The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-19

reached Council Bluffs the United States
government issued call for volunteers
to fight in the Mexican war. Young
Taylor and his brother Joseph enlisted.
but the DAY before the troops were 20
march sne former was stricken with a
fever and before he recovered the sol
diers had been on the road for three
weeks. and the young man had 20 remain
behind and look after his mother and the
younger children.
It was while at Council Bluffs that
young Taylor met and married Clara
Lake. They started housekeeping in a
log house. The only furniture which the
barren little home had was two tin
plates and cups and two knives and
forks Six days after he was married
Taylor went to Missouri to work to gain
means for them to continue their trip
to the west. In the spring of 1919, he sue
ceeded in raising a team and a wagon
which he gave to his mother and the
children, and sent them along with saints
upon their western trip.
Travelled to Utah.
The following year the subject of this
sketch captained a party of thirty-flve
wagons to Utah. II would take volumes
to enumerate the many hardshlpS that
they endured, but it is needless to say
that only half has been told and pub
lished of the trials of those sturdy men
and women who pioneered their way 10
the fertile valleys of Utah. In Mr. Iay-
Tor s company cholera broke out ana
tered Salt Lake valley through Parley
canyon. where Captain Taylor's brother,
Allen, was found as toll collector
Captain Taylor went to Kaysville and
took up some land but as water was
scarce, he had to give it up, and after a
years work he came to Weber county
1t was in this county that he met LOflh
Farr, who was then president OF the
stake and who then took Taylor out
into the country to select home. lie de
cided upon a place upon the banks OF
Four Mile, which was about four miles
northwest of Ogden. Mr. Stewart na1
previously located the property but had
to abandon it for having killed an IN
dian who was stealing his corn.
In July, 1853, on account of the hosul-
ity of Indians in that part of the county,
the people moved to Bingham tort, AT
the foot of what is now Second street.
The women and children of 10 famliies
were left in the fort under strOns
guard while the men repaired to the near
by fields in harvesting the crops
Active Life in Utah.
During the subsequent years Taylor
| served in many public and church oftlcesr
and did much missionary work Lor III IN
latter, and took part in many sklrmshes
against the Indians. When Johnson )
army entered Utah, Taylor and many OF
his neighbors moved TO southern Utah-
Later he returned to Weber county uni:
where ne was elected captain Of the rura
police force also captain of Brig nam
| Young's bodyguard. In 1873 he did mis-
sionary work in Kentucky, the state IN
which he was born: He served th re-
months in the penitentiary upon the
charge of pOlygamy, and upon his release
was met by delegation of his Weber
| county and Salt Lake friends ana gwen
a royal reception.
Pleasant Green Taylor has always been
devout member of the church, and mas
| held every office from deacon TO pa
/ triarch. He served as a bishop OF mar
risviIle for eighteen years, where he has
always made his home, and where many
| of his children reside. He has reureo
/ from active business and resides at the
old home in HarTisville. In Weber coun-
/ ty he has always been an active WORKER
| in the interests of the state, and mas peer
! identified with many public movements
/ He has had thirty-six children, thirty o.
whom grew to maturity, and were mar
! ried in the temple, and have remained II
| the church He now has ABB descendants
children. grandchildren and great-srand
/ children.