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Show Sugar House, Utah Thursday Augusfr I, 1957 SOUTH EAST INDEPENDENT Page 5 sacrifice were able to send all back to Holladay and the little family grew until there were ten, four sons and four daughters. In those trying days it was a proud thing when a parent was able to put one of their children through high school but the eight and sec them all graduate. Six of Mrs. Wrights children have served on missions throughout the world for the L.D.S. church and all eight of them were married in the Salt Lake Temple. During all this time Mrs. Wright continued on page 6 - , ' : I5 ' ' - ! .; ; . "..ti ifCn'K, f;;.ri 'vr?'? , " ' I j ' - ", f . . " . - . i 'J : ' ' !!:.". .;.? ' " ..,.; ',. .! ' ' ' r '' ' Wrights ttrougrh struggle and Ianc which still stands to-da-y. It was this sajnc log cabin that Bertha Wayman made her first appearance on Feb. 18, 1893. As a girl, she attended District School number 28 in Holladay, this school is now known as the Olympus Junior High. Like most young girls her age Bertha had her daydreams and the question which puzzled her most during these day dreams was what the future would hold for herself and her friends. She wondered wrhom they would marry and where they might settle. The only diff-iculty, Mrs. Wright remembers, is that most of this day dreaming was done in church. She would sit in meetings and gaze toward the ceiling where there were carved four beautiful angels, two blue and two pink, and wonder if she and her friends were to part and never meet again. Bertha's dreams were interrupted when she found that life itself was much more inter-esting than dreams. Along came Charles E. Wright.and they were married in the Salt Lake L.D.S. Temple. The newlyweds made their first home in Holladay, but in 1915 they decided to follow in the footsteps af their grandparents and do some pioneering of their own. Charles and Bertha Wright and their two tiny daughters moved to the Altonah Reservation. Mrs. Wright remembers how lonely this home was, the nearest neighbors lived miles away. Some-tim- es Mr. Wright and the other men would load their wagons with turkeys and produce they had grown and go to other settlements to trade and sell these things for other commodities they needed for themselves. During these long periods when she was alone Bertha would once more think of her friends and wonder how and where they were. Later they moved Bertha Wright Woman of the Week - - . Mrs. Bertha Wright of 5431 Holladay Blvd. is one person who can truy be called a Daughter of the Utah Pioneers. She has lived and is living a full and constructive life and she has many interesting stories to tell. Mrs. Wright's maternal grand parents Oscar Stoddard of New Vork City and Elizabeth Taylor Stoddard of Bristol, England crossed the plains in the last of the hand cart ex- - r peditions and Mx. Stoddard was the captain of the expedition. Her paternal grand parents Emanuel Wayman and Margaret Winder-mere Wayman also migrated to Utah in 1854. Mr. Wayman was a crack shot with a rifle, and used his skill to procure game for the group. Mrs. Wright's father Will-iam J. Wayman built a log cabin in Holladay at the foot of Casto FRESH FRUIT FLAVORS Strawberry Pineapple f s Chcrry v;t V i Others ( :vVrv m FRENCH DIP Pistrami Sandwiches VL 2$d' j-- f 0, M ORANGE CREAMO V7 HAMBURGERS HOT DOGS fy0 Melo Freeze TUNE YOUR RADIO TO ... KWK . RADIO STATION Mr1 TO ON YOUR DIAL --t- in Sweetest Vtesh fca& tlie Sweetest CoK&axaty,, In SUGAR HOUSE 0 |