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He was a private in Capt. Dexter's Company in Col. Lippitt's regiment du r ing the year 1776 and was at the Battle of Trenton and Princeton. Afte r t he war he kept a store in Providence. | Lippitt, John (I176722)
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He was a Spiritual leader - Solvereign or a Bishop.
Bran, King of Siluria, also commander of the British fleet. In the yea r A .D. 36 he resigned the crown to his son Caradoc and became Arch-Drui d o f the college of Siluria, where he remained some years until called u po n to be a hostage for his son. During his seven years in Rome he becam e t he first royal convert to Christianity, and was baptized by the Apost le P aul, as was his son Caradoc and the latter's two sons, Cyllinus an d Cynon . Henceforth he was known as Bran the Blessed Sovereign. "He wa s the firs t to bring the faith of Christ to the Cymry." His recorded pro verb is: "T here is no good apart from God." He introduced the use of vel lum into Bri tain.
BRAN The Blessed. Bran Fendigaid ap Llyr Llediaith. (Bran Vendigaid, Ben d igeid Vran, Bran Fendigaid, Bendigeidfran, Branovices, Bendigeiduran, B en digeid = Blessed). (Geoffrey of Monmoth confuses him with Bren, Brennu s)( Often mixed with Bron, who is a separate person of later date) (Ofte n mix ed together with a later mythological creation called The Fisher-Ki ng). T he name "Bran" translates from Welsh as "raven". King of Siluria ( now Mon mouthshire), and king of Britain in Welsh mythology.
Born about 60 A.D. [6 A.D.?] (21 B.C.-S4)(29 B.C.-S7); son of LLYR Lledi a ith (King Lear) ap Baran and Penarddun. Some sources say that Iweriad d i s the mother of Bran and Branwen. Said to have became King of Burgund y i n right of his wife, the sole heiress of its royal house .
Since his son Caradawg is often confused with Caradoc (Caractacus), wh o w as taken to Rome; Bran is often confused with Cunobelin. The story th at B ran was taken as a captive to Rome where he joined the household o f St. P aul, returning to Britain with Aristobulus and Joseph of Arimathe a some y ears later, and thus becoming among the first to introduce Chris tianity t o the Island, hence his epithet of "the Blessed;" is a result o f this con fusion, and is a late 17th century fabrication based on misinf ormation.
He married Enygeus, a sister of Casswallan, who was his mother’s brothe r . [He married his mother’s sister?]. Casswallan was a British king i n 6 2 A.D., and was made commander of all British forces in Caesar’s firs t in vasion in 55 B.C. He was forced to pay tribute and died in 48 B.C.
He is often said to have as a wife Anna, the daughter of St. Joseph of A r imathea, probably through confusion with his grandmother, Beli Mawr's w if e. . Bran was said to have been an early King of the Silures trib e o f Gwent. His castle was Corbenic or Castell Dinas Bran, the later hom e o f the later Kings of Powys. Both names deriving from the word Raven o r Cr ow. . In Welch mythological tales he is described to be a giant , o f such a large size that no house could contain him. In Celtic mythol ogy , Bran appears as a semi-humanized giant residing at Castell Dinas Br an . There appears to be no archaeological evidence for his worship. . G eoffrey of Monmouth transformed him into an early British King named B re nnius, though his story probably relates to King Bran Hen of Bryneic h . . Bran was ruler of a large area of southeastern Britain from abo u t 1 A.D. to about 42 A.D. Bran was King of Siluria, also commander of t h e British fleet. In the year A.D. 36 he resigned the crown to his son C ar adoc and became Arch-Druid of the college of Siluria, where he remaine d s ome years.
He is attributed with the saying, “Let him who is a chief be a bridge.”
Bran Fendigaid ap Llyr Llediaith (Bran The Blessed), King of Siluria . B orn about 60 AD. Said to have introduced Christianity to the nation o f th e Cymry from Rome, where he was seven years a hostage. . In Welsh my t h, Bran was said to have been killed while leading an invasion of Irela nd . Bran was said to have instructed his men to bury his head in the Whi t e Mount in London, where it would ward off invasion as long as it remai ne d undisturbed. (King Arthur is said to have had the head removed fro m th e site, saying that Britain should be protected by the valour of it s peop le rather than by supernatural means.). According to a manuscrip t preserv ed in the Harleian Collection at the British Museum, Bran ab Ll yr also sh ared the captivity of his family, and was conveyed with them t o Rome, whe re he was detained as a hostage for the peaceable conduct o f the valian t Caractacus, who is said to have been permitted, with his w ife and daugh ter, to return immediately to Britain. After remaining at R ome for seve n years, Bran at length received permission to return to hi s native count ry; and having, during his stay in Italy, been converted t o Christianity , he was the means of introducing that religion into Brita in, and on tha t account was called Vendigeid, or "the Blessed: " he die d about the yea r 80. . There were three holy families in the Isle of Bri tain. The fi rst was the family of Bran the Blessed, ths son of Llyr Lled iaith; for Br an was the first who brought the faith of Christ to this is land from Rome . He was imprisoned through the treachery of Aregwedd Föed dawg,[2] the da ughter of Afarwy[3] the son of Lludd. The second was th e family of Cynedd a Wledig, who first gave land and privilege to God an d the saints in th e Isle of Britain. The third was Brychan of Brecknocks hire, who educate d his children and grandchildren in learning and genero sity, that they mi ght be able to share the faith in Christ with the Camb rians, where they w ere without faith. .
Branwen. (daughter). (or Bronwen, the "white-bosomed," as she is mor e f requently called). | ap Llyr, Bran (I15234)
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He was a well known architect and artist in Europe. His mother was Emi l y Sibley, daughter of Hiram (the founder of Western Union). She founde d R ochester's Memorial Art Gallery in his honor. His headstone was desig ne d by renowned architect, designer and occultist Claude Bragdon. | Averell, James G (I73561)
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He was admitted a Freeman of East Greenwich, RI, in 1734 | Coggeshall, Joshua Jr (I175769)
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He was an American businessman and Republican Party politician. He was c h airman and president of American Motors Corporation from 1954 to 1962 , th e 43rd Governor of Michigan from 1963 to 1969, and the United State s Secr etary of Housing and Urban Development from 1969 to 1973. He was t he fath er of Governor of Massachusetts, 2012 Republican presidential nom inee an d United States Senator from Utah Mitt Romney, husband of 1970 U. S. Senat e candidate Lenore Romney, and grandfather of current Republica n Nationa l Committee chair Ronna McDaniel.
Romney was born to American parents living in the Mormon colonies in Mex i co; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to flee bac k t o the United States when he was a child. The family lived in severa l stat es and ended up in Salt Lake City, Utah, where they struggled duri ng th e Great Depression. Romney worked in a number of jobs, served a s a Mormo n missionary in the United Kingdom, and attended several colleg es in th e U.S. but did not graduate from any of them. In 1939 he moved t o Detroi t and joined the American Automobile Manufacturers Association , where h e served as the chief spokesman for the automobile industry dur ing Worl d War II and headed a cooperative arrangement in which companie s could sh are production improvements. He joined Nash-Kelvinator in 1948 , and becam e the chief executive of its successor, American Motors Corpo ration, in 1 954. There he turned around the struggling firm by focusin g all efforts o n the compact Rambler car. Romney mocked the products o f the "Big Three " automakers as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" and became on e of the first high -profile, media-savvy business executives. Devoutly r eligious, he preside d over the Detroit Stake of The Church of Jesus Chri st of Latter-day Sain ts.
Having entered politics by participating in a state constitutional conve n tion to rewrite the Michigan Constitution during 1961–1962, Romney wa s el ected Governor of Michigan in 1962. Re-elected by increasingly larg e marg ins in 1964 and 1966, he worked to overhaul the state's financia l and rev enue structure, greatly expanding the size of state governmen t and introd ucing Michigan's first state income tax. Romney was a stron g supporter o f the American Civil Rights Movement. He briefly represente d moderate Rep ublicans against conservative Republican Barry Goldwater d uring the 196 4 U.S. presidential election. He requested the interventio n of federal tr oops during the 1967 Detroit riot.
Initially a front runner for the Republican nomination for President o f t he United States in the 1968 election, he proved an ineffective campa igne r and fell behind Richard Nixon in polls. After a mid-1967 remark th at hi s earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashi ng" b y U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign f altere d even more and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968. Afte r Nixon' s election as president, he appointed Romney as Secretary of Hou sing an d Urban Development. Romney's ambitious plans for housing product ion incr eases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs , were mod estly successful but often thwarted by Nixon. Romney left th e administrat ion at the start of Nixon's second term in 1973. Returnin g to private lif e, he advocated volunteerism and public service, and hea ded the Nationa l Center for Voluntary Action and its successor organizat ions from 1973 t hrough 1991. He also served as a regional representativ e of the Twelve wi thin his church.
Romney's grandparents were polygamous Mormons who fled the United Stat e s with their children owing to the federal government's prosecution o f po lygamy. His maternal grandfather was Helaman Pratt (1846–1909), wh o presi ded over the Mormon mission in Mexico City before moving to the M exican s tate of Chihuahua and who was the son of original Mormon apostl e Parley P . Pratt (1807–1857). In the 1920s, Romney's uncle Rey L. Prat t (1878–1931 ) played a major role in the preservation and expansion of t he Mormon pre sence in Mexico and in its introduction to South America . A more distan t kinsman was George Romney (1734–1802), a noted portrai t painter in Brit ain during the last quarter of the 18th century.
Romney's parents, Gaskell Romney (1871–1955) and Anna Amelia Pratt (1876 – 1926), were United States citizens and natives of the Territory of Uta h . They married in 1895 in Mexico and lived in Colonia Dublán in Galean a i n the state of Chihuahua (one of the Mormon colonies in Mexico), wher e Ge orge was born on July 8, 1907. They practiced monogamy (polygamy hav ing b een abolished by the 1890 Manifesto, although it persisted in place s, esp ecially Mexico). George had three older brothers, two younger brot hers, a nd a younger sister. Gaskell Romney was a successful carpenter, h ouse bui lder, and farmer who headed the most prosperous family in the co lony, whi ch was situated in an agricultural valley below the Sierra Madr e Occident al. The family chose U.S. citizenship for their children, incl uding Georg e.
The Mexican Revolution broke out in 1910 and the Mormon colonies were en d angered in 1911–1912 by raids from marauders, including "Red Flaggers " Pa scual Orozco and José Inés Salazar. Young George heard the sound o f dista nt gunfire and saw rebels walking through the village streets. Th e Romne y family fled and returned to the United States in July 1912, lea ving the ir home and almost all of their property behind. Romney later sa id, "We w ere the first displaced persons of the 20th century."
In the United States, Romney grew up in humble circumstances. The fami l y subsisted with other Mormon refugees on government relief in El Paso , T exas, benefiting from a $100,000 fund for refugees that the U.S. Cong res s had set up. After a few months they moved to Los Angeles, Californi a, w here Gaskell Romney worked as a carpenter. In kindergarten, other ch ildre n mocked Romney's national origin by calling him "Mex".
Five males of varying ages stand in a tight group, outdoors. Two sitti n g females huddle with them: a woman in a dress and a 1920s-style bonne t a nd a young girl in a dress. All have somber expressions. All the male s we ar jackets and suit ties with the exception of a teenage youth i n a colla red shirt and loop-collared, pullover sweater with a large bloc k letter s ewn onto the sweater's front. In 1913, the family moved to Oak ley, Idaho , and bought a farm, where they grew and subsisted largely o n Idaho potat oes. The farm was not on good land and failed when potato p rices fell. Th e family moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1916, where Gas kell Romney res umed construction work, but the family remained generall y poor. In 1917 , they moved to Rexburg, Idaho, where Gaskell became a su ccessful home an d commercial builder in a growing area due to high Worl d War I commoditie s prices.
George started working in wheat and sugar beet fields at the age of elev e n and was the valedictorian at his grammar school graduation in 1921 ( b y the sixth grade he had attended six different schools). The Depressi o n of 1920–21 brought a collapse in prices, and local building was aband on ed. His family returned to Salt Lake City in 1921, and while his fathe r r esumed construction work, George became skilled at lath-and-plaster w ork . The family was again prospering when the Great Depression hit in 19 29 a nd ruined them. George watched his parents fail financially in Idah o an d Utah and having to take a dozen years to pay off their debts. Seei ng th eir struggles influenced his life and business career.
In Salt Lake City, Romney worked while attending Roosevelt Junior High S c hool and, beginning in 1922, Latter-day Saints High School. There he pl ay ed halfback on the football team, guard on the basketball team, and ri gh t field on the baseball team, all with more persistence than talent, b u t in an effort to uphold the family tradition of athleticism, he earne d v arsity letters in all three sports. In his senior year, he and junio r Len ore LaFount became high school sweethearts; she was from a more wel l-assi milated Mormon family. Academically, Romney was steady but undisti nguishe d. He graduated from high school in 1925; his yearbook picture ca ption wa s "Serious, high minded, of noble nature – a real fellow."
Partly to stay near Lenore, Romney spent the next year as a junior colle g e student at the co-located Latter-day Saints University, where he wa s el ected student body president. He was also president of the booster c lub a nd played on the basketball team that won the Utah–Idaho Junior Col lege T ournament.
That same year, Ronna Romney, Romney's ex-daughter-in-law (formerly marr i ed to G. Scott Romney), decided to seek the Republican nomination for t h e U.S. Senate from Michigan. While Mitt and G. Scott endorsed Ronna Rom ne y, George Romney had endorsed her opponent and the eventual winner, Sp enc er Abraham, during the previous year when Ronna was considering a ru n bu t had not yet announced. A family spokesperson said that George Romn ey ha d endorsed Abraham before knowing Ronna Romney would run and coul d not g o back on his word,
By January 1995, amid press criticism of the Points of Light Foundatio n e ngaging in ineffective, wasteful spending, Romney expressed concern t ha t the organization had too high a budget. Active to the end, in July 1 995 , four days before his death, Romney proposed a presidential summit t o en courage greater volunteerism and community service, and the night be for e his death he drove to a meeting of another volunteer organization.
On July 26, 1995, Romney died of a heart attack at the age of 88 whil e h e was doing his morning exercising on a treadmill at his home in Bloo mfie ld Hills, Michigan; he was discovered by his wife Lenore but it wa s too l ate to save him. He was buried at the Fairview Cemetery in Bright on, Mich igan. In addition to his wife and children, Romney was survive d by 23 gra ndchildren and 33 great-grandchildren. | Romney, George Wilcken (I98638)
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He was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of t h e Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), t h e parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chain s , and food services companies. The Marriott company rose from a small r oo t beer stand in Washington D.C. in 1927 to a chain of family restauran t s by 1932, to its first motel in 1957. By the time he died, the Marrio t t company operated 1,400 restaurants and 143 hotels and resorts worldwi de , including two theme parks, earned USD $4.5 billion in revenue annual l y with 154,600 employees. The company's interests even extended to a li n e of cruise ships. | Marriott, John Willard (I32167)
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He was an American fiction writer, whose works helped to illustrate th e f lamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age. While he achieved popular succ ess , fame, and fortune in his lifetime, he did not receive much critica l acc laim until after his death. Perhaps the most notable member of th e "Los t Generation" of the 1920s, Fitzgerald is now widely regarded as o ne of t he greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished fou r novels : This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gat sby, an d Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon , was pu blished posthumously. Four collections of his short stories wer e publishe d, as well as 164 short stories in magazines during his lifeti me.
Born in 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to an upper-middle-class family , F itzgerald was named after his famous second cousin, three times remov ed o n his father's side, Francis Scott Key, but was always known as Scot t Fit zgerald. He was also named after his deceased sister, Louise Scot t Fitzge rald, one of two sisters who died shortly before his birth. "Wel l, thre e months before I was born," he wrote as an adult, "my mother los t her ot her two children... I think I started then to be a writer."
His father, Edward Fitzgerald, was of Irish and English ancestry, and h a d moved to St. Paul from Maryland after the American Civil War, and wa s d escribed as "a quiet gentlemanly man with beautiful Southern manners" . Hi s mother was Mary "Molly" McQuillan Fitzgerald, the daughter of an I ris h immigrant who had made his fortune in the wholesale grocery busines s. E dward Fitzgerald's first cousin once removed Mary Surratt was hange d in 1 865 for conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
Scott Fitzgerald spent the first decade of his childhood primarily in Bu f falo, New York, occasionally in West Virginia (1898–1901 and 1903–1908 ) w here his father worked for Procter & Gamble, with a short interlude i n Sy racuse, New York, (between January 1901 and September 1903). Edwar d Fitzg erald had earlier worked as a wicker furniture salesman; he joine d Procte r & Gamble when the business failed. His parents, both Catholic , sent Fit zgerald to two Catholic schools on the West Side of Buffalo, f irst Holy A ngels Convent (1903–1904, now disused) and then Nardin Academ y (1905–1908 ). His formative years in Buffalo revealed him to be a boy o f unusual int elligence with a keen early interest in literature. His dot ing mother ens ured that her son had all the advantages of an upper-middl e-class upbring ing. Her inheritance and donations from an aunt allowed t he family to liv e a comfortable lifestyle. In a rather unconventional st yle of parenting , Fitzgerald attended Holy Angels with the peculiar arra ngement that he g o for only half a day—and was allowed to choose which h alf.
In 1908, his father was fired from Procter & Gamble, and the family retu r ned to Minnesota, where Fitzgerald attended St. Paul Academy in St. Pa u l from 1908 to 1911. When he was 13, he saw his first piece of writin g ap pear in print—a detective story published in the school newspaper. I n 191 1, when Fitzgerald was 15 years old, his parents sent him to the Ne wman S chool, a prestigious Catholic prep school in Hackensack, New Jerse y. Fitz gerald played on the 1912 Newman football team. At Newman, he me t Fathe r Sigourney Fay, who noticed his incipient talent with the writte n word a nd encouraged him to pursue his literary ambitions.
After graduating from the Newman School in 1913, Fitzgerald decided to s t ay in New Jersey to continue his artistic development at Princeton Univ er sity. He tried out for the college football team, but was cut the firs t d ay of practice. He firmly dedicated himself at Princeton to honing hi s cr aft as a writer, and became friends with future critics and writer s Edmun d Wilson and John Peale Bishop. He wrote for the Princeton Triang le Club , the Nassau Lit, and the Princeton Tiger. He also was involved i n the Am erican Whig-Cliosophic Society, which ran the Nassau Lit. His ab sorptio n in the Triangle—a kind of musical-comedy society—led to his sub missio n of a novel to Charles Scribner's Sons where the editor praised t he writ ing but ultimately rejected the book. Four of the University's ea ting clu bs sent him bids at midyear, and he chose the University Cottag e Club (wh ere Fitzgerald's desk and writing materials are still displaye d in its li brary) known as "the 'Big Four' club that was most committe d to the idea l of the fashionable gentleman".
Fitzgerald's writing pursuits at Princeton came at the expense of his co u rsework, however, causing him to be placed on academic probation, an d i n 1917 he dropped out of university to join the Army. During the wint er o f 1917, Fitzgerald was stationed at Fort Leavenworth and was a stude nt o f future United States President and General of the Army Dwight Eise nhowe r whom he intensely disliked. Worried that he might die in the Wa r with h is literary dreams unfulfilled, Fitzgerald hastily wrote The Rom antic Ego tist in the weeks before reporting for duty—and, although Scrib ners rejec ted it, the reviewer noted his novel's originality and encoura ged Fitzger ald to submit more work in the future.
It was while attending Princeton that Fitzgerald met Chicago socialite a n d debutante Ginevra King on a visit back home in St. Paul. King and Fit zg erald had a romantic relationship from 1915 to 1917. Immediately infat uat ed with her, according to Mizner, Fitzgerald "remained devoted to Gin evr a as long as she would allow him to", and wrote to her "daily the inc oher ent, expressive letters all young lovers write". She would become hi s ins piration for the character of Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine's firs t love i n This Side of Paradise, for Daisy in The Great Gatsby, and seve ral othe r characters in his novels and short stories. After their relati onship en ded in 1917 Fitzgerald had requested that Ginevra destroy the l etters tha t he had written to her. He never destroyed the letters that K ing had sen t him. After he had passed in 1940 his daughter "Scottie" sen t the letter s back to King where she kept them until her death. She neve r shared th e letters with anyone.
Fitzgerald, an alcoholic since college, became notorious during the 192 0 s for his extraordinarily heavy drinking which would undermine his heal t h by the late 1930s. According to Zelda's biographer, Nancy Milford, Fi tz gerald claimed that he had contracted tuberculosis, but Milford dismis se s it as a pretext to cover his drinking problems; however, Fitzgeral d sch olar Matthew J. Bruccoli contends that Fitzgerald did in fact hav e recurr ing tuberculosis, and according to Milford, Fitzgerald biographe r Arthu r Mizener said that Fitzgerald suffered a mild attack of tubercul osis i n 1919, and in 1929 he had "what proved to be a tubercular hemorrh age". S ome have said that the writer's hemorrhage was caused by bleedin g from es ophageal varices.
Fitzgerald suffered two heart attacks in the late 1930s. After the firs t , in Schwab's Drug Store, he was ordered by his doctor to avoid strenuo u s exertion. He moved in with the gossip columnist Sheilah Graham, who l iv ed in Hollywood on North Hayworth Avenue, one block east of Fitzgerald ' s apartment on North Laurel Avenue. Fitzgerald had two flights of stai r s to climb to his apartment; Graham's was on the ground floor. On the n ig ht of December 20, 1940, Fitzgerald and Graham attended the premiere o f T his Thing Called Love starring Rosalind Russell and Melvyn Douglas. A s th e two were leaving the Pantages Theater, Fitzgerald experienced a di zzy s pell and had trouble walking; upset, he said to Graham, "They thin k I a m drunk, don't they?"
The following day, as Fitzgerald ate a candy bar and made notes in his n e wly arrived Princeton Alumni Weekly, Graham saw him jump from his armch ai r, grab the mantelpiece, gasp, and fall to the floor. She ran to the m ana ger of the building, Harry Culver, founder of Culver City. Upon enter in g the apartment to assist Fitzgerald, he stated, "I'm afraid he's dead . " Fitzgerald had died of a heart attack at the age of 44. Dr. Clarenc e H . Nelson, Fitzgerald's physician, signed the death certificate. Fitzg eral d's body was moved to the Pierce Brothers Mortuary.
Among the attendees at a visitation held at a funeral home was Dorothy P a rker, who reportedly cried and murmured "the poor son-of-a-bitch", a li n e from Jay Gatsby's funeral in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. His bod y wa s transported to Maryland, where his funeral was attended by twent y or th irty people in Bethesda; among the attendees were his only child , France s "Scottie" Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith (then aged 19), and his edi tor, Maxw ell Perkins.
At the time of his death, the Roman Catholic Church denied the family' s r equest that Fitzgerald, a non-practicing Catholic, be buried in the f amil y plot in the Catholic Saint Mary's Cemetery in Rockville, Maryland . Fitz gerald was instead buried at Rockville Union Cemetery. When Zeld a Fitzger ald died in 1948, in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital i n Asheville , North Carolina, she was originally buried next to him at Ro ckville Unio n. Only one photograph of the original gravesite is known t o exist. It wa s taken in 1970 by Fitzgerald scholar Richard Anderson an d was first publ ished as part of an essay by fellow-scholar Bryant Mangu m, "An Affair o f Youth: in search of flappers, belles, and the first gra ve of the Fitzge ralds", in Broad Street Magazine in 2016. In 1975, thei r daughter Scotti e successfully petitioned to have the earlier decisio n revisited and he r parents' remains were moved to the family plot in Sa int Mary's.
Fitzgerald died before he could complete The Last Tycoon. His manuscrip t , which included extensive notes for the unwritten part of the novel' s st ory, was edited by his friend, the literary critic Edmund Wilson, an d pub lished in 1941 as The Last Tycoon. | Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key (I100451)
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He was an American film and stage actor who had a career that spanned fi v e decades in Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen ima g e in several films now considered to be classics.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor and made his Hollywood fi l m debut in 1935. He rose to film stardom with performances in such fil m s as; Jezebel (1938), Jesse James (1939), and Young Mr. Lincoln (1939) . H is career further progressed with his portrayal of Tom Joad in The Gr ape s of Wrath (1940), receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for B es t Actor.
