by Allie Anderson Cardon, his wife

2nd-great-grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

Great-grandson of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé

Grandson of Emanuel Philip Cardon and Amelia Maria Merrick

Son of Emanuel Alonzo Cardon and Rosa Vilate Terry

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Jesse Leo Cardon was born on August 5, 1909.  He weighed in at 71b, 1/2ozs.  His height was 20 inches.  His place of birth was St. David, Cochise County , Arizona .  His parents were Emanuel Alonzo Cardon and Rosa Vilate Terry.  He was the 5th child and 2nd boy born to the family of 7children; 3 boys and 4 girls.  His sisters and brothers, in order, are Dency, Irene, Emanuel Alonzo, Rosa Vilate, Faye and Terry Ivins.

Jesse was blessed on June 5, 1910, by Bishop Joseph N.  Curtis, Sr., in the San Pedro Ward, Tombstone Stake, Arizona .  His father, Emanuel, was farming in St. David at this time to support his family.  In 1915 they moved north to Clover, Tooele County , Utah , with his father Emanuel Philip, and soon after they moved to nearby Benmore. 

Concerning the childhood of Jesse, I quote from a letter written to me from his oldest sister, Dency Cardon Stout, on December 3,1981.

 In his childhood Jesse was a cute, sweet, little, black-eyed, black-haired thin and wiry boy.  As he grew, he was always a fast runner.

 I remember in Benmore the country was so dry around our home.  Jesse was four years old and he loved playing stick horse by getting a stick and putting it between his legs and holding on to it like a horse.  He would run all over the place.  On some of these occasions, snakes would follow this stick and papa would have to go get the snakes and kill them.  Luckily Jesse never was bitten.

Emanuel and Jesse would play to together.  They were very companionable.  Jesse started school in Benmore.  One day he was so anxious to go that he went off without his pants.  I had to run after him and tell him; he had long underwear on so it gave him the feeling he had his pants on.  Jesse was smart in school and was good at saying verses and poems and loved to say them at church and school.

Jesse was a good athlete.  He was good at baseball.  He was on a team and was one of their best runners.  I took my children to see him play at the Hinckley High School football field on some Sundays one year.

Jesse was pleasant to be around.  He was a kind brother.  My mind is dimmed now.  I can’t remember all I would like to.  I did love him very much.

Jesse went to Primary, Sunday School and Church, as the rest of the family did.  He was baptized in Benmore on August 30, 1917, by Albert Skidmore, who was an Elder and was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints the same day by Elder Israel Bennion.  Place was St. David Cochise, Arizona.

Jesse learned at an early age to work and he worked hard at many jobs to help support the family.  The family moved to Hinckley in 1921.  He hauled wood from the West hills for their use for fires and also sold loads to other families to help with expenses.

He was ordained a Deacon in the Aaronic Priesthood on December 24, 1922, by Joseph W. Wright.  He was ordained a Teacher on Apri1 19, 1925, by Arthur H. Reeve, a High Priest in the Hinckley Ward, Deseret Stake, Millard County, Utah .  He was also ordained Priest, but I don’t have the date on that.

Jesse liked dogs and horses.  He liked to dance and have a good time.  He played the harmonica quite well and sometimes entertained family and friends with it.

Jesse received a certificate for completing the course of The Religion Classes in Deseret Stake on the 25th day of May, 1924.

Jesse liked all kinds of sports, especially basketball, baseball and football and he played on the varsity teams at Hinckley High School for all of these sports.  He graduated from Hinckley High School and LDS Seminary on May 14,1928.

Jesse and I met at a dance in Oak City Canyon.  Jess and his friends, Don and Frank Woodbury and others were quite a friendly bunch of guys.  They were fun to be around.  We had lots of fun going to different places and doing different things.  My brother, Carlos, and Jess were together quite a lot of the time.

Jess was a very good worker where ever he could make a little money that was needed and he was friendly with everyone and helped where ever he could.  He would help his mother wash clothes by scrubbing them on the washboard.  He would mix bread for her because she had asthma and couldn’t stand the flour dust.  He told me that a lot of times his lunches he took to work were sandwiches of bread and pickles.

After going together for awhile, we were married on March 16, 1934, in Hinckley by Bishop Joseph M.  Wright.  Jess worked that summer for Add Ekins in Hinckley, hauling hay for $1.50 a day.  In the winter he worked for the WPA and was earning $45 a month.  We would have liked a place where we could have a good garden, but we didn’t have the money for that.  Later Jess got a job with Brigg Dahl and B.J.  Anderson in Delta chopping hay for the Utah Poultry Co.

The following children were born to us while we were living in this area: Kenneth J. was born August 11, 1934, in Hinckley.  Arnold A., born August 15, 1936, in Oak City.  Colleen Rae was born September 17, 1938, in Hinckley.  Jesse Leon was born September 25, 1940, in Delta.

I remember after we got married, Jess owned a big horse.  I think his name was Duke.  Jess really liked the horse and he used him at work.  Fay, his sister, was graduating from high school that year and she needed a new dress for graduation.  Well, his folks couldn’t get the money, so they sold the horse.  At about this same time Jess got an old wreck of a car and fixed it up.  The lights weren’t very good so we always had to be home before dark.  Later we got a better one.

Jess was very good at helping with the cooking, especially with cooking meat and using the pressure cooker.

He told of a time when he and Lloyd Christensen went to the West hills for wood, to be gone for a week.  They each had taken a grub box, but before they made it home, they ran out of food.  All they had left was some pancake flour and a bottle of black molasses.  He said they couldn’t eat it and just about starved.  He told me that a lot of time his lunch at work was just sandwiches of bread and pickles.  He said he remembered times when all they had for supper was a dish of peaches.  Sometimes they would get some liver from someone who had killed a pig or a calf and they would have liver and bread and fruit, when they were living in Arizona.

In September, 1941, we moved up to Tremonton, where Jess was working for the Utah Poultry Co.  He heard of a job opening in Lehi and we moved there in December 1941.  Jess worked for the Utah Poultry Co.  driving a semi-truck hauling feed and different things to other towns.  He would be gone for days, working 16 hours a day.  After awhile he got on at the plant in American Fork.  He also worked for a farmer in American Fork, raising celery and other vegetables.  The three older boys often helped him at this.

The rest of our children were born in Lehi.  they were: Donna Mae, born November 9, 1942, Margo Elaine, born July 19, 1944, Lois Ann, born November 8, 1945, Dolores, born April 9,1947, and Gary Lee, born March 20, 1951.

