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posted by Sandy on At First Glance, Essays About Ancestral Things
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Like most people who love family history, I love to visit cemeteries. No where else can you stand in one place and have so many stories swirl around you. I am drawn to the very old grave markers and the rows and rows of people who all died in the same year . . . […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire died in June of 1969. Her funeral was held in the Riverside Ward which was previously known as the 29th Ward. Her burial was in the Midvale City Cemetery in Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah. Even after all of these years, and the focus on the casket, I can see Clara’s […]
posted by Sandy on I Remember, Keepsake Photographs
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This keepsake photograph was taken in the lower level of the 29th Ward Chapel on what was 300 North and 1100 West in Salt Lake City, Utah in 1952. The 29th Ward later became the Riverside Ward. I do not remember the names of the children in the photograph except for me, in the center […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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This keepsake photograph was taken at an unknown time. It appears to be Nancy Alice Barker Henderson Johnson, Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire, Annie Pearl Barker Merkley and her husband Marion Neils Merkley, Amos Eli Barker, Mary Elizabeth Barker Sorenson and her husband Charles Henry Sorenson. We assume that this photograph was taken at the funeral […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale
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This photograph was likely taken in the early 1940s. Left to right: Justin Gerald Pugmire 1892-1949, his wife Clara Lzina Barker 1892-1969, June Leitzel Pugmire, a daughter-in-law of Justin and Clara and Glenn Donald Pugmire, a son of Justin and Clara and husband of June.
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Thomas Watrous
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Thelma Bolton was born 17 February 1906 to Archie Bolton and his wife Nora. She was the oldest of two children born to her parents. Her brother’s name was Howard A. Bolton who was born in 1909 in Illinois, who married Cecylia Broniec in 1936 and who died in 1964 in Illinois. Thelma’s paternal grandparents […]
posted by Sandy on Essays About Ancestral Things, I Found, Stories Within Stories
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I thought that I had read every book on our bookshelves and some books more than once. As I put one book away, an old and worn book caught my attention. I reached in and brought it out. It was an old book and looked like it had been read and handled. It had a […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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This wonderful keepsake photograph was taken in Utah in about 1938. On the left is Lavon McKay Pugmire (1919-1991), his youngest sister June (1926- ) and their mother, my grandmother, Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire (1892-1969).
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs
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This keepsake photograph was taken about 1934 in Utah. It contains many members of the Justin and Hannah Pugmire family including grandchildren. Back row from left to right: Pauline and her husband Gerald Pugmire. Lloyd Pugmire, Farrell Pugmire. Middle row from left to right: Deveral Pugmire, Dorothy Pugmire, Justin Pugmire, his wife Hannah Winterbottom Pugmire […]
posted by Sandy on Ancestors of Sandra Gale, Keepsake Photographs, Stories Within Stories
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This keepsake photograph shows my grandmother Clara Lzina Barker Pugmire on the left of the photograph and her friend and neighbor, Mrs. Dittman. I am told that they were preparing to clean the chicken coop at the Pugmire home in Union (now Midvale), Utah. The name of Mrs. Dittman came up regularly in my childhood. […]