Memories of Caroline Graves Denney (GRAVES)

Caroline is the daughter of Henderson and Elizabeth Graves.

by Guy C Denney:

"Aunt Caroline was an aunt by marriage to this writer and I saw much of her in her later years.  She certainly was the most loveable character I ever saw and I never saw a woman with such a streak of joviality as she.  In the midst of any kind of conversation she just had to inject a batch of foolishness.  And she kept you laughing all the time.  She certainly passed this trait on down to her children.  In her old days when she and Uncle Hal lived all alone, I spent all my leisure hours as a kid down at their house which was only a few hundred yards away from my home.  It seemed to me that she was always baking pies and it is probably needless to add that I was always eating her pies.  When the song came out a few years ago about the LIttle Old Lady passing by and dressed in her lavender and lace, I always thought immediately of Aunt Caroline for she too dressed in her lavender and lace and if a song ever exemplified a woman it surely did her."
Quote taken from Ancestry.com; File entitled Decendents on James Graves, accessed online 9 Jul 2011.

Some New (to me) Jones' Photos

Mercy Patimore Poulton

 Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Leo Arthur Jones->Mercy Patimore Poulton

William Jones

 Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Leo Arthur Jones->William Jones

(Scott thinks this fellow has Dennis' forehead and hair...cover his eyes and lower with your thumb and you can see it)

Nelson Wheeler Whipple, Sr.

Dennis Graves->Bonnie Joyce Jones->Mabel Whipple->Nelson Wheeler Whipple Jr.->Nelson Wheeler Whipple Sr.

Lieutenant Vincent Victor Larson

Joined the Navy in 1942, Attended Naval Communication school at Noroton Heights, Connecticut.  Stationed at Lakehurst, New Jersey & Hitchcock, Texas.  Overseas Port Lyautey, French Morocco, ETO, Tinian & Marianas Islands.  Travelled aboard the USS Trego, which sailed from Pearl Harbor and arrived 7/31/45 in APRA Harbor, Guam, Marianas Islands to visit ComAirPacSubComFwd (Communication ??? Pacific Fleet Submarine Force Commander Forward).  Discharged 12/18/1945.

Wish I had a picture of him in uniform!!!

Sources:
Utah State Archives and Records Service, Salt Lake City, Utah; Military Service Cards, ca. 1898-1975.
National Archives at College Park, College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of US Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 1/1/1939-1/1/1949.

Biography of Hortence "Tennie" Egbert (EGBERTS)

           

Hortence Egbert was born December 29^th, 1914 in Logan, Utah to Christina Nyman and Archibald Egbert.  Her ancestors were Scottish, English, and Swedish pioneers who joined the church in its early days and followed the Zionist dream to Utah.

            Tennie’s older sister Shirley was only 19 months older and the two soon became best friends.  The family moved a few times before settling down in Afton, Wyoming where Shirley and Tennie started school together in the fall of 1920.  As a young girl, Tennie excelled in school, enjoyed music, and cooperated in her dad’s practical jokes.  Tennie’s father was also a born athlete and passed his talent down to his girls.  Tennie’s mother worked off and on as a teacher or manager, perhaps influencing Tennie as she also worked much of her married life.

            The family moved again and settled in McCammon, Idaho in the summer of 1927.  Amoung other jobs, Tennie’s father taught at the high school and the girls participated in basketball and track.  Tennie also started dating in McCammon at the age of 13.  She had a mind of her own, was fun-loving, and outgoing, and therefore was popular with the boys and girls of the town.  As her father became interested in first a chicken farm and then a dairy farm, the family moved to Midvale, Utah in 1930.  Tennie spent her senior year at Jordan High School where she missed her friends and her small-town atmosphere.  The chicken and dairy farms didn’t pan out, so Archibald moved his family to Smithfield, Utah and began a veterinary practice.  In the fall of 1932, Tennie and Shirley started college at Utah Sate Agricultural College (now Utah State University) in Logan.

