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Show Native of Mount pleasant Notes 81st Birthday Mrs. Mary Wilcox liy 0: m'mI Vuh pioneer and widow Herbert Pay. observed hor f .-..'.y-iu-st Ini UuUiy uimivcrs-Saturday uimivcrs-Saturday at a tea m her fcimor, tveu by the Daughters $1 Vuh Pioneers at t'.io Luune o; 1 d.Khter, -Mrs. Ethel Kutledo' jn Moab. I Mrs. Day has reooverti from 1 n illness lastsivg several years. Frt two years vere spent In rd, a year in a wCieelohair, she is up and around again. IV!. her on work m a room jjded to the Kutlevlge house, s.- always "entertains the family fam-ily cu wash day" by cooking a b dinner. Mr Dy was born Noivnier e, 60. at Mt. Pleasant, a daughter of John Henry and Mary Young Wilcox. Her parents par-ents were the first white couple married in Utah. They came to Vuo September 30, 1S47, with the second company of. pioneers. j Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Day tre married March 8, 1877, at 1 Mi. Pleasant and tkvey went to Moab early in 1SS0. Mr. Day went first and built the first road onto Wilson mesa, a part of which is no a- used in the winter win-ter time ar.d especially in wet weather. They lived on the 1 Kcsa, at Moab, and in tae - s?g of 1912 moved to LaSal, :iere they operated a large farm. Mr. Day idled April 9, : 1S33, and Mrs. Day moved bade to Moab, living wiii her son, Sieve Day, and his firmly for a tew years, tr.en with a daughter, Mrs. Pluma Zudelt, for two years and for she past two years with " k Rutledge family. Mr. and Mrs. Day were the parents of twelve childrer. sev- en of them still living. They re Mrs. Charlotte Williams of ' Portland, Oregon; Mrs. Zufelt, Mrs. Rutledge and Steve Day, ill of Moab, Harry Day of Lehi, John Day of Oakland and j George Day of Riverside. Cali- forma. She has 48 grandohil- dfen, 44 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild, Diane Rynis, 11 months old. Her sister, Mrs. Martha West-wood, West-wood, lives at Moab, and there irt three other sisters, Mrs. tiiabeth Ku,rst oJ Biarjiing, who is 91; Mrs. Hannah Carlson of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Clarissa Clar-issa Myling of Payson, and one brother, Justic Wilcox of Alberta, Al-berta, Canada. A huge birthday cake decorated decor-ated with 81 candles w as a special spe-cial feature of tie afternoon. |
