'f2. TITLE PAGE PIONEER {full name) -A-nn- R-og-e-rs -S n-o-w -=-------- East Lake, Amroth Fem- BIR TH {date and place) 30 December 1835 - brokeshire, So. Wales DEA TH (date and place) 11 March 1928 - St. George, Utah PARENTS _J_o_h_n_R_o~g=e_r s ___________ _ MARRIED (who and dat e) ARRIVAL IN U TAH (dat e) ( C ompany arr i v ed with) HISTORY {who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) {addr ess ) Jane tte Reese Wi lliam Snow - 12 March 1853 About 1851 Bess Snow (great-granddaughter) June 1948 Dol ores Kimbal {great-grandda'u ghter) R t. l, Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING _W_ e_b_er _R_iv_e_r ___ _____ Camp _M_ o_rg_a_n ____ ________ County (Camp Historian & address)-· -------------------- J ean Bigler Rt. 1 Box 250, Mor gan, Utah 84050 County Hist orian & address) --------------------- Ve l ey Tonks Dickson P.O. Box 203 , Mor gan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF l!\FO.Rl\~ATION & PAGE NUMBERS: ANN ROGERS $"NO W My Grandmother, Anr- ?.oeers, was born Dec. 30, 1835 at East La.ice, Amroth Pembrokeshire, South \/ales. She was the dauehter of Joh.~ Rogers and Janette Reese. She, with her family, liYed in a large old farm house on a gently sloping upland overlooking the sea. The house was surr ounded with flower beds, larce old elm trees, and a hedge fence. Her father was well to do and always had hired help both in the house and out of it. Grandmother was the youngest of nine children. She loved to talk of her home in Wales and tell about going with her brothers and sisters to the orchard to gather fruit and hazelnuts. She told of gathering black-berries from the vines that grew over the sod fences that surroundeu the well kept farmland. She played at the seash-ore with other children. Here they went 1n wading and c aueht fish. There was a certain kind of shell fish they used to ce.tch as a special treat for her father. He liked it baked 1n the oven so that the shell would come open and the meat could be taken out. Ylhen she was two yea.rs old, her mother died and her sister Elizabeth cared for her like a mother. Some years later her father mar1·ied e.gain but the children never got alonB very well wit~ their step-mother. Her older brother, John, was a school teacher, a11d the parish minister. He t':l.'."."'ht C·ra!1drnother in school. She would walk to school holding on to his hand until they got close enough so that the other students could aee them, then he made her let go so he could look more dignified before his pupils. On her mother's side, she descended from Coel Godebog who was king of all Britain in 738. 4-3 \'!hen she was 12, her father let her go to the neighbor-ing town of Tenby to school to ta:i:e a tailor's course. She bec2.me very effieient in this Ylork, and later used her skill to help make a livinc for her family. The Mormon mission-aries ca.me to their home and converted the family. They all joined the church except her two brothers John and William, and her sister Janette. A few years later her father de-cided to move his family to America. John tried to get him not to come, and told him he was not strong enough to with-stand the severe climate of North America. However he wish-ed to come so made preparations to do so. A number of years before they left for America, Grandmother's sister,Ma.rtha, went to the seashore with so~e friends to swim and she was drown. She was just fifteen. Before Grandmother left Wales, John Thaine asked Grand-mother to marry him. As she was only thirteen, she told him she was too young but would we.it three years for him in America.. He promised to write to her often and said that he would join her later. All the family ca.me to America except the three that did-n't join the church. However they were always friendly and wrote to each other as long as they lived. At the time they left Wales, Great-grandfather couldn't sell his property. John cared for it and over a period of years sold it and sent the money he received to the ones in America. Jan.12,1849 the family boarded the ship "Osprey" at Liverpool and sail- ~d for New Orleans with a company of 100 saints. - -2- They spent ten wee1~s a.t sea., a.rri ving in New Orleans a.bout the first of April. Here they began to see stran5e sights c.nd peculiar customs of the new land e.nd su:ffer minor dis-appointments. On April 4th. the fs:\!Ilily took passage on a. steamship going up the Mis ?issippi bound for Council Blu:ffs, Iowa.. Her sister sa.r~h married while they were on the ship comini over. When they reached St. Louis, she