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INTRODUCTION

My mother, Lucretia Parsons Ashcroft, wrote a brief history of her mother, Inez Cooley Parsons.  In the FOREWORD, she wrote the following:  “Each month since Mother's passing has seemed to roll its own thin veil down in front of the events of her life.  Even the short passage of time to now has dimmed the many details and softened, or obscured, that which during her life remained sharp and well defined.

 “Telling and re-telling life experiences to the grandchildren, scattered as they are, is not the most satisfactory way of preserving a life history of their ancestors.  There needs must be a written foundation for refreshing memories and preserving important experiences.  These two reasons are my incentive in writing whatever incidents still shine with enough light thru these veils of time to make true enough pictures for recording.

 “During Mother's life we never could get her to write down any facts or incidents of her life.  But she loved to talk about her girlhood and life with her family.  Much of this sketch is pieced together from these stories she told me.  The facts of her very early life and descriptions of her homes and farm life were told to me by Uncle Ezra, Mother's older brother.  He visited with me for a few days in 1955 and I took detailed notes while he told me of these early days.  Other bits of information and interesting incidents came from Aunt Mary Cooley, who lived so close to mother for so many years and from Aunt Annie Jensen, mother's very dearest lifelong friend.”

 -Lucretia P. Ashcroft

My grandmother, Inez Cooley Parsons, was born into a polygamous family.  She was the sixth child born to her mother, Ann Hazen Cooley, but the 26th child of her father, Andrew Wood Cooley.  They lived in impoverished circumstances physically, her father being incarcerated in the penitentiary twice rather than choosing among his wives and children.  They were, however, wealthy when it came to family life.  Andrew’s four wives remained faithful to each other until death, and his children (from all four wives) grew up as one family.  Inez left a legacy of industry and integrity for her descendants.  I have used my mother’s text as the foundation for this history and have added to her account and included the photos in my possession.  I am honored to be one of Inez Cooley Parsons’ granddaughters and grateful for the things she taught me.

-Judith Ashcroft Peterson

Pioneer Woman of Courage

Personal History of Inez Cooley Parsons

“All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney 

Inex Cooley, was born February 26, 1883. Her parents were Andrew Wood Cooley and Ann Hazen Cooley (5th wife of Andrew Wood Cooley). She was the 6th child born to Ann Cooley, but the 26th child of her father, Andrew.

She was born in a small one-room home in what was called Brighton Ward, Salt Lake Co., Utah.  This place is not the Brighton that we know today.  There was no particular community, but only clusters of scattered farms.  It was situated west of the Jordon River, past the present Salt Lake fair grounds and east and south of the present Salt Lake Municipal Airport.   This group of farm families was organized into a ward and Grandfather Andrew Wood Cooley was the bishop.  The church was south from where they lived and far enough away that they would take their lunch and go in a wagon and be gone all day.

Their home was a one-room log house plastered outside and inside and white-washed each spring.  It had a lean-to on the west and a shanty to the north.  Grandma and Grandpa Cooley slept in the lean-to with the babies.  There was a bed and chest in this room, but no heat.  The rest of the family slept in the large room.  Their beds consisted of corn shucks or straw ticks, a quilt and a cattail down pillow.  These beds were rolled up in the daytime and placed in the corner.  Other furniture consisted of a long table and two long wooden benches, a wood-burning cook stove and a cupboard.  The floor was of rough wooden planks.  Four of Ann's eight children were born in this home (Mary Ann, Martha, Inez, and Arthur)  Mark and Samuel, the two oldest boys were born in Huntsville, and Ezra, the next in line, was born in Grantsville.  The youngest son, Walter, was born at his grandmother Hazen's home.   A midwife, whom we only know as Aunt Sukey, delivered all the children born in the little white house.  She was a small lady and the distinguishing thing about her was that she smoked a pipe.  She rode a horse and Uncle Ezra said you could just see her head bobbing along above the sagebrush with her pipe sending up a cloud of smoke around her.

