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Show Mrs. Mary Lund Heusser Is Honored On Birthday PRESTON, Ida., Nov. 1 1. Mrs. Mary Lund Heusser, wifa of the late William Heusser of Weston, Ida., was. honored by the Lone Rock Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers Pio-neers on her eighty-third birthday, Nov. 11. Armistice Day. pioneer woman, in the best oi health, led the grand march, accompanied ac-companied by her son, William J, Heusser of nearby Linrose. She also demonstrated three old-time pioneer dances before the group. Members of her family presented the program. "I can still do the old-time dances danc-es as well as anyone," she smiled, recalling her early days. Mrs. Heusser was born Nov. 11, 1858, daughter of Hans Christian Chris-tian and Mary Christina Lund, pioneers from Copenhagen, Denmark. Den-mark. "My father came to Utah with the ox-teams and my mother moth-er pusheda handcart," Weston's favorite -mother said, v On the occasion, the elderly "While I was living in Salt Lake as a girl, before I was married," mar-ried," she continued, "I sang in the Tabernacle Choir under Brother Careless for four years. Those were the days when the skies would sometimes darken becauses of grasshoppers, and when we'd cut seedling peaches to dry to eat, and use stewed carrots for butter." Mrs. Heusser was married March 15, 1877, in Salt Lake. Re-lunctantly Re-lunctantly she moved to Weston in 1889, her husband and four children comprising one of the first families to settle at the mouth of Cherry Creek Canyon in Weston. "There were rattlesnakes rattle-snakes under stoves and tubs, and howling coyotes at night when we had no neighbors, but you couldn't get me to move from Weston now I just love it," she added. "We went to Church in the old log school, with Brother John Clark as bishop, and now they are going to make a relic hall out of those same logs." Mrs. Heusser has been especially espe-cially active in Church wor-k, serving from 1908 to 1922 as Weston Wes-ton Ward Relief Society president. presi-dent. She also taught and served as counselor in the Sunday School and Primary groups. Foui? of her seven children are living: William, Linrose; Joseph L., Deweyville, Utah; Mrs. Charles Weed, Salt Lake; Ray, Preston. (Courtesy Desert News) |