
employment within her home,all in service to her family.
The men of the settlement were always hard at work, building
houses° digging ditches, making roads, plowing the fields and harvesting the crops.
Money was soarce,and the ir only hope of revenew was the possible sale of a
little wheat or other grain or vegetables° Samantha 1ake Brimhall was not slow
in realizing this situation,and came to the rescue of her husband in many ways.
At harvest time she stored away an abundance of fine wheat straw,
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and this she wove,.during the/winter months,into hats for mentwomen and children°
And she found ready sale for the products of her industry.
The neighboring tribes of Indians came to the new settlement to
find a market for their furs and buckskins. These they were pleased to exchange
for vegetables, hats, and other articles manufactured by Samantha. She took
advantage of the situation and she laid in a goodly store of furs and buckskins°
She then went to Salt Lake City and she learned the glove and the fur trade.
From this tome on,so long as she lived,she received some revenewfrom her many
branohes of industry,for the benefit of her numerous and growing family.
In the spring she made her hats, in the summer she made her garden and
spun and wove cloth. And the winters found her in the corner near the fire -place
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6AYANTTIA ;4;,11 B71rHLL. (4)
where a wIndoe had been made for her benefit, working almost thoessantly an.
glo7os or fur °oats, often filling orders from a. distance.
She had one daughter in. liew maxim) who wrote hur of the mild climate
there, and she determined to go to the south where she would find life less
diffoult than in the cold winters of the state of Idaho. So in the year of 1876
finding herself &widow Samantha Lake Brishall with her five ahildren, Wien.
Clybarn, 3.11Ta, rora, and '4illard Journeyed to Ne* Mexico,over the on oountr
thore tire 't' -'O few if a map to follow, finding but
settleme,nts Tith1tc poople in them, meeting maul LadimUX ,wild and unknown on the
but ever keeping in her mind the "lend of promise" Ma about three months time,
she arrived in the tiny settlement of Fruitland,New mexioo, Ahere she tarried
tut a few weeksefor the daughter lived in Ramah, N.M.,farther soutp
love was tour indeed great, almost suelime,for it was to we of aomlbrt tu that
daughter,who was sadly in need of her assistance, that was the real reason of.
this lonmohardpeenep trip. At her journeys end she enoountered conditiOSI
that could not be overoome oven by this resolute un4 gifted woman, aha she
x,..ounled to that deard disease, small -Pox. It took her oh u journes from Alioh
mo man or woman has ever returned. The little cemetery at Bamako/us, by spring, so t
thiokly populated with the vistims of emen-pox that a new ane had to be etiolated.
Her son,Formah Andrew,laid her to rest beneath the tall pine trees, where, r
i,er sane Olayborn and James Allen raised a tribute to the memory of 'Other,
Sam4ntha Lalis Brimhatl, A Pioneer Amen of wun&rful couracy, ondurahoe
and resolution.
Rer mother
Source of information
Reword Written by Mrs Samantau T. Brimhall Foley, Daughter of Samantha Lake
Briahall, the subject of this sketch.