 This was the world that Inez entered the 26th day of February, 1883, and this was to be her home for four years.  The homestead consisted of forty acres of pasture land.  There were no crops planted.  Each of the four wives owned a few cows and they were kept in this pasture.  Each night they would be rounded up and brought into the corral, which was built about one-half mile west of the home.  Each of the wives would come and milk their cows and take home their milk.  Each of the other wives, except Aunt Mary, had forty acres of farm land adjacent to Grandma Ann's, (Aunt Mary lived in Salt Lake City).  During the summer the boys would cut salt and marsh grass and store it for winter feed for the cattle.  The younger children spent their time gathering sagebrush and other small brush, which they could haul.  They would drag this and pile it in large piles close to the house.  This was used during the winter to supply warmth and to cook their food.

 Inez, along with her older sisters and younger brothers, would also go out gleaning wool.  They would pick the wisps of wool from the brush and fences, where the sheep had passed.  This wool their mother would card and spin and knit into stockings, mittens, and caps to be used in cold weather.  They also gleaned wheat around the edges of fields and ditch banks.  This they would grind in a coffee mill to make their cereal.  They obtained drinking water from a well that was quite different from ordinary wells.  The well was 15 to 20 feet deep, but only 12 inches across.  Water would rise to the top and sometimes overflow.  They dipped the water with a cup into a bucket.  Sometimes they had to wait for it to fill up so that they could reach it.

Food was a problem in those pioneer days.  Of course they had milk and they made their cheese and butter, but there was not much variety.  Inez tells of her mother putting four or five children on a horse behind her and going down to the Jordan River to hunt duck eggs in the spring.  She would leave the smaller children to play on the river bank.  Then she would take Uncle Ezra, who was about nine or ten years old, on her back and swim out to some marsh islands in the river and they would hunt for the duck's nests.  Some days they would have good luck and she would bring back an apron full, (How she could manage to swim with a boy on her back and an apron full of eggs is beyond me, but Uncle Ezra says she did it many times.)  They would cook these duck eggs and eat them with pigweed greens and think they had quite a treat.  Another thing Inez remembered was gathering mushrooms.  After a rainstorm, her mother would take the children and they would gather buckets full, which Grandma would take into Salt Lake City and sell to the stores.  Inez said they always kept some at home to eat and what a delicacy they were.  She said they were large, some of them as large as a saucer, and they would spread the underside with butter and bake them in the oven.  When they came out a golden brown they would peel them and eat them with bread and butter.  She said she would never forget the wonderful smell and taste of these mushrooms.

 Grandma Ann Cooley made all the children's clothes.  The girl's wardrobe consisted of a waist with pants or drawers buttoned on and a one piece calico dress.  The boys pants were made of what they called "high water denim".  They came up high over their waist and were buttoned onto a shirt, or had home-made suspenders.  They wore no underclothing.  They went barefoot most of the year.  They could not have new clothes every year.  Look closely at the clothing the children are wearing in the photo.  They were made with all kinds of tucks, which could be let out as the children grew.

 Inez remembered Christmases in this little white house.  She said her father would bring a bucket of hardtack candy and a small barrel of peanuts.  This he would divide with his four families.  The year that each child turned four years old, he or she would receive a pair of red-topped boots and a mouth organ.  This was a highlight in their lives.

 During this period, Indians were roaming over most of Utah and many came to Grandma's home.  Inez remembers how frightened they were when they would look up and find an Indian staring in the window or door.  Her mother always shared her meager food with them and they went away without giving any trouble.

 The children lived too far from Salt Lake to attend school so their father, Andrew, arranged for Clarissa, (sometimes called Clara) the daughter of his oldest daughter (Aunt Mary's child), to teach the children.  They all met in Inez's little white home, which seemed to be the central spot for the children of Aunt Rachel, Aunt Jane, and Ann.

