w liiphraim Swann. Ephriam swann, born May 2 5, 1824 at Worchester, England, was educated in a private school and served eight years as an apprentice, five as blacksmith and three as whitesmith; we call it tinsmith. He never worked a day at it after his training. He didn't like it. If the same amount of money had been spent to make a veterinary surgeon of him he would have been a success, for he loved animals and limed to work for them, "He married Fanny Jones* 'They had eight children, ^_ three born in England. He joined the Latter-day Saint f ' J Church in 1856; was baptized by Wilder Bolton and came to Utah in 1857 in Jesee B* Martin's Company across the plains. He and his family started from England in March and landed in Salt Lake City in September. They buried two children on the way. They died of measels. They died twelve hours apart and were hurried 100 miles apart, iiiphriam was buried at Cleveland, Ohio and Elizabeth at Chicago, Illinois. Ee made his first home in Ogden, moved from there to Milton, Morgan county in 1861 on to a farm belonging to a Bro. Farr. He worked it on shares and while there he lost a steer and while hunting for it he came across what he thought was lime-stone, and carried a piece home and put in in the fire. It proved to be good lime. Bro. Williams, a friend of his, was a lime burner in iiingland, so he prevailed on him to start a lime-kill. It being the first lime burned in Utah* The kill now stands as a monument of the sturdy Pioneers. He moved in 1864 to Croydon, morgan bounty on a place of his own and there took part in building up roads and water ditches and when the union Pacific Kail Koad was built he took an active part in it. He was a Peace Officer. While the two tunnels were being built there were some rough characters and lots of whiskey there. He never carried fire arms, but alw ys got the man he went after. He used tobacco,when he joined the Church he told the Elders he would quit while in England as it was a custom there for the neighbor's to meet and have a pipe and glass of beer, somwhen he got on the ship he threw his pipe in the sea and never took to it again. He was of a humorous disposition always could see the bright side and always a friend to the poor, always 'sharing of what ever he had. He died, Sept. 13, 1896 at Preston, Idaho. \ by Ira* Fannie Hi. S. McQueen