Show Sarah Porter ToBe To ToBe Be 88 Tuesday 1 1 tL j l 1 s Mrs 1 Sarah Phebe Moss 1 Porter Porter Por Par ter to will celebrate her birthday Tuesday March larch 28 at ather ather ather her home at 2877 2871 South Eighth West lest Woods Cross i She is the daughter of Joseph Moss 1 and Sarah Phebe Sessions native pioneers of this ity She is the eldest of nine children She attended public school ina in ina a one room adobe building in South Bountiful the Patt Patty Sessions Sessions Sessions Ses Ses- Academy in Bountiful and the Academy School in Farm Farm- ington Besides helping her mother with the younger children of th the e family she was taught to cook to make soap make rugs knit quilt pick and dry fruits an and d dr vegetables and many other othe r things that helped her become c the good homemaker that sh she e is She was always wilting willing t to 0 help in the homes of her neigh bors and when there was Illness illness Ill ill- ness she was a natural nurse Sh She enjoyed her church activities activities act Hies teaching in the Sunday Scho Schools ls and singing in the choir She always has been a lover of flowers and raises mar man A beautiful ones Her hands have never been idle She spends much of her time now with her needle work I looked at her hands so wrinkled and old An thought as I looked what a story they told Of labor Jabor and toil and service and love She has given to all like an angel above I thought of the time when she wo would ld rock a wee one to sleep Her lIer hands soft as down as she patted each cheek check Of the many wonderful things she has done Ere the span of her noble life would be run They seemed to portray that for which she stands There is nothing so lovely asa asa as asa a mothers mother's hands She married Edwin P. P Porter Feb 1 1899 in the Salt Lake Temple He died in 1951 Since that time she has lived with her daughter Marie and husband husband hus band John Grachan Other living Jiving children are Mrs Martin Edna Christensen of oC Bountiful Mrs 1 George Phebe Ellis ElIis of Murray l Mrs Floyd Elva Samuelson of Pocatello and Joseph P. P Porter of Kearns She has 31 grandchildren and 49 great grandchildren |