In 1941 he starred opposite Barbara Stanwyck in the screwball comedy cla s sic The Lady Eve. Book-ending his service in WWII were his starring rol e s in two highly regarded Westerns: The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and My Da rl ing Clementine (1946), the latter directed by John Ford, and he also s tar red in Ford's Western Fort Apache (1948). After a seven-year break fr om f ilms, during which Fonda focused on stage productions, he returned w ith t he WWII war-boat ensemble Mister Roberts (1955). In 1956, at the ag e of f ifty-one, he played the title role as the thirty-eight-year-old Ma nny Bal estrero in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller The Wrong Man. In 1957, h e starre d as Juror 8, the hold-out juror, in 12 Angry Men. Fonda, who wa s also th e co-producer of this film, won the BAFTA award for Best Foreig n Actor.
Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villai n i n the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a box office disappoi ntme nt at its time of release, but now regarded as one of the best Weste rns o f all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, M ine an d Ours with Lucille Ball and My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill , but als o often played important military figures, such as a colonel i n Battle o f the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He wo n the Acade my Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his fi nal film rol e in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hep burn and hi s daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony . He died fr om heart disease a few months later.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daught e r Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grands o n Troy Garity. In 1999 he was named the sixth-Greatest Male Screen Lege nd s of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by 1950) by th e A merican Film Institute. | Fonda, Henry Jaynes (I114008)
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He was an American film and stage actor. His performances in numerous fi l ms from the Classical Hollywood era made him a cultural icon. In 1999 , th e American Film Institute ranked him as the greatest male star of Am erica n cinema. Bogart began acting in Broadway shows after World War I . Afte r the Wall Street Crash of 1929, he began working in films, mostl y playin g gangsters.
Bogart was born on Christmas Day 1899 in New York City, the eldest chi l d of Belmont DeForest Bogart (1867–1934) and Maud Humphrey (1868–1940) . B elmont was the only child of the unhappy marriage of Adam Watkins Bog art , a Canandaigua, New York innkeeper, and his wife, Julia, a wealthy h eire ss. The name "Bogart" derives from the Dutch surname "Bogaert". Belm ont a nd Maud married in June 1898; he was a Presbyterian, of English an d Dutc h descent, and she was an Episcopalian of English heritage, an d a descend ant of Mayflower passenger John Howland. Young Humphrey was r aised in th e Episcopal faith, but was non-practicing for most of his adu lt life .
Bogart's father, Belmont, was a cardiopulmonary surgeon. His mother, Mau d , was a commercial illustrator who received her art training in New Yo r k and France, including study with James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Late r , she became art director of the fashion magazine The Delineator an d a mi litant suffragette. She used a drawing of baby Humphrey in a well- known a dvertising campaign for Mellins Baby Food. In her prime, she mad e over $5 0,000 a year, then a vast sum and far more than her husband's $ 20,000. Th e Bogarts lived in a fashionable Upper West Side apartment, an d had an el egant cottage on a 55-acre estate on Canandaigua Lake in upst ate New York . As a youngster, Humphrey's gang of friends at the lake wou ld put on the atricals.
Bogart had two younger sisters, Frances ("Pat") and Catherine Elizabet h ( "Kay"). His parents were busy in their careers and frequently fought . Ver y formal, they showed little emotion towards their children. Maud t old he r offspring to call her "Maud" not "Mother", and showed little i f any phy sical affection for them. When pleased she "[c]lapped you on th e shoulder , almost the way a man does", Bogart recalled. "I was brough t up very uns entimentally but very straightforwardly. A kiss, in our fam ily, was an ev ent. Our mother and father didn't glug over my two sister s and me.
As a boy, Bogart was teased for his curls, tidiness, the "cute" pictur e s his mother had him pose for, the Little Lord Fauntleroy clothes she d re ssed him in, and even for the name "Humphrey". From his father, Bogar t in herited a tendency to needle, fondness for fishing, lifelong love o f boat ing, and an attraction to strong-willed women.
== Family ==
Bogie became a father for the first time at age 49 when Lauren Bacall ga v e birth to their son Stephen H. Bogart on January 6, 1949. Bogart and B ac all’s son, Stephen was named after Bogart’s character in "To Have an d Hav e Not".
Bogie became a father for the second time at age 52 when Lauren Bacall g a ve birth to their daughter Leslie Bogart on August 23, 1952. His daught er , Leslie, was named after his friend and "The Petrified Forest" co-sta r , Leslie Howard. Bogart never forgot that Leslie Howard secured him hi s f irst big break in show biz by insisting that Bogie get the role of "D uk e Mantee" over Edward G. Robinson in the film version of "The Petrifie d F orest" which was released in 1939. He named his daughter "Leslie Howa rd B ogart" as a show of his gratitude to Leslie Howard.
Although he rarely participated in celebrity tournaments, Bogart was o n e of Hollywood’s better golfers.
'''Military and Broadway'''
The Bogarts sent their son to the Trinity School in New York and the n t o the prestigious prep school Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachus etts . They hoped he would go on to Yale In May of 1918, Bogart was expel led f rom Phillips Academy, apparently for smoking, his erratic study hab its, h is low grades and intemperate personality, especially authority fi gures . The Bogarts had hoped that Bogie would further his education a t Yale i n pursuit of becoming a medical doctor like his father. However , he faile d to meet the school's high standards and was expelled.
After being expelled from Phillips Academy, Bogart enlisted in the Unit e d States Naval Reserve. In 1918, he was called to active service whic h wa s mostly routine, other than receiving a prominent scar that reporte dly c ame from when he was given the task to escort a prisoner, who appar entl y slipped out of his grasp long enough to deck him. It is not know n if th is is how Bogie got the prominent scar on his lip as there is a c onflicti ng tale of how that occurred. But, this made for the best story.
Bogart was honorably discharged from the Navy in 1919 and began to sear c h for a career that would interest him.
Bogart's father was friends with Broadway and film producer William A. B r ady and the families lived near each other in New York City. It was thr ou gh Brady and his daughter, the stage actress Alice Brady, that Bogar t go t his first acting job on Broadway. Bogart was given a job as the co mpan y manger of a touring production of "The Ruined Lady". He even work ed fo r awhile as a manager of William A. Brady's film studio, World Film s.
He had never taken acting lessons, and had no formal training. Early rev i ewers of Bogart's acting skills kindly called them "inadequate". Boga r t loathed the trivial roles he had to play early in his career. Bogar t wa s in a total of 21 Broadway productions between 1922 and 1935. He ca lle d them "White Pants Willie" roles although it is not known what tha t mean t. It may have been a reference to the Disney character, Steamboa t Willie , who premiered in 1928. After all, Bogie was a naval seaman an d a lifelo ng sailing enthusiast.
'''Hollywood and Relationships'''
For more than a dozen years he struggled with small roles on the stage w h ile trying to make it big in Hollywood. It was during this time that h e m arried his first wife. Humphrey and actress Helen Menken were marrie d o n May 20, 1926 and divorced within a year. On April 13, 1928 he marri ed a gain to actress Mary Philips.
He was able to land some parts in a few movies, but didn't get a break u n til 1934. He played an escaped killer in the play "The Petrified Forest " . His portrayal was so convincing that the audience reportedly let o u t a gasp of horror the first time he walked on stage. This led to a fi l m of the same play, where he became the go-to performer for criminals a n d gangsters over the next several years. Unfortunately, his newfound su cc ess was difficult on his married life, and he and Mary divorced aroun d 19 38. In that same year, he remarried to Mayo Methot .
However, being typecast as a villain was limiting to his career, and h e s ought a way out. He found it with the role of Sam Spade in "The Malte se F alcon". This movie turned out to provide him with a new boost to hi s care er, which propelled him into the leading role in "Casablanca". "Ca sablanc a" won three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Bes t Director ) and is now ranked among the greatest films of all time. Tw o one of th e most quotable films of all time come from "Casablanca". Th e character R ick Blaine's uttering of "Here's look at you, kid" and th e ending quote o f the unforgettable words, spoken by Bogart, "I think th is is the beginni ng of a beautiful friendship."
As his career took off and he became one of Hollywood's most popular act o rs, his marriage to Mayo continued to deteriorate. They had a reputati o n throughout Hollywood as fiery and by 1945, it was over. But two week s a fter his divorce, he married Betty Perske ''a/k/a'' Lauren Bacall an d the y would remain together until his death. They had two children toge ther , a son Stephen (1949) and a daughter Leslie (1952).
His landmark year was 1941 with roles in classics such as "High Sierra ( 1 941) and as Sam Spade in one of his most fondly remembered films, "Th e Ma ltese Falcon" (1941). These were followed by "Casablanca" (1942), "T he Bi g Sleep" (1946), and "Key Largo" (1948) .
Almost all of the roles that made him a star were obtained at the expen s e of George Raft. Raft turned down several roles starting with "High Si er ra" (1941), in which Bogie was first became a viable box office draw . Raf t's poor choices not to take some truly great roles in parts late r goin g to Bogart continued through his role as "Rick Blaine" in "Casabl anca" ( 1942), which made him a truly international star.
Bogart continued on to a long and distinguished Hollywood career that in c luded over 80 films. His most celebrated performance after "Casablanca " c ame in the 1951 film "The African Queen", in which he co-starred wit h Kat harine Hepburn and for which he won his first and only Academy Awar d fo r Best Actor. His most notable later films included "The Caine Mutin y" (1 954), "Sabrina" (1954) and "The Harder They Fall" (1956).
Bogie and Bacall purchased a $160,000 white brick mansion in Holmby Hill s , an exclusive neighborhood between Beverly Hills and Bel Air. Bogart a n d Bacall had two Jaguar cars, three blooded boxer dogs together with a n a ssortment of chickens and other animals .
Bogie and Bacall then loosely organized a group of actors and friends th a t enjoyed drinking heavily in Hollywood. They referred to themselves a s " The Holmby Hills Rat Pack". The Rat Pack name originated one morning , aft er a night of heavy boozing, when Bogart's wife Lauren Bacall cam e upon t he sodden group and flatly stated, "You look like a God-damned r at pack. " Bogart enjoyed the term, and a legend was born .
Sinatra and his "The Clan" carried on the tradition. But, Sinatra stopp e d using the "Rat Pack" name after Bogie died in 1957 .
As a heavy smoker and drinker, Bogart developed esophageal cancer. He h a d just turned 57 twenty days prior to death and weighed only 80 pounds . H is simple funeral was held at All Saints Episcopal Church. | Bogart, Humphrey DeForest (I96930)
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He was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corpora t e finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of th e ba nking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he w as th e driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in th e Unite d States spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Over the course of his career on Wall Street, J.P. Morgan spearheaded t h e formation of several prominent multinational corporations including U .S . Steel, International Harvester and General Electric which subsequent l y fell under his supervision. He and his partners also held controllin g i nterests in numerous other American businesses including Aetna, Weste rn U nion, Pullman Car Company and 21 railroads. Due to the extent of hi s domi nance over U.S. finance, Morgan exercised enormous influence ove r the nat ion's policies and the market forces underlying its economy. Du ring the P anic of 1907, he organized a coalition of financiers that save d the Ameri can monetary system from collapse.
As the Progressive Era's leading financier, J.P. Morgan's dedication t o e fficiency and modernization helped transform the shape of the America n ec onomy. Adrian Wooldridge characterized Morgan as America's "greates t bank er". Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in his sleep in 1913 at the age o f 75, l eaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont Morga n Jr. Biog rapher Ron Chernow estimated his fortune at $80 million (equiv alent to $1 .2 billion in 2019). | Morgan, John Pierpont (I100582)
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He was an American politician who served as the second Speaker of the Un i ted States House of Representatives.
Aide-de-camp to General George Washington from 1781 to the end of the wa r ; Governor of Connecticut 1798-1809. | Trumbull, Governor Jonathan Jr (I98229)
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He was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most signifi c ant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as th e "K ing of Rock and Roll" or simply "the King".
Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tenne s see, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began t he re in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who w ant ed to bring the sound of African American music to a wider audience . Acco mpanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presle y was a p ioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of cou ntry musi c and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined t o complet e the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquir ed his con tract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would mana ge the sing er for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "He artbreak Hot el", was released in January 1956 and became a number one hi t in the Unit ed States. With a series of successful network television a ppearances an d chart-topping records, he became the leading figure of th e newly popula r sound of rock and roll. His energized interpretations o f songs and sexu ally provocative performance style, combined with a sing ularly potent mi x of influences across color lines during a transformati ve era in race re lations, made him enormously popular—and controversial.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Draft e d into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording care e r two years later with some of his most commercially successful work . H e held few concerts however, and guided by Parker, Preceded to devot e muc h of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and soundtrack albums, mo st o f them critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break fro m liv e performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televisio n come back special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert res idenc y and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave th e firs t concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloh a from H awaii. Years of prescription drug abuse severely compromised hi s health , and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate, just 4 2 years o f age.
Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 2 0 th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, coun tr y, blues, and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the histor y o f recorded music. He won three competitive Grammys, received the Gram my L ifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into mult ipl e music halls of fame.
Elvis Presley was born on January 8, 1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gl a dys Love Presley (née Smith) in the two-room shotgun house built by hi s f ather, Vernon Elvis Presley, in preparation for the birth. Jesse Garo n Pr esley, his identical twin brother, was delivered 35 minutes before h im, s tillborn. Presley became close to both parents and formed an especi ally c lose bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of Go d church , where he found his initial musical inspiration.
Presley's ancestry was primarily a Western European mix: On his mother ' s side he was Scots-Irish, with some French Norman. Gladys and the res t o f the family apparently believed that her great-great-grandmother, Mo rnin g Dove White, was Cherokee; the biography by Elaine Dundy supports t he id ea, but at least one genealogy researcher has contested it on multi ple gr ounds. Vernon's forebears were of German or Scottish origin. Glady s was r egarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the sm all fami ly. Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little a mbition . The family often relied on help from neighbors and government f ood assi stance. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found gui lty of al tering a check written by his landowner and sometime employer . He was jai led for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with rel atives.
In September 1941, Presley entered first grade at East Tupelo Consolidat e d, where his instructors regarded him as "average". He was encourage d t o enter a singing contest after impressing his schoolteacher with a r endi tion of Red Foley's country song "Old Shep" during morning prayers . The c ontest, held at the Mississippi–Alabama Fair and Dairy Show on Oc tober 3 , 1945, was his first public performance. Ten-year-old Presley wa s dresse d as a cowboy; he stood on a chair to reach the microphone and s ang "Ol d Shep". He recalled placing fifth. A few months later, Presley r eceive d his first guitar for his birthday; he had hoped for something el se—by d ifferent accounts, either a bicycle or a rifle. Over the followin g year , he received basic guitar lessons from two of his uncles and th e new pas tor at the family's church. Presley recalled, "I took the guita r, and I w atched people, and I learned to play a little bit. But I woul d never sin g in public. I was very shy about it."
In September 1946, Presley entered a new school, Milam, for sixth grad e ; he was regarded as a loner. The following year, he began bringing hi s g uitar to school on a daily basis. He played and sang during lunchtime , an d was often teased as a "trashy" kid who played hillbilly music. B y then , the family was living in a largely African American neighborhood . Presl ey was a devotee of Mississippi Slim's show on the Tupelo radio s tation W ELO. He was described as "crazy about music" by Slim's younger b rother, w ho was one of Presley's classmates and often took him into th e station. S lim supplemented Presley's guitar tuition by demonstrating c hord techniqu es. When his protégé was 12 years old, Slim scheduled him f or two on-ai r performances. Presley was overcome by stage fright the fir st time, bu t succeeded in performing the following week.
In November 1948, the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee. After residi n g for nearly a year in rooming houses, they were granted a two-bedroo m ap artment in the public housing complex known as the Lauderdale Courts . Enr olled at L. C. Humes High School, Presley received only a C in musi c in e ighth grade. When his music teacher told him he had no aptitude fo r singi ng, he brought in his guitar the next day and sang a recent hit , "Keep Th em Cold Icy Fingers Off Me", in an effort to prove otherwise . A classmat e later recalled that the teacher "agreed that Elvis was rig ht when he sa id that she didn't appreciate his kind of singing". He wa s usually too sh y to perform openly, and was occasionally bullied by cla ssmates who viewe d him as a "mama's boy". In 1950, he began practicing g uitar regularly un der the tutelage of Jesse Lee Denson, a neighbor two-a nd-a-half years hi s senior. They and three other boys—including two futu re rockabilly pione ers, brothers Dorsey and Johnny Burnette—formed a loo se musical collectiv e that played frequently around the Courts. That Sep tember, he began ushe ring at Loew's State Theater. Other jobs followed : Precision Tool, Loew' s again, and MARL Metal Products.
n August 1953, Presley walked into the offices of Sun Records. He aime d t o pay for a few minutes of studio time to record a two-sided acetat e disc : "My Happiness" and "That's When Your Heartaches Begin". He woul d late r claim that he intended the record as a gift for his mother, or t hat h e was merely interested in what he "sounded like", although there w as a m uch cheaper, amateur record-making service at a nearby general sto re. Bio grapher Peter Guralnick argues that he chose Sun in the hope of b eing dis covered. Asked by receptionist Marion Keisker what kind of singe r he was , Presley responded, "I sing all kinds." When she pressed him o n who he s ounded like, he repeatedly answered, "I don't sound like nobod y." After h e recorded, Sun boss Sam Phillips asked Keisker to note dow n the young ma n's name, which she did along with her own commentary: "Go od ballad singe r. Hold."
Presley, wearing a tight black leather jacket with Napoleonic standing c o llar, black leather wristbands, and black leather pants, holds a microp ho ne with a long cord. His hair, which looks black as well, falls acros s hi s forehead. In front of him is an empty microphone stand. Behind, be ginni ng below stage level and rising up, audience members watch him. A y oung w oman with long black hair in the front row gazes up ecstatically.
Presley's only child, Lisa Marie, was born on February 1, 1968, duri n g a period when he had grown deeply unhappy with his career. Of the eig h t Presley singles released between January 1967 and May 1968, only tw o ch arted in the top 40, and none higher than number 28. His forthcomin g soun dtrack album, Speedway, would die at number 82 on the Billboard ch art. Pa rker had already shifted his plans to television, where Presley h ad not a ppeared since the Sinatra Timex show in 1960. He maneuvered a de al with N BC that committed the network to both finance a theatrical feat ure and br oadcast a Christmas special.
Presley and his wife, meanwhile, had become increasingly distant, bare l y cohabiting. In 1971, an affair he had with Joyce Bova resulted—unbekn ow nst to him—in her pregnancy and an abortion. He often raised the possi bil ity of her moving into Graceland, saying that he was likely to leav e Pris cilla. The Presleys separated on February 23, 1972, after Priscill a discl osed her relationship with Mike Stone, a karate instructor Presle y had re commended to her. Presley and his wife filed for divorce on Augu st 18th f inalized on October 9, 1973. Twice during the year he overdose d on barbit urates, spending three days in a coma in his hotel suite afte r the firs t incident. Toward the end of 1973, he was hospitalized, semic omatose fro m the effects of pethidine addiction. death was pronounced a t 3:30 p.m. d eath was officially pronounced at 3:30 p.m. at Baptist Memo rial Hospita l August 16, 1977. | Presley, Elvis Aaron (I98983)
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He was an American social and political activist, author and politicia n , who was director of the Peace and Justice Resource Center in Los An g le s County, California. Known best for his major role as an anti-war , civi l rights, and radical intellectual counterculture activist, Hayde n was th e former husband of actress Jane Fonda and the father of actor T roy Garit y. | Hayden, Thomas Emmett (I116825)
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He was an American writer who achieved posthumous fame through his influ e ntial works of horror fiction. He was virtually unknown and published o nl y in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but he is now regarde d a s one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre.
Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of h i s life. Among his most celebrated tales are "The Rats in the Walls", "T h e Call of Cthulhu", At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of T im e, all canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft was never able to su ppo rt himself from earnings as author and editor. He saw commercial succ es s increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lack e d the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progress iv ely strained circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was compl ete ly spent by the time he died, at age 46. | Lovecraft, Howard Phillips (I79685)
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He was an English general and statesman who, first as a subordinate an d l ater as Commander-in-Chief, led armies of the Parliament of England a gain st King Charles I during the English Civil War, subsequently rulin g the B ritish Isles as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658 . He acte d simultaneously as head of state and head of government of th e new repub lican commonwealth.
Cromwell was born into the landed gentry to a family descended from th e s ister of Henry VIII's minister Thomas Cromwell (his great-great-grand uncl e). Little is known of the first 40 years of his life, as only fou r of hi s personal letters survive, along with a summary of a speech tha t he deli vered in 1628. He became an Independent Puritan after undergoin g a religi ous conversion in the 1630s, taking a generally tolerant vie w towards th e many Protestant sects of the time; an intensely religiou s man, Cromwel l fervently believed in God guiding him to victory. Cromwe ll was electe d Member of Parliament for Huntingdon in 1628, and for Camb ridge in the S hort (1640) and Long (1640–1649) Parliaments. He entered t he English Civi l Wars on the side of the "Roundheads", or Parliamentaria ns, and gained t he nickname "Old Ironsides". Cromwell demonstrated his a bility as a comma nder and was quickly promoted from leading a single cav alry troop to bein g one of the principal commanders of the New Model Arm y, playing an impor tant role under General Sir Thomas Fairfax in the def eat of the Royalis t ("Cavalier") forces.
Cromwell was one of the signatories of Charles I's death warrant in 164 9 , and dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England as a member o f th e Rump Parliament (1649–1653). He was selected to take command of th e Eng lish campaign in Ireland in 1649–1650. Cromwell's forces defeated t he Con federate and Royalist coalition in Ireland and occupied the countr y, endi ng the Irish Confederate Wars. During this period, a series of Pe nal Law s were passed against Roman Catholics (a significant minority i n Englan d and Scotland but the vast majority in Ireland), and a substant ial amoun t of their land was confiscated. Cromwell also led a campaign a gainst th e Scottish army between 1650 and 1651. On 20 April 1653, he dis missed th e Rump Parliament by force, setting up a short-lived nominate d assembly k nown as Barebone's Parliament, before being invited by his f ellow leader s to rule as Lord Protector of England (which included Wale s at the time) , Scotland, and Ireland from 16 December 1653.[4] As a rul er, Cromwell ex ecuted an aggressive and effective foreign policy. Nevert heless, his poli cy of religious toleration for Protestant denomination s during the Protec torate extended only to "God's peculiar", and not t o those he considere d heretics, such as Quakers, Socinians, and Ranters.
Cromwell died of natural causes in 1658 and was buried in Westminster Ab b ey. He was succeeded by his son Richard, whose weakness led to a powe r va cuum. Oliver's former General George Monck then mounted a coup, caus ing P arliament to arrange Prince Charles's return to London as King Char les I I and the Royalists' return to power in 1660. Cromwell's corpse wa s subse quently dug up, hung in chains, and beheaded.
Cromwell is one of the most controversial figures in British and Irish h i story, considered a regicidal dictator by historians such as David Shar p , a military dictator by Winston Churchill, and a hero of liberty by Jo h n Milton, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Rawson Gardiner. His tolerance o f Pr otestant sects did not extend to Catholics, and some have characteri sed t he measures he took against them, particularly in Ireland, as genoc idal o r near-genocidal. His record is strongly criticised in Ireland,[9 ] althou gh the worst atrocities took place after he had returned to Engl and.[10 ] He was selected as one of the ten greatest Britons of all tim e in a 200 2 BBC poll. | Cromwell, Sir Oliver 1st Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland (I95340)
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He was baptized 4 May 1848 and he was excommunicated 26 Oct. 1949. | Martin, William (I106874)
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He was drafted into the Army July 6, 1943 at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake C i ty. He was single at that time.
He was discharged February 4, 1946 at Lowry Field in Colorado.
In 1948, he and his wife Glenna H. Stark lived in Hayward, California . H e was a mechanic.