Jesse was an assistant scoutmaster to Jay Haws when we were living in the Fifth ward (about 1950).  He enjoyed that very much, but he never was able to get active in the Church after we moved.  Jesse could read the church books and quote them, remembering the scriptures better then most anyone.  If he had just stuck with it and had been more faithful.

When the Utah Poultry Co. went out of business in about 1953 Jess got a job at the brick plant in Lehi and later he worked for Garn Holbrook on his dry farm.

He was the Father of nine children; five daughters and four sons, Kenneth J., Arnold A., Colleen Rae, Jesse Leon, Donna Mae, Margo Elaine, Lois Ann, Dolores and Gary Lee Cardon.  All are still living and have families of their own.

Jess had a heart attack in October 1957 and after a week’s stay died in the American Fork Hospital on October 15, 1957.  He was buried in the Lehi cemetery, October 18, 1957.

**Dad was liked by all who knew him.  He was blessed with a good mind and body and he worked hard to support his family, which he loved very much.  He loved the Lord and the Gospel.

The sad note which must be told, was the cause of his inactivity in the Church, and of his early death was tobacco and alcohol.  Alcohol is a disease and when it gets a hold on you it is difficult indeed to overcome.

I close by expressing a very heart felt belief that Dad has or will overcome and mercy with repentance and then forgiveness will find him with his family in the Kingdom where our Father in Heaven lives.

**Closing comments by Kenneth J.  Cardon, his son.

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Lehi City Cemetery, Lehi, Utah

 

by Thomas X. Smith 

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Cardon, Paul, first counselor in the Bishopric of Benson Ward, Cache Stake, is the son of Philip Cardon and Martha Mary Tourn, and was born in Italy, in the valleys of the Waldenses, Dec. 28, 1839, where he passed his boyhood days. In the year 1851 (Feb. 7th) he was baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Elder George D. Keaton. The Cardon family was one of the first to join the Church in that country. Shortly after joining the Church the family decided to emigrate to Utah, and in February, 1854, they left their native land and arrived in Salt Lake City in October of the same year. Paul drove an ox team across the plains. He settled in Mound Fort, Weber county, Utah, where he remained for one year. Thence he moved to the settlement known as Marriotts Ward, in the same county, where he lived until the early spring of 1860. In the fall of 1856 he was ordained an Elder and was set apart as an acting Teacher and home missionary. He spent the fall and winter in Echo Canyon and Lost Creek, building fortifications to stay the progress of Johnston’s army. He was a member of Capt. Lot Smith’s company most of the time. On the 16th day of March, 1857, he was married to Susannah Goudin. In the spring of 1858, when the people were called upon to leave their homes and go south, he sent his wife and child to Spanish Fork, Utah county, and he was detailed to stand guard over property in Ogden, Weber county, under the direction of General C. W. West. In the fall of 1859 he went to Cache valley and there selected property and started to build a home. In the spring of 1860 he moved his family to Cache county, where he has lived ever since. Shortly after arriving in Cache valley he was selected as one of the famous body of so-called minute men. This company of minute men was organized for the purpose of protecting themselves and families against the attacks of the Indians. He held a commission, signed by the governor, as first lieutenant of cavalry. In December, 1862, he was ordained a Seventy, and at the same time set apart as an acting teacher in the Fourth Ward of Logan and also as a home missionary. In the year of 1868 he was chosen and set apart as one of the seven presidents of the 64th quorum of Seventy. In 1887 he was compelled to go into exile, where he remained for about five years. This left him in financial straights and he was obliged to sell his home and property in order to pay his debts. In 1892 he left Logan and went to Benson Ward to build up another home for himself and family. Feb. 10, 1895, he was ordained a High Priest by Apostle Marriner W. Merrill and set apart as first counselor to Bishop Henry W. Ballard, of Benson Ward, which position he still holds. In 1899 he was called on a mission to Switzerland and Italy for the purpose of gathering genealogy; in this labor he was very successful and returned home in March, 1901. Elder Cardon’s life has been a very busy one and he has helped build up Cache valley from its beginning, having been public spirited and held many public offices in Logan city and Cache county. He is the father of a large family, fifteen of his children are still living.

Latter-day Saint Biographical Encyclopedia
Volume 2  Biographies
Smith, Thomas X.

by a Great-grandchild (or Reda Ricks a grandchild perhaps?)

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John Paul Cardon, son of Philippe Cardon and Martha Marie Tourin was born 28 Dec. 1839 at Pinerolo, Piedmont, Italy.

The Cardons found a place of refuge in the Italian Alps during the awful days of persecution that cost the lives of tens of thousands of noble souls, who maintained that every person had the right to worship God as he chose.  Many of the Cardons were numbered among the martyrs.  They were of the Valdenese and the second family in Italy to accept the restored gospel of Jesus Christ as taught by the Latter–Day Saints, under the direction of the late President Lorenzo Snow.  This notable event in their lives took place in the year of 1853.  In February 1854 Phillippe Cardon with his family consisting of 4 sons and 2 daughters left their native land to cast their lives and fortunes with the despised Mormons.  Having already endured persecutions for their belief, it was nothing new for them to share in the hardships and persecutions that followed the Saints after reaching the valleys of the mountains.

The Cardons arrived in Utah 29 October 1854 with the Robert Campbell Company, settling in Weber County. Here they remained until the move south when Johnston’s army entered Utah.  The previous year Paul Cardon, 1857 was married to Susanna Goudin, who crossed the plains with the Edmond Ellsworth Hand Cart Company, which arrived in Salt Lake on 26 Sept. 1856.  From this union there were 6 sons and 5 daughters.

In December 1869 he was married to Magdalene Beuse, his 2nd wife, who came as a child with the Ellsworth Company.  From this union 9 children were born, Three of whom are dead.  After the return from the south the Cardon family settled in Marriott, Weber County .  The following year 1859, Paul Cardon with his father and brother came to Logan, which then numbered but a few families.  They entered at once upon the activities necessary to protect themselves against the then, savage Indians, and the building up of a new settlement. Paul Cardon assisted in erecting the first log cabin in Logan, which was located on the block between 1st and 2nd North streets on the west side of the Main Street.  He became actively engaged in the defending the settlement against the many Indian raids that took place during the early settlement of Cache Valley and risked his own life on many occasions in defending others.  He was also constantly engaged in this work, neglecting his own personal affairs, and this admirable quality characterized his entire life.  He was prominently identified with the religious, military, social and civil organizations of the early history of Logan City and vicinity.  As a member of the Church he placed himself and all that he possessed at its service.  In a military capacity Paul Cardon was First Lieutenant of Cavalry, having received his commission from the President of the United States.  He had charge of the Temple Mill in Logan Canyon, which furnished the lumber for the Logan Temple.  He assisted in the surveying and building of the Logan Canyon road.

