| Show Born Pioneer Day Sarah Ann Gibbony Myton Pioneer Woman to Celebrate Birthday Sarah Ann Gibbony Born July 1817 July 1847 is a great day in the history of the west and in the life of Sarah Ann Gibbony for on that day the first Mormon pioneers arrived in Sat Lake valley to found the state of Utah and cn the same day back in a Sarah Ann was born to Jane and Robert On July the entire state will celebrate the anniversary of the arrival o those famed pioneers and A reception in her honor will be held next Thursday afternoon at the home of Jennie Barry in Lived in Kansas Gibbony spent her girlhood in Ohio and Iowa and on January 1869 she married Alexander Gibbony in After the couple had been married about a year and a they went to to homestead a farm and there lived and raised their Eight children were born to and five of whom grew to Gibbony died in 1883 and Gibbony remained on the homestead in Kansas until her children grew up and left In 1906 she continued her westward trek and came to Myton with her son Watson and Both she and her son on homesteads when the reservation area was Gibbony with the exception of a few years in California and Oklahoma has lived in Myton since that time where she raised two after the death of their Watson In recent years both homesteads have been sold and at the present time Gibbony is making her home with Jennie but keeps in close touch with the two grandsons she Edgar Gibbony of Oak and Ralph Gibbony of Gibbony has outlived all but two of her Edwin of Long and Frank of She has six living grandchildren and 5 great Enjoys Good Health In spite of her 94 Gibbony enjoys good health and is very spry and Only yesterday she walked nearly a mile to the home of a friend to spend the day visiting with She sees and hears very well and is a gracious old lady about whom shines the calmness and dignity of She has had a harl and vigorous life having lived on seven homesteads in frontier She endured pioneer the death of her husband and the raising of her children but through it all she has retained a love and enthusiasm for lile which still shows in her sparkling eyes and twinkling Gibbony says she has attended Pioneer Day celebrations in various parts of I first came to Utah in we lived in a cabin on homestead in My and 1 heard the noise of a celebration down in We didn't know what it was but joined it to celebrate my Later I learned it was also the birthday of the The Roosevelt Standard joins with Gibbony's many friends throughout the basin in congratulating her upon her birthday anniversary and wishes her many more happy |
