Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1896 (Saturday) – Attended Sunday School. Later I saw May (May Grover) and she gave me a pretty silk handkerchief which she had brought for me from Salt Lake. Afternoon – I went to the station as Nan (Nan Whitbeck) went home. On my way back I called in Grover’s, May and I went for […]

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1896 (Friday) – In the evening: Mr. and Mrs. Burton went to a party at Mrs. Lynders, Lon (Charles Alonzo Sperry), Mrs. Farrar (an old lady from Beaver) and I stayed home. Later, Ed McCune (Edward Hague McCune), Oscar Lunt (Alfred Oscar Lunt) and Rob Ord came up, they stayed until midnight. And so the […]

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1896 (Sunday) – We returned from Mona, later I walked up town. I had supper at Gusta’s (Emma Augusta Taylor). I then went down to Grover’s to see May. We enjoyed our visit together. Lon (Charles Alonzo Sperry) is visiting at Burton’s and Rob McCune came up and slept with him. Still the same old […]

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This Day In Our Family History

1880 – Eli Lunt Batchelor was born in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States to Eli Batchelor and Elizabeth Lunt 1889 – John Alonzo Pitt died in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States 1896 – Loyal Pitt Lunt was born in Nephi, Juab, Utah, United States to Shedrick Lunt and Ann Pitt 1907  – William Vernon Alcorn […]

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Journal: Jeanette Sperry

1896 (Thursday) – Nan Whitbeck came to visit Mrs. Burton (Frances Haddy Betenson). We usually have some good times when there are young folks in the home. (*For the next week very little worth writing happened. I was busy with school, going to mutual, choir practice and Sunday School , etc.) *was descriptive of 22nd-27nd

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1896 (Thursday) – We were all very busy at school getting ready for the entertainment in honor of George Washington’s birthday. A group of girls were dressed in costumes representing Martha (Martha Daindridge Custis) Washington, I was dressed in a long white skirt, white cap, pink shawl and dark waist, I had my hair powdered and I […]

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