IN EARLY MORMON PIONEER TIME, WOMEN SPOKE, BUT LITTLE WAS WRITTEN

For those of us that has study American history, we find volumes and volumes of the men that fought valiantly in the Revolutionary war, then gathered together and signed the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and formed what we now call the United States of America. Once in a while, we read of Betsy Ross and other women that assisted in our countries foundation. The same could be said of the re-establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or what is commonly called the Mormon Church. Today, we hope to put a little more emphasis on the valiant and hard working women in the early days of the Pioneer trek to Utah, back in 1847. Volumes can be written about the journals and dairies of the male leaders, but not a lot about the women who supported and worked by the sweat of their brow, while the husbands were on their knees, receiving revelation from God, who was directing those modern day Saints. One such woman was Matilda E. P. Teasdale, whose death notice copy is below. While in the 4th grade, teacher Earl Bowles taught me the importance of keeping history, and that was when I received permission from my folks to recover; clean, and maintain the history of the thousands of artifacts and papers that were placed in the garage after family members had passed since our arrival in 1852. As can be noted, Matilda's death notice was ravaged by mice, but we saved many papers of historical significance, several of which were donated to LDS HQ. As was the practice in those days, Polygamy was considered a religious ceremony as sanctioned by the Mormon Prophet and Matlida was one of the many wives of Apostle George Teasdale. When the US government and Johnson's Army marched to Utah to put down a non-existing rebellion, many Mormons hid their food; arms and ammunition in the hills, and others fled to Mexico, such as the Kimball families. The second photo copy is of a group of Latter Day Saints outside their chapel. A lot of the teachings of Apostle George Teasdale are for bidden to be seen by common folks but others are in the "George Teasdale Papers". We do know that Matilda was a profound leader in establishing Nephi Stake and the Nephi Relief Society. She was well acquainted with the Pitchforth, Goldsbrough; Bigler; Seely, and Jones family who were early leaders of Juab Stake. We just didn't give her enough credit, as it wasn't the thing to do back then. This writer will continue to pursue all truths that we find and give credit to all of those stalwart leaders, of which we gave only a penance of credit to. Onward, Christian Soldiers. Let all Truth be brought forth.