Annie Wheeler is the daughter of Isaac Y. and Annie C. Hansen Vance. She is the wife of George A. Wheeler (married: 21 Jun. 1899).
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance was born on February 3, 1875 in Fairview to Isaac Y. Vance and Anna Christinia Johansen Vance.
She was the youngest child of 6 and was part of the "second family" of Isaac Y. His first wife died and Isaac then married Annie's mother Anna after she was a house keeper and cared for his other children for three years.
Annie Deseret's mother died when she was only 1. She began to be farmed out to her various step brothers' or sisters' families until she was thirteen. At this time, she began to be a housekeeper for various people.
Her dad Isaac Y. Vance died in 1898 and she married George Arthur Wheeler in 1899. Her brother was a neighbor to George.
Annie had a tough time of it from the beginning. Living in Milburn there were no amenities, no plumbing or electricity during her lifetime. Except they eventually got a telephone. No plumbing meant carrying water several times daily, unless it was wash day or bathing day and then bucket after bucket would have to be hauled and then heated for this work. It also meant they had to use an outhouse for restroom facilities even in sub-freezing temperatures! They chopped wood for the stoves and milked cows every day too. If you wanted to eat anything, you must first plow, plant, water and weed and then harvest and cook it. There was no time to waste with the growing season being so short at 6,500 feet elevation.
Annie Deseret (they called her Dessie) was social however, and had friends and neighbors over to dinner and they in turn visited their friends. She was involved in the local church and community.
Henry said, "She taught us to pray." And, she took the children to church and had them baptized one by one. She and the children were active in the church and the community. They had the "Ladies Home Journal" a magazine from the L.D.S. church coming to their house.
She was interested in the children being educated. They had books and magazines and sheet music in the house. She saw to it that they went to school, took piano lessons, and the girls learned to sew, crochet and make quilts.
Teola wrote some remembrances of her mother in her journal in 1919. She wrote. "Well, it is after 10 p.m. and mama is chasing Arthur around the house with one of Papa's rubber boots. We have some circus at our house!"
Another entry states: "Thurman (Woodrow) is so roudy! Mama has got her hair hanging down her back and he seems to think that it is there for the purpose of playing horse with!"
On Elva's birthday, January 15, 1919, Teola writes: Today was Elva's birthday. She is thirteen years old and we had planned to have dinner at five o'clock to celebrate her birth and to serve pigeon pie, pudding and birthday cake. We were going to finish the day with ice cream. But, Elva got up with the "flu" this morning. We had Elva's birthday dinner on Sunday, January 19 instead.
Teola includes details about their family life saying: "Thurman is such a boy. He can dance the finger polka, can sing "K-K-K-Katy," and poke the ashes in the stove until the fire roars. Then after he burns his fingers with the hot end of the poker, he will straddle it and play horsy. He is a roughian I tell you.
Bell can play "Kacina," "Steel the Pile," and lots of things. She can count to 105 and says she is smart enough to go to school. She knows every story in Wilford's book by heart and she will take the book and read imaginary words by the fire.
On January 24, 1919, Teola writes: Elva has been dressing her doll up today. She made it a dress all alone cut on the latest lines. Then she attached a wig to its head. It looks like a dignified young lady to be sure.
On January 25, 1919: "Wilford is a regular monkey. Mama says when spring opens up, she is going to put him in a cage and travel from place to place with him. He says he is quite willing to do that."
On January 27, 1919: "Mama has just been doing land-office business with her quilt blocks to day. She has 24 blocks made now. She is using this pattern which I made up. She says it will take 30 blocks for a quilt. It is of percale and will make a pretty quilt. Nora started a spider-web yoke for Mama today."
On January 29, "Mama finished and put together the quilt top which Nora made for her a year ago. It is a log cabin pattern."
On January 31, 1919, "Elva has been preaching today on Love. She says she wants to work out and get lots of money before she gets married so she can marry for love. She says she just simply detests _ _. That she is too good-looking for him. Mama told her that hatred turns to love. Here's hoping it does in this case.
On Saturday, February 1, 1919, Still under quarantine and Elva says there's nothing to do but clean, eat, wash dishes and sit around and hate yourself!
