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Show Alydia Terry Winsor Celebrates 85th Birthday Anniversary Celebrating her birthday anniversary annivers-ary in St. George, Monday, Jan. 19, was Alydia Terry Winsor, who was 85 on that day. She is here for the winter working in the Temple and received congratulations congratula-tions from her many relatives and friends on this occasion. Born In Suit Lake City Born in Salt Lakf City, Jan. 19. 1S57, while her father Thomas Searlos Terry was in the eastern states on an L. D. S. mission, she was several months old before he had the privilege of making her acquaintance. Her mother was Mary Ann Pulsipher Terry, and was living at their farm in what was known at Little Cottonwood when she was born. Her earliest memories are of their weekly trips into Salt Lake City proper by wagon and ox teams to attend at-tend the Sacrament meetings, and at regular intervals to attend the family gatherings held at the home of her grandparents, Zera and Mary Brown Pulsipher. The Terrys were among those called to the Dixie mission. They brought with them cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens and were better provided than many who made that long winter trek, even though they were held up for days on the journey because the Indians (Continued on page eight) Mrs. Winsor Honored (Continued from First Page) during the Black Hawk 'depredations 'depred-ations took their team at that place. Expert Telegraph Operator In the fall of 1872 Mrs. Winsor became one of the expert women telegraph operators of the Deseret Telegraph lines, learning under Daniel M. Tyler. She held the outpost on the Arizona border during perilous times, living with the Winsor family at what became be-came known as Winsor Castle, at Pipe Springs. She married their son, Frank Winsor, in the St. George Temple in 1877. He died several years ago. Her living children include: Mrs. Ethel W. Simpkins, A. P. Winsor II, and Mary Ann Pickering, all of Enterprise, Walter F. Winsor, Logandale, Nev., Mrs. Norman Shurtliff, Overton, Rulon S. Winsor, Win-sor, Compton, Calif., and L. M. Winsor, now an agricultural engineer en-gineer in Teheran, Iran, Persia. She also has 15 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. |