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Show Pioneer Recalls Varied Events Of Utah's Building RESIDENT DISSERVES 87(Ii BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY Born in Utah but four years after its .settling by Mormon pioneers, Mrs. Melissa, Jane Caldwell Adams, one of Pleasant Grove's eldest residents, resi-dents, recalled events of an interesting inter-esting lifetime, on her eighty-seventh birthday Thursday. A daughter of sturdy pioneer parents, par-ents, Matthew and Burella Guymon Guy-mon Caldwell, Mrs. Adams was born in a simple room dug out of the bank of the Spanish Fork river, on ' April 7, 1851. She lived the early years of her life in Spanish Fork, Springville, Nephl and Fountain Green, experiencing exper-iencing the hardships of pioneer life and the terrors of the Black-hawk Black-hawk uprising. She was married to William II. Adams of Pleasant Grove in the old Salt Lake Endowment house on March 23. 18C8. They moved shortly short-ly after to Fountain Green, where they assisted the campaign for funds and materials to construct the Mantl L- D. S. temple. Later, Mrs. Adams attended her first five children while her husband filled a mission to the Southern States. She is the mother of ten sons and daughters, six of whom are living. They are William and DeLos, of East Garland; Mrs. Melissa Despain of American Fork; and Mrs. Vilate West, and Burton Adams of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove, and Byron Adams of Sterling, Idaho. Her other descendants descend-ants include C2 grandchildren, 61 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren. Her father, Matthew Caldwell, was a member of the Mormon Battalion, Bat-talion, and her parents were among the Saints driven from their homes in Nauvoo. |