In 1993 he lived in Torrance, California. | Stark, Ray LaMar (I164433)
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He was murdered at Prestwick by the followers of Hugh Campbell of Loudo n , sheriff of Ayr in August 1527, over a quarrel about the lands of Turn be rry. | Kennedy, Gilbert 2nd Earl of Cassillis (I168221)
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He was one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the la n d of Canaan. (Numbers 13:1-16) After the death of Moses, he led the Isr ae lite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated the land to the t rib es. According to Biblical chronology, Joshua lived between 1355-124 5 BCE , or sometime in the late Bronze Age. According to Joshua 24:29, Jo shua d ied at the age of 110. | Joshua (I64661)
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He was rebaptized 13 Oct. 1891.
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George Symonds Ostler, son of Thomas Hodder Ostler and Joan Cousins Stev e ns, was born in Bridport, Dorsetshire, England on May 7, 1838. He was r ea red in humble circumstances, never having the advantage of an educatio n . In fact, he never attended an institution of learning. Yet, he coul d re ad and write and keep up with current events. At the early of eigh t year s old, he began earning his own livelihood and for one month worke d fo r a shilling or twenty-four cents a week.
His parents were weavers -- his mother being a twine spinner. So he lear n ed the trade and worked at the Pymore Factory for six months; then, h e we nt to the North Mills Factory, where he took care of the machinery . He wa s very dependable as he worked there for ten years and never miss ed an ho ur of work. During that 10 years, there were many days when he w ould neve r see daylight because he would leave home very early in the mo rning an d until his job was finished.
His wages were fifteen shillings or three dollars and seventy-five cen t s a week. He was so happy when he could earn enough to buy eight pound s o f bread at one time to help feed the family.
He showed a great desire to learn. So, he borrowed an old dictionary fr o m his Uncle John. In doing so, he became a well-versed man and was a ma st er with vocabulary. He also loved to read and study the scriptures. H e wa s considered a great Bible student.
He became interested in the Church when he was eight years old. He was b a ptized at the age of fourteen. Very often, they would walk thirty-fiv e mi les on Sundays to attend their meetings. They had a lot of oppositio n an d persecution after joining the church. On one occasion, while holdi n g a street meeting, he was struck by a rock which was thrown by some ro wd y boys.
He married Mary Ann Langford the 19th of June, 1864, in the Allington Ch a pel or Parish. His sister Mary Symonds Ostler and her boyfriend, Willi a m George Sheppick, who later became her husband, witnessed this marriag e . They were the parents of six children, all born in England. Julia Ama nd a, Ellen (known as Nellie), George Thomas Langford, Lorinda, Alice Sew ard , who died at six months old and was buried in England, and Alice Eli zabe th.
George came to America first and earned his transportation by workin g o n a ship. He worked in a factory in New York for some time and then r etur ned to England. His mother had a home which they sold in order to ge t th e money to bring the family to America. In 1886, 10 years after hi s fathe r’s death, the family left their home and traveled to Liverpool w here the y boarded the “British King”, leaving Liverpool October 16th, an d arrivin g in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1886. They came fr om there t o the Salt lake Valley, on November 1, 1886.
They made their first home in Riverton, Utah, where they lived for one y e ar. He then bought a piece of ground in South Jordan, Utah, which was c ov ered with sage brush. He cleared it and built his family a home, borro win g the money at a 15% interest rate. He did all the work on his house , lay ing the brick, doing carpenter work, plastering and shingling and p aintin g. He supported his family by farming. He lived in this home the r eminde r of his life.
He was always active in the Church, always attending his meetings. Rega r d less of the weather, he would always hitch up the horse and buggy an d a ttend his Sacrament meetings and Stake Conferences, which for many ye ar s were held in Sandy, Utah.
His wife died February 11, 1924, at the age of 85. He lived alone in h i s own home for another six years. He passed away on October 22, 1930 , a t the age of 93, after being ill for one week. | Ostler, George Symonds (I658)
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He was the first commissary general of the Continental Army during t h e A m erican Revolutionary War. | Trumbull, Joseph (I98228)
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He was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. He was the consort of the Brit i sh monarch from Elizabeth's accession on 6 February 1952 until his dea t h in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in history.
Philip was born in Greece, into the Greek and Danish royal families; h i s family was exiled from the country when he was eighteen months old. A ft er being educated in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, he joine d t he Royal Navy in 1939, when he was 18 years old. In July 1939, he beg an c orresponding with the 13-year-old Princess Elizabeth, the elder daug hte r and heir presumptive of King George VI. Philip had first met her i n 193 4. During the Second World War, he served with distinction in the B ritis h Mediterranean and Pacific fleets.
In the summer of 1946, the King granted Philip permission to marry Eliza b eth. Before the official announcement of their engagement in July 1947 , P hilip relinquished his Greek and Danish royal titles and styles, beca m e a naturalised British subject, and adopted his maternal grandparents ' s urname Mountbatten. He married Elizabeth on 20 November 1947. The da y pri or to their wedding, the King granted Philip the style His Royal Hi ghness . On the day of their wedding, he was additionally created Duke o f Edinbu rgh, Earl of Merioneth, and Baron Greenwich. Philip left activ e militar y service when Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1952, having re ached th e rank of commander. In 1957, he was created a British prince. P hilip ha d four children with Elizabeth: Charles, Prince of Wales; Anne , Princes s Royal; Prince Andrew, Duke of York; and Prince Edward, Earl o f Wessex . Through a British Order in Council issued in 1960, descendant s of Phili p and Elizabeth who do not bear royal titles or styles may us e the surnam e Mountbatten-Windsor. The surname has also been used by mem bers of the r oyal family who hold titles.
A sports enthusiast, Philip helped develop the equestrian event of carri a ge driving. He was a patron, president, or member of over 780 organisat io ns, including the World Wide Fund for Nature, and served as chairman o f T he Duke of Edinburgh's Award, a youth awards program for people age d 14 t o 24. Philip is the longest-lived male member of the British roya l family . He retired from his royal duties on 2 August 2017, aged 96, ha ving comp leted 22,219 solo engagements and 5,493 speeches from 1952. Phi lip died o n 9 April 2021, two months before his 100th birthday. | Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Philip Philip, prince of Greece and Denmark (I43906)
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He was the oldest member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in the his t ory of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Elder David Bruce Haight: Devoted Disciple
2 September 1906–31 July 2004
Elder David B. Haight
As a youth, David B. Haight came close to death on two occasions: once w h en he was thrown from a runaway buggy and a second time when he hit hi s h ead while diving into a swimming hole. “I think the Lord was preservi ng h is life in his early years” for a great purpose, said his son Rober t (quo ted in Ronald E. Poelman, ‘’Elder David B. Haight: Joy in Liftin g Others, ” Tambuli, Sept. 1987, 20; Ensign, Sept. 1986, 12).
Indeed, the Lord had plans for young David. He would later be called t o t he Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, eventually becoming, at age 97, th e old est Apostle in the history of the Church. His service in the apostl eshi p ended on 31 July 2004 when he passed away in Salt Lake City of cau ses i ncident to age. He was remembered as a devoted disciple during a fu nera l service held on 5 August in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.
A Powerful Testimony
Elder Haight “stirred the hearts of people across the earth with his dec l aration of faith and his testimony of the living reality of the Lord Je su s Christ,” said the First Presidency in a media statement. “He has bor n e that witness on many continents and has been influential in the Chur c h he loved. … At his departure, our hearts reach out to his beloved com pa nion, Ruby, and their children.”
Elder Haight was known for his extemporaneous talks at general conferenc e , which were filled with down-to-earth anecdotes and expressions of hi s d eep and abiding testimony of the gospel’s truthfulness. In his most r ecen t conference address, given last April, he declared: “God lives. … [ He] l oves us, as we should love Him. … The gospel is true. I know it; I’ m a wi tness of it” (“How Great the Wisdom and the Love,” Liahona and Ens ign, Ma y 2004, 6).
Commitment and Charity
David Bruce Haight was born on 2 September 1906 in Oakley, Idaho, to Hec t or C. Haight and Clara Tuttle Haight. In his early life he experience d th e deaths of his father and four of his siblings due to illness. Thes e pai nful losses gave him compassion and understanding for those who fac ed adv ersity in their own lives. Despite such difficult experiences, h e describ ed himself as a “typical boy growing up in a country town” (quo ted in Ger ry Avant, “Elder Haight Recognized What Really Is ‘Great Momen t’ in Life, ” Church News, 24 Nov. 1985, 5).
The Church was an important influence throughout his life, but a turni n g point in his commitment to the gospel occurred during World War II, w he n he was serving as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy . Aft er leaving his family behind in California to fly to Honolulu, Hawa ii, h e spent a sleepless night in the back of an airplane reappraising h is lif e and pouring out his heart in prayer. Although he had served in m any Chu rch callings and had been serving in a bishopric, he decided he w asn’t a s dedicated as he should have been. “I’ve often thought maybe tha t was m y road to Damascus as I thought about my family that I left bac k on tha t landing dock out in the bay,” he later said. “I made a total c ommitmen t that I would never question a call from the Lord. I would us e whateve r few talents I had to build the kingdom if I might survive m y involvemen t in that conflict” (quoted in Church News, 24 Nov. 1985, 5) .
He kept that promise, later serving as president of the Palo Alto Califo r nia Stake, as president of the Scottish Mission, and as a regional repr es entative prior to his call in April 1970 as an Assistant to the Twelve . O n 8 January 1976 he was ordained an Apostle.
Elder Haight knew that regardless of the callings he was given, the esse n ce of gospel living is charity, the pure love of Christ. As he told on e o f his grandsons, “The Lord isn’t going to be concerned about whethe r yo u were a bishop, or stake president, or Apostle. He’s going to be co ncern ed about how you treated people” (quoted in Tambuli, Sept. 1987, 22 ; Ensi gn, Sept. 1986, 14).
Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles has remark e d upon Elder Haight’s awareness of the needs of others, offering this e xa mple: “Elder Haight read the newspaper account of a young man, an expe rie nced swimmer, who drowned trying to save others whose canoe had capsi zed . David did not know the family, but his heart went out to them.” H e atte nded the viewing at the mortuary, where he extended his sympathy t o the w idow and the parents of the young man. Elder Haight’s concern fo r them op ened the way for the parents to become active in the Church. El der Haigh t later performed the temple sealing of the parents to their th ree sons , including the young man who had passed away (see Lucile C. Tat e, Davi d B. Haight: The Life Story of a Disciple [1987], 288).
A 74-Year Courtship
Many of Elder Haight’s talks were sprinkled with references to his belov e d wife, Ruby. Young David first saw Ruby Olson at a dance he was attend in g with another young woman. As he and his date observed the other danc ers , “the cutest girl [he] had seen in [his] life” came dancing by wit h he r date. David watched the high-spirited young woman in the red dres s danc e by several times and then asked his date if she knew that girl . His dat e responded that they were sorority sisters. “Now, this is no t the way t o win friends and influence people, but I asked my date if sh e would intr oduce me to Ruby sometime,” Elder Haight recalled.
That introduction never occurred, but a short time later Ruby applied f o r a position at the store David managed. She was hired. When he asked h e r for a date, she told him she already had a date that evening. He reme mb ered: “I asked what time her date was coming. She said at 8 o’clock . I sa id, ‘How about my coming at 6?’” (quoted in Church News, 24 Nov. 1 985, 5) .
The relationship soon became exclusive, and later the couple married i n t he Salt Lake Temple on 4 September 1930. Their courtship continued th roug hout their almost 74 years of marriage. Elder Haight’s secretary, Li nda D alley, recalls an experience she had when visiting the Haights earl ier th is year: “Their housekeeper let me in, and she motioned to me to n ot mak e any noise. She said, ‘Look in the living room,’ and there were E lder an d Sister Haight, as ill as Elder Haight had been, and the two o f them wer e in the living room dancing together. I thought that was on e of the swee test things I had ever seen. Ninety-seven years old, and a t that time Sis ter Haight was 93, in the living room dancing without mus ic. They didn’ t need music. They had the music in their hearts.”
Elder and Sister Haight have 3 children, 18 grandchildren, and 78 great- g randchildren.
Professional Career
Elder Haight had a long and successful professional career. He complet e d his schooling at Utah State University and served in managerial and e xe cutive positions for department stores in Utah, California, and Illino is , finally owning a group of retail stores in the 1950s. From 1959 to 1 96 3 he was mayor of Palo Alto, California. He was in his second term whe n h e was called to serve as president of the Scottish Mission.
After his service as mission president, Elder Haight worked as an assist a nt to the president of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, prio r t o being called as an Assistant to the Twelve.
A Life of Righteousness
Elder Haight’s legacy benefits not only his posterity but all member s o f the Church who have been inspired by his testimony and his faith i n Jes us Christ. In a general conference address he urged members to “hav e tha t testimony, that desire in our hearts, to teach others, to explai n wha t we believe, and to live lives of righteousness, … to be an exampl e to m ankind, and to be able to spread this work not only by what we sa y but b y the way we act” (“Faith, Devotion, and Gratitude,” Liahona, Jul y 2000 , 42; Ensign, May 2000, 35). Elder Haight was a living example o f what h e taught.
Much-Loved Apostle Remembered by His Brethren
At his funeral, speakers offered the following tributes to Elder Davi d B . Haight:
President Gordon B. Hinckley: “He recognized that each of the human fami l y was a child of God and that we are all, therefore, brothers and siste rs . He carried in his heart an appreciation of all whom he came to know , re gardless of their religious affiliation. … He knew his place and hi s uniq ue responsibility as one who testifies of the living reality of th e Lor d Jesus Christ.”
President Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor in the First Presidency: “Th e re was no chink in his armor. There was no guile in his soul. There wa s n o flaw in his character. Elder Haight loved the Lord with all his hea rt a nd soul and served Him with all his might to the very end of his mor tal l ife.”
President James E. Faust, Second Counselor in the First Presidency: “H i s greatest work was among people as a devoted disciple of Christ. … Tho us ands and thousands of lives have been directly touched by his unique c ari ng to many. He was uncompromising in doing what was right.”
President Boyd K. Packer, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve A p ostles: “Death is an essential part of life. … [Elder Haight] is now i n p aradise. … We know something about what paradise is like and what Dav id B . Haight will be doing. … God bless the memory of David B. Haight.” | Haight, David Bruce (I98332)
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He was the son of Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton a n d Isabel de Beaumont. Simon was in his minority when his father died i n 1 153. He was passed over as Earl of Huntington, in favour of King Malc ol m IV of Scotland, who granted the earldom to his own brother William . Upo n reaching of age, Simon was recognised in the earldom of Northampt on i n 1159. He succeeded to the earldom of Huntingdon, in 1174, upon th e forf eiture by William, who had succeeded as king of Scotland.
Simon died in 1184 and was buried in the St Andrew's Priory, Northampto n . His wife Alice died in 1185. The earldom of Huntingdon was inherite d b y Prince David of Scotland, while the earldom of Northampton reverte d t o the English crown. | de Senlis, Simon III Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton (I171810)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I165987)
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Heber Chase Kimball was First Counselor in the First Presidency of the C h urch from December 5, 1847, until his death in 1868. One of the foremo s t men in the early years of the Church, along with the Prophet Joseph S mi th and Brigham Young, Heber marched in Zion's Camp in 1834, was ordain e d one of the original members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1 83 5, and experienced the spiritual manifestations that attended the dedi cat ion of the Kirtland Temple in 1836. He served two missions to Great B rita in, in 1837-1838 and 1839-1841 (see Missions of the Twelve to the Br itis h Isles). Blunt, honest, loyal, and believing, Heber served the stru gglin g Church well when steadfastness was among the most needed qualitie s. Thi s is reflected in Joseph Smith's saying, "Of the Twelve Apostles c hosen i n Kirtland,…there have been but two [who have not] lifted their h eel agai nst me-namely Brigham Young and Heber C. Kimball" (HC 5:412).
Heber C. Kimball was born June 14, 1801, near Sheldon, Vermont, to Solom o n F. and Anna Spaulding Kimball. In 1811 the family moved to western N e w York, where, after scanty schooling, young Heber became a potter. H e gr ew to be a physically impressive man, six feet tall and weighing mor e tha n two hundred pounds, barrel-chested, and dark-eyed. He married Vil ate Mu rray in 1822. He, his friend Brigham Young, and their wives joine d the Ch urch in 1832, after a two-year period of inquiry, and in 1833 th ey move d to Church headquarters in Kirtland, Ohio.
In 1837 Elder Kimball received an assignment from the Prophet Joseph Smi t h to lead a group of missionaries to England. As the ship arrived in Li ve rpool, Kimball leapt ashore, thus becoming the first Latter-day Sain t i n Europe. His simplicity and spirit suited the men and women who hear d hi m preach, and within a week nine persons sought baptism. On the morn ing o f the baptism, Elder Kimball and his companions reported they exper ience d an attack by evil spirits, whom they saw distinctly in their room . Call ing on God, they received deliverance from the dark power. Throug h thei r efforts groups of hundreds of English converts, commencing in 18 40, beg an sailing to the United States to be with the main body of the C hurch.
After a year Elder Kimball returned to the United States and to Missour i , where the Saints experienced persecution. While Joseph Smith sat impr is oned in the Liberty Jail (Missouri), Heber and Brigham Young organize d th e removal of approximately 12,000 LDS refugees to Illinois.
When the Prophet Joseph Smith rejoined the Saints in Illinois and establ i shed Nauvoo on the Mississippi River, Elder Kimball prepared to retur n t o England. On the appointed day he and Brigham Young took their leav e fro m sick wives, each with a new baby, and were themselves so ill the y had t o be lifted into the wagon. Elder Kimball was gone from home fo r almost t wo years, until 1841.
Kimball participated in the building of the Nauvoo Temple and received t h e temple ordinances. Joseph Smith taught him privately that God requir e d him to enter into plural marriage. After initial resistance, Elder Ki mb all married Sarah Noon. His anguish at keeping this secret from Vilat e en ded when she told him that the Lord had shown her that plural marria ge wa s right, and that she accepted his participation in it. Kimball mar rie d a total of forty-three women (in many cases a caretaking rather tha n a n intimate relationship), and by seventeen of them he had sixty-fiv e chil dren. He perceived his plural marriages as a religious obligation ; Vilat e accepted the other wives as sisters. Heber C. Kimball's grandso n Spence r W. Kimball was President of the Church from 1973 to 1985.
After Joseph Smith's assassination in 1844, Church leadership was carri e d forth by the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles under its president, Brigh a m Young. Elder Kimball stood next in leadership. The Saints soon had t o a bandon their homes in Nauvoo and flee to the Great Basin.
The brutal trek across Iowa, temporary settlement in Winter Quarters, a n d the pioneer journey of 1847 to the Great Salt Lake Valley occurred un de r Brigham Young's supervision, with Kimball as his assistant. In Decem be r 1847, at Kanesville (Council Bluffs, Iowa), the First Presidency wa s or ganized, with Brigham Young as president and Heber C. Kimball and Wi llar d Richards as his counselors. In summer 1848 President Kimball led o ne o f three large companies of Saints to the Salt Lake Valley, where h e estab lished his families and supported them by farming, ranching, mill ing, fre ighting, and Church and civic administration.
The organization of Utah Territory in 1850 brought hostile federal appoi n tees, but since the population was predominantly LDS, Church leaders h a d de facto control of the legislature. Heber served as leader of the le gi slature. Friction between the federally appointed judges and the Latte r-d ay Saints led to U.S. President James Buchanan's sending federal troo ps t o suppress a supposed "rebellion" of the Mormons. President Kimbal l helpe d direct the resistance.
A notably outspoken preacher, President Kimball often urged self-suffici e ncy, resistance to the corrupting influences of the larger society, an d f aithfulness to the kingdom of God. He frequently used metaphors fro m hi s experience as a potter. He prophesied accurately many times, inclu din g a prediction that Parley P. Pratt would go on a mission to Toronto , Can ada, and find a people prepared for his message. He likewise prophe sied t hat from there the gospel would spread to England. He correctly pr edicte d that Pratt's invalid wife would bear him a son, even though th e coupl e had been childless for ten years (Whitney, p. 135). He also pro phesie d to hungry pioneers in early 1849 that "in less than one year the re wil l be plenty of clothes and everything that we shall want sold at l ess tha n St. Louis prices" (Kimball, 1981, p. 190). That summer, peopl e travelin g to the California gold fields dumped their excess supplies a nd equipmen t on the market in Salt Lake City and the prophecy was true.
President Kimball also shouldered special responsibility for the Briti s h mission and for all temple ordinances. His journals constitute import an t sources of Church history.
Heber C. Kimball died June 22, 1868, from the effects of a carriage acci d ent, ending thirty-six years of unexcelled, dependable service to the C hu rch. | Kimball, Heber Chase (I51650)
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Helen lived with Ruth at 613 Wheaton Ave. and were students in 1906 & 19 0 7. | Putnam, Ruth Lois (I148684)
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Helen Marie Glessner was born October 10, 1919, in Geary County, Kansa s t o Fern and August Glessner
She grew up on the farm and attended Ebbutt and Church rural grade sc h ools. She graduated from Alta Vista High School in 1938 and received h e r Teachers Certificate from Emporia State Teachers College. She taugh t sc hool in Geary and Wabaunsee counties .
She married Ernie H Bennett on June 10, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas. The l i ved temporarily in Arkansas and Hutchinson, Kansas before Ernie was cal le d to service and sent over seas. After he returned from WWll they to W ich ita and later to rural Goddard, Kansas, where they lived until thei r deat h. They had two girs, Jana Sue and Dana Lu.
Helen worked and retired from the Coleman factory in Wichita, Kansa s . She had many interest including gardening, sewing and various arts a n d crafts. She enjoyed grandchildren and traveling in later years .
Helen passed away January 27, 1995 and Ernie passed away January 29 , 2 000.
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Helen's testimony to her Grandchildren - January 2017
I, Helen Labrum, your grandma, want you to know that we are children o f G od. I believe Jesus is the son of Heavenly Father. He made a covenan t wit h Heavenly Father to bring his children back to him through the Ato nement . In the process, he went through Gethsemane and died upon the cro ss an d was resurrected. He completed The Plan through justice and merc y so w e can return to Heavenly Father.
Our goal is to keep the commandments and the covenants we make so that w h en we see them, we will be like them and know them. If sometimes you do n’ t keep the covenants like you should, remember there is repentance. He ave nly Father loves us and wants us to return.
I love you and I believe these things.
Helen Labrum | Puckett, Helen Ilene (I5352)
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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American autho r , poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, critic, su rv eyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for h i s book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings , a nd his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Diso bedi ence), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry total over 20 vo l umes. Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural histo r y and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecol og y and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalis m . His literary style interweaves close natural observation, personal ex pe rience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, whil e d isplaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and "Yankee " lov e of practical detail. He was also deeply interested in the idea o f survi val in the face of hostile elements, historical change, and natur al decay ; at the same time he advocated abandoning waste and illusion i n order t o discover life's true essential needs.
He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the Fu g itive Slave Law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and def en ding abolitionist John Brown. Thoreau's philosophy of civil disobedien c e later influenced the political thoughts and actions of such notable f ig ures as Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Thoreau is sometimes cited as an anarchist. Though Civil Disobedience se e ms to call for improving rather than abolishing government — "I ask fo r , not at once no government, but at once a better government" — the dir ec tion of this improvement points toward anarchism: "'That government i s be st which governs not at all;' and when men are prepared for it, tha t wil l be the kind of government which they will have." Richard Drinno n partl y blames Thoreau for the ambiguity, noting that Thoreau's "sly sa tire, hi s liking for wide margins for his writing, and his fondness fo r paradox p rovided ammunition for widely divergent interpretations of 'C ivil Disobed ience.” | Thoreau, David Henry (I100138)
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Henry was 10 years old, a Young Pioneer, when he was on the Ansil Harm o n wagon train in 1862. He walked the entire way from Florence, NB to Sa l t Lake. Henry was the first child of our Rawlings family to be born i n th e U.S. His mother Ann was pregnant during the crossing from Liverpoo l. Pl ease see Find a Grave for more info. | Rawlings, Henry Eber (I19111)
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Her name as seen in marriage document. But her father was Sylvester M Ro s e. Her mother devoiced him and married Frank McLaen and so she took he r s tep-fathers last name. | Rose, Maud (I102)
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Her name is spelled several different ways in various documents, censu s r ecords, histories, etc. Her headstone shows as "Georgeanna." Her twi n wa s named George. Her descendants have agreed to have her official nam e i n Family Tree be "Georgeanna." | Blazzard, Georgeanna (I155146)
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Herald Journal, The (Logan, UT) - Friday, July 12, 2013
Craig Owen Duncan
Craig Owen Duncan, better known as "Curly" to his friends, passed away M a y 6, 2013. Craig was the eldest of four sons born to James Owen and Mar ge ne Pedersen Duncan. He was born April 21, 1955, in Cedar City, Utah.
