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Show Aunt 'Barb' Adams Pa rowan's outstanding citizen Barbara has always had many friends when she clerked in the store. The Iron County Record carried a paragraph saying she was the best clerk in the county. She is loved by all who know her and a valuable source of information in-formation on Parowan's past as the city observes its 126th birthday. Barbara was one of the favorite clerks in the store among the young people. She just couldn't resist giving away a little candy to the children who came in. Barbara married Hugh L. Adams in 1907. She remembers when the Bank of Iron County was started somewhere around 1909. She has always been "involved" with the church and with civic duties and remained very active and in demand as a speaker at funerals and public gatherings. She learned early in life to be a good cook and always has cookies when her "children" from all over the neighborhood drop in to see her. PAKOWAN - A special guest at the Parowan Pioneer Day Birthday Birth-day party will be Barbara Adams. Mrs. Adams will be honored as one of Parowan's outstanding citizens of today and yesterday. She'aunt Barb) as everyone calls her, is 93 years old and remembers many interesting in-teresting stories about residents of Parowan when she was a young girl. Aunt Barb was born may 22, 1883 in Parowan in a rented one room log house, and delivered by a mid-wife, Ellen Eyre Banks. She attended school in a one room school house heated by a fireplace. She doesn't remember going a full year at any time, as she was needed at home. She also attended one year of school in the basement room of the "Old Rock Church". She also attended the Branch Normal School in Cedar City. She has always been an avid reader and says she learned much from reading everything she could get her hands on. She also learned much from the pioneer doctor, Paulina Phelps Lyman who visited her mother's house. Aunt Barb remembers working in the old Equitable store where one could buy anything from farm machinery to horse collars, beans, castor oil and liniment. People traded their eggs to the store for goods and it was a real thrill to have an egg to spend if you were a little child. |