Show Ninety-Nine Ninety Years And Still Active Starting the year which will round out the march toward a century o ot of useful living Mrs Anna Grandma Vincent will celebrate her ninth ninety-ninth birthday In Park City today September at the tho home of her daughter Mrs i Zella Thompson Beginning with a a. family gathering and dinner last evening Grandma Vincent Vin Vin- Vincent Vincent cent plans to hold open house today from 2 to 8 p. p m. m for her many friends the Mentally alert and Interested In she comments on the news of or the day Think Thinking follows troubles as present pr nt war ing lug back over my own war experience I as a girl In my twenties during the tho Civil to tc troubles that came war and those the pioneers later I think we should be thankful that this war Is still so 80 far faraway I I away sway Physically active she spends much of or I her time from sunup on in her flower garden She helped with this years year's fruit canning by peeling peaches and pears Born In Branch county Michigan September 14 1840 she moved westward to Iowa and saw the Civil war wai action actton from there In 1862 in a ii well equipped w independent covered wagon agon train us using ng ngone mules one team am of ot horses and many captained by her father tather then making his fourth trip she came camo to Utah She aided aldea in the tho building of the tho Salt Lake L. L D. D the furnishing food to S. S temple by laborers engaged In its construction construct on Later she helped with the building running a of the railroads In Arizona railroad construction camp boarding boardinghouse boardinghouse boardinghouse house at St. St Johns After Arter seven years there she returned to Utah settling in In Beaver where she lived about forty years She has also been active a In the affairs of or Eureka In Its early days The last eleven cleven years has been spent In Park City Grandma has lass three hobbles hobbies hobble the tho Daughters D of Utah Pioneers trans transportation trans trans- transportation transportation ano an her flower n garden Sho She fe is the mother of or ten children and was left a a. a widow with them to support She Sh has bas 57 grandchildren numerous gr and 20 great great-great- Seven Se grandchildren nd n ser set ved In the World war I Ail 1 grand rand old lady is 11 l Grandma i s Vincent 7 |