Craig graduated from Glendora High School in Glendora, Calif. in 1973 a n d was an Eagle Scout recipient that same year.
Although he grew up in California, Craig loved Cache Valley and spent se v eral summers with his Grandfather in Logan as a young man. His love f o r t he outdoors eventually brought Craig back to Cache Valley where h e wo uld summer in Idaho along the Cub River, which made it possible fo r h i m t o enjoy what Craig loved most: fishing, hunting, horseback ridi ng a nd living in the mountains where he felt most at peace. This was tru ly "C urly's" interpretation of a life fit for a King.
Craig is survived by three brothers, Clyde R. Duncan of Thousand Oaks, C a lif., Stephen A. Duncan of Providence, Utah and Scott O. Duncan of Glen do ra, Calif., along with two aunts, an uncle and several nieces and neph ews .
A graveside service will take place in the Meadow, Utah Cemetery at 2 p. m . July 20, under the direction of Olpin Stevens Funeral Home. | Duncan, Craig Owen (I42165)
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HERBERT ARTHUR DISNEY ~
was born on December 8, 1888 in Acron, Florida. (This town no longer exists but it is near Sorrento, Florida). His parents were Elias Charles Disney and Flora Call Disney.
His siblings were brothers Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney, Walter Elias (Walt) Disney, and one sister Ruth Flora Disney. Herbert was the oldest of the five children.
Herbert served in the U. S. Army during WWI.
Herbert was married to Louise R. Rast Disney and after Louise passed away, he married Margaret Chapman Disney. Herbert is interred next to his first wife Louise Disney in Valhalla Memorial Park at 10621 Victory Blvd. in North Hollywood, California.
Herbert and Louise had one daughter Dorothy Disney (Purder) who was born on July 1, 1915 in Kansas City, Missouri. Dorothy passed away on September 28, 2007 in Napa, California.
In the earlier years, Herbert and brother Raymond lived in Marceline, Missouri and both tired of farm life so they moved back to Chicago where the family lived before moving to Marceline. When their parents Elias and Flora moved from Marceline to Kansas City, Missouri, both of the brothers moved to Kansas City and resided with the family. It was during these later years that brother Walt started the Laugh-O-gram Studio and brothers Raymond and Roy were tellers at the First National Bank in downtown Kansas City.
In Kansas City Herbert met Louise R. Rast whom he married and they had one daughter Dorothy.
When Herbert's brothers Walt and Roy moved to California, Herbert and Louise and daughter Dorothy moved to Oregon. Later on, Herbert's mom and dad, (Elias Charles Disney and Flora Call Disney) moved to Oregon before finally settling in North Hollywood, California where Walt and Roy purchased them a new home close to the Disney Brothers' Studio. Herbert and his family also finally moved to California so the family was closer and finally together again.
Herbert was with the U. S. Postal Service for many years in Los Angeles, California.
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Here's a great story we hope is true: one night in the 1910s, a young m a n took a date out for dinner at Gage & Tollner and forgot his wallet. M or tified, he approached the kindly manager and asked if he could retur n t o pay tomorrow, and leave his gold watch as collateral.
"Keep it," Mr. Gage said, as he handed back the timepiece. "'You will ne e d it to know when to go home. Besides, it may surprise you to know th a t I kissed your sweetheart before you ever did. Her dad used to bring h e r in here when she was just a little tot'... From then on, the restaura n t had two more steady customers," according to Edgar Gibbs in the Bever ag e Retailer Weekly.
The young man was Seth Bradford "Brad" Dewey, whose father, Hiram S. Dew e y, had made a small fortune in the restaurant and wine business. Afte r Mr . Gage died in 1919, Brad Dewey (backed by his father) bought Gag e & Toll ner from Mr. Cunningham, under the condition that he make no sig nifican t changes to the building or the business.
Brad Dewey managed Gage & Tollner for almost 20 years (including the 1 3 y ears of Prohibition, a true trial for a restaurateur from a wine busi nes s family) until he died in 1938. "Mr. Dewey deserves to be remembere d b y all hearty and discriminating eaters," wrote the editors of the Her ald - Tribune. "He was not impressed by modern furniture, tearoom fripper y, s trange dietary fads, machine-age gadgets or pretty 'hostesses.'.. [G ag e & Tollner is] still carrying on for the pleasure of men and women wh o o ccasionally feel the unashamed pangs of an honest hunger and (or) thi rst. .. may they remain staunch in the faith!" | Dewey, Seth Bradford (I67054)
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Herman Lees Greenhalgh was a coal miner, a delivery driver, a peach farm e r, and an equipment repairman. He was a loving husband and father of t w o boys and a daughter. He enjoyed fishing from Fishing Bridge in Yellow st one National Park.
Herman was born on the 12th of October, 1902. He was the oldest of thr e e children. When he was young, Herman lived in Salt Lake City (1062 Sou t h 8th East) with his parents and brother. His father, Peter Lees, wa s a “ pharmacist” manufacturing medicines for the Greenhalgh Remedy Co. T hey li ved in a nice neighborhood and lived next door to Owen Snelgrove ( the ic e cream company family) and James J. Woodruff (son of Wilford Wood ruff).
When Herman was 15 years old, his mother died. He and his father and bro t her moved back to the family’s home town of Meadow, Utah. The 1920 cens u s shows Herman at age 17 living with his grandmother Ann Duncan (widow ) a long with his father, Peter Lees (44, widower) as well as his brothe r Lyn n (13). He and his brother were listed as general farm laborers. Hi s da d was listed as shearing sheep. Also in the household was Ann Duncan ’s 18 -year-old daughter Naomi Duncan.
Herman married Ardella Page on July 30, 1924. They were both 22 years ol d . A year later, they had their first of two sons, Dean Lees. Their seco n d son, Jay Page was born a year after that. Herman was a coal miner i n th e mines in Coalville, Utah. The 1930 census shows the family livin g in Sa lt Lake City near Fayette Avenue and 1st West (present day West T emple ab out 10th South). The records show that the family rented a hom e for $18/m onth.
Money was very tight for the family during the depression. Their son Ja y , told how he had a paper route as a young boy that he used to help sup po rt the family. One day before delivering papers, his mother had bake d a b ig chocolate cake and had told the boys explicitly to leave the cak e alon e. While delivering papers, Jay found a $5 dollar bill. So he cam e home a nd cut himself a big slice of the chocolate cake. Soon his mothe r was yel ling at him and asking him what in the world he was doing. He e xplained t hat he just thought he’d buy a slice of that cake with this $ 5 dollars, w hich he handed his mother. His family was so excited becaus e $5 was a lar ge amount of money in those days. The money helped them pa y their bills f or their month and the whole family considered it “mone y from heaven.”
By 1940, Herman had built a home in West Bountiful at 590 North 500 We s t (just north of J&L Garden Center today). His grandson recalls that t h e home was very modest and was built out of old palettes and junk wood . H erman and Ardella would live in this home until they retired in the l at e 1960s. The 1940 census records that Herman was a delivery driver f o r a dry cleaning company. He drove a 1936 Ford delivery truck .
Herman and Ardella were born and raised members of the LDS Church. As th e y grew up, they were sometimes more active in the Church than others. T he y were endowed and sealed in the Salt Lake City temple March 14, 1949 . Th eir grandson remembers Herman always wearing his long underwear (gar ments ) which he tucked into his socks and gloves when he went out to wor k in h is orchards to seal out all the dirt and dust.
On the same property as the house, Herman had seven acres of peach tre e s which he worked as a second job. He spent many hours pruning and till in g and irrigating his orchard. During the summer he irrigated at night , wa king every four hours to move the water. He often referred to wate r as li quid gold. When the Weber Water Irrigation District finally was i nstalled , Herman was greatly relieved that he no longer needed to wake i n the mid dle of the night. He was very proud of his peaches. People woul d drive fr om Brigham City or Fruit Heights just to buy them. He employe d his grands on, Dennis, to help on the farm. Dennis recalls being “peach ed out” afte r all the work in the orchard and after all the cobblers, pi es, and bottl ed peaches his family made him eat.
One of Herman’s favorite places to vacation was Yellowstone National Par k . He liked to camp in the park over the 4th of July and loved to fish o f f of fishing bridge. He would make his own heavy lead weights to whic h h e rigged a four-foot leader with a worm. He would drop the weight ove r th e bridge then “walk” it down the current over the edge of a sandbar . Herm an would always catch his limit of spawning cutthroat trout, somet ime ret urning in the evening (in different clothes as to not be recogniz ed) to c atch a second limit.
Herman really liked to drink beer. On his camping trips he would often d r ink three or four after everyone else had gone to bed. In the morning , h e would claim that the bears must have broken into the cooler.
Herman worked up at Hill Air Force Base as an equipment repairman. He wo r ked on steam cleaners and other machinery .
Herman loved automobiles. He owned 1947 and '48 Chevrolets, as well as 1 9 50, '52, and '54 Oldsmobiles. He also bought a 1960 Ford F100 pickup tr uc k which he used to haul peaches on the farm. It was in this truck tha t hi s grandson Dennis learned to drive. Dennis has lovingly restored thi s tru ck and still owns it today.
When he retired in the late 1960s, Herman and Ardella sold their home a n d the peach farm and moved into a condominium on 400 North in Bountifu l . Herman died unexpectedly of a heart attack at age 69 the 19th of Jun e , 1972. | Greenhalgh, Herman Lees (I5115)
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HEWARD, Teancum William - Missionary Information
Teancum William Heward
Birth date, place: 11 December 1854, South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah T e rritory, United States
Death date: 18 August 1915
Baptism date: 19 April 1863
undefined: John Heward, Elizabeth Terry
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Southern States
June 1879–March 1881
Age Called: 24
Southern States
Set Apart: 14 June 1879
Arrived At Home: 10 March 1881
Mission type: Proselytizing
Marital Status: Married
Priesthood office: Seventy
Called From: Draper, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United States
Set apart by: Brigham Young
Stories and Documents
Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 1, p. 46, li n e 1968.
Missionary Department missionary registers, 1860-1959, Vol. 2, p. 50, li n e 1968.
Missionary reports, 1831-1900, MS 6104, Church History Library.
Mission report of T W Howard, June 1879 - March 1881.
Gender
Male
Birth date, place
11 December 1854, South Cottonwood, Salt Lake, Utah Territory, United St a tes
Death date
18 August 1915
Baptism date
19 April 1863
Baptism by
Joseph S Rawlins
Father's name
John Heward
Mother's name
Elizabeth Terry
June 1879 to March 15, 1881
Report of T. W. Heward’s Mission to the Southern States
A Sketch of T. W. Heward’s Mission to the Southern States
To the fore part of June 1879 word reached Draper, S. L. County, Utah th a t I was called to go on a mission to the Southern States on the 14th . I w ent to Salt Lake City and in company with several more Elders was o rdaine d a Seventy, and set apart for the mission. Left Ogden on 17th i n route f or my field of labor in company with fourteen more Elders, unde r the dire ction of D. H. Peery of Ogden.
At St. Louis and other points, several of the Elders left the company, t a king other roads to their fields of labor. At Chattanooga Tenn., on th e m orning of the 24th Elder S. T. Stephens and N. L. Shirtliff and mysel f le ft the company and went down to Rome, Georgia. Thence, seven miles t o Bee ch Creek, where there was a branch of the Church. We stayed there s evera l days, held meetings Sunday the 30th, at bro John B. Daniels, th e Presid ent of the Branch. There we realized how illy prepared we were t o portray , understandingly, the principles of the Gospel to unbeliever s and to pro ve all from the Bible. We were appointed to labor in the Bee ch Creek, Hay wood, and Armuchee branches until the GA, Conference whic h was to be hel d in the Haywood valley on the 25th, 26th, and 27th of Ju ly. We found thi s a good opportunity to prepare ourselves to meet the ou tside element wit h the Scriptures before being appointed to new fields o f labor .
We only meetings on the Sundays. We had to eat considerable corn bread t h ere being but little wheat raised in the State. This seemed very cours e a nd raw to me for three or four weeks, then all at once it became swee t an d good, and liked it even afterwards. Bro. Smith of Haywood was ver y sic k with the Typhoid fever, we administered to him and he began to me nd imm ediately; we also administered to a little boy with like success . July 4t h Elders Harker and Bliss got with us, they having also been ap pointed t o labor in the Branches till Conference.
Elder Joseph Standing had been appointed to preside over the Ga, Confere n ce. He sent word to the brethren at Haywood, to get a team and have on e o f the Elders come and bring him and Bro. Clawson down to the Conferen ce f rom Whitfield Ga. The calculation was for me to go but the brethre n faile d to get a team ready in time so no one went and they were left t o come d own the best way they could. On the 22nd or 23rd we were expecti ng to se e them but instead of that the news reached us that Bro. Standin g had bee n killed by a mob bringing a terrible gloom with it which was k eenly fel t during our Conference by all the Elders, Saints and friends . All our ho pes in him were blighted. Elder A. S. Johnson being the onl y one of muc h experience present, had to take charge of the Conference , although he w as scarcely able to sit up, having had the chills and fev er for several w eeks. The Conference was carried on all right and we ha d a good time cons idering the circumstances under which we were placed . On the 27th inst. W yat N. Williams of Haralson Co. was baptized by Bro . Johnson. He had com e fifty miles to the Con. to be baptized and to b e administered to by th e Elders; he having had a disease for several yea rs, which all the doctor s called incurable for a man of his age; he bein g about seventy years old . At a meeting of the Elders in the afternoon , we administer to him and h e was healed immediately so that he felt n o more of the effects of the di sease from that time. After Conference, E lders Stephens and Shirtliff wer e appointed to go to Walker Co, Elders H arker and Bliss went into the Wes tern part of Alabama; and Bro. Johnso n and I were to travel together in t he Branches until he went home; he h ad been released but intended to visi t the Saints in the different settl ements if he was able. He was brough t down to Beech Creek, and being to o sick to travel he stayed there and B ro Mannings and I waited on him fr om August 6th till the 25th (held meeti ngs on the Sundays) by that tim e his health had improved some; so that da y we went down to Rockmart Pol k Co. he rode Bro. Lawrence’s mule. I walke d. Riding 27 miles that day w as too much for him and he was scarcely abl e to get out of bed for a wee k afterwards .
On the 4th of Sept. I rode down into Haralson Co. and visited the Sain t ; found Bro. Williams in good health. Returned to Rockmart on the 5th . He ld meeting and attended the Sunday School on the 7th. We returned t o beec h Creek on the 8th and on the 11th Bro. Johnson started for Utah . I was t hen left to take charge of Bro. Morgans mail and answer the cor respondenc e, which I found to be quite a task .
I studied the Scriptures all I could and attended the meetings in the Br a nches on Sundays. On the 26th inst. Bro Morgan arrived. He had previous l y appointed a two day meeting on the 27th & 28th inst. in Haywood Valle y . Elders Stephens and Shirtliff also came there from Walker Co. The mee ti ngs were held according to appointment. On the night of the 27th Bro . J . H. Parry arrived there from N.C. I was appointed to go to Fannin Co . an d travel with Elder E. B. Edlefsen. I was then without money so Bro . Parr y gave me one dollar and Bro. Morgan gave me two ($2.00). Bro. Bar ber o f Haywood let me take an animal to ride, to my field of labor, havi ng abo ut 85 miles to go. I started on the 8th of Oct.; and arrived at St ock Hil l Fannin Co. on the 10th. Found Elders C. W. Hulse and Thomas Sel oyd ther e; there being a Branch of the church in that vicinity. Bro. Sel oyd had b een appointed to take back the animal that I had brought and la bor in th e Branches that I had left.
Bro. Edlefsen had not arrived there from N.C. where he had been with B r o Parry. Elder Hulse was expecting shortly to go from there to England . T he brethren had held one meeting in a settlement about 8 miles from S toc k Hill before my arrival, and prospects seemed to be favorable in tha t vi cinity for quire an opening. The people seemed very desirous to hea r us , so Bro. Hulse and I held meetings there each Sunday, and once duri ng th e week for a while. Bro. Edlefsen arrived there on the 24th inst .
During the Month of Nov. we held meetings tolerably regularly. Occasiona l ly holding meetings at Stock Hill with the Saints. We would sometime s g o to the meetings of the Baptists and the Preachers would invariabl y tak e that opportunity to revile us and our doctrines attempting to pro ve fro m the scriptures that we were false prophets etc. They would seldo m conve rse with us, excusing themselves by saying that we were beneath t heir not ice.
Elder Hulse started for England on the 20th of Nov. Also one of the Sain t s and some of our friends left Stock Hill that day for Colo. Dec. 5th B ro . Stover, the President of that Branch, moved his family to Barlow Cou nty .
During the Month of Dec. we only held a few meetings and they were hel d a t private houses; it being too cold to hold meetings in school house s tha t had neither stove nor fireplace in them. They did not the school s in se ssion during the Winter. We did a great deal of fireside reading . We wen t from house to house visiting our friends and all those who wan ted to ge t an understanding of our doctrines. We took great pains to exp lain to th e people the principles of the Gospel. We were occasionally in vited to Co rnshuckings; which invitations we generally accepted. We woul d also hel p our friends kill their hogs and showed a willingness to do a ny kind o f labor that we could well perform.
On the 15th of Jan. 1880, we started for Union Co. to visit a few perso n s who had sent us word they wanted to see us and hear us talk. We wer e tr eated kindly and they wanted us to hold a meeting or two in that loc ality , so we appointed a meeting to be held on the following Sunday th e 18th i nst. in a school house which was occasionally used for a Baptis t Church . The news scattered around considerably so that we had a larg e congregat ion to hear us that day.
Before we commenced services, several persons gave us to understand th e y did not believe in Polygamy and insisted on us to defend it if we cou ld . They soon found we were prepared for them and in a few minutes, the y we re willing to drop that subject, it being too amusing for the crow d at th eir expense. The Deacon would not let us get in the pulpit to pre ach, s o we stood on the floor, telling them we could do just as well the re. W e were rather poorly drest [sic] this seemed to suit them generall y for h ad we been proud and stuck up they hardly would have listened t o us. We e xplained to them the principles of the Gospel and bore our tes timony to t he Latter Day Work. It seemed to have a good effect, they bel ieved we wer e in earnest and honest in our belief. We told them we woul d try to be th ere again on the 22nd of Feb. and would send them word abo ut a week befor e that date, should we conclude to come. After meeting w e received severa l invitations, and accepted that of a Mr. Jones and sta yed there that nig ht. Next day we went down into Fannin .
According to agreement we sent word to the people on Coopers Creek, Uni o n Co. that we would be there and hold meetings. Accordingly we went the re , but we found our note had been mislayed [sic] and failed to get ther e i n time and that a Baptist Preacher by the name of Johnson Walker ha d appo inted a meeting there for that day. He expected we would be there , and s o did all the people, but he had appointed the meeting there jus t to both er us.
We went to the meeting house about meeting time, found a great many peop l e there, who said had come to hear us and did not want to hear him the n , having plenty of other opportunities to hear him. We calculated to l e t Mr. Walker do the preaching if he came, on account of his appointmen t b eing ahead of ours. We waited till after the time appointed to commen ce m eeting, but the Preacher did not come so the people urged upon us t o prea ch to them, telling us they hardly expected he would be there. Th e Deaco n told us we could occupy the pulpit. So after a little consultat ion we c oncluded to do so. We sung three of our hymns which seemed to ma ke a goo d impression on the people. At that junction Mr. Walker arrive d so we wen t out to talk with him a few moment. He said he wanted to tal k to the peo ple, and that he would not preach with us nor have any contr oversy or arg ument with us whatsoever saying he had all he wanted of ou r doctrines alr eady.
He pretended to quote a few passages of Scripture against us and we to l d him his quotations were not in Scripture at all, but we explained t o hi m a few passages that were. He got angry and some thought he would h ave s truck one of us if a friend of his had not interceded and led him a way. H e went in the house and got into the Stand and reviled us and al l the Mor mons and their doctrines with all the energy and skill he posse ssed; quot ing extensively from Anti-Mormon Histories, old tales, and yar ns, and als o telling quite a number of lies that he was doubtless the au thor of. H e told the people we ought to be driven back to Salt Lake; an d that if w e could not be got rid of with scriptures etc. that he was i n for shoulde ring his musket and driving us out of the country; he forbi d the people t o feed us or to let us stay around in their midst, sayin g that he never s aw a night so bad in his life but what he could tur n a Mormon away from h is door.
We had seated ourselves in a conspicuous place in the room where we cou l d look him straight in the face; he did not seem to like the looks of o u r eyes so he generally looked some other way. Sometimes we could hardl y k eep from rising and defying him to prove his lying assertions; but w e kep t still until the meeting was out, then we walked outside and gav e out th ree appointments for meetings, telling the people we would prov e all of o ur assertions; and were prepared to clear up with reasonable a rguments al l that had been asserted by Mr. Walker.
We received several invitations and accepted one, which was to a pla c e 5 or 6 miles from there and hold a meeting that night. On our way w e we re accosted very roughly by several men one by the name of John Coch ran t alked of hickory whipping us but none of them touched us. We held t he mee ting at night according to appointment. The house was crowded. Whi sky see med to be very plentiful in that neighborhood, and some of the me n were v ery boisterous. After we had preached to them, singing several o f our “Mo rmon” songs and answered a host of questions, the opinions of t he majorit y of them seemed greatly changed even Mr. J. Cochran said the n he would r ather fight for us than against us. He afterwards gave us t o understand t hat he was sorry for what he had said to us and told us h e wanted us to c ome and see him that we were welcome to eat some of hi s corn and meat .
We found that the ill treatment we had received had a tendency to spre a d our fame the farther. We received invitations to preach in several di ff erent settlements in Union Co. which we accepted and had a good time g ene rally in opening up new fields. We also held meetings in two settleme nt s in Fannin Co. where Elders had never preached before .
Although we had many friends who firmly believed the principles we taugh t , still they seemed slow about embracing the truth. Many of them seeme d d esirous to go to Utah or Colorado, although they did not belong to th e Ch urch; and we could not blame them for wanted to get out of such a po or co untry as they were in. We often saw girls and women plowing and som etime s with a steer guiding him with lines; in land too that is rough an d almo st covered with rocks, stumps and roots, in fact we could seldom s ee an y other sort of land, and their plows were seldom much larger tha n a comm on cultivation tooth.
On the 21st of March D. R. Long and Wife of Stock Hill were baptized b y B ro. Edlefsen; and on the 25th inst. I baptized Sophronia Lance of sam e pl an, a widow who with her family had been very kind to us and the oth er El ders.
About the middle of April all of the Saints and some of our friends le f t Stock Hill and went to the Rail Road to go with the next company to C ol orado.
On the night of 25th of Apr. a terrible storm passed over; it hailed con s iderable, the lightning flashed so rapidly in succession that we coul d se ldom see any darkness while it was passing over. Such a roaring I ne ver h eard before. The wind blew terrific; it seemed as if it would swee p off e verything before it. A few miles from where we were it unroofed a nd tor e down several houses; took up hundreds of apple trees and other t rees b y the root and carried them from 50 yards to half a mile. Some fam ilies l ost considerable of their household furniture. The timber in man y place s was leveled nearly to the ground. No lives were lost those coun ties bu t in Mississippi and other places that same night it killed a gre at man y people. The people were generally badly scared. The next day o r two som e were telling the man at whose house we stopped that night ho w scared th ey were, how they prayed and how they acted generally. He tol d them he wa s a little scared at first and he got up, then he thought o f the Mormon s being there and he went back to bed again and went to slee p .
