Rossman - Cheney

Ezekiel Wells Cheney

Person Chart

Parents

Father Date of Birth Mother Date of Birth
Aaron Cheney 14 JUL 1787 Mehitable Wells 31 JAN 1787

Partners

Partner Date of Birth Children
Lucy Elzada Hardy 24 FEB 1828

Person Events

Event Type Date Place Description
Birth 13 JUN 1828 Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Marriage 11 MAY 1848 Winter Quarters, Iowa
Death 13 AUG 1886 Oakley, Oassia Co., Idaho
Burial 15 AUG 1886 Oakley, Oassia Co., Idaho

Kinship Report

Name Type Place of Birth Date of Birth Place of Death Date of Death
Partner
Lucy Elzada Hardy Wife Belfast, Waldo Co., Maine 24 FEB 1828 Swan Valley, Irwin, Fremont, Idaho 07 NOV 1913
Brothers & Sisters
Selar Cheney Sister Marshfield, Washington Co., Vermont ABT 1808
Amasa F. Cheney Brother Marshfield, Washington Co., Vermont 29 DEC 1809 Millersburg, Iowa Co., Iowa 01 NOV 1870
Infant Cheney Brother Marshfield, Washington, VT. ABT 1811
Infant Cheney Sister Marshfield, Washington, VT. ABT 1813
Orren Cheney Brother Fredonia, Cattaraugus Co., New York 10 AUG 1813 Berrien Springs or Hamilton, Michigan 10 MAY 1867
Sealar Cheney Brother Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y. ABT 1815
Olive Mehitable Cheney Sister Bloomfield, Cattaraugus Co., New York 15 MAY 1817 Fred Gorringe Home, Oakley, Oassia Co., Idaho 04 APR 1907
Infant Cheney Sister Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y. ABT 1819
Infant Cheney Brother Freedom, Cattaraugus, N.Y. ABT 1820
Aaron Cheney Brother Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York 05 MAR 1822 Mt. Pleasant, Iowa 23 JUN 1889
Elam Cheney Brother Freedonia, Cattaraugus Co., New York 16 MAY 1825 Pinedale, Navajo Co., Arizona 22 MAR 1912
Infant Cheney Sister Freedom Cattaraugus, New York ABT 1832
Parents
Mehitable Wells Mother Amenia, Dutchess Co., New York 31 JAN 1787 Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah 30 NOV 1869
Aaron Cheney Father Berwick, York Co., Maine 14 JUL 1787 Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah Green River Prect. 18 SEP 1862
Grandparents
Eunice Hubbard Grandmother Wells, York Co., Maine 13 MAY 1757 Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Benjamin Cheney Grandfather Wells, York Co., Maine 18 MAY 1763 Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Great grandparents
Joseph Cheney Great grandfather Wells, York Co., Maine 07 FEB 1726 Wells, York Co., Maine ABT 1803
Dorcas Stewart Great grandmother Wells, York Co., Maine 02 JUN 1735 Wells, York Co., Maine 06 JAN 1817
Second great grandparents
Sarah Littlefield Second great grandmother Braintree, Norfolk Co., Massachusetts 04 DEC 1695 Wells, York Co., Maine
Daniel Cheney Second great grandfather Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 16 JUL 1699 Wells, York Co., Maine
Third great grandparents
Daniel Cheney Third great grandfather Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 31 DEC 1670 Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 03 NOV 1755
Hannah Dustin Third great grandmother Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 22 AUG 1678 Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts AFT 1755
Fourth great grandparents
Daniel Cheney Fourth great grandfather Roxbourgh, Scotland 1633 Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 10 SEP 1694
Sarah Bayley Fourth great grandmother Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 17 AUG 1644 Ipswitch, Essex Co., Massachusetts 26 OCT 1714
Thomas Dustin Fourth great grandfather Portsmouth, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire ABT 1652 Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 1732
Brothers- & Sisters-In-Law
Letha Barton Coover Sister-in-law
Hannah Compton Sister-in-law Powick, Worcester, England 01 MAR 1804 Fairview, Sanpete Co., Utah 21 JUL 1884
Hannah Hadley Sister-in-law Corinth, Orange Co., Vermont 02 APR 1812 Millersburg, Iowa Co., Iowa 31 OCT 1896
