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How Alfred Fisk Stout Got Money for Lionel

Have you every had your children ask you for money?  What did you do?  If they really needed it, how did you get it?  The story of how Alfred Fisk Stout got some money that his son, Lionel, needed is tied to Zion National Park At top the of Cable Mountain in Zion National Park, …

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How John Langston Came to Live in Alpine, Utah

John Langston

When we moved to Alpine, I realized that one of our ancestors, John Langston, moved to Alpine in the early days of the city and that my great-great-grandmother, Mary Emma Langston, was actually born here.  How John Langston came to be in Alpine is an interesting story.           From his history …

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An Autobiography of John Langston

(we received a copy of this typescript from Glade Dalton) AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN LANGSTON I, John Langston, in the 55th year of my life, commence to write a brief history of my life.  My father’s name is Francis Bell Langston.  That is all I know about his genealogy at this time.  My mother’s name …

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Grant Family Picture

This is a picture of (from left to right), Beryl Grant, Nora Grant, Lizzie Viola Grant, Royal B Grant.    

James Nye Missionary Journal 6 Nov 1885

Note: This is an entry from the journal of James Nye while he was serving his mission in England. His daily entry usually made note of the weather for that day and how far and mode of travel for the day. Friday Nov 6/85 A beautiful morning, clear and bright, cold and frosty. I stay …

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Clarinda Phillips Langston-3 stories

(these stories were given to us by a descendant, Glade Dalton; the first two are similar but not exact) SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF CLARINDA PHILLIPS LANGSTON written by her daughter, Alice Ann Langston Dalton Clarinda Phillips Langston, daughter of Israel and Dorothy Rose Phillips of Illinois, Iowa and Indiana. Clarinda was born 19 Jan …

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My Mother-Mary Emma Langston Stout

By Sylvia Stout Carey Mary Emma Langston, my mother, was the 7th child in a family of 13 children, the daughter of John Langston and Clearinda Rose Phillips Langston. She was born in Alpine, Utah County, Utah, February 15, 1859.  She married my father, Alfred Fisk Stout, on March 7, 1872 at the age of …

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The Bear Story By Mary Emma Langston Stout

THE BEAR STORY By Mary Emma Langston Stout In the spring of 1884, my husband Alfred Fisk Stout Sr., known to everyone as “Ap” was getting ready to build a sawmill at Crystal springs, below the Kanarra/Cedar Mountains. I, Mary Emma Langston Stout, his wife, had had a hard winter. On the 4th of July, …

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Nora Grant – Imperial Granum Food

This is a picture of Nora Grant Tibbitts at about one year old.  Notice the container of Imperial Granum Food.  This was a wheat and milk gruel that was “recommended for nursing mothers, babies, and invalids”  According to the Lake Country Museum website, it was first dissolve in formula and then later fed as a …

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Life Sketch of Royal B Grant

Royal B Grant was born 21 October 1888, the son of Jedediah Mill Grant and Annie Kaziah Bowcutt, in Honeyville, Box Elder County, Utah and lived there all his life.  He was the grandson of Mary Hunsaker and David Grant and the great-grandson of Abraham Hunsaker and Eliza Collins. He married Lizzie Viola Nye, who …

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