December 2013 archive

Life Story of John Thornley & Helen Langton Thornley

The text for John Thornley can be found at Family Search.

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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Recollections of the Children of Milton and Mozell Boman

LEWISTON, UTAH BEGINNING IN THE 1920’s COMPILED BY JAY BOMAN JUNE/1990   VERDEN BOMAN ONE OF MY FOND MEMORIES WAS GOING TO BRIGHAM CITY TO GET FRUIT. I DIDN’T GET TO GO EACH TIME AS WE HAD TO SAVE SPACE FOR FRUIT. OH HOW GOOD WERE THE PEACHES, WATERMELON, CHERRIES, CANTALOUPES AND APPLES. DAD WOULD …

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Grandma’s Story – Lilla Mozell Pitcher Boman

Grandma Boman wrote the following pages for me.  She did this while she was living in the rest home in LaVern [sic] California.  I have tried to type it as she wrote it except that I have added words to make complete sentences, and corrected spellings. Dec. 1987 Christine B. Dent I was born 05 …

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Hyrum Webster Bowman

History of Great Grandfather Bowman He was born 15 Aug 1814 (taken from family Bible) or 1821 by the record of his endowments.  He was born in Wellington, Penn., the Son of John Bowman and Sarah Thompson Bowman.  The family was very poor so in his youth Hyrum stayed with his Uncle.  By some misunderstanding …

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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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Golden Boman Photo Family Group Record

(Note: Golden is Milton Boman’s brother and Golden’s wife, Phoebe Clarissa Pitcher Boman is Lilla Mozell Pitcher Boman’s sister)   (digitized by Susan Carey Aug 2013 from 8.5×14 pages in possession of Gary & Rebecca Walker)

Richard Ballantyne & the Sunday School

(Note: the relationship to Richard Ballantyne is as follows: Milton Boman>>Fannie Elizabeth Brower>>Hannah Ballantyne Thompson>>Margaret Ballantyne>>David Ballantyne & Cecelia Wallace; Richard is the son of David Ballantyne & his second wife, Ann Bannerman so is half-brother to Margaret Ballantyne)

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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