Hannah Loretta Burdick Sister-in-law New York 25 FEB 1813
James McBride Brother-in-law New Lancaster, Fairfield Co., Ohio 09 MAY 1818 Grantsville, Tooele Co., Utah 06 JAN 1881
Matilda Malvina Ballard Sister-in-law Illinois ABT 1823 Iowa 18 APR 1877
Talitha Cumi Garlick Sister-in-law Providence, Bedford Co., Pennsylvania 22 SEP 1824 Victor, Teton Co, Idaho 17 APR 1902
Martha Taylor Sister-in-law Bolton, Lnchsr, England 27 NOV 1828 Fairview, Sanpete Co., Utah 13 AUG 1908
Margaret Wimmer Sister-in-law Quincey, Adams Co., Illinois 24 MAY 1829 Kimball Twin Falls, Idaho 19 MAY 1908
Harriet Hedgehil Sister-in-law Birmingham, Warwick, England 19 OCT 1847 Showlow, Pindale, Navajo Co., Arizona 08 OCT 1926
Nephews & Nieces
Racheal Rebecca Cheney Niece
Amanda Matilda Cheney Niece 24 OCT 1836
Alvira Maria Cheney Niece 30 SEP 1838
Orren Miron Cheney Nephew 15 JUN 1840
David Maroni Cheney Nephew Kirkland, Lake Co. Ohio 06 JUL 1842 Berrien Springs, Michigan 21 FEB 1927
Aaron Daniel Cheney Nephew Kirkland, Lake Co., Ohio 25 JUL 1844 Loxley, Baldwin Co., Alabama 23 OCT 1925
Infant Cheney Nephew 14 JUL 1845
Alvin James Cheney Nephew 18 AUG 1850
Winfred Scott Cheney Nephew 24 SEP 1852
Chariotte Mehetable Cheney Niece 23 SEP 1853
Grandnephews & Grandnieces
L.D. Cheney Grandnephew
Great grandnephews & Great grandnieces
Burton Cheney Great grandnephew
Leonard Francis Cheney Great grandnephew
Lyle Cheney Great grandnephew
Mrs. Alvin Hartline Great grandnephew
Mrs. Charles Schau Great grandniece
Mrs. Ernest Havener Great grandniece
Wanda Cheney Great grandniece
Second grandnephews & Second grandnieces
Nancy Jean Cheney Second grandniece Niles, Michigan, US 26/03/1937 503 Lake Henry Dr., Winter Haven, FL 33881, US 27/02/2016
Third grandnephews & Third grandnieces
William Meier Rossman Jr. Third grandnephew Lansing, Michigan 1958
Michael Christian Rossman Third grandnephew 29 JUN 1959 Ashes spread at the Applachain Trail Overlook Route 501 28 MAY 1998
Todd Ryan Rossman Third grandnephew 3 JAN 1963
Fourth grandnephews & Fourth grandnieces
Nicole Rossman Fourth grandniece 9 JAN 1986
Michael Christian Rossman Fourth grandnephew 21 JAN 1990
Didzis Rossman Fourth grandnephew 29 SEP 1998
William Meier Rossman III Fourth grandnephew 6 SEP 2000
Namejs Rossman Fourth grandnephew 10 SEP 2000
Fifth grandnephews & Fifth grandnieces
Yariah Fifth grandniece
Uncles & Aunts
Hurd Cheney Uncle Granby Pass, Essex Co., Vermont 16 SEP 1791 Three Crossings, Sweetwater, Wyoming 12 AUG 1861
Moses Cheney Uncle Granby Pass, Essex Co., Vermont 1793 probably Ischua, Cattaraugus Co., New York 1824
Anna Cheney Aunt Granby, Essex Co., Vermont 30 JAN 1796 Portageville, Wyoming Co., New York 29 MAR 1856
Ephraim Cheney Uncle Granby Pass, Essex Co., Vermont 13 APR 1798 Holden, Johnson Co., Missouri 25 SEP 1872
Benjamin Cheney Uncle Granby Pass, Essex Co., Vermont 03 APR 1803 Fort Dodge, Iowa 30 MAR 1882
Eunice Cheney Aunt Granby, Essex Co., Vermont 1806 Possibly Ischua, Cattaraugus Co., New York
Great uncles & Great aunts
Dorcas Cheney Great aunt
Sarah Cheney Great aunt 1753
Eliphalet Cheney Great uncle Wells, York, Maine ABT 1755 14 JAN 1829
Mary Cheney Great aunt 1757
Joseph Cheney Jr. Great uncle Wells, York Co., Maine 01 JUL 1759 14 NOV 1815
James Cheney Great uncle Wells, York, Maine 07 APR 1765 JUN 1846
John Cheney Great uncle Wells, York, Maine 1767 1800
Samuel Cheney Great uncle Wells, York, Maine 1772
Dorothy [Dolly] Cheney Great aunt Wells, York Co., Maine 1775
Olive Cheney Great aunt 22 MAR 1777
Abigail Cheney Great aunt Wells, York, Maine 1777
Great great (uncles & aunts)
Mary Cheney Great great aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 22 MAY 1725
Daniel Cheney Great great uncle Wells, York, Maine 10 JAN 1729 Goffstown, New Hampshire 1795
Reuben Cheney Great great uncle Wells, York, Maine 17 JAN 1732 AFT 1807
3xGreat (uncles & aunts)
