Copied from Beneath Ben Lomond’s Peak: A History of Weber County, 1824-1900, pg 266.

[As told by Mrs Mary R Jessop, 2816 Adams Avenue, Ogden, Utah. She appears to be Mary Rhoby Perry Jessop, born May 7, 1855 to William Howard Perry (1823-1904) and Juliaette Stowell (1835-1931). Her brother Stephen would therefore be William Stephen Perry (1853-1887), born to their father’s wife Alice Stowell.]

I was about nine years old. Stephen, my older brother, was my constant companion. In herding the cows and sheep, in fishing or in trapping for rabbits and birds, I could race and climb trees as well as any boy of my age.

Our family moved from Mountain Green in Weber Valley over the divide to settle in Huntsville. The day of our arrival there I stood on top of the fence in front of our home in the southwest part of the town and counted the houses. There were just a dozen of them, nearly all log cabins.

We did not worry much about the Indians since we saw them so often. They came to the settlement to beg food and to trade. We soon learned that when the Indian women and children were along there was no danger. But we kept a sharp lookout for the war parties or hunting parties made up entirely of men. Of the Indians, the Blackfeet were the most feared. Once a band of them came and stole some cattle, but the men of Huntsville followed and got some of them back.

There was one Shoshone Indian who came to see us every year. Father called him “Hautch,” which in the Indian language meant “friend.” Each time that he came, he brought father a present of a buffalo robe.