We had been corresponding for several months with a man in White Count y b y the name of Willis S. King; he had been a Baptist Preacher for a fe w ye ars and had come to the conclusion that the Baptist were not right . He ha d been investigating Mormonism for over a year and had become sat isfied t hat we had the truth and he wanted to be baptized, although he h ad neve r seen any one belonging to our Church. On the 26th inst. we star ted in t hat direction it being about 60 miles. On the night of the 27t h we stoppe d with a man by the name of Grindle in Lumpkin Co. He treate d us very kin dly, asked us if we would hold a meeting if he would call i n his neighbor s to hear us; we told him we would be pleased to do so; an d accordingly w e held the meeting and had a good time. We had walked abo ut 24 miles tha t day.
We arrived at Mr. Kings in the Southern part of White County on the Chat t ahoochee river on the evening of the 28th about 25 miles walk. Found M r . King to be a nice man. We gave out an appointment for a meeting to b e h eld at his house the next Sunday May 2nd and at the time appointe d a dist ance of ten miles. We each spoke about an hour explaining the pr inciple s of the Gospel and telling them of the judgements which were sho rtly com ing to pass, answered a great many questions, a good feeling gen erally pr evailed .We appointed two meetings in different settlements .
I baptized Bro. King on the 3rd of May. On the 5th we walked about 6 mil e s to another settlement and held a meeting that night about a hundred p eo ple assembled to hear us quite a number of them were rough mean men; s eve ral were bigoted up starts from a high or college, many of them show e d a desire to illtreat us. They talked to us very rudely, even spoke o f h anging, hickory whipping and shooting us, but they did not touch us , the y feared the multitude and the law. We did not feel a particle alar med, b ut boldly defended our principles. We held a meeting the next Sund ay (9th ) at a Negro Campgrounds; the Whites would not let us preach in t heirs. A bout 400 people were there; we spoke on the Kingdom of God and t he firs t principles of the Gospel. They were peaceable and none showe d a desir e to molest us.
We held a meeting in Lumpkin Co. on the 11th on our way back to Fannin .
On the 19th inst. we went over into Cherokee Co. N.C. on the Nottly rive r , in the vicinity where a mob had hickory whipped Bro. Parry the Summe r b efore. The feeling towards Mormons seemed greatly changed. We staye d in t hat Co. until the 1st of June, held three meetings with generall y good ef fect; found many friends who were desirous for us to stay longe r in thei r midst but Bro. Edlefsen was released and we were expecting El der J. B . Keeler to meet us in Fannin Co. Ga. So we went back there. Bro . Keele r arrived there on the 18th of June. Bro Edlefsen started for Rom e on th e 22nd. During the month we worked several days and parts of th e days i n the harvest field binding rye for some of our friends. Also di d conside rable walking, visited our friends in different settlements, he ld meeting s on Sundays and sometimes one or two during the week; got th e people con siderably stirred up on the Mormon question .
On the 14th of July we started another trip to White County. Held a meet i ng in Lumpkin Co. on our way down and appointed another to hold one o n ou r return. In White Co. we heard that some had threatened to mob or s hoo t us if we ever came back in there and held any more meetings. We gav e ou t our appointments regardless of the threats, and filled them too wi thou t seeing anything of the mob. We held five meetings in the County an d bap tized eight persons (I baptized 6 and Bro Keeler 2) organized a Bra nch o f the Church, ordained Bro. King an Elder and set him apart to pres ide ov er the Branch. On our return some tried to hinder us from fillin g our app ointment in Lumpkin Co. they had got a Methodist preacher to co me and fil l our appointment, but we got another house and held the meeti ng withou t much bother, but we left them in an uproar, wrangling about t he Mormon s the next day (27th inst.).
Having to be at the conference in Haywood on the 7th and 8th of Aug. w e m oved rather lively, only stopping in Fannin one night and in Picken s Co . We stopped a day or two at Bro. Stover’s and Mr. McDaniel’s. Arriv ed a t Haywood on the 3rd of Aug. feeling somewhat tired having walked ov er 22 5 miles in the past three weeks. Bro. Edlefsen had stopped there t o be a t the Conference. Elder Scott and Bean had also recently arrived f rom Uta h, Bro. S. C. Stephens was presiding Elder. We had a very enjoyab le time . After we got through with our conference business Bro. Edlefse n went ho me and the other Elders went down into Haralson Co. Bro. Kelle r and I sta yed at Haywood till the 15th of Sept. He then got a Mule fro m brother Law rence and started on a tour through Fannin, Union and Whit e Counties. I s tayed at Haywood and the Beech Creek Branches during th e month of Sept. a ttending the meetings Sundays; picked some cotton. I s tarted for Fannin C o. on the 4th of Oct. walked nearly to Sonora Gordo n Co. There found Bro s Stover and Long with their families picking cotto n, they had failed t o go with the companies to Colo. for want of means . I stayed there two da ys; then went to Pickens Co. My shoes were new an d they hurt my so I coul d scarcely walk. I stopped at McDaniel’s one day ; and had a long talk wit h a Campbellite Preacher. They gave me an old p air of shoes; so the nex t day I put them on and started; I had no friend s on the road so I had t o keep on walking till I got into Fannin Co. 3 5 miles; at night my feet w ere terribly blistered.
I got with Bro. Keeler on the 11th inst. and on the 14th he started ba c k to Haywood to meet two other Elders from Utah who were appointed to t ra vel with us. I visited my friends and held meetings on Sundays. On th e 2n d of Nov. Elder W. H. Adams arrived he having been appointed to trav el wi th me, he was inexperienced in preaching but was very firm in the f aith . We held meetings at every opportunity in the two Counties; gettin g int o new fields as much as we could. I had previously found in many in stance s that singing our hymns and songs had a tendency to allay prejudi ce. Bro . Adams being a good singer, we soon got so that we could sing we ll toget her. The people kept us in practice and it made a good impressio n whereve r we went.
On the 8th of Dec. I received a letter from Pres. Morgan stating tha t I c ould prepare to return home that I would be released in January, an d tha t Elder Isaac Riddle would soon be in the field to travel with Bro . Adams . We wrote to Bro. Riddle to meet us in N. Carolina. On the 17t h inst. w e went over to Nottly River Cherokee Co. and next day we to P ersimmon C reek; there we met Bro. Riddle. We held three meetings in tha t vicinity a nd had a good time. The people seemed exceedingly friendly t oward us an d nearly all seemed to believe that we had taught them the tr uth. A few t old us they wanted to be baptized, but they put it off til l some other ti me.
The night of the 24th of Dec. Bro. Adams and I by request, administere d t o a sick child and it was healed immediately. We left the people pond erin g considerable on Mormonism. We Held one more meeting in the County ; an d on the 29th Dec. we all three walked over into Ga, 20 miles; the s now w as two or three inches deep and towards night it turned dreadful co ld; ev en the coldest I ever experienced in my life; the mercury fell 15 ° belo w zero. I heard that some people froze to death in North Ga. A gr eat man y chickens and some hogs and calves were frozen to death that nig ht. I wo ndered that there were not more people frozen to death they bein g so ill y prepared for such weather.
Brother Riddle and Adams were somewhat discouraged to be left in the fie l d they both being inexperienced. I thought they would get along very we l l in a short time. I went with them into the different settlements of t he ir field and helped them all I could to prepare themselves to take cha rg e of it. My mail had been bothered some so that I did not receive th e mea ns to bring me home till Jan. 31st (1881). Then Bro. Adams and I ha d conc luded to pay the Elders and Saints in White Co. a short visit. W e reache d the dwelling of three families of the Saints (they living clos e togethe r) on the 2nd of Feb. and soon after our arrival Elder Keeler a nd Carte r came there. We all truly felt to rejoice at that meeting indee d, neve r in my life before did I experience the real solid enjoyment tha t we ha d while together on that visit with the Saints and friends in tha t vicini ty being all filled with the spirit of the Gospel. Two meeting s and a Sun day school were held while we were there, which were well att ended. An ex cellent feeling seemed to prevail in that neighborhood towar ds the Latte r Day Saints. Prospects were then that quite a member woul d soon be adde d to the Church, several miraculous cases of healing had r ecently occurre d. It rained very heavy for two or three days while we we re there. The wa ter courses rose very high so we had to stay there longe r than we intende d. On our way back coming through Lumpkin Co. on the 11 th it rained on u s very hard nearly all day; but we walked about 25 mile s the roads bein g extremely muddy most of the way. Each of us had umbrel las but still w e got very wet.
When we reached Fannin Co. we found the prospects more favorable than th e y had ever been before in two of the settlements, some said they wante d t o be baptized at the first convenient opportunity .
Bro. Riddle had received a release to return home so I waited a week o r t wo thinking it would be better for us to start together although he d id n ot know that he would travel with me any farther than Nashville Tenn . S o we hired a man to take us with his team to Cleveland Tenn. to the R ai l Road. We left Fannin Co. on the 2nd of March. We arrived in Clevelan d o n the 4th about an hour after the passenger train had left. So we go t o n the next freight train and went to Chattanooga. On our way to Nashv ill e that night we were delayed seven hours a freight train having run o ff t he track. Bro Riddle did not come any farther than Nashville with me . Th e trains missed connection at Nashville, Columbus Ky., St. Louis & O mah a so that I had to lay over during the days and travel nights. Arrive d a t Ogden on the evening of the 10th, came on down to Kaysville that ni ght . Found my wife and child in good health, the child been born about s ix w eeks after my departure. I was filled with joy and thankfulness tha t th e lord had blessed me in my labors, that my health had been good gen erall y while on my mission, even so that I could outtravel my companions ; bu t I abstained from the use of tea, coffee, tobacco and whiskey so th a t I had that much claim on the blessing of the Lord. Came on down to Sa l t Lake on the 14th inst. thence to Draper on the 15th .
*Written by Teancum W. Heward
*Typed by Blake Risenmay, great-great-great-grandson of Teancum Heward | Heward, Teancum William (I23341)
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He] was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantati o ns, serving for six consecutive terms from 1734 to 1740. He was the so n o f Edward Wanton who was a ship builder, and who became a Quaker afte r wit nessing the persecution of these people, also becoming a preacher o f tha t religion. Edward Wanton had lived in York, Maine; Boston, Massach usetts ; and Scituate, Massachusetts before coming to Rhode Island. | Wanton, Governor John (I177020)
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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Living (I98425)
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Him and my Mom were divorce when I was about 3 years old. At the tim e o f the divorce, him and 'mom had 4 kids. He worked as a lineman for th e ci ty of Idaho falls. Sometimes he would come get me and take me with h im an d show the other guys that I could climb poles too, even as a youn g kid a nd was sure to be a lineman someday too. He was a good piano play er and p layed by ear. If he liked a song, he would just sit down and plu ck it ou t for a little bit and could soon play it. He was very musicall y gifted a nd could also play the accordion, mandolin and harmonica. Whe n playing th e piano or accordian, his feet would be just stomping an d I believe it wa s because he learned to play with a player piano and ha d to pump the peda ls with his feet while it played. He was a thick guy , being about six foo t tall. He had huge warm hands and always had a smi le on his face. Alway s seemed happy to see us either when he came visiti ng when we were kids o r when we visited him as adults. As we started vis iting when we had kids , and our oldest, Tammy taking piano lessons and l oving to play, they dev eloped a common bond. Every time we visited, ther e would be a little tim e together at the keyboard.
He loved to fish and hunt and always had a little contest going on abo u t who was going to catch the first fish, the most fish, or the bigges t .
He also loved to garden and his gardens were always perfect, with no wee d s. He typically had 3 gardens. One for roots, another for things that g re w above the ground, and a third that was for new things he wanted to g row . When showing you his garden, he would always pull out his pocketkni fe , pick or pull something, cut or peel it and excitedly say, you've go t t o try this. He loved his vegetables. He also was always proud to sho w h e had the first ripe tomato in the neighborhood. Many times he starte d hi s in his window early in the spring. A lot of times he saved his ow n seed s from fruit or vegetables he had grown. He got stomach cancer a t the ag e of 62. He had surgery, went through chemo and radiation, and a lways mai ntained a positive attitude and a smile, knowing he was going t o beat it . Even when on hospice, he kidded around with the nurse that ca me to chec k on him. He died 6 months + 1 day after his surgery. | Simpson, Dean Charles (I102277)
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His birth father is Richard Perry Soper. The Mother, Sarah Wells Hartl e y divorced Richard Soper and married Lyman Curtis and the two Soper boy s , Parley and Charles assumed the Curtis surname which was carried dow n th rough the generations. | Soper, Parley Perry (I173100)
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His mother was Shoshone and was said to be the sister of Chief Washaki e . He was raised in Draper Utah. He was also married and lived with hi s N ative American Wife in Draper after being called two different time s to l ive among the Shoshone and help them. My Grandmother Dora Amanda C HERRY D ansie said he was called to be among the Shoshone for a "life Mis sion". H e was murdered after asking for a release, because there was tro uble on t he reservation for him. He must have been a very faithful Man .
In a news article describing his death it mentions him as being a Chie f a mong the Shoshone Indians. He is also a signer of a treating about 19 05 . He was trying to get the people some food as they were starving bein g f orced to live on the reservation and fend for themselves.
He was baptized, held the priesthood and was sealed to his wife while al i ve. He may have been one of the first Native American Men to receive t h e full blessing of the Temple. | Terry, George Joshua (I163169)
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History of
Alvira Spencer Hirst
1858-1931
Compiled by Victoria W. Chambers, 2014
Resources:
Obituary found on Find-a-Grave
Utah State Death Certificate
Family Search / Family Tree
Genealogical records of Harold Brower Chambers
The Historical Record, Vol 5, p. 300
Alvira Spencer was born in the Spencer home at the corner of Third Sou t h and State Streets, October 6, 1858, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Uta h . She was the oldest of four children, three daughters and one son bor n t o Daniel and Mary Jane Cutcliff Spencer. Her siblings include: Lydia , bor n November 13, 1860; stillborn twin brothers born in 1863; Samuel b orn Fe bruary 14, 1864; and Amelia born March 1, 1866. Daniel Spencer wa s born i n Massachusetts and Mary Jane Cutcliff was born in England.
Alvira and John had one child, a daughter, Vira, born February 28, 188 9 i n Salt Lake City, Utah. Vira married James W. Fitches on February 10 , 191 3 and together they had four children: Noona, Delwin, Marlin and El aine.
Alvira was a very active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- d ay Saints, serving for twenty years as ward Relief Society president i n P leasant Green [Magna], Utah. She is listed in the History of Pleasan t Gre en as serving in this position as of May 1887 with Anne Bertoch an d Nanc y Dearden as counselors and Fanny Jenkins as secretary. During th e last t en years of her life, she continued to serve in the Salt Lake Te mple, th e ward Relief Society and through genealogical efforts.
After many years living in Pleasant Green [Magna], John and Alvira mov e d to 878 West First South, in Salt Lake City. That was the home where J oh n died, at age 68, on December 7, 1923 following an eleven-month linge rin g illness brought on by a stroke earlier that year .
At some point Alvira’s health necessitated that she live with Vira’s fam i ly at 932 West Second South in Salt Lake City. We do have a clue to he r p ossible moving date with an article in the Salt Lake Telegram dated N ovem ber 24, 1931 under the heading of Real Estate Transfers: “Alvira S . Hirs t to Zion’s Savings Bank & Trust Company, lot 4, block 51, plat c. , etc.”
At age 73 Alvira passed away at Vira’s home on December 30, 1931, with i n days of injuries sustained in an accidental fall. Her death certifica t e indicates cause of death as lobar pneumonia with contributing factor s o f a fractured neck. Her obituary indicates she suffered a broken hip . A v iewing was held at home with the funeral services in the Salt Lak e Fiftee nth ward chapel on January 3, 1932 with interment in the Salt La ke City C emetery next to her husband.
Obituary:
Mrs. Alvira Spencer Hirst, for twenty years president of the Pleasant Gr e en Relief Society and for the last 10 years active in Salt Lake temple , g enealogical, and Relief Society work, died Wednesday morning at the h om e of her daughter, Mrs. Vira Hirst Fitches, 923 West Second South Stre et .
Born October 5, 1858 [actual birthday: October 6, 1858] in Salt Lake Ci t y at the Spencer home at the corner of Third South and State Streets, w he re now stands the Brooks Arcade building. Mrs. Hirst was the daughte r o f Daniel Spencer and Mary Jane Cutcliff Spencer. November 19, 1878, s he w as married at Pleasant Green to the late John B. Hirst.
A week ago, Mrs. Hirst fell and injured her hip. Complications set in a n d death resulted from pneumonia. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs . Fi tches, and four grandchildren, Noona, Delwin, Merlin and Elaine Fitc hes ; one brother, Samuel G. Spencer; two sisters, Mrs. Rudger Clawson an d Mr s. Amelia S. Stewart, and the following half brothers and sisters: M rs. L ouis Grossman, John D. Spencer, Mrs. Sophronia S. Horne, Mrs. Charl es B . Felt, Emma Spencer, Bessie Spencer, and Cora Spencer, all of Sal t Lak e City.
Services will be held in the Fifteenth ward chapel, Eighth West and Fir s t South, at 3 p.m. Sunday [January 3, 1932]. Interment will be in the C it y Cemetery. Friends may call at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Fitches , 9 23 West Second South, Sunday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m .
Speakers at the funeral service will be President Rudger Clawson, Geor g e S. Ashton, Isaac W. Coon, Alma J. Larkin and Bishop Fred Kasteler.” | Spencer, Alvira (I127)
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History of
John Abraham Coon (1857-1934)
Compiled by Bertha Coon Chambers (1884-1981), daughter, 1972
Retyped and enhanced Victoria Wilson Chambers, great granddaughter-in-la w , 2017
John Abraham Coon was born February 22, 1857 in Salt Lake City, Utah , t o John Coon (1832-1906), and Mary Tabitha York (1833-1922). [Presen t da y location: 1258 Clark Street, near 364 North 13th West, Salt Lake C ity , Utah.] He was the second child and the oldest son in a family of fo ur b oys and six girls. He was named for his father, John, a kind and gen tle m an, and his grandfather, Abraham Coon. His parents were affectionat ely ca lled Uncle John and Aunt Tabitha by all who knew them. The home i n whic h John Abraham was born was located on the west bank of the Jorda n River , a little over a half mile north of the old white bridge which w as know n as North Temple Street. During the summertime, he spent most o f his boy hood days on the ranch owned by his grandfather, Abraham Coon , which wa s located near the mountains west of Salt Lake at the mouth o f Coon Canyo n in the Oquirrh Mountains. There he helped his grandfather , father, an d uncles.
A favorite story told about John Abraham Coon took place when he was ve r y young. One day when he went swimming, some older boys came along an d to ok off with his clothing. When John A. got out of the water, he disc overe d his clothes missing and ran to a nearby school which was in sessi on. Wh en the teacher saw him come into the room, she quickly removed he r larg e apron and wrapped him up in it.
Twice a year, generally at Conference time, the Indians would cross th e m ountains from the Tooele side, through what was called the Muddies. S inc e the Coon farm was near the mouth of the Canyon, their lot was the c ampi ng place for these guests. John Abraham and his brothers and sister s lear ned to be kind to the Indians, who were friendly to them and thei r family . The children were called, Coono’s Papoose by the Indians.
On February 3, 1876, John A. Coon, not quite 19 years of age, left Sal t L ake City with a company of men, women, and some few children with Lo t Smi th as captain, to accomplish a mission that was given them by Presi dent B righam Young. The mission was two-fold—one to colonize a city in A rizon a and two, to establish the United Order .
Brother Israel Call in speaking of this trip years later said: “When th i s company got down into southern Utah on the headwaters of the Sevier R iv er, going through snow six feet deep, graveling slowly, probably a mil e a nd a half a day, wading through the snow, digging out the wagons an d in t he evening making a fire and gathering around that fires in the sn ow, tea ms tied up to the wagons, with nothing to eat but what was give n out of t he wagons, Brother John A. Coon was always joyful, always plea sant and al ways had a smile upon his face. He didn’t have a great deal t o say, but h e was congenial, and he worked with diligence to make this t rip as comfor table as was possible for those who were not situated in su ch favorable c ircumstances. Willing to lend a helping hand, willing to g et under the wa gon and lift, and work in order that the company might th rough. We were s even days going thirty-five miles.”
John A. Coon’s main job was to drive the cattle and livestock, and altho u gh he was young, Brother Call said, “He was a man in intellect and in s ta ture and in every way prepared to the kind of trip.” He returned hom e tha t same year on September 1st.
The Deseret News of June 20, 1876 published the following: “The Arizon a S ettlement – We have perused a letter from Brother John A. Coon, one o f th e settlers on the Little Colorado, written at Sunset Crossing, no da te be ing attached, excepting that it was mailed the present month. It me ntion s the visit to the settlement of President Wells, Elder B. Young, J r., an d those accompanying them. They held meetings there, the brethre n from Br other Allinger’s Camp being present also. They likewise visite d and had m eetings in the camp of Brothers Lake and Allen. The visitor s expressed th emselves well pleased with the manner in which the brethre n had operate d and with the country. At the time the letter was written , the brethre n were clearing land, plowing for corn and had water runnin g upon the lan d. As a general rule, the brethren were doing well, and ge tting along ver y agreeably. Altogether, Brother Coon takes a cheerful vi ew of the situat ion.”
On January 1, 1881, John Abraham Coon and Charlotte Hirst were marrie d i n the Endowment House by Daniel H. Wells. She was born December 9, 18 59 i n Todmorden, Lancashire, England, daughter of John Hirst, 1816-187 6 and C harlotte Brook, 1818-1880.
They purchased several acres of land and a small house in Pleasant Gre e n from Charlotte’s sister, Sarah (Sarah Hirst Coon, 1857-1911). Their f ir st child, John Bert, was born there on November 15, 1881. Before Berth a , their second child was born on June 23, 1884, John Abraham had made a do bes and built a two-room house about a mile northeast of their first h ome . On March 18, 1887, Charles Lorus was born. He only lived a brief ti me , passing away December 28, 1889. Myrtle was born May 19, 1889; Roswel l H irst was born December 4, 1892; and Rudgar York was born March 30, 18 96 .
In 1896, quite a large group of men in the Pleasant Green Ward were call e d to go on missions. They were all married men with families with the e xc eption of one or two. It caused quite a commotion in such a small ward . S ome of them did not see how they could go and leave their wives and c hild ren to run the farms. Hiram Theron Spencer (1835-1931), was bishop a t tha t time. He assured them if they were determined, the way would be o pene d for them, so they could go. It took a lot of faith, determination , scri mping and saving by all concerned. Twelve men went. They left th e ward a t different times. John Abraham Coon received his call at that t ime to th e Northern States Mission and was set apart on December 9, 189 6 .
He sold his beef cattle in order to help with the expenses of his missio n ; he put $100 in the bank for an emergency. One of his companions was E ld er Melvin J. Ballard, who later became a member of the Council of th e Twe lve. At John A. Coon’s funeral, Elder Ballard related some of thei r missi onary experiences. The following was taken from the funeral sermo n:
“I feel highly honored to be asked by Brother Coon’s family to speak o n t his occasion. I think that the greatest sermon each one of us is prea chin g, is the sermon of our lives. To me, Brother John A. Coon preache d a gre at sermon in his life.
“I desire to speak of him as a missionary companion, because thirty-sev e n years ago we were made missionary companions in the Northern States M is sion and sent into southern Illinois, into Johnson County, to preach t h e gospel without purse or script. He was several years older than I, a n d I looked upon him as a father, and he treated me with every considera ti on that a father would give a son. No one could be intimately acquaint e d as we were that summer, without begetting a great love for each othe r , and so I have loved him from that time on and regarded him as I hav e fe w of my missionary companions. I had been out in the mission field o nl y a short time when that appointment came, and it was the beginnin g o f a new epic in my life. He was retiring, but he was courageous.
