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601 Died: U. S. Navy Aircraft Carrier, USS Bunker Hill, Pacific Ocean Kimball, Vaughn Roberts (I108020)
 
602 Dinah, the daughter of Leah and Jacob, went out to visit the women of Sh e chem, where her people had made camp and where her father Jacob had pur ch ased the land where he had pitched his tent. Shechem the son of Hamor , th e prince of the land, "took her and lay with her and humbled her. An d hi s soul was drawn to Dinah... he loved the maiden and spoke tenderl y to he r," and Shechem asked his father, Hamor, to obtain Dinah for him , to be h is wife.

Hamor came to Jacob and asked for Dinah for his son: "Make marriages wi t h us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves . Y ou shall dwell with us; and the land shall be open to you," and Shech em o ffered Jacob and his sons any bride-price they named. But "the so n s of J a cob answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceitfully, becaus e he had d efiled their sister Dinah," saying they would accept the offe r if the me n of the city agreed to be circumcised.

So the men of Shechem were deceived, and were circumcised; and "on the t h ird day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob and Leah, Simeo n a nd Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came upon the city u nawa res, and killed all the males. They slew Hamor and his son Shechem w ith t he sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went away." An d th e sons of Jacob plundered whatever was in the city and in the field , "al l their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that wa s in th e houses."

"Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, 'You have brought trouble on me b y m aking me odious to the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites and th e Pe rizzites; my numbers are few, and if they gather themselves agains t me an d attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.' Bu t they sai d (Genesis 34:31), 'Should he treat our sister as a harlot?'" 		Dinah (I64638)
 
603 Divorced from James Boyd Woodward. Divorced Brigham Young 1846-12-13 a n d re-married Woodward; both Woodward and de la Montaigne were adopte d t o Brigham Young at Nauvoo. de la Montaigne, Mary Ellen (I87840)
 
604 Djalmar Aubrey Lund, was born June 23, 1916 of parents Aagot Marie Rand b y and Djalmar Emanuel Hansen Lund at their home at 677 West Capitol Str ee t, Salt Lake City, Utah. At the age of six, I attended the Washingto n Gra de School until I reached the seventh grade. At the age of thirtee n our f amily moved to 266 Douglas Street. In that area I attended Bryan t Junio r High School for two years then I graduated from East High Schoo l. Afte r three years of studies, I attended the University of Utah. Afte r two ye ars, I received a letter from my sister, Mrs. J.B. Brockman wh o resided i n Seattle, Washington, asking me to come there and work wit h my brother-i n-law, J.B. I worked there for a year and then returned t o Salt Lake Cit y where I worked for Snelgrove Ice Cream Company for a pe riod of three ye ars. I left that company to work for Christian Construct ion Company durin g the war years. Christian Construction was employed b y the Utah Copper M ines. My next interest was learning the trade of dent al mechanic so I wen t to work for the Salt Lake Dental Laboratory.
Our new home was located near the University of Utah so the family atten d ed the University Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Sain ts . In May 1945, while I was attending a sacrament service one Sunday , I sa t next to a medical doctor and surgeon named L.H.O. Stobbe. He ha d his su ite in the First National Bank at the corner of First South an d Main Stre et. He began asking me questions about my interests. After ta lking for so me time, he asked me to come to his office to look over hi s equipment. Th e following day, I went to his office. He had an examinin g room, two reco very rooms, a room with medical supplies, a surgery room , and a laborator y. Everything appealed to me, so he told me I could sta rt working the fol lowing week. I worked with Dr. Stobbe as a technical a ssistant until Jun e 1949.
I regularly attended the University Ward and was very interested in the i r various activities. Bishop Lynn S. Richards called me into his offic e o ne Sunday to tell me he was calling me to go on a mission. He asked m e wh at language was spoken in our home. I told him Norwegian because mot her w as the most talkative. Then he told me he was sending me to Norwa y on a m ission for the church. He asked if there was any way to financ e it. I tol d him I didn’t think so. He said that there would be a way . A few days a fter, Brother John Firmage, who was a member of the bisho pric, came to ou r home and told my parents that he wanted to pay for th e expense of my mi ssion. By the middle of July, I was on my way by trai n with ten other mis sionaries, two going to Norway, two to Denmark, thre e to Sweden and thre e to Finland. We were to travel to New York where w e would board the pass enger ship, Gripsholm, a Swedish liner. After fiv e days of travel, the Gr ipsholm entered the Swedish port of Goteborg. Th e ten missionaries spli t up and five days later traveled to their own as signed countries. My tra veling companion and I boarded a train to Oslo , Norge. There we were me t at the station by one of the district preside nts. He took us to a resta urant for dinner and then we went to the Missi on President’s Headquarters , Osterhausgarten 27. There we were assigne d sleeping quarters and staye d in Oslo for two weeks. We were assigned t o our specific towns and senio r companions. My first town was Horton , a small fishing port. I labored t here for nine months with Elder Smit h and Elder Carlston. I was then sen t to an immense valley (Odalen) or t he O valley. Skarnes was the small t own where shopping was done and bat hing. Elder Daines was my senior compa nion. We used bikes for our transp ortation. The valley was located thirt y miles north of Oslo. Here it wa s bitter cold in the winter. After nin e months, I was sent to the cit y of Kongsvinger just north of Odalen. Th e city had a small population s o it didn’t take very long to cover the ar ea. After six months the cit y was closed to missionaries.
My companion and I were sent to the city of Drammen. We labored here f o r five months, then the mission president called me into Oslo to comple t e my mission after six month. The president made arrangements for me t o s ail to New York on the liner, “Queen Mary,” a British ship. After m y si x months were over I took a trip around Norway, going to the lower s ectio n toward the coastline, visiting Tonsberg, Larvig, Arendal, Kristia nsand , Stavanger, Haugesund, and Kristiansun. It was at this place tha t I too k a sailing trip into one of the fjords. The next city I visite d was Berg en. This is about the third largest city in Norway. I stayed o ver here wi th the missionaries and we watched a parade the following day . The next c ity I visited was Hardanger. Here Elder Lowbrot, his compani on and I wen t sightseeing together. He explained all about the various p laces we visi ted. We took a boat ride through a waterway. The followin g Sunday I atten ded one of their meetings.
Leaving Hardanger, I headed further north, taking a train to Tronheim. O n e of the elders met me at the station and together we went to their res id ing place. Here I stayed overnight. The following day, the senior Elde r t old me of some beautiful falls that were located up towards the mount ains . So I thought I would take a good hike to see what it would look li ke. T he falls were fifteen feet high cascading over a steep incline. Tro nhei m is almost in the center half of Norway and at night the Northern L ight s can be viewed. They are eerie looking and very irregular in desig n an d changing from time to time.
I wanted to see Stockholm, so the following day I boarded a train for Sw e den. The oncoming countryside was thick with green foliage and tall sle nd er trees. This was a seven to eight hour train ride before reaching St ock holm. Here there were magnificent, inspiring sights. The street cafe s wer e very unique and quaint. Parts of the city were built on islands . I too k a tour on one of the sightseeing boats. On the tour the guide m entione d the King’s Palace. So afterwards I thought I would like to se e the pala ce and especially the interior. The entrance fee was only tw o and a hal f kroner. This was an exciting experience. The interior throu ghout the ha lls and rooms was exceptionally elaborate and magnificent an d very spacio us in size. The guide took us over to the throne room and w e had he oppor tunity to sit on the throne if we wished. There was a spec ial room for of ficials and clergy. After viewing all the interior we lef t the palace t o see other exciting places of Stockholm. 		Lund, Djalmar Aubrey (I4622)
 
605 Djalmar Emanuel Lund, son of Rasmus Hansen Lund and Petrine Jensen was b o rn 4 May 1882 in Sollested, Lolland, Denmark. His parents were well-to- do . They owned considerable property including a hotel. The Lunds joine d th e Church (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) in 1890 and e migra ted to Utah with Djalmar, arriving in Salt Lake City, 3 September 1 893 wh en he was 11 years old. Djalmar lived with Marius and Dagmar Lund , an aun t and uncle, in two-room house for a few months until his fathe r starte d a grocery store at 339 State Street.

Djalmar was baptized 3 October 1893 by John T. Thorup in Salt Lake Cit y , and confirmed 5 October by Joseph McMurrin. He was sealed to his pare nt s in April 1895. He lived in Salt Lake City until the Spring of 1895 w he n he moved to Pleasant Grove with his parents. The Lunds bought a 90 a cr e farm. Running a farm and selling fruit and vegetables was very diffe ren t from running a hotel, but the Lunds made good. While in Pleasant Gr ove , Djalmar was ordained a deacon by Bishop I. E. Thorne and was late r mad e secretary of the Deacons Quorum. He had had some schooling in Den mark a nd made good progress in the school at Pleasant Grove. Neighbors , tryin g to influence their teenagers for good often said, "why don't yo u act li ke Djalmar Lund? He is always so neat and clean and polite." A f ew year s later the family moved to Crescent. Djalmar helped pay for a ho me for t he family, paying $2500 in 3 years. Djalmar came to Salt Lake Ci ty and wo rked in a fruit store on State Street. He attended the 9th War d in 1901.

In 1902 he met Aagot Marie Randby at the Queen of the May Celebration th r ough a friend, Dagmar, who already knew him and liked him at the time a n d was knitting him some socks. Aagot had been crowned queen of the cele br ation. He was very much taken with her. He courted Aagot and married h e r in the Salt Lake Temple on 27 May 1903. On 2 June 1903 in the Salt La k e Temple Annex, Djalmar was set apart as a missionary. On 3 June 190 3 h e departed for the Scandinavian Mission, leaving a new bride. His wif e li ved with his parents in Crescent while he was away. The day he lef t for h is mission he wrote in his journal: "I did not sleep any that nig ht. My t houghts being upon my loved one which I had left; not to mingl e with the m for two years or more. I left them with the hope within me t hat God, ou r Heavenly Father, would take them as well as myself, under h is kind keep ing and protecting hand while I would be away, that when th e time comes t hat I again can return to dear Zion in the valleys of th e mountains, an d find them all among the faithful and living and enjoyin g health and str ength."

On his mission, Djalmar was under the direction of Adam L. Petersen an d H an Christian Hansen. Djalmar presided over the Otter Branch and the n ove r the Odense Branch. He was much loved by the people with whom he l abore d on his mission. He was invited to friends for dinner or chocolat e and c ake almost every day. He was not only a missionary but sang in th e choi r and played the accordion. It was the custom to deliver tracts an d book s and have gospel discussions, which he did faithfully.

While on his mission, Djalmar met Aagot's parents. Her father objecte d t o her marrying a missionary, but was very impressed when he met Djalm ar , who always had his shoes shined and clothes pressed. One incident t o sh ow his helpfulness and dedication to his work: at a Sunday School ou tin g on his mission he writes: "When going home, I helped some friends w it h their children on account of the rainy weather. After I called on Si ste r K. Nielsen where I had Rodgrod whereafter we went to the hill to g o ou t and attend a baptism. Sister H. Nielsen and M. Jacobsen were alon g to h elp with two young ladies who were to be baptized. I performed th e ordina nce after the manner which our Savior and the apostles performe d it. We p erformed this ordinance in the middle of the night so as not t o be distur bed by anybody."

When Djalmar returned from his mission he and his wife lived on the we s t side in a little house where their first child, Evangeline, and seco n d child, Thelma, were born. He worked for Madsen Furniture Company full -t ime and went to night school at L.D.S. Business College. The couple pl ann ed to build a new home on West Capitol Street. While this constructio n wa s started, Aagot and the children lived in Ogden with a cousin. The y star ted out with two rooms - kitchen, dining room, and an out-house. T he fami ly located in the 24th Ward, Salt Lake Stake in 1911. Djalmar wa s ordaine d a Seventy on 4 November 1919 and was set apart as one of th e president s of the 30th Quorum on 5 September 1926, the same year he wa s appointe d a member of the Temple Committee of the Ward. He was also ma de the hea d of the genealogical committee at this time.

Upon graduating from L.D.S. Business College, he found employment with W e stern Building and Loan Co where he was employed for 35 years as an acc ou ntant and later as the head accountant. In 1929 the Lunds moved to th e Un iversity Ward and a beautiful new home at 266 Douglas Street. Djalma r wa s a ward clerk for ten years, serving under three bishops and eigh t bisho prics. He was on the Temple Committee for six years and a secreta ry of th e High Priest Quorum. After his retirement, Djalmar worked for t he Americ an National Insurance Co. and as an assessor in the Murray Dist rict. He a lways claimed that because he paid his tithing, he was never o ut of work.

Djalmar went to Seattle, Washington as a delegate for the Danish Brother h ood. It was his first trip on an airplane. He was very uneasy. He atten de d the meetings fulfilling his assignment as treasurer of the organizat io n and then enjoyed spending time with his daughter, Evangeline, who re sid ed there. He took Evangeline on a boat trip through Puget Sound. Hi s son- in-law gave him a salmon, which he brought home to his wife and pr esente d it to her at the airport. His brother, Alex, died while he was i n Seatt le, and because he was detained, he made his first airplane tri p to the f uneral.

Many trips were made to Sacramento to see their daughters, Thelma and La V on. This was usually done at Thanksgiving time and was the highlight o f t he year as they journeyed on a train. Djalmar loved Christmas. It wa s a r itual to make pepperknutters with the children. All of the family g ot aro und the kitchen table and rolled the spicy, hard confections. The y were c ut into small pieces and then baked. We didn't enjoy eating the m as muc h as making them. The Christmas tree had to be carried to thei r home as t he couple did not own a car. Djalmar did not worry about th e budget at th is time of the year. The gifts that each child was to rece ive was doubl y checked to be sure they were adequate. The tree was decor ated Christma s Eve and the gifts placed under it to completely surpris e the children C hristmas morning. There was a tradition that the childre n really loved: b efore the tree decorations were removed, the family wou ld light the candl es, hold hands and sing around the Christmas tree. Chr istmas tree parties , a Danish and Norwegian festivity, were the deligh t of all of the childr en. Everyone would dance around the Christmas tree . They served hot choco late and cakes and Christmas stockings were give n to the children, who al ways came attired in their best clothes usuall y received as gifts at Chri stmas.

Family nights were held regularly. Chairs were put in a circle. The fami l y would kneel and pray. Lessons were presented on the gospel. The child re n were always urged to attend Sunday School. At that time, the older m emb ers of the family attended Sacrament meeting. Saturday night was bat h tim e. A big tub was placed in the center of the kitchen. The childre n were l ined up by Father Saturday night and all of the shoes were shine d. The ch ildren wore white starched dresses with colored bows and whit e shirts. Vi olin, piano and saxophone lessons were encouraged by the par ents. Dancin g lessons were provided for those interested.

Many trips to the park on the trolley with a nickel for lunch were enjoy e d by the children. Their mainstay was potato salad carried in a glass j ar . It was very difficult to make the choice as to how that nickel woul d b e spent. Trips to Salt Aire on the trolley were more of a rarity.

Djalmar enjoyed a rich life, loving his children and enjoying the compan i onship of his wife. Many a midnight snack was enjoyed after the childr e n were in bed. Danish pastries and Glaus goodies were treats for the tw os ome as they laughed and reminisced together.

Djalmar passed away on 11 July 1966 in a nursing home after a bout wit h c ancer and several heart attacks. His eyesight failed him after he ha d ha d cataract operations on both eyes and an automobile accident jarre d th e eyes causing them to not heal properly.

(Submitted by Constance Irene Lund Neel, a daughter) 		Lund, Djalmar Emanuel (I5017)
 
606 Dolley Payne Todd Madison, one of the best known and loved First Ladie s , was the wife of James Madison, the fourth President of the United Sta te s (1809-1817). Her iconic style and social presence boosted her husban d’ s popularity as President.

For half a century she was the most important woman in the social circl e s of America. To this day she remains one of the best known and best lo ve d ladies of the White House–though often referred to, mistakenly, as D oro thy or Dorothea.

She always called herself Dolley, and by that name the New Garden Month l y Meeting of the Society of Friends, in Piedmont, North Carolina, recor de d her birth to John and Mary Coles Payne, settlers from Virginia. In 1 76 9 John Payne took his family back to his home colony, and in 1783 he m ove d them to Philadelphia, city of the Quakers. Dolley grew up in the st ric t discipline of the Society, but nothing muted her happy personalit y an d her warm heart.

John Todd, Jr., a lawyer, exchanged marriage vows with Dolley in 1790. J u st three years later he died in a yellow-fever epidemic, leaving his wi f e with a small son.

By this time Philadelphia had become the capital city. With her charm a n d her laughing blue eyes, fair skin, and black curls, the young widow a tt racted distinguished attention. Before long Dolley was reporting to he r b est friend that “the great little Madison has asked…to see me this ev enin g.”

Although Representative James Madison of Virginia was 17 years her senio r , and Episcopalian in background, they were married in September 1794 . Th e marriage, though childless, was notably happy; “our hearts underst and e ach other,” she assured him. He could even be patient with Dolley’ s son , Payne, who mishandled his own affairs–and, eventually, mismanage d Madis on’s estate.

Discarding the somber Quaker dress after her second marriage, Dolley cho s e the finest of fashions. Margaret Bayard Smith, chronicler of early Wa sh ington social life, wrote: “She looked a Queen…It would be absolutel y imp ossible for any one to behave with more perfect propriety than sh e did.”

Blessed with a desire to please and a willingness to be pleased, Dolle y m ade her home the center of society when Madison began, in 1801, his e igh t years as Jefferson’s Secretary of State. She assisted at the Whit e Hous e when the President asked her help in receiving ladies, and presi ded a t the first inaugural ball in Washington when her husband became Ch ief Ex ecutive in 1809.

Dolley’s social graces made her famous. Her political acumen, prized b y h er husband, is less renowned, though her gracious tact smoothed man y a qu arrel. Hostile statesmen, difficult envoys from Spain or Tunisia , warrio r chiefs from the west, flustered youngsters–she always welcome d everyone . Forced to flee from the White House by a British army durin g the War o f 1812, she returned to find the mansion in ruins. Undaunte d by temporar y quarters, she entertained as skillfully as ever.

At their plantation Montpelier in Virginia, the Madisons lived in pleasa n t retirement until he died in 1836. She returned to the capital in th e au tumn of 1837, and friends found tactful ways to supplement her dimin ishe d income. She remained in Washington until her death in 1849, honore d an d loved by all. The delightful personality of this unusual woman i s a che rished part of her country’s history. 		Payne, Dolley (I169099)
 
607 Don was in the Marines in the Pacific in WWII. In 1999 he had an aneuri s m close to the heart, but they took care of it with medication instea d o f surgery. Morava, Donald Alfred (I161383)
 
608 Donald W. Bushnell Missing You Donald W. Bushnell was laid to rest 30 Se p tember 2007 in Meadow, Utah. He is missed by many. He was an Air Fo r e Ve teran, NASA engineer, IBM retiree, and truck driver with his son R yan. Fa ther of seven, grandfather of 30, great-grandfather of three. LD S Member . Traveled the world with IBM and the U.S. with Ryan. His most c herishe d homes were Salt Lake City, Utah and Tucson AZ, where all of hi s childre n currently live. One of his greatest past times was cooking fo r all of h is growing posterity. We miss you dad. Bushnell, Donald Webb (I34080)
 
609 Donna Benson Lee’s Personal History
I was born March 16, 1910. Dr. Cutler, Preston, Idaho, delivered a fat 1 1 -lb. baby just a few minutes after midnight. My mother, Melinda Caroli n e (Linda) Nelson Benson, wanted to say I was born on my older brother' s b irthday (the 15th), but my father, Serge B. Benson, said, "But she wa s bo rn on the 16th." So statistically my birth was accurately reported . Di d I escape the foreboding Ides of March? My brother, who became dail y mor e dear to me had his birthday celebrated on the 15th and I was hono red t o share his festivities. It's a compliment to him that I never reme mber f eeling anger nor envy nor jealousy for him in my entire life. Whe n I wa s small, I slept with him. I shed bitter tears when my aunts nagge d my mo ther into separating us, and then I had to sleep with my sister C onnie- 2 years my senior.

My mother, who had had an appetite for sweets during the pregnancy, wa s s everely torn in the delivery. She reminded me of that throughout my l ife- -never thinking to blame herself or the large head size of the Benso n anc estors I had. Her memory of that huge baby always got in the way o f reali ty. This idea of hers actually clouded my self-confidence most o f my life . It wasn't until after my own marriage that I was able to exon erate myse lf from guilt. I felt responsible for the many illnesses she s uffered an d always blamed myself for being big and ugly. As a very smal l child an d throughout my life I loved and respected my mother. Never di d I do or s ay anything that I thought would make her unhappy. My fathe r so impresse d me with the necessity for saving her any worry that I lea rned rigid sel f control very early. Hoping to give me musical talent, sh e studied the g uitar during her pregnancy and named me Donna from "Prima donna." When I c ould not sing naturally in tune, she refused to give m e music lessons. Al l the rest of the children were encouraged to take le ssons.

My first memory is of waking from an afternoon nap and noticing the ti n y golden lines crisscrossing the dark green blinds where they bad bee n ro lled and unrolled for so many years. The deep breathing of my four-y ear-o ld sister Connie punctuated the quiet of the afternoon. Quietly I l ay i n my crib waiting for my father to come from his country store nex t doo r to take us up from our nap. He had taught me not to cry and not t o clim b out of bed lest I disturb my sister who always seemed to sleep m any min utes longer than I. No fear troubled my mind. I knew my father wa s near a nd my mother, teaching school across the street, would be home a t noon t o give me my lunch. If she were too busy my father or his hire d girl woul d run over from the store next door and take us up. Our earl y home stoo d close to my father's general merchandise store, which he ha d purchase d from his sister's husband, George Alder. It was the only sto re in town , a small establishment also housing the post office for Whitn ey.

Whitney, Franklin County, Idaho, was listed as my birthplace. Whitney w a s in the Oneida (L.D.S.) Stake, a farming community with fewer than 20 0 p eople. The small frame house immediately west of the store and separa te d from it by a driveway and a thick hedge housed
the Benson family, and that's where I was born. North and back a hundr e d or so yards from
the store lot was a fair-sized frame house where George T. and Louis a A . Benson, parents of Serge, lived.

A variety of fruit trees, flowers, and vegetable gardens and berry bush e s covered about two acres of land. Farther north, down a little slop e b y a small stream were barns and sheds and corrals for a few animals.

Across the street south of the store was the stone church, and further s o uth, the red brick school house. This area included play grounds an d a sm all grove of trees. It was called the school house lot or the chur ch lot . Ball diamonds were marked out and areas for foot races measured . Area s were smoothed for marble playing which was a favorite recreatio n durin g school recess. School and community recreation activities wer e aided an d encouraged by the storekeeper.

As their own children approached school age, Mother (Melinda Caroline Ne l son) Benson, an experienced elementary school teacher, and Dad (Serge B al lif Benson) became interested in school politics. For most of their ye ar s in Whitney one or the other of them served as a school trustee or me mbe r of the school board. Mother often substituted for absent ill teache rs.

My sister Sergene, six years my senior, cared for me a great deal of t h e time. I took advantage of her. She said when we were grown that I w a s a bawl-baby as a young child. I remember crying and complaining to he r , realizing at a very early age that she would always give in to me.

When I was nearly four years old my sister Fae was born—Valentine nigh t 1 914. My grandmother, Stake Relief Society President, assisted Dr. Cut le r with the birth, and I stayed with my grandfather George Taft Benson . Ne ither of us could sleep. He, being a very tender, loving man was evi dentl y worried about the ordeal my mother was enduring. I, sensitive t o the te nsion surrounding me, stood with my small hand in his looking ou t at th e cold February sky, clear and spangled with stars. He repeated t wice th e words to two verses of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and was a mazed wh en I repeated the two verses without faltering. He later told m y father t hat I had an exceptional mind and my father always believed th at about m e for the remainder of his life. When church visitors or impor tant guest s were at our home, my father would call on me to give the fam ily praye r because I could repeat big words and religious phrases that h ad appeale d to me while listening to my elders. At this time my mother w rote tha t I had a quiet, amenable disposition but that when I though t I was righ t nothing could change me. She added in parentheses ("and sh e usually i s right.")

The years in between us evidently were difficult for Mother who had on e m iscarriage, and when Fae was about one year old, Mother suffered a co mple te breakdown. I do not know how long she was away from home. My fath er to ld us she had an appendicitis operation and complications. From he r old l etters and papers I conclude she was away at least three months . I can re member my father's walking the floor with Fae until she woul d sleep. I wo ndered then "Why?" because I had always lain awake for hour s at night mak ing up my own dreams. My father had taught me not to cry o ut or do anythi ng to upset Mother.

We had a horse named Nellie that Dad used on a white-topped buggy to ha u l freight from the railway station, which stood on the tracks a half mi l e away. We also had a black one seated
buggy and sometimes Dad would pile all of us in and drive us to see near b y relatives. Sometimes we were taken to the Saturday afternoon movie s i n Preston. The movies were continued from week to week. One series ca lle d "Ruth of the Rockies" left the heroine hanging from a cliff or in s om e other precarious predicament each time and my older sister would be g m y father to let us go the next week.

My parents were active in bringing educational Chautauqua to Preston . M y oldest sister would walk--shepherding the younger ones up the railr oa d tracks to Preston. I'd always promise to walk all the way, but I'd g e t tired coming home. I'd howl and she would carry me on her back. The n Co nnie, the sister two years older than I, would bawl and Sergene woul d car ry her. How I worked Sergene! She took me on her picnics and partie s. I' d always promise I could walk all the way then she'd end up carryin g me . I'd climb the trees and get afraid to come down, and she would hav e t o rescue me. My mother got out of patience with my imposing on her, a nd o nce when I had seriously cut my leg on a nail on a bridge I'd improv ise d to cross the ditch, she stood in the doorway shouting, "Get up, yo u bi g boob, Sergene's not going to carry you.” I was just four, and ten- year- old Sergene, near enough to see the spurt of blood from the deep ga sh, gr abbed me up and ran into the store to my father. Dad stuck it toge ther a s best he could and bandaged the wound. It really needed stitchin g and I' ll carry the scar to my grave. I always wanted my mother to sa y she was s orry, but she never did.

My Benson grandparents lived just north of the store in what we called " t he big house." My two youngest aunts, Jennie and Kinnie, were married f ro m that house. Carmen, just older than they, worked in Hotel Utah in Sa l t Lake City, and I remember my father paying part of her expenses whe n sh e went on a mission. My grandparents moved to a small stucco house o n 1s t West in Logan next to the old home my grandmother's father had ha d whe n he brought his family from Lausanne, Switzerland.

We moved into the "big house" in Whitney. It really seemed big. It ha d a n upstairs, and in the wintertime a coal heater in the upstairs hal l kep t the chill off the bedrooms. In a big windowless attic room on a r aise d platform was the upstairs toilet. We used coal oil lamps and tha t roo m was mighty scary without a lamp. In one wall an opening led int o the ea ves of the house. Sand was used for insulation and often I'd sne ak in the re with a small lamp, crawl in the attic, set the lamp on th e 2 x 4 joist s, sit by the side of the lamp, and read for hours or unti l I'd finishe d my book. Thinking back I'm amazed that I didn't set the h ouse on fire.

