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Show CAMP MAY RUPLE Camp May Ruple Daughters of the Utah Pioneers met at the home of Marie Soderquist for their October meeting. Captain Lyla Bennion was co-hostess. A luncheon lun-cheon was served to eight members and one guest, Mable Nyberger, a county officer. Lesson leader Ezma Reynolds gave the history of spinning and weaving by Mary Thompson Patterson. She was born Feb. 24, 1853 in Denmark, She and her family sailed for America May 16, 1861. When Mary was nine years old she went to work for the Peter Jensen family, which had 13 boys. She washed dishes, carried water for washing clothes, swept the dirt floors and helped care for the children. She soon learned to card wool and make rolls for Mrs. Jensen to spin. She married Edward Patterson Oct. 31, 1868 in Salt Lake City. They had nine children, five sons and four daughters. Mary carded the wool, spun yarn and wove the yarn into cloth for men's suits and, women's and girl's dresses and blankets. She made cloth and lined the caskets her husband made. Captain Bennion gave the history of Sheriff William "Billy" Preece. , Billy was born in Salt Lake City on Feb. 11, 1856. As a youth he came to the Uintah Ouray Reservation to help round up horses on the Duchesne River. He married Mary Elizabeth Jacob Snyder in 1888 at Ashley Fort just north of Vernal. In 1896 he moved his family to Vernal and was elected sheriff. This was the period of the outlaw activity in the region. One of his first jobs was to try to capture a gang of horse rustlers let by Dutch John Henselini, whose headquarters were where Dutch John is now jJCSr-i turn.- i-iWLi.ii |
