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Show OPEN HOUSE TO HONOR PIONEER LADY Open house from three to six p. m. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Mendenhall, will honor Mrs. Eliza R. Mendenhall on the occasion of hfir 84th birthday Sunday. A daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Re-becca Tew, Mrs. Mendenhall was born March 23, 1857, In the old fort row, which was then in front of the A. G. Thorn residence on East Center. She was married April 24, 1879, in the Salt Lake Endowment Endow-ment house, with President Daniel II. Welles officiating. Mrs. Mendenhall was a pioneer of Bear Lake County, Idaho, and Cache county, Utah, but has lived most of her life in Mapleton and Springville. A counselor in the first Relief society organization, Mrs. Mendenhall Menden-hall is now the only surviving member of the first organization, having been a member of that organization or-ganization for 53 years. She has always been active in church work and was a member of the Mapleton choir for many years. Years ago, Mrs. Mendenhall was very proficient at spinning, and she would take her spinning wheel with her to many places that she visited, making something some-thing of a record in the number of skeins she could spin a day. At the present time she sews, crochets, cro-chets, pieces quilts, and does other tvnes of sewing very beau- tifully. She is the mother of 11 sons and daughters, nine of whom are living. Four of her sons have filled fill-ed L. D. S. missions. Her children child-ren are: Mrs. Marion Tuckett, Lake Shore; J. W. Mendenhall, Cedar City; T. L. Mendenhall, Raymond, Alberta, Canada; Joseph Jo-seph Mendenhall, Huntington; Byron Mendenhall, Payson; Mrs. A. F. Berry, Rexburg; Aaron Mendenhall, Mapleton; Harvey Mendenhall, Provo; Barney Mendenhall, Men-denhall, Salt Lake City. |