The family of Paul Cardon resided in Logan continuously up to the year 1892.  During this year, he with a few members of his family desiring a retired life, moved to Benson Ward where he secured a large farm.  Here he became one of the Bishopric of that ward.  In 1912 they moved back to Logan to do work in the Logan Temple and spend their last days with their children, most of them whom lived in Logan.  Paul Cardon was the father of 20 children, the grandfather of 73, and the great grandfather of 17 making a total of 110 at the time of his death.  Since then a great many more have been added to the list.

John Paul Cardon built the first adobe house of any size in Logan at the cost of $5000.00.  Here 10 years he ran a hotel he called the Cache Valley House, which was known throughout the state as hotels were very scarce in those days.  He was selected as one of the members to help build the Logan and Hyde Park canal, also help build the road through the canyon to Bear Lake.  Three of four months of the next five years were spent by these men camping in the canyon and working on the road.  They followed an Indian Trail along the river up to the left fork through Beaver and St. Charles.  It says these men had many difficulties to endure; but they were blessed as to having plenty of meat as Elk, Bear, and Deer were plentiful.

For ten years Paul Cardon belonged to the minutemen of Logan, a regular military organization of 300 men which followed up and punished the Indians when they stole horses or killed any of the settlers. Every year Brigham Young visited the valley and in his trips to the new settlements he was always accompanied by some of the minutemen and in this capacity Brother Cardon has many times had the honor of traveling with him.

To the Italian origin of Paul Cardon, Cache Valley owes its mulberry trees and its attempts at the silk culture. Both he and his wife were experts in all branches of the silk industry.  The conditions in Northern Italy and Cache Valley climates were very similar so he sent to France for mulberry seeds and the silk worms.  The trees grew well and many of them are still living.  The worms spun silk of excellent quality which Sister Cardon reeled and which was woven in Salt Lake City.

John Paul Cardon died at his home in Logan on the 12th of February 1915 at the age of 76.  ( Utah 28 “Heart Throbs of the west” Page 284-288)

By 1866 at least 17 families had migrated to America from the Piedmont Valley of Italy.  The first immigrants that left the Valley on 7 Feb. 1854 were eight members of the Phillippe Cardon Family.  Cardons had been able to dispose of their property for enough to bring themselves and five others to Utah.  They spent two weeks in London.  At Liverpool they were delayed 17 days while the ship “The John M. Wood” was under construction.  They sailed 12 March 1854 under the supervision of Robert Campbell.  The passage took 51 days.  There were 393 persons aboard.  They arrived at New Orleans 1 May 1854.  They went up the Mississippi River to St. Louis then to Kansas City where they were outfitted for their trek across the western wilderness.  They left on 14 July 1854 for the Salt Lake Valley and arrive on 28 Oct. 1854.  They experienced many hardships along the journey. Radical changes in diet worked one of the hardships on this group of people from Italy .  They had been used to fresh fruit, unfermented wine, and etc at each meal.  Paul Cardon said he had never seen any intoxicated from the juice.  Most of all they missed the chestnuts.  These had been used in roasting, creamed or ground into meal.  When food was scarce in the Utah territory they boiled rose berries to help eke out their meager fare gleaned from the fields.  They helped milk cows to pay for this privilege of gleaning.

The Sailing vessel, “John M. Wood” was 1146 tons, had 400 aboard, under a Captain Hartley.  Other information about the early life of John Paul Cardon may be found in the History of his sister Magdelene also in my possession.

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FIFTH OLDEST INHABITANT INTERVIEWED
Published in Cache Valley Paper

Mr. Paul Cardon tells of early road making, the Minutemen, the Silk Culture and the Italians part in early Cache Valley.

“The Italians are not numerous in Cache Valley but they have done their part in the development of the country.  Their work may not be so extensive as that of the Germans, English or Scandinavians, but it is characterized by that good taste, intelligence, high degree of skill and love of beauty which are inborn in all those so fortunate as to have a drop of Italian blood in their veins.  Among the early converts of the Mormon Church were several of the Waldenese of Piedmont in Northern Italy.  This religious sect, starting in Lyons , in the twelfth century, was one of the earliest forms of Protestantism and spread quickly into the valleys of Switzerland and northern Italy, where it still exists and where its church holds a synod each year.  The state of Utah has been fortunate to have among its inhabitants some of these enemies of the Roman Catholic Church, these sturdy defenders of their faith, for the martyr blood and the desire to fight for their opinions are strong in them yet, even after many generations.

One of the first converts from this church to come to Logan was Paul Cardon, now living in Benson Ward. Born of Pinerolo, near Turin, he came to America in 1854 at the age of fifteen and lived at Ogden until 1859. The commotion caused in the territory by the coming of Johnston’s army started a general shifting of the population and Mr. Cardon late in the fall of 1859 came up to Logan and selected a suitable location.  He then went back to Ogden and returned with his father and brother Phillip in February, when all was ready to receive his family he went to Ogden in April and brought the family back with him.  Like all other settlers he lived at first in a log house, but about 1868 or 1870 he built the large adobe house which still is standing on first north a little west of the post office.  It was the first adobe of any size to be built in Logan and the bricks were made just west of where the station now is.  The cost was $5000.00.  Here for ten years Mr. Cardon ran a hotel called the “Cache Valley House.”

Mr. Cardon was early connected with the public enterprises of the new community.  James H. Martineay, the town surveyor, had made plans, first for the Logan Hyde Park canal, and then for the Logan and Richmond canals, and in the construction of these two Mr. Cardon was active.  About 1865, Peter Maughan selected him, with Mr. Thomas E. Ricks, Jos. Rich and Josiah Ricks, to construct the canyon road through to Bear Lake.  Three of four months of each of the next five years were spent by these men camping in the canyon and working on the road.  They followed an Indian trail along the river up the left fork through Beaver and St. Charles Canyons, then down to the settlement of St. Charles.  Thanks to these men Cache and Bear Lake Counties were put into direct communication and have been ever since.  This is probably the earliest engineering feat in the history of Cache and the early road builders had many difficulties to overcome.  But the game was abundant, such as elk, bear and deer, and they were sustained by the feeling that they were working not only for themselves but also for the Church and State.

For ten years Mr. Cardon belonged to the minutemen of Logan, a regular militia organization of 300 men which followed up and punished the Indians when they stole horses or killed any of the new settlers.  Every year Brigham Young visited the valley and in his trip to the new settlements he was usually accompanied by some of the minutemen.  In this capacity Mr. Cardon had many times had the honor of traveling with him.

