Monday, June 25, 2012

Juliet Wall







John Evans Bowen & Mary Ann Christmas




John Evans Bowen & Mary Ann Christmas



Elizabeth Carter Thomas

David Russell Creer's Paternal Great Great Grandmother

Elizabeth Carter Thomas
1811-1889


Spanish Fork Cemetery

Eliza Carter Thomas Robertson

David Russell Creer's Paternal Great Grandmother

Eliza Carter Thomas Robertson
1831-1881




William Robertson & Eliza Carter Robertson

David Russell Creer's Paternal Great Grandparents
William Robertson & Eliza Carter Thomas Robertson

William Robertson

David Russell Creer's Paternal Great Grandfather


William Robertson
1824-1903

Emma Elizabeth Robertson Creer

David Russell Creer's Paternal Grandmother






Emma Elizabeth Robertson Creer



Morris Creer

David Russell Creer's Father

Morris Creer
1881-1946

William Christmas & Elizabeth Roach Christmas Gravestone





Elizabeth Roach Christmas

David Russell Creer's Maternal Great Grandmother


William George Nuttall & Juliet Wall Nuttall


William George & Juliet Wall Nuttall Family Pic


Burial: Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah County,Utah, USA
Plot: Block 9, lot 74

William George Nuttall

Genevieve Nuttall Creer's Paternal Grandfather

William George Nuttall
1853-1926

Alexander Herron

Genevieve Nuttall Creer's Maternal Grandfather
George Gary Creer's Great Grandfather



Alexander & Mary Herron Family


George Gary Creer's Great Grandparents

Alexander Herron and Mary Elizabeth White Herron's home
100 North Main in Tooele

The Home of Alexander and Mary [White] Herron – Tooele, Tooele County, Utah [An excerpt from the family history of Elmer Herron, written by a daughter, Blanche Herron Berry] .”..100 North Main Street – one of the first two-story homes built in Tooele. The stone used in building the house came from one of the nearby mountains, and Alex, Elmer's oldest brother, helped haul it. George Hammond's father started building it in 1873, and completed it in 1875...The Herron home was sold to Tooele City August 14, 1939. The deed was recorded March 9, 1940 in the Tooele County Courthouse. The Dr. Phipps residence next door to the south was also purchased by the city, and later the two homes were razed. A new city hall was constructed on the site and dedicated April 1941...Recalling his home in later life, Elmer told of the white picket fence in front, the poplar trees, the Honeysuckle bushes, the Sugar Plum tree, and the many other fruit trees. There were rose bushes, violets, and many other flowers, lovely shade trees and gardens. A stone granary was located behind the house with a high foundation and a cellar beneath it. At the back of the deep lot was a “dirt” cellar, dug five or six feet into the ground, and constructed with a roof covered with dirt. This made it cooler and it was used for storing potatoes and other vegetables. The home was built with high ceilings and thick walls. There was a front porch with scrolled trim. The large square entrance hall had one door leading into the parlor on the north, and to the south of the hall was the dining room. At the east side of the hall a stairway led up to three spacious bedrooms upstairs. A kitchen and pantry were on the first floor at the rear. It was considered one of the nicest homes in the city at the time..”




Alexander and Mary Herron Family

Willard Orson Creer



Willard Orson Creer





Willard Orson Creer Family
(Morris Creer back row 4th from the left)

Death Certificate for Willard Orson Creer

John Evans Bowen

David Russell Creer's Maternal Grandfather



Burial: Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA
Plot: 01.22 .08




Mary Ann Christmas Bowen

David Russell Creer's Maternal Grandmother
Burial: Spanish Fork City Cemetery, Spanish Fork, Utah County, Utah, USA
Plot: 01.22 .07




Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Mary Ann Bowen Creer Funeral Services


IN REMEMBRANCE: Funeral Services for Mary Ann Bowen Creer
She was born in Spanish Fork in a home. The home in which she was born was located on the lot where the Rees School now stands. She attended the following schools: the little white school where the Thurber school stands, the Bell school on 5th East and Center, the Dalley School on 4th North and Main, Ideal, Central, BY Academy and University.
For five years sh taught school in the public schools; one year in Santaquin and four years in Spanish Fork.
After her marriage, Morris and Mary rented rooms in the Lew Banks home and then in the John Morgan home before living in their own home in Leland where Morris farmed. On April 24, 1914, they moved to idaho where they lived until the autumn of 1945. Mollie built her own new home and moved into it in 1949, next to Brother and Sister David and Hasel Brown.
She carries a beautiful spirit of love, interest and optimism wherever she goes.
''Well I do remember when my mother taught me how to pray. My brother, David, was a young baby. He was very ill. Mother and Aunt Elisabeth were in the bedroom caring for him. He had a convulsion. Mother told me to tell Grandpa Bowen to come and administer to him. I did so, but he told me to go and get Mr. Robert McKell, Aunt Hasel's grandfather, to come and help him, because he had the power of healing. I did so, and he and grandpa administered to David and before they finished he was out of the convulsion and asleep and he too recovered and never had another. This incident made a lasting impression on me and taught me the great value of prayer.”
She talked about how hard she tried to get into college, how difficult it was. She talked about how anxious she was to go but she was afraid that her father wouldn't have the money to send her. She says she got work in Mapleton picking fruit. ''Sometimes one of my brothers would take me on a horse up there on Monday morning. Often the canyon wind was very cold early in the morning. Sometimes I walked home which was about four miles. I earned enough money to buy my clothes and some of my books. Father paid my tuition, for some of my books, the $1.00 rent on the room which was my share. Kate Wilkins and Hannah Christensen and I lived together.''
''The dress I wore when I started college only cost about fifty cents. My mother and Aunt Elizabeth made it from a calico which cost three yards for twenty-five cents. It was trimmed with white tace-''
On her courtship: ''Our happy courtship culminated in a wonderful marriage in the Salt Lake Temple, 6 June 1906. It was the most joyous experience of my life. Our wedding reception was a quiet one, my wonderful parents prepared a delicious turkey dinner for both families and a few intimate friends.''
She went to BYU for 2 years and one summer school. ''I started to teach school in Santaquin at the age of eighteen. I went back and forth on the train. The station operator must have thought I was a little girl, because he only sold me a half fare ticket.'' She had worn her hair in two braids up to this time, but then she rolled them up into what she called a bob, hoping that this might make her look a little older.

William Madison Wall & Nancy Haws

William Robertson & Eliza Carter