Marias William BRINGHURST

                   Utah Cemetery Inventory
Name:	Lillian Dalton Bringhurst
Birth Date:	2 March 1890
Death Date:	5 March 1966
Burial Date:	0 0 0
Cemetery:	Toquerville Cemetery

LIFE HISTORY OF LILLIAM DALTON BRINGHURST, DAUGHTER OF ORLEY DALTON

AND ALICE  ANN LANGSTON..BORN 2 MARCH 1890, as she told it to her daughter LaRae Bringhurst   I, in my 70 year proceed to write the history of my life. I was born in Rockville, Utah where I spent all of my life except for a few years at a Harris Flat Ranch. I can remember very vivedly, although very young,
of the Indian trouble while at the Harris Flat ranch. Indian coming to the  door and threatening my  mother and she had a dog she would sic on them. Then I spent years in the Rockville School until I got out of the 8th grade and I had wonderful teachers up until that time, they made a wonderful impress-  ion on me. I was raised under very poor circumstances. My mother and father were very poor and I learned very early in life to economize and make do which has stayed with me all of my life. I had a fairly happy childhood. I was always a good mixer and got along with my friends. From 8 to 10 I had malaria fever and I used to remember going out of school every other day at three o'clock with the chills and fever. I was sick for a long time.Then I finally went to Cedar City at 17 years of age to high school. While there Jesse, she married a Gibson, and I were the only girls from Rockville there and neither one of us had ever played cards before. They got us to play 7 up one day and Jesse and I won every game. After that they called us the "Rockville Card Sharks."
While I was still young in Rockville, my Grandmother Langston died and all her children wer around he bed to be with her until she died, and my mother  was with her. She woke up and saw my mother and asked her where Lillian was,  she said I was around somewhere and Granmother asked Mother if she
would call me and she said she would. So mothe called me and I came to talk to Granmother. She said "Lillian, will you sing for me, I know you have a beautiful voice and I want you to sing for me." There were others in the room that  had children that could really sing beautifully and play the piano, and I had not  sang alone hardly at all. I asked her to let me go into the other room and think about it. While in the other room two girls that I had sang a trio with, went by. I hailed them and asked them if they would help me sing to my grandmother. They said they would and we went in and sang for her. It was one of the most beautiful songs I have ever sang. I think under certain circumstances you can sing better that others. It was really beautiful and when we were through, she said "Thank you, I knew you could sing beautifully," and about 10 minutes later she was dead.

As I look back on my days, my childhood days were fairly, I was what you call a tomboy. Running, skipping, climbing trees, peaks, and mountains. But what I liked the best of all was horseback riding and dancing. We used to go to other towns for dances, and I also played baseball. I pitched and
run the bases. I was captain of girls baseball in Cedar City and Branch  Normal School. I completed the normal course in school enough to teach school. I taught school for one year in Toquerville, Utah where I met and wed M. William Bringhurst in the St. George Temple the 15 May 1911. Being a farmer
my life was spent on or by the farm. We kept all kinds of animals, beef, pigs, chickens, and a  milk cow. The animals we would butcher for meat in the fall,

and the

chickens gaave us our eggs and meat, the cow; milk and cream to make

butter.

We put the cream in two quart jars and shake until it made butter. I

have

made bread all of my life and in the summertime  I would fill my

basement

full of bottled fruit, jams, jellies, and all kinds of vegetables.

We would

dry corn and fruits for winter use, or if we didn't have it we would

trade

for it.

Once I worked in the saw mills on the Zion park ledges. I worked

as a

cook for the saw mill hands. One incident that happened when I was

working

in the saw mill: My friend, Ethel Petty and I heard that there were

big

lumber teams down at the bottom of the canyon hauling lumber to

Rockville,

and we decided to go home on one of them. Ether and I walked down

the 2 1/2

mile trail and when we got to the bottom there wasn't any horses or

teams in

the canyon and a big flood in the Virgin River. Ethel and I decided

we weren't

goin to go back up the trail, so we started walking along side the

mountain

until we came to where two wagons hadn't gone with the others over

the flooded

river. We talked one of the boys who had been going with Ethel into

going over

the river with one of the wagons of lumber, and taking us over on

top of the

lumber. We got acorss by going way down river, the flood was so

strong, and

when we got to Springdale he wanted to stay and let the team rest,

so we got

our friends in Springdale together and we had a chicken fry. We

really had a

good time there. We started out the next morning and got home about

6 o'clock.

