“Cove Fort: A Safe and Sacred Home” Sources
“When all is said and done”: Gordon B. Hinckley, “Bring Up a Child in the Way He Should Go,” Ensign, Nov. 1993, 59.
“Say to the President”: Luna Adell Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley, 1828–1904: Pioneer, Churchman, Rancher,” comp. Parnell Hinckley (not published, 1966), 10; quoting Ira N. Hinckley.
“Our thoughts of a permanent home”: Luna Adell Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 10–11.
Arza and skilled workmen who lived nearby: See Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah” (master’s thesis, Brigham Young University, 1966), 40–41.
Angeline came to the fort a month later: See L. Joel Durrant, ed., “Life Sketch’s [sic] about Ira N. Hinckley and Family” (not published, 1999), 2B; Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 45, 100. Eliza Jane Hinckley’s mother was also named Eliza.
“Every morning and evening”: Arza Alonzo Hinckley, in Frank Beckwith, “Historic Old Cove Fort,” Improvement Era, Apr. 1927, 535.
“I can remember”: Luna Adell Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 14.
By the time they were old enough: See Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 127–28.
Most of the Hinckleys’ guests: See Ella Hinckley Hoopes, in Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 71, 131; Edwin Smith Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 15; Ira Noble Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 47.
Visitors found Cove Fort: See Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 95–96, 119, 143.
The Hinckley children swept: See Ella Hinckley Hoopes, in Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 113–14, 117, 120.
They helped prepare and serve meals: See Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 45, 116, 120.
They helped tend a garden: See Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 67, 117–20.
The fort had tall, thick walls: See Brigham Young letter to Ira Hinckley, Apr. 12, 1867, Brigham Young Letter Book, vol. 10, 128–29, Church History Library, Salt Lake City; quoted in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 10.
But those walls: See “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 13; Ella Hinckley Hoopes, in Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 143.
In contrast, American Indians: See “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 12–13; Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 143.
“Whenever father killed a beef”: Jean Hinckley Holbrook, in Larry C. Porter, “A Historical Analysis of Cove Fort, Utah,” 141–42.
“The thing that characterized [Father’s] religion”: Bryant Stringham Hinckley, in Sheri L. Dew, Go Forward with Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1996), 15.
“Well, I think your father was the best man”: Edwin Smith Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 15.
“Historic Old Cove Fort”: Arza Alonzo Hinckley, in Frank Beckwith, “Historic Old Cove Fort,” 535.
“The years of happy life”: Luna Adell Hinckley, in “Events in the Life of Ira Nathaniel Hinckley,” 12.
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