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Show Mrs. A. F. Miles Given Birthday Dinner Party Mrs. A. F, Miles, "Aunt Zaidee", to so many : of her younger associates as-sociates and friends, was honored at her home Sunday with an informal birthday anniversary dinner and program, having passed pas-sed her 80th milestone Sept. 4, the day previous. The affair was attended by her two daughters, Mrs. A. K. Larson of Hurricane and Mrs. Alton Jones of Washington, Wash-ington, their husbands and daughters, daugh-ters, her sister, Mrs. Agatha McAllister, Mc-Allister, a granddaughter, Miss Edith Crosby whom she raised, and Mrs. Paul Crosby and baby boy of Milford. Born in a willow-thatched house which was then the home of her parents, Charles Lowell and Abagail M. Walker, Sept. 4, 1863, the second difficult year of the Dixie cotton mission in St. George, she remembers much of the early history which others have taken with them from this world, including the groundbreaking ground-breaking and dedication of the St. George Temple. Attends V. of U. After completing the schooling then given in St. George she attended at-tended the University of Utah, following this with 14 years of school teaching, first in Shoons- burg, then in other towns and finally in St. George, with summer sum-mer work in Grass Valley. Many whom she taught are now white haired grandmothers and some are great-grandmothers. She began teaching Sunday school at the age of 15, and from 1878 to 1900 taught continuously except for two years she attended the University of Utah. While there she served for two years as ' a member of the general M. I. A. board. The two years she served as counselor to Josephine Snow, later Mrs. Marion Tanner in the presidency of the Y. L. M. I. A. she regards as one of her major experiences. She also served as an officer in the children's Primary Pri-mary and for ten years was secretary sec-retary in the stake Relief Society So-ciety board. She has given lessons les-sons on all sorts of subjects for various organizations and groups. She served as the first Captain of the D.U.P. in St. George when it was organized here in 1921 and has taken much interest in this work. On May 17, 1900 she married A. F. Miles; whose former wife, her sister, Ida Walker, had died leaving him with five small children. Besides helping to raise these, she had two daughters of her own, and has helped to rear four grandchildren. Her father was known as Dixie's pioneer poet, and she herself has done much to help preserve details of Dixie history. |