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Show All The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Sunday, August 30, 1998 Ancestors Buttress Identity Of Many Utahns in Cable-Car Deaths @ Continued from A-t cal eee tales were not so whimsi- One great-grandmother recounting her engagement said that shortly before she was to marry, her fiance was killed by a runaway wagon. Soon. after the accident she became the second wife to a prosperous orchard farmer That was all it took: Johnson was hooked on Mormonhistory My parents are very proud of their pioneer past,” Johnson says. “And someof the people in my had walked across the plains. They were old, they had were close to my heart Lorille Miller is also a descen, dant of Mormon pioneers and a history buff. But Miller, an agnos: tic, is not motivated by any religious impulse. On herdining roomtableis the I think it’s easy to identify with ancestors.” says the 72-year- old Miller. “Mormonscertainly don't have a corner onthat mar- youth, it just seemed to me so use get caught upin the web ‘| didn’t like Mormonismin my less,” Miller says. “I think back on them with fondness but what an awful way to have to live your whole life with all that make- 6 heve. But next to the encyclopedia sits a “Book of Remembrance,” a family history album that can be purchased at Mormonbookstores such as Desere: Book. The proximity illustrates how Miller and other descendants of Mormons seemforever boundto theirpast evenif theyno longerbelieve in the religious doctrine of their ancestors. Miller left the church in 1960. That has not eroded her pride in her pioneer heritage. She admires thegrit of early settlers who followed their convictions and jour- neyed to 2 strange, new land. At the same time, she does not want neersis an international grouporganized, like the pioneers, into musical instruments, letters and black-and-white photos. But none of Johnson's children share her passion for family histo ry LaRue Pitts, the organization's you want to barf because they were so goody-goody. I talk about them asreal people and real emo- tions, that it was all right to be human. Her favorite family story is about her great-grandmother Annie Elizabeth Little Little Dye. Annie was the second wife of FeramorzLittle, one of Brigham Young's nephews. WhenLittle historian, has a son whoalsois 4 cate muchtimetothepast. “I don't have any hatred of my ancestors,” he says. “But I don't reallyidentify with them, either Yetin “camps” outsideof Utah many younger former residents have discovered an interest in their ancestry. Once away from Utah’s year-round Days-of-'47 at- mosphere, Pitts says, they feel a yearning to learn more about with the past. They are saying him off. 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Takingpart in an investigational research study is an excellent opportunity to learn more about a chronic iiiness and howto treatit Pitts first wife to New York City to see Annie my love.” NEW MEDICATIONS STUDIED their heritage. ‘These young people are away says. ceived the message, thenreplied, “Tell him to keepit. I'm getting a divorce. s. 262-4671 Po- went on an evangelizing mission in the Middle East, he took his “Give Manwill Plumbing & Heating L.C. 385 E. 3900S. Loren Pomeroyunderstands. A meroy, 51, is the great-grandson of one ofthe first Mormons to en: ter the Salt Lake Vall ey from home and families,” 73! Our Tradition of Quality Carries On! ross the street from the Capitol. They lead school classes ontoursofglass cases full of 19th-century quilts, pioneer gh? NED g,, Thermostat camps are full of white-haired women who do research into the lives of their forebears and share their findings with the other members. A few cente S still active in the About 200 olde: men volunteer their time as guides in the eeu at 300 North and Main Salt Lake City mathematician, idealized version that would make * Programmable camps and companies. Most of the Mormon ward meetings. I don't want to gloss it over themthe way they were, not some * Central Air Conditioning * Power Humidifier *® Electronic Air Filter monfamilyhistory The Daughters of Utah Pio- historian and museumcuratorin Nevada. Otherthan that, she says, her middle-aged children are too busy with everyday life to dedi- facts of my life. | want to love Package Includes & 2-Speed 80% Furnace of Mor- any picture-perfect depictions of herancestors. At a recent family reunion she gave a no-holds-barred presentation of some of herkin, quite different from the faith-promoting testimonies she heard regularly in and makeit unreal,” Miller says. ‘They are mine, that’s one of the Total Content’? a belief, that Miller checked out from the library until her own copy arrives at the bookstore. ket But older people might Sometime it $ younger generations awhile — whether they are Mormonor not — beforethey two-volume Encyclopedia of Un 6.5% wo Liberty Federal Mortgage 2] FEE ROE Rick EganThe S. Daughters of Utah Pioneers President Mary Johnson, left, and Larue Pitts, here viewing artifacts at the DUP museum, are among Utahns taking a fresh look at their pioneer he age: ssa” town grandchildren my age. But they Save up to 60% over cable. 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