and her hus-band and her brother Thomas e.nd his wife decided to stop there a."ld wor~: then come on later. Thomas did come on later but Sarah died that summer. Janette also died in \'/ales that ea.me year. On the way a.cross the ocean, a young man fell in love with Grandmother's sister Eliz~beth and asked her to marry hi~ but she refused. One niB}lt when they were some miles be-yond St. Louis, Elizabeth saw Grand.mother to 1:>ed then went out on the deck of the steamer in the moonlight. Here the yo'lmg man found her 8.lld a.gain a.slced her to marry him. Vlhen she refused, ·he became angry and strangled her to death. Wh-en the people on boa.rd foUiid out about it, the captain said, "If you are with me, we'll stop and give this girl a decent burial." They stopped a.tone of the lovely old plantations alon.3 the river ban.1c and buried her w1der t he grass and trees in t~e moonlight. This was one of the saddest experiences of Grandmother's life because ~lizabeth had always been like a mother to her. · The family came on to Counc1.l Blu.t:ts. They arrived just as Grandfather Snow was leaving tor Utah. They bought hie fexm and home because the presiding Elder, Mr. Hyde, advis-ed Great-grandfather to stay there and raise crops for about two years to taJ~e to Utah as food wa.s scarce in the Salt La'~e Valley at t!1e time. It wa.s t~rough this that Grand-mother -0ecar.1e a.cq~a.1nted with the Snow family. As her father was not very strong, the conditions they were forced to live under were too much for him e.nd he took chills and fever and died Aug. 1850. Grandmother also took the same illness but recovered. She. and her brother Henry were now the only ones left e:zcept the step-mother and a half-sister, l(ary, and her brother Thomas be.ck in St. Louis. The step-mother was very overbearing e.nd hard to get along with. Grandmother and Henry longed to get a.way from her. Shortly after the father's death Henry got a chance to hire out to a can who wa.s going to California. With a sad heart, Gra.~dmother bade him goodbye. A:rter he reached Calif. ornia he wrote to her and Uncle Thomas several times, and they answered. Finally Grand.mother said that she got to the pla~ where she didn't have means enoUBh to buy a stamp and paper so she stopped writing. She never heard from him age.in. Later they learned of some freighters in California. that ha.d been killed by the Indians and they always tho1J8ht that likely he was one of them. The ste~-mother now decided to go onto Utah. She and a man, that had n wife but no children, bought a covered wagon, a yoke of oxen, and a cow together and started out for UtAll with a company of saints. They hadn't gone very far when stepmother ~uarreled with the man, and she made him cu~ the wagon in two so that each had a two wheeled ca.rt and an oxen to make the journey with. Grandmother walked and drove the oxen the rest of the way across the plains. . After weeks of plodding over roU!;h dusty roads exposed to all kinds of weather, they finally neared the Salt La.lee Valley. Gra-'11.dmother's wagon was the last in the train. When they were still miles outside of the valley, a wheel collap-sed. She left the step-mother and sister Mary, and in her o,·m words she said, "I walked a foot and alone in a snow st-orm into Salt Lake to get help." When she got there, she met a nan on the streets and told him of the plight she was in. He asked her if she knew anyone in the valley. She told him she had known the Snows in Council Bluffs. So he took her there and some of the men went out and helped them. Out of the family of eight that left Wales, she was the first to reach Salt Lake, in fact she was the only one of her own fam-ily who ever came except Uncle Thomas who moved out later. After they were settled in Salt Lake, the step-mother married again. As Grandmother didn't like the man or the step-mother, she decided to leave home and work out if she could. At the time Grandfather Snow had two wives. His wife liaria was sick in bed with a new baby so Grandfather asked Grandma to come taJce care of her. While working there, she told Aunt Maria how unhappy she was and how she disliked livinG with the step-mother. Aunt Uaria told Grandfather 1 so he asked her to narry him but told her that is she di~- •nt want to she could live with them as long as she liked. The ma.n she met,the day she first entered Salt Lake, also asked her to marry him. She told both of them that she was waiting for her lover across the sea. After she left Wales, she never once heard from John