John Cheney 3xGreat uncle Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 10 MAR 1702 1738
Thomas Cheney 3xGreat uncle Newbury, Essex, Mass. 25 FEB 1704 24 JUN 1767
Hannah Cheney 3xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 25 SEP 1706 Newbury, Essex Co. Massachusetts 22 SEP 1775
Sarah Cheney 3xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 25 JAN 1708 07 Oct 1775
Nathaniel Cheney 3xGreat uncle Newbury, Essex, Mass. 25 NOV 1711
Mary Cheney 3xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 09 AUG 1714
Abigail Cheney 3xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 01 NOV 1719 03 MAR 1736
4xGreat (uncles & aunts)
Sarah Cheney 4xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 11 SEP 1666 Newbury, Essex, Mass. BET 1701 AND 1761
Judith Cheney 4xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 06 SEP 1668 BET 1696 AND 1730
Hannah Cheney 4xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 03 SEP 1673 1752
John Cheney 4xGreat uncle Newbury, Essex, Mass. 10 JUL 1676 1728
Eleanor Cheney 4xGreat aunt Newbury, Essex, Mass. 29 MAR 1679 Newbury, Essex, Mass. BET 1704 AND 1773
Elizabeth Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Massachusetts 07 MAY 1680 Haverhill, Massachusetts 04 JUN 1746
Abigail Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Massachusetts OCT 1680 Haverhill, Massachusetts 05 MAY 1727
Mary Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Massachusetts 04 NOV 1681 Haverhill, Massachusetts 16 OCT 1696
Thomas Dustin 4xGreat uncle Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 05 JAN 1683
James Cheney 4xGreat uncle Newbury, Essex, Mass. 16 APR 1685 02 MAY 1749
Nathaniel Dustin 4xGreat uncle Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 16 MAY 1685
John Dustin 4xGreat uncle Haverhill, Massachusetts 02 FEB 1686 Haverhill, Massachusetts 28 JAN 1690
Sarah Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 04 JUL 1688
Jonathan Dustin 4xGreat uncle 15 JAN 1692
Mehitable Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 14 SEP 1694 Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 16 DEC 1694
Timothy Dustin 4xGreat uncle Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 14 SEP 1694
Martha Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 09 MAR 1697 Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 15 MAR 1697
Lydia Dustin 4xGreat aunt Haverhill, Essex Co., Massachusetts 04 OCT 1698
Uncles-in-law & Aunts-in-law
Clarisa Damond Aunt-in-law Freedom, Cattaraugus Co., New York ABT 1830
Susannah Goff Aunt-in-law Madison, New York 1788 Freedom, Cattaraugus, New York 1825
Jemima Streeter Aunt-in-law Hartford, Washington Co., New York 15 MAR 1792
Israel Runnels Uncle-in-law Concord, Merrimack Co., New Hampshire 14 JUL 1793 Portageville, Wyoming Co., New York 09 NOV 1849
Phoebe Ballard Aunt-in-law Essex Co., Vermont ABT 1796 Millersburg, Iowa ABT 1860
Dorcas Aunt-in-law Vermont (possible) ABT 1801
Nancy Snow Aunt-in-law Cavendish, Windsor Co., Vermont 18 APR 1803 Probably Otho, Webster Co., Iowa 19 MAY 1891
(Great uncles & Great aunts)-in-law
Joanna Cousins Great aunt-in-law
Mary Grant Great aunt-in-law
Isabella Littlefield Great aunt-in-law 1763 25 FEB 1849
Great great (uncles & aunts)-in-law
Elizabeth Hadley Great great aunt-in-law Amesbury, Essex, MA
Hannah Jacobs Great great aunt-in-law
3xGreat (uncles & aunts)-in-law
Francis Hardy 3xGreat uncle-in-law Bradford, Massachusetts
Hannah Stevens 3xGreat aunt-in-law
Kerzia Annis 3xGreat aunt-in-law
Lieut. John Coffin Jr. 3xGreat uncle-in-law Newbury, Essex Co. Massachusetts 30 JAN 1695 Salisbury, Essex Co., Massachusetts 16 JAN 1754
4xGreat (uncles & aunts)-in-law
David Newman 4xGreat uncle-in-law
Elizabeth Seager 4xGreat aunt-in-law
John Emmerson 4xGreat uncle-in-law
John Richards 4xGreat uncle-in-law
Lieut. Thomas Wiswall 4xGreat uncle-in-law
Richard Shotswell 4xGreat uncle-in-law