In the kitchen there was a dumb waiter. We would put fresh vegetables, l e ftovers, and even pans of milk on the shelves. The pulleys worked so sm oo thly that the shelves could be let down into the basement to keep th e foo d cool.

Sliding doors separated the two front rooms. The best room had uncomfort a ble mahogany furniture with leather seats and backs. My older brother a n d sisters used the piano in this room. I loved to sing, but evidently c ou ldn't hit the tune, and when I heard my mother say, "The poor girl, sh e'l l never be able to carry a tune," I became very self-conscious and ne ve r let anyone hear me sing. A song, "Dear Old Ma," a slushy, sentimenta l , ballad was one of my favorites. My voice was loud and piercing an d I re ally belted our the words. Perhaps if I'd chosen a more suitable m elody m y mother wouldn't have been so critical and who knows, I may hav e had a f ew music lessons. I had the desire, unrequited, perhaps that i s why I wa s always susceptible to the charms of male vocalists.

The same serene security experienced as a toddler waiting for her moth e r and father to pick her up, generated in me by my wonderful earthly pa re nts, stayed with me my entire life. This assurance did not permit me t o s it still and wait for things to happen, nor to expect someone else t o d o anything for me, but it encouraged me to use my native intelligenc e t o accomplish as best I could the task that needed to be done.

My memories of our Whitney home are very happy ones. In my father's stor e , he would put his tall ladder up to the shelves of merchandise, an d I wo uld perch on the ladder rungs and count the cans of this and boxe s of tha t, "taking inventory," he told me. He taught me to add and subtr act and m ultiply and how to sit quietly and not interrupt when he was bu sy. I lear ned then how to listen quietly, too, a habit which enhanced m y teaching c areer. It's surprising how learning to listen furthers a chi ld's educatio n. I believe there in my father's store is also when I lear ned to read an d write. My mother said no one taught me to read, yet I co uld read whe n I was four years old. I knew most of the nursery rhymes b y heart an d a great many simple poems my mother had read to me. The vers es my olde r sisters and brothers learned at school stuck in my memory wh en I hear d them practicing at home. Most of them I can still remember. M y family t hought me an extraordinarily bright child. When I began school , I was rea ding Barrie's Peter Pan.

When George Taft and Louisa Benson moved to Logan where they planned t o d o temple work, Mother and Dad moved our family into the big house. Th e sm all house was rented generally to school employees. Mother saw to i t tha t the teachers had a good place to live. Sometimes she had to tak e them i nto her own home. School trustees—we call them board members now —had to b e elected by the school patrons. My father or my mother alway s served o n the board. My birthday came in March, so I couldn't go to sc hool unti l the next fall. I started school at the age of six attending t he Whitne y Elementary School. My first grade teacher, Miss Wilson, had d ark hair a nd brown eyes. I thought that she was beautiful. My mother sub stituted fo r her toward the spring of the year. When she returned, she h ad been marr ied, and we had to call her Mrs. Miles. The second year I co mpleted the 3 rd and 4th grades. My teacher wanted to move me into the 6t h grade. My si ster Connie didn't want her younger sister in the same gra de. I went int o the 5th grade. Some of my close friends in elementary sc hool were Gertr ude Dunkley, Sarah Beckstead, Alvin Hull, Stella Swainsto n, and Eldora Al der. Two grades met in each room. When I had discovere d reading for pleas ure, a whole new world opened up for me. From then o n I read voraciously . I'd have several books started and stash each on e in a place where I ex pected to be assigned to work. When I heard someo ne coming, I'd slide th e book under me, a habit that became entrenched . My husband years later t ook delight in catching me doing this. He too k pride in my reading compre hension and speed. He said it took a lot o f effort when he had to compet e with a book for my attention.

During that 5th grade year my father sold the Whitney store and home t o h is uncle, Louis Ballif. He bought a home on 5th North in Logan, Utah . Wit h his brother-in-law, Leo Peck and with Leo's brother, he bough t a butche r shop. As soon as the business prospered, the two Peck brothe rs put th e pinch on my father. He could buy them out at a greatly inflat ed price o r he'd lose what he had invested. From then on for some year s our relatio nship with the Pecks seemed awkward.

My father's business prospered. He became Bishop of the Logan Fourth War d . He had little time to relax or spend with his family. Our lives real l y changed when he bought the home his grandfather, Ezra Taft Benson, h a d built when Pres. Brigham Young sent him to Cache Valley in 1860. Thi s g rand old home, 139 East 1st North, entranced me when I first visite d my f riends Anna and Mary Oldham who lived there. Now it was going to b e our o wn home! It seemed immense. A hedge enclosed and surrounded the h uge fron t yard. Bridal wreath and other beautiful shrubs dotted the slop ing gree n lawn. The imposing and inspiring Logan Temple on the block eas t of us s eemed to preside over the back yard. Many times during the nex t eight yea rs, in sunlight and in moonlight, I stood at the rear of thi s dear home a nd watched the light and shadow stream over the gray ston e walls and turr ets of the temple. Most of my serious decisions were res olved there. Th e western slope of the temple hill was not cultivated whe n we first move d to 1st North. With my butterfly net I caught flying ins ects and butterf lies for my 9th grade biology class. I think I passed o n to my children m y own love for that wonderful home. So much love was f elt there that whe n my young son's Sunday School teacher asked "Who in t he class wanted t o go to heaven," 3-year-old Larry answered, "I'd rathe r go to Grandy an d Grandpa Benson's house."

I was baptized in the Logan Temple. I attended Logan Jr. High school. So m e special teachers I remember were Mr. Tibbetts, my Aunt Mrs. Mable Fr y , and Mr. R Morris. My most special teachers in high school were Miss A ld yth Vernon and Miss Thain. When World War I ended, I was eight years o ld . In our primary we had learned to knit, and we made wool scarves fo r sol diers. I remember my grandmother and mother helping the Relief Soci ety bu y wheat for storage. We even used potato flour in quantity to sav e the wh eat for the soldiers and the poor. All the older boys and youn g men wer e volunteering. Patriotism was at a high pitch.

For two years I attended Seminary at the Logan B.Y.C., and I attended co l lege at Utah State Agricultural College for 3 years, one quarter spen t a t B.Y.U. in Provo, majoring in English and minoring in history.

My father, Serge B. Benson's teaching at a great university or on a boa r d of education did not bestow credentials upon him. He had no beautiful l y lettered diplomas nor were his teachers thus endowed. His parents, ea rl y Cache Valley pioneers, direction by Church doctrine and following th e d irections of the General Authorities helped him develop the qualitie s tha t made him, my dear father, the greatest teacher I ever had.

My dear cousin, Ezra T. Benson, in 1977 (just prior to the April 1977 gr a duation at B.Y.U. when the College of Family Living bestowed their Dist in guished Family Living Award
on me) spoke to me about the great influence his uncle, Serge B. Benso n , had had on his life. During the impressionable time in his youth, h e sa id my father had taught him in three separate church classes each we ek. H e asked me if I knew what a great teacher my father was. His glowin g acco unt of my father's abilities brought to my attention the greatnes s of thi s loving, unselfish, gifted teacher who was my own father.

He gave me the perfect example of a man who loved his neighbor as himsel f . He shared all he owned: his flowers and vegetables, products of his o w n hands, with the sick and the needy; his money with worthy students a n d all who asked. Most of all, he had love and kind words for everyone . H e gave all this while caring lavishly for his wife and eight children . Wh en I see my children and grandchildren taking such pleasure from ser vin g others, I realize the great value of his teaching.

He taught me to care for the sick. Many times I knelt with him at the be d side of my unconscious mother rubbing her limbs to keep the ebbing spa r k of life in her cold body, listening to his fervent prayers and hopin g G od would listen He taught such love and respect for our wonderful mot he r that she was able to say just before her death that I had never spok e n a cross or unkind word to her in my life.

He taught me to value honesty and truth. As a frightened ten-year-ol d I s tood before the school principal as he interviewed one by one all 7 th gra ders in my class seeking to find which one was guilty of a petty t heft. T he principal asked me my father's name. When I answered, "Serge B . Benson ," he said, "You are excused." Right then I resolved to marr y a man of hi gh integrity and so live that our children could receive th e same reward.

When he placed his hands on my head rebuking a painful illness and plead i ng that the pain would never return, I had such a faith burn in my hear t . When accredited doctors tried to diagnose the painful illness which t he y said would take my own life before the morning, when they wanted t o ope rate on they didn't know what, my father said, "What for?" They wer en't s ure of the cause. My father called my young brother. Together the y place d their hands upon my head and asked God to help me. My father re buked th e illness and, using the power of the priesthood, commanded th e pain neve r to return. In a few minutes I fell asleep and the pain neve r again trou bled me. In this and many other instances my father taught m e the power o f this great priesthood in our lives in so many ways tha t I was certain t o marry a man with the same sweet reverence and testimo ny.

Through wise direction and generous support, he encouraged all of his ch i ldren to get a college education. True humility to him meant a seekin g mi nd open to all good teaching. He taught us to seek after "anything v irtuo us, lovely, of good report or praiseworthy." The lives of his eigh t child ren show how efficacious was his teaching. He taught us the valu e of a go od home and how love and lovingness enhance life.

He loved music and gave praise and, when needed, financial aid to indivi d ual performers and musical groups. He had a beautiful baritone voice . I m arried a talented musician and know the great value of music in th e home . My children and grandchildren now sing the many charming folk so ngs m y father taught his own children. Some of the songs we’ve never fou nd
in print, but they are part of our family traditions.

I never knew of his losing control and speaking in anger, though he taug h t us to be righteously indignant at all unfair dealings. "Have the cour ag e to oppose all wrong or evil behavior, but you lose your power for go o d when you speak or act in anger" My thirty years of teaching teenager s p roved his teaching right.

Like the great oceans hug the land, so his love poured out through all h i s teachings for all people. "Don't worry so much about whether someon e lo ves you, just see that you love them." "I don't worry about your doi ng wr ong," he'd say, "but your sins of omission trouble me."

It's almost twenty years since he left this life, and I'm still tryin g t o follow his teachings, and so are his grandchildren and his great-gr andc hildren.

I was fortunate to be reared in a prosperous middle class family, the fo u rth child to graduate from Utah State Ag. College. I turned 19 in Marc h a nd graduated in May. Then on the 2nd of October I married Lawrence , a mus ic student from B.Y.U. who had left school to pursue a singing ca reer i n Southern California. Before we reached California, the depressio n hit a nd the little money left in the bank was wiped out. Lawrence ha d work i n a cold storage plant. He sang special engagements for small su ms, for p art of a year he was tenor soloist on Sundays in the All Saint s Episcopa l Church in Pasadena, which was supposed to be the richest chu rch in th e U.S. at that time.

I had received an offer to teach in one of Utah's junior colleges - bei n g one of the three highest in an English exam given to graduates. Becau s e my offer was for the largest jr. college, I assumed I had passed high es t. However, women were not given teaching or equivalent jobs during th e d epression. My husband and I registered for free night classes offere d b y California's public school system. I studied Public Health and Hom e Nur sing under the director of nursing at the Los Angeles Hospital, th e large st nursing school in California at that time. The second night w e both to ok journalism.

We were very active in church work and most all our social life center e d around the Church. With four other young couples we camped on the bea ch es and in canyons available in 1929-30. I especially enjoyed swimmin g i n the ocean. I was very buoyant in sea water and more than once frigh tene d my husband by venturing out too far.

Our first year in California passed uneventfully. The young couples deci d ed to have babies. All were fortunate in becoming pregnant but us. Th e do ctor said I had too high blood sugar count. I tried to eat no suga r food s and very little starchy foods.

In the summer of 1930 we visited our parents in
Logan, Utah and Rigby, Idaho. My parents decided to ren t
their home and move for a 2 year vacation in California.
The four young sisters and brother with my parents wer e
fitted into a bungalow we had rented and unti l
March of 1931 we lived together very happily.

My husband had agreed to purchase his father's Lone Pine Ranch, which w a s in the mountains above Ririe, Idaho. We bought a tiny Ford truck, pu t i t and all our belongings on the back of a large farm truck, and drov e t o Idaho. We fixed up a small house, more like a 2-room shed, put al l far m equipment in one room, and our household goods in the largest roo m. W e made a straw tick and put it on an old bed frame. It served as spr ing s and mattress. An old iron range served us for heat and cooking. W e plan ted acres of grain, etc. That year, 1931, there was a severe droug ht. Th e creek dwindled to almost nothing. We dug out an old well to ge t drinkin g water and water to wash. Lawrence tilled the land with his se cond-han d tractor and sang grand opera to the birds and rock chucks. I m ade frien ds with water snakes that hung around the almost dried out spri ng.

By June, being 3 months pregnant, it was a bit difficult for me to run a f ter the few sheep and cattle. Someone gave me a small pig. I named hi m Vo ltaire. He followed me wherever I went. Once he ran away when Grandm a Le e came to visit and I'd not paid him any attention. Grandma and Lawr enc e chased him through the almost dry creek bed. I laughed and laughed . Whe n I got control of myself, I called to him and he trotted up to m e quickl y.

Because of the drought, the crop was a failure. Grandpa Lee and Lawren c e couldn't agree about anything. I needed to have medical attention, s o i n September Lawrence moved me with all my things to Provo. He went ba ck t o salvage what he could. The little truck was repossessed along wit h th e tractor and machinery. Grandpa Lee was determined that he was goin g t o have anything available, so Lawrence drove away with nothing but th e ha lf paid for truck and my pig Voltaire. That winter Voltaire was th e onl y meat we had. Even the smell of pork cooking made me sick for year s afte r.

Lawrence audited B.Y.U. classes, used the truck to haul coal, and delive r ed it. If Sergene hadn't lived with us that winter we couldn't have liv e d through the trying times. If we hadn't found a good doctor to delive r o ur baby both mother and baby would have died.

In March 1932, we moved to Preston, Idaho. Our truck was soon after repo s sessed. For $15 we bought an old roofless decrepit touring car. We ha d n o money for a license and drove on back roads to avoid state patrolme n. W e raised vegetables and strawberries and sold them for almost nothin g . I would work in the garden with "baby son” sleeping in a basket nearb y . But we were always active in the Church. Lawrence directed the stak e ch oir.

When the Benson family moved back to Logan, Father went into coal sale s , and Lawrence drove a truck and delivered coal. When he had work, my y ou nger sister or brother stayed with me on the Preston Sandcrest farm. T he y cared for the cows and pigs. Thieves stole one suckling pig each we e k I used to watch with a loaded 22 rifle. Once I shot at the feet o f a th ief who was racing across the field. The thief dropped the pig an d neve r came again. At the end of the summer, there was no sale for th e vegetab les—we dumped a truck load of beautiful onions on the side of t he canyo n road and sold a car load of radishes all washed and bunched fo r 35 cent s, then paid 50 cents for 100 lbs. of flour. We worked togethe r and had l ots of happy times on no money. After the second summer, we f ixed an apar tment in the Logan house on 5th East and 4th North and too k care of the r est of the apartments for our rent.

Lawrence went to Utah State Ag. College and sang the tenor role in the o p era. On Dec.11, I went to see the production in the Logan Tabernacle. A l l of the Benson family proudly attended to hear the golden tenor voic e . I attended a reception after the performance, went home and washed m y h air, put it in pin curlers. When the pains were coming 3 minutes apar t,
I took our young son to Mother. At 3 a.m. I went to the hospital one blo c k from the Benson home where Karen was born around 8 a.m. on Dec. 12, 1 93 3.

During the Second World War, men were not so eager to enlist. My husba n d and I were living on a farm in Ammon, Idaho, and Lawrence tried to vo lu nteer. He was turned down because of age, occupation, and number of de pen dents. He tried to get in the Navy as a bandmaster aboard a ship—the y tur ned him down—no openings. Five hundred Mexican laborers, brought in to Ida ho to harvest the potato crop, went on strike and refused to work . Govern ment officials learning of my husband's facility with the Spanis h languag e took him to the labor camp. In a very few minutes he settle d the strike , and finding food was the problem, he had made hot salsa an d the men wer e back at work. When the work in Idaho was completed, he mo ved with the m to their next job in California, leaving me to tend the fa rm and four s mall children. When it became necessary to move to Californ ia, Lawrence c ame home long enough to sell the farm and move his famil y to Logan. My pa rents had been called on a mission to California, an d I was to take car e of my youngest sister Jacque, an 18-year-old colleg e student and five b oarders. Larry was 12, Karen 10, and Ticia turne d 7 in January. Zetta wa s 4.

There is no formally written story of Donna Benson Lee’s life between 19 4 2 and 1978.

In 1978, my baby sister Jacque took me to the Salt Lake Airport on Jun e 1 3. We arrived early and waited for Donna Maree Bradshaw. Finally I go t i n a line and checked my bags verifying my ticket and got a seat. I as ke d the agent to save a seat by me for my granddaughter. They were the l as t seats in the non-smoking section. About 15 minutes before flying tim e , Donna Maree arrived in company with her friends April and Jennifer. T h e plane arrived one hour late from Denver, so we still had a long wait . J acque had to leave, but Donna's friends stayed until the plane left . Beca use we were late, the wait over in Chicago wasn't so long. Our lug gage ha d been checked through to Luxemburg, but by p.m. we were on our f light. B ecause of the 7-hour time change it was 2:30 when we met Karen a nd famil y in Luxembourg. Their Fiat had a rack on the top. My big suitca se had t o be hoisted up with their big suitcases. It was a difficult jo b to get e verything on and the small cases, etc. in the trunk. We reall y fitted snu gly in the back. Luckily none of us have long legs, so we we re fairly com fortable.

NOTE: Donna Lee spent the remainder of 1978 living with her daughter Ka r en Bradshaw’s family while they were there on Sabbatical leave from BYU .

Ticia just left Donna Lee on Aug. 17, 1981. What a daughter! With all h e r multiplicity of tasks she attends to all the needs of her mother whi l e skillfully manipulating a complaining 9-year-old son and worrying abo u t her 5-year-old son at a friend's. The 5-year-old has a fever and sh e ha s a guest coming to dinner.

I'm X-rayed, blood and heart tested, and after twice postponed, prepar e d for cataract surgery in the morning at 10:30. This is a Catholic hosp it al. I have a private room on the 5th floor near the desk. The city noi se s are intensely loud so that the routine hospital noises aren't very n oti ceable. I am not nervous or afraid, perhaps because of the wonderfu l bles sing given to me by my Uncle Paul. However, the experiences of th e last f our months of my husband's life flood my memory. How dear he wa s to me. C aring for him never was a burden. The moments away from him se emed so lon g. Now five years have passed, the longest years of my life .

Donna lived in the Cove Point Retirement center for the last 13 year s o f her life and died in December 1997 . 		Benson, Donna (I333)
 
610 Donna Margaret Robb Ostler, age 57, our loving wife, mother and grandmot h er, passed away in her home Friday, November 5, 1993.

Born July 12, 1936 in Hollywood Californian to Chanes and Felitz Robb. M a rried Galen Ostler in Salt Lake City, Utah on July 9, 1954. Donna wa s a f ormer employee of American Express in Salt Lake.

Survivors: Galen Ostler, sons, Steven and wife, Patty; Douglas, daughter s , Stephanie Gullian and husband Harry, Jennifer Whitehead and husband K ev in, 13 grandchildren, sister Glenna Bliestein. Preceded in death by pa ren ts and two grandchildren.

"Our Mother, the one we laughed with, cried with and shared our dreams w i th, went onto a life of no pain. We love you"

Funeral Services will be held Monday, November 8, 1993 at 12 noon in t h e Utah Veterans Memorial Park Chapel, 17111 South Camp Williams Road, B lu ffdale. Friends may call at Golf Mortuary, 8090 South State. Midvale , fo r a public viewing on Sunday from 6-8p.m. On Monday of the Utah Vete ran s memorial Park Chapel, there will be a visitation without viewing fr om 1 1:15 a.m. to 12 noon with interment to follow at the Utah Veterans M emori al Park Cemetery.

Published in the Deseret News November 6, 1993 		Robb, Donna Margrett (I22382)
 
611 Dora Strasburg notes on family group sheet of Hugh Henderson and Dora St r asburg say: regarding other spouses...
Frank Hyrum Harman changed name from Hyrum Parley Hansen. Md. 21 Feb 19 4 1 to Dora Strasburg. Born 7 March 1882 .
(Adopted as Harman in 1903) (Frank died 20 May 1942). 		Hansen, Frank Hyrum (I166491)
 
612 Dorothy Bertha Magny was the 2nd of four daughters born to Alice Gygi (b o rn in Switzerland) and Ernest Emile Magny (born in France) in Salt Lak e C ity, Utah. Her father died in 1911 and her mother married Louis Burh le y in 1915. Alice and Louis had a son and a daughter who were adored b y th eir older sisters.

Dorothy was a tiny little Swiss Miss. She was 4 feet 10 inches and had b i g, beautiful, brown eyes. When she was a teenager she had a serious me di cal condition that required a total hysterectomy. She was so sad to kn o w that she would never have children, but she constantly read her patri ar chal blessing that told her she would become "a mother to the motherle ss. "

Dorothy was introduced to Orvil Edwin Beckstrand by a mutual friend. S h e fell in love and married him in the Salt Lake Temple. She moved to ru ra l Meadow (150 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah) to become "a mothe r t o the motherless." Orvil's first wife had died in childbirth and lef t hi m with two small sons. Dorothy was a strong woman who was able to co pe wi th some of the local women who doubted a "city girl" could make i t in th e country. She took care of her two boys and Orvil's cows whil e he worke d out of town during the week. She grew a large garden and bot tled frui t and vegetables. She brought an electric stove with her when s he came t o Meadow and was the talk of the town .

Grandma's greatest love was being a grandmother. As each new grandchil d j oined the family, her joy increased. She had two grand daughters an d fiv e grandsons. She could beat each kid in a foot race, make a ham an d chees e sandwich, AND a chocolate malt for each grandchild, and still w hip u p a hot meal for Grandpa before noon !

Grandma adored lambs. She always had at least 10 ewes and lambs out i n h er feed yard. She would call, "lamby, lamby, here lamby" and those ew es w ould come running for her. She would scratch them behind their ear s an d feed them grain. When the ram was in with the ewes, she had to ru n fas t and jump over the fence to keep from getting hit. But sometime s the ra m won the race and would knock her to the ground. She would b e bruised a nd sore, but she never blamed the ram. He was just protectin g his ewes.

She grew Lily of the Valley flowers under her shrubs and potted Africa n v iolets in her east windows. She made Schlifferlies every December fo r Chr istmas, prepared Sunday dinner on Saturday, and kept a letter (in p rogres s) to her sisters in the typewriter .

She always had a smile, a giant hug and kiss for her family. She would d r op whatever she was doing to tend a great-grandchild. She would sli p a co llege-student granddaughter some money whenever she was visited .

Her desire to go on ended when her beloved husband died. She could not l i ve without him. Her memory failed and then her health. She finally wa s ab le to join him a year later, and her family lost the dearest littl e lad y they had ever known.
~Cindy Beckstrand Iverson



Dorothy Bertha Magny was the 2nd of four daughters born to Alice Gygi (b o rn in Switzerland) and Ernest Emile Magny (born in France) in Salt Lak e C ity, Utah. Her father died in 1911 and her mother married Louis Burh le y in 1915. Alice and Louis had a son and a daughter who were adored b y th eir older sisters.

Dorothy was a tiny little Swiss Miss. She was 4 feet 10 inches and had b i g, beautiful, brown eyes. When she was a teenager she had a serious me di cal condition that required a total hysterectomy. She was so sad to kn o w that she would never have children, but she constantly read her patri ar chal blessing that told her she would become "a mother to the motherle ss. "

Dorothy was introduced to Orvil Edwin Beckstrand by a mutual friend. S h e fell in love and married him in the Salt Lake Temple. She moved to ru ra l Meadow (150 miles south of Salt Lake City, Utah) to become "a mothe r t o the motherless." Orvil's first wife had died in childbirth and lef t hi m with two small sons. Dorothy was a strong woman who was able to co pe wi th some of the local women who doubted a "city girl" could make i t in th e country. She took care of her two boys and Orvil's cows whil e he worke d out of town during the week. She grew a large garden and bot tled frui t and vegetables. She brought an electric stove with her when s he came t o Meadow and was the talk of the town .

Grandma's greatest love was being a grandmother. As each new grandchil d j oined the family, her joy increased. She had two grand daughters an d fiv e grandsons. She could beat each kid in a foot race, make a ham an d chees e sandwich, AND a chocolate malt for each grandchild, and still w hip u p a hot meal for Grandpa before noon !

Grandma adored lambs. She always had at least 10 ewes and lambs out i n h er feed yard. She would call, "lamby, lamby, here lamby" and those ew es w ould come running for her. She would scratch them behind their ear s an d feed them grain. When the ram was in with the ewes, she had to ru n fas t and jump over the fence to keep from getting hit. But sometime s the ra m won the race and would knock her to the ground. She would b e bruised a nd sore, but she never blamed the ram. He was just protectin g his ewes.

She grew Lily of the Valley flowers under her shrubs and potted Africa n v iolets in her east windows. She made Schlifferlies every December fo r Chr istmas, prepared Sunday dinner on Saturday, and kept a letter (in p rogres s) to her sisters in the typewriter .

She always had a smile, a giant hug and kiss for her family. She would d r op whatever she was doing to tend a great-grandchild. She would sli p a co llege-student granddaughter some money whenever she was visited .

Her desire to go on ended when her beloved husband died. She could not l i ve without him. Her memory failed and then her health. She finally wa s ab le to join him a year later, and her family lost the dearest littl e lad y they had ever known.
~Cindy Beckstrand Iverson 		Magny, Dorothy Bertha (I34184)
 
613 DOROTHY HOWARTH OSTLER


My mother was born April 7, 1849, in Manchester, Lancaster, England. A d a ughter of
Benjamin Howarth, born July 1, 1820, in Accrington, Lancashire, Englan d , and Ellen Gregory,
born January 11, 1825, in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Benjamin's f a ther was George
Howarth, born November 6, 1794, in Rosendale, Lancashire, England, and h i s mother, Nanny
Cuthbert, born June 13, 1795, in Forehill Bank, Lancashire, England.

Mother went to work in the woolen mills at the age of six years. Someti m e during her very
tender years she was caught in the belt of some machinery and cut open f r om hip to hip. Her
family had joined the LDS Church before this time, but it was the la w o f England at that time
that a doctor must be called in case of sickness, so he came and sai d m y mother could not live,
taped her body together and left. Mother said there never were any stit c hes taken, but through
the power of the priesthood she was healed.

Later on, a sickness broke out among all the children of the community a n d a great many died.
Grandfather took the medicine left there by the doctor and instead of gi v ing it to his children he
emptied it and gave them consecrated oil instead.

