Letter to John Taylor, 5 December 1886
Salt Lake City, Utah,
President John Taylor
Dear Brother
I received
your Letter of Nov 26 with inclosure
from Sister Mary Jackson in Reply will
say there is most always two sides to most
questions I have looked upon Sister Mary
Jackson generally as a pretty good woman,
we did not have any Difficulty or quarreling with
each other we were sealed at the time she
named I fitted out a waggon & team for
her and my Father and He drove the team to
Salt Lake in Brother Smoots Company the same
time you came to Salt Lake in the fall of
1847, she remaining in one of the rooms I
built in the old Fort untill I Returned in
the fall of 1850. on my Return I provided a
home for her and fed & clothed her as
the Rest of my family but in time some-
body influenced her that I did not do Enough
for her and she left me but I still furnished
her with means, as to the Laboring for her
support I Expect she did for all my family done
the same more or Less yet I assisted them all