Notes
Life Story of Ezekial Wells Cheney and Lucy Elizada Hardy Cheney, Arlene Ellis Melis (many thanks to Shelia for this material)



Ezekial was born June 13, 1828 in Freedom, Cattaraugus County, New York. He was the youngest of eight children born to Aaron Cheney and Mehitable Wells Cheney, who joined the L.D.S. Church in 1831, after a visit from the Prophet Joseph Smith and Elder Orson Pratt. Four years later in 1835, they gathered with the Saints at Kirkland, Ohio cleared land and farmed it. Ezekial with his father and brothers worked hard in helping to build the Kirkland temple. The family moved with the Kirkland Camp to Nauvoo where the men again worked as masons on the Nauvoo Temple. As the work on the Temple progressed, the persecution by the mobs grew more intense. The saints were rejoicing in the near completion of the great edifice when the Prophet was killed and they were driven from Nauvoo. The Cheney family were driven with the other saints to Winter Quarters, at the site of Omaha, Nebraska.


Lucy was born February 24, 1829, at Bellast, Waldo County, Maine. She was the daughter of Zaeariah Hardy and Eliza Philbrook Hardy. This family also journeyed to Nauvoo and shared with the Saints in the persecutions of the mobs. Lucy's mother was a seamstree and during the family's stay at Nauvoo she made clothes for the Prophet's family. Lucy, being seventeen years of age at this time, worked for the Prophet's mother, showing mummy exhibits to people who paid to see them. When the family left Nauvoo, Lucy's father died of exposure as a result of battling the icy waters of the Mississippi while helping the Saints to cross. When the saints were burying Zaeariah Hardy they were molested by the mob and had to leave him at the graveside and return later ti bury him secretly at night. Many of the Saints were forced to leave Nauvoo with only those belongings that they could carry in their arms. Lucy's mother, Eliza had seven children when she fled from Nauvoo and was carrying the youngest in her arms.


