Bio for Francis Henrie mem#18302710. Taken from henrie.org

The fact that Francis was born at Kanab was due to the United States marshalls who were hounding the polygamous men, to send them to jail. The family moved from Kanab to Fredonia, Arix., soon after his birth. Fredonia, a small town south of Kanab, was a rendezvous for plural wives and their children, the husband being with the other wives in some other part of the country or in hiding from the marshalls. It was in this place of about 20 or 30 families that Francis spent his childhood.

When he was a baby he was sorely afflicted with eczema, which covered his hands, arms, face, neck, and the upper part of his body as a solid scale. Next to torment and afflict him for years was a severe earache. Eventually the childhood afflictions were outgrown and he grew into a healthy, vigorous child.

He was only 12 when he had to leave school and go to Panguitch with Marion to work on a farm given to his mother when his father divided his property among his three wives. Sheep raising has been one of his occupations since that time.

He met his future wife at a choir practice one evening in Panguitch, and after a courtship of 4 ∏ years married her. When their second child was two years old, he was called to fill a mission for the Church in New Zealand. Upon his return home he sold a small farm he owned at Panguitch and moved to Enterprise, Utah, where he bought 80 acres of very fine land. The second year they had a drought, with no crops to speak of. They left the farm and went to Sutherland, Utah, where they rented 120 acres of farm land. For 5 years all went well and they prospered. Then alfalfa seed became the popular crop and so he planted alfalfa, which was his financial downfall. Misfortunes followed him for years in the form of fires, loss of crops, cattle and sheep, and the deficit grew with each loss. Then the family began with different illnesses, legs and arms were broken, there were operations, and finally his wife had a stroke which left her paralyzed on one side and a complete invalid. They did everything possible to try to restore her to health, but after a year she died, leaving him with a family of children to care for.

Various other moves were made, one to Panguitch, where the older boys and Francis farmed for his brother James N. Henrie and were permitted to care for a small herd of sheep in the hills nearby. They were able to pay off all back indebtedness and to live well.

Then with his brother Edgar and his son Verl, he obtained the Nelson Ranch near Marysvale, Utah. They lived there for 10 years.

Francis married for the second time, Victoria Rappley, and they lived at Salem, Utah. Later they went to Manti, Utah, to work in the temple. They had worked only 18 days in the temple when one afternoon they came home and Francis lay down for a short rest. Victoria was preparing dinner. While reaching behind the door at the top of the basement steps, she lost her balance and fell down the stairs to the cement floor below. She fractured her skull and lay there unconscious. She had lain in that condition for two hours when Francis went to the stairway for a screw driver and discovered her. She did not regain consciousness and died during the night. Francis rented this home and went back to Marysvale to work with the boys.

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