To the Italian origin of Mr. Cardon Cache Valley owes its mulberry trees and its attempts at silk culture.  Both Mr. And Mrs. Cardon had become familiar with all branches of the silk culture in their youth and seeing the similarity of conditions in Cache Valley and Italy determined to start the culture here.

Mr. Cardon sent to France for mulberry seeds and silk worms.  The trees grew well and many of them are still living.  The worms spun silk of excellent quality, which Mrs. Cardon reeled and wove into clothes in Salt Lake City.  Mrs. Cardon reeled the first silk produced in Utah and is probably now the only woman in the state who knows the art.  She has received medals for the excellence of her work from New Jersey, California and the world’s fair at Chicago and for a while taught a class at Logan in silk reeling.  The mulberry trees are sill flourishing but the silk worms are dead and so is the industry.  It would be an excellent subject for some student of economics in Utah to prepare a monograph on the history of the silk culture in Utah, how it started and why it has not become a leading industry.  The work of the Cardons is only one of the many European influences that have come into the county.  It was one of vast possibilities and we wish it might have prospered.  Mr. Cardon, however, stands for more than this one industry and the state should be grateful to Italy for sending us such a hard working, public-spirited, pleasant-natured citizen with so many artistic tastes.

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7 Aug 1824 – 20 Oct 1909

Son of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

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Jean Cardon, the second child of a family of nine, was born on 7 August, 1824 in Prarustin, Piedmont, (also referred to as Prarostino, Torino) Italy to Philippe Cardon and Marthe Marie Tourn. His parents were Waldensians who, with six of their children, joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1852 and emigrated from their home in the Piedmont Valleys in 1854, arriving in Utah in September of that same year. From that time on, the immigrant, Jean Cardon, would be know as John Cardon. 

Memories of his life, up to the time of his marriage to Anna Furrer in October of 1854, are described in his own words, as recorded on pages 65 and 66 of the Family Record Book, originally in the possession of his eldest daughter, Anna Rosina Cardon Shaw. This record (with editing of spelling only) is attached as Appendix 1.

John and Anna, following their marriage, first lived in Big Cottonwood until 1857, before moving to Marriott Settlement, Weber County where they lived on a small farm until March of 1863, except for a short time in 1858 during the “Move South to Lehi at the time Johnston’s Army entered Utah Territory. During their stay in Marriott, they remembered the flooding of the Ogden River, when Anna and her three small children had to be rescued by neighbors from a nearby haystack where they had taken refuge during the flood.

In 1863, John and Anna and their four children moved near Bingham Fort, at that time north of the Ogden City limits. John built a log cabin for his family at 507 Washington Avenue and, later in 1866, a rock house at that location. Beginning in 1863, John and Anna managed a general merchandise store at 503 Washington Ave. They also built, adjacent to their home, the first carding mill in Weber County. To supply power for the Mill, a ditch was dug by hand by John and his hired man to take water out of the Ogden River near 1251 Canyon Road. This ditch later became the Lynne Irrigation Canal for that area. John made the water wheel, tables and pickers of native lumber. The iron used in the machinery was brought from the East by ox team. After the mill was completed, John and his wife Anna did all the carding at night after the farm work was finished. The wool was made into batts or quilts and rolls from which yarn was made. These batts and rolls were held or pinned together with thorns from Hawthorne bushes. Wool was brought to this mill from all over Weber and Cache Counties. Cardons received their pay in produce. After operating for about 15 years, the mill was sold and taken to Southern Utah. 

During this period, John applied for and received his Certificate of Citizenship, Territory of Utah, United States of America, on 24 July 1876. 

After sale of the carding mill in 1879, John and Anna moved to Franklin, Idaho where they managed a farm and a mercantile store. Later, they moved to Blackfoot, Idaho where they again built and operated a general merchandise store. Their fortitude was sorely tested when the store was burned down, but they rebuilt and continued operating their business. In 1882, while living in Blackfoot, they adopted a baby girl, Edna May, who was later sealed to them. 

In 1885, they returned to Ogden. In June of 1886, their barn and house were set on fire by a disgruntled farmhand whom Anna had discharged. The barn, several horses, all of their farm equipment, hay and tools were destroyed. The home was also badly burned. In 1887, John built a 2-story brick house at the same location as the former rock house. It became known as the Big House. At that time, it was unusual in that it had double porches (ground level and second level above) on the East and South sides. In addition, a storage basement was provided with stonework arches for proper support of the house above. Most of the work, especially the finish work, was done by John. He even crafted his own tools. His original wood joiner plane and dado plane may be viewed today at a great-grandson’s workshop. A photo of John and Anna standing in front of this home at 507 Washington Blvd. is attached. Many other families shared occupancy of this house until John’s death in 1909. His wife Anna had died earlier in August 1907.

John Cardon’s obituary appeared in the Ogden Standard Examiner on 21 October 1909, the day following his sudden attack of apoplexy at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Charles Drumiler, 507 Washington Avenue, Ogden, Utah. “He was identified with the early building of the city and was always known to be a man of the highest integrity and frugality. A builder by trade, he managed the construction of many houses in the northern part of the city. He was also a member of the High Priests Quorum of the North Weber Stake. His funeral was held in the Lynne Ward meeting house, with Bishop Turnquist presiding. Interment was in the Ogden City Cemetery. 

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APPENDIX I

Autobiography of John Cardon (1824-1909)

(Jean) John Cardon.

