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Lucinda Araminta Stewart Brown

I remember Grandma Lucinda Stewart Brown

I remember Grandma Brown. She it was who raised me my first four years in Alamo while my parents taught school. How well I remember her never-failing gentleness and love, her magic healing touch, and her delight and curiosity in the world around her, in people, in good books. For these things have made me, and taught me what to love and what to seek.

She lived in a primitive one-room frame house practising nursing and midwifery in the desert outpost of Alamo, Nevada until her school¬teacher daughter Margery--Mama--bought for her, for $400 delivered, a miner's cabin from Hiko. So this was our home. It had two steps in front, four small rooms, and a hand-pump in the kitchen sink so that she did not need to go outdoors to pump water. It had wallpaper inside and was unpainted outside so that the wood was weathered a nice uniform grey. Young Uncle Ben slept in "the old house."

Fire in Kanab

A Kanab fire which took the lives of Margery, her sister's (Artemacy) son, Urban Van, and Margery's three sons and. Upon the death of Margery, Artemacy lovingly cared for Margery's children.

In December of that same first year, 1870, came the tragedy that was to leave its scar on the lives of this family and almost disrupt the entire settlement of Kanab, Utah. The Navajo and Northern Indians had been making raids on the settlements. The young men took turns guarding the cattle at night from a small dugout in the side of a hill. The other men took turns guarding the fort. Once Jacob Hamblin persuaded the Navajos to come to Kanab and hold a peace conference as there was always tension.

Lucinda Araminta Stewart Brown life sketch by Margery Brown Cottam and Glenna Cottam Sanderson

SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF LUCINDA ARAMINTA STEWART BROWN

by Margery Brown Cottam and Glenna Cottam Sanderson

Lucinda Araminta Stewart was born January 6, 1865, daughter of Levi Stewart, first bishop of Kanab, and Margery Wilkerson Stewart, in a large and comfortable home, west across from Immigration Square, near the City and County Building Square, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Part of the original roof with weathered wood shingles could still be seen there in the rear of the Hotel Noxum until about five years ago. A bedroom set for this home had been ordered and shipped from St. Louis at a cost of $800.

Lucinda Stewart Brown headstone