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.. A selection of book photos FROM COVERED WAGONS TO AIRPLANES & SPACESHIPS
Clarence
Cummings 1891 Jessie Irene Saville 1893 By Florence Cummings Youngberg 2002
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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.
Florence C. Youngberg (double click photo for full image) Florence C. Youngberg,
resident of Utah, is director of the Sons of
My grandfather Ernest Saville, from England, road across the plains in a covered wagon to Utah, an original pioneer in the last official wagon train in 1869. The State Centennial in 1947 honored him as being one of the very few pioneers still living who came to the Valley before the railroad. He was given a medal for it.
Double Click photos for full image.
Many years ago I was talking to my mother about her early days in the valley. One of the memories she spoke of was her life as a child. She told of riding to school in an old covered wagon because they lived so far from the school. Then she brightened up and said, "Imagine, I rode to school in a covered wagon and now I have lived to see a man on the moon." From covered wagon to an airplane and man on the moon. Their lives spanned an era full of growth and change. What a wonderful span of life to have lived through.
SECTION ONE CUMMINGS LINE Clarence Cummings Family 1891
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