Thaine. A:fter the three years ... were up that she had promised to wait for him, she finally decided to marry Grandfather Snow. She married him March 12, 1853. After she had been married to him for a.bout three months, she received a bundle of letters from John. He had written to her every month e.fter she had left Wales. The letters had been del~ea somewhere so that she had not received th-em. After she had two or three children, John cal'!le to Utah to see her. He wa.s married then and had two children of his own. He told her that he had remained single until he heard that she was married. Although Grandpa was twenty nine years older than Grandma, she said that she was always glad thet she had married him. She said that she cried when she received John's letters when she thought what a ooJlfort they would have been to her on the long, dreary, lonesome Journey across the plains. Grandpa was a. very kindly man and was always very good to her. She said that she felt that her oh- 1ld:ren were lltlTth all she ever went through. I think that Grandpa must have been more like a father to her than a. hus-band. She always spoke of him as Brother Snow or "your Grand-father" when talking to us children about him. She never said William. . Just a.a they ~ere ~tting comfortably settled, the church called Grandpa to Fort Supply, Wyoming. Aunt Maria went with him while the other three wives remained in Salt Lake. He had married Aunt Roxania the same day that he did Grand-ma. While he was gone, news came that Johnson't Army was nearing the state and intended to take control of it. Presi-dent Young advised the people to leave the valley and move South before the army got there. People all over the valley were loading wagons ready to move. Grandma,being left alone with her young son Willard, was very worried. Early in the -4- fall, Grandfather returned to Salt Lake and moved all qf his families to Lehi. The first year in Lehi, they lived in log houses inside of the old liud Fort that had been built as protection agai~- st the hostile Indians. The town of Lehi was surrounded by c. wall of mud and sagebrush. It was six feet wide at the bottom a.iid three at the top. The house had been hurriedly built so that it let in the wind and storm. \'lhile living here, Grandma's second son, Jeter, was born. He was born Dec.21,1855. The night he was born, the cold December wind blew across the floor. The midwife, Mrs. Jacobs, warmed blan.'\cets to wrap around Grandma and the baby. When morning came and the wind died down, lrrs. Jacobs swept a tubful of snow from the floor where it had blown in during the night. Grandmother lived in the fort for six ye~s. While livi~..g there she had two more children, Celestia and Charles. As tl~e settlers bec3.Lle more numerous and the Indians more :friendly, Grandfather decided to build a new home outside of the fort for his families. He built a long log house with a roof of poles covered with willows, straw, and dirt. It held its ovm with the wind and sun but was no match for the rain and snow. Inside, each wife had one large and one small room. In the large one was an open fireplace where the :family meals were cooked, and where a cheerful fire bl-azed to warm the house in cold weather. A frying pan and a boJ,:e kettle were the chief cooking utensils. The latter had a wide lid that could be covered with coals and fit snug-ly over the kettle to make an oven. It was while they were living here that Frank, my father was born. He was born Oct. 12,1863. While living here, Grandfather took turns liv-ing ~1th each family. W'hfle living in Lehi, Leonard Wines, a step-son of Grandpa's, ca.me to visit his mother Aunt llaria. He was a wn.gon master for one o:f the wagon trains that made regular trips across· the plains. He had a dozen wagon covers that needed men.dins. He knew that Gra..~dmother was a good seamst-ress so told her that she could have three of the covers if she would mend the rest. They were made o:f Indian Head i.h1.Slin or "factory" as it was called. Grandmother was glad to do this because her family were sorely in need of new clothing. She got 45 yards of cloth out of this. Some she washed and bleached to make sheets and pillowcases, and underclothing. The rest she washed and dyed with Indigo to make shirts and dresses. -About 1864, President Young sent word to Grandpa to get ready to move to Southern Utah to help build up the Dixie Mission. So the family began to make preparations. Uncles Willard and Jeter husked corn for a neighbor, on shares and got enough to fatten