Born August 7 in year 1824 on a mountain forest, northeast side of south Alps. A large river at foot of mountain. County name, Prarustin. At the age of 7 or 8 years I moved a little farther north, with my father’s family. My brother, Bearthelemy [Barthelemil, who was sick at that time, I carried from our forest home, Prarustin, to Bulcosta, a distance of a mile and a half. My brother died when about 5 years of age. My father’s family consisted of father, Philippe Cardon, mother, Martha Marie Tourn, children, Anneta, John, Barthelemy, Cathrin, Louise, who died when 2 years of age, Philippe, Magdlen Marie [Mary Guild as she is now called], John Paul, Thomas Bartholemi. From Bulcosta we again moved three miles further. This place was called Bria. We stayed there about 15 years. County of Neridor? My father and his sons were stone masons builders or mechanics, working 18 hours a day, except the month of May, we devoted to raising silk. The whole family started for America except my sister Annetta, being married did not want to come. We started for America on Jun 11 1854. We were 45 days in crossing the ocean. Landed at New Orleans, then by steam boat 11 days to St. Louis. My father was very sick and began to be discouraged. He was 8 days under quarantine. 25 young men left steam boat 20 miles before we got to St. Louis in order not to be quarantined. Next took steamer to Kansas, was 4 days. Here we stayed for 5 weeks. About July we started for Utah with wagons and oxens. I drove a yoke of oxen for Charles Desole. Walked across the plains. Arrived in Salt Lake City on Oct 31 [Oct 28], 1854. On the journey seven yoke of oxen cattle and 3 wagons run over me. I was administered to and in a week, I was again able to drive. Mrs. DeSole, being very domineering, I was always the first to have my yoke of oxen ready and then ready to assist others. We were in Robert Campbell’s Emigrants Company, there being 35 wagons. Came from Salt Lake City to Ogden City. Camped on north comer of Farrell Subdivision near where Tenth Street is, west side of road. Lived until 12 of March, 1855 with my father’s family. I learned to be a cooper. I made chairs and buckets, wood washboards out of Boxelder trees and sold them to maintain my father’s family thru the winter. On the 12th of March I entered a contract with Fredrick Lobae at Salt Lake City, Utah to manufacture Saltrates. Made a large quantity of saltpeater. Distilled potatoes and made alcohol. Distilled beet molasses and made for sugar. Then went up in Cedar Mountain 35 miles east of Salt Lake. Distilled sugar pine or pitch pine to manufacture rosin, pitch, tar, turpentine. Later became dissatisfied with the Church. I then worked building at Big Cottonwood. I then became acquainted with Anna Raglea Furrer. I went to get my pay for some cooper work I done for a lady where she stayed, who tried to make the match or introduced us and neither of us had met before. Still at last consulting the counseling of Brigham Young. He then counseled Anna Raglea Furrer to marry me, and that I was her first and last blessing. We were soon married about 8 days after first meeting. Bishop Harding married us in Salt Lake City. She going to her friends, I went to where I was building. In 8 days I rented a log cabin house and we then lived together, taking our affects, all of our earthly possessions on her handcart a distance of 8 miles to our log house.

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APPENDIX II

John Cardon’s message to his daughter, Olga Mary Cardon Drumiler prior to departure with her husband, Charles R. Drumiler, for the Southern States Mission in Dec.of 1905.

Ogden, Utah

“Olga Mary, my dear daughter, it is with great joy that I write to you these few lines on this occasion. I pray God to be with you and that you do spread the Gospel to where you may go. May God be with you is the desire of your father, John Cardon. “

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APPENDIX III

The BIG HOUSE at 507 Washington Ave., Ogden Utah

John and Anna Furrer Cardon

Click here for a printable PDF version of this history.

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Ogden City Cemetery – Plot Annex – 28-4-1W

27 Oct 1921 – 17 Sep 1927

Great-great-grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

Great-grandson of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé

Grandson of Emanuel Philip Cardon and Amelia Maria Merrick

Son of Jesse Leo Cardon and Francis Maude Farnsworth

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Franklin Moses (Frank) “was a handsome child with dimples and blue eyes … (he) was struck down early in life by a cruel freak accident.  A gun, which fell from the top of a trunk, discharged a bullet that hit the little fellow in the head, killing him instantly.”  Frank was six years old.

For over 81 years this son had only a simple concrete marker he shared with his brother Jesse Leo Jr. written with a nail in the wet concrete to mark his grave.  The Jesse Leo Cardon  family raised the funds to have new headstones marking the resting place of two of their brothers, Franklin and Jesse Leo Jr..

The two sons died very young in life and had little chance to create an extended life history.  Both Jesse and Frank were sealed to their parents in the Logan Temple.

20 Dec 1913 – 9 Feb 1928

Great-great-grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

Great-grandson of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé

Grandson of Emanuel Philip Cardon and Amelia Maria Merrick

Son of Jesse Leo Cardon and Francis Maude Farnsworth

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Jesse Leo was born in Logan, Utah where the Jesse Leo Cardon Sr. family resettled after the family fled the Mexican Revolution.  Francis and Jesse grew homesick for the Colonies, their friends and home.  As soon as it became safe to return, the family traveled back to Dublan.

“Jesse Jr. was playing basketball in the old gym:  he was perspiring from playing when he jumped on the running board of the car to ride home.  There was a cool breeze and from this exposure Jesse took diphtheria and in two weeks he died, on February 9, 1928.”  Jesse was 14 years old.

For over 81 years this son had only a simple concrete marker written with a nail in the wet concrete to mark his grave.  The Jesse Leo Cardon  family raised the funds to have a new headstone marking the resting place of their brother.

This son died very young in life and had little chance to create an extended life history.  Jesse was sealed to his parents in the Logan Temple.

Grandson of Philip Cardon and Martha Marie Tourn

Son of Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé

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Emanuel Philip Cardon was born on January 29, 1859, in Ogden, Weber County, Utah.  He was the second child of five born to Louis Philip Cardon and Susette Stalé The other children were Joseph Samuel, Mary Catherine, Louis Paul, and Isabelle Susette.  Louis Philip had plural wives, Susette being the second; the first was Sarah Ann Welborn, but she bore no children.  Louis Philip lived near his father, Philip, and other family members in Ogden and then in Logan, until the polygamy persecutions began to mount.  He moved his family to Oxford, Cache Valley’s most northern boundary in 1866.

Molested by Indians, everyone lived in the fort until 1868, when they felt it safe to move out to their lots.  Life wasn’t easy in the small pioneer communities and the whole family had to work hard to sustain life.  Undoubtedly Emanuel did his part to help support the family.

Quoting from the biography of Joseph Samuel, “They were being persecuted for conscience sake, when Pres. Brigham Young saw fit to call them to Arizona.”  In January, 1876, Philip, Susette and Emanuel left Oxford with the Bishop of the Oxford Ward, Geroge D. Lake, who was the leader of a company, for Southern Utah.  Joseph, who was married, stayed with Aunt Sarah, sister Katie and young Louis Paul (Isabelle had died).

They joined with others at Orderville making up four companies under the general direction of Lot Smith.  The entire group left Oderville in Feb., 1876, and traveled south through Kanad, crossed the Colorado river at Lee’s Ferry and found suitable places to settle on the Little Colorado River in Eastern Arizona.  They made four settlements as follows.  Lot Smith’s Company settled near Sunset Crossing and called the settlement Sunset.  Ballingers’ Company settled near there and called the town Ballingers (later Brigham City).  Allen’s camp (now Joseph City).  Lakes company settled across the river from Allen’s camp and called the settlement, Obed.  In all of these settlements the United Order was practiced.  While Philip and Susette began the work of establishing the settlement, Emanuel returned to Oxford to help to bring the rest of the family to Arizona.  (Nothing further is known of this return trip, but Emanuel undoubtedly traveled with some others who were also returning).

