Settler
Savage worked as a teacher on his return to Utah. In 1858 he married Ann Brummel Cooper, a widow who he had first met in the Martin Handcart Company. He served with the Nauvoo Legion during the Utah War. In 1858 he moved to Lehi, Utah and worked as a supplier of the U.S. army at Camp Floyd. After seven years he moved on to Toquerville, Utah where he lived the last 45 years of his life with three wives and three children. Levi and his family lived in a small adobe house sharing all the common illnesses, ordinary difficulties, deaths of children, grandchildren, sacrifices to send boys on Mormon missions and children to school, weddings, special family dinners and being helpful to their neighbors.
One of Levi’s last journal entries was February 1903, “This date shows that I have neglected to note daily occurrences in my journal for some time past; however, it is better late than never.”
Levi Savage Jr. died on 13 December 1910 in Toquerville, Washington County, Utah and is buried in the cemetery in Toquerville.
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