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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show 4 and advised them to move to their farms. How happy we all were to be back on our farms. Then came the move South, as our men had the Johnson Army to contend with. President Brigham Young preached a sermon, telling the women that they were responsible for their families in supplying their needs. The women, in spite of careful patching and darning, soon found their clothing almost worn out. Each mother realized what President Young said that she was responsible for the family needs. Some families had a few sheep. The sheep were sheared, the wool washed, corded, and spun and woven into cloth. Some cotton and flax were raised. In 1375, Eliza R. Snow visited the Relief Society in Ogden and told the sisters that there was now a mission put on Relief Society women. It will require the service of both mothers and daughters to establish home factories. The silk industry was then established. On West 12th Street on Brooms Bench, across from the Oakley Huggins home, a large lot was planted in mulberry trees to grow leaves to feed silk worms. The trees and worms were imported from Italy and France. The lot was called Relief Society Mulberry lot. Nancy Tracy, Secretary of the Relief Society, placed a few worms in an east room of hers to start with, but soon she had thousands of them. They ate continuously for 6 weeks and made so much noise. They would strip a branch of leaves in no time. They now went in coons. The silk industry was unsuccessful financially. Therefore, it was of short duration, but it was regarded as a noble effort of pioneer people to develop for themselves the finer kind of clothing. The mulberry lot on Brooms Bench was bought by William W. Tracy and John Tracy. 374 |