Early Arizona Women in the Mormon Faith :: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Early Arizona Women in the Mormon Faith Imagine locomotion across country, in chartless territory without air conditioning. Believe it or non, thousands of people did it. These pioneers had to protect themselves, straighten out good of the resources some them and try to have a normal family liveliness on top of this. As if this was non hard enough, Mormon women had a much tougher challenge to face they had to keep faith and teach the excogitate of the lord to all they came in contact with. Many challenges had to be master even once they settled, building a house, a community, and a church, not to mention the boredom and loneliness of being far from their families. Pioneering was done principally throughout the mid to late nineteenth century in America. Women were obligated for tending to the children, cooking whatever their husbands (or fathers or brothers) may have caught that daytime and cleaning. There were times when animals were hard to find and no kill wa s brought home(a) that night to feast on the women had to then compromise and pick plants around them and boil them into a soup. The types of animals that were mainly found were deer, buffalo and occasionally a dog was killed to feast upon. Some of the fears of traveling to Arizona consisted of Indian attacks, robbers and family and, or friends dying along the trail. Not all tribes of Indians attacked traveling settlers. In an account told by Mrs. Elvira Martineau Johnson, who, in 1876, traveled with her husband to Moen Copie tells of how Navajo Indians valued justice, not revenge. According to her, three of the tribes cattle were killed and the Navajos wanted to distinguish by whom. The head of the settlement, Jas S. Brown, was hospitable and fed the Navajos while he assay to get to the bottom of the story. Brown and the Navajos traveled to another settlement not far away and discovered half-starved colonists. The colonists admitted to killing the three cattle and explained they mentation the cattle were owner less. Because of the time and effort Brown devoted to lick the problem, the Navajos were satisfied and did not ask for any reparations.1 Flagstaff became one of the get-go Mormon settlements in Arizona.