History: David William Rowley

A BADGER STORY One time when we going out on the flat to prepare the ground for planting, we came upon a family of badgers. The next day we brought a trap and wet it. When we came back we had caught one but it was down the hole so far that we couldn’t pull […]

Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1904 (Saturday) – I took Alfred (Alfred Oscar Lunt, Jr.) and Baby (Charles Gilbert Lunt) to quarterly conference. Apostle George Albert Smith and Elder Nesbit came on the morning train. They spoke fine to us. I went down to Grandma Lunt’s (Priscilla Pitt) for dinner. In the afternoon Brother Smith was comparing Nephi as it […]

This Day In Our Family History

1980 Shedrick James Lunt was baptized, by proxy, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in The Church’s Salt Lake Utah Temple, which is located at 50 North West Temple in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. *Per family search, family records shows he was baptized 1 January […]

History: David William Rowley

We had two classes in Sunday School and since I (David William Rowley) was too old for the small class, they let me join the adults. Ralph Hoggan had just returned from a mission to Hawaii and he was a very good teacher of the Book of Mormon. As a result of his teaching, I […]

Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1904 (Friday) – Finished making me a house dress. In the evening Alveretta Evans came up for me to help her prepare an essay on prayer.

This Day In Our Family History

1972 Effie Druscilla Nelson was buried, plot A-19-020-08, at Pleasant Grove City Cemetery, which is located at 500 North Main in Pleasant Grove, Utah, Utah, United States. Her Find a Grave ID is: 38305 https://www.findagrave.com.memorial/38305/effie-druscilla-blackhurst

History: David William Rowley

These early years on the dry farm were very wonderful. Dad (Hugh Thompson Rowley) was a powder man on the dug way for the county and sometimes we children (Hugh Francis, David William, Verda May, Emerson Adis and Walter Illith Rowley) would walk down the canyon to meet him as he came home from work. […]

History: David William Rowley

We farmed the forty acres of Grandfather Davis’ (David Peter Davis) place in the valley and the dry farm too, for several years. Finally we moved to the dry farm to stay. Several families had moved up there and there was a one room log cabin that was used as a school. Dad (Hugh Thompson […]

This Day In Our Family History

1972 Effie Druscilla Nelson died at the age of 74 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States 1993 Marjorie Ann Rowley died at the age of 56 in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States 2018 Porty Lewis Gabbitas and Sadie Coleman were sealed, by proxy, for time and eternity in The Church of Jesus […]

History: David William Rowley

A GREAT FISHING TRIP One Spring we heard that the trout were running in Camas Creek, Idaho. This was before it dumped into Market Lake, which later became stocked with catfish, and the trout disappeared, Francis (Hugh Francis Rowley) and I (David William Rowley) were still small, or I should say young and we slept […]