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71. The "Grandmother Squaw" story, with Caroline Farozine Skeen Butler

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My great great grandmother on my mother's side, Caroline Farozine Skeen, the wife of John Lowe Butler, was an amazing woman herself.  She had to run their farm and take care of the children many times when her husband John was gone with the Prophet Joseph Smith.  I'll post several different stories of her in the future, as her life is very inspirational.                     The Story of Grandmother Squaw               (on page 185-186 in the book of Pal's ancestors) After the Prophet was killed and the saints were moving West, John left with his family in Emmett’s Company.  (Remember John Lowe Butler was the Prophet's bodyguard, see post # 66, and he also is mentioned in post # 26)    John was a wheelright and blacksmith, and after helping to fix other wagons, they were rather late in starting west.  Winter overtook them when they were in the heart of the Indian Country.  So they had to stop and build log cabins and wait until spring.  They stopped in a little