Grandfather Howarth left England with the two oldest children before Gra n dma and the younger
ones came to America.

One day as Grandma was tending her younger children, a man appeared in t h e doorway and said,
"Sister Howarth, how soon are you leaving for America?” She answered t h e stranger and said,
“I do not know." He spoke to her again and said, "Make haste, for in thr e e weeks you will be
sailing for America." She turned to wait on one of the children and wh e n she looked back he was
gone. But she worked as best she should to be prepared and in three wee k s she was sailing with
the children for America. Mother was ten years old when she I left Engla n d.

When the family crossed the plains, they buried a girl six years ol d o n a place called the Muddy.
They came on to Salt Lake City. The first night there they spent campe d i n the tithing yard with
the rest of the immigrants. The folowing morning some man with the runni n g gears on his wagon
took Grandmother to the cemetery to bury another child.

After a few days, Grandfather joined his family. He had worked his wa y t o Utah by driving sheep
from the East for Brigham Young. Shorty after they moved and settled i n N ephi, my mother
married one of the teamsters who had driven them across the plains. He r f irst house was a
dugout and her first cupboard was a box with a curtain made from one o f h er skirts. Her first
baby was a little girl who died soon after birth. (The first baby was n a med Mary Ellen, born
October 10, 1869, Nephi, Juab, Utah and died December 1, 1869, Nephi Jua b , Utah.) The next
child, a son, John William Beagley, was born November 14, 1870, in Neph i , Juab, Utah. He lived
to raise a large family.

Polygamy was the rule of the church then and after consenting for her hu s band to take another
wife, Mother and the other lady being very much different, she divorce d h er husband and after
some time, married by father. He had one wife by the name of Mary Ann Pr i nce. Mother was his
second wife and she lived to raise a family of ten children.

Mother's life was hard with little to get on with, but she very seldom c o mplained. She sang the
lovely church hymns as she plodded along from day to day.

After my father had filled a three-year mission to England, mother had t a ken in washings in Nephi
most every day of the week, he bought the home where Chris and Carolin e L arsen now live. (This
home in Fountain Green was purchased in 1954 by Fred Edmonds.) Father m o ved mother’s
family to Fountain Green. My half brother, John William Beagley was rais e d by my mother’s
parents. Mother never washed for people in Fountain Green and we manag e d to live and grow.

Mother was sustained as a counselor to Mary B. Buymon in the Relief Soci e ty on July 9, 1901,
and was released in August 1908.

Mother died in Tooele, Tooele County, Utah on March 28, 1920, at the ho m e of my brother,
Moroni Ostler. She was laid to rest April 3, 1920, in Nephi, Juab, Ut a h by my father’s side.

This history of my dear mother is as plain and unpolished as her beautif u l life was to me. She was
one of those faithful saints that spent their lives for the blessings wh i ch God would keep in store
for the faithful. Her aim was to reach and be worthy of a place in the C e lestial Kingdom of God,
and she taught her nine children who lived to manhood and womanhood to s t rive for that grand
reward and be worthy to receive it when Christ says, "Ye good and faithf u l servants enter into the
joy of your Lord.

Mother left this life sealed for time and eternity to two husbands.


Mary Ellen Aagard 		Howarth, Dorothy (I173413)
 
614 Doyle W. Anthony, a nephew of Bob Anthony, told me, Richard D. Anthony , h is son, this story in about 1980 when we went to Portage, Utah. We we nt o ver the hill to Pocatello, Valley, and he recalled eating with uncl e Bob , who was herding sheep between Pocatello Valley, and Portage. Uncl e Bo b was in this area, about this time, 1912-1917 .


I was born in Portage Utah on the 23 Day of Aug. 1906 in my grandfather ’ s house on the corner of the Main St. in Portage, Utah. My father’s na m e was David Robert Anthony and my Mothers’ name was Eliza Jane Harris A nt hony. I am their first child. (Editors note: Grandfather was Enoch Har ri s and his wife Jane Ann Hoskins. His mother’s name is Anna Eliza on th e r ecords. I don’t know where dad got Eliza Jane, but it seems like he w oul d know better than I. Anyway it points up the fact that history is ba sica lly what you decide it was.)

We lived in Portage, Utah until I was about 10 years old. My father h a d a dry farm in Pocatello Valley west of the Mountains from Portage. W e h ad horses, cows, and some sheep, so I really grew up on a farm. I lea rne d to plow, haul hay and milk cows when just a small boy on the farm .

I turned six years old and started to school in Portage and after the fi r st day my mother called me to get up and go to school and I called bac k a nd told her that I didn’t have to go to school any more that I was al read y learned.

We lived on the dry farm in Pocatello Valley for about five or six yea r s that I can remember. We had to haul all of our water in 50 gallon wo o d barrels for about 5 miles to the spring where we used a long black ho s e to run the water from the spring into the barrel. After getting bac k t o our homestead we would leave the barrel on the wagon and put a smal l bl ack hose in the barrel then suck on the hose until the water starte d to r un out and would fill a wooden trough to water the horses with whi ch we h ad four of, also our chickens we had twelve of, in a small woode n buildin g which my father and I built with some old lumber we brought f rom Portag e and home.

We got about 10 eggs a day from the chickens, raised a small garden, b u t it never was very good because we didn’t have enough water for it .

My sister Evelyn was born when I was about four years old, and her and m y self grew up in Portage and Pocatello Valley. We played together in ou r e arly life. My mother used to tell us stories about the gospel, and th e li fe of Jesus when we were living out on the dry farm, while my Fathe r woul d plow, harrow, and drill the ground .

I used to help my dad haul the wheat from the dry farm in Pocatello vall e y to Portage on a large box built on a sleigh with four runners on, an d t wo horses, Tom and Cornel. We would drive out there early in the morn in g from Portage, Utah, load up the wheat and drive back to Portage wit h th e wheat and then back the next day. So many times in the winter mont hs, o n the way out, we would stop at Uncle Bob Anthony who was a brothe r to m y grandfather, William (Howard) Anthony. He (uncle Bob) was herdin g shee p in the mountains and we always had breakfast with him in the (sh eep) ca mp. 		Anthony, Robert (I126661)
 
615 Dr. Asa L. Curtis, engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Pa y son, was born at Salem, Utah county, February 3, 1877. The Curtis fami l y is distinctively American in its lineal and collateral branches, havi n g been represented on American soil since 1635. The progenitor of the C ur tis family in the new world was a native of England. Dr. Curtis was ed uca ted in the district schools of Salem and in the Brigham Young Univers it y at Provo, where he pursued a normal course. After leaving college h e ta ught school for four years, two years of this time in Utah county an d tw o years in Arizona.
He then went on a mission to New Zealand, where he remained for three ye a rs, from 1901 until 1903 inclusive, with headquarters at Wellington, se rv ing as president of the conference during the last year of that period .
On his return to the United States he took up the study of medicine in N o rthwestern University of Chicago and was graduated therefrom in 1911 wi t h the degree of M. D. He at once located for practice in Payson, Utah , an d has since devoted his attention to medicine and surgery, in whic h he ha s met with excellent success.
He belongs to the Utah County Medical Society, also to the Utah State Me d ical Society and the American Medical Association, and he was at one ti m e vice president of the county organization. He was commissioned a capt ai n of the Medical Corps on the 27th of June, 1918, and served at Camp F uns ton until his discharge February 12, 1919, during which time he prepa re d and presented to the war department the outline and plans for a ne w tan k, which was intended to have the speed of an automobile and the fi ghtin g qualities of a tank. For this service he received congratulation s fro m Colonel Thompson, General Crowded, Senator Smoot and several othe r arm y officers, but the war ended before his tank was put into use.
Dr. Curtis was married December 28, 1903, in Manti Temple, to Miss Ann i e B. Littlewood, a native of Payson and a daughter of Martin Littlewoo d . Dr. and Mrs. Curtis have eight children: Asa Brentnall, Lucille, Evel yn , Melva, Mildred, Helen, Emerson and Delbert.
Dr. Curtis belongs to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Sain t s of the second ward. He is a member of the high council and in churc h an d Sunday school work has taken an active part. He belongs also to th e Pay son Commercial Club, of which he has served as president. Nothing i s fore ign to him that has to do with the up building and progress of th e commun ity in which he makes his home, his aid and cooperation being co unted upo n at all times to further every measure for the general good. H e also hol ds to the highest professional standards and his ability is re cognized b y his contemporaries and colleagues in the profession. 		Curtis, Dr. Asa Lyman (I173107)
 
616 Dr. Fred Lawrence Whipple, was one of the last giants of 20th century as t ronomy. He was Phillips Professor of Astronomy Emeritus at Harvard Univ er sity and a Senior Physicist at SAO.

A discoverer of six comets, Whipple may be best known for his comet rese a rch. Five decades ago, he first suggested that comets were "icy conglom er ates," what the press called "dirty snowballs." His dirty snowball the or y caught the imagination of the public even as it revolutionized come t sc ience. A 2003 survey by The Astrophysical Journal showed that Whippl e's 1 950 and 1951 scientific papers on the "icy conglomerate" model wer e the m ost cited papers in past 50 years. Whipple's comet work continue d for a l ifetime. In 1999, he was named to work on NASA's Contour missio n, becomin g the oldest researcher ever to accept such a post.

Never one to limit his work to one area of research, Whipple also contri b uted to more earthly challenges. During World War II, Whipple co-invent e d a cutting device that converted lumps of tinfoil into thousands of fr ag ments known as chaff. Allied aircraft would release chaff to confuse e nem y radar. Whipple was particularly proud of this invention, for whic h Pres ident Truman awarded him a Certificate of Merit in 1948.

Whipple also strongly influenced the early era of spaceflight. Mindfu l o f the damage to spacecraft from meteors, in 1946 he invented the Mete or B umper, a thin outer skin of metal. Also known as the Whipple Shield , thi s mechanism explodes a meteor on contact, preventing the spacecraf t fro m receiving catastrophic damage. Improved versions of it are stil l in us e today.

Whipple and a handful of other scientists had the foresight to envisio n t he era of artificial satellites. Only Whipple had both the imaginatio n an d the managerial skill to organize a worldwide network of amateur as trono mers to track these then hypothetical objects and to determine thei r orbi ts. When Sputnik I was successfully launched on 4 October 1957, Wh ipple' s group was the only one prepared. Cambridge fast became a nerve c enter o f the earliest part of the space age. Whipple and some of his sta ff wer e even featured on the cover of Life magazine for their satellit e trackin g prowess.

Later, also under his leadership, SAO developed an optical tracking syst e m for satellites using a network of Baker-Nunn cameras. That network ac hi eved spectacular success. "It tracked satellites so well that astronom er s were able to determine the exact shape of the Earth from its gravita tio nal effects on satellite orbits," says Dr. Myron Lecar of SAO.

For his work on the network, Whipple received from President John F. Ken n edy in 1963 the Distinguished Federal Civilian Service award. "I thin k th at was my most exciting moment, when I was able to invite my parent s an d my family to the Rose Garden for the award ceremony," Whipple sai d i n a 2001 interview.

Born in Red Oak, Iowa, on November 5, 1906, Whipple studied at Occident a l College and earned his undergraduate degree in mathematics at the Uni ve rsity of California at Los Angeles, prior to moving to Berkeley to obt ai n his Ph.D. degree in 1931. He then moved to Harvard College Observato r y in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Whipple directed the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) from 19 5 5 to 1973, before it joined with the Harvard College Observatory to fo r m the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).

In the late 1960s, Whipple selected Mount Hopkins in southern Arizon a a s the site for a new SAO astronomical facility. Whipple was part of t he g roup that initiated a novel and low-cost approach to building larg e teles copes first realized in the construction of the Multiple Mirror T elescope , a joint project of SAO and the University of Arizona. Mt. Hopk ins Obser vatory was renamed Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in 1981. 		Whipple, Fred Lawrence (I77892)
 
617 Drafted and served in the Army during the Viet Nam War. Severely wound e d in the head when a transport vehicle hit a mine. Taken to the Philli pi nes to receive treatment and had a metal plate inserted in his head . Suf fered from deminished vision, smell and taste senses. Bushnell, Howard Newell (I53263)
 
618 During the revolution the family had to evacuate to El Paso. While in t h e refugee camp, Elda got sick from contaminated milk. The doctor advis e d they take her back home. She died after returning home. Basil remembe re d her lying in the back of the wagon with pennies on her eyes. He wa s ver y sad. How he loved little Elda. (memories of Basil Skousen told t o daugh ter, Betty Lou Skousen Knorr) Skousen, Elda (I166063)
 
619 Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a particularly hard calling for him, as he had only an eighth g r ade education, and writing was not his strength, but he did it.
Kennecott decided not to rent homes in Garfield, but to have the peopl e b uy their home and move it elsewhere. My parents moved their home to M agna , and my grandparents moved three homes to Magna. Their own home wa s righ t next door to my parents near 3100 south and 9050 West .
Gerald and I moved a small home next door to his parents in Granger, Uta h .
JoAnne and her husband, Leon Talbot moved their home to Magna on 8000 We s t near 3100 South, Tom and his wife, Francine Mills, rented one of Gran dp a Walkers homes in Magna.
Mothers sister, Viola Nordquist, and Uncle Frank had a brick home that c o uld not be moved, so we tore that house down, and used the brick on ou r o wn remodeled home in Granger.
Aunt Vi and her two married daughters, Jackie Peterson (Doug), and Joy c e Bartlett (Richard or Bart) bought three new homes in Magna, and Dean n a Hatch (Chick) moved to Hunter. Uncle George and Aunt Virginia move d t o Magna east of 8400 South. Garfield was no more.
Dad completely remodeled his home, and built beautiful wood cabinets f o r his home and for JoAnnes’ home.
He loved to work in his yard, and soon there were fruit trees and love l y flower gardens blooming in both of the homes, as mother and grandmoth e r worked for Western Garden Center .
Dad was called to work with the Priest quorum in Magna Ward. He loved th a t calling, and all the young men that he served. They loved him also.
He and my grandfather were called to be Home Teachers together, and we r e a blessing to all their families .
As my grandparents grew more fragile due to age, Dad would care for th e m by taking them to medical appointments or to the store, or do whatev e r was needed for their comfort.
In 1985, both grandparents were very ill, and were placed in the Benni o n Care Center near my home. Grandpa Walker died in July of 1985, and G ra ndmother followed him in January of 1986.
My parents were now free to do things they had been unable to do while c a ring for her parents.
They had a truck and camper, and loved to go camping with JoAnne and To m , and the grandchildren. Deer hunting trips were also enjoyed every Oct ob er. Dad also loved to fly fish.
He was always a very active man, and loved to do things for others. H h a d a shop in his basement where he would sharpen saws for friends, free . H e loved helping people. He took care of all of the widows nearby by t akin g them to the store, or to Doctor appointments. He cut their lawns a nd sh oveled walks in the winter.
He had always been really healthy, except for bouts of gout, mostly in h i s feet, which were very painful. He had an attack of gout in his wris t i n June o1 1986. I was working for Dr. Nelson then, and I asked him t o se e Dad.
I told him to do a physical on him as he would never see him again.
The Doctor found an abdominal aneursym which could have been life threat e ning. He had surgery soon after, and did not do well. He was in the hos pi tal for over a month. He told the surgeon that he wanted to go home t o di e. Dr. Doty let him go, thinking that was surely to be.
Mother was not going to give him up, and she fed him all his favorite th i ngs, and cared for him so well, that he had recovered strength enoug h t o continue his activities at home .
His heart was still fragile, and he had Angina pain quite often. He cou l d not have surgery again, but was placed on oxygen all the time. He ha d f our more years being at home with his beloved wife.
He passed away in his sleep on November 27, 1990, after he had told moth e r that he was ready to go home.






























Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956






Earl Giles Story

This story is written by his eldest daughter, Earline Kvist.

Earl Giles was born on January 18, 1911 in Town Creek, Elko, Nevada to J o hn Thomas Giles and Lucy Armina Wilson Giles. He was the 6th child of e ig ht.
His brothers were Frank Elwin, who died before he was two years old.
Claud, Clayton, and Perry. His sisters were Elva, Dolly and Madge.
John and Armina (Mina) began their married life in Holden, Millard, Utah.
Census records show that they moved a lot as they raised their family.
They settled in McGill, White Pine, Nevada where John found work as a te a m driver for Kennecott Copper Company. He was very good with horses.
They lived in McGill where the children could go to school.
Census records show that John and Mina moved to property just east of Mc G ill where they homesteaded what we came to call “the ranch”.
There was a two room log cabin with the outhouse up the hill. There w a s a very small bedroom off the kitchen for the parents, with a big, so f t feather mattress.
The kitchen had two cupboards and a sink with only cold water piped in f r om a well. There was a big cooking stove with a water heater on the en d o f it.
Grandma Giles would bake many loaves of bread every day, and she hand -c h urned butter which was delicious. She also made homemade pies from goos eb errys that were in her yard.
They raised pigs, chickens, ducks, sheep and had cows and horses, so t h e family could live off their own labors .
There was no electricity, and coal oil lamps were their only lights.
The children slept on day beds in the large living room off the kitchen.
The room also had a large, round table where meals were served to any a n d all family members present.
Earl would spend his summers as a teenager, tending sheep up in the moun t ains for neighboring farmers. He would take them up in early summer, a n d herd them back in the fall.
Earl was a quiet, sensitive man and he told me, his daughter, that whe n t he job was done, he would run to the ranch, and his father would se e hi m coming and they would race to each other and hug with tears in th e eye s of both father and son. The family was very close .
Earl attended school until the 8th grade, when he quit to help on the ra n ch.
He loved boxing and participated in Golden Gloves tournaments where he b e came well known as “Kid Giles”. It was a good life for him and soon h e go t a job at Kennecott and was able to buy a car.
The family loved to dance, and McGill and Ely held regular dances whic h t he family would attend. His father was very musical, and could play a lmos t any instrument, so he was always needed at the dances. His mothe r woul d stand nearby and hold his harmonica for him.
November 11, 1930, was a very special night for him. At the dance in McG i ll, there appeared a very beautiful young lady named Erma Walker.
She was only fifteen years old and he was twenty, but that night beg a n a love story that never did end. They were engaged by December 31st a n d on December 12, 1931, they were married in her Grandmothers’ home.
Life was not easy in 1931, as the Great Depression was affecting everyon e .
Earl and Erma would go up in the hills to cut and drag dead trees ou t t o be sold as firewood, to supplement the family income. They became p aren ts of a daughter in November, 1934, when I joined their young family . M y sister, JoAnne came in 1937, and our brother, Duane (Tom) Thomas Gi le s was born in 1938.
We lived in a rented home in McGill where Dad gardened, and raised chick e ns and our little dog, Teddy.
We visited at the ranch a lot, as their best friends were Dads’ brothe r s and sisters and their families. I was number five in the order of gra nd children with the eldest being, Jack Cobb, Gae Giles, Bonnie Giles, Ha rve y Cobb and then me. We drove Grandpa Giles crazy with running in on e doo r and out the other. He would holler, “Don’t slam the door.” but we , as c hildren will do, did not obey.
Our family moved to Garfield, Utah, where my mothers’ parents lived. M y f ather went to work for Kennecott Copper where he worked until he reti re d in the 1960s. He was an excellent carpenter, and all those who kne w hi m knew he was a perfectionist. He was well liked by all his co-worke rs, a nd he and mother had lots of friends .
We had a great life in Garfield as children. Our parents were the very b e st. We went to lots of ball games as Uncle George Walker was a pitche r fo r a good softball team. We also went on family picnics up the canyon s eas t of Salt Lake, or to the beach at the Great Salt Lake .
We would also visit relatives in Salt Lake, as Grandma Lucy had also mov e d in from Nevada.
Our parents had such a great love for each other, that they never call e d each other by their first names. It was always, ”Honey, Darling, Dea r , Sweetheart or some other name of endearment. They were totally devot e d to one another, and we never heard a cross word spoken from them to e ac h other. They were truly an example of true love.
The years passed, and I was married in the Salt Lake Temple to Gerald Ch r istison. My parents could not attend as they were not active in the LD S C hurch.
My mother told my father that if he did not care enough to take her to t h e Temple in this life, that she would not accept it in the next life.
He quit smoking in one day, and some of his fellow carpenters taught h i m the gospel on their lunch hours at work, and supported him as he beg a n to attend meetings in the Garfield Ward.
They were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple on June 28, 1955, and Tom was s e aled to them then. JoAnne was sealed to them in November, 1955.
I had been living in Hawaii as Gerald was in the Navy. I came home in De c ember 1955, with my new little daughter, Carey. I was sealed to my par en ts on Dads’ birthday, January 18, 1956.
My father loved going to church, and he was soon called as a Stake Missi o nary. He served faithfully until mothers’ poor health forced him to res ig n. He was called as Ward Clerk, and served there until th e
ward was dissolved in 1957.
This was a part 		Giles, Earl (I258)
 
620 Ebenezer Parker 1749-1831
My Aunt Jane Siddall Kirschberg, a member of the DAR (Daughters of the R e volutionary War) helped me find information about my fifth great-grandf at her Ebenezer Parker, who is my ancestor through my father’s side of th e f amily. Ebenezer Parker was born in Westford, Massachusetts on June 18 th , 1749. He served as a private in the Revolutionary War in Captain Jon ath an Minot’s company at the Lexington Alarm in his hometown, Westford . He m arried Experience Keep, a young widowed mother with five children , on Nov ember 18th, 1777 in Westford. Ebenezer was her second husband, a nd they h ad eleven children together, raising sixteen children total, wh o all live d to an adult age.
In a written biography about him, Ebenezer was said to be “a fine old ge n tleman, exceedingly neat in person and polite in manner.” He was also r ef erred to as “Dr. Parker” in the “Keep Genealogy.” Ebenezer passed awa y o n December 29th, 1831 in Richmond, Virginia. He is buried in Saint Jo hn’ s Episcopal Churchyard in Richmond, Virginia, United States of Americ a . 		Parker, Ebenezer (I175311)
 
621 Ed Dewey was only 18 years old when his father passed away - a little t o o young to take over the family business. He pursued a career in engine er ing, served in a naval electronics unit in WWII, and married his wife , Ge rtrude (Trudy) before they returned to manage Gage & Tollner in 1948 .

Much is known about Ed Dewey, who became a prominent community activis t , working tirelessly to promote Downtown Brooklyn, and appeared in coun tl ess promotional materials and features on the restaurant in national m aga zines. Unfortunately, less is known about Trudy, who apparently was q uit e integral to the restaurant's operation: she "supervise[d] the Gag e an d Tollner kitchen," according to Ed Dewey's own bio, and according t o a G &T chef in 1978, "without Mrs. Dewey managing the books, business w ould c ome to a halt."

Tom Dewey, Ed's youngest brother, was involved with the managemen t i n t h e 1950-60s, but by 1973, Ed had left and the Deweys had brough t i n John B. Simmons as manager.

The Deweys and Simmons chaperoned Gage & Tollner through the landmark pr o cess; public hearings regarding landmarking the interior of the buildi n g were held in January 1975. Brooklyn Borough Historian, Dr. Joseph Pal is i, testified that Gage & Tollner had "exquisite food, excellent servic e a nd a sense of timelessness through which something of a carefully pre serv ed past is made to contribute to the fullest enjoyment of the presen t." B y March 1975, both the exterior and interior of the building receiv ed lan dmark designation from the Landmarks Preservation Commission. 		Dewey, Edward Stapleford (I139014)
 
622 Eda swallowed a ring and choked, causing her death. Woolford, Eda (I160407)
 
623 Edmund (a Saxon king) was stabbed to death by a robber and was succede d b y his brother, Edred. Wessex, Edmund King of England (I13302)
 
624 Edward I (17/18 June 1239 – 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshan k s and the Hammer of the Scots Malleus Scotorum, was King of England fr o m 1272 to 1307. The first son of Henry III of England|Henry III, Edwar d w as involved early in the political intrigues of his father's reign, w hic h included an outright rebellion by the English barons. In 1259, he b rief ly sided with a baronial reform movement, supporting the Provision s of Ox ford. After reconciliation with his father, however, he remaine d loyal th roughout the subsequent armed conflict, known as the Second Ba rons' War . After the Battle of Lewes, Edward was hostage to the rebellio us barons , but escaped after a few months and joined the fight against S imon de Mo ntfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. Montfort was defeated at the Ba ttle of Eve sham in 1265, and within two years the rebellion was extingui shed. With E ngland pacified, Edward joined the Ninth Crusade to the Hol y Land. The cr usade accomplished little, and Edward was on his way hom e in 1272 when h e was informed that his father had died. Making a slow r eturn, he reache d England in 1274 and was crowned at Westminster on 19 A ugust.
He spent much of his reign reforming royal administration and common la w . Through an extensive legal inquiry, Edward investigated the tenure of
Portrait in Westminister Abbey, thought to be of Edward I
various feudal liberties, while the law was reformed through a serie s o f statutes regulating criminal and property law. Increasingly, howeve r, E dward's attention was drawn towards military affairs. After suppress in g a minor rebellion in Wales in 1276–77, Edward responded to a secon d reb ellion in 1282–83 with a Conquest of Wales by Edward I. After a suc cessfu l campaign, Edward subjected Wales to English rule, built a serie s of cas tles and towns in the countryside and settled them with Englis h people. N ext, his efforts were directed towards Scotland. Initially in vited to arb itrate a succession dispute, Edward claimed feudal suzeraint y over the ki ngdom. In First Scottish War of Independence that followed , the Scots per severed, even though the English seemed victorious at sev eral points. A t the same time there were problems at home. In the mid-12 90s, extensiv e military campaigns required high levels of taxation, an d Edward met wit h both lay and ecclesiastical opposition. These crises w ere initially ave rted, but issues remained unsettled. When the King die d in 1307, he lef t to his son, Edward II of England, an ongoing war wit h Scotland and man y financial and political problems.

Edward I was a tall man for his era, hence the nickname "Longshanks" . H e was temperamental, and this, along with his height, made him an int imid ating man, and he often instilled fear in his contemporaries. Nevert heles s, he held the respect of his subjects for the way he embodied th e mediev al ideal of kingship, as a soldier, an administrator and a man o f faith . Modern historians are divided on their assessment of Edward I : while so me have praised him for his contribution to the law and admini stration, o thers have criticized him for his uncompromising attitude tow ards his nob ility. Currently, Edward I is credited with many accomplishm ents during h is reign, including restoring royal authority after the rei gn of Henry II I, establishing Parliament as a permanent institution an d thereby als o a functional system for raising taxes, and reforming th e law through st atutes. At the same time, he is also often criticized fo r other actions , such as his brutal conduct towards the Scots, and issui ng the Edict o f Expulsion in 1290, by which the Jews were expelled fro m England. The Ed ict remained in effect for the rest of the Middle Ages , and it was over 3 50 years until it was formally overturned under Olive r Cromwell in 1656.
Early years, 1239–63
Childhood and marriage

Edward was born at the Palace of Westminster on the night of 17–18 Jun e 1 239, to King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Edward i s an A nglo-Saxon name, as was not commonly given among the aristocracy o f Engla nd after the Norman Conquest, but Henry was devoted to the venera tion o f Edward the Confessor, and decided to name his firstborn son afte r the s aint. Among his childhood friends was his cousin Henry of Almain , son o f King Henry's brother Richard of Cornwall. Henry of Almain woul d remai n a close companion of the prince, both through the civil war tha t follow ed, and later during the crusade. Edward was in the care of Hug h Giffar d – father of the future Chancellor Godfrey Giffard – until Bart holomew P ecche took over at Giffard's death in 1246.

