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Show •- • • HIS'l'ORY OF ~ . SARAH IRIPHEUA DRYOON COOK Dorn April 9th, 1668 At Bou.ntitu.la Ut ah . 73 Samuel. Bryson, Jr. Father of I•Irs. . 5~Coo ~, was born April 11th, • l S4S in dounty Down, Ireland. Hie people• wero converts t o tho · Church, ho ·wo.s bapt1Bed in Ireland at tho age of twolve 1 and he came with his folks to Utah, where they sett led at Bountiful. • When around the aeo ot twenty-two, ho drove an ox t o.am bock East after some ot the Saints. He wao Superintendent of tho Woodruff Sunday School for twenty-five yeara, He s pent moat or his litG tanning. ~lother, Polly Tryphena Fairchilds was born Deoombor 11th, 1646, at conewango1 Cattaraucus Co, Ne-w York. She and her mothor came to Salt Lake in 1859, ,there she ttaa baptizad·, She received a good education tor poople ot those days. When eeh wo.o twnty•tt10 ehe taught school £or two years at Bount~ful, where sh.e met and married Samuel Dryson, Jr • Bryson, we.a also a good seamstress, she made men's suits ; coats and most all ldndo or clothos. After aoving to loodrutf Utah, she ,-es President of t he Young Ladies Mutual ror twenty•five years, at two difforont tarms , She waa Secretary or the Reliot Society tor eovoral years . She raised a fam!ly or nine child.ren of which, Sarah Iryphena Brysoh Cook was the oldest .. She was born April 9th, 1868 at Dountitul, Utah. She was born in a two room house, which was consi dered real nice• for those days! At tho age of four, her parents moved to Woodruff, Utah, At that time Woodruff waa considered a wondortul ranch country. Water and grass was plentiful for Animeie nnd there \!ms lots or . , deer, chicken, sago hens; and other t4ld game. They w~re acong the first settlers or Woodruff. In Mrs, Cook's early days she reoe1ved all the education Cl /9;;) that was possible at that.. time. llor GrWldmothor, and aalo her mothor, taught school, mostly in thoir homes. 7S \•n1en she was a real young girl, ho1· gnmdmother taught her to knit and to pioco blocks, oho mado enough blocks for a .quilt at tho age or nine. Sho wao frightened se~ral t i mes by I ndiahe. Tho Washaldo tribe would epcnd their wintero out t 1 ore, hunt i nc; wild gome • They W'CJuld ;:;,o to the homos to trade beads, otc • for bread and other food. In t he year or 1885 s he married Willitw Cook in t~e Logan Templo. Thay wont to Dorder, and lived on a ranch f or t hree years where two or her children were bom, They t hon moved t o Garden City, Utah, where she bacamo t ho mother or throe moro babieo. She clerked ror many years in a store at Gardon City, also at Woodrurr, Utah. At Garden City, she wont outi nursing, as it wao about thirty- £1ve miles to a doctor. She likod this professi on, she packod up and went out nursing, -..11th the Doc~or nearly all t ho timo, and lots of timoe ha couldn't or didn•t get thero in t i mo, so sho delivered many babios. alone. Hrs• Cook was knolm f.or her kindn~as and patienco and for this ,he is know in bot h pl aces as '4\unt Sadio." She sane in t he choi~ from tho youn~ ace 0£ rourtoen to fifty. Sho was Secrotary of tho Relief Society for many years and \1hen her childron uero small she always went to Sunday School t·rl th them. S1nco moving to l·lorgan she hasn't been oo aetivo 1n t he Ghurch, but she· isn't an idle person, sho has done loto of knittinc, making quilts, crocheting , and she loves to r oad good books. |