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Show Keen Memory Gives Panguitch Woman Special Gift of Talent Every person is given a special talent, some more than others. Some play the piano, some sing, some dramatize, paint, sew, or help others. Mrs. Mary Sargent, besides being a proficient piano player, great sewer and artist, has a very special talent of remembering, remembering the past, remembering the dates and how a particular task was accomplished. She loves to learn, whenever she has had a question on how or why something was done, she researches. She has researched the town and county records as well as the state records. One example of research was when she wondered why the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had to go before the probate judge in order to establish a new ward or new stake when no other church denomination did. She searched Panguitch City and Garfield County records and found when each of the wards in the county, Escalante, Boulder, Tropic, Hatch, Antimony, North and South wards in Panguitch and the Garfield Etake were ill organized only after first appearing before the probate judge. After searching in the UUh law books at the state capitol in Salt Lake City, Mrs. Sargent found that President Brigham Young had put the law into effect to protect not only the church and its members but also those not members of the church. This also gave a person the right to sue the church and the church the authority to sue Mary Sargent gestures to youngsters u 4-11 class as she tells story of eai ly settlement In the area. Mrs. Sargent's remarkable memory 4. Is considered a "storehouse of wealth" for persons seeking historical background, genrlogy of the Garfield region. others if necessary. She recalls hearing about the time when the settlers first ventured out of the fort which was located where the Panguitch High School grounds are now. She tdls of someone standing in a place in town, at night, looking up to the North Star and stating: this is Main street and this is Center Street," (as it is now known), "What has been bothering me latdy is, who stood at that spot and deeignated the main streets?" She added, who ever did did a good job because this town is only off three degrees from north of Salt Lake City's streets. In her younger days she would have searched the church records, (which was organized by church members) to find out who that ;an v is. "But when one becomes 85 years old, she is not as active as she once was," Mrs. Sargent said. She was about 70 when she taught herself to type. She and her sister, Pearl LeFevre, now 91 spent one entire winter putting information found from the Denmark Archives onto about 4,000 geneology sheets so they would be available to the family. She loves to research genealogy and hdp if possible, |