Joseph wrote in his biography that he was willing to help move the family to Arizona, but he had no intention of staying there, nor did Emanuel.  But when apostle Brigham Young (son of Pres. Young) informed Joseph the he and Emanuel where to consider themselves missionaries called to Arizona, they quickly settled all business in Idaho and started on the “6 Oct., 1876 for Arizona.  Our outfit consisting of six mules, five yokes of oxen, four heavy wagons, one single team and a herd of 65 head of stock.”  They traveled with the Walker family and some others, including Amelia Maria Merrick who Emanuel married in the Endowment House on 13 Oct., 1876.  He was 17.

Louis and the other boys drove the stock.  He called the trip long and tedious, taking about three months.  Joseph wrote that on Christmas day they pulled into the deserted fort at Moenkopi, 136 miles north of Obed.  The stock were worn out; it was time for Selina’s (his wife) baby, so with Aunt Sarah, he just camped for the rest of the winter.  Emanuel, with his wife, and Katie and Louis, took the mule team and went on.  They were met on the way by Philip, Susette and Joseph H. Richards who had come to meet them and arrived in Obed a few days later.

Louis says, “At the time Obed was by far the most comfortably situated of all the settlements, but unfortunately, it was swampy and due to Malaria had to be abandoned …. Before we arrived Father had made plans to go to Woodruff, twenty miles to the south.  In a short time he and the older boys went there to build houses.  The rest of us remained at Obed for several months.”

Joseph wrote, “my father and brother came back as far as Moenkopi in March 1877, to meet me and I moved to camp Obed.  After staying there a few weeks I moved up the river and located Woodruff in connection with Father, Emanuel, and William Walker… we were the first families to locate at Woodruff and were joined later by Elder Nathan Tenny and others.”  The United Order was practiced at Woodruff at first, but soon broke up.  The first child born in Woodruff was the son of Emanuel and Amelia, named Emanuel Alonzo, born 12 Dec. 1877.  When the baby was about a month old he became very sick, but recovered by the grace of God and in answer to prayer.

The Cardons stayed in Woodruff for about a year.  The first dam, made of brush and rock, in the Little Colorado washed out very quickly, leaving a bigger chasm than before.  The Cardons felt thy must move to a place where they could raise a crop.  A dam had been put across Silver Creek, about three miles south of Snowflake, where two men had harvested grain in 1878.  So in December of that year they moved there.  The establishment of Taylor is mentioned in Andrew Jensen’s Encyclopedic History of the Church.  Taylor town site, established Dec. 1878, was surveyed by a group of interested residents led by Joseph S. Cardon, their rope being a chain.”  Louis Paul left this description of early life in Taylor.

    The first work we did in the winter and spring was to clear the land and plant it.  We succeeded in getting very good crops the first year and putting in a brush and rock dam and bringing out the water through a canal that was made with pick and shovel.

My Father’s family formed a company consisting of my father, two older brothers and Joseph Clawson (Katie’s husband).  I was chore boy.  Joseph Clawson had the horse and mule teams working on the railroad and freighting out towards Albuquerque, which enabled the rest of us to do work necessary for raising the crops… when the crops were in, the fields had to be fenced and stock must be herded off until this was completed.  We made a pole fence.  Emanuel and I got the poles, while father and Joe put the fence up.  They would work putting in the fence during the daytime and keep cattle off the green wheat during the night.  It took us three days to get a load of poles.  We had two teams, Emanuel’s a double yoke of oxen, and mine, a single.  We got them from the vicinity of Pinedale. 

A daughter, Amy Sophia, was born to Emanuel and Amelia at Taylor on 14, Jan. 1880.  “Also this year,” Louis Paul said, “Emanuel took his family and mother back to Utah on a visit and were gone two years.”  While they were there Amy died on 9 Jan 1881 and a son Clarence Philip, was born in Oxford, Oneida, Idaho on 13 Nov. 1881. Other details of this trip are not known.  A daughter, Isabelle Kitty, was born in Taylor on 6 Oct 1883, but died within a year.

From Louis Paul’s history: “In the fall of ’84 my father, Joseph, Emanuel, and myself took about 3,000 sheep on shares, but just after we had taken them father and Joseph were advised to go to Mexico by Pres. John Taylor on account of their plural families.  Emanuel had Typhoid Fever that fall and so I had the sole care of the sheep.”  Though his father and brother went to Mexico, Emanuel and his family stayed in Taylor for another 10 years or so.  The following children were born in Taylor.  Catherine Eliza Inez, born 2 Nov. 1885, died 1887; Louis Leander, born 27 July 1888; Amelia, born 12 Mar. 1891, died 22 Mar 1891.  Jesse Leo, born 19 Apr. 1892, and Lester D. born 22 Mar., 1895, died 1 June 1895.  The death of so many children must have been difficult for Emanuel and Amelia.  I’m sure their faith in God strengthened them.  Emanuel was a prayerful and devout man.  Daily prayers were held at home and everyone attended Sunday and other church activities.

Emanuel Alonzo says in his history that they were called to Mexico and the family moved there in 1896.  (Louis Paul who was now teaching school in Taylor moved at about the same time).  Two more children were born in Colonia Dublán, Chihuahua, Mexico.  Ernst, born Apr 1897, died same year, and the last child, Nellie Sarah, born 28 July, 1898.  Emanuel Alonzo married Rosa Vilate Terry on 10 May, 1898 and moved to Tombstone, Arizona, a few years later.  Emanuel farmed and freighted goods to earn a living.  He decided to build a new house in Colonia Dublán.  This he did with the help of Jesse Leo who often worked with him.  I’m sure much pleasure was shared by all members of the Cardon clan as they were near each other again.  In a few years they would be forced to move again.

Joseph Samuel died of Typhoid Fever on 28 Sept. 1909, and Clarence married Verdie Pratt on 1 Oct 1909.  Emanuel’s father Louis Philip died 9 Apr., 1911 after a short illness.  Jesse Leo married Frances Maude Farnsworth on 22 Aug 1911 and Louis Leander married Ada Diantha Pierce on 1 Jan 1912.  The Mexican revolution had been going on for some years, sometimes interfering with life in the colonies when soldiers harassed people and took cattle, etc.  Finally Poncho Villa determined to control the area in 1912.  Church leaders decided it was best to leave.  Many, especially women and children, left on a train to El Paso.  Many men brought cattle out with them and kept them at Hatchita, New Mexico.

