Lehi & Lawyer

Abram, the attorney, at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City on October 13th, 2010...sworn into the Utah State Bar Association. Dad and I and Airie watched him take his oath and enjoyed cookies and lunch together afterwards.

He's official.

Mr. and Mrs. Attorney...we're all proud of you Abram!

Abram, standing after his name has been called...white collar, right of the exit sign, looking right.

On Saturday, October 2nd, Dad and I drove to Lehi, Utah, to pick up a copy of The Journals of George Kirkham, a newly published book of the journals written by my great-grandfather between 1865 and 1923. It includes quite a few good family photos, some fun illustrations by him, and letters written to him and by him while he was in the Utah State Peniteniary for polygamy when he was 35 years old. While we were there, cousin Connie took us and another couple out to visit 2 historical spots. This is the site of the Jordan River ferry boat crossing in Lehi where the Kirkhams first lived in a dugout.

Me at the ferry crossing.

Bend in the Jordan River...looking northeast.

Jordan River looking southeast.

This is the site of the Indian Massacre on June 9, 1865, witnessed by my great-grandfather George. There is a ridge with a few green trees just beyond the white buildings. George, age 12, was herding cattle on the ridge when the Overland Mail stagecoach approached from the west (left) headed toward "point of the mountain" in Salt Lake. The Indians shot the two lead horses in order to stop the coach and then killed the driver and passenger (shot them with arrows, scalped them and cut their hearts out) as George watched. He ran home to the dugout on the Jordan River to deliver the news. Porter Rockwell of the Overland Company was the first to arrive at the scene. Evidently the details of this story appeared in the Deseret News.

Me and 2 cousins...Connie Nielsen, we're both descendants of George and Sarah Kirkham, and Peggy Williamson, descendant of George's younger brother Hyrum.