Daughter of Joseph Smith Gordon and Rosalia Kimball
Married John Andrew Gealta, 17 December 1902, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Francis Andrew Gealta, Raymond Kimball Gealta, Cecil Gordon Gealta, John Marvin Gealta, Ellen Ruth Gealta
Sketch - Ellen August Gordon, daughter of Rosalia Kimball Williams and Joseph Smith Gordon was born 11 April, 1879 in Meadowville, Rich County, Utah. She was the fourth child of her mother, Rosalia, who had previously been married to a Manassah Williams at about the age of 15 in the Endowment House by her father, Heber C. Kimball.
Rosalia and her husband Manassah were called to help settle Meadowville along with others of the Kimball family. In fact, Rosalia had the first house built in Meadowville, and it was in Meadowville that three children were born. Rosalia's first child, Rosalia Marion, known to all the family later as Aunt Mamie, was born in Salt Lake City before they left. Sometime later, Rosalia and Manassah were divorced and she married Joseph Smith Gordon in 1878. The 1880 Census records show Joseph as head of the household with stepchildren, Rosalia Marion Williams, Francis Edgar Williams, Manassah Woodville Williams and baby Ellen Augusta Gordon who would be Joseph Smith Gordon's only child.
In about 1881, Rosalia and Joseph separated---he never to marry again and Rosalia to marry Edward F. Edwards approximately seven years later, after she had returned to Salt Lake City to live. Rosalia had six more children by Edward, so Ellen had nine step-brothers and sisters, all of whom she loved dearly and they all loved her.
When Ellen was still a small child, her mother moved with the four children to Soda Springs, Idaho. She would always remember drinking water from the springs-- with a little bit of flavoring, it would taste somewhat like soda water. They then moved to Logan, [Utah] where some of her mother 's brothers lived and eventually settled in Salt Lake City, when she was about five or six years old.
Her mother married Edward F. Edwards, and they moved to the Parley's branch of Sugar House Ward. It was in Sugarhouse that Ellen first attended school. Her health was poor, so she was not able to attend school regularly and sometimes at school, she would be too sick to study but would not give in and go home as she should have done.
She loved to attend Sunday School and Sacrament meeting. About 1899, she was chosen assistant secretary of the branch Sunday School. She has said that the happiest times of her life, were at this little place where they lived. It was called Pleasant View.
In 1900, she went to live with her brother Edgar, who lived in Sandy, Utah and that is where she met her future husband, John Andrew Gealta. When they were first introduced, she made fun of his name, little knowing that she would have that name also some day. She moved back to Salt Lake, but John continued to visit her. He had to drive his horse and buggy and although by today's fast travel, it would be a few short miles away, at that time he said after visiting with Ellen, he would point the horse toward home and go to sleep. Arriving at home, he would change clothes, and go back to work at the smelter in Sandy.
Ellen August Gordon and John Andrew Gealta were married in the Salt Lake Temple, 17 December, 1902. She became the mother of four boys, Francis Andrew Raymond Kimball, Cecil Gordon, John Marvin, and eight years after the last boy, the Gealta's had a girl, Ellen Ruth.
Called a secretary to the Ogden Tenth Ward Relief Society 13 March, 1910, she was released when they moved to a company-owed home. John had become a chief engineer for Becker Brewing and Malting Company. She was active in the Relief Society and when John was called to be counselor to Bishop Myron B. Richardson in the Ogden Third Ward, she was set apart as a counselor to the Bishop's wife, Lois, who became the Relief Society President. Apparently at that time, it was a lifetime position as Ellen and John served in these capacities for approximately twenty-five years until they moved from the Third Ward (where the Ogden Temple is now located) to the east bench in Ogden about 1937. Bishop Richardson continued as Bishop until his death a few years later.