There were concerns about Edward's health as a child, and he fell il l i n 1246, 1247, and 1251. Nonetheless, he became an imposing man; a t 6 fee t 2 inches (1.88 m) he towered over most of his contemporaries, a nd henc e perhaps his epithet "Longshanks", meaning "long legs" or "lon g shins" . The historian Michael Prestwich states that his "long arms gav e him a n advantage as a swordsman, long thighs one as a horseman. In you th, hi s curly hair was blond; in maturity it darkened, and in old age i t turne d white. [His features were marred by a drooping left eyelid.] Hi s speech , despite a lisp, was said to be persuasive."

In 1254, English fears of a Castilian invasion of the English provinc e o f Gascony induced Edward's father to arrange a politically expedien t marr iage between his fourteen-year-old son and thirteen-year-old Elean or, th e half-sister of King Alfonso X of Castile. Eleanor and Edward wer e marri ed on 1 November 1254 in the Abbey of Santa María la Real de La s Huelga s in Castile. As part of the marriage agreement, the young princ e receive d grants of land worth 15,000 [1] a year. Although the endowmen ts King He nry made were sizeable, they offered Edward little independenc e. He had a lready received Gascony as early as 1249, but Simon de Montfo rt, 6th Ear l of Leicester, had been appointed as royal lieutenant the ye ar before an d, consequently, drew its income, so in practice Edward deri ved neither a uthority nor revenue from this province. The grant he recei ved in 1254 in cluded most of Ireland, and much land in Wales and England , including th e earldom of Chester, but the King retained much control o ver the land i n question, particularly in Ireland, so Edward's power wa s limited ther e as well, and the King derived most of the income from th ose lands.

From 1254 to 1257, Edward was under the influence of his mother's relati v es, known as the Savoyards, the most notable of whom was Peter of Savo y , the queen's uncle. After 1257, Edward increasingly fell in with the P oi tevin or Lusignan faction – the half-brothers of his father Henry II I – l ed by such men as William de Valence. This association was signific ant, b ecause the two groups of privileged foreigners were resented by th e estab lished English aristocracy, and they would be at the center of th e ensuin g years' baronial reform movement. There were tales of unruly an d violen t conduct by Edward and his Lusignan kinsmen, which raised quest ions abou t the royal heir's personal qualities. The next years would b e formativ e on Edward's character.
Early ambitions

Edward had shown independence in political matters as early as 1255, wh e n he sided with the Soler family in Gascony, in the ongoing conflict be tw een the Soler and Colomb families. This ran contrary to his father's p oli cy of mediation between the local factions. In May 1258, a group of m agna tes drew up a document for reform of the King’s government – the so- calle d Provisions of Oxford – largely directed against the Lusignans. Ed ward s tood by his political allies and strongly opposed the Provisions . The ref orm movement succeeded in limiting the Lusignan influence, howe ver, and g radually Edward's attitude started to change. In March 1259, h e entered i nto a formal alliance with one of the main reformers, Richar d de Clare, 5 th Earl of Hertford. Then, on 15 October 1259, he announce d that he suppo rted the barons' goals, and their leader, Simon de Montfo rt, 6th Earl o f Leicester.

The motive behind Edward's change of heart could have been purely pragma t ic; Montfort was in a good position to support his cause in Gascony. Wh e n the King left for France in November, Edward's behaviour turned int o pu re insubordination. He made several appointments to advance the caus e o f the reformers, causing his father to believe that his son was consi deri ng a coup d'état. When the King returned from France, he initially r efuse d to see his son, but through the mediation of the Earl of Cornwal l and t he Archbishop of Canterbury, the two were eventually reconciled . Edward w as sent abroad, and in November 1260 he again united with th e Lusignans , who had been exiled to France.

Back in England, early in 1262, Edward fell out with some of his forme r L usignan allies over financial matters. The next year, King Henry sen t hi m on a campaign in Wales against Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, with only lim ite d results. Around the same time, Simon de Montfort, who had been ou t of t he country since 1261, returned to England and reignited the baron ial ref orm movement. It was at this pivotal moment, as the King seemed r eady t o resign to the barons' demands, that Edward began to take contro l of th e situation. Whereas he had so far been unpredictable and equivoc ating, f rom this point on he remained firmly devoted to protecting his f ather's r oyal rights. He reunited with some of the men he had alienate d the year b efore – among them his childhood friend, Henry of Almain, an d John de War enne, Earl of Surrey – and retook Windsor Castle from the r ebels. Throug h the arbitration of King Louis IX of France, an agreemen t was made betwe en the two parties. This so-called Mise of Amiens was la rgely favorable t o the royalist side, and laid the seeds for further con flict.
Civil war and crusades, 1264–73
Second Barons' War

The years 1264–1267 saw the conflict known as the Second Barons' War , i n which baronial forces led by Simon de Montfort fought against thos e wh o remained loyal to the King. The first scene of battle was the cit y of G loucester, which Edward managed to retake from the enemy. When Rob ert d e Ferrers, Earl of Derby, came to the assistance of the rebels, Edw ard ne gotiated a truce with the earl, the terms of which he later broke . Edwar d then captured Northampton from Montfort's son Simon VI de Montf ort, bef ore embarking on a retaliatory campaign against Derby's lands. T he baroni al and royalist forces finally met at the Battle of Lewes, on 1 4 May 1264 . Edward, commanding the right wing, performed well, and soo n defeated th e London contingent of Montfort's forces. Unwisely, however , he followe d the scattered enemy in pursuit, and on his return found th e rest of th e royal army defeated. By the agreement known as the Mise o f Lewes, Edwar d and his cousin Henry of Almain were given up as hostage s to Montfort.

Edward remained in captivity until March, and even after his release h e w as kept under strict surveillance. Then, on 28 May, he managed to esc ap e his custodians and joined up with the Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl o f Her tford, who had recently defected to the King's side.

Montfort's support was now dwindling, and Edward retook Worcester and Gl o ucester with relatively little effort. Meanwhile, Montfort had made a n al liance with Llywelyn and started moving east to join forces with hi s so n Simon. Edward managed to make a surprise attack at Kenilworth Cast le, w here the younger Montfort was quartered, before moving on to cut of f th e earl of Leicester. The two forces then met at the second great enc ounte r of the Barons' War, the Battle of Evesham, on 4 August 1265. Mont fort s tood little chance against the superior royal forces, and after hi s defea t he was killed and mutilated on the field.

Through such episodes as the deception of Derby at Gloucester, Edward ac q uired a reputation as untrustworthy. During the summer campaign, thoug h , he began to learn from his mistakes, and acted in a way that gained t h e respect and admiration of his contemporaries. The war did not end wi t h Montfort's death, and Edward participated in the continued campaignin g . At Christmas, he came to terms with the younger Simon de Montfort an d h is associates at the Isle of Axholme in Lincolnshire, and in March h e le d a successful assault on the Cinque Ports. A contingent of rebels h eld o ut in the virtually impregnable Kenilworth Castle and did not surre nder u ntil the drafting of the conciliatory Dictum of Kenilworth. |The D ictum r estored land to the disinherited rebels, in exchange for a fine d ecided b y their level of involvement in the wars. In April it seemed a s if Glouce ster would take up the cause of the reform movement, and civi l war woul d resume, but after a renegotiation of the terms of the Dictu m of Kenilwo rth, the parties came to an agreement. Edward, however, wa s little involv ed in the settlement negotiations following the wars; a t this point his m ain focus was on planning his forthcoming crusade.
Crusade and accession

Edward took the crusader's cross in an elaborate ceremony on 24 June 126 8 , with his brother Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster and cousi n He nry of Almain. Among others who committed themselves to the Ninth Cr usad e were Edward's former adversaries – like the Earl of Gloucester, th oug h de Clare did not ultimately participate. With the country pacified , th e greatest impediment to the project was providing sufficient financ es. K ing Louis IX of France, who was the leader of the crusade, provide d a loa n of about £17,500. This, however, was not enough; the rest had t o be rai sed through a tax on the laity, which had not been levied sinc e 1237. I n May 1270, Parliament granted a tax of a twentieth in exchang e for whic h the King agreed to reconfirm Magna Carta, and to impose rest rictions o n Jewish money lending. Historians have not determined the siz e of the fo rce with any certainty, but Edward probably brought with hi m around 225 k nights and altogether less than 1000 men.

Originally, the Crusaders intended to relieve the beleaguered Christia n s tronghold of Acre, but Louis had been diverted to Tunis. The French K in g and his brother Charles of Anjou, who had made himself King of Sicil y , decided to attack the emirate to establish a stronghold in North Afri ca . The plans failed when the French forces were struck by an epidemic w hic h, on 25 August, took the life of King Louis himself. The disease i n ques tion was either dysentery or typhus. By the time Edward arrived a t Tunis , Charles had already signed a treaty with the emir, and there wa s littl e else to do but return to Sicily. The crusade was postponed unti l next s pring, but a devastating storm off the coast of Sicily dissuade d Charle s of Anjou and Louis's successor Philip III from any further cam paigning . Edward decided to continue alone, and on 9 May 1271 he finall y landed a t Acre.

By then, the situation in the Holy Land was a precarious one. Jerusale m h ad fallen in 1244, and Acre was now the center of the Christian state . Th e Muslim states were on the offensive under the Mamluk leadership o f Baib ars, and were now threatening Acre itself. Though Edward's men wer e an im portant addition to the garrison, they stood little chance agains t Baibar s' superior forces, and an initial raid at nearby St Georges-de- Lebeyne i n June was largely futile. An embassy to the Ilkhan Abaqa. In N ovember, E dward led a raid on Qaqun, which could have served as a bridge head to Jer usalem, but both the Mongol invasion and the attack on Qaqu n failed. Thin gs now seemed increasingly desperate, and in May 1272 Hug h III of Cyprus , who was the nominal Kings of Jerusalem, signed a ten-ye ar truce with Ba ibars. Edward was initially defiant, but an attack b y a Muslim assassin i n June forced him to abandon any further campaignin g. Although he manage d to kill the assassin, he was struck in the arm b y a dagger feared to b e poisoned, and became severely weakened over th e following months.

It was not until 24 September that Edward left Acre. Arriving in Sicil y , he was met with the news that his father had died on 16 November, 127 2 . Edward was deeply saddened by this news, but rather than hurrying ho m e at once, he made a leisurely journey northwards. This was partly du e t o his health still being poor, but also due to a lack of urgency. Th e pol itical situation in England was stable after the mid-century upheav als, a nd Edward was proclaimed king at his father's death, rather than a t his o wn coronation, as had until then been customary. In Edward's abse nce, th e country was governed by a royal council, led by Robert Burnell . The ne w king embarked on an overland journey through Italy and France , where am ong other things he visited Pope Gregory X Gregory X had accom panied Edwa rd on the Ninth Crusade. He had become a friend of Prince Edw ard when h e was in England with the Papal Legate, Cardinal Ottobono Fies chi, from 1 265 to 1268. Only on 2 August 1274 did he return to England , and was crow ned on 19 August.
Early reign, 1274–96
Welsh wars
Conquest
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd enjoyed an advantageous situation in the aftermat h o f the Barons' War. Through the 1267 Treaty of Montgomery, he official ly o btained land he had conquered in the Four Cantrefs of Perfeddwlad an d was
Wales after the Treaty of Montgomery 1267
recognized in his title of Prince of Wales. Armed conflicts neverthele s s continued, in particular with certain dissatisfied Marcher Lords, su c h as >Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, Roger Mortimer and Humphre y d e Bohun, Earl of Hereford.[68] Problems were exacerbated when Llywely n' s younger brother Dafydd and Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn of Powys, after fa ili ng in an assassination attempt against Llywelyn, defected to the Engl is h in 1274. Citing ongoing hostilities and the English king's harbourin g o f his enemies, Llywelyn refused to do homage to Edward. For Edward , a fur ther provocation came from Llywelyn's planned marriage to Eleanor , daught er of Simon de Montfort.

In November 1276, war was declared. Initial operations were launched und e r the captaincy of Mortimer, Lancaster (Edward's brother Edmund) and Wi ll iam de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. Support for Llywelyn was weak amon g hi s own countrymen. In July 1277 Edward invaded with a force of 15,500 , o f whom 9,000 were Welshmen. The campaign never came to a major battle , an d Llywelyn soon realized he had no choice but to surrender. By the T reat y of Aberconwy in November 1277, he was left only with the land of G wyned d, though he was allowed to retain the title of Prince of Wales.

When war broke out again in 1282, it was an entirely different undertaki n g. For the Welsh, this war was over national identity, enjoying wide su pp ort, provoked particularly by attempts to impose English law on Wels h sub jects. For Edward, it became a war of conquest rather than simpl y a punit ive expedition, like the former campaign. The war started wit h a rebellio n by Dafydd, who was discontented with the reward he had rec eived from Ed ward in 1277. Llywelyn and other Welsh chieftains soon join ed in, and ini tially the Welsh experienced military success. In June, Gl oucester was de feated at the Battle of Llandeilo Fawr. On 6 November, wh ile John Peckham , archbishop of Canterbury, was conducting peace negotia tions, Edward's c ommander of Anglesey, de Tany, decided to carry out a s urprise attack . A pontoon bridge had been built to the mainland, but sho rtly after Tan y and his men crossed over, they were ambushed by the Wels h and suffere d heavy losses at the Battle of Moel-y-don]. The Welsh adva nces ended o n 11 December, however, when Llywelyn was lured into a tra p and killed a t the Battle of Orewin Bridge. The conquest of Gwynedd wa s complete wit h the capture in June 1283 of Dafydd, who was taken to Shr ewsbury and exe cuted as a traitor the following autumn.

Further rebellions occurred in 1287–88 and, more seriously, in 1294, und e r the leadership of Madog ap Llywelyn, a distant relative of Llywely n a p Gruffudd. This last conflict demanded the King's own attention, bu t i n both cases the rebellions were put down.
Colonization

By the 1284 Statute of Rhuddlan, the Principality of Wales was incorpora t ed into England and was given an administrative system like the Englis h , with counties policed by sheriffs. English law was introduced in crim in al cases, though the Welsh were allowed to maintain their own customar y l aws in some cases of property disputes. After 1277, and increasingl y afte r 1283, Edward embarked on a full-scale project of English settlem ent o f Wales, creating new towns like Flint, Aberystwyth and Rhuddlan. T heir n ew residents were English migrants, with the local Welsh banned fr om livi ng inside them, and many were protected by extensive walls.

An extensive project of castle-building was also initiated, under the di r ection of Master James of Saint George, a prestigious architect whom Ed wa rd had met in Savoy on his return from the crusade. These included th e ca stles of Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech, intended to act b oth a s fortresses and royal palaces for the King. His programme of castl e buil ding in Wales heralded the introduction of the widespread use of a rrowsli ts in castle walls across Europe, drawing on Eastern influences . Also a p roduct of the Crusades was the introduction of the concentri c castle, an d four of the eight castles Edward founded in Wales followe d this design . The castles made a clear, imperial statement about Edward 's intention s to rule North Wales permanently, and drew on imagery assoc iated with th e Byzantine Roman Empire and King Arthur in an attempt to b uild legitimac y for his new regime.

In 1284, King Edward had his son Edward (later Edward II] born at Caerna r fon Castle, probably to make a deliberate statement about the new polit ic al order in Wales. David Powel, a 16th-century clergyman, suggested th a t the baby was offered to the Welsh as a prince "that was borne in Wal e s and could speake never a word of English", but there is no evidenc e t o support this account. In 1301 at Lincoln, the young Edward became t he f irst English prince to be invested with the title of Prince of Wales , whe n King Edward granted him the Earldom of Chester and lands across N orth W ales. The King seems to have hoped that this would help in the pac ificati on of the region, and that it would give his son more financial i ndepende nce.
Diplomacy and war on the Continent

Edward never again went on crusade after his return to England in 1274 , b ut he maintained an intention to do so, and took the cross again in 1 287 . This intention guided much of his foreign policy, until at least 12 91 . To stage a European-wide crusade, it was essential to prevent confli c t between the greater princes on the continent. A major obstacle to th i s was represented by the conflict between the French House of Anjou rul in g southern Italy, and the kingdom of Aragon in Spain. In 1282, the cit ize ns of Palermo rose up against Charles of Anjou and turned for help t o Pet er of Aragon, in what has become known as the Sicilian Vespers. I n the wa r that followed, Charles of Anjou's son, Charles of Salerno, wa s taken pr isoner by the Aragonese. The French began planning an attack o n Aragon, r aising the prospect of a large-scale European war. To Edward , it was impe rative that such a war be avoided, and in Paris in 1286 h e brokered a tru ce between France and Aragon that helped secure Charles ' release. As fa r as the crusades were concerned, however, Edward's effo rts proved ineffe ctive. A devastating blow to his plans came in 1291, wh en the Mamluks cap tured Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Hol y Land.

After the fall of Acre, Edward's international role changed from tha t o f a diplomat to an antagonist. He had long been deeply involved in th e af fairs of his own Duchy of Gascony. In 1278 he assigned an investigat ing c ommission to his trusted associates Otto de Grandson and the chance llor R obert Burnell, which caused the replacement of the seneschal Luk e de Tany . In 1286, Edward visited the region himself and stayed for alm ost thre e years. The perennial problem, however, was the status of Gasco ny withi n the kingdom of France, and Edward's role as the French king' s vassal. O n his diplomatic mission in 1286, Edward had paid homage to t he new king , Philip IV, but in 1294 Philip declared Gascony forfeit whe n Edward refu sed to appear before him in Paris to discuss the recent con flict betwee n English, Gascon, and French sailors (that had resulted i n several Frenc h ships being captured, along with the sacking of the Fre nch port of La R ochelle).

Eleanor of Castile had died on 28 November 1290. Uncommon for such marri a ges of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover, like his fath er , Edward was very devoted to his wife and was faithful to her througho u t their married lives — a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was dee pl y affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so- cal led Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cortège stop pe d for the night. As part of the peace accord between England and Franc e i n 1294, it was agreed that Edward should marry Philip IV half-siste r Marg aret of France (died 1318), but the marriage was delayed by the ou tbrea k of war.

Edward made alliances with the German king, the Counts of Flanders and G u elders, and the Burgundians, who would attack France from the north. T h e alliances proved volatile, however, and Edward was facing trouble a t ho me at the time, both in Wales and Scotland. It was not until Augus t 129 7 that he was finally able to sail for Flanders, at which time hi s allie s there had already suffered defeat. The support from Germany nev er mater ialized, and Edward was forced to seek peace. His marriage to Ma rgaret i n 1299 ended the war, but the whole affair had proven both costl y and fru itless for the English.
The Great Cause

The relationship between the nations of England and Scotland by the 128 0 s was one of relatively harmonious coexistence. The issue of homage di d n ot reach the same level of controversy as it did in Wales; in 1278 Ki ng A lexander III of Scotland] paid homage to Edward I, but apparently on ly fo r the lands he held of Edward in England. Problems arose only wit h the Sc ottish succession crisis of the early 1290s. In the years from 1 281 to 12 84, Alexander's two sons and one daughter died in quick success ion. Then , in 1286, King Alexander died himself, leaving as heir to th e throne o f Scotland the three-year-old Margaret, the Maid of Norway, wh o was bor n in 1283 to Alexander's daughter Margaret of Scotland, Queen o f Norway a nd King Eric II of Norway. By the Treaty of Birgham, it was ag reed that M argaret should marry King Edward's then one-year-old son Edwa rd II of Eng land, though Scotland would remain free of English overlords hip.

Margaret, by now seven years of age, sailed from Norway for Scotland i n t he autumn of 1290, but fell ill on the way and died in Orkney. This l ef t the country without an obvious heir, and led to the succession dispu t e known to history as the Great Cause.

Even though as many as fourteen claimants put forward their claims to t h e title, the real contest was between John Balliol and Robert de Brus , 5t h Lord of Annandale. The Scottish magnates made a request to Edwar d to co nduct the proceedings and administer the outcome, but not to arbi trate i n the dispute. The actual decision would be made by 104 auditor s - 40 app ointed by Balliol, forty by Bruce and the remaining 24 selecte d by Edwar d I from senior members of the Scottish political community. A t Birgham , with the prospect of a personal union between the two realms , the quest ion of suzerainty had not been of great importance to Edward . Now he insi sted that, if he were to settle the contest, he had to be f ully recognize d as Scotland's feudal overlord. The Scots were reluctan t to make suc h a concession, and replied that since the country had no k ing, no one ha d the authority to make this decision. This problem was ci rcumvented whe n the competitors agreed that the realm would be handed ov er to Edward un til a rightful heir had been found. After a lengthy heari ng, a decision w as made in favour of John Balliol on 17 November 1292.

Even after Balliol's accession, Edward still continued to assert his aut h ority over Scotland. Against the objections of the Scots, he agreed t o he ar appeals on cases ruled on by the court of guardians that had gove rne d Scotland during the interregnum. A further provocation came in a ca se b rought by Macduff, son of Maol Choluim II, Earl of Fife, in which Ed war d demanded that Balliol appear in person before the English Parliamen t t o answer the charges. This the Scottish King did, but the final stra w wa s Edward's demand that the Scottish magnates provide military servic e i n the war against France. This was unacceptable; the Scots instead fo rme d an alliance with France and launched an unsuccessful attack on Carl isle . Edward responded by invading Scotland in 1296 and taking the tow n of Be rwick in a particularly bloody attack. At the Battle of Dunbar, S cottis h resistance was effectively crushed. Edward confiscated the Ston e of Des tiny – the Scottish coronation stone and brought it to Westminst er placin g it in what became known as King Edward's Chair; he deposed Ba lliol an d placed him in the Tower of London, and installed Englishmen t o govern t he country. The campaign had been very successful, but the Eng lish triump h would only be temporary.
Government and law
Character as king

Edward had a reputation for a fierce temper, and he could be intimidatin g ; one story tells of how the Dean of St Paul's, wishing to confront Edw ar d over the high level of taxation in 1295, fell down and died once h e wa s in the King's presence. When Edward of Caernarfon demanded an earl dom f or his favourite Gaveston, the King erupted in anger and supposedl y tor e out handfuls of his son's hair. Some of his contemporaries consid ered E dward frightening, particularly in his early days. The Song of Lew es in 1 264 described him as a leopard, an animal regarded as particularl y powerf ul and unpredictable.

Despite these frightening character traits, however, Edward's contempora r ies considered him an able, even an ideal, king. Though not loved by h i s subjects, he was feared and respected. He met contemporary expectatio n s of kingship in his role as an able, determined soldier and in his emb od iment of shared chivalric ideals. In religious observance he also fulf ill ed the expectations of his age: he attended chapel regularly and gav e alm s generously.

Edward took a keen interest in the stories of King Arthur, which were hi g hly popular in Europe during his reign. In 1278 he visited Glastonbur y Ab bey to open what was then believed to be the tomb of Arthur and Guin evere , recovering "Arthur's crown" from Llywelyn after the conquest of N orth W ales, while, as noted above, his new castles drew upon the Arthuri an myth s in their design and location. He held "Round Table" events in 1 284 an d 1302, involving tournaments and feasting, and chroniclers compar ed hi m and the events at his court to Arthur. In some cases Edward appea rs t o have used his interest in the Arthurian myths to serve his own pol itica l interests, including legitimizing his rule in Wales and discredit ing th e Welsh belief that Arthur might return as their political saviour .
Administration and the Law

Soon after assuming the throne, Edward set about restoring order and re- e stablishing royal authority after the disastrous reign of his father . T o accomplish this, he immediately ordered an extensive change of admi nist rative personnel. The most important of these was the appointment o f Robe rt Burnell as chancellor, a man who would remain in the post unti l 1292 a s one of the King's closest associates. Edward then replaced mos t local o fficials, such as the escheators and High Sheriff. This last me asure wa s done in preparation for an extensive inquest covering all of E ngland, t hat would hear complaints about abuse of power by royal officer s. The inq uest produced the set of so-called Hundred Rolls, from the adm inistrativ e subdivision of the hundred.

The second purpose of the inquest was to establish what land and right s t he crown had lost during the reign of Henry III. The Hundred Rolls fo rme d the basis for the later legal inquiries called the Quo warranto pro ceed ings. The purpose of these inquiries was to establish by what warran t Lat in various liberties were held. Among those singled out in particul ar b y the royal justices was Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, wh o wa s seen to have encroached ruthlessly on royal rights over the preced ing y ears. If the defendant could not produce a royal license to prove t he gra nt of the liberty, then it was the crown's opinion based on the wr iting s of the influential thirteenth-century legal scholar Bracton tha t the li berty should revert to the king.

By enacting the Statute of Gloucester in 1278 the King challenged baroni a l rights through a revival of the system of general eyres (royal justic e s to go on tour throughout the land) and through a significant increas e i n the number of pleas of quo warranto to be heard by such eyres. Thi s cau sed great consternation among the aristocracy, who insisted that lo ng us e in itself constituted license. A compromise was eventually reache d in 1 290, whereby a liberty was considered legitimate as long as it cou ld be s hown to have been exercised since the coronation of King Richar d I of Eng land, in 1189. Royal gains from the Quo warranto proceedings w ere insigni ficant; few liberties were returned to the King. Edward had n evertheles s won a significant victory, in clearly establishing the princ iple that a ll liberties essentially emanated from the crown.

The 1290 statute of Quo warranto was only one part of a wider legislati v e effort, which was one of the most important contributions of Edward I ' s reign. This era of legislative action had started already at the tim e o f the baronial reform movement; the Statute of Marlborough (1267) con tain ed elements both of the Provisions of Oxford and the Dictum of Kenil worth . The compilation of the Hundred Rolls was followed shortly after b y th e issue of Westminster I (1275), which asserted the royal prerogativ e an d outlined restrictions on liberties. In the Mortmain (1279), the is sue w as grants of land to the church. The first clause of Westminster I I (1285 ), known as De donis conditionalibus], dealt with family settleme nt of la nd, and entails. Merchants (1285) established firm rules for th e recover y of debts, while Winchester (1285) dealt with peacekeeping o n a local le vel. Quia emptores (1290) issued along with Quo warranto se t out to remed y land ownership disputes resulting from alienation of lan d by subinfeuda tion. The age of the great statutes largely ended with th e death of Rober t Burnell in 1292.
Finances, Parliament and the Expulsion of Jews

Edward I's frequent military campaigns put a great financial strain on t h e nation. There were several ways through which the king could raise mo ne y for war, including customs duties, money lending and lay subsidies . I n 1275, Edward I negotiated an agreement with the domestic merchant c ommu nity that secured a permanent duty on wool. In 1303, a similar agree men t was reached with foreign merchants, in return for certain rights an d pr ivileges. The revenues from the customs duty were handled by the Ric cardi , a group of bankers from Lucca in Italy. This was in return for th eir se rvice as money lenders to the crown, which helped finance the Wels h Wars . When the war with France broke out, the French king confiscate d the Ric cardi's assets, and the bank went bankrupt. After this, the Fre scobaldi o f Florence took over the role as money lenders to the Englis h crown.

