Category: Carey

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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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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