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RABBIT VALLEY PIONEERS
  Willard Snow & Mary Melissa Meeks Snow   

   By Patricia G. Bracken & Edna N. Gubler   
Hard Cover 8.5 x 11  114 pages 
 
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THE LIFE OF EDNA SNOW [NIELSON]

By Mae Nielson

[Edna Snow] was born December 12, 1879 in Pine Valley, a daughter of Willard Snow and Mary Melissa Meeks. Edna was six months and her sister Mary was one and a half years old when they moved to Thurber with her parents. There was more feed for their cattle in Thurber.    
    Her father drove a team of oxen and her mother drove a team of horses and took care of her two children. All their belongings were in [Edna’s] mother’s wagon. A loud striking clock and twelve yards of carpet [were] in the rear of the wagon. As the wagon went along on their journey, the carpet gradually rolled out of the wagon and on to the road. The wagon behind her wagon noticed the carpet on the road and [Edna’s] Uncle Charles rolled the carpet up and anchored the carpet in the wagon so it would not roll out any more.
    When they arrived in Thurber, her father built two log rooms with a roof of poles, bark and mud. The Snows brought cattle and chickens so they could have their milk, eggs, cheese and butter.
    Willard Snow and his brother Charles took up two sections of land to homestead. Some of the fences that Willard Snow built are still standing. When Edna was six, she moved with her parents nearer to a school. Her first school teacher was Dixie Pace, and while Ms. Pace was still alive, Edna went to see her. Ms. Pace still remembered Edna saying, "I am now five but I will be six in December."
    [Edna, in later years] remember[ed] many of [her] schoolmates and also [her] school days. [Her] school teachers were Uncle Charles Snow, Miss Bush, Miss Rust, Miss Whitney, Miss Arretta Young and Miss Lucy Young.
   

 

 When Edna was eleven years old, she broke her arm. She was the first child to have a broken arm so everyone in the settlement came to see her.

 

Edna Snow. 
    [In another version– "Edna was the second of ten children."]
    Edna’s schoolmates were Rena Cook, Agnes Forsyth, Leona Brinkerhoff, Sadie Stringham and Jenie Mangum.

    Edna attended school in Pine Valley and the Murdock Academy. She taught school in the lower grades at Notom, Utah; Forest Home, Nevada; [and] Fruita and Torrey, Utah.
    In 1905, Edna decided to clerk in Billing’s Store in Loa. The store was very well-equipped. Mr. Billings carried everything from nails to ladies’ ready-to-wear and men’s suits. While Edna was clerking in Billing’s Store she met Peter Nielson. She married Peter on June 6, 1906 in the Salt Lake Temple.
    Edna and Peter lived in Loa, Utah, for three years. Peter was a miller by trade. Two of their children were born in Loa. Then they moved to Richfield in 1910. Peter continued to work in the flour mill in Richfield, Utah. They lived in Richfield [for] eighteen years. [While in Richfield] Edna and Peter Nielson had [six more] children.
    They celebrated their Golden Wedding in June of 1956. Edna died November 13, 1965. Peter died January 5, 1966. They had eight children, eighteen grandchildren [and] five great grandchildren.

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