Vance and Wilford are trapping for muskrat and weasel.
On Sunday, February 2, 1919, Sunday, and the only fun visible is Arthur. He acts as though the flu had left him considerably funny in the upper story. They say that foolishness is an after effect of the flu. Elva said she felt like she would like to act silly, but didn't know how! Arthur, I think, has got it down pat!
On Monday, February 3: Today was Mama's birthday. She is 44 years old and says she feels that old too. Of course we had birthday dinner as we do on every birthday. . .Vance and Elva are running a race in music to see who will know the most at the end of the week.
On Wednesday February 5, 1919: "Mama said today that she was quite sure that if a detective had been here today that Arthur would have landed in the asylum by now. He simply can't be rational and when he's rational he is simple! But, there is no fun where there are no fools! "
Friday, February 7: "Vance takes real interest in his music. It doesn't take him long to learn a new exercise. Elva takes a bigger interest in her practice now than before Vance started to learn. She is practicing "Moon Winks" now. "
Saturday, February 8: "Mama got up this morning and broke the news to us that we were to clean the house from tip to toe. We started by washing several pieces of clothing and the bed blankets. Then mama mopped all the upstairs rooms with the mop stick while I cleaned all the woodwork in the kitchen and separator room. Swept the dining room and parlor and Nora helped me dust. We sure have been working hard all day. "
Sunday, February 9, 1919: "We have decided to go to SLC Tuesday and will be kept busy until that time. Have been sewing buttons on coats and dresses tonight and will now soon hit the hay to be ready to arise early and work hard all day again.
Monday, February 10, 1919: Mama and I washed today. Got done about 2 o'clock. Then we packed my trunk and suit cases all ready to go to Milburn. Will leave tomorrow for SLC.
Thursday, February 13, 1919. We all (Teola and friends) went up town today (in SL) and had a whole day off. We went to lots of big stores and business places. We girls had an idea we might could get some business employment but everything seems to be filled up. Lona and I expect to have to take house-work for a while. But we like that so it won't hurt us.
The children began leaving home, Teola, first in 1919. The family moved to Fairview in the winter of 1920-21 so that the kids could go to school. But, the family contracted measles and Nora died on March 3, 1921. Art went to Barber School in Salt Lake and then eventually Elva also went to Salt Lake to find work.
The work load for Annie Deseret would have gotten more and more difficult as the oldest kids grew up and left home, not to mention the sadness of having lost a daughter. She said she already felt old on her 44th birthday.
Woodrow writes: " In April or May, 1928, I got sick with the flu and shortly after, my mother came down with it. I recovered in a short time, but my angel mother got pneumonia and on June 18, 1928, she died. She was 53.
Woodrow continues: "It was a very hard blow for me (I was 10 years old). It seemed as though my world had crashed around me. "
It had to be a hard blow for the entire family, as a mother is always at the heart of the home, keeping the food on the table, the tempers in check, and generally helping everyone with everything.
Annie Deseret left a hard-working, happy, intelligent and even spiritual family behind who remembered many good times and were a close-knit group visiting and calling each other throughout their lives.
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance was born on February 3, 1875 in Fairview to Isaac Y. Vance and Anna Christinia Johansen Vance.
She was the youngest child of 6 and was part of the "second family" of Isaac Y. His first wife died and Isaac then married Annie's mother Anna after she was a house keeper and cared for his other children for three years.
Annie Deseret's mother died when she was only 1. She began to be farmed out to her various step brothers' or sisters' families until she was thirteen. At this time, she began to be a housekeeper for various people.
Her dad Isaac Y. Vance died in 1898 and she married George Arthur Wheeler in 1899. Her brother was a neighbor to George.
Annie had a tough time of it from the beginning. Living in Milburn there were no amenities, no plumbing or electricity during her lifetime. Except they eventually got a telephone. No plumbing meant carrying water several times daily, unless it was wash day or bathing day and then bucket after bucket would have to be hauled and then heated for this work. It also meant they had to use an outhouse for restroom facilities even in sub-freezing temperatures! They chopped wood for the stoves and milked cows every day too. If you wanted to eat anything, you must first plow, plant, water and weed and then harvest and cook it. There was no time to waste with the growing season being so short at 6,500 feet elevation.
