THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE April 30, 1922.
AGED MATRONS SEE 'PINAFORE' Three of the five surviving members of one family of 1847 pioneers heard and saw with keen appreciation the Thursday afternoon performance of Pinafore by the American Light Opera Company at the Wilkes theater. They were Mrs. Mary Margaret Brandon, 87 years of age, mother of the owners of the company, Mrs. Caroline Harris, 77 and Mrs. Amelia M. Smith, 84. All are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cherry, who, with their family reached Salt Lake September 2, 1847, being in the first company to come after the original band that entered the valley July 24, of tht year. Two oher members of the family who survive are Mrs. Rebekah Ann Porter, 92, and James J. Cherry, 89. Mrs. Porter and Mr. Cherry are till in good health considering their years and regretted that circumstances prevented them from attending the Thursday matinee. Mrs. Brandon said yesterday that while she was but twelve years of age when her father drove his ox train freight covered wagons into the valley, the occasion was still fresh in her memory, as were many of the incidents on the long journey across the plains. She helped her mother drive one of the teams all the way, she said. Caoline was only a baby then, and Amelia is three years younger than I, so I helped as much as I could. We started from a town about twenty miles from Nauvoo and father was well prepared to make the trip. With the family of his brother, whom he picked up at Council Bluffs, there were eighteen in the party each night as we made camp and sat down to supper. There was always a good deal of food left over at each meal and I well remember that mother used to send me to distribute it among the families that were not so well supplied. We settled on Pioneer square and lived there for nearly one year. Then father lcoated in the spot that is now called Centerville, but was long known as Cherry Creek. In 1848 he built the first adobe cabin there and it is still standing, although not occupied. It was years after we came before we ever had a chance to go to any kind of a theater, but I can well remember comng in to go to the Salt Lake Theater after it was built and I also remember that we had been here two years before I ever saw a stove. We cooked over a fireplace. Of course the change in the valley is too wonderful for me to describe. It is very pleasant to get around in an outomobile that runs so swiftly and smoothly, but I would like to see a good yoke of oxen again.
AGED MATRONS SEE 'PINAFORE' Three of the five surviving members of one family of 1847 pioneers heard and saw with keen appreciation the Thursday afternoon performance of Pinafore by the American Light Opera Company at the Wilkes theater. They were Mrs. Mary Margaret Brandon, 87 years of age, mother of the owners of the company, Mrs. Caroline Harris, 77 and Mrs. Amelia M. Smith, 84. All are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cherry, who, with their family reached Salt Lake September 2, 1847, being in the first company to come after the original band that entered the valley July 24, of tht year. Two oher members of the family who survive are Mrs. Rebekah Ann Porter, 92, and James J. Cherry, 89. Mrs. Porter and Mr. Cherry are till in good health considering their years and regretted that circumstances prevented them from attending the Thursday matinee. Mrs. Brandon said yesterday that while she was but twelve years of age when her father drove his ox train freight covered wagons into the valley, the occasion was still fresh in her memory, as were many of the incidents on the long journey across the plains. She helped her mother drive one of the teams all the way, she said. Caoline was only a baby then, and Amelia is three years younger than I, so I helped as much as I could. We started from a town about twenty miles from Nauvoo and father was well prepared to make the trip. With the family of his brother, whom he picked up at Council Bluffs, there were eighteen in the party each night as we made camp and sat down to supper. There was always a good deal of food left over at each meal and I well remember that mother used to send me to distribute it among the families that were not so well supplied. We settled on Pioneer square and lived there for nearly one year. Then father lcoated in the spot that is now called Centerville, but was long known as Cherry Creek. In 1848 he built the first adobe cabin there and it is still standing, although not occupied. It was years after we came before we ever had a chance to go to any kind of a theater, but I can well remember comng in to go to the Salt Lake Theater after it was built and I also remember that we had been here two years before I ever saw a stove. We cooked over a fireplace. Of course the change in the valley is too wonderful for me to describe. It is very pleasant to get around in an outomobile that runs so swiftly and smoothly, but I would like to see a good yoke of oxen again.
