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Show Native of Wales ... Kncli person whoso plcturo nppiMirs In t.lio paper In this par-lAfiiI:i par-lAfiiI:i r fi'iituie. will reeeive. it bouquet if flowers lift compliments of the Sprlnjivlllo Floral, announces I)-ovn Stewart, manager. beautiful crochet work, quilts, and rugs. She is very grateful that .she had tho privilege of coming to this wonderful country and accepting ac-cepting the LDS faith and the opportunity op-portunity of rearing her family here. Springville Herald Salutes Older Residents With Picture and Storv i Editor's note: This Is nn-ofhur nn-ofhur In ft series of articles and pictures of Springvillo's older residents, who aro being 8!dutl each week In tho Herald. Her-ald. Anyone over 75 years of ,n is belnir so honored. Only t J I ;.. ' ; A ' . . i f..& A , -- 1 dress or pair of trousers was washed, dried, ironed and ready to "put back on again. All recreation and activities in the community were under the direction di-rection of the church, and much enjoyment was had from the dances, dan-ces, parties, sleigh rides, candy pulls, and corn popping times that were attended by all. Many a delightful de-lightful afternoon or evening was spent at each others' homes with rag bees and quilting and whenever when-ever they went visiting, they took their work with them. In the year 1932, three years after the death of her husband, and after spending one year with a daughter, Li Vina, in Los Angeles, Ang-eles, Mrs. Reese, came to Provo to make her home where her youngest son, Eldon, was attending attend-ing the B.Y.U. Since his graduation gradua-tion and marriage, she has visited with her other children, Ivan and Victor at Bloomington, Idaho; Merrill at Heber City and LaVina at Los Angeles, while maintaining her home with Eldon and his family. fam-ily. She is happy and proud of her 18 grandchildren and 7 . greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. She has lived in Springville for the past ten years, where her son, Eldon, teaches at the high school. Four .years ago at the age of 80 years, she underwent two major operations and has enjoyed fairly good health since then. She has been active in the LDS church working in many capacities. capac-ities. She is well known for her children, r,ix boys and two girls. Deep sorrow came into their lives with the loss of three of the children. chil-dren. One girl, Elizabeth, died at the age of 14 of spinal meningitis. One of the boys, Ezra, died at the ago of 21. He had been called on a mission and had completed his training at the mission home, had had his farewell to leave and was all set to go when t he was stricken ill by cancer. Another r,on, George, after marrying and establishing his own home, died at the age of 40 of heart trouble. Two of their children fulfilled missions mis-sions for the L.D.S. church. Very often in their early married mar-ried life there was no money with which to hire help in harvesting the crops and it was necessary for Mary Jane 'to go out and help in the fields. One particular time she remembers distinctly was a year her husband was very ill and the grain was ready to harvest, with no way of hiring help to have it done. So she tied her four months old baby on her back and went to the field and shocked the grain all day long. When it was all completed com-pleted the townspeople who did the threshing, threshed the grain for them free of charge. It was customary in those times to feed the threshers during the time they were threshing the grain. They served three large meals a day to ten or twelve men from one day to a week depending on how much grain had to be threshed. The family washing was done on the board until there were eight members in the family. Water Wa-ter would have to be taken from the well, carried to the house, then heated in the old copper bottomed bot-tomed boiler on the wood heated stove. Oftimes the children would have to go to bed while their only a call to tho offico, phono 57 and a listing of tho name and ago of the resident, is all that is necessary; we arrange for the rest without charge. All thoso who are able are asked to go to Ralph Snel-son's Snel-son's Studio and have a picture pic-ture taken. There will bo no charge. Tho Herald will take care of that. ' On Monday, March 31, Mary Jane Reese celebrated her 84th birthday with an informal family gathering, and greetings from her many friends. She was born at Pentyrch, Glamorganshire, South Wales on March 31, 1868, a daughter ' of William-and Elizabeth Jones John. Her father was a coal miner, and like most other families in the community, were in poor circumstances. circum-stances. Food was not too plentiful plenti-ful and it was not uncommon to receive two eggs a week for the family, having to cut them in two to