Annie Deseret (they called her Dessie) was social however, and had friends and neighbors over to dinner and they in turn visited their friends. She was involved in the local church and community.
Henry said, "She taught us to pray." And, she took the children to church and had them baptized one by one. She and the children were active in the church and the community. They had the "Ladies Home Journal" a magazine from the L.D.S. church coming to their house.
She was interested in the children being educated. They had books and magazines and sheet music in the house. She saw to it that they went to school, took piano lessons, and the girls learned to sew, crochet and make quilts.
Teola wrote some remembrances of her mother in her journal in 1919. She wrote. "Well, it is after 10 p.m. and mama is chasing Arthur around the house with one of Papa's rubber boots. We have some circus at our house!"
Another entry states: "Thurman (Woodrow) is so roudy! Mama has got her hair hanging down her back and he seems to think that it is there for the purpose of playing horse with!"
On Elva's birthday, January 15, 1919, Teola writes: Today was Elva's birthday. She is thirteen years old and we had planned to have dinner at five o'clock to celebrate her birth and to serve pigeon pie, pudding and birthday cake. We were going to finish the day with ice cream. But, Elva got up with the "flu" this morning. We had Elva's birthday dinner on Sunday, January 19 instead.
Teola includes details about their family life saying: "Thurman is such a boy. He can dance the finger polka, can sing "K-K-K-Katy," and poke the ashes in the stove until the fire roars. Then after he burns his fingers with the hot end of the poker, he will straddle it and play horsy. He is a roughian I tell you.
Bell can play "Kacina," "Steel the Pile," and lots of things. She can count to 105 and says she is smart enough to go to school. She knows every story in Wilford's book by heart and she will take the book and read imaginary words by the fire.
On January 24, 1919, Teola writes: Elva has been dressing her doll up today. She made it a dress all alone cut on the latest lines. Then she attached a wig to its head. It looks like a dignified young lady to be sure.
On January 25, 1919: "Wilford is a regular monkey. Mama says when spring opens up, she is going to put him in a cage and travel from place to place with him. He says he is quite willing to do that."
On January 27, 1919: "Mama has just been doing land-office business with her quilt blocks to day. She has 24 blocks made now. She is using this pattern which I made up. She says it will take 30 blocks for a quilt. It is of percale and will make a pretty quilt. Nora started a spider-web yoke for Mama today."
On January 29, "Mama finished and put together the quilt top which Nora made for her a year ago. It is a log cabin pattern."
On January 31, 1919, "Elva has been preaching today on Love. She says she wants to work out and get lots of money before she gets married so she can marry for love. She says she just simply detests _ _. That she is too good-looking for him. Mama told her that hatred turns to love. Here's hoping it does in this case.
On Saturday, February 1, 1919, Still under quarantine and Elva says there's nothing to do but clean, eat, wash dishes and sit around and hate yourself!
Vance and Wilford are trapping for muskrat and weasel.
On Sunday, February 2, 1919, Sunday, and the only fun visible is Arthur. He acts as though the flu had left him considerably funny in the upper story. They say that foolishness is an after effect of the flu. Elva said she felt like she would like to act silly, but didn't know how! Arthur, I think, has got it down pat!
On Monday, February 3: Today was Mama's birthday. She is 44 years old and says she feels that old too. Of course we had birthday dinner as we do on every birthday. . .Vance and Elva are running a race in music to see who will know the most at the end of the week.
On Wednesday February 5, 1919: "Mama said today that she was quite sure that if a detective had been here today that Arthur would have landed in the asylum by now. He simply can't be rational and when he's rational he is simple! But, there is no fun where there are no fools! "
Friday, February 7: "Vance takes real interest in his music. It doesn't take him long to learn a new exercise. Elva takes a bigger interest in her practice now than before Vance started to learn. She is practicing "Moon Winks" now. "
Saturday, February 8: "Mama got up this morning and broke the news to us that we were to clean the house from tip to toe. We started by washing several pieces of clothing and the bed blankets. Then mama mopped all the upstairs rooms with the mop stick while I cleaned all the woodwork in the kitchen and separator room. Swept the dining room and parlor and Nora helped me dust. We sure have been working hard all day. "
Sunday, February 9, 1919: "We have decided to go to SLC Tuesday and will be kept busy until that time. Have been sewing buttons on coats and dresses tonight and will now soon hit the hay to be ready to arise early and work hard all day again.
