| Show r J r l 5 h kr w ra p E J 4 J f fI r J e t 1 d I A Ay i if 1 y r f fI tJ p I L I MR HR AND MRS HRS GEORGE TALL TAIL T above I is Ie a good portrait of or Sister Tall v who lio ho r celebrated their golden n on Oil Tuesday Jul July 3 nt III their real RI 1 dent dence 71 Sl north norih Pl Sixth th Wet Vet street atrell In the Sixteenth ward Their children child children ren rim grandchildren and 11 great with lIh a number umber of 01 old tine time and aDd intimate friends to do 40 honor hOn f to the dl ul hr guests who have hi lived hived together as III husband and wile wife during durin M 50 O years jeans rs of i peace ace and ami 1111 happiness After sitting down to a bounteous spread prepared by b the daughters and ami granddaughters granddaughter th the party rt pa flU passed l the th e evening listening to 10 old ld time line and arut musk I and recounting scenes and Incidents of early earl days day Brother George Tall was horn born Jut July 16 IMS 1336 In Plymouth Devonshire Joined the Church hur ur h 11 In 1315 being 1 by b Elder Phelps helps lh In la Davenport England Did some preaching an sa n local crusted the ocean In the early spring pring of ot ISM J with a company of or Saints In charge chars of Elder lIder Jacob Gates Gatea and Claude Claud Spencer S IK r crowed the plains the same mine year 81 In Jacob On tee company ny arriving lu Salt Sail Lake valley alle September M 33 9 Alter After ter n a afew few rew month months residence in the Fourteenth ward wan he look took up lils hla abode lit Iii the Sixteenth ward where heN he baa II resided ever since During tho Ih earlier years ears eara hi his occupations occupation were e varied he hr dug rock rork for tor the tho old City U Cemetery wall willi sharpened tool tools for the Temple quarry at 1 Granite hauled worn toast from City ity It Creek freek canyon non Me Ill After returning from the move south he hI engaged lit at athis t lit his 1111 trade trad a at as blacksmith In the slap hol of ot Henry C C Jackson In 1564 he engaged fOft Ir In bush bum eta for lor himself opening n a shop khop hol on First Wet w ll e t street between n First Pirn and Second Knuth He lie continued here 1186 1386 when hen he hI retired from business buln having hullt with and econ economy omy ony acquired H a fair competency com lie HI WK WU with the Ibe artillery of or the th Legion from 1116 J until the was Willi disbanded He lie 11 la le Mill still a Ii member of ot the Ih Vet Vot Bran eian of the th Nauvoo Legion and ancl ha hll charge of the old cannon which trod crowed the plains plain In ISH 1641 and other early earl hl relics now nou stored In the armory of or th I the h Veteran ti a lie wa was an active leU Sunday Sunda school worker being a assistant to the late lat Supt Henr henry Emery for tor a num nurn number ber b r nf of years Sitter later Tall was wan ll born b rn In Maria Marla Wales Valco al and ami emigrated to America In 1849 1810 with her II Ir rather father the late John at atone one cue time a prominent business man of oC Millard county They re rr remained r In the tte states three years arriving In Salt It Lake valley alley Aile on nil the lOti of ot September m JU JUn Brother n and Slater Sister TaU Tall are ar r the of 14 11 children nine of or whom are living five con pots and tour four daughters daughter 21 31 grandchildren n and nd three Dire alt all were present nt at the festivities except their hlll I win lIOn John who re R with hi bl his family In Idaho |
