Sketch
of Grandma
When Captain Fremont Slept in Grandma McGregor's Bed
McGregor's
bed by Patrick
Driggs
Fraley.
r \ T THE TIME THAT Captain Fremont slept in her best bed, she was not Grandma McGregor, but the wife of John Calvin Lazelle Smith, head of the colony sent by Brigham Young to go south and settle Parowan, Utah. Calvin Smith was from Massachusetts, and his wife, Sarah Fish, was a girl of eighteen from Quebec when they were married in the Nauvoo Temple May 12, 1846. During the Nauvoo exodus, Calvin and Sarah crossed the river ice with a pair of white steers. They stayed at a place called Farming-
BY NEVADA W . DRIGGS Mrs. Driggs, a former resident of Parowan, lives in Seattle, Washington.
