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Show • • I· • ( tff Berf Y) DANIEL BEERY BULL 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 conquest. The coat of arms contains an ox rampant which was practically the same ensign carried by the tribe of Ephraim while on march. The Bull family in England was among the first to draw away from Catholicism, and many of them were noted in the fields of ministry, education and music. One of their number was court musician to Queen Elizabeth and King James. Daniel Bull a lineal descendant of this noted family was married to Elizabeth Tantam of Birmingham in 1841. In 1844 he was baptized by Elder George Styles into the L.D. S. church. He emigrated to Nauvoo in 1845 and immediately went to work at his trade of gunsmithing. This 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 Legion 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 the city. During the erection of the Nauvoo temple he slept in one of the windows as a guard. In 1848 he moved to Quincy, lliinois, and the next year 1849 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, between 3rd and 4th west on 3rd street. Both he and his wife sang in a choir and he played in both Captain Pitt's and Ballo's bands. Every week the and his family went to the dance in the old Ballo Hall, in which he owned a share. He was Brigham Young's gunsmith and built the first gunsmith shop on main street where the old Constitution Building now stands. This gunsmith shop was the rendezvous for the red men of this 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 Valley by President Brigham Young. He took up several areas of land 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 commissary department, receiving as high as $100.00 per ton for • 1• • the hay. The first house he built was on his farm on East Canyon Creek, just across the creek east of Littleton. This was a large 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 having been both a city councilman and school trustee. On August 30, 1878 he was chosen first councilor to the president of the high priest's quorum. When the United Order was established in Morgan County he was on of the first to Jorn. He was one of the founders of the Z.C.M.I. of Morgan, and continued as director and treasurer until his death on November 11, 1885. The day of his funeral the brass band of which he was captain came to the house and escorted the funeral cortege to the meeting house and cemetery playing the funeral march. Grandfather Bull was a deeply religious man and very sympathetic towards those in distress. President 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 to the poor.,, He was cheerful and jovial and had a great love in his heart for little children. 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 possessed the gift of healing and was always glad to exercise his faith in behalf of those afflicted. His love for the gospel was so intense 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 the meeting he washed his feet nice and clean and went in his bare feet. The next day a man came with two pair of shoes and offered them to him if he would mend his gun. Grandfather Bull had his trials. His sister Sarah Bull Round died on the way from New Orleans in 1850 and left a husband and several children. One of whom, Jane, he cared for from the time she was seven until she married. His mother Sarah Bullock died in the summer of 1850 on her way to join her son in Utah and lies buried in Nebraska. Two of his babies, Joseph and Eliza, lie buried in unknown graves in Quincy, Illinois, and one, Winona Jane, on the banks of the Sweetwater in Wyoming. One little boy Daniel, lies in the old cemetery at Salt Lake City. 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 cemetery at Morgan looking toward the city which he strove so hard to make prosperous . Evelyn B. Christensen |