“I recall an experience that came to us in Johnson County, having been t h e first missionaries to come into there, and we discovered in that terr it ory that was called Hell’s Neck, some very bitter opposition. We had p erf ormed a baptism that afternoon and some boys and men threw rocks an d shou ted at us and otherwise harassed us. On a Saturday night, they tri ed to b reak up our meeting and made great disturbances, but we paid no a ttentio n to them and went on delivering our message. When we left the sc hoolhous e to go to the home of one of our saints, Brother Miller, whic h was a two -mile journey, we got part of the way when these young fellow s rode up be hind us and started to shoot off firearms. We heard the bull ets and ran i nto the brush behind a rail fence until they went by. Whe n it became quie t, we started on our journey again. On the summit of th e hill, the road r an through a piece of timber. When we reached this, w e found the mob ha d ridden into the timber and started to throw rocks a t us. A little gir l in the arms of one of the brethren was hit by a rock , but we soon out-d istanced the rocks. That night we were both satisfie d that everything wou ld be all right. This good friend of ours laid by t he door with a shotgu n and said they would go over his dead body befor e they harmed us. We sle pt quietly that night. He was very courageous. W hile we passed through so me disturbing experiences, it did not stop ou r missionary work.
“I recall a circumstance when we were trying to get permission to hold o u r meetings in a schoolhouse. We waded to one of the trustees’ homes b y ta king off our shoes and stockings, and wading through the river. He g ave u s the schoolhouse, and the next task was to invite the people to co me . I wished they wouldn’t come. I was just beginning my missionary wor k an d Brother Coon was timid and felt that I would have to do the majo r part , although he was willing to do his share. We had gone all day wit hout an ything to eat and when they rang the bell of the schoolhouse thir ty minut es before the gathering, if I had been waiting my execution, I w ouldn’t h ave been more nervous than when that bell rang. But we saw th e people gat her and they packed the schoolhouse and we walked into it i n a daze and c onducted our services. We sang and prayed. Of course, tha t day, I want t o tell you we many times sought the Lord in prayer in th e woods and we to ld him what part of the world we were in and what oblig ation was upon us . Many times, that day, we kept the Lord posted about o ur situation. Th e Lord came to our help.
“I was out with Brother Coon all that summer, but I never heard him deli v er a finer sermon than I did that night. We were able to hold an hour a n d a half meeting and then distributed our literature. We invited the pe op le to take us home, for we had started this missionary work without pu rs e or script. We would start to ask in the morning for a place to sta y tha t night. The people would laugh at me and say that it wasn’t night , an d I found that the important thing to do was to preach the Gospel an d whe n we preached and took up no collection and traveled without purs e or scr ipt and all we wanted was a bed to sleep in, we never failed t o get a bed . This night we got six invitations and we took them all. Th e reason we t ook them all was that we would have a place to stay for th e week, and al l hearts were glad.
“I remember when they had all withdrawn and we turned out the lamps, w e f ell in each other’s arms and wept like children, and fell down on ou r kne es and thanked the Lord that he had not deserted us. When men pas s throug h experiences like that together, their hearts are drawn close a nd they f ind themselves and the power of God. We were happy, and I neve r spent a h appier summer than I did that summer, and we had many meals b y going int o the corn field and eating new corn, but we were happy jus t the same.
“I recall another experience that happened that summer. Having asked so m e twenty times for a place to stay and being denied, it was getting la t e at night, but finally the last house we were invited in. I have man y ti mes said if the door of heaven will be opened to me, I would not hav e gre ater joy than I did that night when we were invited in, for it wa s a col d night.
“I met one of the boys of that home last summer, and he said, ‘You proba b ly have forgotten us, but 37 years ago you came to our father’s home tr av eling without purse or script and asked for a bed, and we took you in. ’ W hen they gave the name, I said, ‘I shall never forget it, because o f th e situation we were in, and the gratitude we had in our hearts.’ H e said , ‘You remember you taught us the Gospel and you came back two o r three t imes during that week, and within a few weeks, mother and fathe r were bap tized and the children who were old enough.’ I had not heard o f the famil y in 35 years, and did not know what had happened. The two br others had e ach found a companion and had journeyed to Salt Lake City an d been marrie d in the temple. Each of these men had been on a mission t o Germany and o ne had a boy and a convert on a mission. When they got th rough with tha t story, I was in tears, knowing the conditions under whic h Brother Coo n and I came to that home. If we touched some souls, they h ad touched oth ers, and who can see the end. It is like throwing a ston e into a lake, fo r it will create a ripple out to the last shore.
“The work we do here will go on touching the hearts and lives of other s . I recall many of these interesting things that came into our lives, a n d I wanted to refer to it to pay him [John Abraham Coon] this tribute f o r he was a faithful devoted man. I have often admired him for his frien dl iness and his willingness, for many times he carried his grip and min e to o. That is the kind of sermon he has preached. Such a man is blessed , suc h a family is blessed to have such a husband and such a father.”
John Abraham Coon filled an honorable mission and returned home on Decem b er 25, 1898. His good wife had sold butter, eggs, milk, poultry, and so m e grain which they raised to help keep him in the mission. His expense s w ere about $10 a month.
On his return the emergency fund of $100 plus some more was in the ban k a nd the family built an addition on the house with this. The additio n incl uded building on a front of the house with a small kitchen and lon g porc h on the south. This house burned down in about 1910, probably fro m an ov erheated stove. They lived in part of Uncle Oliver (Oliver Shafer , Sr., 1 855-1942) and Aunt Mary’s (Mary Tabitha Coon, 1855-1933) house u ntil th e house could be rebuilt. At this time, Bertha’s husband, Frank L eRoy Cha mbers (1882-1971), helped John A. build the new place. Big popla r trees s urrounded their property and by the house. When these died, Bo x Elder tre es were planted in their place. They also had lots of plum tr ees in the y ard and black currant and gooseberry bushes. From the frui t of these the y made lots of jams and jellies and bottled the fresh blac k currants. The re was not much other fresh fruit available, so they purc hased dried frui t which sold for 25¢ a large bagful.
Every other week, John A. and a neighbor, Will Hartley (William Hartle y , Sr., 1834-1906), would load one of their wagons and man a trip into S al t Lake to sell butter, eggs, and other produce. When John A. was on hi s m ission, Charlotte or other children would go with Will Hartley to Sal t La ke for selling and purchasing needed items for the home.
Two other children were born to John A. and Charlotte, Archie Brook on J u ly 18, 1901, and Clifford Alton on June 23, 1904. They were a happy fam il y; the kind and loving parents tried their best to bring up the childr e n in the right way. The parents were both hard working and of good pion ee r stock.
The 4th of July was a special occasion for the whole family for they wou l d leave early in the morning with a large basket of food, including chi ck en and always two cocoanut layer cakes, and drive to Garfield Beach. T her e they would meet with Charlotte’s sisters and their families. Sara h Coo n (Sarah Hirst Coon, 1858-1911) and Fannie Jenkins (Fannie Hirst Je nkins , 1852-1926) always brought black currant pies and Ellen Whipple (E llen H irst Whipple, 1862-1935) brought chocolate cake. They would all pl ay, swi m, and eat and the children enjoyed riding the merry-go-round an d drinkin g soda pop. Whenever Buffalo Bill Circus came to town and it co uld be arr anged, John A. would take the whole family.
During summer sometimes all the neighbors would pack their lunches an d g o to Black Rock Beach for picnics in the evening and swimming. Picni c sup pers were had in Coon Canyon on occasion. When the children were yo unge r on Christmas and New Years the family would get together with Char lotte ’s sisters and their families and spend the day and night. The me n and bo ys would go home to take care of the livestock, milking, and far m chores . Beds were made up all over—boys in the kitchen and girls all o ver the l iving room floor. All members of the families were together fo r breakfast .
Daughter Bertha Coon Chambers wrote the following about their life on t h e farm: “It was not easy to make a living on a dry farm. Father acquir e d more land – I think he bought some from some of his cousins and homes te aded some. He eventually owned four hundred and some odd acres. They h a d to depend on the snow in winter and rain the spring, also some wate r th at came down from Coon Canyon in the spring. When it was a dry seaso n th e crops were poor. Most of the land father owned was only good for g razin g since it was up in the foothills next to the mountains. This wa s wher e the milk cows would be taken each morning for milking. At differ ent tim es in his life father owned quite a lot of cattle. The ones he wa s raisin g for beef would be driven to the canyon each spring and brough t out in t he fall to sell. The price of beef was much lower than it i s now, so on e that weighed several hundred pounds really did not sell fo r much. Whe n father had a number to sell and got what he called, a fai r price, the f olks were very happy. This meant money for taxes, new clot hing that was n eeded on a farm.”
John A. loved horses and was kind and gentle with them and all his boy s l oved to ride too. He broke in many horses, both for riding and drivin g, f or church leaders and many neighbors and friends. John A. always ha d goo d barns and buildings for his animals made from logs he had hewn hi mself . The barn he built still stands in 1972. His corrals were kept i n good r epair at all times.
John A.’s son, Rudgar, recalls: “I heard him tell of how he broke hors e s for the L.D.S. Church when he was a young fellow. As I remember it, t he re was a large corral in Salt Lake City where Main Street now is, an d abo ut where Z.C.M.I. store is. The Church owned quite a lot of horses , mos t of them raised on Antelope Island (at that time it was called Chu rch Is land). The horses were brought over by boat from the Island and Fa ther an d others would break them in this corral. He was a very good ride r. He ke pt on riding horses all his life up until the last few years tha t he live d.”
John A. and Charlotte were very thrifty and did not believe in going in t o debt. Occasionally in the winter this was necessary, however, when mo s t of the cows were dry and the chickens not laying good, and grocerie s we re needed. Then they might charge thirty or forty dollars’ worth o f groce ries. In the spring extra money would be made by shearing sheep , an art J ohn A. became an expert at.
Rudgar Coon wrote the following about his father’s sheep shearing: “Aft e r he was married and had several children, he would sheer sheep in th e sp ring of the year for large sheep men. A number of times he and som e othe r men went to Fremont Island in Salt Lake and sheared sheep fo r a widow l ady named Minnie Wenner (Katherine Yates Green Wenner, 1857-1 942). She an d her husband owned the Island. He died and was buried ther e (Uriah Josep h Wenner, 1849-1891). The sheep were permitted to roam a s they pleased th e year around with no herder or anyone with them, so th ey became very wil d.
“Father told of how hard they were to handle in the shearing pen. Also , t heir wool was full of sand which made it more difficult to shear. I t hin k it was the last time Father went over there they had trouble. The y wer e finished with the shearing, the boat was loaded with wool and som e shee p, Mrs. Wenner and several men. They started out and hadn’t gone f ar whe n they noticed the boat was leaking. At first, they were undecide d whethe r to go back to the Island or go for the shore, which was some d istance a way. They decided to head for shore and baled water all the way . On accou nt of the heavy load, reached shore sometime after dark. I nev er did lear n what they used to power the boat, I suppose it was sails.”
John A. had very little formal schooling as a young man, but was alway s t rying to improve himself by reading and studying every chance he got . H e attended night school and later on taught it. A son, Clifford Coon , fou nd the following from the book Rags to Riches, p. 86: “By 1883 th e citize ns of South Pleasant Green began building a school within walkin g distanc e for their children. They purchased a lumber one-room-buildin g from Joh n A. Coon and moved it to the desired location; a two-acre lo t donated b y Isaac Coon.” (Later on, a brick building was erected on thi s property t hat is where the children in the upper part of Pleasant Gree n Ward went f or a number of years.) “Three teachers instructed elementar y grades in th e building: Hayden smith, John A. Coon, and Rosella Jenkin s. Schools wer e provided by private tuition or subscription. Occasionall y territory hel p was made available. But the responsibility rested mainl y on the residen ts of the areas. In 1890 the legislature of the territor y of Utah enacte d a free public-school law. During the same year a one-r oom brick buildin g was erected across the street from the Pleasant Gree n Ward house. Wit h the event of free public education, it became the fir st district schoo l in the area and was called District 47.”
On page 85 of this same book we read: “Shortly after the Spencer Schoo l b egan, Miss Charlotte Hirst also opened classes in her parents’ home w hic h later served as the Pleasant Green Ward. She taught the children th e AB Cs and began the first steps in reading, spelling, writing and simpl e ari thmetic.”
John A. did lots of reading in the wintertime when the farm chores wer e n ot as demanding, and often read out loud to Charlotte while she was k nitt ing or mending. They both loved good books and took good care of al l the y had. He was a good writer and often would write on the margins o f newsp apers or on any scraps of paper he could find. Perhaps this is wh y he wa s called to serve as secretary of the 14th Quorum of Seventies fo r a numb er of years and later secretary for the high priests in the Mill er Ward i n Salt Lake. He also served in the M.I.A. and Sunday School i n Pleasant G reen.
There was no coal available in Pleasant Green, so the people depende d o n wood to burn during the winter. Each fall the men went up into Coo n Can yon to haul wood down for the winter. Often times they had to mak e severa l trips to have enough in the wood pile to last until spring. So metimes t he weather was so cold they would put big burlap sacks over the ir shoes a nd tie the up to help keep their feet warm as they loaded th e wood .
On April 6, 1893, the Salt Lake Temple was dedicated by President Wilfo r d Woodruff and John A. and Charlotte Coon attended this service with th ei r two oldest children, Bert and Bertha.
In the spring of 1918, Rudgar took over the farm and John A. and Charlot t e and their daughter Myrtle and the younger boys moved into Salt Lake C it y on 33rd South between 2nd and 3rd East. On October 24, 1918, their d aug hter, Myrtle, passed away as a result of the flu. For several summer s aft er moving to Salt Lake City, John A. returned to help do the farm w ork i n Pleasant Green. He raised a little garden at his Salt Lake home a nd als o kept a cow for many years.
Two sons filled missions, Ross in Canada and Clifford in the Southern St a tes. Ross and Rudgar served in the armed forces during WWI but neithe r ha d to leave the United States.
On October 8, 1934, at the age of 77, John Abraham Coon passed away at 4 : 50 p.m. while working in his yard. He was survived by his wife and fiv e s ons and one daughter, 21 grandchildren, and a number of great-grandch ildr en.
True to his ancestry, he was of the pioneer type, being a devout home m a n and a great lover of the soil and nature. At his funeral services, Br ot her George A. Reed paid him this tribute: “In the passing of John A. C oon , the community has lost a splendid citizen; his wife, a loving husba nd ; sons and daughter, a diligent father; and to all whom he knew and as soc iated with, a very splendid and staunch friend and neighbor.”
John A. Coon’s wife, Charlotte, passed away August 6, 1942 at the ag e o f 82 at the home of her daughter, Bertha. She had not been well for s om e time, but was bed fast only a short time. | Coon, John Abraham (I130)
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History of Bertha Bushnell Stephenson compiled by Gloria Stephenson Brown
Bertha Bushnell Stephenson
(1903-1946)
Bertha Bushnell was born 6 July 1903 in Meadow, Millard Co.,Utah to Dani e l Brockbank Bushnell and Susan Dearden. She was the tenth child born i nt o a family of fourteen children. The Gospel of Jesus Christ was honore d a nd lived in this family.
Memories from Alice Bushnell Stephenson (Bertha's Sister)
“Childhood on a farm was busy and wonderful. There was a row of untrim m ed potawatomi bushes that ran north of the fruit orchard. The world's l ov eliest play houses were made in there. The trees in the orchard were f ul l of bird nests. The birds didn't seem to be afraid of us. They laid t h e prettiest eggs. There were humming birds, bluebirds, blue jays, sparr ow s, mourning doves and meadow larks just to name a few. We played in th e b uggy shed on wool sacks and on the front lawn under the lilac bush. O ur c hildhood was beautiful. It was out in this orchard that my sister to ok m e to comb my hair so my crying wouldn't disturb my Father, sister Lo ttie , and brother Dan when they were down with typhoid fever in July o f 1912.
“Often an Indian friend from the Indian Reservation would come and s i t under a tree south of the house. His name was Jake. He had a tall th i n black dog. If we saw him there we would tell Mother. She would say, ' Oh , I guess he is hungry'. Then she would have us help her prepare foo d fo r him, which he would share with his dog. On Sunday Jake would ofte n com e to church and sit at the back of the church on the wood box. The n he wo uld come down after and eat with us. He liked our family and we l iked him .
“In December of 1907, Bertha had a bad case of croup and from that ti m e on, during her life, she had a weakness in her lungs. In 1911 she ha d a nother sick spell from which she had a hard time recovering. She deve lope d a cough and would spit up puss sometimes streaked with blood. He r paren ts would take her to doctors, but they seemed at a loss to know w hat wa s causing it.
“Bertha was small. She always laughingly said it was because she was t h e tenth in the family of fourteen and she was the tithing of the famil y a nd they were cheating on their tithing. One day Father heard her sa y thi s and he brought her to task in a hurry. He wanted her to understan d sh e wasn't lacking in any way and that he and Mother never skimped o n thei r tithing either. She wasn't small in any other way. She had suc h a big c haritable heart, always so kind and interested in everyone espe cially tho se having a cross to bear.
“In June of 1919 our Father took her[Bertha] to SLC where Dr. Middlet o n and Dr. Stucky removed her tonsils. She had her Patriarchal Blessin g a t this time also, and went to recuperate at our sister Flora Stott' s hom e in Monticello, San Juan Co.,Utah.
“In the year 1921, our Mother and Father went to Provo to care for o u r brother Del when he was very ill. Bertha was left in charge of siblin g s Lon, Lee, Alice and Everet. She also attended to" all of the home res po nsibilities. She worked like a beaver! We all loved Bertha and tried h ar d to help and please her. Our parents were gone many weeks before De l wa s well enough to be brought home. Our parents were full of praise fo r Ber tha for how well she had done.,
“Another time they went on an excursion to the Manti Temple and left Be r tha in charge. I remember it very well because I had fallen on the cor a l rock down at the Warm Springs and really hurt my knee. Infection soo n s et in. Bertha cared for it as well as everything else. A heavy towe l wa s folded over the knee and a large pan of hot salt water was poure d on th e knee for twenty minutes four times a day after which the knee w as douse d with peroxide or bathing alcohol. It was healed by the time th e folks c ame home. They could depend on Bertha and gave her lots of resp onsibility .
“One school year, our parents sent Bertha to St.George to college to s e e if the warm climate would help her. She boarded with Bro. and Sis. Wh it ehead who were very good to her. She enjoyed her school year but it di dn' t seem to help her physical condition. While there, she met Ezra Tobl er , who later came to Meadow and proposed marriage. It was quite a decis io n for her to make. Mark Stephenson had courted her and also had propos e d marriage. She liked them both. On account of her health, she hesitat e d marrying anyone. Then she read her Patriarchal Blessing and it promis e d her a husband and family. Our parents knew and loved Mark. When she a sk ed for their advise about who she should choose as a husband, they fav ore d Mark.
“Before Bertha was married, she worked in Steven's Store in Fillmore a n d for William T. Tew, the Seminary teacher for the Millard High School . B ertha lived across the street east of the Seminary Bldg. The Tew fami ly l oved Bertha and she loved them.
“In the year 1924 Lon, Lee and I got a little house in Fillmore wher e w e were going to batch it while going to school. The house was locate d acr oss from Uncle Jack and Aunt Lizzie Davie's home. While living ther e, Lo n was called on a mission to Arizona. I remember Bertha and Mark st oppe d there to bring us some bread and food from home when they were o n thei r way to SLC to the Temple to get married. This was October 6th. T hey wer e married on the eighth of October in the Salt Lake Temple.
“Bertha's folks had a lovely party for them at their home. During th e e vening, some of the young people made a fire on the lawn. They made i t o n a large piece of sheet iron, tin or the like. The next day there wa s n o grass where the fire had been. We called it the 'Birth-Mark'. It to ok s ome time to get the grass growing there again.”
The First Year of Marriage From Mark's Sister Bea
“It couldn't have been too long after Mark and Bertha were married th a t I remember riding uptown with them in their Model A Ford. They were k id ding and laughing about the last two dollars they had and how they wer e g oing to make it last until they could sell a cow or something. When w e go t upon the highway (Main Street), a fellow stopped them and asked th em t o donate to a fund for a family whose mother had died with poisonin g (Coo ns). She had a large family of small children and had accidentall y take n some poison thinking it was cough medicine. Mark looked at Berth a and s omehow a message must have gone between them because he reached i n his po cket and handed the fellow two dollars. I have wondered many tim es sinc e how they managed without it.
“I was with Bertha a lot the first few years after they were marrie d . I thought it was a real treat to stay overnight with her while Mark w a s at the farm. It was especially attractive to me after Veleta was bor n . I loved that little girl as much as any eleven year old girl can lo v e a baby...and that is an awfully lot. There was a tiny little chicke n co op back of the house where Bertha kept a few big fat hens. I believ e the y must have provided her with all of her eggs plus a little 'pin mo ney' n ow and then. I remember several times she gave me two or three egg s to bu y candy with.
“I especially remember one experience we had while they were livin g i n a little house in Holden which belonged to the Kenneys. It had jus t tw o rooms---the kitchen and the living room combined with a cook stov e in t here and a bedroom with a heating stove. One cold winter morning w hile Be rtha was getting breakfast, I was rocking Veleta in front of a ro aring ho t fire in the heater in the bedroom. For some reason I happene d to look u p just in time to see the whole stove pipe falling right on t op of us. So mehow I managed to fall out of the way far enough that it di dn't hit us , but the room was filled with soot and smoke, and the flame s were shooti ng out of the hole where the stove pipe fits on. It was fri ghtening. Bert ha quickly wrapped Veleta in a quilt off the bed and I ra n with her to th e Kenney's home which was on the other corner of the blo ck. They were jus t eating breakfast, but all of the menfolk went over t o help Bertha. Wha t happened from there I can't remember but I probabl y went home to get re ady for school.”
From Bertha's sister Alice
“Just before Veleta was born, on a sunny afternoon, Mark went out in t o the garden to get some melons they were going to take to some of the i r friends. He called Bertha to come help him choose. He thought she cou l d tell the ripe ones better than he could. When she was in the melon pa tc h she got her first warning that their first little spirit was comin g t o town. She ignored the warning thinking it was something she had eat en . They did their visiting, stopped for ice cream at McKeese Confection ery , came home and went to bed. When Bertha did awaken there was not muc h ti me before Veleta made her appearance. Our Mother went over and helpe d a t first, then I went over to help when Mother came home.
“While they lived in the north home, Bertha planted, weeded, and water e d the garden south of their home when the men folk were out to the far m w hich was most of the time. Also there was a cow to be milked, and sto ck t hat we had in town to be fed and cared for. The first summer after m arria ge, she spent out at the farm cooking for the men folk. Veleta's fi rst su mmer was spent there.
“Mark and Bertha were most generous and kind to their brothers and sis t ers. One example, and there were many, Mark came in from the farm earl y o ne 4th of July morning to be with his family to celebrate the day. H e re marked to Bertha, 'that he guessed they would have to make their ow n fu n as he didn't have a nickel to spend'. She handed him $1.75 sayin g 'the y should have lots of ice cream as she had managed to save that mu ch'. Ma rk went over to his folks. When he came back he said, 'I'm sorr y dear, it 's a holiday and Allen [Mark's brother] was over there withou t a cent t o spend. I couldn't stand it so gave him our money'. It turne d out to b e a wonderful day because they had made Allen's day a happie r one.
“Bertha and Mark had real love for each other and for their family.”
More from Mark's sister Bea
“I remember the morning when Bertha came over to our home and showe d m y Mother how swollen and stiff several of her knuckles on one hand we re . From here on it was a long hard fight for her, but I'm sure that n o on e in all this world has ever taken pain and suffering with more cour age t han she did. Even after she got so terribly bad, I never heard he r compla in. As Bertha and Mark's children were born, arthritis commence d to set i nto her body, especially her feet, knees and hands.”
More from Bertha's sister Alice
“Bertha spent several months in a hotel in Ogden in 1933 and 34 so s h e could take treatments from doctors who were there. When she got so b a d that she was spitting up blood, she went to the LDS hospital in SLC . Th e doctors recommended a year of bed rest. After Blake and I were mar rie d we came to Provo to live. Bertha came to live with us and start he r yea r of bed rest. Veleta lived with Grandpa and Grandma Stephenson whi le goi ng to school in Holden. Margene also came to live with Blake and I . Mar k would visit when he could get away from the farm.
“At one point Bertha broke out with boils all over her back. I place d h ot steam towels and ointment on them. I told her that now she had eve ryth ing that Job had. Bertha answered, 'No, my family have never turne d again st me'.
