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Show 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 - , ' : I 5 ' ' - ! .; ; . "..ti ifCn'K, f;;.ri 'vr?'? j ' - ", , " ' I f . . " . - . i 'J : ' ' !!:.". .;.? ' " ..,.; : . ',. .! ' ' ' r '' ' Wrights ttrougrh struggle and Ianc which still stands to-day. 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 difficulty, diffi-culty, 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 interesting 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-times Some-times 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 Windermere 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 William Will-iam J. Wayman built a log cabin in Holladay at the foot of Casto continued from page 5 had been thinking about all of her old school friends and wishing they could all get together and in 1949 she decided to do something about it. It took a lot of time to locate her girl friends for they had all married and many of them had moved away. Mrs. Wright kept at it until she had mailed fifty letters, inviting them all to meet at the home of her sister, Myrtle Seifert, 1812 So. State. Of those she Invited, thirty were able to come and they were all thrilled to see each other once more. Mrs. Wright decided to ask them all again the following year. This time she invited both the men and women students and all of the alumni from the old District Ifo. 28 school and the reunion was held at the Holladay Ward House. It has become a yearly get-together and under the leadership of Bertha Wright the Old-Timers come from near and far to meet once more and re-live together the grand old days. Busy as she has been all these years, Mrs. Wright has still found time to remain active in her church work. She has completed a mission, mis-sion, she has visited all of the L.D.S. Temples in the United States and Hawaii. In 1953, Mrs. I Wright returned with the Sons and Daughters of the "Utah Pioneers Pion-eers to Omaha, Nebraska for the dedication of the Mormon Bridge. She posed with them, and her image wearing the original pioneer costume and bonnet, appears on all the L.D.S. monuments across the United States. Mrs. Wright lost her husband Charles eight years ago but feels she is very fortunate in having all of her eight children and twenty three grandchildren around her. Mrs. Wright also has two brothers and two sisters living in this community. com-munity. They are WiUiam L. Way-man, Way-man, 2963 So. 23rd East, R. Earl Wayman, 5465 HollaIay Blvd. (the original Wayman Homestead), Mable Therning, 224S So. 8th East and Mrs. Myrtle Seifejt, 1812 So. State. i. |