An excert from:"James McClellan, His Progenitors, Descendants and Allied Lines" by Gerald R. Fuller.

Received from Kelly and added by Max G Anderson.

Women, without formal medical training, often assisted in the birth of babies. While it was possible to have a regular midwife with the birth of her children, it was not likely that this would have been the case for Lorenzo's mother, as they were so frequently in frontier areas which lacked in such amenities.
Lorenzo's schooling was often neglected because of the frequent moves made by the family, but it was sufficient that he learned to read and write; and, he learned Spanish quite well because of his association with the Mexican people.
At the time of Lorenzo's baptism, they were living in Pleasanton ward in New Mexico, by the San Francisco River. His father was Bishop at that time. When the Mormons started being persecuted by the U.S. Marshalls for their practice of polygamy, he crossed the border into Mexico. After hearing of a place to be settled, William came back after his families.
It took time to build suitable housing for the two wives and their growing families. In time, Lorenzo and his brothers built their mother a brick home in Colonia Juarez.
The brothers worked and hunted together while in Mexico. There weren't closed seasons or bag limits then, so they would go out with a team and wagon, or team and sleigh, depending upon the season, and hunt until they got enough carcasses to fill the wagon box. Lorenzo's brother, Earl, was a crack shot, which was advantageous, as ammunition was scarce and the need for meat was great, since many were unable to hunt for themselves. These hunts provided the means for helping those in need.
Lorenzo went to school and church often enough to learn about Jesus and his Sermon on the Mount; and he learned and tried to live the Golden Rule.
He lived a colorful life. He went around the world there times, discovered a copper and silver mine, brought in at least on Texas oil well, rode courier for Pasqual Orozco, and later Pancho Villa, and worked for Lord Beresford as a cow-puncher.
Pancho Villa came into Juarez one day riding a small black mule. When he saw Lorenzo standing in front of their house, he rode up and asked him what he had been up to, and said that he had come to ride his mule into his mother's living room. Lorenzo explained that the living room floor was covered with a rug made by his mother, and that he was crazy to ride his mule onto it. Villa said, "I don't hurt her rug!" he proceeded to ride the mule into and around the living room, but he was very careful, and did not hurt the rug.
"How do you like that, Lencho?" he asked Lorenzo. Lorenzo was taken by surprise and didn't know what to say, so he replied, "I guess I have to like it." Then Villa said he needed a man like Lorenzo; a man who would let him ride his mule into the living room onto a hand-made rug, and he would pay him more than he had ever earned before. All Lorenzo had to do was carry Villa's mail and his messages. Lorenzo took the job, and later carried Villa's pay money. He would go to the railroad station in El Paso to pick up the money, then divide it into different suitcases for different troops. The suitcases would then be left in different locations, depending on what troop was to get the money. The first time they gave him suitcases for the money, they were new. He told don Ponho that he would get robbed for sure if anyone saw the new cases. They immediately got him some old, beat up suitcases to carry.
Lorenzo's first job was on a ranch, owned by Eddie Hachumoto. He became acquainted with the "chinaman," as he called him, when he was milking his mother's cows one morning, and the Chinaman asked if she would sell the cow. He wanted to start a dairy herd to provide Chihuahua City with milk and butter. While his mother didn't sell that particular cow, she did sell some others. Lorenzo worked as ranch foreman for about a year before quitting.
Lorenzo was 31 before he married Asenath Porter, who was only 17. Together they had three beautiful daughters.