Ezekial and Lucy were married at North Mt. Pisgah in March 1848. They had met at Winter Quarters where they had gathered with the Saints after being driven from Nauvoo. They were married when Ezekial was twenty years old and Lucy was nineteen. A year after their marriage, in 1849 they left Winter Quarters, with Ezekial's father Aaron, and traveled to Utah in what was known as George A. Smith's Company. Brother Smith was a cousin of the Prophet. On the way they suffered many hardships but fortunately were not molested by Indians. Three weeks after they left Winter Quarters, their first child was born near Elkhorn, Nebraska. They named the baby Eliza Ann. When it was three weeks old, Lucy jumped into the icy waters of a slough to help the oxen through. One night, as it was rather warm, the front of the wagon was left open, and during the first part of the night a heavy blanket of snow fell, covering the sleepers in the wagon as well as the oxen that were tied to the wheels. It then turned extremely cold. Upon awakening the next morning, Ezekial found one of the oxen frozen to death. However, nothing daunted, Ezekial hitched his saddle horse in with the remaining oxen and continued the journey in this manner, They arrived in Utah and settled at what is now Uinta in 1849, Soon after they arrived another baby, Olive Elzada was born.


Ezekial was a cooper by trade. He made buckets and barrels for a living. However, like many other hardy pioneers, he could adapt his mind and hands readily to any task confronting him. He soon felled trees along the bank of the Weber River and made a comfortable home. They later moved to the Mound Fort district where father Aaron had acquired forty acres of land. This lay on the east and west side of what is now Washington Boulevard, south of Twelfth Street and was bordered on the south by the Ogden river. The house was located about where Grant avenue is now.


In 1858, when Johnson's army was sent to Utah against the Mormons, Brigham Young ordered the Saints to pile straw around their homes ready to set them on fire and flee south. Ezekial went up Weber Canyon with a battalion of Saints to head off the Army while his family journeyed to Salt Lake City to wait for him. Aaron chose to remain behind to set fire to the homes if Johnson's Army broke through. By this time the foundation of the Salt Lake Temple had been raised to a height of three or four feet above the ground. This was all filled in and covered up so that the army wouldn't find and destroy it.


Some of the Saints moved south to Southern Utah, others went nearly to Mexico. When Ezekial rejoined his family, they moved as far south as Springville and lived there two years, where he struggled to make a living by making and repairing boots for the soldiers in Johnston's Army, who by that time had been let into Utah by the Mormons on the assurance of the U.S. Government that the soldiers would be garrisoned there only to see that national laws were lived up to. Ezekial dug segobulbs which were boiled in milk to feed his family. Finally he had to sell his cow to buy flour, which he carried from Payson to Grantsville on his back (they had moved from Springville to Grantsville). While living in Grantsville, Lucy and her children contracted measles and an infant daughter, Elvira was born contracted measles and died.


By this time, Ezekial's father who was old and sick sent for them to move back to Mound Fort and care for him. This they did and soon after they arrived he died. He was the third person to be buried in the Ogden Cemetery.



Ezekial inherited the farm, and though times were a little easier, there was much hard work to be done. The grain had to be cut with a cradle scythe and threshed with flails or by oxen driven over it, threshing it with their hooves. It then had to be fanned in the wind by being poured from one container to another, to get the chafe out. It was then traded for other commodities or taken to Bybee's mill (located where the Old Mill Inn is today) and ground into flour. There was very little money in circulation at that time and trading eggs for peaches etc. ( Lorin Farr was the only one who had peaches at that early date) was a common practise. The only candy or sweets to be had was wild honey or molasses made from sugar cane. Lighting for houses was made by twisting a piece of cloth around a button and standing it up for a wick in a saucer of grease.