Another source of crown income was represented by England's Jews. The Je w s were the king's personal property, and he was free to tax them at wil l . By 1280, the Jews had been exploited to a level at which they were n o l onger of much financial use to the crown, but they could still be use d i n political bargaining. Their usury business a practice forbidden t o Chri stians had made many people indebted to them and caused general po pular r esentment. In 1275, Edward had issued the Statute of the Jewry, w hich out lawed usury and encouraged the Jews to take up other professions ; in 1279 , in the context of a crack-down on coin-clippers, he arreste d all the he ads of Jewish households in England and had around 300 of th em executed . In 1280, he ordered all Jews to attend special sermons, pre ached by Dom inican friars, with the hope of persuading them to convert , but these exh ortations were not followed. The final attack on the Jew s in England cam e in the Edict of Expulsion in 1290, whereby Edward form ally expelled al l Jews from England. This not only generated revenues th rough royal appro priation of Jewish loans and property, but it also gav e Edward the politi cal capital to negotiate a substantial lay subsidy i n the 1290 Parliament . The expulsion, which was reversed in 1656, follow ed a precedent set b y other European territorial princes: Philip II of F rance had expelled al l Jews from his own lands in 1182; John I, Duke o f Brittany, drove them o ut of his duchy in 1239; and in the late 1240s L ouis IX of France had exp elled the Jews from the royal demesne before hi s first passage to the Eas t.

Edward held Parliament on a reasonably regular basis throughout his reig n . In 1295, however, a significant change occurred. For this Parliament , i n addition to the secular and ecclesiastical lords, two knights fro m eac h county and two representatives from each borough were summoned. T he rep resentation of commons in Parliament was nothing new; what was ne w was th e authority under which these representatives were summoned. Whe reas prev iously the commons had been expected simply to assent to decisi ons alread y made by the magnates, it was now proclaimed that they shoul d meet wit h the full authority (plena potestas) of their communities, t o give assen t to decisions made in Parliament. The King now had full bac king for coll ecting lay subsidies from the entire population. Lay subsid ies were taxe s collected at a certain fraction of the moveable propert y of all laymen . Whereas Henry III had only collected four of these in h is reign, Edwar d I collected nine. This format eventually became the sta ndard for late r Parliaments, and historians have named the assembly th e "Model Parliame nt".
Later reign, 1297–1307
Constitutional crisis

The incessant warfare of the 1290s put a great financial demand on Edwar d 's subjects. Whereas the King had only levied three lay subsidies unti l 1 294, four such taxes were granted in the years 1294–97, raising ove r £200 ,000. Along with this came the burden of prizes (appropriation o f food) , seizure of wool and hides, and the unpopular additional duty o n wool, d ubbed the maltolt. The fiscal demands on the King's subjects ca used resen tment, and this resentment eventually led to serious politica l opposition . The initial resistance was not caused by the lay taxes, ho wever, but b y clerical subsidies. In 1294, Edward made a demand of a gra nt of one hal f of all clerical revenues. There was some resistance, bu t the King respo nded by threatening with outlawry, and the grant was eve ntually made. A t the time, the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop _of_Canterbury A rchbishopric of Canterbury] was vacant, since Robert Win chelsey was in It aly to receive consecration. Winchelsey returned in Jan uary 1295 and ha d to consent to another grant in November of that year . In 1296, however , his position changed when he received the papal bul l Clericis laicos. T his bull prohibited the clergy from paying taxes t o lay authorities witho ut explicit consent from the Pope. When the clerg y, with reference to th e bull, refused to pay, Edward responded with out lawry. Winchelsey was pr esented with a dilemma between loyalty to the Ki ng and upholding the papa l bull, and he responded by leaving it to ever y individual clergyman to p ay as he saw fit. By the end of the year, a s olution was offered by the n ew papal bull Etsi de statu, which allowed c lerical taxation in cases o f pressing urgency.

Opposition from the laity took longer to surface. This resistance focus e d on two things: the King's right to demand military service, and his r ig ht to levy taxes. At the Salisbury parliament of February 1297, Roge r Big od, 5th Earl of Norfolk, in his capacity as Marshal of England, obj ecte d to a royal summons of military service. Bigod argued that the mili tar y obligation only extended to service alongside the King; if the Kin g int ended to sail to Flanders, he could not send his subjects to Gascon y. I n July, Bigod and Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford and Consta ble o f England, drew up a series of complaints known as the Remonstrance s, i n which objections to the extortionate level of taxation were voiced . Und eterred, Edward requested another lay subsidy. This one was particu larl y provocative, because the King had sought consent only from a smal l grou p of magnates, rather than from representatives from the communiti es in p arliament. While Edward was in Winchelsea, preparing for the camp aign i n Flanders, Bigod and Bohun turned up at the Exchequer to preven t the col lection of the tax. As the King left the country with a greatl y reduced f orce, the kingdom seemed to be on the verge of civil war. Wha t resolved t he situation was the English defeat by the Scots at the Batt le of Stirlin g Bridge. The renewed threat to the homeland gave king an d magnates commo n cause. Edward signed the Confirmatio cartarum a confir mation of Magna C arta and its accompanying Charter of the Forest and th e nobility agreed t o serve with the King on a campaign in Scotland.

Edward's problems with the opposition did not end with the Falkirk campa i gn. Over the following years he would be held up to the promises he ha d m ade, in particular that of upholding the Charter of the Forest. In th e pa rliament of 1301, the King was forced to order an assessment of th e roya l forests, but in 1305 he obtained a papal bull that freed him fro m thi s concession. Ultimately, it was a failure in personnel that spel t the en d of the opposition against Edward I. Bohun died late in 1298, a fter retu rning from the Falkirk campaign. As for Bigod, in 1302 he arriv ed at an a greement with the King that was beneficial for both: Bigod, wh o had no ch ildren, made Edward his heir, in return for a generous annua l grant. Edwa rd finally got his revenge on Winchelsey in 1305, when Clem ent V was elec ted pope. Clement was a Gascon sympathetic to the King, an d on Edward's i nstigation had Winchelsey suspended from office.
Return to Scotland

The situation in Scotland had seemed resolved when Edward left the count r y in 1296, but resistance soon emerged under the leadership of Willia m Wa llace. On 11 September 1297, a large English force under the leaders hip o f John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, and Hugh de Cressingham wa s route d by a much smaller Scottish army led by Wallace and Andrew Mora y at Stir ling Bridge. The defeat sent shockwaves into England, and prepa rations fo r a retaliatory campaign started immediately. Soon after Edwar d returne d from Flanders, he headed north. On 22 July 1298, in the onl y major batt le he had fought since Evesham in 1265, Edward defeated Wall ace's force s at the Battle of Falkirk. Edward, however, was not able t o take advanta ge of the momentum, and the next year the Scots managed t o recapture Stir ling Castle. Even though Edward campaigned in Scotland b oth in 1300, whe n he successfully besieged Caerlaverock Castle and in 13 01, the Scots ref used to engage in open battle again, preferring instea d to raid the Engli sh countryside in smaller groups.

The defeated Scots, secretly urged on by the French, appealed to the po p e to assert a claim of overlordship to Scotland in place of the Englis h . His papal bull addressed to King Edward in these terms was firmly rej ec ted on Edward's behalf by the Barons' Letter of 1301. The English mana ge d to subdue the country by other means, however. In 1303, a peace agre eme nt was reached between England and France, effectively breaking up th e Fr anco-Scottish alliance. Robert I the Bruce of Scotland, the grandso n of t he claimant to the crown in 1291, had sided with the English in th e winte r of 1301–02. By 1304, most of the other nobles of the country ha d also p ledged their allegiance to Edward, and this year the English als o manage d to re-take Stirling Castle. A great propaganda victory was ach ieved i n 1305 when Wallace was betrayed by Sir John de Menteith and turn ed ove r to the English, who had him taken to London where he was publicl y execu ted. With Scotland largely under English control, Edward installe d Englis hmen and collaborating Scots to govern the country.

The situation changed again on 10 February 1306, when Robert the Bruce m u rdered his rival John Comyn and a few weeks later, on 25 March, had him se lf crowned King of Scotland by Isobel, sister of the Earl of Buchan. B ruc e now embarked on a campaign to restore Scottish independence, and th is c ampaign took the English by surprise. Edward was suffering ill healt h b y this time, and instead of leading an expedition himself, he gave di ffer ent military commands to Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke an d Henr y de Percy, 1st Baron Percy, while the main royal army was led b y the Pri nce of Wales. The English initially met with success; on 19 Jun e, Aymer d e Valence routed Bruce at the Battle of Methven. Bruce was for ced into hi ding, while the English forces recaptured their lost territor y and castle s.

Edward responded with severe brutality against Bruce's allies and suppor t ers. Bruce's sister, Mary, was hung in a cage outside of Roxburgh for f ou r years. Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, who had crowned Bruce , wa s hung in a cage outside of Berwick Castle for four years. Bruce's y ounge r brother Nigel de Brus was executed by being hanged, drawn, and qu artere d; he had been captured after he and his garrison held off Edward' s force s who had been seeking Bruce's wife (Elizabeth), daughter M arjorie , sisters Mary and Christina, and Isabella.

It was clear that Edward now regarded the struggle not as a war betwee n t wo nations, but as the suppression of a rebellion of disloyal subject s. T his brutality, though, rather than helping to subdue the Scots, ha d the o pposite effect, and rallied growing support for Bruce.
Death and legacy
Death, 1307

In February 1307, Bruce reappeared and started gathering men, and in M a y he defeated Aymer de Valence at the Battle of Loudoun Hill. Edward, w h o had rallied somewhat, now moved north himself. On the way, however , h e developed dysentery, and his condition deteriorated. On 6 July he e ncam ped at Burgh by Sands, just south of the Scottish border. When his s ervan ts came the next morning to lift him up so that he could eat, he di ed i n their arms.

Various stories emerged about Edward’s deathbed wishes; according to o n e tradition, he requested that his heart be carried to the Holy Land, a lo ng with an army to fight the infidels. A more dubious story tells of h o w he wished for his bones to be carried along on future expeditions aga in st the Scots. Another account of his deathbed scene is more credible ; acc ording to one chronicle, Edward gathered around him the Earls of Li ncol n and Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick], Aymer de Valence, an d Robe rt de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, and charged them with looki ng afte r his son Edward. In particular they should make sure that Pier s Gavesto n was not allowed to return to the country. This wish, however , the son i gnored, and had his favourite recalled from exile almost imme diately. Th e new king, Edward II of England, remained in the north unti l August, bu t then abandoned the campaign and headed south. He was crown ed king on 2 5 February 1308.

Edward I's body was brought south, lying in state at Waltham Abbey, befo r e being buried in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. There are few recor d s of the funeral, which cost £473. Edward's tomb was an unusually plai n s arcophagus of Purbeck marble, without the customary royal effigy, pos sibl y the result of the shortage of royal funds after the King's death . The s arcophagus may normally have been covered over with rich cloth, a nd origi nally might have been surrounded by carved busts and a devotiona l religio us image, all since lost. The Society of Antiquaries opened th e tomb in 1 774, finding that the body had been well preserved over the p receding 46 7 years, and took the opportunity to determine the King's ori ginal height . Traces of the Latin inscription Edwardus Primus Scottoru m Malleus hic e st, 1308. Pactum Serva ("Here is Edward I, Hammer of th e Scots, 1308. Kee p the Vow"), which can still be seen painted on the si de of the tomb, ref erring to his vow to avenge the rebellion of Robert B ruce. This resulte d in Edward being given the epithet the "Hammer of th e Scots" by historia ns, but is not contemporary in origin, having been a dded by the Abbot Joh n Feckenham in the 16th century.
Historiography

The first histories of Edward in the 16th and 17th centuries drew primar i ly on the works of the chroniclers, and made little use of the officia l r ecords of the period. They limited themselves to general comments o n Edwa rd's significance as a monarch, and echoed the chroniclers' prais e for hi s accomplishments. During the 17th century, the lawyer Edward Co ke wrot e extensively about Edward's legislation, terming the King the "E nglish J ustinian", after the renowned Byzantine law-maker, Justinian I . Later i n the century, historians used the available record evidence t o address t he role of parliament and kingship under Edward, drawing comp arisons betw een his reign and the political strife of their own century . 18th-centur y historians established a picture of Edward as an able, i f ruthless, mon arch, conditioned by the circumstances of his own time.

The influential Victorian historian William Stubbs instead suggested th a t Edward had actively shaped national history, forming English laws an d i nstitutions, and helping England to develop parliamentary and constit utio nal government. His strengths and weaknesses as a ruler were conside red t o be emblematic of the English people as a whole. Stubbs' student , Thoma s Tout, initially adopted the same perspective, but after extensi ve resea rch into Edward's royal household, and backed by the research o f his cont emporaries into the early parliaments of the period, he change d his mind . Tout came to view Edward as a self-interested, conservativ e leader, usi ng the parliamentary system as "the shrewd device of an aut ocrat, anxiou s to use the mass of the people as a check upon his heredit ary foes amon g the greater baronage."

Historians in the 20th and 21st century have conducted extensive resear c h on Edward and his reign. Most have concluded this was a highly signif ic ant period in English medieval history, some going further and describ in g Edward as one of the great medieval kings, although most also agre e tha t his final years were less successful than his early decades in po wer. G . Templeman argued in his 1950 historiographical essay that "it i s genera lly recognized that Edward I deserves a high place in the histor y of medi eval England". More recently, Michael Prestwich argues that "Ed ward wa s a formidable king; his reign, with both its successes and its d isappoin tments, a great one," and he was "without doubt one of the great est ruler s of his time", while John Gillingham suggests that "no king o f England h ad a greater impact on the peoples of Britain than Edward I " and that "mo dern historians of the English state... have always recogn ized Edward I’ s reign as pivotal." Fred Cazel similarly comments that "n o-one can doub t the greatness of the reign". Most recently, Andrew Spenc er has agreed w ith Prestwich, arguing that Edward's reign "was indeed.. . a great one", a nd Caroline Burt states that "Edward I was without a do ubt one of the gre atest kings to rule England" Three major academic narr atives of Edward ha ve been produced during this period. In 1988, Michae l Prestwich produce d an authoritative biography of the King, focusing o n his political caree r, still portraying him in sympathetic terms, but h ighlighting some of th e consequences of his failed policies. Marc Morris 's biography followed i n 2008, drawing out more of the detail of Edward' s personality, and gener ally taking a harsher view of the King's weaknes ses and less pleasant cha racteristics. Considerable academic debate ha s taken place around the cha racter of Edward's kingship, his political s kills, and in particular hi s management of his earls, and the degree t o which this was collaborativ e or repressive in nature.

There is also a great difference between English and Scottish historiogr a phy on King Edward. G. W. S. Barrow, in his biography on Robert the Bru ce , accused Edward of ruthlessly exploiting the leaderless state of Scot lan d to obtain a feudal superiority over the kingdom. This view of Edwar d i s reflected in the popular perception of the King, as can be seen i n th e 1995 movie Braveheart's portrayal of the King as a hard-hearted ty rant.
Family and children

Edward married twice:
First marriage
Eleanor of Castille
By his first wife Eleanor of Castile, Edward had at least fourteen child r en, perhaps as many as sixteen. Of these, five daughters survived int o ad ulthood, but only one son outlived his father, namely King Edward I I of E ngland] (1307–1327). He was reportedly concerned with his son's fa ilure t o live up to the expectations of an heir to the crown, and at on e point d ecided to exile the prince's favorite [Piers Gaveston. His chil dren by El eanor of Castile were as follows:
Sons from first marriage

John (13 July 1266 – 3 August 1271), predeceased his father and di e d at Wallingford while in the custody of his grand uncle Richard, Ear l o f Cornwall]], buried at Westminster Abbey.
Henry, (6 May 1268 – 14 October 1274), predeceased his father, buri e d in Westminster Abbey.
Alphonso, Earl of Chester (24 November 1273 – 19 August 1284), prede c eased his father, buried in Westminster Abbey.
Son (1280/81 – 1280/81), predeceased his father; little evidence exi s ts for this child.
King Edward II of England (25 April 1284 – 21 September 1327), elde s t surviving son and heir, succeeded his father as king of England. In 1 30 8 he married Isabella of France, with whom he had four children.

Daughters from first marriage

Katherine (before 17 June 1264 – 5 September 1264), buried at Westmi n ster Abbey.
Joanna (Summer or January 1265 – before 7 September 1265), burie d i n Westminster Abbey.
Eleanor of England (c. 18 June 1269 – 19 August 1298), in 1293 she m a rried Henry III, Count of Bar, by whom she had two children, buried i n We stminster Abbey.
Juliana (after May 1271 – 5 September 1271), born and died while Edw a rd and Eleanor were in Acre.
Joan of Acre (1272 – 23 April 1307), married (1) in 1290 Gilbert d e C lare, 6th Earl of Hertford, who died in 1295, and (2) in 1297 Ralph d e Mo nthermer, 1st Baron Monthermer. She had four children by Clare, an d thre e or four by Monthermer.
Margaret of England (c.15 March 1275 – after 11 March 1333), marri e d John II of Brabant in 1290, with whom she had one son.
Berengaria (May 1276 – between 7 June 1277 and 1278), buried in West m inster Abbey.
Alice (December 1277 – January 1278), buried in Westminster Abbey.
Mary of Woodstock (11/12 March 1279 – 29 May 1332), a Benedictine n u n in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amesbury Amesbury, Wiltshire, wher e s he was probably buried.
Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (c. 7 August 1282 – 5 May 1316), married (1 ) i n 1297 John I, Count of Holland, (2) in 1302 Humphrey de Bohun, 4th E ar l of Hereford. The first marriage was childless; by Bohun Elizabeth ha d t en children.

Second marriage

By Margaret of France Edward had two sons, both of whom lived into adult h ood, and a daughter who died as a child. The [Hailes Abbey chronicle in di cates that John Botetourt may have been Edward's illegitimate son; how eve r, the claim is unsubstantiated. His progeny by Margaret of France wa s a s follows:
Sons from second marriage

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1 June 1300 – 4 August 13 3 8), buried in Bury St Edmunds Abbey. Married (1) Alice Hales, with issu e ; (2) Mary Brewes, no issue.
Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1 August 1301 – 19 March 1330 ) , married Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell with issue.

Daughter from second marriage

Eleanor (6 May 1306 – 1310)

See GATES biographical sketch for continuation of that line.


--Other Fields Ref Number: 452 (proved) John Claypoole RIN 2548 Doroth y W ingfield RIN 1484 to Robert Wingfield RIN 1499 to Robert Wingfield RI N 22 59 to Henry Wingfield RIN 2217 to Elizabeth Goushill RIN 21472 marri ed Ro bertus Wingfield RIN 21768 to Elizabeth De Bohun/Fitzalan RIN 240 9 to Hum phrey De Bohen RIN 2462 to Elizabeth Plantagenet RIN 2457 to Edw ard I Kin g of England RIN 13491 and Eleanor of Castile and Leon RIN 1333 04 descend ed through Fatimah RIN 33152 to Mohammad, the Prophet RIN 3313 7 our 41s t Great Grandfather to Ishmael RIN 31921 to Abraham RIN 32549 t o Adam an d Eve RIN 2564. ------------------------ Sources for all the Vi rginia Har ris Families: (Much of above supplied by J. McFarland William s who does g uarantee exactness.) Harris Descent From Norman and Englis h Royal Lines a s herein. Virginia Magazine Vol. IV Brown's Genesis of th e United States . Harris Chart by William G. Stanard. Boddie's Virginia H istorical Geneal ogies. Adventures of Purse and Person. Virginia Court Re cords. Family Rec ords and Memoirs. Americans of Royal Descent by Brownin gs. Virginia Histo rical Genealogies by John B. Boddie Harris Family Desc ent From Sovereig n Princes of Wales Royal Line of Succession, P. W. Mont ague-Smith, Associ ate Editor (The Family Tree of Elizabeth, Second, of E ngland). Other Sour ces. --------------------------- Descent From the Eng lish Crown - Edwar d I 1239-1307 King of England, 5th Plantagenet King, e ldest son of King H enry III and wife, Eleanor, called "Longshanks", wa s born at Westministe r on June 17, 1239. He was proclaimed King immediat ely following his fath er's death in 1272 even though he was not in the c ountry at the time. H e did not return until 1274 whereupon he was crowne d King Edward I. He up held the "Magna Charta" and proclaimed it anew i n 1297, established Court s of law as instigated by his great grandfather , King Henry II, and the r eforms of his Uncle, by marriage, Simon de Mon tfort. A large part of hi s reign was spent in trying to subdue Scotlan d and Wales to English Subje ction. In this he was only partly successful . He established the 'Princ e of Wales' in 1301, a custom followed today , making him heir to the thro ne of England. This was a tactful act to pl acate the Welch and succeede d very well Much progress was made during hi s reign in establishing law a nd order and uniform control of the country . General prosperity abounded . It was under his rule that representatio n of the House of Commons becam e regular. The Kingdom prospered in all f ields but the King died on Jul y 7, 1307, while on an armed expedition ag ain at Scotland, to combat a re volt. He was immediately replaced as Kin g by his son, Edward II. Edwar d I was married to Eleanor, a half siste r of King Alfonso X, of Castile ( now a part of Spain), Oct. 31, 1254. Sh e died in 1290 and 1299 he marrie d Margaret, sister of King Philip IV o f France. From these marriages ther e were six sons and nine daughters (a s shown herein). ------------------- ------ Harris Descent From Norman an d English Royal Lines- Edward I, 1239 -1307, married Eleanor, d. 1290, da u. of Ferdinand III, of Castile Princ e Edward, son of King Henry III, wa s given power to rule England in his f ather's stead and soon the countr y became quiet and peaceful. In 1270, th e young Prince left for a crusad e to Palestine and on Nov. 16, 1272, Henr y III died and Prince Edward wa s immediately proclaimed to be King Edwar d I, of England. As the countr y was peaceful and prosperous he did not re turn until 1274. Henry III wa s wedded to Eleaner, daughter of Raymondo Be renger, Count of Province , a sister of Margaret, wife of King Louis IX, o f France, on Jan 14, 123 6. (Children are herein.) Edward the First, Kin g of England: Born at Wes tminster, 15th Kal: July, anno 1239, and christe ned on the fourth day af ter. Knighted at his marriage, 1254, by Alfonso , King of Castile. Undert ook a crusade to the Holy Land 1269, captured Na zareth. Crowned in the A bbey Church of Westminster, 14th Kal: Sept (19t h Aug), 1274. Conquered S cotland in 1296 and captured the Stone of Scone . Died at Burgh-on-the-Sa nds, on the nones (7th July), 1307; buried in th e Abbey Church aforesaid ,18th Oct. following. Ref: From David Clarkson t o Edward the First, Kin g of England extracted from the Records of the Col lege of Arms, London b y William Courthope, Somerset and Registrar found b y Kristen Turley Bon e at the Pennsylvania Historical Society on 13th an d Locust, Philadelphi a September 1995 and copied by Christine Stewart FH L SLC 1995. Ephraim B lood Line. Charlemagne descends by fifteen generatio ns to Eleanor of Cas tile, who married Edward I, of England and to a direc t descendant on thi s line from Antenor, Chief Prince of Ephraim. Ref: Com plete Peerage 942. D21c Wurts Magna Charta The Battle Abbey Roll 942 D2b b Baker's Hist of N orthumberland Q942.55 H2ba Hereward, The Saxon Patrio t 929.242 H264h His tory and Antiquity of Beverly Oliver 942.77b5 h26 Plan tagenet Ancestry Q 942.D2t Nichols Hist and Antiquity of Lancasters Q942.5 4 H2nic Dictionar y of Nat'l Biography 920.042 D561n Searle's Anglo Saxo n Bishops, King s & Nobles 942.D22awy History of Yorkshire Preface Q942.7 4 D22ha Ormerod 's History of Cheshire 942.71.H2or British Families 942.D2 dh Edward I i s sometimes referred to as "the English Justinian." He ha d a love for ju stice, honor, and order in his affairs. At one point in hi s reign, he fa ced a declaration of war with France and rebellions from th e Welsh and S cots. He decided that the only way to overcome his difficult ies would b e to elicit the support of his people. In 1295 he called toget her a parl iament consisting of representives of the nobility, the church , and th e common people. This "Model Parliament" marked the beginning o f parliam entary government in England, a system which has continued to th e presen t day. "What touches all," Edward proclaimed, "should be met by m easure s agreed upon in common." He restricted the power of the king by ac cepti ng the rule that taxes could not be levied or laws made except by th e co nsent of parliament. Medieval London: A City of Palaces by Walter Bes an t Medieval London is well known for having been full of rich monasterie s , nunneries, colleges, and parish churches. So much so that it migh t b e compared to the 'Ile Sonnante 'of Rabelais. If it could be calle d a 'Ci ty of Churches', it was, in fact, much more a 'City of Palaces' . For ther e were, in London, more palaces than in Verona and Florence an d Venice an d Genoa all put together. There was not, it is true, a line o f marble 'pa lazzi 'along the banks of a Grande Canale; there was no Piaz za della Sign oria, no Piazza della Erbe to show these buildings. They we re scattered a bout all over the City. They were built without regard t o general effec t and with no idea of decoration or picturesqueness. The y lay hidden in n arrow winding labyrinthine streets. The warehouses stoo d beside and betwe en them. The common people dwelt in narrow courts arou nd them. They face d each other on opposite sides of the lanes. These pal aces belonged to th e great nobles and were their town houses. They  		Plantagenet, Edward I King of England (I10588)
 
625 Edward Moore Kennedy (February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009) was an Americ a n lawyer and politician who served as a U.S. senator from Massachusett s f or almost 47 years, from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of th e De mocratic Party and the prominent political Kennedy family, he was th e sec ond most senior member of the Senate when he died. He is ranked fif th i n United States history for length of continuous service as a senato r. Ke nnedy was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and U.S . attor ney general and U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy. He was the fathe r of Cong ressman Patrick J. Kennedy.

After attending Harvard University and earning his law degree from the U n iversity of Virginia, Kennedy began his career as an assistant distric t a ttorney in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Kennedy was 30 years old wh en h e first entered the Senate, winning a November 1962 special electio n in M assachusetts to fill the vacant seat previously held by his brothe r John , who had taken office as the US president. He was elected to a fu ll six- year term in 1964 and was later re-elected seven more times. Th e Chappaqu iddick incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobil e passenger , Mary Jo Kopechne. He pleaded guilty to a charge of leavin g the scene o f an accident and later received a two-month suspended sent ence. The inci dent and its aftermath hindered his chances of ever becomi ng president. H e ran in 1980 in the Democratic primary campaign for pres ident, but los t to the incumbent president, Jimmy Carter.

