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Navigation through the culture and a feeling of directional helplessness is expressed
by the mothers in this study. As participant one said, ―they don‘t come with an instruction
manual‖ so the mother is left...
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Dealing with people outside of the community who do not understand the lifestyle or reasons behind living the principle of plural marriage can be very difficult. For some, like Interviewee #3, opening up to outsiders about...
Preface
Three Score and Ten in Retrospect was the title I selected for this, my personal history. The title seemed appropriate when I commenced to assemble clippings, letters and other pertinent materials that had accumulated through the years, for...
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the priesthood council and tell him that she feels ready to marry. Generally, the woman will have an idea of who she would like to marry and will discuss this with the priesthood leader. She, her priesthood leader, and her...
Remarks at Boyden Collection Dedication
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY APRIL 19,1980
(The following remarks were written by lohit S. Boyden for the dedication ceremony of the Boyden Collection of Indian Art, sponsored b y the United Inter-Tribal Council,...
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The transition of accepting a new woman into the family is a period of growth and adjustment. In some families the transition is relatively smooth. Interviewee #2 describes her experience as she entered an established family...
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the second wife), she said, I don’t even know you anymore. She perceived that I had changed so much because of that new relationship that she didn’t recognize me as the same person that we had grown together in our...
Coalville Roots
CHAPTER ONE
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Sir John Bowring English Statesman
OHN STERLING BOYDEN WAS BORN APRIL 14, 1906, only 46 years after his great-grandparents Charles and Sarah Corns (Korns) Boyden arrived in Salt...
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So many variables and emotions are involved in each relationship that without each person sacrificing, the relationships do not mesh well. No matter how easy or hard the transition is to add another woman to the family, the...
the Perry country and finally reached the herd. Walt Cox was herding the sheep at that time and he was in bed asleep when Henry arrived so Henry hobbled his horse out and woke the herder long enough to tell him they would have to get up early the...
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to handle the things that bother them about another person. Sister-wives do not always get along; when this happens, each woman must evaluate her own needs and work out the issues. Much like interviewee #13, Interviewee #4...
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experiences like “argument” or “the mind,” structural metaphors emerge as the format for
how we understand these ideas. Structural metaphors “allow us…to use one highly
structured and clearly delineated concept to...
week for board and room. Ann's husband, Robert S. (Bert) Gardner, was a hoarder at their house and this is how they met. The girls helped with all the housework including washing, ironing, and sewing. Everything was made by hand because, in those...
ROBERT H. LINFORD Biography 1923 Robert Henry Linford was born July 1, 1923, in Panguitch, Utah, t h e youngest son of seven children born to Joseph Henry a n d Luella R. Orton Linford. Being reared in Panguitch a n d attending schools t h e r e ,...
this far off land of Mexico and separated from so many of our family that we so dearly love, which are separated f?om [us] by such a long distance. But, this life is short at the longest and the generation to which 1 belong wiii soon al1 be passed...
Henrietta's father, Henry Lunt, said goodbye to her in 1885 when he moved to Mexico but they corresponded frequently. Henrietta received a letter from Colonia Pacheco, Chihuahua Mexico from her father dated Nov. 5, 1900. I t reads as follows: "My...
baby girl by her side weighuig nine pounds--good weight--al1 rejoicing and feeling thankful to our Heavenly Father for her safe delivery. Our beloved Aunt Ellen's condition is much the same as when 1 wrote last week, no pain but general debility...
that time. The following account was taken from the minutes of the meetings: The first session was held at 11:OO a.m. and present of the Twelve were Elders Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards. The Presidency of the Stake was J. C. L. Smith, John...
Wed. Sept. 20, 1905: Ther. Warm. Wea. Thin clds. Walked on Via. Faxon Spent the heat of the day at the Stock yards in the pasture north-east of town. went on again this evening a mile or two and staid with Mr. Clark by invitation Mr. Clark has a...