Ellen served as a visiting teacher in the Twelfth Ward but it was difficult to move to a new ward at the age of 59, and although she made and had friends who lived nearby, she was more comfortable associating with those left behind. A group of the women from the Third Ward area continued to meet together as a 'Birthday Club' in each others' homes on that lady's birthday, bring the meal, the birthday cake and play a kind of bingo with little gifts as prizes. They did this until most of the ladies were too ill to attend or had died.
She was a member of the Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, Company B. a Kiwani Ann, auxiliary member Utah Commercial Travelers and inducted as a member of the Shoshone Tribe in a ceremony associated with the Shoshone Trapshooting Association. She and John traveled to many trapshooting, events at Sun Valley, Idaho, Ohio and Nevada. Her husband known as "Jack" did not take up trapshooting until he was in his sixties. By 1941, their daughter Ellen was in college and later married, so many of the trips they went on occurred after their sons and daughter were on their own.
Many members of both of their families lived with them from time to time, and to Ellen's children, it seemed someone was always visiting and they had to give up their beds and sleep on the floor. A frequent visitor, although not a relative, was Ernest Penrose, brother of Charles W. Penrose of one of the first Presidencies of the church. He sold church books throughout Utah and Idaho, and would stop and have dinner and/or stay overnight. A letter in the possession of the family from J. Golden Kimball expresses his regrets for not being able to stop at a particular time.
Ellen was a lovely young woman, slim built (she always thought she was much too thin), about 5'6", (she always thought she was too tall). With husband and children, she was generally quite calm, not given to outbursts of anger, but firm when angered. Not an outgoing person, and not given to excessive talking, she was very compassionate and an excellent listener. She was easy to communicate with and seemed to understand others' points of view without argument.
Her daughter, Ellen Ruth Gealta Paul, having spent more of her mother's older years with her than other siblings could, remembers some! of the times she and her mother spent with Rosalia on Coatsville Avenue in Salt Lake City. They would often, when young Ellen was small, stay overnight with her and Ellen Ruth recalls the many Sunday afternoon rides with her dad and mother to see her grandmother and Uncle Will and Aunt Mamie, who lived on the east bench where Foothill Village now stands.
Always thoughtful and kind to her mother, always concerned about her welfare. Ellen and her husband helped with economic needs through lean years. In approximately 1948 and 1949, although in their 7O's, they brought Rosalia to live with them where she died in her daughter's bed at the age of 97.
Through many illnesses, Ellen kept struggling in the later years to cook, clean house, crochet beautiful handwork and see to her husband's needs until she became too ill with heart problems and high blood pressure and others had to do for her. In 1965, two months before she died, she was admitted to the Dee Hospital for surgery, the first time she had ever been to a hospital. The valve to the opening of her stomach was closed with ulcers that lined her stomach walls.
Released from the hospital to her home where she was cared for by her daughter and others, she returned to the hospital in June with pain and fever. She was eighty-three years old when she died from pneumonia on 10 June, 1965. On the 14th of June. she was buried in the Ogden [Utah] City Cemetery beside her husband who had died two and one-half years previously on 4 November, 1962 at the age of eighty-three years.
Prepared by Ellen Gealta Paul 1991
Married John Andrew Gealta, 17 December 1902, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Francis Andrew Gealta, Raymond Kimball Gealta, Cecil Gordon Gealta, John Marvin Gealta, Ellen Ruth Gealta
Sketch - Ellen August Gordon, daughter of Rosalia Kimball Williams and Joseph Smith Gordon was born 11 April, 1879 in Meadowville, Rich County, Utah. She was the fourth child of her mother, Rosalia, who had previously been married to a Manassah Williams at about the age of 15 in the Endowment House by her father, Heber C. Kimball.
Rosalia and her husband Manassah were called to help settle Meadowville along with others of the Kimball family. In fact, Rosalia had the first house built in Meadowville, and it was in Meadowville that three children were born. Rosalia's first child, Rosalia Marion, known to all the family later as Aunt Mamie, was born in Salt Lake City before they left. Sometime later, Rosalia and Manassah were divorced and she married Joseph Smith Gordon in 1878. The 1880 Census records show Joseph as head of the household with stepchildren, Rosalia Marion Williams, Francis Edgar Williams, Manassah Woodville Williams and baby Ellen Augusta Gordon who would be Joseph Smith Gordon's only child.
