Salt Lake City

Last month Mom and I decided to drive to Salt Lake City.  My father's family is from Salt Lake and surrounding area. They traveled from Nauvoo Illinois to Iowa then on to Utah, they were Mormon handcart pioneers and I am in awe of them. The hardships they faced and the family member that were lost, yet they persevered.  My g.g.g. grandfather had 4 wives and 34 children. He was in Nauvoo when they were forced out and his family made the perilous trip to Salt Lake City.  Ebenezer had three wives before he reached Utah; Angeline King, Polly Ann Child, and Phoebe Child.  Ebenezer was called to go on a mission to South Africa and he also visited the gold mines in California.  He was described as a large man in stature and had dark curly hair. He played the fiddle, was a prankster, and loved children.  How he managed to beget all of those children is beyond me. 


One of the places we visited was "This Is The Place Heritage Park."  The location of the park is where, on July 24, 1847, Brigham Young first saw the Salt Lake Valley that would soon become the Mormon pioneers' new home.  To visit their website Click Here.

The following pictures are of the This Is The Place Monument.