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Thursday, December 4, 2025

1877 RELIEF SOCIETY MEETING HELD AT SOCIAL HALL (from our archves)

Meeting held in July 8, 1877

Opened with singing and prayer by . Minutes of former meeting was read and accepted.
talked considerably about the privileges we as a people enjoyed here in these mountains and have greatly blessed we were in being able to live here in peace and tranquility and worship God according to the dictates of our own consciences without fear of molestation.

While many of the nations of the earth there was nothing but tumult and strife failing them with fear. But hear we had it in our power to enjoy the Spirit of the Lord, and do the will of God and keep his commandments as we desire so to do. This was our privilege and the fault would be ours if we did not hold onto it. Sister Morrison also talked about the Sisters voting to sustain and supply the in with Sisters to cook for the men and hoped they would consider that vote as binding as any other covenant that they made, and do their best to sustain the same, that we ought not to forget the blessings to be derived from having our temple right in our own county and do all that lay in our power to help it along in our humble way. And she said that those that did so in honesty of heart would receive blessings more than they would be able to contain.

said he had been to Manti and heard the teachings of and with great satisfaction; that he urged the necessity of us being a self-sustaining people and that the time was not distant when we would realize it to its fullest extent, and the sooner we could get machinery in our midst and have all kinds of carried on amongst us the better it would be for this people.

President Young also said was one of the greatest principles in this church and that we ought to strive to enjoy peace and good will one towards another and live unitedly, pray with each other and for each other and by so doing we would gain power over the power of darkness and live in full enjoyment of every principle of the Gospel.

also spoke in her own language and said she felt well

The meeting closed with singing and prayer by .

, Pres.
and Sec. Pro Tem

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Black Hawk Treaty Debate

There is an ongoing debate as to where the Blackhawk Treaty was signed or agreed to. Even Hilda in the Mt. Pleasant History Book didn't make note of it.

When I first joined the Mt. Pleasant Historical Association I made a call to the Utah Historical Society and asked if they had the treaty there. They told me that there was nothing signed on paper and that it was just a word-of-mouth agreement.

Virginia Neilson, of Ephraim, said that the actual treaty was signed under a tree there in Ephraim.

John Alton Peterson in his book "Utah's Black Hawk War" states that "Black Hawk and his band of thirty warriors and their families totaling nearly a hundred individuals came to Mt. Pleasant to meet with Brigham Young near the end of June1868. The church president

appears to have been unavailable, but Orson Hyde met with the Indians in the settlement's social hall where they signed a treaty of peace. Mounted on a new saddle, a gift from Young and head, Black Hawk left the conference committed again to try to get the other members of his confederacy to come to terms."

In the footnotes of Peterson's book reference is made to Telegram of Orson Hyde to Brigham Young 31, June 1868.