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From Covered Wagons to Airplanes & Spaceships

Author: Florence Cummings Youngberg 
Director Family History Center Sons of Utah Pioneers 
Pages: 260 
Available: September 2002 
Edition: 1 
Binding: Hard Cover Sewn Binding

For many, many years, it has been my desire to put together all the histories of my ancestors that I have gathered. My reasoning was that while I gathered them out of a curiosity to know more about the people whose names I had been gathering since I was about 17 years old, still there would probably be others who might be interested in knowing these people.

I was blessed in knowing many of these people and they told me their stories and even when I was young, I somehow knew that it was important for me to record the stories that they told me. Relatives gave me letters, books, records, etc saying they had these things and didn't want to throw them away but they didn't want them so they thought I might like them. I was thrilled to get them.

Upon the death of my Grandfather Cummings, I fell heir to his note books etc, containing 25 volumes of journals he had kept. I made a copy of them, had them bound, and gave them to the Church History Department. Another relative gave me a box of old letters and documents that had belonged to Mary Ann Wright Saville. She had kept letters etc., for over ten years from the time her oldest daughter had left England to go to the Valley, until she and the rest of her family had finally reached the valley. Many other manuscripts and notes etc., fell into my grateful hands.

I also was blessed to personally know my great grandmother Saville, who came in the last wagon train before the railroad. She told me stories and left written histories from her husband, herself and others.

I was blessed in being given the originals or photocopies of many other documents which helped me write the histories of these people who had come to the valley so long ago.

I have done my best to preserve the information as I have received it and record it so others might know these wonderful people. If anyone who might read this book disagrees with the information recorded here, I want them to know most of this information has been copied from the original records or a reliable source. At the end of each history I have printed the source from which the information was taken. Many of these sources will be donated to the Marriott Library at the University of Utah when I am through with them so that others can see them.