peaceful community surroundings and lives of honest, peace-loving people, being exposed to corrupting influences adverse to Christian ethics and teachings. After much deliberation by Church authorities and counseling with the Saints, it was decided that they should move to the southern part of the state where they would be free of interruption and commence, as they had times before, the upbuilding of Christ's Church. The newly appointed territorial Governor, Alfred Cummings, arrived in Salt Lake City in April, 1858 and found the Saints getting ready to move, and by mid May all communities to the north and south were abandoned. Thirty-thousand Saints on the march South. They set up camps in Utah and Sanpete counties to await orders to continue their journey. An alarmed Governor pleaded with the Church leader to return his people to their respective com-munities and homes and won from him a promise to return, provided the army would not molest or settle near them. The Pioneer leader declared, "It was their desire, as it always had been, to live in peace under the Constitution and uphold laws of the land." Meanwhile, President Buchanan issued a proclamation pardoning the Saints for their rebellion and attacking the army. President Young, speaking for his people, indignantly refused to accept pardon for participating as charged in a rebellion of which they were not guilty, but would accept pardon for army supplies and property which they didn't deny. The Federal army entered a deserted Salt Lake City in June, marched South and camped in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake. The worried Saints kept well informed on activities at the camp and when it became evident the army assumed a peaceful role, they returned to thein homes. The beginning of the third year period of this army occupation brought an end to the Utah War. A war of persecution that stemmed from hatred of a people because of religious belief, took the lives of several hundred innocent people and cost the Federal Government $15,000,000. (History of Utah, as reported by Howard S. Benedict, Associate Press Writer) Now back to the happenings of a religious nature in Slaterville. The Church in Slaterville functioned as a branch for nineteen years with Mr. Thomas Richardson serving seventeen of those years as Branch president. However, due to the trouble with the Government, it was not fully organized until February 16, 1860 when Mr. Richardson was agin sustained president, Thomas Thomas as first and Edwin W. Smout second counselors under supervision of President Lorin Farr and Bishop Chauncy W. West. After serving two years as counselor to President Richardson, Mr. Smout was released and sustained as superintendent of the Sunday School, which was organized April 6, 1862. Church records indicate that Davis Bartholomew was called and set apart by President Farr and Bishop West as a counselor to President Richardson. William Wheeler Sr. was set apart as a counselor to superintendent Smout. At the end of 1862, for reasons unknown to the writer, Sunday School was discontinued until the spring of 1868. Meanwhile, on October 28, 1863, Thomas Thomas, President Richardson's first counselor, died leaving a vacancy which Mr. Smout was again called and sustained to fill. -80- presidency of the Branch remained as then constituted, for the following five years, until 1868 when Mr. Smout was released and sustained again as superintendent of the Sunday School with William Wheeler and William H. Manning assistants. This organization continued to function under their supervision until April 1875 when Mr. Smout was released and William Singleton was sustained as superintendent, serving with Messrs. William Wheeler and Willam H. Manning as counselors until 1878. These people functioned at times under disadvantages. Superintendents who guided its destiny through the remainder of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century are as follows: March 31, 1878 - Henry C. Holley; President Thomas Boyington; First Assistant William H. Manning; Second Assistant James A. Slater; Secretary December 10, 1882 - James A. Slater; Superintendent Henry Bartholomew; First Assistant George W. Stanger; Second Assistant Henry C. Holley; Secretary At this time Supt. Slater was called on a mission to New Zealand. At a session of the school held December 14, 1884, Henry Bartholomew was sustained as acting Supt. with William H. Manning as his assistant. Supt. James A. Slater who was still on his mission and George W. Stanger also being absent on a mission. Henry Bartholomew left the ward in 1887 and so William H. Manning was appointed superintendent. At a session of the school in October the Stake Supt. Richard Ballantyne and his assistant William H. Wright again sustained James A. Slater, who had returned from his mission) as superintendent with Henry Bartholomew as first assistant and William H. Manning as second assistant and Henry C. Holley as secretary. Soon afterwards Henry Bartholomew was not residing in the ward and was succeeded as first assistant by William H. Manning and James P. Howell was sustained as second assistant March 1889. February 11 1900 - John Wheeler - Superintendent James P. Howell - First Assistant John D. Bradshaw - Second Assistant Records of the ward are very poor during the next few years but the known superintendents and assistants follow as was recorded: 1928 - Harold 0. Slater - Assistant Victor Holley - First Assistant December 31, 1930 November 24, 1935 - Harold Osborn Slater - Superintendent George Victor - First Assistant Zella Smout - Secretary Victor J. Wheeler - Superintendent Lewis E. Holley - First Assistant Elmer Allen - Second Assistant -81-