            Tennie was surprised one day to receive an invitation from the older boy down the street to the Gold and Green Ball at the college.  Vincent Victor Larson and Tennie had fun and dated for six or seven months, but they broke up when Tennie felt Vince was getting too serious.  In 1934, Tennie was called on a mission to California where she served the Lord with all her might, mind and strength.  She returned home in April of 1936.  When Vince (who had moved to Washington D.C.) heard she was home, he came for a visit.  They struck up their friendship again and became engaged in a week.

            Tennie and Vince were married at Christmastime in 1936 in Washington, D.C.  They lived there for seven years.  Tennie enjoyed their ward, their friends, and the political society, but especially becoming a mother.  Her first two children were born during this time.

            When the United States entered World War II, Vince joined the Navy and the family was transferred to Galveston, TX.  Tennie was a born leader and was soon involved in the war and with the other women on the base.  When Vince was ordered overseas, Tennie and her two small children moved back to Logan to be near her family.  Although Vince was never in danger, the time was very hard for all war wives.

            When Vince returned at the end of the war, they bounced around again while he tried to find a good job to support his family.  Their second daughter was born in Salt Lake City but they finally ended up on Arizona where they found stability, joy, and time to be together as a family.  Tennie’s last two children were born in Arizona.  Tennie helped the local missionaries, worked in the PTA, raised her children and worked for the school district.  As Tennie’s children graduated from High School, she encouraged them to go to college.  She enjoyed their independence and gloried in their successes.  She was proud when her oldest son decided to serve a mission in 1960 and enjoyed every detail of her oldest daughter’s wedding.

            Vince received a promotion shortly after and the remaining family picked up and moved to Denver, Colorado.  Again Tennie found the best schools for her children, ingrained herself in their ward and found a good job.

            Early in the spring or 1964, Tennie began to have health problems and went to see her doctor.  Her doctor discovered adeno-carcinoma of the colon, which was highly fatal.  Tennie’s family and friends were shocked, but Tennie researched her illness and calmly accepted what might happen.  The doctors operated and gave her chemotherapy and for a time, she thought she might overcome, but she had a recurrence that December and her health continued to fail for the next year.  She was very courageous and often had to comfort those around her instead of the other way around.  She was happy to see friends and family that visited and coped with the painful complications of her disease.

            Tennie passed away January 28^th, 1966 with her husband at her side.  She is buried in the Smithfield Cemetery, in Smithfield, Utah.

Letter to Margaret Mable Waylett, Daughter of WH Waylett and Sarah Williams and Sister of Leah Maria Waylett (GORTON)

Stockton, California
(Approx. 1905)

Miss Mabel Waylett

Dear Cousin,
     I received your welcome letter and was glad of course to hear from you, and that you are getting along well in school, stick to it Mabel.  You asked about Lillie's little babies.  Her wish was for her mother to raise them both but you know it is such a task for her to do it.  She is so large and heavy on her feet.  And Tom's Aunt, that is her husband's Aunt, she wants the little baby so bad so they left her have it and I think it a very good idea, because I know it will get good care, better I think than if they kept it.  You know the oldest is nothing but a baby _____ seventeen months old they will have thier hans full to raise it as it should be.  Poor Tom feels very bad he worked so faithfully with her.  You asked me what Cousin Maggie I meant.  I mean Uncle Tom's girl, you know her she is Nellie Beld_____ _____, you know they are here now from Salt Lake City, her and Cousin Sarah and Mr. Lovett.  They thought they could do better here than back there, so Maggie rented her ranch.  Leah still goes to school but Maggie stopped last term, she finished the public school and they are not able to send her to college.  I wish she could go a few times.  She had her picture taken yesterday.  She says she will send you one when she gets them.  I expect Leah Davies down this week sometime to stay awhile.  She is feeling a little better now than she was.  I did not say a word about your hair.  it is so long, I wish mine was as long.  I just crave long hair.  Mine is quite long yours is much darker than mine, yours is just about the shade of maggie's.  Are you allowed to dance where you are going to school.  Well Mabel you want to come down here now and make some fine mashes.  I will help you, I am up to such things you know.  I am not a old married woman.  If I am married, I am just as young as ever I was.  Well Mabel, I can't think of any more to write, Now I want you to let everybody go and write me a long, long letter.

Remember, So Good-night
From your cousin,
Bratha

--Original Letter Held by Gayla G Clark, Orem, Utah--