the family pig so that Grandfather could save his corn to telce along to feed the animals and use for seed in the south. Grandma also began to make ready for the lonG trip. About this time, she reoeived 0300 from her brot-her John in Wales. He had sold some of the :family property there. This was like a Godsend to the family who were goi~ to the southern tip of the state and would be hundreds of miles from the source of many important supplies. Grandma took the money and went to Salt Lake to buy the things that she felt that she most needed for the long trip and to use when she got to her new home. She bought a cookstove,that lasted her the rest of her life. a clothes chest, clothes for all the fnmily, a complete sewing outfit as she made all the clothes for her family and for many of the neighbors as well. She got a co.in bottomed che.ir, that was a real lux-ury in that day, but the first night out on the trip, one of the horses ate the bottom out of it. She bought a love-ly new e:haril for herself. It took much planning and prepar-ation for such a long journey. They had to move across a wild unsettled state over which roved bands of Indians,some-ti~ es friendly, sometimes hostile but never to be depended upon. A big jar of butter was put down, and a pig was killed, cured, and salted awr~. These thin~s. with other provisions as corn for the animals, and seed for planting, were placed in t he wac;on of Jode Cox, an about to be son-in-law, who was helping to move the family south. The household things and Grandmother's personal things were placed in another wagon. Aunt Sally's things were arranged in a third. One fine Nov-e~ ber morning they left Lehi headed for the south. Grand-father, with Aunt Sally and her family, headed the train. Uncle Willa.rd, who was just 12, followed with Grandmother a~d her family in another wagon drawn by an ox team. Jode Cox, with his load, brought up the rear. Uncle Jeter, a lad of ten, rode a horse EU1d drove the cattle. Ai.L~ts Maria and Roxania remained in Lehi to be moved later when they had things ready for them in the south. T~e weather was fine, and had they gone straight thro-ugh, they might have had a good trip. Cyrus Reynolds, who wanted to go with them, wasn't quite ready. He asked them to wait for him so he wouldn't have to travel alone as there was much danger from Indians. They waited ten days for him in San Pete. As a result, thE"y were caught in a snow storm on the latter end of the journey. They stopped at a few sett-leI: tents along the ,ra:y to wash a few clothes and bake bread to last then for several days. Whenever Grandmother saw the sun,shining on the snow, as it was about to disappear over the horizon, she always said 1 t reminded b.er of the nit;ht they drove into Cove Fort on their journey down. They had come through the snow and cold without a sign of a settlement in sight. When they came over the raise where Cove Fort loomed into sight, the sn:owwas sparkling in the sunlight as it was about to slip behind ts mow1ta1ns. She told how thankful she was to find shelter for her family that night. When they got close to the southern pa.rt o~ the state they met Uncle Erastus on his way to Salt LeJ:e. Re was hend of the Dixie Mission and directed the sai?ifs where to settle. As he had a house in Pine Val1ey, he told Gra.11dpa to take his families there. When they got about three miles outside of Pine Valley, they found that there was no road broken and the snow was so deep that they couldn't get through. They were forced to send someone into town for help. Jode Cox took one of the horses and rode into town. Uncle William Gardner and Bennett Brc>-c1cen came out with three yoke of oxen and helped the weary teams through the deep snowdrifts. When they got into town, there was three feet of snow on the level. They arrived Christ-mas Eve. They were taken to ihe home of Eli Whipple whose wif e had a good hot supper re,ady for them. They greatly appreciated this after so many days of· eating over a camp- fire in the cold. After supper, Grandfather secured some pitch pine knots and went to the new home Uncle Erastus had sent him to. There he built a roaring fire in the firepl-ace to warm the rooo for the family to move into. Grand-mother always said tho.twas the most beautif-μl eight she ever sa,•1 when she took her shivering 11 ttle family into th~t wer~ cozy room out of the cold bitter night and saw the bright flames leaping up the chimney back. The house r-ad four rooms so each wife had two for her family. The next day Gre.ndpa took the boys and hEuled wood fr-om the nearby canyon. 