In about 1881, Rosalia and Joseph separated---he never to marry again and Rosalia to marry Edward F. Edwards approximately seven years later, after she had returned to Salt Lake City to live. Rosalia had six more children by Edward, so Ellen had nine step-brothers and sisters, all of whom she loved dearly and they all loved her.
When Ellen was still a small child, her mother moved with the four children to Soda Springs, Idaho. She would always remember drinking water from the springs-- with a little bit of flavoring, it would taste somewhat like soda water. They then moved to Logan, [Utah] where some of her mother 's brothers lived and eventually settled in Salt Lake City, when she was about five or six years old.
Her mother married Edward F. Edwards, and they moved to the Parley's branch of Sugar House Ward. It was in Sugarhouse that Ellen first attended school. Her health was poor, so she was not able to attend school regularly and sometimes at school, she would be too sick to study but would not give in and go home as she should have done.
She loved to attend Sunday School and Sacrament meeting. About 1899, she was chosen assistant secretary of the branch Sunday School. She has said that the happiest times of her life, were at this little place where they lived. It was called Pleasant View.
In 1900, she went to live with her brother Edgar, who lived in Sandy, Utah and that is where she met her future husband, John Andrew Gealta. When they were first introduced, she made fun of his name, little knowing that she would have that name also some day. She moved back to Salt Lake, but John continued to visit her. He had to drive his horse and buggy and although by today's fast travel, it would be a few short miles away, at that time he said after visiting with Ellen, he would point the horse toward home and go to sleep. Arriving at home, he would change clothes, and go back to work at the smelter in Sandy.
Ellen August Gordon and John Andrew Gealta were married in the Salt Lake Temple, 17 December, 1902. She became the mother of four boys, Francis Andrew Raymond Kimball, Cecil Gordon, John Marvin, and eight years after the last boy, the Gealta's had a girl, Ellen Ruth.
Called a secretary to the Ogden Tenth Ward Relief Society 13 March, 1910, she was released when they moved to a company-owed home. John had become a chief engineer for Becker Brewing and Malting Company. She was active in the Relief Society and when John was called to be counselor to Bishop Myron B. Richardson in the Ogden Third Ward, she was set apart as a counselor to the Bishop's wife, Lois, who became the Relief Society President. Apparently at that time, it was a lifetime position as Ellen and John served in these capacities for approximately twenty-five years until they moved from the Third Ward (where the Ogden Temple is now located) to the east bench in Ogden about 1937. Bishop Richardson continued as Bishop until his death a few years later.
Ellen served as a visiting teacher in the Twelfth Ward but it was difficult to move to a new ward at the age of 59, and although she made and had friends who lived nearby, she was more comfortable associating with those left behind. A group of the women from the Third Ward area continued to meet together as a 'Birthday Club' in each others' homes on that lady's birthday, bring the meal, the birthday cake and play a kind of bingo with little gifts as prizes. They did this until most of the ladies were too ill to attend or had died.
She was a member of the Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, Company B. a Kiwani Ann, auxiliary member Utah Commercial Travelers and inducted as a member of the Shoshone Tribe in a ceremony associated with the Shoshone Trapshooting Association. She and John traveled to many trapshooting, events at Sun Valley, Idaho, Ohio and Nevada. Her husband known as "Jack" did not take up trapshooting until he was in his sixties. By 1941, their daughter Ellen was in college and later married, so many of the trips they went on occurred after their sons and daughter were on their own.
Many members of both of their families lived with them from time to time, and to Ellen's children, it seemed someone was always visiting and they had to give up their beds and sleep on the floor. A frequent visitor, although not a relative, was Ernest Penrose, brother of Charles W. Penrose of one of the first Presidencies of the church. He sold church books throughout Utah and Idaho, and would stop and have dinner and/or stay overnight. A letter in the possession of the family from J. Golden Kimball expresses his regrets for not being able to stop at a particular time.
