Samuel Park Pentland DRANEY

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Angeline Richardson Draney (information received from Viola D Miller and Mrs. Clarence Richardson.)Angeline Richardson was born 21 aug 1857 in Ogden, Utah. The only daughter of Ebenezer Clawson Richardson and Polly Ann Child.She was married at the early age of sixteen to Samuel P Draney in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah. She moved with her husband to Plain City, Utah where they had a small farm. After her eight child was born her husband was called on a mission to Scotland leaving her to work the farm and raise her family as best she could. Which she cheerfully did although at times under very discouraging circumstances. After her husbands return seven more children were born to Angeline. She had three daughters, but lost them all in their infancy, also one son, which was a great sorrow to her.When her youngest son was six months old, her husband fell from a tree, killing himself instantly, leaving Angeline a widow with eleven boys to raise alone. With the aid of her older boys she managed her small farm, trying to carry on as best she could to make a living for her family. When her baby was four years old, she was burned to death trying to get one of her son's new buggy out of a burning shed. Thus ending the live of one of the bravest and most courageous women I know of, my grandmother.She was a very sweet person. Everyone loved her. She worked in the relief society presidency in plain city. Mrs Clarence Richardson relates the following story about her. " I was out with my new baby in the evening when a rain storm came up. Aunt Angeline at the time had a big black plush cape which she wore so she took the baby and put her under the cape and carried her home for me".Burned woman dies after great agony (a newspaper clipping.)After suffering untold agony for almost twenty-four hours, Mrs S P Draney, of Plain City, who was horribly burned while trying to save some property from a burning barn last Friday, died at 10:30 this morning.Mrs Draney was a widow. When her barn caught fire she attempted to save a buggy. In pulling the vehicle out she became entangled in a wire fence and could not extricate herself. She labored heroically until the flames overtook her. Neighbors attracted to the scene were not able to liberate the woman until the clothing had been burned from her body. In a semi-conscious state she was carried to the house, where medical aid was summoned. An examination showed that she had been fatally injured and the efforts of the physicians were directed toward relieving the awful pain.At 12 o'clock noon yesterday the woman, realizing that she could not live long, called her eleven children, all boys to her bedside and bade them farewell. Her death was expected momentarily from that time, but with wonderful fortitude she lived until this morning.One calamity after another seems to have followed the Draney family, for years. Out of fifteen children born to the couple twelve were boys and three were girls. It was the mother's desire to save at least one of the girls, but one after another they passed away. About nine years ago four of the children, were stricken with scarlet fever. For weeks they hovered between life and death. The disease left one of the boys deaf and dumb and one of the girls was left with heart trouble, from which she died a short time later . Four years ago last February Mr Draney, the father and husband, fell from a tree on the farm, sustaining injuries f rom which he suffered terribly and died in less then twenty -four hours.Mrs Draney was fifty years old and her parents were among the early settlers of Plain City. The funeral will be held at the Plain City meeting-house at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be made at Plain City.