'l'hen he went to one of the sawmills and got a load of lumber and set to work making furniture. He cleaned the snow awa:y from the sunny side of the house and set up a workbench. He made a table, cupboard, stand, v,3.sh be11ch, and two bedsteads for each wife. The bedsteads were morticed together end fastened with ropes to hold the bed together and serve as springs as well. \'/hen a straw tick wa~ placed over this, it made a warm comfortable bed. He next went to the nearby mountain and got out logs. The following summer, he rentad a sawmill and sawed lumber to build a house. E~ built the fovxth house in the valley wh-ere the town no\'l stands. People had been living in the up,er tovm along Spring Branch until now. Many began to move to the vru.le~t below ana farm. Grandfather built a six roomed house.a...~d fastened it together with wooden pegs that he cut by hand because he couldn't get nails. Both families moved into the house and each had three rooms. Later he pl-astered the house and made it more comfortable. Some years l~ter he moved Aunt Sally to the log house, on Baok Street, that Jim Jo.cobson eventually ovmed. Later he bought what was known as the Pink House, from William Cowley and moved Aunt Sally there. Grandmother remained in the first house he built for the rest of her life. Two years later C-randpa returned to Lehi and moved Aunts iiaria and Roxie.na down. Aunt Yarie.'s sons Ira, ?forrnan, and Leonard Wines, by a former marriage, bought their mother a house across the st-reet from Grandmother's. As Grandfather was Bishop of Pine Valley·ward, his business often took him to St.George that was the center of the st~:e, so he bought a home there for Aunt Roxia.n:i. The first year after their arrival, Orandmother sent her boys to school in the little log school house that had recently been built in the valley, but she taught Aunt Lestia at home because she had no shoes. Grandmother had had quite a good educ1tion before coming to, Aoerioa. She loved books and-read a lot during the latter part of her life when she had more time to spare. As there was ' no store in Pine Valley when the family moved there, e.nd Sears and llontgonery were still in embryo, many things had to be !jlade at home. Each man in town had a few sheep. The wool had to be sheared, washed, carded, spun, and woven into cloth and knit into stockin~s and socks. A short time after Gra...~d.c.other moved to Pine Valley, some of the men of the town decided to start a tannery and make their ovm leather. Grandmother would combine this crude leather with bits of denim, left from the boy's overalls, and ma.1:e shoes for he!' family. Later a Co-op store was plac-ed in the corner of Grandmother's lot and Grandfather had charbe of it. As the people of the town learned that Grand-na was a good seamstres~, they would come to her to get her to sew for them. She would ta..~e bolts of cloth out of the -7- store a."'ld ma.ice 1 t into overalJ s and jumpers for the men and receive store pay for them. For soap, she used the roots of the oose plant, that could be found along the road to St. George, or she would ma::e her ovm out of bi ts of fat and lye made form distilled wood ashes. She made yeast for Salt Rising bread by fer-menting shorts, water, and salt. Grandmother did many th-ines to hel, make a living tor her family. She made dress suits for the men of the town as well as for her own bovs. After coming to Pine Valley, she again received some money from her brother, John, in Wales. With this, she bought the second sewing machine that ever ca.me into Pine Valley. The first machine that ca.me ,.nto the valley belonged to Aunt Maria. Her Wines sons bought it tor her. A:rter buying the machine, Grandmother had enough money left to buy a sack of sugar and a bolt of cloth. After she got the machine, many people who came for her to sew for the~ thought that now her work was easier that she should do it for little or nothine. She once made a suit with two pairs of pants to it for her neighbor, Old Brother Carr. When she had finish-ed t~e suit, she received the generous sum of one pound of butter for her work. Today this sewing machine can be found in the Hc:~uarrie Memorial building in St. George, Utah. As there was no doctor in Pine Valley, the Relief Society was supposed to care for the sick. Grandmother helped many mid-wives. She assisted in bringing 100 babies into the world. The June after Grandmother moved to Pine Valley, her you."'lgest dnughter, Nellie, was