Ellen was a lovely young woman, slim built (she always thought she was much too thin), about 5'6", (she always thought she was too tall). With husband and children, she was generally quite calm, not given to outbursts of anger, but firm when angered. Not an outgoing person, and not given to excessive talking, she was very compassionate and an excellent listener. She was easy to communicate with and seemed to understand others' points of view without argument.
Her daughter, Ellen Ruth Gealta Paul, having spent more of her mother's older years with her than other siblings could, remembers some! of the times she and her mother spent with Rosalia on Coatsville Avenue in Salt Lake City. They would often, when young Ellen was small, stay overnight with her and Ellen Ruth recalls the many Sunday afternoon rides with her dad and mother to see her grandmother and Uncle Will and Aunt Mamie, who lived on the east bench where Foothill Village now stands.
Always thoughtful and kind to her mother, always concerned about her welfare. Ellen and her husband helped with economic needs through lean years. In approximately 1948 and 1949, although in their 7O's, they brought Rosalia to live with them where she died in her daughter's bed at the age of 97.
Through many illnesses, Ellen kept struggling in the later years to cook, clean house, crochet beautiful handwork and see to her husband's needs until she became too ill with heart problems and high blood pressure and others had to do for her. In 1965, two months before she died, she was admitted to the Dee Hospital for surgery, the first time she had ever been to a hospital. The valve to the opening of her stomach was closed with ulcers that lined her stomach walls.
Released from the hospital to her home where she was cared for by her daughter and others, she returned to the hospital in June with pain and fever. She was eighty-three years old when she died from pneumonia on 10 June, 1965. On the 14th of June. she was buried in the Ogden [Utah] City Cemetery beside her husband who had died two and one-half years previously on 4 November, 1962 at the age of eighty-three years.
Prepared by Ellen Gealta Paul 1991
Daughter of Joseph Smith Gordon and Rosalia Kimball
Married John Andrew Gealta, 17 December 1902, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Francis Andrew Gealta, Raymond Kimball Gealta, Cecil Gordon Gealta, John Marvin Gealta, Ellen Ruth Gealta
Sketch - Ellen August Gordon, daughter of Rosalia Kimball Williams and Joseph Smith Gordon was born 11 April, 1879 in Meadowville, Rich County, Utah. She was the fourth child of her mother, Rosalia, who had previously been married to a Manassah Williams at about the age of 15 in the Endowment House by her father, Heber C. Kimball.
Rosalia and her husband Manassah were called to help settle Meadowville along with others of the Kimball family. In fact, Rosalia had the first house built in Meadowville, and it was in Meadowville that three children were born. Rosalia's first child, Rosalia Marion, known to all the family later as Aunt Mamie, was born in Salt Lake City before they left. Sometime later, Rosalia and Manassah were divorced and she married Joseph Smith Gordon in 1878. The 1880 Census records show Joseph as head of the household with stepchildren, Rosalia Marion Williams, Francis Edgar Williams, Manassah Woodville Williams and baby Ellen Augusta Gordon who would be Joseph Smith Gordon's only child.
In about 1881, Rosalia and Joseph separated---he never to marry again and Rosalia to marry Edward F. Edwards approximately seven years later, after she had returned to Salt Lake City to live. Rosalia had six more children by Edward, so Ellen had nine step-brothers and sisters, all of whom she loved dearly and they all loved her.
When Ellen was still a small child, her mother moved with the four children to Soda Springs, Idaho. She would always remember drinking water from the springs-- with a little bit of flavoring, it would taste somewhat like soda water. They then moved to Logan, [Utah] where some of her mother 's brothers lived and eventually settled in Salt Lake City, when she was about five or six years old.
Her mother married Edward F. Edwards, and they moved to the Parley's branch of Sugar House Ward. It was in Sugarhouse that Ellen first attended school. Her health was poor, so she was not able to attend school regularly and sometimes at school, she would be too sick to study but would not give in and go home as she should have done.