When I was a girl at home, our home was always open to the young

people and

we always had parties there.

My religious life was always my first consideration. I was put in

the secre-

tary of the primary when I was 12 years old, and I have not been

without a job

in the church from that time for over 50 years until at the age of

65 I resig-

ned from all my positions, for reasons of ill health. I have worked

in Primary,

Sunday School, Mutual, Relief Sociey, and Religious Classes.  I was

counselor

for may years in Mutual. President of the Mutual for three or four

years,

Preaident of the Primary several years, and I have taught every

class there is

in Primary from the first class to the Seagulls. I taught the first

Trail

Builder class there was when it was first started in the

organization, till

they graduated. I have taught every class in the Sunday School from

Kinder-

garden to adult. In face, every year for 32 years I taught in Sunday

School

consectutively.

I haave taught every class in Mutual from the Beehives to the

adult classes.

I was the recreational leader and part time ortanist in the Mutual

and primary.

When I first came here your Grandfather Bringhurst put me in as

organist for

the ward. I was in that for a year. I have taught all the classes in

Relief

Society except for one and I have been the organist as well, for a

few years.

Then I was first counselor for 8 years as well as being a visiting

teacher

for more than 30 years for which I recieved a prize 5 years ago, a

book called

"A Centuary of Relief Society." I taught Theology and Literature in

Relief

Socity. I was also President of the Religion  classes for a short

time before

it was discontinued. I have always loved to teach small children

rather than

grownups. My husband and I tried to do temple work as we could in

the years

gone by but I haave never done as much as I would have liked to.

After I married, I had six children, five girls and one boy. My

children

are all married and haave children of their own. I have 25

grandchildren and

5 great grandchildren. I have always lived a normal, happy life

until 22 May

1949, my husband died at 62 years of age, of a heart attck at

Toquerville,

Utah. I have lived in Toquerville all of my married life and am

still living

her all alone.

Well, my daughter says I haavn't told enough about my younger

life. My

grandfather had a farm in Zion Park and I remember gathering wheat,

corn,

squash, beans, vegetables, and fruit. It was my sisters husbands

farm when I

remember doing this. I remember before Zion Park was wver made into

a park,

when it was still in its natural state. I can remembaer seeing

hundreds of

tons of lumber and logs sent down from the high ledges. I remember

when it

used to be farmed and fruit grown there and people lived in the park.

One year after my husband died I cantracted Artheritis, which has

steadly

gorren worse and many other things wrong weith me. I quit public

life and

stay at home all the time. As a hobby I make quilts, all kinds of

quilts

for the people I want to do something for. I have lots of friends

and try

to make the best of things. I dont see much of my children as they

live in

all parts of the country, but two who live close to where I do.

Althought I'm

lonely I have lots to occupy my mind. I read a lot, have a lot of

friends and

make quilts.

I was also, captain of  the DUP, organist, Parlimentarian and

teacher.

When I was a girl, I was always trying play tricks on people,young

people. But

I aalways get a kick out of everyting in the sports line, as I said

ouit home

was a place for the young people to meet for parties. In fact, I

used to get

tired of having all the parties. I don't know how my mother put up

with us.

We had an old time organ, which made the parties interesting, it was

on this

organ that I learned to play. My folks were patient with me, and

treated me

fine all my life. I never learned to swim very well though I was in

the Virgin

River a lot during the summer.

I was ver venturesome in my girlhood days. My brother always

worried about

me when we went on mountain climbs and picnics, as I took so many

chances. I

was never afraid of anything it seems, only mean dogs. I loved

horses to ride.

I could hitch a team up as good as a man and drive them too. We

girls used to

go riding in a wagon and I always did the driving, whether it was

dad's team

or some one elses. None of the other girls liked to drive and I did.

As I finish my life history I am in my 72nd year, and as I look

back on my

married life, I wonder what I have done or didn't do to impress on

my children

of the things they should do in life. I feel that I have been quite

a failure

though I as quite satisfied with the life I have lived myself, as I

have done

to the best of my ability. I have had lots of sickness in my family,

all of the

children had all the childrens diseases as well as a lot of others;

Orlene had

pnuemonia three thime, Ivan was a sickly baby and had rheumatic

fever and heart

for years. Have had operations, but all came though ok, with Gods

help. I don't

know what we would do in life without a faith in a higher power than

man. I have

had grandchildren live with me for years, for which I'm thankful. I

enjoy

young people around and I hope they enjoyed me as much. I have had a

lot of

gried, as well as pleasure, but who doesn't?

