Playing with the numbers

I was just reading about Joseph Fielding Smith while simultaneously thinking of how my grandmother, Agnes Taylor and her siblings were taken in by him and his wife Mary Schwartz (who was the half-sister of my grandmother's mother). Mary's mother (therefore my grandmother's grandmother) Agnes Taylor Schwartz also lived there. She is the sister of John Taylor. Mary Schwartz was Joseph Fielding Smith's 6th wife. She was born in 1865, the year before Joseph Fielding Smith became an apostle at the age of 28. They were married in 1884.

Anyway, back to my grandmother. She was three when her father died and so probably did not remember him. Joseph Fielding Smith was six when his father died and never forgot the events surrounding his father's death. Grandmother was fifteen when she was orphaned, Joseph Fielding Smith was thirteen when he was orphaned. He probably had a lot of sympathy for Grandmother and her siblings, because of the extra dimension of having suffered the same losses at roughly similar ages.

Ross and Linnie Findlay

Neither of these are dated. I think the second one was taken at one of Don's son's weddings but I could be wrong about that.

Marchant Family Reunion, American Legion Hall, Manti. Utah 1972

The in age order: Lydia 61, Emily 58, Ruth 55, and Linnie 53

The group unidentified.Same picture with all but three of the people identified. You have to double click on the picture to get it to enlarge enough to read the identifications. With the exception of Willis Lowry (to differentiate from Willis Sorensen), I have not put last names as some of the people are still living and it gives them a measure of privacy. If you can identify the three not identified, email me and I'll update this post.

David MMorrillen Wilkerson's Obituary

Emily's Funeral Program

Cover for the Funeral Program

Ruth Lowry June 1992

The Old Homestead

Immediately after their wedding in June 1910, Robert and Agnes Marchant decided to homestead in the Uintah basin. For twenty-five years, they spent their time and resources trying to improve on the homestead before selling it in 1935. Now there are some pieces of board giving indication that something was once there and the grave of the still born daughter born in 1922.
Linnie, Lydia, and Emily at Baby's grave in Ioka May 1, 1992.
The marker on the grave so everyone would clearly know it was a gravesite.
I don't know who these people are but because they are at the gravesite, I'm sure they are family.

Looking out across fields where crops once grew on the hill in Ioka.

This is a different occasion with the four sisters (Lydia, Emily, Ruth, Linnie, and an unidentified cousin) at the homestead.
Pieces of wood marking where the cellar was.