Monday, February 10, 1919: Mama and I washed today. Got done about 2 o'clock. Then we packed my trunk and suit cases all ready to go to Milburn. Will leave tomorrow for SLC.
Thursday, February 13, 1919. We all (Teola and friends) went up town today (in SL) and had a whole day off. We went to lots of big stores and business places. We girls had an idea we might could get some business employment but everything seems to be filled up. Lona and I expect to have to take house-work for a while. But we like that so it won't hurt us.
The children began leaving home, Teola, first in 1919. The family moved to Fairview in the winter of 1920-21 so that the kids could go to school. But, the family contracted measles and Nora died on March 3, 1921. Art went to Barber School in Salt Lake and then eventually Elva also went to Salt Lake to find work.
The work load for Annie Deseret would have gotten more and more difficult as the oldest kids grew up and left home, not to mention the sadness of having lost a daughter. She said she already felt old on her 44th birthday.
Woodrow writes: " In April or May, 1928, I got sick with the flu and shortly after, my mother came down with it. I recovered in a short time, but my angel mother got pneumonia and on June 18, 1928, she died. She was 53.
Woodrow continues: "It was a very hard blow for me (I was 10 years old). It seemed as though my world had crashed around me. "
It had to be a hard blow for the entire family, as a mother is always at the heart of the home, keeping the food on the table, the tempers in check, and generally helping everyone with everything.
Annie Deseret left a hard-working, happy, intelligent and even spiritual family behind who remembered many good times and were a close-knit group visiting and calling each other throughout their lives.
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Wheeler is the daughter of Isaac Y. and Annie C. Hansen Vance. She is the wife of George A. Wheeler (married: 21 Jun. 1899).
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance was born on February 3, 1875 in Fairview to Isaac Y. Vance and Anna Christinia Johansen Vance.
She was the youngest child of 6 and was part of the "second family" of Isaac Y. His first wife died and Isaac then married Annie's mother Anna after she was a house keeper and cared for his other children for three years.
Annie Deseret's mother died when she was only 1. She began to be farmed out to her various step brothers' or sisters' families until she was thirteen. At this time, she began to be a housekeeper for various people.
Her dad Isaac Y. Vance died in 1898 and she married George Arthur Wheeler in 1899. Her brother was a neighbor to George.
Annie had a tough time of it from the beginning. Living in Milburn there were no amenities, no plumbing or electricity during her lifetime. Except they eventually got a telephone. No plumbing meant carrying water several times daily, unless it was wash day or bathing day and then bucket after bucket would have to be hauled and then heated for this work. It also meant they had to use an outhouse for restroom facilities even in sub-freezing temperatures! They chopped wood for the stoves and milked cows every day too. If you wanted to eat anything, you must first plow, plant, water and weed and then harvest and cook it. There was no time to waste with the growing season being so short at 6,500 feet elevation.
Annie Deseret (they called her Dessie) was social however, and had friends and neighbors over to dinner and they in turn visited their friends. She was involved in the local church and community.
Henry said, "She taught us to pray." And, she took the children to church and had them baptized one by one. She and the children were active in the church and the community. They had the "Ladies Home Journal" a magazine from the L.D.S. church coming to their house.
She was interested in the children being educated. They had books and magazines and sheet music in the house. She saw to it that they went to school, took piano lessons, and the girls learned to sew, crochet and make quilts.
Teola wrote some remembrances of her mother in her journal in 1919. She wrote. "Well, it is after 10 p.m. and mama is chasing Arthur around the house with one of Papa's rubber boots. We have some circus at our house!"