~ Clarissa Maretta Cooley(1867-1894), Andrew Wood Cooley’s oldest daughter by Aunt Mary. 
She taught school in Aunt Ann’s little white house and would have been Inez’ first teacher.  ~

About this time the manifesto was signed and Andrew Wood Cooley was asked to choose which wife he would live with.  He said he would neither run nor show partiality to any of his wives and so he was sent to prison.  Inez remembers when the marshals came to get her father.  He looked out of the window and said, "Here are marshals Steel and Whetstone to take me away".  He went into the lean-to bedroom and got on his shoes and was ready to go when they arrived.

I have a note written by Inez’s daughter, Lucretia.  It contains information written by Lucretia on the back side of this photo:

This picture was found by a family member while on his mission in the Eastern United Statees. He had stopped to rest in front of a store and this picture was in the store window. He went into the store and purchased the picture, recognizing it as being his own family.

Quoting from a biography titled The Life of Andrew Wood Cooley, published by the Andrew Wood Cooley Family Association in 1991,   “[A] photographer for an eastern newspaper, having read the published announcement that Andrew must reappear in court, rode out to the Cooley homesteads to take a photograph of a polygamous family.  When the man made his request, Andrew held his head high.  He had nothing to hide and asked everyone to line up.  Mary was at home in the city, but her daughter Clara was in Brighton, likely conducting school.  The family stood in front of Ann’s ‘little white house.’”  Quoting further, “After the picture-taking session, presumably the whole family climbed into the waiting wagon to accompany Father to court.  Probably they were dressed up for this very purpose, not for the photograph, but because they were ready to travel.  Most, if not all, of the nineteen children wore shoes, even the babies in the arms of the three mothers.”  p. 133.  The story continues, “The newspaper account of Andrew’s trial says that he left the courtroom ‘followed by his family,’ thus they apparently said their good-byes on a Salt Lake City Street, with Andrew under guard.”

 Although Inez was only four years old, she remembers visiting her father in prison.  It was a long wagon ride from the farm to the prison, and then someone lifted her up on a high wall and she walked around it and waved to her father, who was playing ball in the yard below.  She distinctly remembered the striped suit he was wearing.

They then went inside the prison and were shown the many handicrafts he had made - beautiful carved fans, bridles and whips made of braided horsehair. Then her father came and lifted her up and kissed her.

When her father was stricken with Bright’s Disease (a disease of the kidneys – similar to Nephritis) in 1887, he was released from prison and taken to the Coon's estate, a large home near the Jordan River, home of Aunt Rachel, (3rd wife's) parents.  Here he died October 11, 1887.  Inez remembers her father lying there so ill, with his four wives seated around the bed weeping.  She also recalls someone lifting her up to see her father for the last time lying in his casket.  At the time of Grandfather's death his families were as follows:  Aunt Mary was 41 years of age and had 2 living children, 5 had died.  Aunt Jane was 43 years of age, had 6 living children, 2 had died.  Aunt Rachel was 39 years of age, had 6 living children, 3 had died.  Grandma Ann was 33 years of age, had 6 living children, 1 had died.

 Just before Andrew Wood Cooley died, they traded their farm for forty acres of land out near the Point of the Mountain plus $500, which they put into sheep and which Ezra herded.   Ann Hazen and her children moved in with her mother and father on the Robert Hazen farm.  Here Walter was born.  They lived there until after grandfather died.

 During the next three years, Ann Cooley and her children moved three times.  First they moved into a Mr. Berran's house about four miles northwest of their little white home.  Then they moved to Lufkin's home, one and a half miles west of Berrans, and finally to Bailey's home up on the Jordan River close to the Coon estate.  They paid $10 a month for rent.

