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Show AMASAHAYMOND TO OBSERVE 93rd BIRTHDAY Springville's oldest resident and only remaining Black Hawk war veteran, Amasa Haymond, of 85 West Second South street, will be 93 years old on Monday, December Decem-ber 8. In his honor a family gathering ga-thering is planned for Sunday by his daughter, Dorothy Haymond, with whom he makes his home. Friends and relatives are also invited in-vited to call. Well and active for his years, Mr. Haymond takes an interest in affairs of the day and enjoys visiting vis-iting and often takes a trip up town. He was born as Des Moines, Iowa, December 8, 1848, a son of Edward O. and Margaret Ann Cisell Haymond. He crossed the plains and his parents by ox-teams in 1850, arriving in Salt Lake City in the fall, and coming to Springville Spring-ville the following April. As a lad of 13 years, Mr. Haymond Hay-mond began freighting, taking his father's 4-mule team for supplies in neighboring states. He later followed fol-lowed farming and stockraising and operated one of the early threshing machines in this vicinity for 25 years. He married Eliza Jane Bring-hurst, Bring-hurst, May 29, 1879, in the Salt Lake endowment house. The couple cou-ple celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary in 1933. Mrs. Haymond died in 1934. Mr. Haymond has nine living sons and daughters, Amasa L. Jr., John C, and Dr. Creed W. Haymond Hay-mond and Mrs. W. W. Wagener of Salt Lake City; P. O. and W. B. Haymond of Magna; Mrs. W. Y. Stoddard and Mrs. George Willis of San Francisco, Calif., and Dorothy Doro-thy Haymond of Springville; also 25 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. ' ' |