I haven't mentioned politics in my life, but want to say I have

loved polit-

ics ever since I was in the 8th grae. I was always a  Republican, as

I learned

in studying United States History, that the Republicans stood for

what I have

always belied in, like home trade and high tariff to keep the other

foreign

countries out, home industry and conservatism. Democrats were

believers in free

trade which I never liked and still don't. Look at the U.S.A. today,

because of

free trade. I have always been considered radical, but I'm not, as I

love to

hear all sides  and hope i've always tried to vote according to the

best of the

country. I say always vote and love the best country on earth.

I married into a family of denocrats, but it never changedmy

beliefs, my

husband and all were democrats. After 25 years of married life my

husband be-

came a staunch Republican, not through convincing him but during the

reign of

Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Just as I finished my life history I got word of my only son

Ivan's death

in an automobile accident. He is the first child I have lost.

..............................

Mother lived 5 years after Ivan died. She didn't live to see any

more of

her children did. She had a stroke while living alone in

Toquerville. She made

a great many quilts in this time that were really beautiful and

fancy. Norma

would make up fancy tops as mother got more weak and mother would

quilt them.

She left many beautiful quilts when she died. After her stroke she

couldn't

live alone in her home in Toquerville, so she lived in Miraacle

Manor, an

nursing home approximately 2 years where she died on 5 March 1966,

three days

after he 76th birthday. Mothe lived an exemplary life and was a

wonderful

example to all who knew her.

LIFE HISTORY OF LILLIAM DALTON BRINGHURST, DAUGHTER OF ORLEY DALTON

AND ALICE

ANN LANGSTON..BORN 2 MARCH 1890, as she told it to her daughter

LaRae Bringhurst

I, in my 70 year proceed to write the history of my life. I was

born in

Rockville, Utah where I spent all of my life except for a few years

at a

Harris Flat Ranch. I can remember very vivedly, although very young,

of the

Indian trouble while at the Harris Flat ranch. Indian coming to the

door and

threatening my mother and she had a dog she would sic on them.

Then I spent years in the Rockville School until I got out of the

8th grade

and I had wonderful teachers up until that time, they made a

wonderful impress-

ion on me. I was raised under very poor circumstances. My mother and

father

were very poor and I learned very early in life to economize and

make do which

has stayed with me all of my life. I had a fairly happy childhood. I

was al-

ways a good mixer and got along with my friends.

From 8 to 10 I had malaria fever and I used to remember going out

of school

every other day at three o'clock with the chills and fever. I was

sick for a

long time.

Then I finally went to Cedar City at 17 years of age to high

school. While

there Jesse, she married a Gibson, and I were the only girls from

Rockville

there and neither one of us had ever played cards before. They got

us to play

7 up one day and Jesse and I won every game. After that they called

us the

"Rockville Card Sharks."

While I was still young in Rockville, my Grandmother Langston

died and all

her children wer around he bed to be with her until she died, and my

mother

was with her. She woke up and saw my mother and asked her where

Lillian was,

she said I was around somewhere and Granmother asked Mother if she

would call

me and she said she would. So mothe called me and I came to talk to

Granmother.

She said "Lillian, will you sing for me, I know you have a beautiful

voice

and I want you to sing for me." There were others in the room that

had children

that could really sing beautifully and play the piano, and I had not

sang alone

hardly at all. I asked her to let me go into the other room and

think about it.

While in the other room two girls that I had sang a trio with, went

by. I hail-

ed them and asked them if they would help me sing to my grandmother.

They said

they would and we went in and sang for her. It was one of the most

beautiful

songs I have ever sang. I think under certain circumstances you can

sing better

that others. It was really beautiful and when we were through, she

said "Thank

you, I knew you could sing beautifully," and about 10 minutes later

she was

dead.

As I look back on my days, my childhood days were fairly, I was

what you

call a tomboy. Running, skipping, climbing trees, peaks, and

mountains. But

what I liked the best of all was horseback riding and dancing. We

used to go

to other towns for dances, and I also played baseball. I pitched and

run the

bases. I was captain of girls baseball in Cedar City and Branch

Normal School.

I completed the normal course in school enough to teach school. I

taught

school for one year in Toquerville, Utah where I met and wed M.

William

Bringhurst in the St. George Temple the 15 May 1911. Bei