Another entry states: "Thurman (Woodrow) is so roudy! Mama has got her hair hanging down her back and he seems to think that it is there for the purpose of playing horse with!"
On Elva's birthday, January 15, 1919, Teola writes: Today was Elva's birthday. She is thirteen years old and we had planned to have dinner at five o'clock to celebrate her birth and to serve pigeon pie, pudding and birthday cake. We were going to finish the day with ice cream. But, Elva got up with the "flu" this morning. We had Elva's birthday dinner on Sunday, January 19 instead.
Teola includes details about their family life saying: "Thurman is such a boy. He can dance the finger polka, can sing "K-K-K-Katy," and poke the ashes in the stove until the fire roars. Then after he burns his fingers with the hot end of the poker, he will straddle it and play horsy. He is a roughian I tell you.
Bell can play "Kacina," "Steel the Pile," and lots of things. She can count to 105 and says she is smart enough to go to school. She knows every story in Wilford's book by heart and she will take the book and read imaginary words by the fire.
On January 24, 1919, Teola writes: Elva has been dressing her doll up today. She made it a dress all alone cut on the latest lines. Then she attached a wig to its head. It looks like a dignified young lady to be sure.
On January 25, 1919: "Wilford is a regular monkey. Mama says when spring opens up, she is going to put him in a cage and travel from place to place with him. He says he is quite willing to do that."
On January 27, 1919: "Mama has just been doing land-office business with her quilt blocks to day. She has 24 blocks made now. She is using this pattern which I made up. She says it will take 30 blocks for a quilt. It is of percale and will make a pretty quilt. Nora started a spider-web yoke for Mama today."
On January 29, "Mama finished and put together the quilt top which Nora made for her a year ago. It is a log cabin pattern."
On January 31, 1919, "Elva has been preaching today on Love. She says she wants to work out and get lots of money before she gets married so she can marry for love. She says she just simply detests _ _. That she is too good-looking for him. Mama told her that hatred turns to love. Here's hoping it does in this case.
On Saturday, February 1, 1919, Still under quarantine and Elva says there's nothing to do but clean, eat, wash dishes and sit around and hate yourself!
Vance and Wilford are trapping for muskrat and weasel.
On Sunday, February 2, 1919, Sunday, and the only fun visible is Arthur. He acts as though the flu had left him considerably funny in the upper story. They say that foolishness is an after effect of the flu. Elva said she felt like she would like to act silly, but didn't know how! Arthur, I think, has got it down pat!
On Monday, February 3: Today was Mama's birthday. She is 44 years old and says she feels that old too. Of course we had birthday dinner as we do on every birthday. . .Vance and Elva are running a race in music to see who will know the most at the end of the week.
On Wednesday February 5, 1919: "Mama said today that she was quite sure that if a detective had been here today that Arthur would have landed in the asylum by now. He simply can't be rational and when he's rational he is simple! But, there is no fun where there are no fools! "
Friday, February 7: "Vance takes real interest in his music. It doesn't take him long to learn a new exercise. Elva takes a bigger interest in her practice now than before Vance started to learn. She is practicing "Moon Winks" now. "
Saturday, February 8: "Mama got up this morning and broke the news to us that we were to clean the house from tip to toe. We started by washing several pieces of clothing and the bed blankets. Then mama mopped all the upstairs rooms with the mop stick while I cleaned all the woodwork in the kitchen and separator room. Swept the dining room and parlor and Nora helped me dust. We sure have been working hard all day. "
Sunday, February 9, 1919: "We have decided to go to SLC Tuesday and will be kept busy until that time. Have been sewing buttons on coats and dresses tonight and will now soon hit the hay to be ready to arise early and work hard all day again.
Monday, February 10, 1919: Mama and I washed today. Got done about 2 o'clock. Then we packed my trunk and suit cases all ready to go to Milburn. Will leave tomorrow for SLC.
Thursday, February 13, 1919. We all (Teola and friends) went up town today (in SL) and had a whole day off. We went to lots of big stores and business places. We girls had an idea we might could get some business employment but everything seems to be filled up. Lona and I expect to have to take house-work for a while. But we like that so it won't hurt us.