Emanuel eventually went with Jesse Leo to Logan for a few years, but returned to Mexico in about 1917.  Jesse Leo related to daughter-in-law, LuDean Lunt Cardon, that at the Mexican border, as Emanuel was trying to get all the papers approved, the officials stalled and began causing trouble (hoping for a tip).  The man just kept giving more trouble, so Emanuel had the whole family got into the covered wagon and they had prayers.  Just after that the man’s horse started jumping and pitching.  He was scared to death.  Emanuel grabbed the horse by the head and turned it clear around to where it couldn’t move and it calmed down.  The man was so thankful that he went right in and signed the papers so they were able to leave and go on their way.  It was an answer to their prayers.

Emanuel and Jesse Leo and their families returned to the house they had left.  After some time repairing and fixing, life was much as before they left.  Emanuel was now getting older and I’m sure he enjoyed his grandchildren.  Sadly two grandsons (sons of Jesse Leo) died about the same time Emanuel did ( Franklin before and Jesse Leo Jr. after).  This was difficult on the family and is remembered with sadness by all.  Emanuel Philip Cardon died on 12 Dec., 1927, and his wife and companion died on 10 Feb., 1933.

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Dublán Memorial Cemetery, Colonia Dublán, Mexico

The above marker was placed by the Cardon Families Organization in October of 2008. The original marker, close by, is shown below.

by Himself with help from Harriet Woodbury Barnum Cardon

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I, Emanuel Alonzo Cardon was born December  12, 1877 in Woodruff, Apache, Arizona.  I am the son of Emanuel Phillip Cardon and Amelia Mariah Merrick.  They were married Oct.  13, 1876.  My Grandfather Louis Phillip Cardon and his wife Susette Stalé and family were called from Oxford, Idaho to Arizona to help build up that country.  The family all went and first settled in Woodruff.  They built a fort there and I was the first white child born there in Woodruff.  They later built homes in Taylor, Arizona.  They settled there and they raised corn, grain, fruits, and vegetables.  They also had cows and sold quite a lot of butter.   

When I was a new baby I was told I had spasms and some did not think I would live but Brother Tenney blessed me and promised me that I should live to be an old man.  Amelia, my mother, was all worn out from taking care of me.  So she fell asleep.  When she awoke, Aunt Sarah, one of Grandfather Cardon’s wives, had me laid out for dead but my mother Amelia said he is not dead, he has been promised by Brother Tenney that he should live to be an old man so my Mother started working with me and brought me back to life. 

Mother was good with the sick and many homes were blessed by her helping to care for them.  She was also stake president of the Primary and when I was a small boy I would haul my mother and other ladies that were on the Stake Primary Board from one town to another with their buggy and gorses.  I used to like to go as we were always sure of a good meal.

I started school when I was six years old.  My first teacher was Andre Wood.  I got my ears boxed four times the first day because I did not sit still and keep my mind on my book.  I told my mother I did not like school.  Later I went to school under Lewis Cardon.  He was the best teacher I ever had.  He surely knew how to put a lesson over and get the attention of the class.

I, Emanuel, was baptized when I was 8 years old, on the 11th of December 1885, by James Lewis Taylor in Arizona.  I was ordained a Deacon at the age of 12.  I also attended Sunday School and primary.  When I was 14 years old I was made president of the Deacon’s Quorum.  Our main work was o clean the church house and keep the windows clean, and keep the wood chopped.

When I was just a small boy I fell from a straw stack and hit on my head and became paralyzed for a few hours.  When I was a little older I got kicked by a horse.  My father found me and took me home.  They administered to me and I did not know anything until the next day.  I had lost a lot of blood and was quite weak but the Lord blessed me and soon I got my strength again. 

The main sports and amusements we had while they were young were square dancing because they would not let us round dance.  We also played baseball and raced horses.  I like to ride horses. 

Mother had bad luck with her children.  She lost six of her eleven children.
I did not get much schooling for at the age of 12 years I was sent out freighting with a four-horse team.  We hauled freight from Holbrook to Fort Apache as that was about all the cash they had.  Father stayed home and ran the farm, as Mother was not very well. 

In the fall of 1893 father and mother were called to Mexico to help build up the country there.  Father had material and was about ready to build a new house but they believed in obeying the Authorities so they sold out and planned to go to Mexico.  I did not want to go but father said we can’t get along without you.  I drove a four-horse outfit loaded with furniture.  My brother, Clarence, drove a two-horse outfit and father and mother rode behind in a spring light wagon.  Mother wasn’t very well, so my brother, Jess, 4-years-old rode with me.  The roads were not very good and just before entering the Round Valley we had to go down a steep mountain.  There was snow on the ground and the roads were slick and we did not know if they would make it down that mountain or not. 

Father called us all together and we knelt in prayer and my father told the Lord that we were called down to Mexico by his servants and we needed his help going down that mountain and arriving in Mexico safely.  Father prayed and talked to the Lord as on man would talk to another.  We went down that mountain without a bit of trouble and arrived in Mexico all safely after about six weeks on the way. 

We settled in Colonia Dublán, where Father bought a two-room home and some farming land.  He was a good farmer.  He always fertilized and worked his ground well before planting so he always raised good crop.  I hauled lumber the rest of the winter.  Father always paid a good tithing and always paid one tenth of the best he raised for tithing so he taught his children by example to pay their tithing. 

The next fall Emanuel started to go to school again but he only went a few weeks as times were hard to get a dollar.  He started freighting again, hauling ore from the mines to the smelter at Corolites, Mexico. 

In 1897 I met the girl of my dreams, Rosa Vilate Terry, while she was going to school in Dublán.  We were married on the 10th of May 1898.  The following February 25, 1899, our first baby girl was born.  We named her Dency.  Then a little later we moved back to the United States, settling in Tombstone, Arizona. 

There I worked in the mines and our second daughter, Irene, was born.  Two years later our son Emanuel Alonzo was born.  We later moved to St.  David, Arizona, and I went to farming there.  It was there that our son, Jesse Leo, and our daughter, Rose, were born. 

I worked in the Sunday school at Tombstone and while living at St.  David I was ordained an Elder by Andrew Kimball in 1908. 

We later moved to Clover, Utah.  It was there our daughter, Faye, was born.  Our son, Ivins Terry, was born at Benmore, Utah.  We moved to Hinckley, Millard County, Utah in 1921, and I went to farming again.  There I was ordained president of the Elders’ quorum for two years.  I was later called to be president of the genealogy class and enjoyed it very much. 