 These were hard days for the family.  They had let a Mr. Berg DeMott take over their sheep on shares.  He proved very irresponsible and practically lost all of them.  The oldest boy, Mark, was fourteen and Ezra eleven, and they tried to get work whenever they could.  Three or four days each week, Ann Cooley would hook up the horse and buggy and drive into Salt Lake to the D and RG and Union Pacific railroad and gather up all the greasy overalls and jumpers from the men.  These she would take home and wash on the scrubbing board and iron and deliver back the next day.  She received 35 cents for a pair of overalls and a jumper.

Quoting from The Life of Andrew Wood Cooley:  “In 1889 . . . Jane, Rachel, and Ann undoubtedly held many long discussions about how to manage, and assuredly they prayed about their concerns.  Good farms of their own seemed the ideal answer to their needs, and to their desires that the children work and play together.  Good farms, however, were unavailable in the Brighton area.  Two of Rachel’s sisters . . . were rearing their families in Mendon, Cache Valley, ninety miles north of Salt Lake City.  In Mendon there was a farm for sale that Rachel’s sisters suggested she purchase, and she did.  She had received a sum from her father’s estate and spent $800 to buy this large lot of nearly four acres.  On it were a rock home, a log cabin, a thriving orchard, and probably a barn, as well as plenty of garden and field space.  The deed was dated March 24, 1890, and recorded the next day.  Even though she purchased, Rachel was unready to leave the Salt Lake Valley and offered the property to Ann for a year” p. 188.

 And so in the spring of 1890, Ann and her family decided to move to Mendon, Utah and lived in Aunt Rachel's home, which was vacant at the time.

They packed up a few meager belongings and Theordore McKean, a friend of the family, took them to the depot and bought tickets for them.  Mark was left in Salt Lake as he had a job on the section (The railroad).  When they arrived in Mendon they were met by the bishop, Brother Hughes, and two of Aunt Rachel's sisters and their husbands.  Bishop Hughes gave Grandma a ten dollar gold piece to help her get started.

 Ann gathered her six children around her and went to look over their new home.  They found a bare house, with no furniture or supplies.  Uncle Ezra was 14 years old and the children ranged in ages down to 3 years.  Inez was 7 years old.  Ezra worked for Bishop Henry Hughes, Brother Alfred Gardner, and Albert Baker.  He did odd jobs of any sort they needed done.  The brethren paid Grandma.  Ezra never knew what he earned, but they managed to live through the winter.

 In the fall Grandma went back to Salt Lake City and got Uncle Mark.  They managed to get a team and wagon, some of Rachel’s cows and sheep, which they would care for on shares, and a few pieces of furniture.  It took them four days to go from Salt Lake City to Mendon, about ninety miles.  Uncle Oscar, Aunt Rachel's boy, walked all the way and drove the cattle.

 Inez and the younger children all went to school in Mendon.  While in Salt Lake City, Grandma attended general conference.  It was here that Bishop Hughes introduced her to a Bishop Preston. He asked for a good boy to work and Bishop Hughes recommended Ezra.  And so it came about that Ezra went to Benson Ward and worked for Bishop Preston for two years.  Mark found a job on the section for the railroad and with the two boys working steady, the family fared a little better.

 In 1891 Rachel moved her family to Mendon and took possession of the rock home where Ann and family had been living.  Ann moved her family into the log cabin on Rachel’s property. Jane also moved her family to Mendon and then three of Andrew’s wives and their families were happily gathered together again.

While working in Benson, Ezra met L. R. Martineau who owned 500 acres of land in Alto, Utah, which is north and west of Benson.  He promised to furnish implements and horses and one-half of the crops in return.  The boys decided to try it and Mark and Ezra moved onto the farm in the fall.  In the spring of 1892 the boys sent for their mother and the family and they moved to Alto.  There was a home on the ranch and some out-buildings.  The home was frame and faced the east.  There was a porch which ran all the way across the front of the house.  There were two rooms.  The north room was made of rough lumber and the south room of chinked logs.  Each room was white-washed.  The doors and woodwork were painted a dark drab grey.  The floors were rough hewn boards.  The north room was used as a bedroom and was furnished with two beds and a chest.  The south room was the kitchen and living room.  It had a stove, table and chairs, a couch that could be pulled out to make a bed and a cupboard.  Across one corner a curtain was hung and this furnished closet space for the few extra clothes they had.  South of the two rooms was a small lean-to.  This was used as a summer kitchen during hot weather

 After the family moved to Alto the boys and their mother built a granary with an attic.  This is where Inez and her sisters and friends would play house.  There were also sheds, corrals, and chicken coops.  They got their drinking water from artesian wells.  It was very bitter.