It was while Ezekial and his family were living at Mound Fort that the crickets came and devoured the crops. The seagulls came and saved part of them by eating the crickets until they were full, then vomiting them up and eating more. There were dead crickets everywhere the seagulls had vomited them up. The seagulls were as tame as chickens and anyone could walk close to them.


At this time the price of cloth was high as much as seventy-five cents a yard for calico. For the most part Ezekial's family spun their own yarn and made their own clothes and shoes. The shoes were often made with rawhide for the soles and knitted yarn of cloth for the tops. Nearly all the children went barefoot in the summer.


One year a flood washed out the Ogden river bridge and people had to cross on a ferry located about where Lorin Farr Park is now. Ezekial sold the farm at Mound Fort and moved and again, catering to his ailing wife, Lucy, who seemed to feel better when on the move. They were living at Hooper when Lucy's eleventh and last baby was born. They kept moving from place to place, and as years passed Ezekial and Lucy had the opportunity to help settle many parts of Utah and Idaho. Many people were living in Utah by then and several towns became well established. While living at Oakley, Idaho, Ezekail and a son, William died. Ezekial died August 13, 1886 .


Lucy sold the ranch that they had at Oakley and moved to Ogden where she lived until her youngest daughter was married. She then moved to Snake River, Idaho. She died on November 2, 1915 at the age of eighty-four at what is now known as Swan Valley, at the home of her grandson.


This history was composed by a Great-Granddaughter Arlene Ellis Melis--daughter of Rozella Cheney Bowen.









FROM: Jaclyn Haynes Day, great-granddaughter

Excerpts from



My Parents----------Daniel Newel and Mary Jane Cheney Drake



By Pearl Drake Haynes, Interview recorded by Ortell Drake Wilson, niece



September 28, 1982



Transcribed to Word file by Jaclyn Haynes Day, great-granddaughter







Note from Jaclyn Day: Pearl was born in 1894 to Daniel Newel Drake and Mary Jane Cheney Drake. Mary Jane Cheney was the daughter of Ezekiel Wells Cheney and Lucy Elzada Hardy, pioneers. This interview took place when Pearl was 88 and still very independent. She lived to be 99 ½ and I knew her well.






“…My Grandmother Cheney [Lucy Elzada Hardy Cheney] lived with us a lot. My mother is Mary Jane Cheney. That’s where you get the Marys. (This to Mary Kaye, Pearl’s daughter.)



My mother never lived polygamy, she said that is one thing she couldn’t do. Grandpa Cheney died young and my Grandma never remarried. She had her first child on the plains. The pioneers had hard times, I’ll tell you. When she had the baby she was laying on barrels of flour. The captain said they should put the flour in bags to make a softer bed, which they did. I was about fourteen or fifteen years old when she came to visit and she told me this.


…One evening we got a telephone call from Idaho that my Grandma Cheney had passed away and so Mother and Aunt Olive got ready and left the next morning for Idaho. She said the weather was terribly cold, blizzardy, and they didn’t know just how they could take her. One of the grandsons said, “We can get the white top out and make a bed and lay her in that.” They dressed her for burial. Mother said she wasn’t dressed properly when they got up there, so they got her all ready for burial. They took her to this graveyard they had and she said it was heart-breaking to see her Mother laid away in such a lonely place. They only stayed overnight and came back because it was such cold weather.


Now I’ll tell you a little bit about my Grandmother Cheney. The night that Grandma Cheney died, that day she got all her nice blouses out and ironed them all up. She used to have some beautiful blouses and she loved to iron them. Her granddaughter asked why she was ironing her blouses and she said, “I’m going to a wedding tonight. You’ll see.” My grandmother was a great dancer and she loved to dance. That evening she told her grandchildren or great-grandchildren, I guess, to all line up on the over-stuffed and she would dance for them because she was going to this wedding and she would dance before she left. So she did and she said, “Well, I’m getting kind of tired. Move over some of you, and let me sit down.” She sat down and passed away on the sofa. She was a great entertainer. At a ward old folks’ party, they had my grandmother and her oldest daughter dance for them. They gave a dance recital. She was honored for being the oldest at this party.


