Show A GOLDEN WEDDING by request of brother cyrus tol loan I 1 mail you yn a copy coopy of a paper that was read on hla him golden wedding may y nov nav 28 1896 when the people of the ward and appropriately celebrated the G 8 the celebration of a golden wedding is an of such rare occurrence that bat it naturally gives give rise rie to reflection peculiar to itself the mind back through the dim distant pass till it brings to view the young couple starting arting Mt out hand band in band to act 1096 together aber on the stage of we the unknown future and it 11 follows them through the various scene hoenea in which they are called to take part until it views them in the presents present mature in age and ex peri in in ence line the year 1820 on the ath of april brother cyrus cyru tolman was waa born in windson township hancock county maine at the she axe ago of 01 seventeen he moved to 10 iowa and was wae married in the early part of the year y 1843 in the 0 of f the year 1845 be board beard the first gapol 0 apel sermon and with hla his wife was wan baptized into the church ot of jesus christ of latter day saints the following april by amos davit davis in ID linn lian county iowa before the year 1845 closed brother tolman was left a widower with one child during the next year however he formed an acquaintance with alice bracken who was waa born in england jan 81 1882 a d crossed the sea with her parents in the year 1841 the bracken family ily settled bottled in ID nauvoo but alved to mount pisgah iowa lo in 1846 where on the of november this day jus juat t fifty yea yeara ago alloe was married marri ad to bro tolman and anoe time has hag shared with him the vicissitudes of pioneer life 11 te they have lent a band in the sett linit up of five different places have bad born to them thirteen chil drenthe first of whom was born at fort bridget bridger on the journey girss aar ss the plaint plains the smi emi train grain returning resuming its ita course louree the next morning mornine aa 88 usual this was wai in september and on the of that month the company arrived in gait bait lake CI city ty brother tolman remained in ID gait bait lake city one year with his bla own hands handa be made the he adobas adobes and built a small house in the be twentieth ward in the fall fail of 1849 he be with three other fa millee moved west week and made the first settlers bottlers at tooele thoele he that fall plowing seven acres of at land the first broken up there and tea se a years after serving as ae a member of the tooele thoele city council oo during daring this time brother tolman had bad sm singed considerable property for the almea but the winter of being so 10 very severe evere and followed b bj summer of the graaB hopper war he be waa vigg tripped of everything in order to live gelling belling big hi last cow for brea braai he sold eld a 8 yoke of cattle for eleven bushels of wheat and went to ogden oden for it the summer bummer of 1857 also alo was lost by tl the move of the people south at the woe time of johnanna Johnson Joh naona so army entering the territory in the spring of 1860 brother tolman took bla big family having to in 1858 1853 married margaret utley of tooele thoele am moved south Jo lo in fountain irn tor fol two years yean then th moving on to BILE richfield blob field Sevier county things went on as usual in a now new place until trouble with the indians arose the settler were robbed and plundered to such nob an extent that in the spring of 1866 president young saw fit at to send nd teams and move more them north hister bister alice tolman started on the journey with a young babe but too fou days old again everything was waa gone financially stock stolen abolen by indiana property in the shape of homes and a halt half interest Inte reet in a grist mill abandoned brother other tolman talman took up another place m thoele tooele and set out a large orchard things thing went well for a few years yean and be was waa able his to build a comfortable brick house in the mant me be had bad located also a place in rush valley bocale tooele county taking up a large farm there in 1874 by the year 1879 water had failed in hoth both places his orchard died and in 1881 he be with his ble wife alice and four of their married sans san moved to goose aoi ae creek cassia county idaho where he be has 1 I ance nee resided real jed during all these years yean earning a living and building homes has not been the be only work going on ila ID tooele thoele he was wag ordained a seventy when the forty third aurum was organized he has noted acted as a presiding elder several times was a member ot of the high council of the cassis cassia stake and in the spring of the present year was ordained a patriarch thirteen yeah ago he listened to a very impressive sermon preached by elder eider lyman of the council of apostles on tobacco although having been a heavy smoker for forty year he be formed a now new resolve and fro from m I 1 hat hai time has never touched d the weed brother tolman takes special joy to in the work for the de dead ad and has spent considerable rable time in the temple his own poap po erity num beris two sous sotis are on OD missions one in 10 the spirit w rid the other one judson aadson 1 I tolman is 18 now DOW in the southern states tilling oiling the hearts of his father anu mother with joy and satisfaction |