The children began leaving home, Teola, first in 1919. The family moved to Fairview in the winter of 1920-21 so that the kids could go to school. But, the family contracted measles and Nora died on March 3, 1921. Art went to Barber School in Salt Lake and then eventually Elva also went to Salt Lake to find work.
The work load for Annie Deseret would have gotten more and more difficult as the oldest kids grew up and left home, not to mention the sadness of having lost a daughter. She said she already felt old on her 44th birthday.
Woodrow writes: " In April or May, 1928, I got sick with the flu and shortly after, my mother came down with it. I recovered in a short time, but my angel mother got pneumonia and on June 18, 1928, she died. She was 53.
Woodrow continues: "It was a very hard blow for me (I was 10 years old). It seemed as though my world had crashed around me. "
It had to be a hard blow for the entire family, as a mother is always at the heart of the home, keeping the food on the table, the tempers in check, and generally helping everyone with everything.
Annie Deseret left a hard-working, happy, intelligent and even spiritual family behind who remembered many good times and were a close-knit group visiting and calling each other throughout their lives.
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
Annie Deseret Vance was born on February 3, 1875 in Fairview to Isaac Y. Vance and Anna Christinia Johansen Vance.
She was the youngest child of 6 and was part of the "second family" of Isaac Y. His first wife died and Isaac then married Annie's mother Anna after she was a house keeper and cared for his other children for three years.
Annie Deseret's mother died when she was only 1. She began to be farmed out to her various step brothers' or sisters' families until she was thirteen. At this time, she began to be a housekeeper for various people.
Her dad Isaac Y. Vance died in 1898 and she married George Arthur Wheeler in 1899. Her brother was a neighbor to George.
Annie had a tough time of it from the beginning. Living in Milburn there were no amenities, no plumbing or electricity during her lifetime. Except they eventually got a telephone. No plumbing meant carrying water several times daily, unless it was wash day or bathing day and then bucket after bucket would have to be hauled and then heated for this work. It also meant they had to use an outhouse for restroom facilities even in sub-freezing temperatures! They chopped wood for the stoves and milked cows every day too. If you wanted to eat anything, you must first plow, plant, water and weed and then harvest and cook it. There was no time to waste with the growing season being so short at 6,500 feet elevation.
Annie Deseret (they called her Dessie) was social however, and had friends and neighbors over to dinner and they in turn visited their friends. She was involved in the local church and community.
Henry said, "She taught us to pray." And, she took the children to church and had them baptized one by one. She and the children were active in the church and the community. They had the "Ladies Home Journal" a magazine from the L.D.S. church coming to their house.
She was interested in the children being educated. They had books and magazines and sheet music in the house. She saw to it that they went to school, took piano lessons, and the girls learned to sew, crochet and make quilts.
Teola wrote some remembrances of her mother in her journal in 1919. She wrote. "Well, it is after 10 p.m. and mama is chasing Arthur around the house with one of Papa's rubber boots. We have some circus at our house!"
Another entry states: "Thurman (Woodrow) is so roudy! Mama has got her hair hanging down her back and he seems to think that it is there for the purpose of playing horse with!"
On Elva's birthday, January 15, 1919, Teola writes: Today was Elva's birthday. She is thirteen years old and we had planned to have dinner at five o'clock to celebrate her birth and to serve pigeon pie, pudding and birthday cake. We were going to finish the day with ice cream. But, Elva got up with the "flu" this morning. We had Elva's birthday dinner on Sunday, January 19 instead.
Teola includes details about their family life saying: "Thurman is such a boy. He can dance the finger polka, can sing "K-K-K-Katy," and poke the ashes in the stove until the fire roars. Then after he burns his fingers with the hot end of the poker, he will straddle it and play horsy. He is a roughian I tell you.
Bell can play "Kacina," "Steel the Pile," and lots of things. She can count to 105 and says she is smart enough to go to school. She knows every story in Wilford's book by heart and she will take the book and read imaginary words by the fire.
On January 24, 1919, Teola writes: Elva has been dressing her doll up today. She made it a dress all alone cut on the latest lines. Then she attached a wig to its head. It looks like a dignified young lady to be sure.