Kennedy was known for his oratorical skills. His 1968 eulogy for his bro t her Robert and his 1980 rallying cry for modern American liberalism we r e among his best-known speeches. He became recognized as "The Lion of t h e Senate" through his long tenure and influence. Kennedy and his staf f wr ote more than 300 bills that were enacted into law. Unabashedly libe ral , Kennedy championed an interventionist government that emphasized ec onom ic and social justice, but he was also known for working with Republ ican s to find compromises. Kennedy played a major role in passing many l aws , including the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the Nationa l Can cer Act of 1971, the COBRA health insurance provision, the Comprehe nsiv e Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, the Americans with Disabilities Act o f 1990 , the Ryan White AIDS Care Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, th e Menta l Health Parity Act, the S-CHIP children's health program, the N o Child L eft Behind Act, and the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. Du ring the 2 000s, he led several unsuccessful immigration reform efforts . Over the co urse of his Senate career, Kennedy made efforts to enact un iversal healt h care, which he called the "cause of my life." By the late r years of hi s life, Kennedy had come to be viewed as a major figure an d spokesman fo r American progressivism.

On August 25, 2009, Kennedy died of a malignant brain tumor (glioblastom a ) at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at the age of 77. He wa s bu ried at Arlington National Cemetery near his brothers John and Rober t. 		Kennedy, Senator Edward Moore (I168331)
 
626 Edward Riley McEwen, son of Mathew and Sarah Stevens McEwen, was bor n 1 4 January, 1868 in Beaver, Utah.
He was the middle child--7th of 13-- and lived to the ripe old age of 8 1 . He only had one other sibling who outlived him and that was his sist e r Rachel who passed away 3 years later at the age of 78.
Ed's family moved from Beaver to Panguitch, Utah in 1876 where they liv e d until Ed was 16, then moved to Goldendale, Washington. We're not sur e w hen he moved back to Panguitch, but his older brother Frank was marri ed a nd lived there with his wife Hannah Eliza. It was perhaps there tha t he m et and married Eliza's half sister Ellen Lovina in Spry, Utah (cal led Bea r Creek back then) on 16 December, 1889. They made their home i n Panguitc h and lived there for the rest of their lives. Ed and Ellen (N icknamed Ne llie) had 11 children of which 8 lived to adulthood. They los t a son, Mat thew at age 13 when he and Eugene were taking a load of stra w on a wago n and the horses spooked. Matthew lost his hold on the slic k straw and sl ipped off and was run over and killed. They lost another s on, Douglas Ril ey to the Influenza in 1918. He was 22, married and ha d a little boy. The y also lost 2 other children as infants .
In an article found in the Salt Lake Tribune about their Golden Weddin g A nniversary in Dec. of 1939, it stated; "Edward was one of southern Ut ah' s most prominent cattlemen. He was actively engaged in cattle raisin g an d farming in Garfield county and served as president of the Panguitc h Com mission Company for several years. He also served four terms as Cou nty As sessor for Garfield County. " As you can see, he was very involve d in th e community.
Along with the business of cattle raising, it was discovered in variou s c ensus' that he also was a "Pool Hall Manager" in 1910, and a "Proprie to r of a hotel" in 1930, along with the listings of "general farmer" (19 20 ) and "County Assessor" in the 1900 census. The hotel proprietor is i nte resting in that his son, Clem and his wife purchased the Sands Mote l acro ss the street from them when he was married, so it makes you wonde r if E d bought it first, then sold it to them.
Ed built several houses and sold them off or gave them to family member s . Their first home was on the east side of Main street where the Sand s Mo tel now stands. In 1924, he built the house that he lived in until h e die d. It was a red brick home and still stands but has been remodele d and no w has stucco on the outside. It is on the corner of Main and 4t h north . The grandchildren had many fond memories of this house includi ng a bi g old silver birch tree that they spent countess hours playing an d climbi ng in, or sitting under it in the shade. In the back he had a bi g barn wi th a hayloft in the middle and stalls on both sides of the loft . There we re also stalls outside the barn for the horses and cows. Ed al so owne d a stretch of land about 8 miles north of Panguitch along the Se vier riv er. He herded cattle on this land. The land originally belonge d to his fa ther, Mathew, then was sold or given to his older brother Fra nk. Frank i n turn sold it to Edward when he left Panguitch and settled f irst in Gold endale, then Idaho. This land is closer to Spry and Nellie' s family.
Nell passed away in 1941 and afterwards their son Wallace and family mo v ed in with Ed to help take care of him. His grandson Dick remembers th a t his grandpa had a 1939 Ford Coupe, but said it was like pulling teet h t o get him to loan it to anyone. Gloria remembers having to always b e hi s "gopher" and having to wait on him as his wife did before she died . Sh e said he spent a lot of time on his front porch in his later years . Dic k said he was always sick the last few years of his life. Before h e passe d away, Ed was baptized a member of the church in 1944. Perhaps a fter los ing Nell, he realized that he wanted to be sealed to her for tim e and al l eternity and therefore needed to become a member of the church . Althoug h he was born in the covenant, when his parents left Panguitc h they did s o with anger and bitterness and no longer practiced Mormonis m. Though i n his mother Sarah's later years, she bore witness to a grand son that sh e knew Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and knew the Book o f Mormon wa s true.
Edward passed away on 1 April, 1949 to return again to his Father in He a ven and to be with his beloved wife and those who went before him. We a r e grateful for all the sacrifices he made for his family and subsequent l y his posterity. 		McEwen, Edward Riley (I155018)
 
627 EDWARD WILLIAM TALBOT
(Uncle “Ted”)

Edward William Talbot was born 12 Jan 1851, at Volver Fountain, Cradoc k D istrict, South Africa, son of Henry and Ruth Sweetnam Talbot, who a t th e time owned a farm there. The family later lived, first at Whittles ea, 2 0 miles south of Queenstown, then at “Wellington”, a huge estate o n the T horn River, south of Cathcart, granted to his father in 1853 fo r service s against the Kaffirs in the so called Cattle Killing Delusion . After “We llington” was sold in 1859, he lived with the family for ove r a year at P ort Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, awaiting transportation to Americ a. He may hav e received his first formal schooling there.

They took passage 28 Feb 1861, on the sailship, “Race Horse”, landed a t E ast Boston 20 Apr 1861, and Preceded by cattle train by way of Chicag o, t o the Missouri River and up the river to Florence, Nebraska. At Flor enc e they joined the Homer Duncan company in which they crossed the plai ns , arriving at Salt Lake City, Utah, 28 Sep 1861. Ted was then almost e lev en years old.

After spending the winter in Salt Lake City, the family moved in the spr i ng to Kaysville, Utah, where they settled permanently, buying a 40 acr e f arm from Lou Whitesides.

There at “Five Points”, at the little one room red brick schoolhouse, sa i d by some to have been built by his father, he may have graduated fro m th e fourth grade, then the highest possible achievement.

He was baptized 19 Oct 1861 by William Matthews and confirmed 20 Oct 18 6 1 by R. Hyde.

On 9 Dec 1880, he was married to his childhood sweetheart, Phenrietta Jo s ephine Partridge, by Elder Hyrum Bennett, at Meadow, Millard, Utah. Th e y were later endowed and sealed in the Endowment House, 28 Apr 1881, b y P resident Daniel H. Wells. They were the parents of nine children.

Ted and his brother, Stephen Barton, were great pals and kept near one a n other all of their lives, farming or working with teams in various plac e s in Utah and Idaho, seemingly always looking for something better, bu t a ctually tied down to a life of poverty by the burden of large familie s.

Uncle Ted lived quite a while in the old log house after Ruth, his mothe r , moved into a new one. His children and others who came visiting woul d s ometimes get into fights during their games, running in and out amon g th e buildings and down on the creek bottom. Aunt “Phen” used to tell t he ki ds, her own or the others, whenever she was angry with them: “If yo u don’ t behave yourselves, I’ll pound all the damned dog water out of yo u!” Th e children also used to blow up the bladders of slaughtered animal s, pig s and cattle, and use them as balloons or balls to kick around. Th ey wer e taught to believe, by the grown ups, that pollywogs were sucke d up int o the clouds and fell with the rain. This explained the numerou s toads wh ich sometimes would be seen hopping every where after a big st orm.

He and his wife, “Phen” were sweethearts all their lives, and he was des o lated by her death 11 Dec 1931. He followed her in death, 9 Nov 1933, p as sing away at Pocatello, Idaho. He was buried at Blackfoot, Idaho, 14 N o v 1933.

(Death Certificate Idaho State Board of Health File Number ?, Bannock Co u nty) 		Talbot, Edward William (I23208)
 
628 Edwin Duke was brought from New Zealand with Benjamin Hamblin and was ad o pted. Hamblin, Edwin Duke (I155127)
 
629 Ehud was a Judge of Israel who killed the King of Moab. Judges 3:15-23 Ehud (I64757)
 
630 Eldest daughter of King George I of the Hellenes and his wife, Grand Duc h ess Olga Constantinovna Romanova.

Paternal grandson of King Christian IX of Denmark and Louise of Hesse-Ka s sel, Queen Consort of Denmark. Maternal grandson of Grand Duke Konstant i n Nikolayevich of Russia and Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Altenburg.

Called "Aline", Alexandra was a much loved member of her family and he r b rother described her as "sweet and lovable".

At the age of nineteen, she was married to Grand Duke Paul Alexandrovi c h of Russia, a son of Tsar Alexander II and his wife Princess Marie vo n H essen bei Rhine. Their marriage took place in St. Petersburg, in Jun e 188 9.

A daughter, Maria Pavlovna was born to the couple a year later. And in 1 8 91, their son Dmitri Pavlovich was born prematurely following an accide n t to his mother.

Dmitri survived, but Alexandra slipped into a coma and died six days lat e r.

The Grand Duke Paul was distraught over the death of his beloved wife, a n d she was buried at St. Peter and St. Paul Cathedral in St. Petersbur g un til 1938, when her remains were moved to the Tatoi Royal Cemetery i n Athe ns.

She was survived by both her parents; her husband, Grand Duke Paul of Ru s sia; her daughter Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna; and her son, Grand Duk e D mitri Pavlovich of Russia. 		Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Princess Alexandra (I173356)
 
631 ELIAS CHARLES DISNEY ~
was the husband of Flora Call Disney and the father of Walt Disney, (Walter Elias Disney). His other children are Herbert Arthur Disney, Raymond Arnold Disney, Roy Oliver Disney and one daughter Ruth Flora Disney .

Elias Charles Disney is entombed next to his wife Flora Call Disney with in the Great Mausoleum in the Sanctuary of Truth concourse in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, California .

Walt Disney and his family are remembered in a beautiful private garden near the Freedom Mausoleum in Forest Lawn in Glendale. Other family is in Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in the Hollywood Hills and other cemeteries in California and Missouri and elsewhere.

Elias was born in the Village of Bluevale, Ontario, Province of Canada and the the son of Irish immigrants Kepple Elias Disney and Mary Richards on. The name "Elias" is a version of the name Elijah, the prophet. Both of Elias' parents had immigrated from Ireland as children with their p aren ts. Elias lived in California and Ellis, Kansas, and in Colorado and in Florida before moving with his family to Chicago.

Elias held very strict Christian family values and he instilled these values in his children! He was known as a stern man and he was active in the Congregational Church where he often would preach strong sermons touting sobriety when the regular minister was not available! He never drank alcohol and seldom smoked. He felt that going to a movie house and most other forms of entertainment "to be a complete waste of time."

To be certain, Elias loved his family and he was likely under pressure due to financial problems. At the time Elias passed away, Walt Disney said: "I adored my dad because he always set very high standards for his children; he desired for each one of us to be successful!"

Disney married Flora Call on January 1, 1888, in Kismet, Florida, 50 miles from the land on which Walt Disney World would eventually be built and lived for a short time they in adjoining Acron, Florida. She was th e da ughter of his father's neighbors. Soon after marriage, the Disney's moved to Chicago, Illinois, where Elias met and befriended Walter Parr, St. Paul Congregational Church's preacher, for whom the Disney's fourth son, Walter, was named; his full name being Walter Elias Disney! By the turn of the century, Elias had become an active building contractor. He built houses which he owned and then resold at a fair profit. He also built the Saint Paul Congregational Church, a building dedicated on October 14, 1900. Elias was one of the church's trustees, while his wife Flora was its treasurer.

In 1906 Disney moved his family to a small farm in Marceline, Missouri because he feared the rising crime rate in Chicago and he wanted his children to live in a much safer environment. It was on this farm in Marceline where Walt Disney and his siblings Roy and Ruth often would sit under a huge tree close to the family home and dream and Walt later named this "The Dreaming Tree!" Also, in Marceline Walt drew some of his earliest drawings for a neighbor who was a prominent physician who asked and paid Walt to draw sketches of his beloved horse. Marceline was the place where Walt was first exposed to all sorts of animals that likely ingrained in his heart the love for all animals as he would later portray in so many of his beloved animated and even true life films!

The family sold the farm on November 28, 1910, as Elias fell ill. He was suffering from typhoid fever, followed by pneumonia. The Disney's lived in a rented house in Marceline, probably at 508 North Kansas Avenue until 1911, when they moved to Kansas City, Missouri. They lived in a rented house at 2706 East Thirty-first Street. They stayed there until they bought their own modest home in September of 1914. It was situated at 3028 Bellefontaine Street and today is recognized as the home where the Disney Family permanently resided for a number of years. The Benton Elementary School was nearby where Walt and Ruth attended school.

On July 1, 1911, Elias purchased a newspaper delivery route for The Kansas City Star. It extended from Twenty-seventh Street to Thirty-first Street, and from Prospect Avenue to Indiana Avenue. Roy and Walt were put to work delivering the newspapers. The Disney's delivered the morning newspaper known as The Kansas City Times to about 700 customers and the evening and Sunday Kansas City Star to more than 600 customers. Both papers were published by William Rockhill Nelson. Their customers increased with time. Elias also delivered butter and eggs to his newspaper customers. They were regularly imported from a dairy farm in Marceline.

Elias' sons Raymond Arnold Disney and Roy Oliver Disney were bank tellers at the First National Bank at 10th and Baltimore Avenue (now the Central Library) in downtown Kansas City, Missouri when Walt was establishing his first short-lived animation studio he named Laugh-O-gram Studio in the McConaughey Building located at 1127 E. 31st Street (31st Street and Forest Avenue) also in Kansas City, Missouri. This original building remains today, albeit in disrepair, and hopefully will be fully restored! A most concerted effort is in place to renew this building!

Raymond Arnold Disney's son who is Charles Elias Disney was named after his grandfather Elias Charles Disney. Elias only saw Charles Elias Disney for a short time before he passed away on his grandsons first birthday on September 13, 1941.

Elias sold the paper route on March 17, 1917. He had been investing in the O-Zell Company of Chicago since 1912 and moved back to the city in 1917 to take an active role in its management. The Disney's rented a Chicago flat at 1523 Ogden Avenue.

He retired from management work in 1920 and moved back to Kansas City. He was again working as a carpenter. He moved to Portland, Oregon by September-October in the autumn of 1921. His son Herbert and family had earlier moved to this city.

He was a fiddler himself and would bring home anyone else who could play an instrument. Elias loved music and he also wanted his family to enjoy music!

Elias lived to see his two sons Walt Disney, (Walter Elias Disney) and Roy Oliver Disney establish the Disney Bros. Studio and later Walt Disney Productions, which today is known as The Walt Disney Company. He was very proud of his sons accomplishments and he really loved and was fascinated with Walt's early animated films!

Sadly, his wife Flora Disney passed away on November 26, 1938 as the result of gas asphyxiation in their home due to a lingering and hidden gas leak. Elias never fully recovered from this terrible emotional loss! Elias Charles Disney was a decent man and with all of the struggles life seemed to bring him, Elias never refrained from loving and providing for his beloved family!

Elias Charles Disney passed from this life on September 13, 1941. 		Disney, Elias Charles (I97070)
 
632 Eliza and Sam Houston were only married for about six weeks before she l e ft him to return home. Niether of them would talk about the reason fo r t heir divorce. It was just a few days later that he resigned as Gover no r of TN and moved west. Eliza later married Dr. Elmore Douglass of Ga lla tin, TN. There are two reasons mentioned as probable reasons for the ir d ivorce. Sam is supposed to have had a wound which was not healed, a nd fe stered. Looking at it apparently made Eliza ill. Another reason g iven i s that Sam was insanely jealous and left Eliza locked up in thei r hotel r oom when he left. Several years after their divorce, noted cit izens of G allatin met to form a committee to ascertain Eliza's "Virtue" . After obt aining facts in the case, they determined that her virtue re mained intac t and she would be an acceptable wife. Allen, Eliza H (I95408)
 
633 Eliza Ann Dibble was born on August 18, 1829, in Chardon, Geauga, Ohio , t o Philo Dibble and Celia Kent. Eliza was briefly married to Orson Spe ncer , though Brigham Young later canceled the marriage. She married Henr y Wel ls Jackson on February 3, 1850, in Salt Lake City. The couple settl ed i n Tooele in 1850, and their first son, William Henry Jackson, was bo rn th ere on December 1, 1850. Three of their five children lived to adul thood . They moved to Centerville, Utah, to San Bernardino, California, a nd bac k to Centerville. Henry Jackson delivered mail between Salt Lake C ity an d Placerville, California. In 1861 he traveled to Washington, D.C. , to co llect his back pay. There he served as a wagon master for the Uni on but w as captured by Confederate forces. After being a prisoner of war , he wa s exchanged for Union forces and decided to volunteer as a lieute nant fo r the 1st DC Cavalry. On May 8, 1864, he was mortally wounded whi le tryin g to take a Confederate railroad bridge. He was transferred to C hesapeak e Hospital, also known as Officers’ General Hospital, Fort Monro e, Virgin ia, where he died from his wounds. She was left with three youn g children . Brigham Young suggested Julius Augustus Ceaser Austin marr y and suppor t her since his wife had also died. On May 27, 1864. Eliza m arried Juliu s Augustus Caesar Austin on October 3, 1865. He and her 14-y ear-old son d idn't get along. They moved to Paris, Idaho. Life was har d in Bear Lake V alley, Julius rationed their meager food. She was homesi ck. They separate d before their only child was born. She returned to he r parents' home an d later moved to Richmond, Utah. She died on May 14, 1 891.

Parents:
Philo Dibble
1806–1895

Celia Kent Dibble
1803–1840

Spouses:
Henry Wells Jackson
1827–1864 (m. 1850)

Julius Augustus Caesar Austin
1810–1903

Siblings:
Emma Dibble Daley
1831–1924

Sidney Dibble
1832–1910

Philander Dibble
1834–1877

Philo Dibble
1835–1915

Half Siblings:
Loren Walker Dibble
1844–1888 (m. 1878)

David Dubois Dibble
1846–1928

children:
William Henry Jackson
1850–1925

Emma Cecilia Jackson
1852–1853

Laura Ann Jackson Barlow
1858–1939

Mary Ellen Jackson Merrill
1860–1950

Philo Wells Austin
1866–1953

Eliza Ann Dibble
Birth 18 August 1829 Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, United States Source(s)
Death 14 May 1891 Richmond, Cache, Utah Territory, United States Source( s )
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Email: BYUNauvooProject@gmail.com 		Dibble, Eliza Ann (I163610)
 
634 Eliza R. King, 75, died February 14, 1987.
Born January 31, 1902 in Antimony, Utah to Elias and Laura Jane Staple s G ardner, Jr. Married Welles Rulon King November 26, 1919 in the Salt L ak e LDS Temple.
Active LDS; working extensively in the Relief Society and the choir.
Survived by three sons and one daughter, Polly Peay, Centerville; Wende l l G., Sandy; Culbert Ray, West Bountiful; and Elias Ledeal, Blackfoot , Id aho; 17 grandchildren; 47 great-grandchildren; one sister, Gertrud e Jense n, Idaho Falls.
Funeral services will be Wednesday 12 noon, Sandy, Utah Stake Center, 93 3 1 South 3rd East. Friends may call Tuesday 6-9 p.m. at McDougal Golde n Ru le Funeral Home, 4330 South Redwood Road and one hour prior at the c hurch . Interment, Redwood Memorial Estates. 		Gardner, Eliza Roxie (I166467)
 
635 ELIZA TALBOT MOORE

Eliza Talbot was born 17 Aug 1857 at Tusintus, Queenstown District, Sou t h Africa. She was the fourteenth child, and the fifth daughter, born t o H enry and Ruth Sweetnam Talbot.

After the Talbot’s were converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latt e r Day Saints, in 1858, and sold out “Wellington” the following year, th e y moved to Port Elizabeth, on Algoa Bay, waiting several months for tra ns portation to America; and on 28 Feb 1861, they set sail on the ship, “ Rac e Horse,” landing at East Boston 20 Apr 1861. With them, Eliza, trave le d to the Missouri River by cattle train, and becoming a member of th e Hom er Duncan Company at Florence, Nebraska, crossed the plains that su mmer , arriving at Salt Lake City, Utah, on 28 Sep 1861.

They lived that winter in Salt Lake City, and the following spring, mov e d to Kaysville, Utah, to settle permanently on a 40 acre farm bought b y H enry Talbot from Louis Whitesides .

She was baptized, at Kaysvulle, 30 Sep 1868 by John Bennett and confirm e d the same day by Grandie C. Raymond. .

She acquired a fourth grade education in the little one room red brick s c hool house at “Five Points”, between Kaysville and Layton.

Eliza was married, in a civil ceremony, probably at Kaysville, on 13 D e c 1880, to Macklin Moore, from Nashville, Tennessee, who had come to Ut a h as a young man and was working on a farm in Kaysville, Utah, when h e me t and courted Eliza. And afterwards, as a pioneer wife and mother, f ollow ed him in his many moves.

They farmed for a time at Salt Creek, Utah, then Kaysville, and move d t o Anaconda, Montana, where he worked in the smelters. Then in 1889, t he y moved to Rockland, Idaho, a new dry farming community, where Mack es tab lished a truck gardening business. He was a strong, rough-and-ready m an , a cigar smoker, given to vigorous language. Stung on the thumb b y a sco rpion, while picking up potatoes, in 1901, he suffered complicati ons an d had to have first his hand, then his arm above the elbow amputat ed, an d finally died anyway, 29 Apr 1902. He was buried at Rockland, Ida ho.

In later years, Eliza, was comparing her own husband to her sister, Ruth ’ s. She said, “If ever there was a good man, it was Uncle Teancum, an d h e will surely go to heaven! My old man was meaner than the Devil. But , b y damn, I wouldn’t have traded!” Not a member of the church during hi s li fetime, Macklin Moore’s ordinance work was preformed for him in th e Loga n Temple by his son, Francis, being baptized, endowed and sealed t o Eliza , 1 Oct 1924.

In 1902, after the death of her husband, she took up a homestead six mil e s from town, and sent her son Rufus to prove up on it – a farm which sh e , and her sons Francis and Rufus run. After her death, it was sold.

On 27 March 1923 she moved to Pocatello, Idaho, where she establishe d a h ome. She passed away 9 Sep 1925, at her own home. She was taken bac k to R ockland, Idaho, for burial beside her husband, 12 Sep 1925.

