| Show OUR PIONEERS SUSANNAH PIERCE BOOTHE the oldest living settler of brigham liani city and one of the most heroic women that ever lived is susannah pierce boothe A lady whom most everyone in box elder county knows and one that is universally loved and admired A lady who has put on a bold front to ei every cry trial and vicissitude of life who has kept her own troubles deeply covered in her heart and lias has used all her surplus energy in ministering and encouraging others 1 I lived in brigham city all these years without heartaches my bi brother other she she said to us but when she drove back the tears to offer us still tile the kind cheery face wo ve instinctively felt that lier her makeup is essentially of that kind of which heroes and lie heroines are made coming to brigham city with her husband in 1851 site she has breasted all tile the storms and licis vicissitudes tile the city has known and she lives today to thank god for the opportunity she has had of pioneering a land that is so full of opportunity and blessings for those who are now living she lived first in the fort in the northwestern part of tows town and later in her home which stood where the utahna hotel now stands in the upper part of her house many meetings were held in the early days and as related in another part of the paper the factory ceilings were appropriated during hard times to make clothes for the militia mrs boothe was born in lancaster county pennsylvania marell march 26 1831 and consequently was just twenty years old when she came to brigham Brig hain she has been twice married first to eli jl JI pierce in 1850 to whom site she bore four children eli II if mary B D lconidas and octavia the three former living in salt lake city and the latter in mention mendon secondly she jhc married W II if boothe to whom she has borne six children amanda of collins ton olive M of O ogden oden den willis IL if jr J of salt lake john lolin N of col lin linston sion B F and ar M A both of brigham bri ham mrs 1 irs boothe has sixty two grandchildren and four great grandchildren despite her sev enty nine dine years she is still liale hale and hearty and bears with blushing pride her honors full full upon her she frequently speaks in public assemblies and her voice rings clear and true to the uttermost parts of the buildings and add it always bears a message of courage hope and cheer to the auditors MARY D ENSIGN 0 O woman mother woman wife the sweetest name naine that hat la language nv baff e knows thy breast with holy motives rife i with hollest holiest affection glows J thou queen thou angel of my I 1 life when one thinks or speaks of mary dunn ensign it ft is with the profound admiration and devotion that clings to noblest womanhood gentle patient humble affable loving W faithful and genuine through and through the mother of noble women and men who pay to her today tile the same homage that her sweet disposition drew from them when they were children upon her knee over them she exercises the same solicitude as of old and with the increase of years her heart hns has enlarged t so that her tender love extends to all mankind mary dunn donn was born near ypsilanti mich november 2 1 I 1823 and came to salt lake lake city with her parents in 1848 18 ts in january 1852 1859 she married martin L ensign to whom she has borne nine children mary adelaine Adelai ue E roberts It deceased georgiana Georgi aua E hill logan utah E emma mma lavinia E lee brigham city harriet camilla E smith logan utah martin luther ensign jr brigham I 1 im city john henry ensign ensig 1 deceased horace ensign deceased effie celestia E merrill salt lake city dr A W ensign brigham bri gilam mrs ensign has borne with heroic fortitude all the hardships and vicissitudes that attend pioneer life and her sweet cheerful disposition has maintained throughout 0 and you tou will rarely meet one today who will give you yo it more hope and courage and alicer and make you boll feel t that hat life is indeed a grand and noble thing th alian an this good sister when wu we called to see her we found lier her despite her 87 years on a ladder in the top of a cherry tree picking in fruit asb as happy appy and gay as a young robin foreseeing a we imagine how her children and grandchildren will when dreary winter comes again put their feet under tinder grandma grandeas grand mas table and will tell lier her how low they enjoy her cherries may she live at least to round out lier her full century of years and as much longer a as slie may desire |
