Copied from The Compiled History of Martha Ann Lewis Bingham, by Jo Ann E. Vernon.

Martha Ann gave birth to her first child, a son they named Sanford, on September 1, 1848, in Salt Lake City. From about October 1, 1848, to July 1849, Martha resided at the herd house or cabin below the mouth of Bingham Canyon. (This cabin has been preserved and is now at Lagoon in the Pioneer Village.) In the spring of 1849, a band or tribe of Indians came and camped near the herd house. One day while Sanford and Thomas were out among the cattle, there being no one in the house but 16-year-old Martha, a young brother of Sanford, and her baby Sanford, a couple of young Indians with guns in hand came into the house asking for food. As President Young had instructed the saints to feed the Indians, Martha Ann gave them some food.

After the Indians had eaten, they sat on a bench beside the bed. Martha had spread some freshly ironed clothes on the bench to air. After remaining there a short time, the Indians laid themselves back onto her clean clothes. Martha remonstrated against that conduct, explaining the best she could by signs and motions that she wanted them to get off the clothes, but they would not. She then caught them by the hair of their heads and yanked them off and went about her ironing as if nothing had happened. The two Indians cocked their guns and made some threats in their own language which she didn’t understand, but when they found they could not scare her they went away and never came back into the house again. At that time there were no white people residing within ten or fifteen miles of the herd house.