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Show 1 . I : 4--- f I - - : ii i ' '; '" ! i M hV ! In' v " I ' 1 U -. - . J. - v s 7 1 - I- "'' - V ' I I 1 . ""' - i J ; I I .... . . . . . s , ; , I , If -- ' r.- " 1 i a) . ti ..-, 1 ! t - r i Eva Proctor discusses her historical scrapbooks with DUP. She presented the books to the DUP Monday. Scrapbooks donated to DUP Eva Warburton Proctor, 83, of Pleasant Grove has donated the scrapbooks containing local historical information which she has DUP to make the additions. The DUP manages and cares for the Pioneer Museum and log cabin which contain many of the historical records and artifacts of the early pioneers to this area . collected since she was a child, to the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. In a special meeting held Monday to commemorate the 135th birthday of Pleasant Grove. Mrs. Proctor presented the books to DUP leaders. Mrs. Proctor said that she loved history and geography as a child, and when she learned that her ancestors an-cestors were pioneers that made it all the more interesting. She explained that both of her parents, John Edward and Tina Anderson Warburton, were natives of Pleasant Grove. She has two large scrapbooks of pictures and two additional books . which contain the stories which go with the pictures. One book is on the early settlers and the settling of Pleasant Grove. The other contains information on churches, schools and social events. In addition to these historical records, Mrs. Proctor kept an accurate ac-curate record of those buried in the Pleasant Grove cemetery through obituaries and other information. This material has been used by the city in preparing up-to-date records of those buried in the cemetery. Mrs. Proctor noted that histories have been written of Pleasant Grove but that they have not included complete information on the early settlers of the community. The data she has collected over the years provides this insight about those early pioneers and their descen-dents. descen-dents. Mrs. Proctor has been a life-long resident of Pleasant Grove except for one year that she and her husband, Robert Gardner Proctor, spent in American Fork after they were married. Since that time she has lived on the farm that has been in the Proctor family for many years. She is the mother of four daughters and one son. She has 28 grandchildren and 44 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Mr. Proctor died in July, 1981. Mrs. Proctor said she had a few things left to put into the scrapbooks and will borrow them back from the |