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Show ! O a n ' J J J tt J J ) 1 ill ' s-- lis Patriarch To Celebrate 81st Birthday Sunday JoKn H. Manwaring, a Patriarch of Kolob Stake, will observe Lis eighty-first birthday on Sunday at the family residence, 488 South, Fourth East street. 5 A son of the early Utah settlers, Henry and Sarah Barber Manwaring, Manwar-ing, he came to Utah with his parents par-ents from Sandback, Cheshire, .England, where he was born on jMay 18, 1866. The family arrived in Salt Lake City in 1870 and the following year they came to j Springville. Mr. Manwaring remarked that, at that time, there were no railroads rail-roads in this valley and Provo river riv-er was hard to cross as there were no bridges. He also recalls that at that time there were only two j stores in Springville, the Z.C.M.I., ! managed by Jos. W. Bisseell, later j becoming the G. S. Wood Merc. .Company, also the Milan Packard store at the present site of the Philips Garage. The Oty Park was then used as a drive corral in the spring and fall, and also as a ball diamond. He recalls playing in the City Park when Mayor L. S. Wood and other members of the city council came to look over the place for a city hall. The major placed his cane in the ground and said, "This is the place, we will build the city hall," and that building is being used at the present time. His first visit to Mapleton was on a rabbit hunt when snow-covered the ground two feet deep and not a single home had been built. Mr. Manwaring filled a mission to the Southern States, leaving in March, 1891, two Weeks after his marriage. His wife died in 1921. In later years, he served as a counselor coun-selor in the First ward bishopric, over a period of 26 years. Explaining how times have changed, he told how he cleared sagebrush off the land where the Evergreen cemetery is located. He was city sexton for 38 years and at this time the graves of only three people were located in the Evergreen cemetery and the city fathers were ridiculed for choosing choos-ing such a site for the cemetery. When the cities in Utah county from Lehi to Payson were included includ-ed in one stake, Mr. Manwaring, in company with other church officials, of-ficials, visited each town on Sunday Sun-day afternoons as home missionaries. mission-aries. There was only one ward in pann Mum xHtn pvcpntinn of Provo, where there were three wards. In those days, travel was mostly by horse and buggy, Mr. Manwaring Manwar-ing recalls, adding that he saw his first automobile in a special parade par-ade in Provo. Always active in various organizations orga-nizations of the church, Mr. Manwaring Man-waring was ordained a Patriarch on Oct. 2, 1938, and up-to-date, has given nearly a thousand blessings. He has six sons and daughters, daugh-ters, Zenos, Wilford, Maurice and Mauflne Man,waring, and Mrs,' Helen Ashcraft of Springville, and Mrs. Will Hill of Salt Lake City; also nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. |
