Is #4724 in the Hiatt-Hiett book of genealogy:
(4724.) EDWIN TAYLOR (2674.) (1032.) (364.) (72.) (10.) (2.) (1.):
b. 18-7mo-1888; m. at Blackfoot, Idaho, 27-5mo-1907, to ROSE MAY SMITH, d/o George Henry and Mary Jane (Harwood). Smith; b. 19-3mo-1889, Lehi, Utah. (R117).
address: 3680 Kiesel Ave. Ogden, UT
Biography: I started school at the age of 6 in a one room school house in the southern part of Lehi. I was bapt. when I was 8 or 9 , and then at the age of 16 I was rebaptized and ordained a priest. It was in November and they had to cut the ice to baptize us. When I was nine nears old, the grasshoppers destroyed nearly all the crops. My father raised two bushels of wheat from thirteen acres of ground. After the grasshoppers had left my father planted corn on the land that had been cleared and sold it for on cent per ear of corn. I remmember buying a slate for twn ears of corn. I used that same slate all during my school life.
In 1878 I started my courtship with Mary Jane Harwood. In the spring of 1879, I wnt to Ruby Valley, Nv. I drove a herd of catle out there for Ira D Wines. I worked on the railroad from Lehi Junction to Tintic. In the fall of 1880 the D&RG RR was built through Lehi. W S Evans and I had the contract.
December 24, 1881 I was married to Mary Jane Harwood. In the spring of 1882, we moved on the old place in the field. We lived in one little room. In 1889 we experienced quite a serious drought. There was no water in thee ditches and many of the qwlls went dry. The river was so low that the people of Salt Lake proposed that flowing wells be driven along the banks of the Jordan River. I had the honor with the assistance of Israel Evans of driving the first flowing well in Lehi. It was driven for Father Harwood on his place. We used a sledge hammer to drisve the pipe. It was such a curiosity theat people came from all over the county with their buckets to taste the water.
I served in the Lehi City Council for one term. I Aug 1903, our first great sorrow came to us in the death of our oldest daughter, Grace, who was 21.
In Jan. 1905, our son George was married to Christie Sharp and whith two weeks left for a mission to the Northern States. Our second daughter, Annie was married to Eugene Webb in Feb. and the following summer they lived on the farm and Eugene managed it. Our little boy Sammie died in April and Fern was born in August and in the fall we lost our little girl, Clara.
Within the next two or three years (1907) our three daughters, Stella, Rose, and Mary were married. In 1915 I was made Bishop of the Riverside Ward in Idaho and held that position until 1918 when we purchasedd a home and moved to Blackfoot. I served two and half terms in the Blackfoot City Council.
(George Henry Smith passedd away Dec. 9, 1942 at the home of his daughter, Mary Halverson and was buried at the side of his wife in Lehi City Cem.)
Bio: My girlhood and part of my married life was spent in the town of my birth, (Lehi, UT). I remember my brother Jim and I riding an old mule to school in stormy weather. Father would go with us leading the mule.
The first Sunday School in Lehi was hild in Grandfather Taylor's home. He was the first Sunday School Superintendent in Lehi.
I remember the summer that the grass hoppers werre so bad they ate everything that was green. When they were flying there were so many, one could not see the sun.
When I wanted to go to a dance I would promise my brothre Jim I would make him a custard pie. I usually got results. We used to have parties and shows at our house. We would charge pins for admission to the shows. In the winter crowds would go skating on Utah Lake.
Before my husband and I were married we had many pleasant joy rides in a spring wagon. After Sunday School, perhaps two couples and us would go for a wagon ride and I'm sure we enjoyed it fully as much as the young people do car riding today.
I was married to George Henry Smith 24 Dec. 1881. We first lived in a small log room. Our furniture comprised a small stove, four charis, a table, bed, 2 trunks and a sewing machine that father and mother gave us. They also gave us a heifer calf. We lived there until March, then moved in the field in a small lumber room and 2 acres of ground. We kept adding to our land until we had 14 acres. We added an adobe room on to our lumber room. I went with my husband in the West hills to get rock for the foundation and helped him haul the adobe. He would hand them to me and I would place them in the wagon. I held the candle while he laid the floor at night. We ginished our house just two weeks before our first baby Grace was born.
On Sep 23, my husband went to the canyon for wood. He was to be gone until the next day. Before leaving he took me up to Mothers. I rode on the running gears of the wagon. That night our first baby ws born. A few years later we built two more rooms on to our house making it very confortable. We planted a good orchard, a fine variety of fruit trees, currants, berries, and grapes. We had eleven children and they were all born in that home in Lehi. We had many hardships and struggles, but mixed with the sorrow and worries was much joy and happiness. We buried four children in Lehi.
We had many good times, going to parties and having our friends and families come to our home. We always spent Thanksgiving and the 24th of July at Fathers and Mothers home. Almost every summer we would take our family and spend a week in the canyon. Some friends and their family would go too. As we were returning from one trip in the canyon, we had trouble which might have ended very seriously. We had a young horse which we drove in a light buggy. I was afraid to ride, so the children and I walked down the canyon. Problems developed, frightening the horse and turning the buggy upside down in the creek. My brother Fred jumped out in time to escape getting hurt. We were very grateful for the inspiration which kept me out of the buggy.
My sister Flora Gibbs had an experience which has been a great testimony to me. She was in bed with her last baby and very ill. One morning a man dressed in white entered her room and said, "It is time you were getting your work done.! She was frightened and did not reply. He repeated the same statement. She said, "how can I get it done, sick as I am?" He repeated it a third time and left the room. When she told her mother about it she said, "Oh you were just dreaming." But then I called in the afternoon she said to me, "Jane, I've had the funniest thing happen to me." Then she related her experience to me and she said, "I could not have been dreaming for I was wide awake." I told her, "Now Flo, the Lord would never have sent that warning to you without giving you a chance to do your work." She did get well and was baptized.
I joined the Church after we were married and we went to the Logan Temple and had our endowments.
Once while visiting with Aunt Mary Wood's in Salt Lake, I met a Mrs. Conobee from Spanish Fork. She told me I would have a large family that would be a credit to me. I am the mother of eleven children and I feel that her prediction came true.