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Show Grandma Staker Celebrate Cele-brate 90th Birthday On Jan. 19th, 1914, Mrs. Eliza Cusworth Burton Staker celebrated her Ninetieth Birthday, at her home in Mt. Pleasant. An excellent dinner and supper were served, part of which was granlmuther's 0wn cooking. cook-ing. Two suns and two daughters and about thirty grand and great grand chiioreu were present. Grandma's living .posterity numbers num-bers jninety-six; two sons, four daughters, forly-five grand chi.d-ren chi.d-ren and forty-five great grand children. child-ren. j Eliza Cusworth was born in Lock-I Lock-I wood,' Yorkshire., England, Jan. 19, 1 1824. Sne well remembers the coronation cor-onation of Queen Victoria, and was o le of tne school children who car-I car-I ried boquets of flowers and sang "God Save the Queen" on that memorable occasion. She was married to Joseph Burton Bur-ton in 1846, and with him joined the L. U. S Church in 1850. While making mak-ing preparations to emigrate to Utah, her husband died, leaving her two small cnildren, a boy and a gir.; his dying request was lhat she gather with the Saints and do h,s work for him. In the spring of 1856 she crossed the Atlantic Ocean in the ship Horizon, Hori-zon, thence overland to Florence, Nebraska, where she and her children child-ren were ,assigned to Mai tin and Tyler's ill-fated hand care company bound for Utan. They suffered the trials and hardships incident to that belated hand cart company. She walked and pulled the hand cart being assisted by her son, Joseph in his f.eventh year, who pushed and wa.ked the entire distance; Her little daughter, Martha in her fourth year rode in the hand cart with their lug gage Her s n Joseph carries the marks of that perilous journey today to-day having had his foot frozen and 1 lost two of his toes. Sne often tells the story of the second crossing of the Sweet water where she waded the stream three times to carry her children across, although it was freezing; and then dried her cloth-. cloth-. ing by a fire ol buffalo chips. One scelie seems to have been indelibly siamped on the young lads mind, that of bury.ng i.ine of their company com-pany one morning, who had died during the night, leaving noihing to maik their last resting place. When she hears any complain pt their plain fare, she often t lis the story' of having gold in iur pocket and could not by a morsel to ea, and how, she with other wormjn sci aped tne hair from ihe pelts or wild an. mais given ifii m i y mountaineers moun-taineers and boiled the nides and stirred their ration of flour in the soup, and ate the same to satisfy the pangs uf hung,--. O.i their ai rival iuta.i La.e Ck , she and lier children were laken i". to the the family of Isaic Laney. In 1857 she married Ndtnan S aker by whom sne had five more children, child-ren, four of whom are livi.ig. She lives alone, near her son, J. B- Staker, and does ner own housework. house-work. Her ni'nd is bright and her sight and hei'rin are fairly good. |