“Gloria was such a blessing. While Bertha was carrying her, she was fr e e from rheumatism pain. Gloria was born in Holden in the old home nort h o f the big house on January 1, 1936 at 20 minutes after midnight. Mar k wa s Superintendent of the Holden ward Sunday School. Because New Year s da y was a holiday, he took the youth of the ward for a sleigh ride. Be rth a was so proud of him! They lived that year in Holden until Bertha' s heal th became so bad that they decided to move to SLC to be closer t o doctors . In May or June of 1937 they moved to an apartment on 6th Eas t and 629 S outh in SLC. Mark worked for the Arden Clover Leaf Dairy. The n he worke d for International Harvester. At night he did Janitorial wor k at Auerbac h's to help supplement the family income. Mark bought a hous e in SLC at 1 44 Hampton Ave. when Gloria was two years old. At this tim e arthritis too k over Bertha's body. Deposits of calcium formed at her e lbows. Her fee t were pulled out of shape. The pain she suffered only sh e and her Heaven ly Father knew how much.
“When Blake and I moved to SLC, Mark and Bertha insisted we move in wi t h them while we looked for a place to live and worked long enough to g e t a pay check. They made us feel like we were doing them a favor inste a d of what it was. Bertha was in a wheelchair by this time but when I w a s asked to teach a primary class, she insisted I do so and she tende d m y daughter Kay in the baby buggy while I did. Gloria and my daughte r LoRe ta had a great time playing together. They were the best of friend s and s pent many happy times together now that they lived only a block a way fro m each other.
“Because it was hard for Bertha to go other places, we were often at h e r home when we got together. Most of the time she would plan activitie s a nd then invite us. Bertha, playing from her wheelchair, would often w in . She had a wonderful memory and sense of humor.
“Mark and Bertha had a little old Ford car. This small car could hold ve r y many people and took them to: Millard County to visit, Black Rock, Sa lt air, Liberty Park, picnics, Sunday rides, shopping, church, funerals , wed dings, visiting folks, and yes, even to the LDS Hospital to bring o ur bab y, Kay, home. Oh! what fun!”
Gloria's Memories
Veleta and Margene had to learn early to take responsibility and to wo r k hard because our dear Mother[Bertha] was so crippled with rheumatoi d ar thritis, that it fell on them to bathe and care for her and share th e coo king and cleaning. Our Dad[Mark] helped all he could when he wasn' t worki ng. On Sunday, he always cooked a nice Sunday meal while we wer e at Sunda y School. He also took care of the outside work, and kept ou r Model A ca r sparkling clean inside and out.
Our Mother was the heart of our home and her language was the langua g e of love.
I never remember her losing her temper but I do remember her sadness w h en we would argue whose turn it was to do some chore. One vivid memor y wa s seeing her bow her head and in a quiet voice say, “Oh, if only I c oul d do it myself”. She would direct our work from her wheelchair (a whe el c hair made from an arm less kitchen chair that had rollers inserted i nto t he bottom of each leg). She sat on a regular bed pillow for a cushi on. W e each had our chores to do and everyone including Dad would work u ntil t he house was clean on Saturday.
There was a sweet spirit in our home because our Dad and Mom truly lov e d each other and each one of us and we knew it. They taught us to kno w an d love Heavenly Father and Jesus, to pray and expect answers, to b e respe ctful to our teachers and to appreciate our blessings. We were no t rich a s far as the world would judge and if it were not for help fro m our exten ded family (uncles and aunts) we would have gone hungry at ti mes. Uncle L on and Aunt Dorothy would bring us food from the grocery sto re they owne d in SLC.
I remember Mama as a wonderful storyteller. She had many poems, stori e s and rhymes memorized. Some of them that I enjoyed while I was gettin g m y hair combed or when I was sick or bored were: Epaminondas, Little O rpha n Annie, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Red Riding Hood, Beauty an d th e Beast, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Cinderella, One Eye, Two Eyes, Thr ee Ey es and others. I remember her reading Heidi to me a little bit eac h day . Bible stories were also some of my favorites.
We used to have a lot of fun in our home. Friends were welcomed, gam e s were enjoyed and popcorn was popped on the old coal stove when it glo we d red hot! Taffy or honey candy were pulled. Sometimes Veleta made div ini ty or fudge. Home was a refuge where we were loved and our bumps an d brui ses were healed.
We never lacked for friends and they were always made to feel welcom e . We loved family gatherings, visiting, playing games, and singing toge th er.
I [Gloria] am going to share some of the memories I have of my Mothe r . I was the baby of the family, nine years younger than my sister Vele t a and seven years younger than my sister Margene so when I was growin g u p they were busy going to school, working at jobs, dating etc. This a llow ed me a different view of my mother's later years.
Prayer was a vital force in our lives. Once, when I was very young a n d couldn't find something I needed, Mama asked if I had prayed about i t . I hadn't and when I did, I went straight to the item I was looking fo r . This was the beginning of my testimony of prayer. Another time whe n I w as about eight years old, when Mama and I were alone, Mama was i n a lot o f pain and she asked me to go to the drugstore to buy her som e aspirin. I t was night and I was afraid to go at night and especially b ecause I woul d have to go past a house that I thought was haunted. Mam a prayed with m e and I went and arrived home safely giving me a sure kno wledge that Heav enly Father, who loves us, hears our prayers and answer s them for our bes t good.
Another great lesson she taught me was that when I was afraid, discour a ged or felt Satan's presence I could sing a church hymn and the bad spi ri ts would have to leave. I remember her singing and teaching me many pr eci ous songs.
She taught us to do what was asked of us willingly and cheerfully. W e a ll had chores to do. The jobs I remember as mine were to wash the kit che n chairs each Saturday, shine the metal parts of the stove with Bon A mi , help clean out drawers and wash her feet. Before I would leave for s cho ol, I would get things ready so Mama could copy the family names of o ur a ncestors that Aunt Flora would find on her trips to Britain. Mama wo uld g et them ready so the work could be done for them in the Temple .
One night when Dad was working and Veleta and Margene were at Mutual , M ama taught me about the Crucifixion of our Savior. I'll never forge t th e feeling I got when I realized what Jesus Christ went through for u s. I t was hard for me to understand that some people actually hammered n ail s in his hands and feet and treated Him so cruelly.
I would come home from school at lunch time to eat lunch with Mama. Th e re was a Bible story program on the radio at this time that we would en jo y together. After school I would hurry home to listen to other shows w hil e I rubbed her back. We would talk about what I had learned at schoo l. W hen my arm would get tired, she would be patient while I rested it . The n when a new show started again I would rub some more. “That feel s so goo d”, she would say. It really made me feel like I was a big help . One da y I didn't come right home from school but instead walked home w ith a fri end and stayed and played. When I did get home, Mama was very u nhappy wit h me and so disappointed. She explained how worried she had be en about m e and how badly she had needed me. I tried to hurry home afte r that.
When I was sick, it was a treat to sleep in Mama's bed and look at h e r pretty wallpaper and her beautiful curtains. They were salmon colore d a nd crossed over so prettily. They made the room so cheerful! I didn' t lik e the mustard plasters though nor the caster oil .
I never heard a swear word until I was 9 years old and a boy on the sc h ool playground swore. I felt sorry for him that he didn't realize how t er rible it sounded.
When I was in the 2nd grade, I wanted a Sonja Henie doll like my frien d 's with her own suitcase and lots of clothes. Mama took my last year' s so ldier doll and painstakingly with aching fingers made her many lovel y an d beautiful clothes and there she was on Christmas morning in her ve ry ow n suitcase.
Mama had a great amount of patience. One night, again when we were alo n e, I wanted to learn to crochet. I was all thumbs and kept crying becau s e it was hard to learn but she kept talking to me, patiently helping a n d encouraging me to learn until I mastered a chain. It was hard for he r t o teach me because her fingers would no longer do as she wanted the m to d o and she couldn't show me very well. By this time she spent mos t of he r time in her bed. Arthritis had taken over her body. When she wa s lyin g down her knees would not straighten out. Her hands and fingers a nd fee t were pulled out of shape. Deposits of calcium were at her elbows . The p ain she suffered only she and her Heavenly Father knew how much . Often m y family heard her pray, “Father, please help me to endure to t he end, he lp me to end it right.” This prayer was answered. She was fait hful and en dured to the end. Her passing was a sweet experience for he r husband an d family.
Bertha died Sunday March 31, 1946. The funeral was held at the Harva r d Ward Chapel on 2nd East and Williams in Salt Lake City and she is bur ie d in the Salt Lake Cemetery.
Compiled by Gloria Mae Stephenson Brown | Bushnell, Bertha (I4732)
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HISTORY OF ELIZABETH GREEN RICHMOND
By Elaine Melville Goddard
Elizabeth, the sixth daughter of William and Jane Prosser Green was chr i stened October 3, 1804. They were a very industrious, thrifty family a n d lived without luxury.
In 1840, Wilford Woodruff (later President of the L.D.S. Church) came i n to their midst preaching a new religion. The entire Green family was ba pt ized, except one son, Phillip, who later joined the L.D.S. Church. Th e fa mily started to make plans to come to America. They sold everythin g the y had. Except for two girls, the family sailed from England to Amer ica o n September 25, 1842, arriving in New Orleans on November 13, 1842 , and t hey then moved to St. Louis, Missouri.
Elizabeth married a widower, Thomas Richmond, who had a previous famil y . Elizabeth never had children of her own, but cared for her husband’ s ch ildren as her own. The family stayed in St. Louis getting ready to j oin h is mother, so Elizabeth decided to move her family also. Thomas Ric hmon d died on the way to Utah, leaving Elizabeth to care for her husband ’s fa mily. They settled first in Provo; then Elizabeth decided to join h er sis ter, Ann and family in Fillmore. It was a happy reunion. The famil y buil t her a comfortable log house between her sister, Ann, and her nie ce, Jan e Duston Melville.
The old English custom called for the aunts and uncles to go by their l a st names, so Elizabeth became Aunt Richmond. She was an especial frien d o f the widows and orphans, taking them in to her home, caring for them , nu rsing them in sickness, and clothing and feeding them. She took in m other less Eliza Ann Trusket, when but a few days old, and raised her t o womanh ood. She boiled buckskin, stretched it over the neck of a bottle , punctur ed small holes in it and used this to bottle feed the tine baby .
Later, Apostle Francis M. Lyman, in Church services in Fillmore, extoll e d her virtues of kindness and resourcefulness. He related how she had c om e into their home when his wife was ill, and they ahs so little but El iza beth could take what little was available and serve attractive, appet izin g dishes. She was often with her sister, Ann (Ann Green Duston, wh o marri ed John Carling), a midwife doctor, to help out where she could.
Her love for children was returned many times; the children could cou n t on Aunt Richmond (Elizabeth) to share their joys and sorrows. Holida y s were special—Christmas, Easter, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, 4th of Ju ly , and 24th of July. There was always something new to wear for Easter , ho t cross buns on Good Friday, a sweet treat for Christmas. Aunt Richm ond a nd her Niece, Jane Melville (wife of Alexander Melville) made the f irst f lag to fly over Fillmore. It was made from a white sheet, Jane’s h usband’ s red military sash, and patch-work stars. When finished, they ra ised i t over the highest cabin in the old fort on July 4, 1854 .
Elizabeth (Aunt Richmond) died at the age of 77, and is buried in the F i llmore Cemetery beside her beloved sister, Ann.
ADDENDUM By Jane Waiora Bishop Wallace
THE TIN HAT
Poor old Mrs. Sprague did not have any family or any home. But Aunt Ric h mond could always find room in her small cabin for the homeless and unf or tunate. One day Aunt Richmond was not at home, when Mrs. Sprague hear d th e voices of Indians making the rounds and knew they would soon be a t th e cabin. She hurriedly put the biscuits that were left from breakfas t an d a piece of bacon on the freshly scrubbed step and then bolted th e door . She crawled under the bed just in time. The Indians knew Aunt Ri chmon d was not home because she was not afraid of them, so they picked u p th e biscuits, and after dancing around and singing loudly, they left . Afte r what seemed like an eternity to the poor women under the bed, th e India ns moved on to Father and Mother (Alexander) Melville’s. But befo re the y did, they found Mrs. Sprague’s “tin hat” (old-style bed chamber ) that s he had scalded and put out to sun that morning. She remembered i t while u nder the bed, and as soon as she was sure the Indians had gone , went outs ide verify her fears; sure enough, it was gone. She ran to Fa ther Melvill e’s, pleading for James and Brigham, Alexander Melville’s so n’s, to follo w the Indians and bring them back to her “tin hat.” The boy s thought it w as a big joke, but were not sure the Indians would be will ing to give i t up. Brigham remembered that cantaloupe he had picked tha t morning whe n he heard the Indians coming because he knew they would wa nt it, so the y took the cantaloupe along to see it the Indians would tra de. They did , and Mrs. Sprague got back her “tin hat”.
Biography obtained from the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Fillmore, Ut a h, Territorial Statehouse Museum. | Green, Elizabeth (I175029)
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History of George Osmer Ward (original copy the property of George War d J r.):
I was born at Elba, Idaho on the 24th day of April, 1895 to Hyrum Hankin s on Ward and Margaret Jane Wickel Ward.
At the age of six I went to school at Elba in a log school house for t w o months and there being so many we were moved to the Elba Church hous e w here we had two more months of school.
The next year my folks leased our ranch to Lonzo Parrish and along wit h F rank Hall and his family went to Billess, Boise, Coldwell & Nampa.
We traveled in two sheep camp wagons. It took us about two weeks to ma k e the trip one way. After arriving there, Dad and Mr. Hall got a job un lo ading cement from rail cars to store room, I believe it was at Emmett , Id aho.
I went to school at Emmett also at the Lincoln school at Boise. I can re m ember the Prisoners going by our place to work on the road, they woul d ca ll them the Ball & Chain Crew. We boys, my brother Lester and the tw o Hal l boys, Dewey & Afton Hall, would go out to the Boise dump ground s and fi nd lots of play thing to play with.
After about two years Mr. Hall bought a ranch, believe it was at Nampa , s o dad decided to come back. As we were camped for the night at Store s Fer ry dad was told about the Burley project that was going to be surve yed an d the ground open up for settlers of eighty acres each farm.
Dad then decided to bring us back to Elba and he would go to the New pro j ect which was later named Burley. Dad took the camp and camped down o n th e River close to where the railroad bridge is now as there was no wa ter a ny other place and feed for the horses.
After the town was laid out dad and Uncle Dave Ward bought a lot togeth e r where Kings variety store is now.
Dad built a building on the back part of the lot for a livery born and t h en him & Uncle Dave build a store building on the front of the lot. Da d t ook half of it for his grain & feed business & Uncle Dave put in a bu tche r shop in his half.
In the winter of 1904 dad bought a place a mile south of town from a fel l ow who got cold feet and decided he had had enough, so dad refilled o n it . At this time people were coming from all over, there were tents ev erywh ere.
In the fall of 1905, I and Lester went to the first small school. Ther e w ere two teachers, the Trourt sisters, Minnie & Emma. Their Father’s h omes tead was one half mile of dad’s place. That same year the first trai n cam e to Burley and we all had to be there to see it. Dad later went i n to th e hay business along with the Livery barn & Ranch.
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The first year or so at school there were a lot of tuff kids and they we r e always picking on other kids. We were going home one evening when on e o f the bullies jumped on me out side of the school house, so I figure d I w as a goner for sure, but I gave him all I had and it was enough; h e lef t me alone after that. Later others had to try doing it with Leste r and I , but we held our own & finally were not bothered any more.
Burley was a pretty ruff town for a few years as the saloons were goin g f ull blast and got all the money the canal builders made, that drank . I sa w enough of that stuff to do me & I never wanted no part of it a t any tim e.
Mother baked bread in a little sheep stove and sold to the men for fiv e c ents a load. For the first years we burned sage brush and later coal . Aft er school we would chop sage brush to burn til dark and the next ni ght i t would be gone.
We also had lots of horses to take care of at the barn as they started t h e Oakley Dam and there were lots of freighters hauling.
I also had to hall hay from Oakley & Albion to Burley for the Livery Bar n .
I never did care much about Burley, there were lots of wind storms, flyi n g ants, lizards & scorpions there in the sand.
During one summer about 1908 I had to stay in the front of dads feed & g r ain room so I used a large box for a counter and sold candy, cracker ja ck s & gum and I sure felt that I was in business; from then on I wante d t o be a store keeper.
In 1913 I had a few head of sheep & was offered thirty dollars a mon t h & my sheep could run in the same heard so I went to work that summ e r & they sold out so Uncle (we called him Javis Law) bought a bunch o f la mbs and wanted me to heard them, so I did till snow came & he sold o ut t o a banker & he wanted me to help at the feed yards over the other s ide o f Paul, Idaho, so I stayed till the fall of 1915 & then came back t o Conn er Creek. I bought some lumber and had Heber Jacobson hall it up o n my lo t of ground I had bought from Uncle Gene Bigler. I sold my sheep , horse s & camp & paid for the building & part of the stock. So on Sept . 12th 19 15 I was in business but I had a lot to learn having quit schoo l in the f ifth grade and had quite a time, also I thought every one’s wo rk was good , but to my sorrow it wasn’t. I hauled some freight from Kelt on, Utah an d later on from Declo.
In April 1917, I was in class A for the draft so I knew I would have t o g o so I sold what I could and boarded up the windows and left and ente re d the army. I wanted to get in the aviation, or thought I did, so I wa s t old to go to Salt Lake.
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As I had a 1915 Ford car I left for there and was told they had just clo s ed it on aviation, but if I would go to Denver, Colorado I could get i n , so I left for there and by the time I got there I had to sell my ca r an d take the train only to find they had to close; too many wanted i n aviat ion, so I went to Goodland, Kansas and from there Pratt, Kansas a nd I cou ld not get in aviation, but the officer in charge wanted me to s tay wit h him there till some thing opened up that I might like.
He gave me an examination and I was three lbs under weight, but he sai d h e would soon have me up to the right weight. I did odd jobs, worke d a fe w days in the round house for the railroad and finally one mornin g the of ficer told me there were no chance for aviation, I had better tr y somethi ng else. So a few days he got word they needed some engineers . I though t hat would be a good job, but it turned out to be as dangerou s a job a s I could have gotten into.
I met another boy and had become good friends and we told the office r w e would go, so he told us to come to his office for another check u p an d as luck would have it the other boy could not pass, he was too lig ht, s o I decided to go alone.
That night the sergeant gave me a ticket along with a big sack of lunc h a nd put me on the train. I put my lunch up over head and went to sleep , wh en I woke up my lunch was gone/ there I was: no money, no lunch an d woul d have to wait till we reached Fort Logan, Colorado. About one o’c loc k I arrive there, too late for any lunch and had to take my final tes t th at lasted till five o’clock. We had supper at six o’clock, the firs t I ha d for 24 hours, but later on I went longer than that on a cup of c offee a nd hard tack.
A few days later I was sent to Vancouver, Washington to be assigned to t h e 4 Engineer 4 Reg. Division of which there were only fifty four of u s bo ys that were in the company when it was first started.
Vancouver was the wettest place I had ever been, rained every day, the c h ange of climate gave me the sore eyes, they just ran all the time, bu t af ter a while were ok.
While there at Portland, Oregon, I met at Council Crest a girl by the na m e of Viola Mae Furgeson and just before I left a short while we were ma rr ied. Her father was a preacher, she also had three step sisters and st e p mother, her real mother was dead.
I left Vancouver, Washington about November first, spent thirteen days a n d nights on a slow train going to Charlotte, North Carolina. The camp w a s called Camp Green.
All around us was pine trees and in the center where we were camped wa s c otton farms. The ground was red clay and it sure stuck to your feet . We s tayed here just about a month and then were sent to Hoboken, New Y ork t o be ready for shipment to New York harbor, then to France and Engl and, w e did not know which.
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While at New York we paraded one day in New York City, then went bac k t o camp and was ordered to be ready for inspection when orders came t o sai l.
The orders came that night late and we went aboard ship, some forty thou s and of us boys, all ages from 20 to 45 years old.
We left before day light and instead of going straight across, we went d o wn coast to Rio De Janeiro and could see the city of Rio in the distanc e . The reason for this we later found out was to miss the submarines th a t were pretty thick.
We were on the ocean thirteen days and fourteen nights, there were six l a rge boat loads of solders and one boat of nurses.
When we were close to the end of our journey I was out on deck and saw s o mething come out of the water a quarter mile from us and I also notice d t he sailors uncover their large guns and start shooting and about tha t tim e the sub was shooting at us. They got four shots at us. One shot h it ou r railing on our boat, but did not explode until it hit the water.
One the way over on the boat the nurses were on, stayed in the cente r o f the other six boats so as to have some protections.
A day or so later we were sailing up the English Channel, about twenty t w o miles wide and you could see the shore lines quite plain. It was sur e p retty and had not been damaged too much by the three years of war the y ha d before the Americans arrived.
During the night we got orders to come back down the channel and lan d a t Bordeaux, France, it could have been Berck, I don’t remember which , al l I know we landed at one place and left France from the other place . Fra nce and England are beautiful countries, lots of rain on the coast.
We had heard before we left the United States it was called sunny Franc e , but it was a long time before we say any sunshine. After we got ther e o ur rain coats were beginning to get moldy. It seemed like we were nev er d ry, sleeping in our dog tents on tall wet grass.
After we were there a day or so, we began to head for the front line s & j ust before we were under fire we were ordered to turn all our cloth es i n & such and only take one blanket, our gun 7 shells, 7 ration kits , 7 fi rst aid kits with us.
Before we did this our pack weighed eighty pounds with rifle and shell s . We were unloaded and we marched the rest of the way from then on.
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After we hit the front we saw our first dead French man, but some of t h e boys said it was a Negro, he was so black, but he wasn’t, he had bloa te d up till his pant legs were about to burst and he had turned black. W e l earned this later in our experience with war, we were to see thousand s o f dead boys, some were blown to pieces, some were buried by the big s hell s and there were lots killed by the poison gas.
I can recall the last time we were gassed, our gas masts only were goo d f or two hours left, when the all clear signal came. We were glad as ou r fa ces were blue from wearing the masks.
After we arrived in France I was asked by the Captain if I would lik e m y old job back with the horses as that was my job before we left th e stat es. I told him I sure would although I knew it to be a very danger ous job .
They gave me the rank of Wagoner which draws some pay as a corporal. I w a s also given 5 head of partly broke horses and 1 private soldier to hel p . There were also three other boys given outfits like mine, some hauli n g tools and some grain for horses and tools and shells for guns, bu t I wa s to haul the grub or rations as it was called then.
My hauling was done mostly at night as the enemy would rather blow a gr u b wagon up than to kill a dozen men.
During my time which was till the end of my time over there, I lost thir t een head of horses, killed and wounded more than all the rest of the bo y s together.
There was one night I was coming in to camp with the grub when a machi n e gunner opened up, but he only hit the wagon, missed the horses, bu t I s ure got out of there.
I delivered the grub to our Company and was just going to lay down and g e t some sleep when the Captain came and said Wagoner Ward, the other bo y s have not arrived yet, will you get another load. He wanted me to lea v e at once, so I went. That next night we were held up by heavy gun fir e s o I tied my horses in the shelter of the wagon and my helper and I la y o n the ground waiting for it to quit which it did after day light. The re w ere dead boys everywhere.
My helper and myself finely made it back to our company and was thanke d b y the Captain for what he said was a fine job well done.
A few days later we were in a tight pinch as we had advanced too fast a n d were afraid the Germans might close in on us, so we were ordered to s ta y put till further orders came.
While we were camped here, I was asked to go back for more rations and w a s told to pick three or four extra helpers for we might find troubl e s o I asked for the Mess Sergeant and two other good boys I knew quit e well .
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In going back we were driving down a narrow and deep stretch of road wh e n a half dozen men in American uniforms came up the bank and asked me w h y I didn’t get out of the road for them, and I told them I did not se e th em till all at once. I also told them with my job, I didn’t have t o get o ut of the road for any body, then the lead reached for the gun h e had, bu t I had my rifle across my knees and I told him he had better c hange hi s mind and I guess he did for I found out all my helpers had the m covere d with their rifles.