It was here in Alto that Mother and Annie Hansen became fast friends.  Brother and Sister Hansen lived about a mile north of mother's home.  The girls would walk along the road and spent nearly all of their spare time together at one home or the other.  Annie was an only girl and Sister Hansen had more time to teach the girls than did Grandma.  She taught them at an early age how to crochet.  Brother Hansen brought red, white, and blue Silkaleen from Smithfield and the girls crocheted it into mats.  He was so pleased with their work that he promised them all the thread they could use.  Sister Hansen used to help the sick and sometimes she would be away for several days.  She always left her bread recipe in a handy place.  The girls were too small to read, but Brother Hansen would read the recipe and the two girls would mix the bread.  The girls spent every minute they could together and they were never idle.  They made doll clothes and quilt blocks by hand.  They crocheted doilies and pillowcases and all sorts of tidies and dresser scarves.  They were never without a project.  Inez used to beg to stay and sleep with Annie.  She had a room of her own with homemade furniture, a straw tick and a feather pillow on her bed.  These were luxuries that everyone did not have.

It was Brother Hansen's granary that was used as the first Alto schoolhouse.  There were about twenty children from all around the area that came to this school.  The children all walked, and in the wintertime waded in snow up to their waists.  Usually the older boys would go ahead and break trail for the smaller ones.  Even so, their dresses would be wet and frozen stiff when they arrived and they would sit in wet clothes all day.  After two years they built a new one-room schoolhouse down by the clay slew, (about one mile east of the railroad tracks along the present highway).  This schoolhouse had the added facility of a cloakroom to hang their wraps and keep their lunches.  The early teachers at Alto included Joe Christiansen, the first teacher, then Miss Pilgrim, Christian Larsen, Nephi Peterson and Rose Lilenquist.

Dances were held in this new schoolhouse.  Charlie Harris would come with his violin and his daughter would play the piano.  Young folks would come from as far as Benson Ward and all the surrounding farms and they would really cut a mean rug.  They would also have dances in the different homes.  A mouth organ would furnish the music and a wonderful time would be had by all.  The whole family would attend, and there was fun for all.  Once in a great while they would have a plain pancake for refreshments.

 One time a neighbor of Inez, Lois Chantrel, had a birthday party.  They were going to make molasses candy, but did not cook it long enough and it would not go hard.  Nothing daunted, they added flour until it was hard.  Another time they met at Dave Haws' for a party.  They had a two-room house so everyone was invited for miles around.  As a joke, they baked cakes with cotton, wood and nails in.  They sang songs and danced till the wee hours.

 Even though they worked hard from dawn till dark these were happy times for the family.  Their home was kept spotless and Inez even tells of one of her jobs being to sweep the yard each day and carry water and sprinkle it down so it was packed as hard and clean as a floor.  In the evenings they would sit under the stars and sing songs or harmonize with their mouth organs or play night games such as 'Run Sheep Run'.  Even though the neighbors were quite a ways apart, they congregated for many happy times together.

 The summer that Inez was eleven, John Toomes took her to Blackfoot as his hired girl.  His wife had four small children and Inez worked very hard, washing, ironing, cleaning, and caring for the children.  She received a very small wage and it was all sent home to her mother.  She told us many times of how homesick she used to be and how she longed to see her family and friends.

