G. Glines Funeral.

Funeral services were held last Saturday over the remains of George Glines, of Liberty. Deceased was 63 years old and leaves a wife and several children. He had been an invalid for a number of years. He was the son of James H. Glines, a member of the Mormon Battalion.

Several years ago, for a short time, Mr. Glines was owner and editor of the Vernal Express.

-Vernal Express, October 10, 1913, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Written By His Son Charles H. Glines and His Granddaughter Helen Harvey Simmons


GEORGE ALBERT GLINES FAMILY HISTORY

George Albert Gllines was born 17 March 1850 in Harris Grove, Iowa. He moved to Cedar Fort, Utah with his family when he was three years old. He graduated from B.Y.A. in Provo, Utah, then returned to Cedar Fort and taught school for a few years.

He moved to Vernal in 1877 where he met and married Johanna Mary (nee Maria) Lundquist 17 August 1884 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, and they were the parents of eleven children. He moved to Glines Ward in 1892.

He was the first county clerk in Old Ashley. He owned and operated a printing press in Vernal in 1902. He was called as an Indian missionary in 1885, served as a counselor in the bishopric of Mill Ward. He was a farmer and bookkeeper. He loved music and played the violin, was a boxer, also a marksman with a rifle or a pistol.

George and his wife, Mary, kept President Wilford Woodruff in hiding for six weeks because he was wanted by the law for being a polygamist.

George was a footracer and won a cow and a calf for a man. Another time while at a Fourth of July celebration a certain man kept heckling him, wanting to bet he could outrun him. Finally, George said, "I'll tell you what I will do. I will run you a race one hundred yards, and will give you ten yards headstart. I will take this heavy belt and if I catch you I will whip you the rest of the way through." The man hesitated, the crowd yelled, "Good deal!" The distance was measured off and the hesitant man found himself ten yards in the lead. He looked behind him and there was George ready for the race. The gun was fired and the race was on. George caught the man and whipped him for fifty yards while the crowd yelled their approval. After the race the man wanted to whip George, but was stopped by the crowd.

Speaking of honesty, a certain man said this about him, "If George Glines owed me two hundred dollars and brought it to me in small change in a bucket, I would never take the time to count it because I know it would all be there."

George Glines was elected Uintah County Clerk 22 October 1883. During this time he was also custodian of the court house. He kept fires in stoves, carrying in coal, taking out ashes in all of the stoves, upstairs and downstairs, cleaning furniture, sweeping and even scrubbing some of the floors. His wife helped during the spring cleanup.

They lived in Old Ashley and in the springtime when the water was high they had to ford the creek and often it looked like the force of the deep water would sweep them down the creek. They lifted up their feet as high as they could, and still would get wet.

George was released from his job as County Clerk 30 October 1884. His salary was $25.00 per quarter.

He had a lot of ability. He could add three columns of figures all at one time. It was said of him while he was Clerk that he could figure the number of feet in a load of lumber faster than any man known locally.

He was sworn in as Deputy Sheriff 5 November 1884. That job he held for a short time. November 4, 1883 he was elected to be County Recorder. At a conference held in Ashley the 19 and 20 May 1883 six missionaries were chosen as Indian missionaries, sustained and set apart under the direction of Francis M. Lyman. George Glines was one of those missionaries. He learned their language, made good friends with them, taught them how to farm and make ditches and irrigate. The Indian agencies were opposed to the proposition of Mormons teaching the Indians until the missionaries helped make canals and ditches, and then were given authority to do so.

George had a way of persuading people to think his way and do his way. He was always respected by his friends and neighbors. When the Indians needed help in making a decision, often the leaders of tribes would ride to Vernal to hold council in the home of George Glines and ask his advice as he sat in council with them. Mary always found food for the Indians.

George always had good horses. No one was more in style than he and Mary in their one-horse buggy with the fastest trotting horse in the country. Often while driving down the road it became a challenge to see whose horse could out-travel the other. George usually won.

He loved his wife and children and taught them at home a lot. He taught one of the first schools in Vernal. His oldest son spoke of him as a walking dictionary. He never quarreled with his wife, always setting a good example for her and the children.

When only thirteen years old Mary Lundquist was traveling from Bear Lake with Uncle Peter Rasmussen and others. They were camped in the Strawberry Valley, where others were camped also. About evening a spectacular man rode into the camp. He was dressed in buckskin-fringed pants and shirt. His horse was tall, black and moved very easily. Mary became fascinated with the looks of that man with a black mustache and dark hair that was partly covered by a big hat, and dark eyes that seemed to smile with every word he spoke.

Even though he spoke in soft tones, everyone could hear and understand his voice. Some of the people who were camped there pronounced him as gentile, others didn't know. Mary Lundquist just kept quiet. In her own mind, even though she was only thirteen she thought it would be nice to belong to someone, and this was the someone she imagined would be the right one.

That evening as she retired she asked the Lord about belonging to a good man. She had left Sweden when she was but ten years old, and had stayed with relatives and had worked hard for nonrelatives for her living.

