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Show Family To Honor Prominent Woman On Anniversary By Mrs. Harold S. Walker Rose Brown Hayes, one of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove's most outstanding women, wo-men, will be honored on her seventy-ninth birthday, at a family dinner din-ner given by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Isaac Hayes, at her home on Sunday. Mrs. Hayes was born December 21, 1860, in Lehi, where her parents'1 had been sent to colonize. They came to Pleasant Grove in 1863. The father fath-er of Mrs. Hayes was John Brown. He was one of the three scouts of Brigham Young's original company, who entered Salt Lake Valley on July 22, 1847, two days ahead of the rest of the company. He was the mayor of Pleasant Grove for 20 years and its third bishop which position he held for 29 years. His extensive journal has supplied muijh of the interesting information about the early history of the town. Perhaps Per-haps this fact accounts for his daughter's interest in preserving relics and stories of pioneer life. She has written over sixty biographies biogra-phies of pioneers of this locality. She was one of those who were responsible re-sponsible for the organization of the local camp of Daughters of Utah Pioneers, in 1922. She has acted as its captain, as its representative on the Utah county board, and for many years has been one of the custodians of the relic cabin, which she was instrumental in having erected. From her entertaining stories of the relics and of the people peo-ple who owned them, school children chil-dren and visitors have been acquainted ac-quainted with the real life of pioneer pio-neer days in Pleasant Grove. Before her marriage, she graduated gradu-ated from the Brigham Young Academy normal school, in 1880, and taught school here for four years. The life of Mrs. x Hayes is an inspiring in-spiring example of the strength and beauty of character that comes from enduring hardships and sacrifice with cheerfulness. Most of her adult years have been devoted to the service of others. In 1891 her husband, Isaac Hayes, whom she had married in 1884, died, leaving her with three small boys to support. She says, "Forty-eight years is a long time to be a widow, but life has held a lot of satisfaction and happiness." For twenty years she was tithing clerk of Pleasant Grove, city treasurer treas-urer three terms, school trustee four years, president and teacher and counselor of the Y. L. M. I. A., teacher in the Relief Society, and secretary of the Primary. She is modest and retiring, and reluctant to take credit for what she does. Her three sons are still living. Junius J. Hayes is professor of astronomy at the University of Utah. Claude E. Hayes is secretary in the church education department at Salt Lake City, and Isaac Hayes of Pleasant Grove is a mechanical engineer and a veteran member of the Pleasant Grove fire department. |