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Show Camp May Ruple Camp May Ruple, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, met at the home of Wanda Wan-da Powell for their January meeting. Melba Woodhouse was co-hostess with 13 members and one guest, Evadean Johnson, in attendance. Captain Lyla Bennion conducted. Maxine Clark read the history of Nola McNeil's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Burten. Mr. Burten was born in Coalville in 1862 and Mrs. Burten was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1867. He was the first mail carrier to deliver mail from Green River City over Diamond Dia-mond Mountain into the Ashley Valley. He carried the mail on horseback until deep snow made the roads impossible, then he was forced to use snowshoes. They moved to Vernal in 1899 and bought what was known as the Burten Estate in old Ashley. Then lesson leader Ezma Reynolds gave the lesson on the life of Fanny Fry Simmons, who was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire England on Sept. 6, 1842. |