Copied from The Biography of Hyrum Adams and Annie Laurie Penrod Adams, Layton, Utah, compiled and edited by Frank D. Adams and Bonnie Adams Kesler, 1953.

Pg 1-2 – Situated on the eastern shore of Great Salt Lake is Davis County, which was created by an Act of the Deseret Legislature on October 5, 1850, and named in honor of Captain Daniel Davis of Mormon Battalion fame. Davis is the smallest county in the state, having an area of 275 square miles and was the second county in the mountain west to be settled. It is one of the richest counties in the state, comprised of a narrow alluvial strip of land 4200 feet above sea level lying between the western base of the Wasatch Mountains and the eastern shore of the Great Salt Lake. The earliest settlers coming north to homestead in this area found no houses, tents, or wickiups to mark a permanent abode, but strewn about over the ground at various places were evidences of savages having made the valley a camping place. Here Indian women had ground seeds into meal and made it into bread and the task finished had laid aside the rude stone implements that served to crush the grains and render them edible.

Here painted warriors and dusky hunters had chipped black flintrock and fashioned spearpoints and arrowheads and departing had left evidences of the stern exigencies of savage life to mark the place of their rendezvous. Here Indian children had played with queer-shaped toys and, childlike, lost them on the dusty playground and here these utensils, implements and toys have been found, mute evidences of conditions now long past. This area was the Indians’ last resting place before they moved on north over the sandridge to their hunting and fishing grounds alone the Weber, Ogden and Bear rivers.