She loved to attend Sunday School and Sacrament meeting. About 1899, she was chosen assistant secretary of the branch Sunday School. She has said that the happiest times of her life, were at this little place where they lived. It was called Pleasant View.
In 1900, she went to live with her brother Edgar, who lived in Sandy, Utah and that is where she met her future husband, John Andrew Gealta. When they were first introduced, she made fun of his name, little knowing that she would have that name also some day. She moved back to Salt Lake, but John continued to visit her. He had to drive his horse and buggy and although by today's fast travel, it would be a few short miles away, at that time he said after visiting with Ellen, he would point the horse toward home and go to sleep. Arriving at home, he would change clothes, and go back to work at the smelter in Sandy.
Ellen August Gordon and John Andrew Gealta were married in the Salt Lake Temple, 17 December, 1902. She became the mother of four boys, Francis Andrew Raymond Kimball, Cecil Gordon, John Marvin, and eight years after the last boy, the Gealta's had a girl, Ellen Ruth.
Called a secretary to the Ogden Tenth Ward Relief Society 13 March, 1910, she was released when they moved to a company-owed home. John had become a chief engineer for Becker Brewing and Malting Company. She was active in the Relief Society and when John was called to be counselor to Bishop Myron B. Richardson in the Ogden Third Ward, she was set apart as a counselor to the Bishop's wife, Lois, who became the Relief Society President. Apparently at that time, it was a lifetime position as Ellen and John served in these capacities for approximately twenty-five years until they moved from the Third Ward (where the Ogden Temple is now located) to the east bench in Ogden about 1937. Bishop Richardson continued as Bishop until his death a few years later.
Ellen served as a visiting teacher in the Twelfth Ward but it was difficult to move to a new ward at the age of 59, and although she made and had friends who lived nearby, she was more comfortable associating with those left behind. A group of the women from the Third Ward area continued to meet together as a 'Birthday Club' in each others' homes on that lady's birthday, bring the meal, the birthday cake and play a kind of bingo with little gifts as prizes. They did this until most of the ladies were too ill to attend or had died.
She was a member of the Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, Company B. a Kiwani Ann, auxiliary member Utah Commercial Travelers and inducted as a member of the Shoshone Tribe in a ceremony associated with the Shoshone Trapshooting Association. She and John traveled to many trapshooting, events at Sun Valley, Idaho, Ohio and Nevada. Her husband known as "Jack" did not take up trapshooting until he was in his sixties. By 1941, their daughter Ellen was in college and later married, so many of the trips they went on occurred after their sons and daughter were on their own.
Many members of both of their families lived with them from time to time, and to Ellen's children, it seemed someone was always visiting and they had to give up their beds and sleep on the floor. A frequent visitor, although not a relative, was Ernest Penrose, brother of Charles W. Penrose of one of the first Presidencies of the church. He sold church books throughout Utah and Idaho, and would stop and have dinner and/or stay overnight. A letter in the possession of the family from J. Golden Kimball expresses his regrets for not being able to stop at a particular time.
Ellen was a lovely young woman, slim built (she always thought she was much too thin), about 5'6", (she always thought she was too tall). With husband and children, she was generally quite calm, not given to outbursts of anger, but firm when angered. Not an outgoing person, and not given to excessive talking, she was very compassionate and an excellent listener. She was easy to communicate with and seemed to understand others' points of view without argument.
Her daughter, Ellen Ruth Gealta Paul, having spent more of her mother's older years with her than other siblings could, remembers some! of the times she and her mother spent with Rosalia on Coatsville Avenue in Salt Lake City. They would often, when young Ellen was small, stay overnight with her and Ellen Ruth recalls the many Sunday afternoon rides with her dad and mother to see her grandmother and Uncle Will and Aunt Mamie, who lived on the east bench where Foothill Village now stands.