Rosa and I received our endowments the 11th of December, 1936, in the Manti Temple.  It was the happiest days of our lives.  Since then we have had most of our children sealed to us.  I was ordained a High Priest the 31st of March, 1940, by Edward Leo Lyman.  There, daughter Dency was working in Oak City and married Walter Milton Stout. 

My wife Rosa Vilate passed away the Sept.  4, 1944, at Tod Park, Utah, after suffering many years from asthma. 

I had three operations in my life.  One was for a hernia, one for piles, and in 1953 I had a cataract removed from my right eye by Doctor Lockwood in Las Vegas, Nevada.  I was blessed by the Lord each time.  At the age of 79 I was still in fairly good health except for arthritis from which I suffered a lot.

In 1946 I came down to St.  George and started working in the temple.  I received my patriarchal blessing in May, 1948, by Patriarch George Miles.  I met Harriet Woodbury Barnum while working in the temple and we were married June 10, 1948.  Since then we have done many sealings together in the temple.  I had done over 650 endowments for the dead and hundreds of sealings.

On April 4, 1956, I had a severe case of asthma and pneumonia.  I was in the St.  George or Dixie Pioneer Memorial Hospital for 25 days.  Doctor Reighmen did not give me any hope for recovery for about 12 days.  All of my children came to see me and some stayed with me for a week or more.  When they had all left for their homes I recovered some and went back home.  It was very hard for my wife Harriet to take care of me and do all the housework.  However, I soon got a lot better and through the blessings of the Lord we were able to pay my large hospital bill. 

Emanuel Alonzo Cardon passed away on a Sunday, the 14th of February, 1960, in St.  George, Utah, following a stroke.  He was 82 years old.  His wife, Harriet Woodbury Barnum Cardon, wrote that they had a lovely service for him and that there were more than forty members of his and her families at his bedside and a host of friends to say good-bye.

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Hinckley City Cemetery, Hinckley, Utah

 

From her own writing, Lucille Cardon Matthews’ History and the memories of Katie Cardon Webb

Wife of Louis Paul Cardon

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FROM HER OWN WRITINGS

          The dawn of memory, so far as my consciousness of it is concerned, was when we were living at Thistle Valley.  I think we did not live long there.  When I think of my first home, Fairview is the place.
           We left Fairview when I was five years old and went to St. George.  It was at St. George I was confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by my father, John Franklin Sanders, after being baptized by Bishop Granger on the 14th of January, 1882.  That was also the year we emigrated to the mountain cattle ranges of Arizona.  My father had been called to settle Tonto Basin, now Giselia, Gila County, Arizona.  We were joined by a number of relatives and friends, making a company of a dozen or more wagons.  We took three months to make the 300-mile trip.

FROM LUCILLE’S HISTORY

           Until Mrs. Carrie Stanton (dearly loved by mother all the days of her life) came into Tonto from New York with her health seeking husband, mother’s schooling had consisted of two or three months in that many years.  Mrs. Stanton must have been quite a remarkable woman.  She inspired mother with ambition to prepare for the teaching and coached her in that preparation.
           It has always been a source of wonder and pride to me that with no more schooling than that, mother, with Mrs. Stanton to guide her in her studying, prepared herself to take an examination given at Arizona County seats for those desiring to teach in State schools.
           Globe, the County seat, was a long trip by wagon or horseback from Tonto, one that could not be undertaken by a young girl at any time alone, and it was in the middle of Winter when people avoided travel if possible.  She almost gave up hope of going.  The day before the examination was to begin, in answer to her prayers, a neighbor told her it had become necessary for him and his wife to make the trip to Globe in spite of the weather, and she could go with them.
           After two days of examinations, mother said, “I was awarded a teacher’s certificate good for two years that was renewed for another two years.”  Mother went on to make quite a record with her teaching. She taught almost steady from 1891-1892 to 1928-1929 in different counties in Arizona, about thirty-one years, including ten years in Mexico.
           At Tucson, John Metz, mother’s classmate at Tempe, asked to be allowed to send for her credits in lieu of the certificates left in Mexico.  In a letter Mr. Metz had received President Matthews of Tempe said it was routine to have his secretary send out these requests, but when she called his attention to mother’s record, he told her that the president of the school should personally have the honor of sending out such a record. So he did.
           She was active as a leader in church activities practically all her life.  In Mexico she served on the M.I.A. Stake board in the Juarez Stake.  She worked again on the Maricopa Stake board of the M.I.A. in 1928.  From 1932 to 1939, she was in the Relief Society on the Maricopa Stake board as Visiting Teacher’s Leader.  Sister Shupe remarked that she was excellent as a leader and was so much fun.  And, of course, she taught many classes in various auxiliary organizations.  I guess her most long-term activity was teaching school.  She was quite active in the 4-H Club in Tucson and Glenbar, receiving a medal for this work of which she was very proud.

 FROM MY MEMORIES

           She spent many hours in compassionate service too.  Jake Bingham was so grateful when mother came in to help when his family were all down with the flu.  It was during the terrible 1918 epidemic when everyone was so frightened it was almost impossible to get help.  He said she was so calm and gave them strength.
           When I think of mother, certain pictures come to my mind.  I can just see her walking briskly along, concentrating on some idea or project, twirling a bunch of keys on a long chain back and forth around her forefinger.  In Mexico mother was slender, I felt rather proud of her looks.  She put on weight when we came out to Arizona.
           I also remember mother and her building.  She would build a house and decide then that as a mean of paying for it, she would have to build another – and another – and still another.  When she got things done, and we would ask how in the world she accomplished them, her answer was invariably, “Oh, I managed!” And we knew she had convinced someone to do something for her, or contribute something, usually for a school or 4-H Club project.
           She worked with the young people much of the time and they liked to be with her.  She created fun and pleasure for them.  She allowed them to have slumber parties at her home, and there was always and eager crowd that came.
           Etched deep in my memory are the songs mother used to sing.  The ones I remember best are “I dreamed I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” “My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon,” and “Jingle Bells” with the real Christmas words.  When I first heard the other version, I thought hers were the original words.  She composed many poems and songs, often using them in school programs she conducted.  Later she whistled the tune of many songs oftener than singing the words.  This continued all through her life, at least when I was around her.
           To me, mother was a brilliant woman who could adapt to any class of people, both the high and the lowly.  I always had a great confidence in her abilities.  I never remember mother being critical of other people or saying disparaging things about them, and as children she would never allow us to criticize others.
           I am grateful to her for the many times she has been understanding of my problems and for the qualities that have been an example that I have tried to follow.

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Ella is buried in the Mesa City Cemetery in Mesa, Arizona