On January 25, 1919: "Wilford is a regular monkey. Mama says when spring opens up, she is going to put him in a cage and travel from place to place with him. He says he is quite willing to do that."
On January 27, 1919: "Mama has just been doing land-office business with her quilt blocks to day. She has 24 blocks made now. She is using this pattern which I made up. She says it will take 30 blocks for a quilt. It is of percale and will make a pretty quilt. Nora started a spider-web yoke for Mama today."
On January 29, "Mama finished and put together the quilt top which Nora made for her a year ago. It is a log cabin pattern."
On January 31, 1919, "Elva has been preaching today on Love. She says she wants to work out and get lots of money before she gets married so she can marry for love. She says she just simply detests _ _. That she is too good-looking for him. Mama told her that hatred turns to love. Here's hoping it does in this case.
On Saturday, February 1, 1919, Still under quarantine and Elva says there's nothing to do but clean, eat, wash dishes and sit around and hate yourself!
Vance and Wilford are trapping for muskrat and weasel.
On Sunday, February 2, 1919, Sunday, and the only fun visible is Arthur. He acts as though the flu had left him considerably funny in the upper story. They say that foolishness is an after effect of the flu. Elva said she felt like she would like to act silly, but didn't know how! Arthur, I think, has got it down pat!
On Monday, February 3: Today was Mama's birthday. She is 44 years old and says she feels that old too. Of course we had birthday dinner as we do on every birthday. . .Vance and Elva are running a race in music to see who will know the most at the end of the week.
On Wednesday February 5, 1919: "Mama said today that she was quite sure that if a detective had been here today that Arthur would have landed in the asylum by now. He simply can't be rational and when he's rational he is simple! But, there is no fun where there are no fools! "
Friday, February 7: "Vance takes real interest in his music. It doesn't take him long to learn a new exercise. Elva takes a bigger interest in her practice now than before Vance started to learn. She is practicing "Moon Winks" now. "
Saturday, February 8: "Mama got up this morning and broke the news to us that we were to clean the house from tip to toe. We started by washing several pieces of clothing and the bed blankets. Then mama mopped all the upstairs rooms with the mop stick while I cleaned all the woodwork in the kitchen and separator room. Swept the dining room and parlor and Nora helped me dust. We sure have been working hard all day. "
Sunday, February 9, 1919: "We have decided to go to SLC Tuesday and will be kept busy until that time. Have been sewing buttons on coats and dresses tonight and will now soon hit the hay to be ready to arise early and work hard all day again.
Monday, February 10, 1919: Mama and I washed today. Got done about 2 o'clock. Then we packed my trunk and suit cases all ready to go to Milburn. Will leave tomorrow for SLC.
Thursday, February 13, 1919. We all (Teola and friends) went up town today (in SL) and had a whole day off. We went to lots of big stores and business places. We girls had an idea we might could get some business employment but everything seems to be filled up. Lona and I expect to have to take house-work for a while. But we like that so it won't hurt us.
The children began leaving home, Teola, first in 1919. The family moved to Fairview in the winter of 1920-21 so that the kids could go to school. But, the family contracted measles and Nora died on March 3, 1921. Art went to Barber School in Salt Lake and then eventually Elva also went to Salt Lake to find work.
The work load for Annie Deseret would have gotten more and more difficult as the oldest kids grew up and left home, not to mention the sadness of having lost a daughter. She said she already felt old on her 44th birthday.
Woodrow writes: " In April or May, 1928, I got sick with the flu and shortly after, my mother came down with it. I recovered in a short time, but my angel mother got pneumonia and on June 18, 1928, she died. She was 53.
Woodrow continues: "It was a very hard blow for me (I was 10 years old). It seemed as though my world had crashed around me. "
It had to be a hard blow for the entire family, as a mother is always at the heart of the home, keeping the food on the table, the tempers in check, and generally helping everyone with everything.
Annie Deseret left a hard-working, happy, intelligent and even spiritual family behind who remembered many good times and were a close-knit group visiting and calling each other throughout their lives.
Annie Deseret Vance Wheeler
By Mary Lynne Wheeler York
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