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Show Mr. and Mrs. 0. S. Taylor To Celebrate- Golden Wedding Fete Saturday A full week of celebrating, beginning be-ginning next Saturday afternoon will honor Mr. and Mrs. O. S. Taylor, Tay-lor, whose Golden Wedding anniversary an-niversary occurred last March 11, but who postponed the date of activities so as to have all their eight children and many of their grandchildren with them for the event. Their many friends are also invited to join them on Sunday Sun-day when they will hold open-house open-house in honor of the occasion. The couple have spent approximately approxi-mately half of their lives thus far in Weber county, in the extreme ex-treme northern part of Utah, and the other half in southern Utah, interspersed with a few years in Oregon, and after 50 years of traveling in the double harness, teel they would not have changed much of their program if they could live their lives over. It hasn't all- been easy, and they haven't amassed a fortune in coin, but to count the rearing of an excellent ex-cellent family has been full compensation. com-pensation. Born In Weber County Born, Feb. 9, 1873, in Hunts-ville, Hunts-ville, Weber county, Utah, Mina Hegstead Taylor was a daughter of C. Hanse and Anna Christina Iverson Hegstead, converts to the L. D. S. church from Denmark. When she was aged three, they moved to Harrisville. Here she grew up with Orson S. Taylor, son of P. G. and Jane Shurtliff Taylor. He was born in Harrisville, Harris-ville, Oct. 28, 1870, where they had their schooling, Mr. Taylor attended what was then the Weber stake academy, where he prepared for school teaching. After three years they moved to Clifton, Utah where he taught school, later filling a mission for the L. D. S. church to the southern south-ern states. Returning from his mission he attended school another an-other year at Weber academy, then moved to Baker City, Oregon, Ore-gon, where he served as a special missionary in the northwestern states along with his employment, as agent on the Sumpter Valley railroad for the Eccles Lumber company. Returning to Harrisville Harris-ville he engaged in farming and livestock raising, along with school teaching, and was active in church affairs, serving as superintendent super-intendent of Sunday school, one of the seVen presidents of the sixtieth quorum of Seventy, and a worker in both stake and ward organizations of the Sunday school, religion class and M. I. A. Mrs. Taylor, along with having her family was devoted to Primary and Sunday school work. In a civic capacity, Mr. Taylor served as Justice of the Peace and member mem-ber of the county school board. From Harrisville they moved south to Milford, in 1912, where Mr. Taylor again engaged in school teaching for three years before coming on to St. George with their family of eight children, child-ren, one daughter having died in Oregon. Fail In Agriculture Try Interested in the prospects for the Rio Virgin high line water project they hoped to get into agriculture but this failing, they still devoted every energy to giving giv-ing their children a good education, educa-tion, Mr. Taylor working for three years at the mines in Kim-berry, Kim-berry, Nev., along with his work shift continued his correspondence courses with LaSalle Extension university, Chicago, and Black-stone Black-stone Institute and in veterinary science, passing with high records, practicing the latter both in Idaho and Utah, and later teaching veterinary vet-erinary science in connection with the Washington county school system sys-tem of vocation training. He served serv-ed as Justice of the Peace for four years in St. George and one term as Washington county attorney. Since coming to St. George Mrs. Taylor has been active in stake and ward Sunday school, M. I. A. and Reller Society, serving serv-ing as president of the latter or ganization in the West ward for more than nine years. 1 Travel Nearly 1500 Miles Their eight children who will join them in celebrating will travel nearly 1500 miles, some coming from California and some from northern Idaho. They include in-clude Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Casper Cas-per and family, Rigby, Idaho; Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. P. G. Taylor, and families, and Mrs. Gladys Berthelsen and daughter, Lynnea, of San Francisco; Fran-cisco; Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Staheli and family, Provo; Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Russell and two children, Salt Lake City; Bishop and Mrs. Byron H. Taylor and family, and Mr. and Mrs. Menzies Benson and son of St. George. They also have 23 grandchildren and seven greatgrandchildren, great-grandchildren, many of whom will attend, The will have dinner and open-house open-house on Sunday, and Monday will leave for a week in Pine Valley, where they will include fishing and sports. |
