Copied from Golden Legacy: The Kendell and Thornley Families, pg 75.

[As told by La Verna Nancy Thornley Smedley, daughter of Henry and Nancy Thornley.]

Nancy Emaline King was married to Henry N. Thornley on December 29, 1873, in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. My father, her husband Henry Thornley, had taken up a homestead two and one half miles north of Layton and had built one room on it. He lived on it alone until they were planning on getting married. He then went to the canyon and cut the logs and hauled them home and built a large log room onto the one he had. My mother said the men would get together and go what they called “logging” so they could help each other. That is the way they got their timber to build their homes, yards and fences. That is where they began their life together.

The house was up on the hill at first; that is where the house was when the older members of the family were born, and it was still a part of Kaysville. They were under great difficulties as they were annoyed a lot by the Indians. Many times she was alone with her little children while my father was away to work, and to the canyon for timber. The Indians would come and they would ride round and round the house. They would help themselves to their com and anything else they would like and frighten her and the children. The leader of the tribe that would come was named Indian Joe. They had very few neighbors at that time, the nearest being Grandpa Thornley’s, two miles away. Several times she slipped out of the house in the night she was so frightened, while they were busy helping themselves, and carried two small children through the field to Grandpa Thornley’s.