Mother said they traveled so much when she was young. I don’t know how many towns in Utah they lived in. Grandpa [Ezekiel Wells Cheney] didn’t get work; it was hard to get work and they were very poor. Mother said they used to take their lunch to school in little tin buckets. One day they didn’t have anything to take but bread and milk. She and her two sisters sat in a circle with the other children to eat. She opened the bucket and it looked so good! Thick cream on the top and it looked delicious. All at once the other kids got up and danced around and said, “Bread and milk for dinner, bread and milk for dinner…” She and her sisters got up and threw their bread and milk out and went without. The kids made fun of them.


Mother was quite proud. Grandma used to buy bolts of material for their dresses and dressed them all alike. Mother didn’t want to look like the rest of them. She’d tell Grandma, “I don’t want a dress. I’ll go without mine.” She used to work out a little and help what she could on little jobs. She’d save enough money to buy material to make her a different kind of a dress. She loved to sew; she was a great seamstress. She made all of our clothes.


Grandpa Cheney made all their shoes. They could only have two pair a year. Mother and her sister had to herd sheep when they were small. She said their feet would get so sore they could hardly walk.



Sources

Description
Heart Throbs of the West: Volume 10, The Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Pioneers of 1849
LDS - Membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:1830-1848, 50 vols., Black, Susan Easton, Compiler, (LDS Church, Salt Lake City, 1
LDS - Seventies: Early Seventies, Black, Harvey Bischoff, Compiler and Editor, , p 142

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10 Mar 1867 38.8 First telephone voice transmission Technology
1868 - 1878 40.1 - 50.1 Ten Years' War ('Great War') Wars & Military Conflicts
4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 40.8 - 48.8 President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant USA - Presidents
5 Sep 1869 - 1884 41.3 - 56.1 Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle Monuments
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 41.9 - 95.7 Life of Vladimir Lenin Personalities
1870 42.1 Start of the 3rd French Republic France
19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 42.1 - 42.9 Franco-Prussian War Germany
18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 42.6 - 59.8 German Emperor: Wilhelm I Germany
4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890 42.9 - 61.8 Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck Germany
9 Nov 1871 43.4 Founding of the German Empire Germany
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 46.5 - 136.7 Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill Personalities
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 47.6 - 138.9 Life of Konrad Adenauer Personalities
4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 48.8 - 52.8 President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes USA - Presidents
1878 50.1 Establishment of Bell Telephone Company Companies
1878 - 1881 50.1 - 53.1 Second Anglo-Afghan War Wars & Military Conflicts
31 Dec 1878 50.6 First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine Automobile History
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 50.8 - 126.9 Life of Albert Einstein Personalities
1879 51.1 Discovery of cholera vaccine Medicine
1879 51.1 Discovery of plague vaccine Medicine
1879 51.1 Anglo-Zulu War Wars & Military Conflicts
10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887 52.4 - 59.2 President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor Mormon History
20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 52.6 - 52.8 First Boer War ('First South African War') Wars & Military Conflicts
4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 52.8 - 53.3 President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield USA - Presidents
6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 53.2 - 126.8 Life of Alexander Fleming Personalities
19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 53.3 - 56.8 President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur USA - Presidents
1882 54.1 Establishment of Peugeot Companies
1882 54.1 Britain occupies Egypt Discoveries & Colonization
21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 55.6 - 135.6 Life of Theodor Heuss Personalities
1884 56.1 First controlled flight of a Zeppelin Aviation History
15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 56.5 - 56.7 Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') Discoveries & Colonization
4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 56.8 - 60.8 President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland USA - Presidents
1886 58.1 Establishment of the Coca Cola Company Companies
1886 58.1 Establishment of Johnson & Johnson Companies