e • TITLE PIONEER (full name) BIRTH (date and place) DEA TH (date an'd place) PARENTS . MARRIED (who and date) ARRIVAL IN UTAH (date) (Company arrived with) HISTORY (who wrote) (date written) (who submitted) (address) PAGE Meady Maria Lane 1 5 August 1847 Wisconsin 12 October 1933 (buried) Garland, Utah Hyrum Mead Lane Naomi Chase Alvirous Horn Gleason 18 January 1869 1853 Perry Lane Gleason (son) 19 50 Myrtle Gleason Rock Rt. 1 Morgan, Utah 84050 CAMP & COUNTY SUBMITTING -W-eb-er- R-iv-er- -------- Camp Morgan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - County (Camp Historian & address)- ---Je-an- B-ig-le-r ------------ - Rt. 1 Box 250, Morgan, Utah 84050 County Historian & address )_ ___V_ e_l_o....;.y_T_o_n_k_s_D_i_c_k_s_o_n ________ PO Box 203, Morgan, Utah 84050 SOURCE OF INFORMATION & PAGE NUMBERS: Genealogy sheets and memory. e • MEADY MARIA L ANE My mother, Meady Maria Lane. was born to Naomi Chase Lane on August 1 5, 1847, i n Wisconsin. Her father, Hyrum M ead Lan e, having died about six months before my mothers bi rth . She had two older s isters , Nora and Delia. Later grandmother married John W ootl and had two more child ren, a b oy and g i r l named John and Emma. The famil y traveled from Wiscons i n by ox team and ar rived i n Salt Lake in 1853. Their plans were to go to California t o make their fortune as they had not yet h eard the gos pel. When they reached Salt Lake they had to stop for some time to make repairs and rest up for the rest of the journey. They investigat ed the g ospel and decided to join the church and stay here. They had a hard time getting enou gh tog ether to supply a home with food and clothing. Grandmother carding the wool and weaving the cloth for the family clothing . The children were obliged to do what they could to h elp. They g athered wool that caught on fences where sheep were g oing throu gh and herded c ows and any other work that th ey could do . She lived as a you n g g irl in Salt Lake, Weber, Morgan and Centerville. She married my father, A l virous Horn Gleason, on January 18, 1869. in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City. It was a very happy union thr ou ghout their lives. Th e ir early married life was spent in Farmington and P leasant Grove during which time n i ne o f their twelve child ren were born. In 1885 th e y moved to Egen, Idaho, t o take up l and. They lived their until about 18 90 when they came to Bear R i ver Valley. Whil e at Egen they had two more children, Georg e and Dessie and in 1893, Lane was born in Lo gan, Cache County, a t g randmother s home. Mother was always ~ true Latter -da y Sai nt, tryi ng in every way to li ve and tea c h its principle s . She was always cheerful and happy e -2- }~9 and doing a ll she could do to help provide and make a home for her family. We lived in a four room house located in the middl e of a section of la nd . She had no neighbors within two or three miles . On Sunday they would t ake the family in a wa g on and go to F.ielding a distance of about six miles to church. As I remember it -- it was about their one· recreation for some y ears. During the early years here, they had no water on the land. even hauling water for culinar y purposes. She always mana g ed to have a few hous e p l ants g rowing and I well remember a small patch of knot g rass g rowing in the front of the house which she nursed very carefull y all of the time with waste water from the house. As soon as they got water on the g round she saw to it that there was lawn and trees p l anted and flowers g rowing outside. Later as more families moved i nto the valley, the ward was divided and they went to East Garland to church, which seemed much nearer home. When the Garland Ward was organized, she was put in as President of the Primary Association. She was a l ways a faithful Relief Society teach er and active until the l ast few years of her life. She was very faithful in her attendance to church. She was a very kind happy devoted wife and mother. She lo ved her husband and children and did all she could to make their home beautiful and comfortable. She made rag carpets for the floors. plenty of good warm quilts. She was always busy sewing for the comfort o f someone. After they were located where she h ad neighbors she enjoyed them immensely. She was friend l y with them. Besides the Relief Society, she belonged to the Ladies Self Culture· Cl ub and the Daughters of the Pioneers, and she was very pro ud of her standing in each or ga n - • ization. She never spoke an unkind word o_f a nyon e and was always ready to do her share. She kept up h er home and took care of her husband until the tim e ... e • -3- (fD of his death in 1927. She was 80 years old then and didn't feel like she could go on living alone, so she gave up housekeeping and lived most of the time with her daughter in Salt Lake, spending all the time she could doing temple work. She was very interested in it and sometimes she would go through three t imes a day, which was almost too much for h er strength. She accomplished a lot o f work during the few years she was there. She visited with the rest of the family at different times and would always bring cheer and happiness whenever she came. She would make herself congenial and at home with every member of the family under a _ny conditions. When she was 85 years old, she fell and broke her hip and she never walked after that. She spent all her time in bed or in a chair. She died on October 12, 1933, and was buried in Garland, Utah, beside her husband . She was 86 years of age a t time of death .