serve four members in the household. Bread was baked in large brick ovens, located in the center of a group of homes in order to serve several families. A long wooden shovel was used to put the dough in the oven, directly direct-ly on the hot bricks. She says that was some of the best bread she ever tasted. Often pies were baked , before the bread and the neighbors would take turns using the ovens. Mary Jane's father died one Mrs. Mary Jane Reese ried and due to the shortage of help in harvesting the crops, Mary i Jane and her two brothers had to ! go out and help their step-father in' the fields, binding the grain and hauling it to the stacks. Very often of-ten she would carry her younger brother on her back to and from the field as he was in ill health. A few months after her arrival Mrs. Reese was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, much to the disapproval disapprov-al of her family. She enjoyed going go-ing to the meetings and participating participat-ing in all their activities, walking one mile to and from home in all kinds of weather, often on top of hard crusted snow four feet deep, keeping her way by the tops of the fence posts. On December 11, 1884, at the age of 17, she was married to. Lot-wick Lot-wick Reese, a hard-working pioneer pion-eer of Bloomington. They moved into a four room frame home, two of the rooms being up stairs. The house was located in the center of the small town. Her husband's widowed mother came to live with them for the remaining eight years of her life, as did an orphan nephew, who never marrying, spent the greater part of 40 years in their home. Very early in her married life she learned all the phases of keeping keep-ing up a home, especially in making mak-ing the family's clothing. It was necessary then to make everything every-thing that was worn, including underwear, un-derwear, coats and hats. Long stockings also had to be knit at night by the light of the kerosene lamps. Cloth to make many of these clothes, as well as the purchase pur-chase of sugar, salt and ' other necessary food staples, were obtained ob-tained by trading produce eggs, potatoes, grain and garden crops at the local store. Very little money mon-ey was to be had and what they did obtain from selling cattle went back into building up their farm and paying the taxes.. Extra money for household use was earned by churning and selling sell-ing the butter. She would make from two to twenty pounds a week, depending on the number of cows milking. This would be sold at 10 cents a pound and in real prosperous times for 25 cents a pound. Tithing was paid to the Bishop with eggs, butter, grain, or whatever what-ever produce they might have. She and her husband had eight month before her sixth birthday leaving her mother with three small children, two boys and one girl. With the help of kind neighbors neigh-bors and six schillings or $1.50 a week from the government, they managed to get along for the next six years. In 1880, at the age of 12 years, Mrs. Reese, with her mother and two younger brothers, William and Thomas, began their immigration from Wales to America. They took the train from Wales to Liverpool, where they boarded the boat "Wisconsin" "Wis-consin" for America. For supper that evening they were given large round cakes called "Hard Tack", but they were so hard they could not eat them so the children used them to play with on board the boat, rolling them like wheels and having a glorious time. They went to bed hungry, but made up for it the next morning at breakfast. break-fast. They were two weeks cro?,sing the ocean, with Mrs. Reese's mother moth-er ill in bed, the entire trip with sea sickness. Half way across the ocean they were met with an especially es-pecially severe storm which tore the slabs and ropes loose that held the baggage and the heavy trunks, would roll from one end of the ship to the other as it would be tossed by the huge waves. After the storm subsided, the baggage was again anchored in place and the water swept out without doing do-ing too much damage. After landing in New York, they spent two nights with other passengers, sleeping in the luggage lug-gage room, because of lack of funds to obtain a hotel room. A small boat then took them to Bosi-ton Bosi-ton where they later boarded a train for Chicago and on to Evan-ton Evan-ton Wyo. This part of the journey took them on another two day journey by team and wagon to Bloomington, Idaho, where they were to make their home. Their first home there was a one-room log house that was covered cov-ered with rustic to make it warm. The house was located a mile from town on top of a small hill. It had a wooden floor that had to be scrubbed with sand 6n hands and knees every Friday. A few months after arriving here, Mary Jane's mother remar- |