BIOGRAPHIES - EMILY COVINGTON
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PART 2
By Great Granddaughter, Wilma Susan Harris Smith.

Winslow's brother, Lorin Farr, the Mayor of Ogden and the Church President for Weber County, recruited and called the young couple to help establish a new Mormon settlement in Northern Utah. By January of 1861 Winslow and Emily Jane moved to a community known as Mendon, Cache Valley, Utah. They lived in Mendon for a season and then sold the small farm and moved on to Paradise, Cache Valley, Utah.

Emily Jane's first home in Paradise was a single room "dugout" in the side of a hill. A fireplace, located at one end held an iron kettle for cooking in addition to providing heat for the one large room. Their children, Emily Olive Farr, LaFayette Thomas Farr and Lorin Freeman Farr were born in this "dugout" home. Winters were severe, often with four to five feet of snow. Emily Jane told her grandchildren of times when young people, would sleigh ride right over the top of their dugout.

During the time when Emily Jane and Winslow lived in Paradise, Winslow Farr, Jr. was selected as Captain in the Minutemen Militia. The Militia, organized into groups of men to work in the fields, and to provide protection from Indians who would often raid the settlement for cattle and horses.

As was the custom, the pioneers often took time out from their work for entertainment. The Mormon families, traveling by wagons or bobsleds, would gather from miles around. They made beds for the younger children and would dance until the wee hours of the morning. Winslow, who had a saying "I am not a musician, I just love to fiddle around" was always called upon to play his violin for these social occasions. After breakfast they harnesse­d their teams and headed their wagons toward home.