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The Marriott-Slaterville City History Collection was created by the residents of the town to document their history. The collection includes Autobiographies, Oral Histories, History of Marriott, History of Slaterville, and the History of the Merging Townships to create Marriott-Slaterville City. This information has left behind rich histories, stories and important information regarding the history of the Marriott-Slaterville area. |
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Show I remember her kindness to our family members. My brother, Horace Marriott and I lived for a time with June, her husband and Aunt Jennie in Los Angeles. She would be up early in the morning preparing breakfast for us until mother arrived from Utah to take over the duties in our own apartment. Aunt Jennie was an expert at hemstitching and owned her own machine and worked at this prior to moving to California. When her son Vivian was operating a clothing store in Brigham City, my sister Ida took over a small department in the embroidering and handiwork section. She taught Ida to hemstitch which Ida did for a short time. When Aunt Jennie moved to California, she had the large hemstitching machine crated and moved to California where she continued to do hemstitching for others. I believe that her favorite flower was the rose. She loved to work among the rose bushes on her daughter Dora's yard. These are but a few thoughts of our dear Aunt Jennie. Remembrances of JENNIE RITCHIE FARLEY GIBSON Written by her Niece, IDA VIRGINIA KYLE Aunt Jennie was a lovely woman, soft spoken, had a lovely speaking voice, and beautiful blue eyes. I never heard my Mother's sisters argue with each other. There .was always laughing and jovial remarks when they met together. When my Mother Mary Farley Marriott and I went to visit my sister Madeleine Marriott in California, Jennie would try to make us feel at home and helped Mother to locate an apartment in a court. I still have the address where we lived there. Mother was offered a job in a mortuary that would have paid rather well, but my sister and I didn't think that would be a very wholesome place to live (in an apartment at the mortuary). While we were in our beautiful court, my Mother and Aunt Jennie made a most beautiful silk polk-a-dot dress, soft-green color with red and white polk-a-dots. It had exquisite sewing and the pattern was quite original. This was to be my graduation dress from high school. My sister had a beautiful dress which my Aunt Ida Farley Ferrin and Mother designed and put together for her high school graduation three years before. Along with it was a soft-grey velvet jacket and light gray patten shoes. While living in Los Angeles, it was a time of depression. We lived on bananas, sometimes over-ripe oranges and some figs. One time I told Mother I would make the dinner and bought Chinese cabbage, shrimp salad, and mayonnaise. We went to Church in the Wilshire Ward. We thought it was a most beautiful edifice and we felt fortunate to meet there. Aunt Jennie and her daughters, June and Dora, were so thrilled |