Emily Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Frederick Langton and Elizabeth Downes. Her two siblings died in England before the family arrived in America in 1881. She had met her husband Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Jr. in 1893 and renewed his acquaintance while he was working at her father's mercantile store in Salt Lake, Utah. They married June 25, 1894. Benjamin was 36, a widower with two surviving children and Emily Elizabeth was 23.
Her brother-in-law William King Driggs said "Mr. Langton was a typical Britisher; stern, aristocratic and well-disciplined, but his wife was as sweet and gentle a soul as one could ask for. Elizabeth took after her father. An early photograph shows her a rather voluptuous brunette beauty. She was accomplished in music, both piano and vocal. Bred in an English metropolis, she was a woman of culture and a charming conversationalist. With all, she and her parents being converts were deeply religious."
Ben called his wife Leatha. They became parents to 12 children: Gordon Langton Driggs, Byron Downes, Leonard Ellsworth, Milton Verlane, Melva Pratt, Ella Marion Driggs Wallberg James, Zoram Urial, Irving Martineau, Olivia Elizabeth, Ruth Beatrice Driggs Hansen, Ronald Westley, and Fred Glen.
Leatha almost died while pregnant with Leonard in July 1898 but recovered after a blessing from Elder Houston and Patterson. She was a midwife and played the piano for silent movies. She was sick for about a year with cancer of the uterus and came to Salt Lake, Utah for radium treatments. She died at age 50.
Her brother-in-law William King Driggs said "Mr. Langton was a typical Britisher; stern, aristocratic and well-disciplined, but his wife was as sweet and gentle a soul as one could ask for. Elizabeth took after her father. An early photograph shows her a rather voluptuous brunette beauty. She was accomplished in music, both piano and vocal. Bred in an English metropolis, she was a woman of culture and a charming conversationalist. With all, she and her parents being converts were deeply religious."
Ben called his wife Leatha. They became parents to 12 children: Gordon Langton Driggs, Byron Downes, Leonard Ellsworth, Milton Verlane, Melva Pratt, Ella Marion Driggs Wallberg James, Zoram Urial, Irving Martineau, Olivia Elizabeth, Ruth Beatrice Driggs Hansen, Ronald Westley, and Fred Glen.
Leatha almost died while pregnant with Leonard in July 1898 but recovered after a blessing from Elder Houston and Patterson. She was a midwife and played the piano for silent movies. She was sick for about a year with cancer of the uterus and came to Salt Lake, Utah for radium treatments. She died at age 50.
Emily Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Frederick Langton and Elizabeth Downes. Her two siblings died in England before the family arrived in America in 1881. She had met her husband Benjamin Woodbury Driggs Jr. in 1893 and renewed his acquaintance while he was working at her father's mercantile store in Salt Lake, Utah. They married June 25, 1894. Benjamin was 36, a widower with two surviving children and Emily Elizabeth was 23.
Her brother-in-law William King Driggs said "Mr. Langton was a typical Britisher; stern, aristocratic and well-disciplined, but his wife was as sweet and gentle a soul as one could ask for. Elizabeth took after her father. An early photograph shows her a rather voluptuous brunette beauty. She was accomplished in music, both piano and vocal. Bred in an English metropolis, she was a woman of culture and a charming conversationalist. With all, she and her parents being converts were deeply religious."
Ben called his wife Leatha. They became parents to 12 children: Gordon Langton Driggs, Byron Downes, Leonard Ellsworth, Milton Verlane, Melva Pratt, Ella Marion Driggs Wallberg James, Zoram Urial, Irving Martineau, Olivia Elizabeth, Ruth Beatrice Driggs Hansen, Ronald Westley, and Fred Glen.
Leatha almost died while pregnant with Leonard in July 1898 but recovered after a blessing from Elder Houston and Patterson. She was a midwife and played the piano for silent movies. She was sick for about a year with cancer of the uterus and came to Salt Lake, Utah for radium treatments. She died at age 50.
Her brother-in-law William King Driggs said "Mr. Langton was a typical Britisher; stern, aristocratic and well-disciplined, but his wife was as sweet and gentle a soul as one could ask for. Elizabeth took after her father. An early photograph shows her a rather voluptuous brunette beauty. She was accomplished in music, both piano and vocal. Bred in an English metropolis, she was a woman of culture and a charming conversationalist. With all, she and her parents being converts were deeply religious."
Ben called his wife Leatha. They became parents to 12 children: Gordon Langton Driggs, Byron Downes, Leonard Ellsworth, Milton Verlane, Melva Pratt, Ella Marion Driggs Wallberg James, Zoram Urial, Irving Martineau, Olivia Elizabeth, Ruth Beatrice Driggs Hansen, Ronald Westley, and Fred Glen.
Leatha almost died while pregnant with Leonard in July 1898 but recovered after a blessing from Elder Houston and Patterson. She was a midwife and played the piano for silent movies. She was sick for about a year with cancer of the uterus and came to Salt Lake, Utah for radium treatments. She died at age 50.
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