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Show 'Robert Bodily Celebrates Birthday Anniversary i -. "f - 'v veteran, cf Vt-ir. s . -v.-e.vk wars, is f'3 today. ' , v ; , -i W hen interviewed on V.'eV.v" "be h.i.l just completed hs s-irplv of fuel sand 'w.VTiLtt'i:- with Mrs. Bodily V she d.d the ironing. He said v-e was in excellent health and , d.cued briefly the highlights of j his l.fe. He was bom in Oxfordshire, 'Er -land. March 9. 1S4-1. a son of Robert and Jane Pittam Bodily. ;ile was two and his brother four when the family moved to South Africa, docking at Port ! F-lizaboth after a 17 weeks voyage in a large sailing vessel. The entire familv became converts con-verts to the L.D.S. church in ISoS and set sail for America on March 23. lSt'.O. arriving October 5 of that year. His youngest sister ' was born on shiptkwd when the !ship put into port at St. Helena, i Events of this voyage are clear in his memory today. In 1861 the family moved to Kaysville and later made their home in Cache Valley where he j became a member of the Andrew ( Bigler Company in the Black Hawk escapades in 1S66. He learned the trade of blacksmith and followed this most of his life along with farming. On February 2, 1S6S, he married Harriet Ann Roberts in the old Salt Lake endowment house and 10 years later moved to Vernal where his wife died in 1923. In 1917 the discharge from a 44 calibre rifle made him an accidental target, the shot pierced his right lung and came out near his spine. No bones were broken, however, and he feels no ill effects from the injury. He came to St. George in 1925 to engage in Temple work and has remained here since. On May 22, 1929, he married Mrs. Amanda Hoyt Palmer of Alton, who was also here for Temple work, which they continue to enjoy, attending the morning session each day. Since their marriage he has helped help-ed to build her a small home at Alton where they spend the summer sum-mer vacation. Of his own posterity, pos-terity, numbering at this time 170, seven are great-great grandchildren. grandchil-dren. "I feel splendid" he repeated, repeat-ed, "and I see no reason why I should not live to be 100". |