Next morning everyone was in a hurry to get breakfast and get on the road, especially the Rasmussen relatives with whom Mary was traveling. Mary stood behind a bush to watch the man in the buckskin-fringed suit mount his horse. He started riding away, then quickly turned his horse and rode back. Mary found herself looking right at the dark eyes of the man in the buckskin-fringed suit. He waved goodbye to Mary, who returned the salute, then rode away singing in his deep voice, "Israel, Israel, God is Calling." Mary knew then he was no gentile, and with one question in her mind she climbed into the wagon and was on the road to Vernal.

The first Sunday Mary went to church in Vernal the bishop announced that Brother George Glines would be the concluding speaker. Sure enough, this was the man she had seen at the camp in Strawberry Valley. Sometime after church she felt her hand in his and later on when she became fourteen years old her dreams came true and she became Mrs. George Glines. They spent many happy hours together and they shared a lot of sorrows together.

George never learned to whistle, so he always carried a .45 bullet shell in his pocket. This was a means he had of calling Mary when he wanted her. One Fourth of July celebration they got separated in the crowd and Mary finally saw George. She carefully came up behind him and followed him around for about an hour while he was looking for her. Finally, George reached into his pocket, pulled out his bullet shell and blew a mighty blast that caused the crowd to look his way. Mary turned him around and said, "Here I am!" This beautiful Swedish girl who had joined the church with her mother and two sisters away over in Sweden, and had suffered the pangs of hunger because the mayor of the town was going to "starve them out because they were Mormons", and had come to Utah when she was very young, now had someone who cared for her. She and George farmed together, worked in the bees together, and had a lot of love for each other.

While Mary was still a young woman, she and George and Mary's mother, who was married to George's father by that time, and George's father, James Harvey Glines, kept President Wilford Woodruff in hiding for six weeks when he came to Uintah Stake to conference. President Woodruff was hiding because the law was after him for being a polygamist. Mary made a dress and an old-fashioned bonnet, and dressed President Woodruff up like a woman so he could go out and hoe in the garden for exercise. President Woodruff's son, Apostle Owen Woodruff, promised Mary that if she would not let her sons have homemade beer they would never turn out to be drunkards. This promise came true.

Within a period of time from 1884 to 1911 George and his family moved from Vernal to Pleasant Grove where they did temple work for a while, then moved back to Vernal. In that time Joseph was born in Pleasant Grove, the rest of their eleven children being born in Ashley, later Vernal, after 1898. They lost one boy and five girls. Most of them died young, or in their teens.

Then a tragedy struck! George had a stroke, and from then on had to be helped around. The support of the family fell upon his wife Mary and his oldest son, Joseph. They sold their home in Vernal, and with the aid of their oldest daughter, Mary Jane and her husband, Will Cook, moved to the Indian Reservation. The family now consisted of Joseph, Ethel, James Harvey and Charles, who was about four years old.

The spring of 1911 found them grubbing brush, hauling rocks, fighting snakes and lizards and prairie dogs. Then, with all those hardships, a home was built of logs with a dirt roof.

Charles was skinny and temperamental, but because of the love of his mother and brothers and sisters and nieces and nephews he got along pretty well.

Because of George's condition he needed a lot of attention, but as time went on he improved and got so he could walk around with a cane, and in the evenings he often entertained the kids by by telling them stories, singing to them, and making sounds of various animals.

Mary would help Jane do the cooking, and other times she would go out and drive the team on the leveler to level the ground to get it ready for spring planting. Often the neighbors would gather together and have brush burning parties in the evening. With the help of others Mary still kept up the job of taking good care of George, who seemed to be on the improve.

An underground cellar was built where shelves were put in and milk pans were set for the cream to rise on the milk. Cream was skimmed from the milk and put in a big jar, then churned into butter which was sold to men who were building the White Rocks canal.

Wheat was loaded into the wagon and taken to the Vernal Mill and made into flour to make the bread for the family. Pigs, chickens, a few sheep and horses were raised. All kinds of livestock had to be taken care of, and Mary had to organize or do all of this, too.

Will Cook, Jane's husband, went away shearing sheep in the springtime to get a little money to help buy clothing for the coming winter. Joe and Mary built ditches and fences and farmed, with skinny Charles helping what he could. Charles learned to ride a horse, and one of his jobs was to herd the cows, help feed chickens, pigs, and other animals morning and evening.

For a couple of years George seemed to continue to improve a little, then in the fall of 1913 he got sick, and in late September was taken to the home of his sister, Mrs. James Hacking, in Vernal, Maeser Ward. It was there on 1 October 1913 that the man whom Mary had met in Strawberry Valley went home to his Maker.

Mary and her family came back to the Reservation to carry on and fight the battle of making a living on the farm. Soon the little settlement was given the name of Lapoint, then Liberty Ward, and finally Tridell Ward, this being the home of the George and Mary Glines family.
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George Albert Glines

George Albert Glines is the son of James Harvey Glines and Elizabeth Ann Meyers.

George married Johanna May Lundquist August 14, 1884 in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City, Utah. They had the following children: Margaret Elizabeth Glines, Mary Jane Glines, Annie Aurilla Glines, Julia Helen Glines, Joseph Glines, Rowena Glines, Alice A. Glines, George Mark Glines, Ethel Diantha Glines and James Harvey Glines.

CHILDREN NOT LISTED BELOW: JOSEPH GLINES