born. Later she had two more children Orrin and Little Georgie, as he was always called. He died when he was about three years old. He was just at the c1..tte age when he was following a.11 the family wherever they we:1t, , and they all made a fuss over him. Grandmother said it was one of the hardest things she ever faced when she lost him. She had many hardships. The fall after they came to Pine Valley, the Navajo Indians began to steal horses from the whites, and they killed two men in St, George. They made a raid on the Pine Valley horse herd. After that the men and boys of the town took turns watching the stock at night. Although Uncle Willard was just a boy he had to take his turn. This was a worry to her lest he might be killed. 1'!hen she was 44 yea.rs old, Gra.,dfather died leaving her with three children still unmarried at home to care for. Father was fifteen, Aunt Nellie twelve, and Uncle Orrin nine. Uncle Charlie was still at home but moved to Rabbit Valley the 1"Iext spring. Uncle Jeter was out in Uevada working. It wo.s hard for boys that age to care for a farm. Grandfather died leaving some debts still unpain. As the oidest boys of the families still unmarried were Grandmothers the burden f;ll 0 ~ them: Aunt Sally's children were all girls except one a...,d he was only nine. Aunt Maria's oldest boy at home was'liace a boy of fifteen. So .Uncle Jeter assumed the bur-den of the debts. Pa e.nd Uncle Mace with the help of Uncles Orrin and William, took over the far~ work. Uncle Jeter paid Old Dr. Ivins for Grp..ndpa's doctor bill; finished paying William C9wley for Aunt Sally's house; and paid Peter Jacob-son money that he had invested in the old Co-op store. With the boy's help, combined with her wise guidance. Gr8.lldmo. manat;ed to get along. 0ne of Grandmother's most outstanding characteristics was her honesty which she instilled deeply in her children. Her son Willard once said that none of her children would ever die rich because no one, who lived by the standards and example that she and Grandfather set before them, could ever do anything but scratch a poor Man's back for the rest of his life. Her son, Jeter, paid a 50% tithing all his life for :fear he might cheat God. \'/hen he was Bishop of the Pine Valley Ward, he would sell the tithing potatoes and let his own rot in the pit if he didn't have sale for both. No man ever lived who held the respect of his fellow man more th-an he did. When he died, he left his children no worldly weal th, but he left them a Christ liJce example to follow such as few men leave their sons; and each a headful of brains,and ambition to go with them which is better than any man's wealth. Grandmother was like Uncle Jeter. If she borrowed anythin~, she paid it back with interest even to a needful of thread. Someone has said, "The noblest work of God is an honest I!lan." Grr..ndmother's house was ~ust a plain simple little home that was neither grand, elaborate, or very convenient; but it certainly was clean, cozy, and homey. When you entered it, you had much t he same feeling that one might have upon entering a church, a feeling of reverence and sanctity. Gre.ndmother hadn't a child, grandchild, or neighbor who would have thought of such a thing as making a lout noise in her home, ta.king things out of place, making them untidy, or carry 1n a speck of mud or dirt. She wasn't the tussy crOllky kind that shooed people awe:y from her door, btt very quiet o.nd gentle. There was such an air of refinement, quiet-ness, a..~d order that that you simply didn't do those things in her house. $0 Vie' children loved to go there with our mothers. She would get the little black cloth covered footstool, with the diagonal strip of red tape across the top, from behindbedroo~ ' door for us to sit on, or let us sit on the stair steps. The stairway was enclosed except for three steps that came into the living room. On the mantel she kept two china vases with red scalloped tops o.nd :flowers painted on the sides, a pink scalloped dish that held her glasses and thimble, a clock, and her little lamp, and a big white sea shell with brown spots -on it. We loved to have her get the shell down a.nd let us hold it to our ears because it made a purr-in~ sound. Her floors were covered with home made rag car-pets protected with her fine braided mats. Her braided mats were very even and neat and would lie flat on the floor in-stead of puckering up like the shoulder of a man's coat that has hung 011 a nail all winter. Under the stairsteps, she hac a little closet where Uncle Jete, Pa, or one of the boys put her wood and kindlings th-at they brought in each night in the winter. Her little old fashioned sewing machine was covered with a snowy white crocheted cover. The little rawhide bottomed and wicker rockers had crazy patch cushions with the choicest colors and stitching on them. Behind the front room door, she kept a fall leaf table, covered with a red and gra:y cloth, and a red plush album, with a white doily over it, rested on it. In the center of the room was a little hexagon ~tand with a chennile cover and Book of Mormon on it. The set of straight backed chairs were made of brown wood with yellow seats a.