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE April 30, 1922.
AGED MATRONS SEE 'PINAFORE' Three of the five surviving members of one family of 1847 pioneers heard and saw with keen appreciation the Thursday afternoon performance of Pinafore by the American Light Opera Company at the Wilkes theater. They were Mrs. Mary Margaret Brandon, 87 years of age, mother of the owners of the company, Mrs. Caroline Harris, 77 and Mrs. Amelia M. Smith, 84. All are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cherry, who, with their family reached Salt Lake September 2, 1847, being in the first company to come after the original band that entered the valley July 24, of tht year. Two oher members of the family who survive are Mrs. Rebekah Ann Porter, 92, and James J. Cherry, 89. Mrs. Porter and Mr. Cherry are till in good health considering their years and regretted that circumstances prevented them from attending the Thursday matinee. Mrs. Brandon said yesterday that while she was but twelve years of age when her father drove his ox train freight covered wagons into the valley, the occasion was still fresh in her memory, as were many of the incidents on the long journey across the plains. She helped her mother drive one of the teams all the way, she said. Caoline was only a baby then, and Amelia is three years younger than I, so I helped as much as I could. We started from a town about twenty miles from Nauvoo and father was well prepared to make the trip. With the family of his brother, whom he picked up at Council Bluffs, there were eighteen in the party each night as we made camp and sat down to supper. There was always a good deal of food left over at each meal and I well remember that mother used to send me to distribute it among the families that were not so well supplied. We settled on Pioneer square and lived there for nearly one year. Then father lcoated in the spot that is now called Centerville, but was long known as Cherry Creek. In 1848 he built the first adobe cabin there and it is still standing, although not occupied. It was years after we came before we ever had a chance to go to any kind of a theater, but I can well remember comng in to go to the Salt Lake Theater after it was built and I also remember that we had been here two years before I ever saw a stove. We cooked over a fireplace. Of course the change in the valley is too wonderful for me to describe. It is very pleasant to get around in an outomobile that runs so swiftly and smoothly, but I would like to see a good yoke of oxen again.
AGED MATRONS SEE 'PINAFORE' Three of the five surviving members of one family of 1847 pioneers heard and saw with keen appreciation the Thursday afternoon performance of Pinafore by the American Light Opera Company at the Wilkes theater. They were Mrs. Mary Margaret Brandon, 87 years of age, mother of the owners of the company, Mrs. Caroline Harris, 77 and Mrs. Amelia M. Smith, 84. All are daughters of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cherry, who, with their family reached Salt Lake September 2, 1847, being in the first company to come after the original band that entered the valley July 24, of tht year. Two oher members of the family who survive are Mrs. Rebekah Ann Porter, 92, and James J. Cherry, 89. Mrs. Porter and Mr. Cherry are till in good health considering their years and regretted that circumstances prevented them from attending the Thursday matinee. Mrs. Brandon said yesterday that while she was but twelve years of age when her father drove his ox train freight covered wagons into the valley, the occasion was still fresh in her memory, as were many of the incidents on the long journey across the plains. She helped her mother drive one of the teams all the way, she said. Caoline was only a baby then, and Amelia is three years younger than I, so I helped as much as I could. We started from a town about twenty miles from Nauvoo and father was well prepared to make the trip. With the family of his brother, whom he picked up at Council Bluffs, there were eighteen in the party each night as we made camp and sat down to supper. There was always a good deal of food left over at each meal and I well remember that mother used to send me to distribute it among the families that were not so well supplied. We settled on Pioneer square and lived there for nearly one year. Then father lcoated in the spot that is now called Centerville, but was long known as Cherry Creek. In 1848 he built the first adobe cabin there and it is still standing, although not occupied. It was years after we came before we ever had a chance to go to any kind of a theater, but I can well remember comng in to go to the Salt Lake Theater after it was built and I also remember that we had been here two years before I ever saw a stove. We cooked over a fireplace. Of course the change in the valley is too wonderful for me to describe. It is very pleasant to get around in an outomobile that runs so swiftly and smoothly, but I would like to see a good yoke of oxen again.
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