devoted their lives to this profession. Necessarily, those women were patient, kind, tender and skilled to be able to answer the many calls and to have endeared themselves in the hearts of the pioneer women. Every hamlet had these "mother"...
water from Devil's Creek, thus making it possible to operate the year 'round. This mill was a great help to the people of the neighborhood and vicinity. People came from as far away as St. George with their grists to have them ground. This mill was...
Photos of Thomas Rees, Ruth William Reese. Mrs. Reese was nurse, midwife and postmistress. George Horton, Sarah Butler Horton, Robert Edwards and Elizabeth Huntington Edwards
First Brass Band -- Seated, Wayne Blackburn, George Jameson, William Burns, Bill Dotson, Cy Bdradfield; Second Row: Tine Bingham, Foss Rollins, George Bradshaw, Ezra Walker, B. J. Shinderling (leader), Lawrence Dotson, Ed Rollins, Petee Dotson; In...
cook and waitress, with Ed Walker and brother of Salt Lake, dishwashers. We were persuaded to hire a Jap cook, who was immaculately clean, and a good cook, but one morning we were awakened early to find him gone. We, with our young daughter Erma,...
S. N. Slaughter went to Salt Lake to make his home, selling to John P. James and H. B. Sackett. After their retirement, James L. Griffiths purchased this store. After several years, this store was razed by fire.
About 1917 the Caldo mill was built...
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX PROFESSIONAL AND MUSICAL HISTORY OF MILFORD EARLY-DAY PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE OF MILFORD Mary Ann Bigler Tanner acted as a midwife f or years in the early days of Milford. She had the remarkable record of never losing a...
Dr. Ellis Shipp traveled around the state teaching women nursing skills, specializing in Midwife and obstetrics. These classes were taught through the L.D.S. Relief Society program. This photograph is of graduates from the town of Emery standing...
On Friday, April 25, laid hands on Sister Miller who had just become the mother of a fine daughter, the fourth child born in our new town, and without the aid of doctor or midwife, as our county does not afford any such professional characters....
Letitia Newcomb Johanna Palmer Elisabeth L. Pany Sarah Pugson Eliza Ann Root Elua Shepherdson Christina Sherratt Ann Smith Betsv K. Smith K. ~ a r i a r e t t a Smith Mary Usher Smith Mary Ann Stewart Elisabeth Tait
Mary Ann Thorley Mary Ann...
weli in spite of the drought in Pacheco. They probably were able to irrigate their crops; and, being at a much lower elevation, nothing would have ftozen.] When we were rnaking preparations for our retum home, the team had to be shod. Alma...
Jane's mother, brother and sister, leaving her alone with her father, who remanied three years later. Being the oldest child, she was her father's chef dependence for help and spent much of her time in the field doing a man's work. In 1863 she...
and get u p as they have done today. . . KO water again tonight. T h e men went hunting for water and found a little, and the children were relieved; they fell asleep without supper and we cannot do the dishes again tonight. Oct. 3 1 - We had a...
Palmer, William R., 1877-1960; Indians of North America; Southern Paiute Indians; Southern Paiute Indians--Portraits;
Mee-se-bats, daughter of Chief Kanarra, last of the Tave-at-sooks tribe, wife of Wypoots; Kanarraville, Iron County, Utah. Mee-se-bats means measles, the disease which left her blind. She was a midwife and remembered the coming of the Mormons in...