~d backs tacked on with brass headed nails. They look-as new the day she died as they did the day she bought them~ Her walls were adorned with a big brown framed mirror, an enla.:re ed picture of Uncle Orrin and his missionary companions, a frame with a wreath of painted flowers with Grandfather's name in the center, a pink silk pin cushion, and a pa.per hanger with the picture of a deer standing by a stream of water on it. In the hanger, she kept the Liahona. V.'hen we children began whispering in our mothers's ears, Grandma always knew what we wanted, and got right up and went to the pantry to get us something to eat. She always kept her bread 1n a bright copper boiler on the floor just inside the pantry door. She would get cold biscuits, that she had made with cream, (her biscuits couldn't be beat), cut them open, and spread them with butter and jelly. She kept her ~elly 1n broken handled teacups with a clean white cloth spread over the top. As soon as she gave us our piece, we went outside to eat for fea.:r we might drop crumbs on her clean floor. To drop crumbs on her floor would have given me the sar~e sensation that I imagine one would have going into heaven with muddy feet. In the winter, she moved her bed into the living room. It had the softest feather bed, the whitest spread, and the cleanest smell. She always wa.:rmed it with a hot flatiron on cold winter nights before we crawled in. I loved to sl-eep with Grandma and b3ar her tell stories of her early life• I can see her yet as we sat by the open fireplace. She was very tiny. She wore a long black skirt and a blouse with a strip of velvet around the neck and cuffs. The neck was fastened with a little gold bar pin with an "A" in the cen-center. There was a row of tiny shiny black buttons down the front of the waist, Around her shoulders, she wore a three cornered crocheted or knit shawl. A tie around . apron ,wn.s ~orn over her skirt. Her aprons were decorated with cross or catch stitch across the bottom. Her gr~ hair was parted in the middle and combed smoothly back in a little knot behind. She wore soft flat heeled shoes, and woolen stockings that she knit herself. Her· soft wrinkled hands would tremble as she held them out to the warm blaze in the fireplace or poked the fire with the poker. She dearly loved to poke a fire. Uncle Jeter used to tell her that she could te..~e a p~rfectly good fire and poke it black out. As she sat by a.n open fire she always said, "I love a.n open fireplace because it reminds me of the first night we arri•- ed in Pine Valley. It was Christmas Eve and we were caught in a snow storm. When we went into the house that Uncle Erastus hn.d sent us to, there was a bright cheery 'fire of pitch pine knots blazing in the fireplace, and I thought I hrui. never seen anything so beautiful in all my life." She held her left hand between her face and the fire as she poked the coals. Whenever the fire popped , she gave a little start. As we sat by the fire, she told me stories of her childhood home in Wales far across the sea. She told of the rambling old far!'lhouse with its well furnished rooms. In the kitchen was an old fashioned bricl-: oven, where the week's baking was done; a large open hearth, where meats were cooked on cranes and spits. She told of the rich farm-land with its le.rge shade trees, hardy fruit trees, flowers, vegetable gardens, shrubs and bushes where they could pick berrieli in summer. There were hazel nut trees to supply the family with nuts for winter to be roasted by the large open fireplace on cold winter evenings. Many were the hives of honey bees to ma.1:e honey for the family and neighbors. Wind- • -10- • ing paths lead to all parts of the farm. Chickens scratch-ed in the barnyard, ducks and geese swam on the nearby pond, while turkeys strutted and gobbled saucy things to them. There was an old fD.Shioned dairy house where