 The family lived in Alto for about six years.  Then Grandma sold her forty acres at Point of the Mountain and bought some land and a building lot in Newton.  There was a small two-room log house on the lot and the family moved into it for one winter.  Then they moved across the creek east of town into John Jenkins’ home while their new home was being built during the summer of 1899.

Inez finished up to eighth grade in Newton schools. She was a good student and memorized very easily. Aunt May says she could recite long poems and stories with ease, but was too shy to do it in public.

After they moved to Newton, Inez worked for Nephi Nessin and cared for his three small children after his wife died.  They lived west of town on a ranch.  In 1900 she went to work for George Albert Smith in Salt Lake City and was there a year or more.  She often mentioned what a kind, wonderful man he was, and how she enjoyed living in their home.  He called her 'Nine'.  It was while here that Sister Smith gave her an hour or two each week to attend a handwork school where she learned to do Italian drawn work and solid shaded embroidery.  She was very adept at this type of work and did the most beautiful things, such as luncheon clothes, table runners, pillows, doilies, etc.  When she left Salt Lake, Sister Smith asked her to leave all her handwork with her, but Inez said 'no', that she had bought the material with her own money and had done the work in the late night hours when her other tasks were done and she felt they belonged to her.

 After returning to Newton she hired out to Emily Barker at Cache Junction and it was here that she met her husband to be.  Henry was the youngest brother of Emily and he came to the house to visit with his sister.

Inez told Aunt Mary that she knew as soon as he came to the door that he was the man she would marry.  Aunt Mary and Uncle Mark leased the Alto farm after they were married and Grandma Ann had moved to Newton.  Inez spent a lot of time out on the farm with Aunt Mary when she was not working.  Aunt Mary told the following incidents.

 Inez was a great tease and loved to get the best of everyone.  The boys slept in the kitchen and Inez would sit there and crochet so they could not go to bed.  Or if they did go to bed, she would put mousetraps on their toes or sprinkle water on their faces.  One time one of Aunt Mary's brothers was fooling with her and she grabbed a handful of jam and rubbed over his face.  She was a pest, but they always came back for more.  Inez had many friends and lots of beaus.

 When she was about sixteen, an older fellow, Zenos Johnson, started to court Inez and Aunt Mary said she was really worried for fear Inez would marry him.  Aunt Mary's brother, Elias, thought a great deal of Inez.  When they were real young, Inez gave him a ring she had.  He kept it until he was killed.  When Inez was about seventeen, Fred Crookston started to court her and they really went steady.  Everyone expected they would marry.  I could never find out what broke up the match --  probably just the fact that Inez met Henry.

Inez and Henry were married December 16, 1903, in the Logan Temple.   Henry had hauled rock and piled it on the corner lot south of the family home, with plans to build in the spring.  He was the youngest child and grandma and grandpa Parsons convinced him that it would be better for everyone if he would build onto the original Parsons home.  That way they could both use it and when the old people were gone the home would be his.  So they added on to the home and lived together for three years.

Henry’s father, James Parson, died in 1906 and Grandma Mary Ann Catt lived for six more years.  Mary Ann suffered with asthma and was very ill for all of these years.  It was a great trial for Inez to wait on her and care for her during these years.  Three children were born during this period (Beatrice Ann Parsons, Inez Lucretia Parsons, and Lavell Henry Parsons) and Inez was carrying the fourth (Harold) when Grandma Mary Ann died.  Inez remodeled the home twice after this.

 It was an interesting house.  The sparrows built nests in all the crevices.  The children loved to watch the nest building and the feeding of the young, but Inez did not appreciate this entertaining feature.  She thought they were messy and noisy and she read somewhere that they harbored disease.  So she decided to have the house pebble-dashed.  This was a process where they plastered the house and, while it was still wet, threw a mixture of small rocks and liquid cement on the wall.  This made a rough texture and rather a pleasing effect.  At first it was plain grey cement color.  Later it was painted a lighter color.