Always thoughtful and kind to her mother, always concerned about her welfare. Ellen and her husband helped with economic needs through lean years. In approximately 1948 and 1949, although in their 7O's, they brought Rosalia to live with them where she died in her daughter's bed at the age of 97.
Through many illnesses, Ellen kept struggling in the later years to cook, clean house, crochet beautiful handwork and see to her husband's needs until she became too ill with heart problems and high blood pressure and others had to do for her. In 1965, two months before she died, she was admitted to the Dee Hospital for surgery, the first time she had ever been to a hospital. The valve to the opening of her stomach was closed with ulcers that lined her stomach walls.
Released from the hospital to her home where she was cared for by her daughter and others, she returned to the hospital in June with pain and fever. She was eighty-three years old when she died from pneumonia on 10 June, 1965. On the 14th of June. she was buried in the Ogden [Utah] City Cemetery beside her husband who had died two and one-half years previously on 4 November, 1962 at the age of eighty-three years.
Prepared by Ellen Gealta Paul 1991
Married John Andrew Gealta, 17 December 1902, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - Francis Andrew Gealta, Raymond Kimball Gealta, Cecil Gordon Gealta, John Marvin Gealta, Ellen Ruth Gealta
Sketch - Ellen August Gordon, daughter of Rosalia Kimball Williams and Joseph Smith Gordon was born 11 April, 1879 in Meadowville, Rich County, Utah. She was the fourth child of her mother, Rosalia, who had previously been married to a Manassah Williams at about the age of 15 in the Endowment House by her father, Heber C. Kimball.
Rosalia and her husband Manassah were called to help settle Meadowville along with others of the Kimball family. In fact, Rosalia had the first house built in Meadowville, and it was in Meadowville that three children were born. Rosalia's first child, Rosalia Marion, known to all the family later as Aunt Mamie, was born in Salt Lake City before they left. Sometime later, Rosalia and Manassah were divorced and she married Joseph Smith Gordon in 1878. The 1880 Census records show Joseph as head of the household with stepchildren, Rosalia Marion Williams, Francis Edgar Williams, Manassah Woodville Williams and baby Ellen Augusta Gordon who would be Joseph Smith Gordon's only child.
In about 1881, Rosalia and Joseph separated---he never to marry again and Rosalia to marry Edward F. Edwards approximately seven years later, after she had returned to Salt Lake City to live. Rosalia had six more children by Edward, so Ellen had nine step-brothers and sisters, all of whom she loved dearly and they all loved her.
When Ellen was still a small child, her mother moved with the four children to Soda Springs, Idaho. She would always remember drinking water from the springs-- with a little bit of flavoring, it would taste somewhat like soda water. They then moved to Logan, [Utah] where some of her mother 's brothers lived and eventually settled in Salt Lake City, when she was about five or six years old.
Her mother married Edward F. Edwards, and they moved to the Parley's branch of Sugar House Ward. It was in Sugarhouse that Ellen first attended school. Her health was poor, so she was not able to attend school regularly and sometimes at school, she would be too sick to study but would not give in and go home as she should have done.
She loved to attend Sunday School and Sacrament meeting. About 1899, she was chosen assistant secretary of the branch Sunday School. She has said that the happiest times of her life, were at this little place where they lived. It was called Pleasant View.
In 1900, she went to live with her brother Edgar, who lived in Sandy, Utah and that is where she met her future husband, John Andrew Gealta. When they were first introduced, she made fun of his name, little knowing that she would have that name also some day. She moved back to Salt Lake, but John continued to visit her. He had to drive his horse and buggy and although by today's fast travel, it would be a few short miles away, at that time he said after visiting with Ellen, he would point the horse toward home and go to sleep. Arriving at home, he would change clothes, and go back to work at the smelter in Sandy.
Ellen August Gordon and John Andrew Gealta were married in the Salt Lake Temple, 17 December, 1902. She became the mother of four boys, Francis Andrew Raymond Kimball, Cecil Gordon, John Marvin, and eight years after the last boy, the Gealta's had a girl, Ellen Ruth.