(Death Certificate Idaho State Board of Health File Number 50895, Banno c k County) 		Talbot, Eliza (I23212)
 
636 Elizabeth (called Lizzy by family and friends) Dianah Smith was born Feb r uary 1, 1849 at Scoville, Monroe County, Iowa to John Braswell Smith a n d Frances Clark. John B. had traveled with his newly baptized mother a n d father, Richard and Dianah Smith, and his brothers and sisters to Io w a where the Mormons had gathered to prepare for the trip West. While i n I owa John B met and married Frances Clark in 1848. Elizabeth was the f irs t born child and then Mary Ellen came while they were still in Iowa . At t his time John B.'s parents gathered up their children and grandchi ldren a nd went to Utah. But for some reason John and Frances did not joi n this f amily group. They remained in Iowa and had three more babies (Ri chard Joh n, Nancy Margaret and James Abraham). They then moved to Nauvoo , Hancoc k County, Illinois where two more babies were born. When the las t baby, O ra, was born, John and Frances were ill with a fever and when O ra was tw o days old, her parents both died – one hour apart. Seven youn g childre n were left orphans. Elizabeth was fifteen and the oldest. Bab y Ora live d only four months and then died in Nauvoo. Sara, age three, w as kicked f rom pillar to post, as she expressed it, until she was seve n years old. T hen a kind family named Joe and Edith Ritter gave her a go od home and rai sed her. The rest were scattered, securing work in stores , hotels, and ba rber shops in Nauvoo.
When Elizabeth was eighteen she was baptized into the Church of Jes u s Christ of Latter Day Saints. She wanted to go to Utah so when she wa s t wenty she joined a colony of Mormons going to Utah and traveled wit h th e Andrews family. She arrived in Salt Lake Valley in 1869, the sam e yea r that the railroad was completed. Their group was one of the las t group s that traveled in a covered wagon and walked across the plains . It wa s a very hard trip for her.
Elizabeth's grandparents (Richard and Dianah Smith) and some of her a u nts and uncles were living in Heber City, Utah. She apparently went t o He ber City to be near them. Elizabeth married a Mr. Stillman and the y had o ne child, Sarah Frances, born March 16, 1872 in Heber and died Fe b 20, 18 83 in Provo, Utah. In 1872 Elizabeth left and divorced Mr. Still man becau se of mistreatment. Her grandson, Amos Stephens, said that sh e worked a s a school teacher during this time. She was a divorced mothe r of a bab y girl. Her grandfather, Richard Smith, was living in Provo i n 1876 and s he was living there also. They were a loving, close and con cerned famil y so I'm sure that they were helping each other.
On May 29, 1876, Elizabeth was married, endowed and sealed to Willi a m Jefferson Andrews. He was the eldest son of the Andrews family that s h e had traveled to Utah with. Sarah Frances, now four years old, was sea le d to them also. William and Elizabeth were happy together and became t h e parents of seven more children. They were Marietta (died at 2 year s o f age), Louisa (Lyde), Samuel, Leonard, Anna, Jane and Thomas .
In the meantime, Elizabeth's brothers and sisters back in Nauvoo deci d ed to save their money and come to Utah where she was. They got as fa r a s Wahoo, Nebraska and ran out of funds so they secured employment a t a we althy farmers home. The girls working in the house and the boys wo rking a s farm hands. Here was where the journey ended for these young pe ople. Na ncy married the wealthy farmer, Leonard Gilchrist. Mary Ellen ma rried a M r. Smith, Sarah married a farm hand, Christopher Saunders fro m Illinois . Richard married a neighbor's daughter, Emma Danes. James rem ained singl e and eventually did travel to Provo where he lived with hi s sister, Eliz abeth until she moved to Nampa, Idaho. James then moved t o Cedar City whe re he met and married a lovely lady and raised a famil y of three. He an d his wife, Maria Alice Sherrett lived, died and were b uried in Cedar Cit y, Utah.
Now to return to Elizabeth in 1876. She received a letter from her un c le, T.B. Smith in Heber City, Utah wanting to know how she and France s we re. Also he wanted to hear from his father and James. He says to tel l fat her 'I will do the best I can with his beef I will salt it and tak e car e of it the best I can'.
Lola Giles Treglown (a granddaughter) wrote, “William and Elizabeth l i ved on a farm in Provo Canyon. She took care of her parents-in-laws a s we ll as her own growing family. Her in-laws, who were from the South , wer e used to having servants all their life and needed a lot of attent ion. E lizabeth got milk leg after the birth of one of her children and s he ha d to use a crutch while she did all of her work. At this particula r tim e one of her children became very ill and they were in a terrible p light . A strange woman came to their house and administered to them an d rubbe d their crippled limbs and gave them some medicine and ointment t o rub o n their legs. She was so sweet and kind and told them what to d o for th e baby. Soon they were all well and strong and even William's le g never b othered him again.”
When Sarah Frances was 10 and just about 11 years old, she died. Th i s must have been very hard on this young family. She died on February 2 0 , 1883.
Lola also wrote, “William had periods of blackouts. Elizabeth would d r eam of a pool of water with green moss and sometimes a frog in the poo l a lways previous to his spells. She would watch very closely and also h av e the children near when he was working and warn them to watch him. Dr eam ing of one pool meant one blackout – two pools meant two blackout s – usua lly close together. One time he fell into an irrigation ditch an d one o f the boys, Sam, held his head up while Len ran for help. In a sh ort tim e he fell again. If it had not been for these warning dreams he w ould hav e lost his life sooner. She had warning dreams all the time sh e was raisi ng her family and as the last was married, she quit having th e dreams.”
Anna says of her mother, “Our mother was a fast and hard worker. Sh e m ade our clothes and they were always pretty, and she took great prid e i n what we wore. I remember I always had one very pretty dress tha t I jus t wore to Sunday School. We always had a cellar full of canned fr uit. I c an never remember when we didn't have plenty to set a good table . We ha d a good mother.”
William died on February 19, 1896 and Elizabeth became a widow with s i x children between the ages of nine and eighteen. Elizabeth came to th e T reasure Valley between 1896 and 1899. Her daughter, Lyde, had previou sl y moved to Nampa with her husband and must have told her about all o f th e land to be had for homesteading. They traveled to Nampa in a railr oad b oxcar with their household goods in one end and their livestock i n the ot her end. “Perhaps she wanted a bigger place and a better chanc e for her f amily. I think grandma was the adventuresome type.” says Ji m Stephens, he r grandson.
Amos Stephens Jr. said, ”Grandma wanted to have a home for everyon e o f the kids so that when each of them grew up they would have a home . An d also they would have something to make a living with. So she decid ed o n her own to go from Provo on further out West. They were homesteadi n g a lot of land in Idaho when the Boise Valley was just beginning to de ve lop. She homesteaded 160 acres of sage brush land on Indian Creek, clo s e to Callope Siding, six miles southeast of Nampa. The one hundred six t y acres was all prairie land, sagebrush and weeds. No one had settled a ro und there. You couldn't see a house from where she was and there was n oth ing but a wagon trail from Nampa. They built three homes. The boys we re o ld enough to build and they knew a little about it, so they built th ree h omes. Tom's, Len's and our own (Anna's) and then divided the one hu ndre d sixty acres between her six kids.”
Amos Stephens continues: “She worked and worked very hard and raise d s ome good boys. The boys would work in the city (they were plasterers , sto ne cutters and builders). They put the marble on the front of the I daho S tate Capital building. At the time Len was 19 and when they quit w orkin g in the city, they would come home to chop sage brush and clear of f th e land to make it so that she could cultivate it. Its a story of unb eliev able hardships, unbelievable courage and ambition. I think that non e of u s really know much about her and that's the reason I want to tel l you. Wi th an inheritance like that, we ought to be pretty proud.”
Amos Stephens Jr. continues: “My mother (Anna) left Provo when she w a s 15 and had never been back to Provo since that time. I thought it wou l d be nice to take her and two of her brothers (Len and Tom) back on a m em ory trip and so we did. The old house was still standing there. Thos e thr ee sat down in front of the house and Len said, 'You know, I though t tha t the creek was a mile from here and its just down over the edge. W e use d to have to carry water from there all the time. Every night we wo uld ar gue over who was going to carry water.' The old house had been qui te a go od house in its time. It was a brick house and it was the only ol d hous e that was left among a lot of new homes. Mom saw that and it real ly brou ght on the sentiment to her. Mom said, 'Amos take me around in ba ck of th e house, where I used to look out the window' and so she saw th e same win dow that she had seen when she was a kid. It was in good shap e except fo r all the weeds growing around it. Shortly after that they de molished th e place and that is where the Provo Temple is now.”
Life was hard on the new land. The sage brush was grubbed by hand, ab o ut five acres was cleared the first year. They planted a garden and fe e d for the livestock, but jack rabbits got most of it the first few year s . Anna remembered helping her mother a lot and said “She was a hard wor ke r and a good homemaker”. Anna admired her mother very much. They mad e sev eral trips back to their old home in Provo in a horse and buggy t o brin g fruit trees, grapevines and other possessions to their new home . They w ould stop at farm houses along the way where they were fed and g iven a be d for the night. It took over a week to go one way. Elizabeth' s childre n worked out of the home when they could and contributed to th e family in come. Anna worked as a waitress at the old Idanha Cafe in Boi se. She woul d bring home clothes and shoes that the guests at the hote l had discarded . These were put to good use by her family.
Amos says, “Sagebrush only gets so big but you can chop it pretty ea s y and it burns real fast and you were either chopping sagebrush or carr yi ng it in all of the time. That's the only way we had to cook and to ea t . We had no electricity, no telephones, no indoor toilets nor any plumb in g, nor the many things that we all take for granted now. All we had w a s a garden, some cows and a lot of hard work. Mom and grandma Andrews w ou ld carry water for about one half a mile for drinking, washing and coo kin g. We carried water for a bath once a week whether we needed it or no t.”
Jim says, “Grandma Andrews used to feed all of the hobos that came o f f the railroad track. It seemed funny to me that those hobos would wa l k a mile and a half (straight to grandma's house) to bum a meal, but th e y did.” Amos says, “I put a hay fork into the haystack one morning to f ee d the stock, and a guy with a bald head stuck his head out of there. H e w as about a foot from that pitchfork. She never turned any of them dow n an d didn't make them work for their food. She always had something t o fee d them.
In 1912 Elizabeth received a letter from her brother, Richard and h e m entioned that she was ill and had to have someone write her letters f or h er because of her sickness. He also talks about her nice home. So i t mus t have been about this time that Elizabeth started having her sympt oms o f paralysis. In 1915 he wrote her a letter saying that he was sorr y to he ar about her bad health. He told her to buy a gallon of olive oi l and tak e two tablespoons full before each meal and before going to bed . He write s 'it makes a new person of you and it penetrates all threw th e sistom an d bilds new blood sells and loosens the joints and drives rhu matism out o f the sistom'. In a letter from Richard's wife, she mention s Elizabeth st udying Christian Science and hopes that it will help her . It seems that a ll of her family were very worried and concerned for he r.
Amos said, “Before her death she had about 10 years of being an inval i d and I used to look after her a lot. Unfortunately grandma was doing w or k with her team and wagon and the horses ran away with her and broke t h e wagon all up, broke her back and so she was an invalid from then on u nt il she passed away. During that time she would stay with one of the ch ild ren and then another and then another and each one of us would take c ar e of her for three or four months. Remember there were no electric lig hts , no indoor plumbing and we used sage brush for wood. I still remembe r he r as being one of the nicest person that I ever knew. She would rea d a bo ok and she would tell me when to turn the page so I would turn th e page a nd there were lots of flies and I would take the newspaper and s wat them . Grandma Andrews had a disease that she could not talk in the l ater year s and it got so that she could just blink her eyes. She was ver y sick bef ore she died and she would get a little bit worse all of the t ime. The da y before she left Jim and I went through the field to see he r and, of cou rse, we were feeling pretty sad. She couldn't talk or mov e her face, bu t she could move her hand just a little bit. Well, she hea rd us come in t he door and she held her hand like that for us. She wante d us to come ove r and hold her hand. She was very alert and she knew wha t was going on al l of the time.”
Jim Stephens said, “she was awfully good to us kids. I never saw he r w alk and she was in a chair for years. They didn't have wheel chairs . Sh e would sit in the chair and she would blink her eyes. That was th e onl y way she could talk. Mom would get right down close to her and the y ha d some kind of a way they could communicate back and forth. I used t o dri nk milk out of a bucket and it would leave me with a big white must ache . Then I would get in front of her and I thought I looked kind of fu nny a nd she would blink her eyes at me. All she could do was blink her e yes! G randma always wanted to stay at mom's place. She was very comforta ble wit h mom. She didn't mind asking for anything, but she was very relu ctant t o ask too much. She was very easy to take care of. She never dema nded any thing. When grandma died they kept her home, in the kitchen, o n an ironin g board and they put pennies over her eyes. I remember just a s plain as d ay. It impressed me awfully strong.”
Amos says, “I have often thought that if grandmother would have be e n a man she would have been in the history books. I don't know of anybo d y that I have ever known who had the strength that she did. Can you ima gi ne a widow with 6 kids getting her horses, her cows and all of her bel ong ings and putting them onto a freight train and sending them up to Ida ho b y Union Pacific to move onto 600 acres that didn't have so much a s a roa d into it – all on her own. Like I said with the inheritance of h er unbel ievable courage and ambition, we ought to be very proud.
Elizabeth died June 13, 1918 at Nampa, Idaho and was buried at Kohler l awn Cemetery in Nampa. She has earned the title of a Pioneer Mother.

All of these stories were obtained from her grandchildren, Amos Stephe n s Jr., Jim Stephens, Noma Stephens Reynolds, Lola Giles Treglown, and , o f course, her own daughter, Anna Stephens (my grandmother). Compile d by K athy Stephens Gannuscio 		Smith, Elizabeth Dianah (I158628)
 
637 Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire (née Elizabeth Howard; c. 14 8 0 – 3 April 1538) was an English noblewoman, noted for being the mothe r o f Anne Boleyn and as such the maternal grandmother of Elizabeth I o f Engl and. She was born about 1480 the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard , Duke o f Norfolk and his first wife Elizabeth Tilney .

Her family managed to survive the death of their patron, Richard III , a t Bosworth in 1485. She was about five years old when Henry VII too k th e throne. Elizabeth became a part of the royal court as a young gir l .

She married Thomas Boleyn about 1498. Elizabeth became Viscountess Rochf o rd in 1525 when her husband was elevated to the peerage, subsequently b ec oming Countess of Ormond in 1527 and Countess of Wiltshire in 1529. Th ei r marriage is said to have been a "love match". According to Thomas, h i s wife was pregnant many times through the years but only three childr e n lived to adulthood.

The children of Thomas and Elizabeth were:

Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 19 July 1543)
Thomas Boleyn the younger (c. 1500 –)
Anne Boleyn (c. 1501/1507 – 19 May 1536); later Marquess of Pembroke (15 3 2–1536); later Queen Consort of England (1533–1536)
Henry Boleyn (c. 1502/03 –)
George Boleyn (c. 1504 – 17 May 1536); later 2nd Viscount Rochford (1529 – 1536)

Throughout this time, Elizabeth was a lady-in-waiting at the royal cour t ; first to Elizabeth of York, and then to Catherine of Aragon.

Elizabeth was in charge of her children's early education. She taught th e m to play various musical instruments, to sing and to dance, as well a s e mbroidery, poetry, good manners, arithmetic, reading, writing and som e Fr ench.

In 1525, King Henry VIII, still married to Catherine of Aragon, fell i n l ove with Elizabeth's daughter Anne. Henry's attempt to rid himself o f hi s unwanted wife Catherine so he could marry Anne, led to the break f rom t he Catholic Church, the dissolution of the monasteries, and the est ablish ment of the Church of England. Elizabeth accompanied Anne to Cour t and ac ted as her daughter's chaperone since Anne was attempting to avo id a sexu al relationship with the King. She was holding out for marriage . They fin ally married in 1533. Elizabeth remained in her daughter's hou sehold thro ughout Anne's short time as queen consort .

Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536. Anne's failure to pr o duce a son led Henry to be dissatisfied with her. And his eye had bee n ca ught by Jane Seymour. In 1536 Anne and her brother George were charg ed wi th treason, adultery, and incest and executed on these charges .

Historians and Anne's biographers, Eric Ives, Claire Ridgeway at https:/ / www.theanneboleynfiles.com/ and Retha Warnicke, all conclude that thes e c harges were fabricated.

Following the execution of her children, Elizabeth retired to the countr y side. She died only two years after. Thomas Boleyn, her husband, die d a y ear after Elizabeth.

Elizabeth Howard/Boleyn is buried in the Howard family chapel at St. Mar y 's Church, Lambeth. The church, decommissioned in 1972, is now the Gard e n Museum.

Adapted from the following Sources:
https://www.theanneboleynfiles.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Boleyn,_Countess_of_Wiltshire
www.familysearch.org 		Howard, Elizabeth Countess of Wiltshire (I170358)
 
638 Elizabeth Brockbank (Bushnell), daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth Mainwari n g Brockbank, was born Nov 8, 1838, in Liverpool, England. Her father w a s employed by the Bath Water Works Company, which supplied the ships fr o m all over the world with water. The family belonged to the Wesley Meth od ist Church, where Isaac taught a class. Early in 1843, Isaac went to h ea r Parley P. Pratt, a Mormon Missionary, and joined the Mormon Church , muc h to the opposition of his wife. Isaac used to take the children wi th hi m to attend the Mormon Sunday School. When he decided to go to Utah , Eliz abeth tried to get the children to tell him they would not go wit h him, b ut they really wanted to go, as they thought it would be wonderf ul to cro ss the ocean and live in a new country. She told Isaac she woul d go wit h him only if he promised her she could return to England if sh e did no t like Utah, and he promised.

They received funds from the Emigration Fund to pay for the journey, a n d sailed from Liverpool Feb 11, 1852, on the ship "the Ellen Marie", a n d docked at New Orleans where they took a River Boat for Kansas City. C ho lera broke out in the camp, and many died and were buried in crude box es , many were so weak they could hardly move. All of these hardships ups e t Elizabeth's mother and she dreaded crossing the plains. When they we r e assigned wagons in the O.A. Snoot Company, she did all she could to c ar e for her four children; Isaac, Elizabeth, Joshua, and Agnes, but to e ver ything else she seemed indifferent. In the latter part of July they p asse d Ft. Laramie, and soon after that they came to a hill just before t hey w ere to stop for their noon meal. Elizabeth and some of the other wo men ou t of the wagon to walk up the hill in order that the oxen would no t hav e to pull such heavy loads. There were ripe wild berries and the la dies t opped to pick some, but the wagons kept moving. When they stoppe d for noo n all the ladies were there except Elizabeth, Isaac's wife. He r son Isaa c rode back on a horse to hunt for her but found no trace of h er. The fat her and Chris Layton took a light carriage and hunted for her , they wen t back as far as Ft. Laramie but found no trace of her. The me n at Ft. La ramie promised to keep looking if they found her let the folk s know, bu t no trace of her has ever been found. It is supposed that sh e was captur ed by some roving Indians.

This left the daughter Elizabeth, not yet fourteen years old, in car e o f the family. The company arrived in Salt Lake Sept 4, 1852. They sta ye d in Salt Lake a month and were assigned to go to Palmyra, on the shor e s of Utah Lake. Just before leaving Isaac the father, married Sarah Bro wn , Oct. 2, 1852. Sarah had crossed the plains in the same company. The y li ved in a dugout and had to trade some of their clothes for food. The y fla yed wheat in order to earn enough wheat for some flour.

Elizabeth the daughter, went to live with a family named Pollock, Mr. Po l lock was fairly well to do. Mr. Pollock had been called to help settl e Ir on County, and talked Elizabeth into marrying him as a second wife a nd go ing to Iron County with him. Elizabeth though her step imposed on h er an d she was so poor she had nothing for herself, so she decided to ma rry Mr . Pollock. They got as far as Fillmore, and Elizabeth decided sh e di d n t want Mr. Pollock as a husband. Brigham Young came to Fillmor e so El izabeth told him her troubles and Brigham gave her a church divor ce.

On August 14, 1854, Elizabeth married John Bushnell who had been sen t t o Fillmore. They had the first post office and a small store. Elizabe th k ept the books and cooked for the mail carriers. Her brother Isaac wa s on e of the first mail carriers.

Four children were born to Elizabeth and John while living in Fillmore : J ohn B., Edward B., Isaac B., and Daniel B. In 1862 they traded thei r prop erty in Fillmore for farm land in Meadow, where they were one of t he firs t six families in Meadow.

Elizabeth was first counselor to Sarah Stott, who was the first preside n t of the primary, and later she became the second president. She serve d i n the Relief Society Presidency, sang in the choir, and served in th e chu rch in every way possible. She was an excellent nurse and took car e of th e sick for years, besides taking care of a large family since fou r more c hildren were born in Meadow: Howard B., Joshua B., Elizabeth B , and Eliz a Jane.

John and his sons had gone into the sheep business and Elizabeth helpe d t hem in many ways. John died in 1882, and she carried on the busines s fo r forty years with her boys. They were known as the "Bushnell Brothe rs" , and they were united by that great love which she instilled in ever y on e of her children. Although her troubles were many she declared "Th e los s of my dear mother steeled me for the troubles that followed."

Elizabeth died in Meadow September 16, 1926, at the home of her daught e r Elizabeth Bennett, loved by everyone who ever knew her.

Builders of Early Millard, Pages 104-105

Pioneer
Abraham O. Smoot Company (1852) Age at departure: 13
About 250 individuals and 33 wagons were in the company when it began i t s journey from Kansas City, Missouri. 		Brockbank, Elizabeth (I4763)
 
639 Elizabeth Cluley Greaves was born in a one-room adobe house at Provo, Ut a h on October 21, 1856.
Her family spent several years clearing land near the Provo River for fa r ming.

Then one year the river flooded, completely ruining the farm. This broug h t the family of six to Logan where in late 1862, they lived out of a co ve red wagon while Joseph built a suitable dugout for a winter dwelling.
Four years following their arrival in Logan, the family lost their mom a n d their newborn sixth sister, Mary Ann .

This was truly a time of sorrow and trial for 8-year-old Elizabeth. Sh e w ould take her 2-year-old baby sister from one neighbor to another try in g to keep her from crying for her mother.

When one parent is gone, little children feel the need to draw very clos e ly around the parent who is with them. Joseph, now a widower, was lef t wi th 3 young boys ages 10, 6, and 4, and 2 daughters ages 8 and 2. The y wou ld have required nearly all of his time and attention.

The neighbors offered help, and Joseph was in no position to reject it . W ith Elizabeth taking her baby sister to various neighbors for care, J osep h found his burden bearable. He could occupy the three boys workin g wit h him on the farm.

Joseph's bishop suggested a permanent home for Elizabeth. She would be v e ry helpful in tending younger children and assisting with housework. H e r physical needs would all be satisfied. Joseph may have thought of hi s o wn half-starved childhood as an orphan in England. Here was a chanc e fo r a daughter to be well cared for while she was growing up and learn ing t he art of homemaking. He accepted the offer .

Elizabeth was taken to live in a new home in a different ward four mil e s away. With a one-hour hike separating her from her family, this wa s i n some ways like living in a different community. Unfortunately, Eliz abet h's strong emotional need to be near her father and family was overl ooked . To be pulled away from her family at this time greatly accentuate d he r grief.

While living in the household of Ada Hemingway Davidson, Elizabeth was a l ways kept very busy. Perhaps it was hoped that this would keep her fro m l onging for her family. She did get some schooling, but as recorded b y he r daughter Lillie, she would have to rush home at noon to scrub th e kitch en floor and comb Mrs. Davidson's heavy long hair, leaving no tim e to ea t her dinner.

There were many nights when Elizabeth would cry herself to sleep. She lo n ged for her family; she mourned for her mother. She felt more like a se rv ant than a daughter in this new home .

In later years, when people came to live in her home, they were always t r eated like part of the family.

Three or four years later, when Elizabeth was twelve years old, her fath e r remarried. However, Elizabeth was not invited to come back home to li ve ; we do not know why. Her father's own years of apprenticeship in Engl an d suggest a possible answer. It may not have seemed fair to him that h i s daughter was given board, room, and training for several years and th e n taken back home just as she was becoming useful enough to pay back h e r benefactors. Thus he may have looked upon her service as an indentur e d contract which only time could fill. That Joseph loved his daughter w a s never a point of question. Their separation may have been nearly as h ar d on him as it was on her.

These were pioneering days; these were times for survival. Elizabeth a n d her father both sacrificed, and they both survived!

Elizabeth lived with and served Mrs. Davidson for ten years. Elizabeth w a s a hard worker and was always very useful. She became very skilled i n al l the pioneer homemaking arts. She also worked in the garden and gre w t o love flowers.

Elizabeth kept as close to her family as possible over the years. Five a d ditional children were born to her father and his new wife. These fiv e an d the two daughters from his new wife's previous marriage were love d as m uch by Elizabeth as her original three brothers and sister. Elizab eth's d aughter Lillie was fully grown before she realized that the two g irls fro m the previous marriage were not her mother's own sisters.

Elizabeth's older brother John looked after her welfare. When they wer e o ld enough to go to the dances, John would always first see if Elizabe th h ad someone to go with. He would take her to the dance himself if sh e di d not. Lillie wrote that when John received his first wages for hiri ng ou t on a job, he gave his sister Elizabeth 35 cents. This was the fir st mon ey Elizabeth ever had. She made herself a very pretty dress with t he mate rial purchased from this money.

Elizabeth and her husband, David Eames, were lovers, right from the begi n ning to the end of their lives. Their daughter records she, “never reca l l my parents saying an unkind word to each other”. They had 10 childre n ( Elizabeth was 45 years old when her last child was born .

Elizabeth and her husband were “first” in many things: first to in the i r area to have a telephone, first to have electric lights and first t o ha ve indoor plumbing so they could have a bathroom, a tub, a washbasi n an d a toilet. Their children’s friends used to come down to take a bat h i n their big white tub. Previous to that, Saturday night all the famil y to ok their baths in the round tub in the kitchen.

The family had a big dining room table and Elizabeth always had a table c loth on, ready to feed anyone that ever came. They turned the chairs, t h e back against the table and the seat facing out, and there is where w e k nelt to have our prayer.

Elizabeth Cluley Greaves Eames was a remarkably resourceful woman, by an y one's standard. She was someone often called on when someone was sick , sh e also helped with the babies for miles around. She made her own soa p, sh e'd catch their geese, turn them upside down on her lap and pick th e dow n off from underneath their tummies, put it in a big washtub, the n fill i t into pillows. Elizabeth’s family raised a lot of sheep. She ca rded som e of this wool and made it into nice clean bats and made quilt s she als o knitted long black stockings made from their wool.

Her youngest daughter, Ilah, recalls, “My mother also taught me to lov e a nd visit my family”.

During the last few years of Elizabeth's life, Lillie made the followi n g observation about her: "Mother has worked so very constantly and so h ar d all her life until now at the age of 81 years, she is nervous if sh e si ts without something in her hands to do."

Sources:
David Cullen Eames (B.1851) and Elizabeth Cluley Greaves Family By Ral p h G. McKnight
Our Eames Heritage Transcription of an audiotape made by Ilah Eames Carp e nter to Ralph McKnight Summer of 1983 		Greaves, Elizabeth Cluley (I368)
 
640 Elizabeth died at the Ponderosa Villa Nursing Home, She was 92 yrs, 10 m o , 2 days old. Funeral was at the Crawford United Methodist Church.
Baptismal records in the Catholic Church in Alliance, NE, state birth da t e as 15 Apr 1896. 		Wismiller, Elisabeth Frances (I161377)
 
641 Elizabeth Ennis was born the 14 January 1791 in Sussex County, New Jerse y . She married John Daley in 1809. They were both baptized into the Ch ur ch of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1831 along with most of the i r children...thus becoming some of the first members of the newly form e d Church.

In the summer of 1837, Elizabeth, John and several of the family and con g regation of Mormons from Birmingham, Ohio, left for Far West, Missour i t o join the Mormon settlement there. Suffering many persecutions, th ey w ere driven from their home there and settled in Nauvoo, Illinois . In 18 41, she again suffered grief when John passed away and she wa s left to pr ovide for their large family. However, most of the childre n were grown a nd helped provide for her. She took out her endowments i n the Nauvoo tem ple in 1846 before leaving for Council Bluffs. In 184 8 Elizabeth crosse d the plains with her family and passed away after ent ering the Salt Lak e Valley just a little over a year later in January 18 50. 		Ennis, Elizabeth (I56721)
 
642 Elizabeth Jones Bailey was the daughter of Charles R. Bailey and Hanna h J ones. She received her education in Wellsville, and from her youth sh e wa s active in the auxiliaries of the LDS Church. Her religion was th e guidi ng factor in her life.

On December 1, 1897, Elizabeth married John Yeates. John was born in Mil l ville, the son of Frederick and Sarah Webb Yeates. After John complete d h is education at Millville School, he attended Utah State Agricultura l Col lege at Logan.

John was first employed at Hansen Creamery as a cheese maker, and he bec a me so proficient that he was called to teach this art in both Utah an d Id aho. He was a farmer and also a butcher. He was a member of the War d Choi r and served as President for many years, and he was Chairman of t he Ol d Folks Committee. He was an excellent penman and a great mathemati cian . 		Bailey, Elizabeth Jones (I174744)
 
643 Elizabeth Melvina Clark, born 18 October 1875 at Clarkston. On 17 Marc h 1 892 she married Alva Milo Leithead at St. George. Utah. He was calle d "Al lie” and was born 17 April 1873 at Glendale in Kane County, Utah, t he so n of James Leithead and wife Lucinda Sevella Gardner .
Elizabeth and Allie lived the first three years of their marriage at Gle n dale, then moved south to Thatcher, Arizona, where Allie went into th e fr eighting business. He died 31 August 1902 of typhoid fever at Thatch er. F ollowing his decease Elizabeth sold out and moved north with her fo ur sma ll sons to Glendale, Utah, where her youngest son died. In the spr ing o f 1903 she left Glendale and moved north to Lovell, Wyoming, with o ther f amily members. She provided for her family by working as a cook i n constr uction camps.
A few years later she married secondly William Wesley Willis at Lovell . T o this marriage was born one daughter. Elizabeth died on 25 Decembe r 193 0 at Long Beach, California.

