Sealing of Ann Buck to mother's first husband, George Butcher Pass, was approved by SLC Temple President, E.L.C.
In the 1800's the production of hosiery and textiles--until that time generally confined to a cottage industry--now had unterock in factories made socks and stockings, others produced knitted unterock fabrics and made it into underwear.
The factories employed the women of the community, Ann Buck was the illegitimate child of Sarah Ann Buck. She was born in a County Workhouse when her mother was just 20 years old. She was reared in the home of her mother's eldest brother, John Buck.
John Buck was a fine man and a pillar of the local Baptist Church. Unfortunately for my grandmother, though, John Buck's wife, name unknown, seems to have been as mean and vindictive a person as John was generous and friendly. Mrs. John Buck, by all acounts, resented the fact that she had to take into her home her husband's sister's illigitimate child and she dealt with that child accordingly. My grandmother used to speak of her childhood to me when I was a child, and people who had known her and the John Buck family also testified that my grandmother had a very hard life indeed. She was accorded by her Aunt, Mrs. Buck, to status of a slave.
She was required to assume all the most menial household tasks right from earliest childhood and she had the full care and responsibility for Mrs. Buck's children. Many times she would comment to her granddaughter that she had never owned a toy or a trinket of any kind and she had never been given any time off or permitted to play. Her every waking hour was filled with drudgery. After all the household chores were done and the children put to bed, she was required to mend flaws in shawls for the family knitting enterprise, and operation that had to be performed in candle-light.
Throughout her childhood and girlhood she never owned a new article of clothing or even hand-me-downs that could be made to fit. She spoke of having to go outside in the deep snow, in winter, in shoes that were many sizes too large for her feet so that she was constantly stepping out of them. Her grandaughter wondered why such a wonderful man as John Buck was reported to be, could have permitted such an injustice as was done to her grandmother to be perpetrated in his home.
Effie Hannah, Ann's daughter, was as mystified as anyone about this. It was wondered whether John Buck ever really "saw" that his niece wasn't being properly treated. Perhaps he felt that any kind of a "home" should be gratefully received by a person in Ann's situation, or perhaps he just didn't dare interfere in his wife's management of her household.
Ann remembered "Uncle John" quite fondly. However, she didn't speak at all favorably of Uncle John's wife. The children of "Uncle John" that were reared by Ann Buck always retained their fondness of her. Indeed it was said they felt more affection for Ann than they felt for their natural mother.
Her husband, Alfred Benjamin Bailey were an ideally devoted couple who could get along with everybody except each other. Alfred's love for his family was equally as deep and abiding as was my grandmothers, but he was quiet and taciturn by nature, and seemed to do his best to allay any possible suspicion that he had any particular fondness for anyone.
They had two children, Alphonzo, who was Missing-in-Action in the battle of Jutland of World War I, and Effie Hannah who was dating a Mormon. Alfred objected strenuously to his daughter marrhing the Mormon, as he didn't like Mormons and he had heard some things he didn't like both about the Mormons and the fact that my father's people lived "on the wrong side of the tracks" (as they say in America).
For a while, Alfred opposed the marriage, but when his son was kill in the war, he felt he didn't want to alienate himself from his one remaining child, so he gave his consent. Alfred was always polite to Hannah's husband, Joseph O. Orton, but it was obvious he didn't care for him. The fact that Effie Hannah and her family attended the Mormon church was known, but never mentioned. It was a great sorrow to him.
Ann's husband, Alfred, died in 1930 of a tragic auto accident at the age of 77. Ann, twelve years younger than her husband, had suffered a stroke a few years previous. She passed away in 1935 at the age of 69.
Ann was a doting grandmother to Hannah's children. She is fondly remembered and spoken of by her granddaughter, Effie May Bettridge Thomas.
