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Show Another Milestone, Her 87th, Reached By Mary Ann Case ' The life span of Mary Ann I Case, of Mt. Emmons, who ob-I ob-I serves her 87th birthday anni- versary Sunday, Jan. 31, covers a major part of Utah's history. She was born in Provo, Jan. 31, 1867, a daughter of Anna Larsen Humble and Henry Humble, who were converts from Denmark and England, to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mary Ann's childhood days were spent in Spanish Fork. Here, on March 2, 1884, she married Frederick Aaron Case, at the home of a neighbor. Their votws were later repeated in the Salt Lake Temple. In 1885, the Cases and their baby son moved to the Ashley Valley, settling on the Green River at Jensen in Uintah County. Coun-ty. There they encountered pioneering pio-neering in its crudest form while homesteading their farm and building their home. Eight of their nine children were born at Jensen, where they resided for 24 years. When the Uintah Indian Reservation Res-ervation was opened for settlement settle-ment in the early 1900's, Mr. Case filed on a homestead on the Lake Fork Bench in the area now described as Duchesne County's "upper country." When the Mt. Emmons branch of the church was organized, (Continued on Back Page) Mary Ann Case . . . (Continued from oage 1) Mr. Case was sustained as presiding- elder. Mrs. Case was president of the first Relief Society So-ciety in this branch. At Jensen, she had held offices in the YWMIA, Relief Society and Primary Pri-mary organizations. During this pioneer period, when roads were poor, and on many occasions doctors were not available, Mrs. Case was often called to nurse the sick. She assisted at the birth of the first child born on the Lake Fork Bench, and many others thereafter. Mrs. Case observed her 62nd wedding . anniversary with her husband on March 2, 1945. The following December, Mr. Case passed away at the age of 85. The Case home was well-known well-known for its hospitality. During Dur-ing the colonization of the Uintah-Ouray Indian, Reservation, new settlers stayed with them, travelers used their home as a stopping place, and church authorities, au-thorities, traveling by team to visit wards and branches, always al-ways spent the night at the Case home. The nine sons and daughters of Mrs. Case are: F. Earl Case, Mt. Emmons; Mrs. William G. (Eathel) Neal, Mt. Home. Ida-Mrs. Ida-Mrs. Gardner (Jennie Goodrich, Bluebell; Floyd Case, Mt. Emmons; Em-mons; Mrs. A. L. (Mary) Snyder, Mt. Emmons; Wm. H. Case, Duchesne; Du-chesne; Joseph Case, Ogden; Rose Case. Vernal; and Mrs. Leslie N. (Elda) Pearson, Bon-eta. Bon-eta. There are 35 grandchildren, 42 great-grandchildren and 3 greatigreat-grandchildren. |