While we were talking I noticed only the first one did any talking so wh e n we arrived back to camp, the first thing the boys told us, they had j us t captured six Germans in American uniforms and their six American hor se s and then Sergeant Rodes told them about our meeting them on our wa y ou t after grub.
We were lousy all over and had been from the first week after landin g i n France; every place was lousy. After we arrived in France we were g ive n a hair cut right close to our heads so as we would not get the hea d lic e.
We hadn’t had a bath for almost a year and no under garments and socks.
A short while before the war stopped we were ordered to pull back a fe w m iles and that the first Division would take our place so we could ta k e a bath and change clothes, but the next morning we saw hundreds of 5 t h division boys coming back from the front lines, some holding on t o a lo ng rope pulled by one horse, they had been gassed by mustard gas a nd coul d not see, so we were ordered back to the front lines again and w ere ther e till it ended.
HOW I EVER LIVED THROUGH THAT WAR WAS ONLY THE LORD BEING WITH ME.
I had lots of close calls of which I cannot recall at the present time.
On the morning of November 11th, 1918, we were headed for the final bi g d rive and to cross the Metz River and the City of Metz, our next stop , bu t at about 11:30 we saw a bunch of French solders coming toward us i n a t ruck hollering the war was finished!
We were sure glad and began (begun) to figure how soon we could go bac k t o the states, but nothing like that for us old solders, we were march ed t o Metz River and Metz City which was full of allied war prisoners o f al l Nations.
When the German solders quit fighting they threw their guns away and hol l ered COMRAD and asked for American tobacco and headed for home and we s ol diers followed them to the Rhine River and our Company was stationed a t D ungham, Germany and we were all given houses to stay in and we allowe d n o Germans to have any guns or weapons of any kind.
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It sure was a cold old winter, for Thanksgiving we had beans and coffe e a nd the same for Christmas.
After a few days I and several boys got gassed by mustard gas and it ga v e us the scowers (diarrhea) very bad. When I was shown the house, I an d m y helper was to take charge. The old lady said to Mr. American soldie r, “ Veal sick”, but I did not know what she said, but a few days later s he ke pt trying to make me understand. All this time, I was getting weake r an d was down to a hundred and 10 lbs, finally she got me to understan d wha t she wanted me to get which was some lard and flour and with wha t else s he had, she mixed up a jar and told me through a boy who could t alk the G erman language, how often to take it and I did. A few days late r I bega n to feel better and I told the other boys about it and I tell y ou they m ade a raid on the company kitchen for lard and flour.
The old lady neither had lard or soap, but had rye flour, so I went to t h e kitchen and got her some of both, she was sure glad.
All this time till I left Germany, I still hauled the rations for our co m pany which was built back up to two hundred and fifty men.
The Germans treated us Americans real good and told us the Kaizer shou l d not of started it (World War I), in the first place.
Just a few days the Kaizer and his family left Germany and went to Holla n d to get away from the allies. He later married the queen, I believe i t w as of Holland and nothing was ever done to him about starting the war .
Along in early spring 1919 we were sent to Coblence, Germany and the n t o Trier River which is a very large one. We could see Hamburg, German y ea sy from our side.
Along in July or August we were ordered to make ready to cross the Rhi n e River if the Germans did not sign the final peach treaty of which th e y did in a hurry.
While it is on my mind I will go back to the City of Mitz, Germany. Wh e n we entered the City, people came running to meet us and show their gl ad ness for the ending of the war.
The Germans had a big prison camp there and we had to turn them loose a n d send lots of them back to their country: Canada, American, Belgian, F ra nce and England.
Just about a year before the war ended lots and lots of the BIG SHELLS W O ULD NOT EXPLODE after hitting the ground or the object fired at.
A lot of prisoners were working in the ammunition factories at Metz an d t hey told us they would put paper in lots of shells and leave a cap ou t!
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I will go back again to what happened to me as I was unloading the suppl i es while on the front.
I had driven the wagon close to the kitchen stove or rather a cook sto v e on wheels with two on the front axle and two on the rear. They were l ar ge cans about the size of a thirty gal. Gas can and the fire was buil t un derneath the cans.
While I was handing down the cases and sacks. We had been hearing lot s o f shells falling pretty close to us and noticed some did not explode , the n all at once one hit our wagon and went through the side of the bo x an d cut off the beach between the kitchen stove front and rear, missin g bot h of us. I tell you we were two pretty scared soldiers.
I will tell later in this article about what General Pershing told m e t o do about that hole in the wagon box.
It would go for weeks at a time that we would receive no mail or get a c h ance to send a letter out. I was on the front seven months before I rec ei ved any mail from the states.
Finely after we were in Germany and everything was quieting down, we we r e told to turn our horses over to the Germans as they had bought ever y on e of them and that we would be going home in a short time, as soon a s som e new soldiers arrived from the states to take our place in the arm y of o ccupation.
The day finely arrived and we were told to be ready to leave. About th e f irst of August, but we did not get to the states until the last of Au gus t 1919.
We landed in New York harbor and was marched through buildings after bui l ding and all were filled with government food and clothing for over se a s shipment, but now the war is over, I suppose there will be a lot tha t w on’t be sent across.
We were marched from there to solders quarters and separated out to be d i scharged to all parts of the United States & Alaska.
A large number of our boys were from the east so they were discharged th e re at New York City; we were sent to Cheyenne, Wyoming to be discharged .
The next morning after we arrived and had breakfast, we were ordered t o t he medical building and told to take off all our clothes and get i n a lin e so as soon as we were all ready, they had us walk before a doct or, bu t he just looked at us and said nothing. We supposed we would ge t a goo d examination and were sure surprised when we were ordered in th e next ro om and there told to get our clothes on. Everything was taken f rom us exc ept our personal little belongings.
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After getting dressed we went to another part of the building and ther e w ere several officers at desks. The first officer asked us what our na me s were and where we lived, the next one gave us our back pay and a bon u s of sixty dollars. The next officer gave us our ticket to the place cl os et to home and asked us to sign a paper. I don’t know what it was for , bu t supposed it was to show we were not sick or anything else, but w e wer e so glad to get out of the Army we would sign anything.
The last officer gave us the discharge, the paper we had all been looki n g for, for several months.
I arrived the next day in Burley about four o’clock and was sure turne d a round as Burley was on the wrong side of the tracks, but I finally go t my self turned around and headed up town.
There was no one to meet me as they were not sure when I would be home.
As I was about to the house where my folks lived I met my sister, Essi e , going to work at Pixtons, so she went back to the house with me. Th e fo lks were glad to see me, but wanted to know where I got all the gra y hai r as when I left my hair was black, so I told them if they had bee n wher e I had, they would probably have gray hair too.
I did not know just what I wanted to do yet, and as my first wife had n o t gotten here, but would soon be here. It was while I was waiting, I m e t Miss Florence Lillian Winders who two years later was to be my secon d w ife.
I had decided if my old store was all there, I would go and start it u p a gain, but I had been told by my cousins who was staying with my folk s (wh ile she was associated with Cassia County), that my store buildin g was u p for sale for the taxes.
So I went to the sheriff who was named Pratt and asked him about i t a s I was told when I left for the Army we did not have to worry abou t ou r taxes.
He said yes, there were a lot of boys who were delinquent with their tax e s and he had told them we were in the army over seas.
My wife came the next day so we made plans to come up and see what I h a d left. I bought an old model T-Car and we headed out to Connor Creek.
When I arrived at Malta, a party told me, I and several other boys wer e s upposed to be deserters and he also said my Uncle Bob Wake told the m we w ere all in the Army and was at the front.
That sure made me mad so I went back to the sheriff’s office and told h i m what I had been told. Yes, he said, he knew about it, but thought i t ha d all been cleared up and all us
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boys had an apology coming to them and he went on to say the reason fo r t hat was because the county seat was moved to Burley and a lot of reco rd s were lost or misplaced right after we left. I have talked to some o f th e boys and they felt quite bad about it.
We then came on back to Connor to look the place over. Some one had tak e n one back room off the store part, but all the stock and fixtures wer e g one, so we cleaned the store part out and made a list of groceries an d su ch we would have to have and decided, for now, to live in the back , as w e did not know how things would go. We then went back to Burley an d sen t Scowcroft an order for goods and got Cont. Oil Co. to furnish ga s and o il for us, as I had bought from both parties before I left for th e army.
The goods soon arrived and in the meantime we fixed up the store roo m t o live in for awhile. The goods were hauled up by Bill Ward and we so on g ot to going and did pretty good.
We found we needed more room so in about two months I got lumber and p u t on one more room.
After a while I missed seeing certain people and began to ask about th e m and was told they had died with the flu, which I believe was cause d b y the gas used in the war which drifted over here and as it will fina ll y settle in the lowest places and were picked up by people not havin g a s hot to protect them.
After we were here several months, my wife wanted me to sell the store a n d go to Oregon where her folks were, but I couldn’t see it that way, y e t I knew after her living in the city as she had done all her life, i t wa s lonesome for her, so after about a year later we decided we shoul d sepa rate, which we did. I gave her half of everything except the build ing an d ground and she left and I got my divorce from her and went bac k to th e store after having it closed for a month and brought my new wif e with m e and again I was ready to try again.
We were married in Price, Utah, by the sheriff the last day of the yea r 1 920, Dec. 31st.
My wife’s father and mother are as fine a people that I have ever me t . I had known one of Florence’s sisters in Burley when I left there an d t hat is how I met my wife as they lived in the next house to my folks.
We got along good with the store until I let one of my Uncles talk me in t o the notion to take over the old Malta store.
So I did, which was the worst move I ever made. It was supposed to be fr e e of debts, except a few of which I agreed to pay and which I did afte r w e moved down there.
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About a month later, there were bills from wholesale houses, I never hea r d of coming in after about a year. I seen I couldn’t make it, so I deci de d to turn everything over to them.
They sent a man out to take over and put on a sale and while I told hi m a bout the deal, he said: “Osmer, I have known about you and you hav e a goo d name, so I will have to follow orders, but I want you to get ou t of th e store enough goods to start you back up at Connor Creek again. ” So I di d it, but we had put into the business, some eight thousand dol lars in ca sh and our Connor Creek store stock, when we went down there.
Mr. Frank Riblet said just before we left: “Osmer, how long were you i n t he army?” I told him how long and asked him why. He said he knew o f a pie ce of land I could file on and I could prove up on it in six mont hs an d I will help you get it now.
I had known Mr. Riblet almost all my life and his wife was one of my tea c hers when I went to school at Burley
So, I filed on it and decided to let the Connor store go and forget abo u t it. I sold the store building, but kept the ground and began to fi x u p the place so I could sell it, but it didn’t turn out that way. We s taye d there about three months and then it got hot, there were rattle sn ake s all over in the cellar and under the house. We decided to get out w hil e we could, before we got bit, so I sold Lot Udy the buildings and fe nc e wire and posts and bought enough lumber to fix a new store at Conno r Cr eek.
Mother inserted: Eloise was born in the back of the store April 18, 192 2 . When we moved up on the snake ranch we were to homestead, we had to m ov e. We went back to Connor and started all over again.
I built the store and house myself and was soon ready to start out i n a s mall way.
We to try sheep along with the store. That was another bad move as woo l w ent from forty cents to thirteen cents a lb. And good ewes from twent y do llars a head to three.
I had to quit, so I sold the sheep and was still behind several thousa n d dollars, but I stayed with the store and paid off every dollar I owe d t he bank and others.
I also later on helped Miss Essie Horn, who was postmaster at Sublet , i n the old Sublet store building, to handle a few groceries and such a nd s he was doing good until she took sick and finally passed away so tha t wa s the end of another adventure.
In 1926 I bought the forty acres where the new store now stands and mov e d the old store across the road. It took about six months to get goin g ag ain, but we did and did good and in 1939 we built our present stor e and h ave been there since. (Insert by Ona-dell: I was born Oct. 17, 19 25, I re member being a few years older (like hanging from the tree branc h when w e moved the old store and home across the highway.)
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During the second World War we could get very few goods for the store , s o Florence ran the store and I bought cattle, hogs and sheep and reso ld t hem again. Later that same year I bought from Roy Pointer, the Burle y Ban ker, the old Frank Hall place and pastured cattle I brought there a nd whe n the war ended, I sold it to Arther Jacobson and his wife who lat er sol d to Don Shaw and he later sold it to Dale Pierce who I believe st ill own s it.
In later, 1950 or 51, I bought the place which is known as Valley Café . M y son, Gale, was with me then, we had a good business in the Café an d I s tocked groceries in the other half.
After a while Gale decided to go up with his brother George, in Washingt o n, so I put the place up for sale.
In the mean time lots of my customers came to me and asked me to sta y i n Malta. If I didn’t like the restaurant to get me another place, s o I to ld them I would think about it a few days.
I begin to Figure, just where to find a place to locate.
So one morning I was talking to Harry Wight and he asked me if I was goi n g to stay and I told him I couldn’t find a place to start. He said: “Os me r, I have a lot and building down the street and was about to sell i t t o an Oregon Co., so come with me and look it over.” So I did, it look ed l ike it might be OK so I asked him what he wanted for it and it sound ed pr etty good. He also told me I could take my own time in paying for i t, s o we went to Albion Bank and had the papers made out and I took ove r an d remodeled. I put in cement floors and finished the roof and buil t a sto re room on back and also rest rooms. Florence cared for the stor e at Conn or.
Then I signed a contract for gas with Phillips 66 Co. which later didn ’ t work out so at the end of the year I went Conoco and Wescott.
We moved the groceries and equipment to our new place and as I hadn’t y e t sold the restaurant, I leased it, subject to sale to Mrs. Delvies? Ne wh old?.
A month later I resold it back to Mr. Linch and another man and it was l a te sold to Jan Willett who ran it for several years and sold to Mrs. Fr an ces Hutchison.
At the time I moved I had eight girls working for me and as I had to ha v e help, I took one of the girls down there to help me, as she was ver y go od and had taken a course in business, her name was Mrs. Jula Ulrich , an d she stayed with me until I leased the store to Mr. Cecial and Rut h Will iam.
During my time in the store there, I had several girls work different ti m es, as we were open 10 to 14 hours. There were Mrs. Edna Miller, Mrs. J o y Wake, Mrs. Bob
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Hutchinson, Mrs. Marian Bortz. After being there about three years, I bu i lt more on to the store, living rooms, bathroom and clothes closets, wh ic h made it quite nice.
Don’t think I didn’t have a hard time at it, credit was hard, lots of co m e and go crooks who never paid a bill until made to do so, but all th e ol d timers there, were most of them very good.
After I was in Malta 11 years, I asked several boys why they didn’t ge t t he Connor Dam on Cassia Crew and finally they decided to try it. In 1 96 2 we believed it was sure going to go, so I leased the Malta Store t o Wil liams, the first day of 1963 for five years with privileges to bu y it, bu t to date nothing has been done.
I came back to the Connor store and thought about returning, but haven ’ t done so yet and have no hope in sight to do so.
As I am writing this, I will soon be 72 years old and think I should qui t , but we cannot do everything we should at present.
I always had hope of one of my boys or girls would like to take over, b u t I guess not and I wouldn’t want them to and go through the hard shi p s I have to make a go of it. Trying to do away with the small store, so m e day they may have to stand in line to buy what they want. They wil l d o as the large store says and will get no credit like they want to im pos e on their little merchants.
The big stores and farms will put the little fellow out of business, t h e big will take over, in fact the little farmer has to get a job and wo r k part of the time to make a go of it.
My mother died in Nov. 3, 1964, was past 89 years and father March 14, 1 9 34 at 64, They were good parents to us three kids.
I feel like at the age of almost 74 (April 24), I should quit and I ma y d o so soon.
This is the 6th day of Nov. 1968, the day after election and find we ha v e a Republican for the next four years. I am sorry about this as it w a s a Republican President that broke all the sheep men and I was one o f th em. It took me ten hard years to pay back what I lost on a Republica n Pre sident and they may find the same times if the war stops soon.
This is Armist Day. Fifty years ago today we boys were headed for the ne x t big drive which would find us near the City of Metz, Germany, just t h e other side of the Metz River. It was about twelve o’clock when solde r s begin to holler – THE WAR IS OVER, THE WAR IS OVER! We could not beli ev e it, all though the way we were driving the Germans back we knew it c oul d not be much longer before it would end.
It was quite cold and I was walking beside my wagon, me on one side an d m y helper on the other side, trying to keep warm. I was driving th e 4 hors es.
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We camped where we were at, then left the next morning. The German Sold i ers threw their guns away and wanted tobacco. We gathered them up in Co mp any formation and took them ahead of us to Metz, Germany where lots o f En glish and French and other solders were held prisoners and had bee n worki ng in Ammunition factories; they were a happy bunch of boys.
Our first stop was at Dungham, Germany for a month or so and from ther e t o the Rine River to such towns as Trier, Coblence and several others.
All this time we were waiting to go back to the states, but it was Augu s t or Sep. Before we left Germany for home. | Ward, George Osmer (I152390)
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History of Mary Ostler
Mary Ostler was the youngest child of John Ostler and Sara Endacott Goll o p
Mary was born in Bridgeport Dorset England September 28th 1849.Her fath e r and mother joined the Church of Bridgeport in 1847 two years before s h e was born. They moved Southampton In 1855 to find a better employmen t s o that they could join the Saints in Utah
Mary's father was a weaver by trade and moved from place to place for em p loyment. Mary was baptized in 1858. In the spring of 1861 they decide d th ey could sail for America. In April, John and Sarah and their five c hildr en, John Jr., David, Oliver, Sarah Ann and Mary sailed on the shi p “Manch ester” to New York. The ship having 379 Saints aboard
Sailing across the great ocean in a sailing vessel was very thrilling f o r a little girl of eleven. This must have been a very interesting exper ie nce to see and do so many things that she had never done before. Ther e mu st have been a lot of thrill and excitement along with a lot of sadn ess w onderment.
I'm sure it must have been quite an experience to land and big city Ne w Y ork and go through the customs office at Castle Gardens. There must h av e been immigrants and more immigrants. There were people from far an d wid e going through customs examinations. There were the usual medica l examin ations that were routine for all passengers of Ships coming fro m foreig n Nations in 1861. They did not want any contagious diseases car ried int o the new land.
There is no record as to how the family travel to Winter Quarters bu t i t is to be assumed they took the same route as their brothers Willia m an d George two years earlier. This route included disembarking at Ne w Yor k City going by Steamboat up the Hudson River to Albany by Railroa d and S teamboat boat to Detroit, then by train to Florence Nebraska or W inter Qu arters.
On arriving at the Florence Nebraska the Ostler family found that the Pe r petual immigration fund of the church for the Saints traveling to Zio n ha d become depleted and there were no funds to take them the rest of t he wa y. After arrangements with the telegraph company they were able t o secur e work for the young men to help in this great project and at th e same ti me make it possible to take them to Zion.
John Ostler work for the telegraph company which helped pay their way ac r oss the Plains and then when he came to Utah he worked for them in Sal t L ake City helping to set up this communication system. John and his fa mil y stayed in the valley for the first winter and then when spring cam e the y left for Nephi. They were the first to settle there. Mary Osler M arrie d Charles Richard Brewer Ockey on February 8th 1868 in the Salt Lak e Endo wment house. She had 13 children. Mary died when she had her 13t h child l eaving 10 living children behind for Charles and his second wif e Annis t o care for.
Added by Christiana Nelson Solomon:Mary Ostler Died in September 189 1 i n child birth of Eugene. Eugene died two days later. Mary’s Oldest so n Jo hn Edward Ockey named his second son Eugene and he is my Grandfather .
Mary Ostler’s children she had with Charles:
Sara Eliza Ockey 1868-1954
John Edward Ockey 1870-1930(my great Grandfather settled in Beazer in 19 0 1. He died of heart failure.)
Mary Emily Ockey 1872-1924 Stayed in nephi, died age 51 of heart disease
Charles Richard Ockey 1873-1937 Stayed in Nephi
Heber Brewer Ockey 1875-1883 Dies at 8 years old
Athalia Rose Ockey 1877-1906 eventual joined them in 1905 but died in 19 0 6 with a weak heart
Edgar Ockey 1879-1902 Had a birth defect, died age 23
William Ostler Ockey 1881-1893 Called Ostler died young just after his m o ther.
Thomas Brewer Ockey 1883-1902 Who they called Brewer, had the Dog Ben a n d Drowned in the like with his horse.
Ellen Nellie Ockey 1885-1900 Died just after arriving to Canada poison e d by eating a parsnip root.
Maud Ockey 1887-1929 Brown eyes, died age 42 after an illness of 7 month s , named one of her daughters Nellie.
Baby boy Ockey (Boa) 1889-1889
Eugene Ockey 1891-1891 lived two days. Mary died at his birth. | Ostler, Mary (I164376)
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History of Stephen Greenleaf, Jr. was a very famous man in his day an d i s usually distinguished in the Indian Wars, and is mentioned in "Math er' s Magnalia," as commanding a company in the celebrated Battle with th e Fr ench and Indians at Wells, Maine, in 1690. For several years he wa s the R epresentative of Newbury in the General Court, and in 1689 was th e agen t of the State to Treat with the Indians at Pennicook. He died i n 1743 a t the great age of 91 years.
Stephen, Jr. was a prominent man in public affairs. He was a selectma n i n Newbury in 1675-76. Like his father, he was Ensign, appointed Lieut enan t in 1685, and Captain of Militia in 1689. He served in King Philip s Wa r on the Connecticut River and was wounded in the Battle of Hatfield , MA . He was famed for his services in the Indian wars and was known a s "th e great Indian fighter." The following notes give an account of som e of h is experiences with the Indians:
"In 1689, he was appointed agent of the state to treat with the Indian s a t Pennacock. May 18, 1695, he files a petition for relief, and presen ts t he bill for professional services of Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet, whic h reads : 'Bill for curing Capt. Stephen Greenleaf, who was wounded whil e movin g a family who had been taken from Newbury by the Indians.' On th e fift h of March, 1696, Captain Greenleaf addressed the following petiti on to t he general court: 'The petition of Captain Greenleaf, of Newbury , Humbl y Showeth: That upon the Seventh of October last, about three o'c lock i n the afternoon, a party of Indians surprised a family at Turkey H ill i n said town, captured nine persons, women and children, rifled th e house , carrying away bedding and dry goods. Only one person escaped, a nd gav e notice to the next family, and they to the town; upon the alar m your pe titioner with a party of men pursued after the enemy, endeavori ng to lin e the river Merrimack to prevent their passage, by which mean s the captiv es were recovered and brought back. The enemy lay in a gull y hard by th e roadway and about nine at night made a shot at Your Petiti oner, and sho t him through the wrist, between the bones, and also mad e a large wound o n his side, which would have been very painful and cost ly to your petitio ner in the cure of them, and have in a great measure u tterly taken away t he use of his left hand, and wholly taken off from hi s employment this wi nter. Your petitioner therefore honorably prays thi s honorable court tha t they would make him such compensation as shall se em fit; which he shal l thankfully acknowledge, and doubts not but will b e an encouragement t o others, and possibly to relieve their neighbors wh en assaulted by so ba rbarous an enemy, And your petitioner shall every p ray.' "(Signed) Stephe n Greenleaf"
"March 6 ---- Read and voted that there be paid out of the province trea s ury to the Petitioner the sum of forty pounds."
This is said to be the only instance in which the Indians attacked, "cap t ivated," or killed any of the inhabitants of Newbury.
Captain Stephen Jr. and his first wife Elizabeth (Gerrish) Greenleaf h a d 10 children, all born in Newbury, MA:
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Stephen Greenleaf
Birth: Aug 15 1652 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Death: Oct 13 1743 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts
Wife: Elizabeth Greenleaf (born Gerrish)
Son: Daniel Greenleaf
Stephen, Newbury, eldest son of Stephen Greenleaf (b. England). Was a Ca p t. died at the great age, 13 Oct. 1743. Married Elizabeth, daughter o f Ca pt. William Gerrish.
First Families of New England. By James Savage Pg. 309. | Greenleaf, Captain Stephen Jr (I100220)
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