I was married to Vincent McKay Pugmire (son of Jonathan Pugmire and Elizabeth McKay) on October 7, 1878 by Daniel H Wells in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City and we moved to St Charles. For about fifteen years I was engaged in general housewife duties and assisted in the work of the ward activities where I lived. When my eldest son (Vincent) was fourteen years old, my husband was called on an LDS mission t the Southern States. he died October 27, 1888 in less than a year with malaria fever at Coffee County, Alabama and left me with six boys, the youngest being born after my husband left for his mission and the oldest one fifteen years old. The body reached home for funeral services and burial on November 8, 1888.
Our earthly possessions consisted of a small farm and a few head of cattle. I taught school, worked in a store, had the post office for a few years, took in sewing and did anything I could to help support my children. I gave each of my boys a college education, sent four of them on missions for the LDS Church, two to England, one to Scotland and one to the Southern States. I educated two for doctors, tow for farmers and two for ranchers. During all of those years I was a church worker for various organizations.
I was first counselor to Amy E Laker in the Paris First Ward MIA in Bear Lake at St Charles from 1875 until 1879. Later I was Made stake counselor of the Bear Lake Stake YWMIA which position I held for twenty-nine years. At that time the stake extended to Woodruff on the south, Soda Springs on the north and Star Valley on the east. There were about twenty ward organizations which we tried ti visit twice a year. To do this we had to travel two or three hundred miles often driving our own team with a baby in arms. Quite often in the winter we were overtaken by severe storms, wind and drifting snow on very poor roads. More than once we came near being snowbound and nearly frozen.
On December 4, 1907, I was released as president of the state YWMIA and was called to serve as president of the Bear Lake Relief Society, which position I held until I was released at my own request, June 6, 1914. I also served as a trustee for the Idaho Industrial School at St Anthony for four years. In 1908, while I was President of the Stake Relief Society, we built a nice two room home where the sisters could go to rest while waiting for meetings in Paris. it was given the name of Unity Cottage.
In 1920 Bear Lake built a summer home for the girls of the stake. As chairman of the building committee I made a request of President Heber J Grant for a contribution to assist in building the home. He promptly sent us a contribution for $500.
In my younger years I did a lot of visiting the sick, making burial clothes, trimming coffins and assisting in laying out the dead. I have tried to live the life of a consistent Latter-day Saint and can truthfully say there is not an acot of my life that I would hate to have uncovered before my children. Of late years my happiness has been chiefly in my own home. I received much joy writing poetry, featuring unusual events in Bear Lake.
I was married to Vincent McKay Pugmire (son of Jonathan Pugmire and Elizabeth McKay) on October 7, 1878 by Daniel H Wells in the Endowment House in Salt Lake City and we moved to St Charles. For about fifteen years I was engaged in general housewife duties and assisted in the work of the ward activities where I lived. When my eldest son (Vincent) was fourteen years old, my husband was called on an LDS mission t the Southern States. he died October 27, 1888 in less than a year with malaria fever at Coffee County, Alabama and left me with six boys, the youngest being born after my husband left for his mission and the oldest one fifteen years old. The body reached home for funeral services and burial on November 8, 1888.
Our earthly possessions consisted of a small farm and a few head of cattle. I taught school, worked in a store, had the post office for a few years, took in sewing and did anything I could to help support my children. I gave each of my boys a college education, sent four of them on missions for the LDS Church, two to England, one to Scotland and one to the Southern States. I educated two for doctors, tow for farmers and two for ranchers. During all of those years I was a church worker for various organizations.
I was first counselor to Amy E Laker in the Paris First Ward MIA in Bear Lake at St Charles from 1875 until 1879. Later I was Made stake counselor of the Bear Lake Stake YWMIA which position I held for twenty-nine years. At that time the stake extended to Woodruff on the south, Soda Springs on the north and Star Valley on the east. There were about twenty ward organizations which we tried ti visit twice a year. To do this we had to travel two or three hundred miles often driving our own team with a baby in arms. Quite often in the winter we were overtaken by severe storms, wind and drifting snow on very poor roads. More than once we came near being snowbound and nearly frozen.
On December 4, 1907, I was released as president of the state YWMIA and was called to serve as president of the Bear Lake Relief Society, which position I held until I was released at my own request, June 6, 1914. I also served as a trustee for the Idaho Industrial School at St Anthony for four years. In 1908, while I was President of the Stake Relief Society, we built a nice two room home where the sisters could go to rest while waiting for meetings in Paris. it was given the name of Unity Cottage.
In 1920 Bear Lake built a summer home for the girls of the stake. As chairman of the building committee I made a request of President Heber J Grant for a contribution to assist in building the home. He promptly sent us a contribution for $500.
In my younger years I did a lot of visiting the sick, making burial clothes, trimming coffins and assisting in laying out the dead. I have tried to live the life of a consistent Latter-day Saint and can truthfully say there is not an acot of my life that I would hate to have uncovered before my children. Of late years my happiness has been chiefly in my own home. I received much joy writing poetry, featuring unusual events in Bear Lake.
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Thomas Grover Rich
1849–1878
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Caroline Whiting Rich Humpherys
1852–1936
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Samuel Joseph Rich
1860–1916
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Joel Hezekiah Rich
1865–1945
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1869–1935
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1839–1926
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1843–1843
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1844–1890
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Mary Bratton Rich Linford
1846–1931
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John Thomas Rich Sr
1846–1893
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1846–1924
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1848–1849
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1848–1849
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1849–1910
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1849–1932
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1850–1932
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Mary Ann Rich Pomeroy
1850–1936
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1851–1918
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1852–1928
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1853–1866
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1853–1930
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1854–1939
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1854–1855
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1855–1913
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Tunis Harriet Rich
1855–1857
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Henry Benjamin Rich
1855–1893
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Amasa Mason Rich
1856–1919
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1857–1939
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Landon Jedediah Rich
1858–1922
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Lorenzo E. Rich
1858–1893
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Martha Caroline Rich Parrish
1859–1937
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1859–1860
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1859–1941
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1860–1879
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1863–1865
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Harley Thomas Rich
1863–1933
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Heber Charles Chase Rich Sr
1863–1932
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1864–1948
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1866–1891
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1866–1940
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1868–1969
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1868–1951
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1869–1943
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1870–1944
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1871–1952
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