About 1927 or 1928 Inez built an upstairs with two bedrooms and a front and side porch on the house.  This improved the looks a great deal and gave the family needed room.  At this time the home was surrounded by large shade trees and Inez had many beautiful flowers and lawns.

 At the time they were married, Henry was farming the original forty acres of land east of town which his father, James, had homesteaded.  He also bought a section of land west of town.  This land included one-half of a hill known to everyone as 'Molly's Nipple'.  This was a favorite hiking hill and many of the children’s school hikes were spent on the slopes of this mountain.  In the spring, Henry would always bring home the first 'curly cox' flowers from this farm, and in the fall the family picked chokecherries by the bucket full.  At Easter time Henry would always make a trip to the ranch and bring home two or three sacks of snow which he would find in the ravines, and Inez would make home-made ice cream for the children.

It was on this Ranch at Molly’s Nipple that Henry carried out the huge harvest operation each year.  Inez and Henry would load all their supplies, bedding and children in the big 'header box', (a built-up hay rack), tie a cow behind and the family would head for the ranch.  Here Inez set up headquarters in a one-room shack and a large tent where she  cooked for the 'headers' and thrashers.  There would be about eight men to cook for and they would be there for a week or two.  Inez was petrified of snakes and there were many rattlers in the area.  She would keep the children on the table in the tent so that they would not have to play on the ground.  It was here that she killed one of the largest rattlers ever seen.  It was days before she quit shaking.

Inez was a wonderful cook and loved company.  Who knows how many hundreds of company meals she prepared.  Her country fried chicken, pies, and cream puffs were especially famous.

 Inez and Henry had six children, all born in Newton

In 1922 things were really rough on the farm.  Henry left Inez and the family and went to Milford, Utah, to work on the railroad.  Inez operated the farm under great difficulties and Henry sent home all his wages to apply on the mortgage.  In 1929, after Lucretia was married and Bea was away teaching school, Inez sold the farm, took the younger children and moved to Milford to be with Henry.  In 1930, with LaVell and Harold both in college, Inez moved back to Logan, rented a large home and took ten college boys to board for the winter.

It was during this winter that the doctors found that Henry had leukemia.  Inez moved back to Milford in the spring to be with Henry, but he grew steadily worse and died on August 29, 1931, in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake.

In the summer of 1932 Inez moved back to Logan, rented a large home and took college boarders to earn a living.  This she continued to do until July, 1941 when she married D.A. Tanner, a neighbor she had known in Milford.

Inez and Dave married on July 14, 1941 in Preston, Idaho.  They lived in Milford for fifteen years.  They had a host of wonderful friends and neighbors.  Everyone was welcome in their home, and as long as she was able, Inez loved to cook and do for them.

Inez and Dave delighted to visit around with their children and grandchildren.  Dave was a retired railroad man and so they had passes on the railroad and could go to Oregon, Washington, and California, which they tried to do at least once each year.  Many happy days were spent with the families on these visits.  It was during these visits that Inez took time to teach her grandchildren some of the arts of crocheting, knitting, Swedish weaving and embroidery.  Inez did the most fabulous amounts of handwork that anyone could imagine.  She crocheted bedspreads, tablecloths, doilies, pillow cases, handkerchiefs, stoles, etc.  She made quilt tops by the dozens for the Relief Society and her family.  Everything she did she had to duplicate many times so that she could give one to each of her children and grandchildren.  She knitted beautiful stoles and did hairpin lace and was an expert at making braided rag rugs.  Her solid embroidery is something unequaled and we all treasure many samples of it.  One thing about Inez, she never hoarded her handwork.  She gave it away as fast as she made it, and then immediately started some more.  Her talent along these lines was certainly developed to the fullest.

In February 1957, Inez was taken ill and was never able to throw off her illness.  Death came June 4, 1957, in the Beaver County Hospital and ended the life of a wonderful woman, wife, and mother.  At the time of her death she left six children, nineteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  She was buried in the Newton, Utah cemetery, next to her beloved Henry.