cold spring water cooled the milk and cream in queer water separators. Though the family was not considered wealthy they were com-fortably fixed. She told of the long trip across the ocean and of the friends they made on the way, whom they were loath to leave when they arr1Yed in America. She related again a.nd again the story of ti.e tragic death of her sister Elizabeth, who was murdered as they were coming up the lliss1ss1pp1 River. She told of her father's sick11ess and death; and of the lon-liness she ~elt when her brother Henry bade her goodby and left her alone in this stro.nge new l e...rid wi th no one to turn to except a disagree~ble step-mother and a small half sis-ter. She recalled the places she worked in order to get enough money to bring her to Salt Lake. She described the hard journey to Utah, how she walked and drove the oxen; and how the rest of the company, in their haste to enter the valley, left her behind with her step-mother and sister, and a broken wagon wheel, and how she wa lked into Salt Lalre alone in a snowstorm in the dark over a road she had never trod before. She never tired of telling how grateful she was to Grand-father Snow :for taking her in 9.11d gi vin.g her a home, love, a.nd friends in this rouah unsettled land. She described their first difficult years in Salt Lake, Lehi, and Pine Valley before and after they moved to southern Utah. She told of crop failures, Indian raids, cold, hunger, and epi-demics where people died like flies because they didn't know what to do. She told how her boys used to bring home raspberries from 7orsyth Canyon when they went for the milk cows in the summer; and how plentiful wood was whenthey first ce.u1e to Pine Valley. She described t he weary hours spent in gles.ning grain, in the fields, forthe Relief Society. She said that the men from Dixie used to worry her nearly to death when they ca.me to Pine Valley for lumber because they brought wine up and tradea. tor lumber. She said, "Many times I have knelt by my bed and prayed to God not to let another grape grow. " \/hen we had a late spring and it look-ed like frost, she· would sa:y, n This rerninds me of the night Erastus was born on the tenth of June in '92. They came for Aunt Mahe.lie and me to wait on Lucy. As we went up the street 1t began to snow and Ma..~alie said, 'Ann, we'll never ra~e a thin~ this year.' But we did so I guess we will · this ye"r>:r." (Pine Valley has always used Erastus 1 birthda:y as a weather forecast, never feeling safe until after that date.) The first t hing that Grandmother did '°en she got up in the morning was to go look out of the window to see what the weather was going to be like. She did so love sun-shine and good weather. She was a teacher 1nthe Sunday School for sixteen years; a counselor in the Relief Society for ten, e.nd President of the nelief Society for thirty. Ee.ch Tuesday afternoon one could see her in her gingham sunbo1u1et .. comi!}g down the side wallc, with a broom in one he.nd I and the Lyceum doorkey, with a bi~ of red tape fastened to it, in the other so she could sweep and dust the building before the other sisters arrived. She came softly and quietly like a timid deer ventur- ing forth, never any bluster and noise. The la.st yea.rs of her life were very lonely, All the older people her a.Ge were dead and gone. She wa.s the la.st of her generation, in Pine Valley, to die. Pa was dead and all of her other children, except Uncle Jeter, had moved awa:y. She wa.s always glad to have someone come in and talk to her. When we went up with her clean laundry or a fresh loa:f' of bread, she always wanted us to sit down and visit, and was very appreciative of what was done for her. She was a. re s-.1 lady-the pure essence of refinement and culture. I don't think she ever said a crude, boisterous, vulgar thing in her life. Everything a.bout her was immaculate. She lived alone a.11d cared for herself almost to the day she died. Her mind was as keen at the close of her life as it was at the beginning. Y/hen she diec, she was 111 only e. short time. She died e.t Uncle Jeter's home in St.George March 11, 1928, a.t the age of 92. It seemed that when she died it was like the running dow.:1 of a. clock at the close of a full and well-spent life. It was fitting that at the close of her simple life she should be tucked away inthe Pine Valley cemetary . close to her husband, children, and old friends; those with whom she had met life's joys and sorrows, in the shadows of the pine clad mountains where she had dwelt so long.