Called a secretary to the Ogden Tenth Ward Relief Society 13 March, 1910, she was released when they moved to a company-owed home. John had become a chief engineer for Becker Brewing and Malting Company. She was active in the Relief Society and when John was called to be counselor to Bishop Myron B. Richardson in the Ogden Third Ward, she was set apart as a counselor to the Bishop's wife, Lois, who became the Relief Society President. Apparently at that time, it was a lifetime position as Ellen and John served in these capacities for approximately twenty-five years until they moved from the Third Ward (where the Ogden Temple is now located) to the east bench in Ogden about 1937. Bishop Richardson continued as Bishop until his death a few years later.
Ellen served as a visiting teacher in the Twelfth Ward but it was difficult to move to a new ward at the age of 59, and although she made and had friends who lived nearby, she was more comfortable associating with those left behind. A group of the women from the Third Ward area continued to meet together as a 'Birthday Club' in each others' homes on that lady's birthday, bring the meal, the birthday cake and play a kind of bingo with little gifts as prizes. They did this until most of the ladies were too ill to attend or had died.
She was a member of the Daughter's of Utah Pioneers, Company B. a Kiwani Ann, auxiliary member Utah Commercial Travelers and inducted as a member of the Shoshone Tribe in a ceremony associated with the Shoshone Trapshooting Association. She and John traveled to many trapshooting, events at Sun Valley, Idaho, Ohio and Nevada. Her husband known as "Jack" did not take up trapshooting until he was in his sixties. By 1941, their daughter Ellen was in college and later married, so many of the trips they went on occurred after their sons and daughter were on their own.
Many members of both of their families lived with them from time to time, and to Ellen's children, it seemed someone was always visiting and they had to give up their beds and sleep on the floor. A frequent visitor, although not a relative, was Ernest Penrose, brother of Charles W. Penrose of one of the first Presidencies of the church. He sold church books throughout Utah and Idaho, and would stop and have dinner and/or stay overnight. A letter in the possession of the family from J. Golden Kimball expresses his regrets for not being able to stop at a particular time.
Ellen was a lovely young woman, slim built (she always thought she was much too thin), about 5'6", (she always thought she was too tall). With husband and children, she was generally quite calm, not given to outbursts of anger, but firm when angered. Not an outgoing person, and not given to excessive talking, she was very compassionate and an excellent listener. She was easy to communicate with and seemed to understand others' points of view without argument.
Her daughter, Ellen Ruth Gealta Paul, having spent more of her mother's older years with her than other siblings could, remembers some! of the times she and her mother spent with Rosalia on Coatsville Avenue in Salt Lake City. They would often, when young Ellen was small, stay overnight with her and Ellen Ruth recalls the many Sunday afternoon rides with her dad and mother to see her grandmother and Uncle Will and Aunt Mamie, who lived on the east bench where Foothill Village now stands.
Always thoughtful and kind to her mother, always concerned about her welfare. Ellen and her husband helped with economic needs through lean years. In approximately 1948 and 1949, although in their 7O's, they brought Rosalia to live with them where she died in her daughter's bed at the age of 97.
Through many illnesses, Ellen kept struggling in the later years to cook, clean house, crochet beautiful handwork and see to her husband's needs until she became too ill with heart problems and high blood pressure and others had to do for her. In 1965, two months before she died, she was admitted to the Dee Hospital for surgery, the first time she had ever been to a hospital. The valve to the opening of her stomach was closed with ulcers that lined her stomach walls.
Released from the hospital to her home where she was cared for by her daughter and others, she returned to the hospital in June with pain and fever. She was eighty-three years old when she died from pneumonia on 10 June, 1965. On the 14th of June. she was buried in the Ogden [Utah] City Cemetery beside her husband who had died two and one-half years previously on 4 November, 1962 at the age of eighty-three years.
Prepared by Ellen Gealta Paul 1991
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