Excerpt from "Clark Cousins: A Brief Family History Compilation includi n g some of the five generation descendants of John Owens Clark and his w if e Mary Blair" by Anthony J Christensen. Entire document is in the BY U onl ine Family History Archives. 		Clark, Elizabeth Malvina (I162461)
 
644 Elizabeth Rachel Edwards was raised by the Bennett's as her mother die d w hen Elizabeth was a baby and father could not care for her .


Why she had the name Bennett? Her mother died shortly after she was bor n . When she was about 8 month old she was given to Thomas McGuire Benne t t and Margaret Lovina Wilson, who were friends of her father, to rais e a s their daughter. According to their history, she crossed the plain s wit h Captain James C. Snow wagon trail in 9 Oct 1852 and settled in Pr ovo, U tah. They moved to Cedar Valley, and finally to Franklin, Idaho wh ere the y stayed. And this is where she meet Ephraim Edgar Ellsworth an d raised h er family. 		Edwards, Elizabeth Rachel (I174565)
 
645 Elizabeth Wheelock Smith
(2 January 1678 - after 1 May 1716)

Elizabeth Wheelock, dau. of Capt. Eleazer Wheelock & Elizabeth Fuller, w a s b. at Medfield, Massachusetts on Jan. 2, 1678/9 and d. at Windham, Co nn ecticut on Jan. 20, 1703/4, Æ 26. (the Windham record states she die d o n "Jan. 20, 1703," which the memorialist has interpreted to mean 1703 /4.)

Elizabeth was the paternal gr.dau. of the immigrants Rev. Ralph Wheelo c k and wife Rebecca Clark(e) of Dedham and last of Medfield, Massachuset ts .

Elizabeth's younger brother, Dea. Ralph Wheelock, b. at Mendon, Massachu s etts on Feb. 12, 1682/3, relocated to Windham, Connecticut where he m . 1 ) Ruth Huntington, dau. of Dea. Christopher & Sarah (Adgate) of Norwi ch , and 2) Mercy Standish, gr.dau. of Capt. Myles & Barbara Standish o f th e Plymouth Colony and the 1620 Mayflower.

On Jan. 15, 1699/700 at Medfield, Massachusetts, Elizabeth m. Elisha Smi t h, s. of Seth Smith & Mary Thurston, b. at Medfield on Jan. 26, 1679/8 0 .

They had the following two children:

• i. Seth Smith, b. at Medfield, Massachusettson Oct. 25, 1701; d. unmar r ied at Windham, Connecticut on June 24, 1724, Æ 23.

• ii. Esther Smith, b. at Windham, Connecticut on Nov. 24, 1702, d. at W i ndham on Oct. 10, 1737, Æ 35; m. at Windham on Oct. 20, 1719 as his fir s t wife, Dea. Ebenezer Wales, s. of Dea. Nathaniel Wales, Sr. & Susann a Bl ake.

Elizabeth (Wheelock) Smith has no known place of internment or graveston e . 		Wheelock, Elizabeth (I52429)
 
646 Ella Lewis McCleve | Master Storyteller

My grandma was a master storyteller. She had a way of telling the stori e s as those characters and it made them come alive. She had a story abo u t a wee wee woman, who lived in a wee wee house and my grandma would th e n give the descriptions of everything this wee wee woman did while expl or ing her house. She would always tell this story so quietly and then a t th e end she explained that the wee wee woman opened up her wee wee cup boar d and then my grandma would yell BOO! really loudly and it would sta rtl e me every time! My grandma cared about everyone and she was the mast er s toryteller. #MeetMyGrandma 		Lewis, Ella (I161710)
 
647 ELLEN ELVIRA (NELLIE) NASH PARKINSON
1863 – 1949
Adopted Daughter of Isaac B. Nash and
Hester Elvira Poole

Written by a Daughter


February 17, 1963, is the one-hundredth anniversary of the birth of my m o ther, Ellen Elvira (Nellie) Nash Parkinson. Because she was a remarkab l e and admirable woman and because her descendents can all feel pride i n t his progenitor, I would like to pay tribute to her on this anniversar y b y having each of her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren , ev en great-great grandchildren review her splendid life and give paus e fo r a moment to appreciate her contributions to our own lives.

She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Charles Alonzo and Virginia Lan e . She had a brother, William, five years her senior. When she was les s th an two years of age, her mother died of smallpox and was buried in t he Be llefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis. The country was in the midst o f a grea t Civil War in 1865, and Charles Alonzo found it necessary to en ter milit ary service. Transportation was primitive and dangerous, so h e was persua ded to leave the baby girl with some neighbors, Isaac and El vira Nash, bu t he took the young boy with him intending to leave him wit h relatives i n the East.

Isaac Bartlett Nash and Hester Elvira Poole had each joined the Churc h o f Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Isaac was converted in Wales, an d El vira was converted at Prince Edward Island, Canada. They met in Sal t Lak e City, fell in love, and were married. They were not able to hav e any ch ildren of their own, so they adopted two children who died young . After t he ill-famed Mountain Meadow Massacre, President Brigham Youn g asked Isaa c Nash to escort the seventeen orphaned children to Fort Lea venworth, Kan sas. Two military attachments also accompanied them to Kans as to protec t them while they traveled. After delivering the children t o the authorit ies in Kansas, Isaac had planned to take Elvira to Wales t o meet his pare nts. However, by the time they reached St. Louis, they re ceived word of t he death of his parents and decided not to go to Wales . They settled in S t. Louis, and in due time they took custody of Nelli e with the provisio n that they could legally adopt her.

To make this story brief, they later came back to Utah and soon settl e d in Franklin, Idaho. Here Nellie grew to womanhood in poverty so fa r a s worldly goods were concerned, but in wealth as far as character bui ldin g, love, and useful training were concerned. She was always a bookwo rm, e ager for learning, and with great powers of comprehension and under standi ng. She loved people, and no effort was too great if she could hel p someo ne. Her countless friends were friends for life.

She frequently took part in amateur dramatics that her father directe d , he being talented in music and drama. At the age of 14, she appeare d i n a play and was seen by William Chandler Parkinson, who decided righ t th en he wanted her to be his wife. Two years later on December 12, 187 8, th ey were married in the Endowment House on Temple Square in Salt Lak e City .

Together they worked and raised a family. Twelve children were born t o t hem, but four died in infancy. Throughout their fifty years of marria ge , they experienced good times and sad times, but always the Gospel wa s th eir guide and their stay. They were loyal and helpful to each other . Will iam was a Bishop in Preston, Idaho, a Stake President in Pocatello , Idaho , and for twenty years a Stake President in Hyrum, Utah. He acqui red a pr osperous business in Preston, but it ceased to be prosperous aft er he lef t there, so there was scrimping and hard work and saving, and t here was n ever stinginess. Friends were always welcome, gay parties wer e frequent , and Church Authorities were properly housed and entertained.

Perhaps Nellie’s two greatest trials were polygamy, which William was i n structed to enter in accordance with Church teaching at that time, an d th e death of her son, Waldo, which Nellie always felt could have bee n preve nted. But no trial or hardship could cause her faith to waiver, f or she k new the eternal plan of salvation and the truthfulness of the Go spel. He r desire was always to keep the command- ments of the Lord.

Her thirst for knowledge never ceased. Many a night she sat curled in h e r chair till morning to finish an interesting book—then did her full da y’ s work. She had a buoyant spirit with a keen sense of humor. She wa s a bi t of a tease, but only in a kind way. She was a champion of righ t and o f the underdog.

In 1920, at the age of 57, she and William moved to Salt Lake City, whe r e they spent their remaining years. They quickly made many new friend s an d found many opportunities for service. Then in 1929, William sudden ly di ed. But for twenty more years Nellie lived to guide and bless her l oved o nes. It was a marvel to all who knew her how she lived those twent y year s on so little, for this was not a time of government subsidies. B ut sh e always set a bounteous table, and everyone was welcome to share i t. Liv ing in the heart of town, at the Belvedere Apartments, there was s carcel y a day that she didn’t have company—and this she loved. Her great est wis h and William’s also was to be faithful to the end and inspire th eir desc endents to do likewise. She had great sympathy for the erring on e, and fo r the needy, and in many unpublicized ways helped them. Whateve r faults h er children had, she loved them and kept them closely associat ed with her , forgiving and hoping to encourage and influence them to d o better. Sh e had a sweet dignity in the knowledge that she was a chil d of God and wo rthy of His care.

This sketch is necessarily very brief, but those who are interested m a y read her more detailed history compiled by Carma Smuin Sandberg tha t i s filed in the Church Historian’s Office.

To me she was the perfect mother, and I count my parentage as one o f m y choicest blessings. I am striving to live in such a way that I ma y b e worthy to dwell with her and my fine father throughout eternity. Fe elin g this way, I have humbly written the following lines:

HERITAGE

My parents gave me gifts in great abundance.
Life, encased in body straight and strong;
Encouragement to seek out truth through learning,
Strength to search for right, and shun the wrong.

Meager were the worldly gifts they left,
All their gains were shared along the way,
Yet a wealth of love and discipline
Abides with me—a staff—a stay.

Oh, may I, too, endow those dear to me
Not with the means, nor wish for easy living,
But with reliance, honor, perseverance,
The deep-felt joy of unselfish giving.

Thus each generation passes on
The heritage it holds to be most dear.
Parents, beloved, accept my heartfelt thanks
That you discerned REAL values, true and clear.

May the recollection of this good woman’s life, which helped to make yo u r life possible, be a comfort and encouragement to you. 		Lane, Ellen Elvira (I127936)
 
648 Elmer B. (Stub) White passed away March 31, 2001 at his home in Farmingt o n.

He was born January 31, 1914

in Centerville, Utah, son of Frank and Sarah Grace Barber

White. He married Thelma Catherine Lund November 16, 1946 in Morgan, Uta h . Their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple Jun e 14 , 1963. He worked as a farmer and for 31 years was employed as a gro wer a t Miller Floral Company. He loved sports, especially baseball. Lif e lon g member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, servin g in m any positions, including faithful service as a home teacher. 		White, Elmer Barber (I5043)
 
649 ELMO H LUND

Elmo's parents, Jens Peter Alfred Hansen Lund was born in Denmark in 18 7 0 and Julia Anna Christiansen, was born in Ephraim, Utah in 1872. Julia ' s parent were both born in Denmark. Elmo was the tenth of eleven childr en ; Leo, Le Roy, Caroline, George, Mildred, Novella, Alva, Elvira, Ivan , El mo, and Ada.

Jens Peter Alfred Hansen Lund (see his life story), commonly called Alf r ed held a variety of jobs until homesteading some land in Gunnison, Ut a h as a farmer raising sugar beets and alfalfa. He and Julia were marri e d January 29th, 1892 in Mayfield, Sanpete, Utah. On December 6, 1893 th e y were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. Elmo's Grandparents Ramus Hanse n L und and Perrine Jensen settled in Pleasant Grove, Utah, (see their li fe s tories) and Fredrick Christiansen and Elisa Larsen settled in Ephrai m, Ut ah.

The home Alfred and Julia raised their children in was a very small l o g cabin that barely had room for the family. On warmer nights, the boy s s lept in the barn. The cabin was located about 12 miles outside of Gun niso n. This piece of land later became part of their son Ivan’s farm. Iv an wa s two years older than Elmo. The original farm was eventually divid ed bet ween two brothers, Ivan and Alva with a creek separating the two f arms wh en their father no longer farmed. At that time Elmo’s parents mov ed int o a small home in town.

The family was quite poor and most of the children never finished schoo l . His sister Ada told stories of riding into town to school in the wint er , when many times, Elmo didn’t have any shoes or a warm jacket. He wou l d arrive at school so cold that the teacher had him sit close to the po tb elly stove until he could warm up. Elmo left school around the sevent h gr ade to help on the farm. The entire family was members of the Mormo n Chur ch, but their attendance depended on their father; if he was happ y abou t the way things were being done in the ward, the family was all t o atten d church, but if he was displeased with the Bishop then none of t he famil y was allowed to go to church. Alfred was a very strict fathe r and wha t he said was the law in the household, no one was allowed to g o agains t it. Being raised that way left only some of their children act ive in th e church.
Elmo’s sister Ada told that their father was not only strict, but on ma n y occasions his actions were very harsh and he didn’t hesitate whippin g t he boys. For some unknown reason, he never whipped Elmo.

As a young boy Elmo had a horse named Peanuts that he loved very much . O ne winter he found his horse dead in the mountains, apparently havin g bee n killed by a mountain lion.

The family has a picture of Elmo playing basketball with his brother Iv a n and a future brother-in-law George Bauer. The uniform had CENTER on t he ir jerseys. Possibly the name of the ward they were living in .

Elmo eventually went to Salt Lake City to find a job, as he didn’t real l y want to be a farmer. The 1930 Census, when Elmo was 21, shows him liv in g with his sister Mildred and her husband Coy, their new born daughte r Do lores, Elmo's sister Elvira and her husband Verl De Mill. Elmo was a ble t o get a job at a gas station in Salt Lake City .

He met his future bride (Ethel) Irene Callister while living with Mildr e d and Coy. Irene was visiting a friend next door. They would talk ove r th e fence and this led to a courtship and marriage in the Salt Lake Te mpl e on November 28th, 1934. At some point in their marriage he starte d call ed Irene “Peanuts”. It was a loving nickname he gave her and it wa s neve r used by anyone other than him. Irene gave birth to their first c hild, E laine, who was born at St. Mark’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, Uta h on Apr il 29, 1936. Sometime after Elaine’s birth there was a robbery a t the ga s station where Elmo was working and he was knocked unconsciou s after bei ng hit on the head with a gun.

The young family decided to move to California looking for better emplo y ment opportunities. They initially lived with Elmo's sister Ada and he r h usband George Bauer in Atwater District, California. Atwater lies be twee n the Los Angeles River to the West and Glendale to the north and ea st. E lmo got a job at a gas station behind the duplex they rented. It wa s jus t down the street from where Elmo’s sister Novella and her husban d Lyma n Sander lived.

Their son, Lynn Elmo, was born at the Glendale Adventist Hospital on M a y 5, 1939. After Lynn’s birth, Elmo got a job with a Plumbing Company a n d they moved to the Long Beach area. They only lived there a few month s ; Irene developed asthma and after a few very bad attacks the doctor to l d them Irene needed to move to an area that wasn’t so damp. They move d ba ck to Atwater, renting a small house across the street from where No vell a and her family lived.

Elmo continued working for the plumbing company, driving a truck that d e livered the supplies for their jobs, he eventually started learning th e p lumbing trade. The owner of the plumbing company was very fond of Elm o, i mpressed by what a hard worker he was. Knowing that he was a famil y man h e encouraged Elmo to purchase one of the new homes they had don e the plum bing for in North Hollywood. He offered to loan him money so t hey could p urchase the house. They paid $5,000 for the house at 5242 Be n Ave., Nort h Hollywood, CA and moved in the summer of 1941. A few year s later, the y purchased a half a lot next door to their house from his s ister Novell a Sanders. ------apartments? They lived here until Elmo's de ath in 1970 a nd Irene continued to live there until she moved to Rosamon d, CA to be cl oser to her daughter Elaine and husband Bob in 1995 when s he could no lon ger drive and was suffering memory loss.

Although Elmo was not active in the Church most of his life, very few m e n did more service in their ward and in the neighborhood. Bishop Watt s o f the Studio City Ward would always call Elmo and some other less act iv e to go the Welfare Farm or to help someone move or to help someone ne edi ng some work done. He always said these are the men that I can depen d on . When the Studio City Ward building was being built, Max Willard, m y Da d and Lynn, a young Deacon did all the plumbing. This meant that Elm o wou ld be there almost every night after work and on Saturdays. Elmo, M ax Bre nner, Mack, Brownie and Stan Daily worked more hours on the buildi ng of t he Studio City Ward building than all the other brethren in the w ard pu t together.

If Elmo considered you a friend there wasn’t a thing that he wouldn’ t d o for you. You knew where you stood with him, he either liked you o r he d idn’t. Family was very important to him and he taught his childre n that f amily would always be there for you. Family and good friends, b e loyal an d true to them always. He didn’t tell you often that he love d you, but yo u knew it by his actions and the things that he did for yo u .

Elmo at some time must have been discouraged with work or his income, t e lling Irene that he thought they should sell their home and move to Gun ni son where he could farm with his brothers, Alva and Ivan. Being a wis e su pportive wife, Irene suggested that he take a week vacation and the y woul d go to Gunnison so he could farm with his brothers, making sure t hat wa s what he wanted to do. Before the week was over Elmo knew that fa rming w asn’t for him and of how good their life was in California with t he job h e had at that time.

Unknown to their children, Elmo and Irene struggled some financially. T h ey both took some side jobs to supplement their income. Irene took in i ro ning and Elmo did a variety of side jobs. He put in yard sprinkler sys tem s (this was before PVC pipes). Elmo would measure and Lynn would cu t an d thread the pipe then Elmo would put it all together. Of course h e and L ynn had to dig the trenches for the sprinklers as well. On the ha lf lot t hey owned next to their home, Elmo raised rabbits and would butc her, dres s and sell to neighbors. He would put the rabbit skin on stretc hers and s ell them to the feed store. He also had a large vegetable gard en that wa s used for his family and some excess was sold to neighbors. E lmo kept ch ickens and sold the excess eggs to neighbors as well. Elmo an d his son di d yard work for neighbors on Saturdays. Included in the yard s they did we re the Marcy's apartments which covered more than half a bl ock, keeping t hem very busy on Saturdays. Occasionally they started yard s after he go t home from work on Fridays as well. Elmo had the best look ing yard in th e neighborhood including a perfect Dicondra lawn from whic h you would se e him pull any weed that came up. He would be shirtless o n his knees pull ing weeds almost every night after work .

Elmo and Irene could never afford a new car or even close to a new ca r . For years they had an old one seat Ford or Chevrolet. Elmo would dri v e and Elaine would sit in the middle with Irene against the window wit h L ynn on her lap. This lasted until about 1951 when then bought a 194 0 fou r door Dodge. It had a special light on the top of the front fender s tha t were used during the War so the light pointed down for blackouts . Year s later his sister gave or sold them her Pontiac which they drov e for yea rs.

Elmo's knees and neck always seemed to bother him. He had a handheld ma s sager and always worked on his sore knees in the evening. Later it wa s di scovered that it was his hips, eventually leading to hip replacemen t surg ery for both hips. Some of his siblings also had to have hip repla cements . He went to the Chiropractor to get an adjustment on his neck th at seeme d to bother him most of his life.

Elmo loved his family and they were the most important things in his li f e. He was also a great sports fan. Elmo loved almost all sports and Ly n n remembers that on many Saturdays his good friend, Stan Daily and he w ou ld watch ice hockey games in their den and eat lunch together. He list ene d to all the Dodger baseball games and University of Southern Califor ni a (where Lynn would later attend graduate school) football games and o f c ourse watched them on television if the game was televised. Long befo re t he Dodgers came to Los Angeles, Elmo was a big fan of the Los Angele s Ang els, a minor league team that was owned by the Chicago Cubs. He wou ld lis ten to the games on the radio and take his son Lynn to many of th e games . Lynn was a big Notre Dame fan (the love for them didn't last lo ng) an d he begged Elmo to take him to the game so he could see the grea t Johnn y Lattner play. When they got to the game the tickets were expens ive, s o Elmo decided he wasn't going to pay. He was about to leave but L ynn wa s so upset that Elmo gave in and they went to the game. Johnny Lat tner wo n the Heisman Trophy in 1953 and won the Maxwell Award twice, i n 1952 an d 1953. There wasn't much that Elmo wouldn't do for his two kid s. In 1959 , while Lynn was attending L.A. Valley College, the Dodgers wo n the penna nt, so Lynn skipped football practice and a scrimmage to driv e to L.A. an d purchase tickets for him and Elmo. They attended two game s and watche d the Dodgers defeat the Chicago White Sox for the Champions hip. It was o ne of Elmo's fondest moments. The Los Angeles Dodgers move d to Los Angele s in 1958 and played the first few years in the Los Angel es Memorial Coli seum. In 1962, they moved to their present home in Chave z Ravine. Elmo pr obably listened to Dodger games on his little radio fro m 1958 until his d eath in 1970.

When his daughter, Elaine, and Bob Thompson started dating and became e n gaged, Elmo told Bob that he might as well move in and share Lynn’s ro o m since he came right from work every night to help Elmo on the duple x th at he was building on the half lot attached to their house by a bree ze wa y. With Bob moving in, he could rent out his home in Sun Valley unt il h e and Elaine got married. This also allowed for him to save money an d pa y off any of his bills. Bob and Elaine were married .

Elmo was basically very shy, seeming to relate better to kids. When h i s first grandson, Elaine's son, Bob Thompson was born in 1960, there w a s nothing Elmo wouldn't do for Bobby. Later, when other grandchildren w er e born, he wasn't as nice to them as he should be, showing strong favo rit ism to Bobby. This caused problems and bad feelings for the family.

After graduating from Brigham Young University, Lynn started dating Ela i ne Eyre whom he noticed while at BYU and later went to her home in La s Ve gas to take her on a date. A short time later Elaine moved to West C ovin a to start teaching. They dated until he went into the Army for si x month s. After finishing basic training at Fort Ord, CA, Lynn came hom e for sev eral weeks before finishing his six months at Fort Gordon, Geor gia. Lyn n wanted to buy something for Elaine as a reminder of him whil e he was go ne. He was concerned because Elaine was writing to an LDS mis sionary in F rance who would be coming home while he was in Georgia. Elm o said why don 't you just ask her to marry you and give her an engagemen t ring. Elmo an d Irene had become quite fond of Elaine on her visits an d they had take n her with them to see Lynn at Fort Ord. Lynn listened t o Elmo's advice , and became engaged in December of 1962. They were marri ed in the Los An geles temple on July 6, 1963.

Elmo eventually went to work for the Southern Pacific Railroad as a pip e fitter and worked there until he developed lung cancer. Early in 197 0 h e wasn’t feeling well and went to see the Southern Pacific doctors. A fte r being examined by their doctors he was sent to their hospital in Sa n Fr ancisco. After spending some time in the hospital his son Lynn convi nce d Irene and his sister Elaine that the three of them needed to go t o Sa n Francisco and visit him. They needed to know what the doctors ha d decid ed was wrong with him and they weren’t getting any answers from E lmo. The y visited him and he told them the doctor wanted to see them. Th ey were t hen told by the doctor that he had lung cancer and that it wa s terminal . The cancer was too advanced for surgery or any treatment oth er than t o keep him comfortable and to drain the fluid as the lung fille d. The doc tor told us that he was glad that we had come since Elmo didn’ t want to b e the one to tell us, he wanted the doctor to do it. Elmo's f amily was sh ocked. Elmo had told them the doctors wanted him to go to th e hospital t o check to see if he had TB. They were so upset that Lynn su ggested the y drive to the Oakland Temple and walked around the grounds u ntil they we re calm and ready to talk to Elmo more about what the docto r had told the m. They offered a prayer for his recovery and to help the m stay strong fo r him. They stayed there at least one night and returne d home. A month la ter Elaine and her husband Bob (Leonard Robert Thompso n) decided to driv e up to see him, taking their older four children (Bob by, Ric, Lisa and R on) with them to cheer him up.

Elmo was sent home over the Christmas holidays to spend time with his f a mily with the knowledge that he would need to be back to the hospital r ig ht after New Year’s. The doctors were trying to figure out the origi n o f the cancer, wanting to check the thyroid, but never getting the cha nce . The cancer might have come from the fact that Elmo smoked cigarette s , a pipe and cigar for many years. When his oldest grandson Bob was abo u t three years old he told his grandfather that he didn’t want him to sm ok e or to drink coffee anymore. That’s all it took and Elmo quit smokin g an d drinking coffee. He hadn’t been active in church while his childre n wer e growing up, but when his grandson told him that he needed to go t o chur ch, he started attending with Irene. By the time Bob turned eight , Elmo w as worthy and baptized him. Elmo had recently had a hip replacem ent, so h is son in-law, Bob, helped him down into the font and was ther e to stead y him. It was a very emotional moment for his family as he ha d never give n his children a blessing and they had never heard him pray . It took th e courage of a grandson to tell him what he should do when h is own childr en hadn’t felt they could, they loved their dad so much an d didn’t want h im to get mad at them. At some time before the baptism, h e started wearin g his Temple garments.

On New Year's Eve, December 31, 1970, while sitting in his recline r i n their family room he had a heart attack and died. The family has al way s felt that he willed himself to die there at home as he didn’t wan t to g o back to the hospital and be so far away from his family and frie nds.

Bob and Elaine had gone out for the evening to celebrate the New Year a n d when they arrived home their dear neighbor, Celesta West, was standi n g in their driveway waiting to tell Elaine about the death of her fathe r . Celesta felt that it would be easier for her to give them the news th a n their young babysitter, Steve Nielsen. Lynn and his wife Elaine (ne e Ey re) (same first name as his sister) and their young son (Roger) wer e in L as Vegas visiting Elaine's parents for New Year’s when they got th e call , from the daughter of the Davidsons across the street, with the n ews o f Elmo's passing. It was Elaine's mom that suggested they all kne e and Gr andpa Eyre offered a prayer. Lynn and his family then returned t o Califor nia the next day. 		Lund, Elmo Hansen (I4977)
 
650 Elva Victoria Olsen Cox was born on May 27, 1909, in Richfield, Utah. H e r father is John Peter Olsen and her mother was Hulda Ask Olsen, both f ro m Denmark.
In 1915, they moved to Kimberly Idaho. Elva has two brothers and two si s ters. Their mother died when Elva was 15 years old and, being the olde st , she helped to raise the other children .
She married Fred R. McEwen on April 20, 1930 and the marriage was solemn i zed in the Salt Lake Temple. They lived in Hazelton where their firs t d aughter, Helen Louise, was born.
They moved to Kimberly, Idaho, the following year and another daughter , L ois Mae, was born. Four years later, their son, John Alan, was bor n in K imberly.
In 1940, the family moved to Burbank, California where Elva worked in t h e defense industry at Lockheed Aircraft, during World War II. After t h e war, she moved back to Idaho, to Twin Falls .
Elva and Fred eventually divorced .
On August 25, 1946, she married Elvis (Whitie) Cox, who was killed i n a m ine accident in 1953. During the
seven years before his death, they worked together for the Cattle Associ a tion of Challis, Idaho, and for the National Forest Association, as we l l as ranching.
Elva worked at Woolworth's in Twin Falls for many years until her heal t h required her to retire.
Surviving Elva are a son, John Alan McEwen, of Granada Hills, CA, two da u ghters, Helen Jones of Glendale, CA, and Lois Earls of Norwalk, CA, fat he r, John P. Olsen of Kimberly, ID, two brothers, John A. and Floyd H. O lse n, both of Kimberly, ID, two sisters, Lily Staley of Kimberly, ID, an d Vi olet Brown of Burbank, CA, and seven grandchildren. 		Olsen, Elva Victoria (I148221)
 

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