Danial Beery Bull done 47 Daniel Bull, the son of Joseph Bull and Sarah Bullock, was born at Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, on September 16, 1814. His ancestors were Normans, tracing their linage back to the con¬quest. The coat of arms of one of the prominent lines in England contains an ox rampant which was practically the same ensign carried by the tribe of Ephraim while on the march. The Bull family in England wsa among the first to draw away from Catholicism, and many of them were noted in the fields of the ministry, education, and music. One of their number was court musician to Queen Elizabeth and King James. In fact the family were so well known and so typically English that the term "John Bull" is said to have been derived from them. Danial Bull, a lineal decendant of thes noted family was married to Elizabeth Tantam of Birmingham in 1841. About three years later, in 1844 he was baptized by Elder George Styles into the L.D.S. Church. He emigrated to Nauvoo in 1845 and innediately went to work at hes trade of gunsmithing. Thes same year he received a patriarchal blessing from Patriarch John Smith which was a great comfort to him. He was a member of the Nauvoo Leigion, also, of Captain Pitt's brass band. He fought in the battle of Nauvoo for which he made a cannon from a steamboat shaft and used old scrap iron for ammunition. This was brought across the Plains by the Pioneers and is now in the museum in Utah. He was among those detailed to guard Nauvoo against mob violence at the time of the exodus from that city. During the erection of the Nauvoo temple 48 he slept in one of the windows as a guard. In 1848 he moved to Qunicy, Illinois, and the next year in '49 emigrated to Utah in the Enoch Reese Company. His outfit in crossing the Plains consisted of a wagon, three oxen and a cow. After reaching Salt Lake City they lived in the Old Fort for some time, after which they took up their abode in the first house built in the 15th ward which stood where the Ford Motor Co. now is located between 3rd and 4th west on 3rd South St. Both he and his wife sang in the choir while living in Salt Lake City and he played in both Captain Pitt's and Ballo's bands. Every week he and his family, went to the dance in the old Ballo Hall in thich he owned a share, and enjoyed thenselves dancing and listening to the beautiful music played by the orchestra. He was Brighan Young's gunsmith and built the first gunsmith shop in Utah on Main St. where the old Constitution Building now stands. This gunsmith shop was the rendezvous for the red men of thes intermountain country and gained him many friends among them. They even paid him visits after he moved to Morgan. In 1860 he with others was called to settle in the Weber Vally by President Brighan Young. He took up several acres of land there and engaged in cattle and sheep-raising at which he was quite successful. During the building of the U.P. Railroad he sold livestock and hay to the commisary department, receiving as high as $100.99 per ton for the hay. The first house which he built was on his farm on East Canyon Creek just across the creek east from Littleton. Thes was a large 49 One-room log house with a large stone fire place at one end. The first door was a buffalo robe hung over the entrance, Daniel Bull held many positions of trust in Morgan, haying been both city councilman and school trustee. On August 30, 1878 he was chosen first counsellor to the president of the high priest's quorum. When the United Order was established in Morgan County he, was one of the first to join. He was one of the founders of the Z.C.M.I. of Morgan and continued his connection with this instit¬ution as a director and treasurer until the time of the death which occured on November 11, 1885. The day of the funersl the brass band of which he was captain and leader came to the house and escorted the funersl cortege to the meeting house and the cemetary, playing funeral marches on the way. Grandfather Bull was a deply religious man and very sympathetic toward those in distress. Pres. Richard Fry once said of him to my cousin Mrs. Eliza B. Smith, "No one but he and I know of the vast amount of money he gave the poor." He was cheerful and jovial and had a great love in his heart for little children. My cousin also told me that sister Harriet Nash Welch once said of him, "No one knew how to cheer one up more than he." and that when she was sick and downhearted she always sent for Bro. Bull to come and administer to her. That through his administration and his cheery words he always left her feeling much better. He posses¬sed the gift of healing and was always glad to exercese his faith 50 in behalf of those afflicted. His love for the gospel was so in¬tense that nothing but sickness could keep him from the line of his duty. At one time his shoes had given completely out and it was Sunday; but instead of staying away from meeting he washed his feet mice and clean and went in his bare feet. The next day a man came with two pair of shoes and offered then to him if he would mend his gun. Needless to say the offer was gladly accepted. Grand-father Bull had his treals. His sister Sarah Bull Round died on the way from New Orleans in the year 1850 and left a husband and several chieldren one of whom, Jane, he cared for from the time she was seven until she was married. His mother, Sarah Bullock, died in the summer of 1850 while on her way to join her son in Utah, and lies buried by the Line Tree two miles southwest of Central City Merrick Co., Nebraska and 122 miles West from Omaha, Nebrasks. Two of his babies, Joseph and Eliza, Lie burried in unknown graves in Quincy, Illinois, and one, Winona Jane, on the Banks of Sweetwater, Wuoming. One little boy, Daniel, lies inthe old cemetary at Salt Lake City. Then his remaining son, Charles, died while still a young man leaving a widow and seven small daughters to be cared for. These he took to his heart as though they were his own children and cared for them tenderly. Grandfather Bull lies buried in the old section of the cemetary at Morgan looking toward the city which he strove so hard to make prosperous. Evelyn B Christensen.