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Show 90th birthday noted I BIRD BELINDA ADAMS After living 90 years, Birdie Belinda Be-linda Udy has a lot of memories to . share with her family of three children, chil-dren, eight grandchildren, 18 greatgrandchildren great-grandchildren and nine great-great-grandchildren. Memories of rural living in Layton. Memories of progress and change. Memories of one-room school houses, telephones, tele-phones, piped water, gasoline driven engines and automatic washing machines. Bird Belinda Adams was born in Layon May 25, 18, the oldest dayghter of Hyrum and Annie Pen-' rod Adams. She was greeted by two older brothers, Dell and Frank. The family lived on a ranch-type ranch-type house at 1877 E. Gentile. Later La-ter the family moved "Downtown" "Down-town" into a brick bungalow-style home at 719 E. Gentile. Wash day was a major event at the Adams home. In a family of 8 children, the oldest girl had to work hard cleaning clothes for the family. fami-ly. Mr. Adams hauled water in barrels bar-rels from a creek on the Mountain Road to use for washing because the well water was too hard. Clothes were cleaned on a scrubbing scrub-bing board, rinsed and then boiled, if they were white, in a large boiler hung over a fire in the back yard. To make things easier, Birdie's father built a tread-mill and bought two large grey hound dogs to run the tread-mill which turned a wheel that turned the washer. The dogs were tied in place and the treadmill tread-mill was uphill so the dogs either ran or got their necks stretched. Later, Layton City piped water from the mountains and Mr. Adams built a washroom on the north end of his home. Other progressive devices also arrived in Layton such as telephones, tele-phones, automobiles and gasoline driven engines that could be used to run washing machines and assist in the difficult job of sheep sheering. sheer-ing. The engine that operated the washing machine stood about eight feet high. It had one large piston and no muffler. Everyone could tell when the Adams family did their washing. Birdie was educated in Layton schools. She attended the one-room one-room school located near the intersection in-tersection of Fairfield Road and. Rainbow Drive. She also went to the 5-Points School that was near the present-day 7-1 1 store on Main Street. Her friends included Luella Nalder Rosemait, Lou Morgan Spackman and Alta Craig Ronnen-camp. Ronnen-camp. Mrs. Udy was an accomplished musician. She took piano lessons from Myrtle Jones Phillips of Kaysville and later studied at the Utah Conservatory of Music, the McCune School of Music and the California Conservatory of Music. She assisted throughout Davis , County and accompanied many young people in civic and church functions. She also played for many school classes at the Layton Elementary School. She was a great help to the school music and orchestra leader, Mr. Bergerner. Mrs. Udy is a charter member of the Layton American Legion Auxiliary Au-xiliary and a member of the Daughters Daugh-ters of Utah Pioneers. During the Depression Era. Mrs. Udy worked with Mrs. Skidmore, the Davis County Extension Agent showing women how to sew. She continued to work in this program through World War 1 and World War II. She helped ladies make clothes over and during World War II she was in charge of sewing for the Red Cross. Birdie cut 85 skirts out and sewed most of them. People Peo-ple noted she always added something some-thing special to her hand-sewed creations. A patriotic person. Birdie was a sky watcher on the look-out for enemy planes during the war and she received an award for this service. ser-vice. She has always helped with the sick wherever she lived. Commending in 1937, Birdie operated op-erated and owned Birdies Beauty Salon in Layton. She recalls working work-ing long hours when the prices were fifty cents for a Wet Wave, $ 1 .50 for a Marcel wave and thirty-five thirty-five cents for a shampoo set. The beauty shop was the back part of Henry Smedley's Barber Shop on Gentile Street and later she moved into a portion of the Adams Store on Main Street and Gentile and then into a building next to the Staley's Main Street store. Mrs. Udv was baptized a member mem-ber of the LDS Church as a child by Edward A. Morgan in an irrigation irriga-tion ditch on the North-east corner of Antelope Drive and Hill Field Road. A large apartment house complex is now being constructed near this intersection. She was a member of the Ladies Republican Club and helped quilt a special spread for President Harding. During her life-time. Mrs. Udy lived in Layton. Rockland, Ida.. Salt Lake City and Bountiful. The memories of 90 productive years were re-lived at a special birthday party held in honor of Birdie Bir-die Belinda Adams Udy on her birthday. May 25 in Bountiful. Five generations attended the celebration celebra-tion that started in a local restaurant res-taurant and continued with refreshments refresh-ments at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Jacobson. Mrs. Udy's three children, Hyrum Layton of Sparks. Nev.; Ben Layton of Salt Lake City and Lorraine (Mrs. Alvin) Jacobson of Bountiful were all able to attend to honor their mother, dmg |
