Funeral Service for Mrs. Mary Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
The funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hoyt, who passed away Monday last, were held in the 2nd Ward Chapel Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m........The speakers all praised the nobility of character of deceased and the appreciation she had of the worthwhile things of life. Her knowledge and her advice in getting young people toward success.....At eleven years of age she learned to wash, dye, spin, and weave wool, and cloth for the family dresses and suits. After becoming proficient at this work at home she did if for others, taking her pay in wheat or other produce. It was at this age she began to pay her tithing, a principle she observed all her life.
Mrs. Hoyt went to school under Karl G. Maeser and was personally acquainted with him. She also studied under Prof. Paul of the University of Utah. She and her chum Lois Taylor, being the first two girls from Juab Co. to complete the normal course at the U of U.
She taught school for many years and helped many young people thru school and always encouraged them to take advantage of educational facilities.
She also raised her sister's two motherless children Lovern Sowby Nilsson and L.M. Sowby of Los Angeles.
She worked in the M.I.A. and the Relief Society for some time and practiced nursing for many years.
In 1919 she spent a year with her nephew Dean Harrison V. Hoyt in the East and saw many wonderful things. She gathered moss from beneath the tree in the Sacred Grove, where the Prophet knelt to pray and flowers from the Hill Cumorah. She also spent a year with L.M. Sowby on the west coast.
She came to Canada first in 1906, later coming to stay and has made her home in Raymond. Her mind was bright and keen until the very last and her death closed a very long and useful career.
Biography of Mary Elizabeth Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
Mary Elizabeth Hoyt was born at Nephi City, Utah, Sept, 2nd, 1853, of sturdy pioneer blood. Her father, Timothy Sabin Hoyt was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion, having enlisted in A company July 16, 1846. He endured all the hardships and suffering of those noble men.
Her mother was Elizabeth Lamont Sperry who came across the plains as a girl and in the course of their journey both her father and mother were buried in lonely graves by the Old Mormon Trail.
Mrs. Hoyt had many thrilling recollections of the pioneer days in Utah. As a child of five she, accompanied by an older child, climbed the old stone fort wall and sold a watermelon to one of the soldiers of Johnston's army for the first nickle she had ever seen.
She also remembered the Indian troubles and used to tell of a day when the Indians came with their war paint and feathers and her mother called the children into the house while her father took his gun and joined the men. She remembered the Chief, a young giant almost, who had the scalps of three white men hanging on his belt. The men talked with the Indians for several hours and gave them blankets, beads, cloth and food. The Indians withdrew to the foot of Mt. Nebo and camped for three days while the people were in terror of their lives, and then the Indians left and went to Ephraim where they made a great deal of trouble.
The funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hoyt, who passed away Monday last, were held in the 2nd Ward Chapel Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m........The speakers all praised the nobility of character of deceased and the appreciation she had of the worthwhile things of life. Her knowledge and her advice in getting young people toward success.....At eleven years of age she learned to wash, dye, spin, and weave wool, and cloth for the family dresses and suits. After becoming proficient at this work at home she did if for others, taking her pay in wheat or other produce. It was at this age she began to pay her tithing, a principle she observed all her life.
Mrs. Hoyt went to school under Karl G. Maeser and was personally acquainted with him. She also studied under Prof. Paul of the University of Utah. She and her chum Lois Taylor, being the first two girls from Juab Co. to complete the normal course at the U of U.
She taught school for many years and helped many young people thru school and always encouraged them to take advantage of educational facilities.
She also raised her sister's two motherless children Lovern Sowby Nilsson and L.M. Sowby of Los Angeles.
She worked in the M.I.A. and the Relief Society for some time and practiced nursing for many years.
In 1919 she spent a year with her nephew Dean Harrison V. Hoyt in the East and saw many wonderful things. She gathered moss from beneath the tree in the Sacred Grove, where the Prophet knelt to pray and flowers from the Hill Cumorah. She also spent a year with L.M. Sowby on the west coast.
She came to Canada first in 1906, later coming to stay and has made her home in Raymond. Her mind was bright and keen until the very last and her death closed a very long and useful career.
Biography of Mary Elizabeth Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
Mary Elizabeth Hoyt was born at Nephi City, Utah, Sept, 2nd, 1853, of sturdy pioneer blood. Her father, Timothy Sabin Hoyt was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion, having enlisted in A company July 16, 1846. He endured all the hardships and suffering of those noble men.
Her mother was Elizabeth Lamont Sperry who came across the plains as a girl and in the course of their journey both her father and mother were buried in lonely graves by the Old Mormon Trail.
Mrs. Hoyt had many thrilling recollections of the pioneer days in Utah. As a child of five she, accompanied by an older child, climbed the old stone fort wall and sold a watermelon to one of the soldiers of Johnston's army for the first nickle she had ever seen.
She also remembered the Indian troubles and used to tell of a day when the Indians came with their war paint and feathers and her mother called the children into the house while her father took his gun and joined the men. She remembered the Chief, a young giant almost, who had the scalps of three white men hanging on his belt. The men talked with the Indians for several hours and gave them blankets, beads, cloth and food. The Indians withdrew to the foot of Mt. Nebo and camped for three days while the people were in terror of their lives, and then the Indians left and went to Ephraim where they made a great deal of trouble.
Funeral Service for Mrs. Mary Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
The funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hoyt, who passed away Monday last, were held in the 2nd Ward Chapel Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m........The speakers all praised the nobility of character of deceased and the appreciation she had of the worthwhile things of life. Her knowledge and her advice in getting young people toward success.....At eleven years of age she learned to wash, dye, spin, and weave wool, and cloth for the family dresses and suits. After becoming proficient at this work at home she did if for others, taking her pay in wheat or other produce. It was at this age she began to pay her tithing, a principle she observed all her life.
Mrs. Hoyt went to school under Karl G. Maeser and was personally acquainted with him. She also studied under Prof. Paul of the University of Utah. She and her chum Lois Taylor, being the first two girls from Juab Co. to complete the normal course at the U of U.
She taught school for many years and helped many young people thru school and always encouraged them to take advantage of educational facilities.
She also raised her sister's two motherless children Lovern Sowby Nilsson and L.M. Sowby of Los Angeles.
She worked in the M.I.A. and the Relief Society for some time and practiced nursing for many years.
In 1919 she spent a year with her nephew Dean Harrison V. Hoyt in the East and saw many wonderful things. She gathered moss from beneath the tree in the Sacred Grove, where the Prophet knelt to pray and flowers from the Hill Cumorah. She also spent a year with L.M. Sowby on the west coast.
She came to Canada first in 1906, later coming to stay and has made her home in Raymond. Her mind was bright and keen until the very last and her death closed a very long and useful career.
Biography of Mary Elizabeth Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
Mary Elizabeth Hoyt was born at Nephi City, Utah, Sept, 2nd, 1853, of sturdy pioneer blood. Her father, Timothy Sabin Hoyt was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion, having enlisted in A company July 16, 1846. He endured all the hardships and suffering of those noble men.
Her mother was Elizabeth Lamont Sperry who came across the plains as a girl and in the course of their journey both her father and mother were buried in lonely graves by the Old Mormon Trail.
Mrs. Hoyt had many thrilling recollections of the pioneer days in Utah. As a child of five she, accompanied by an older child, climbed the old stone fort wall and sold a watermelon to one of the soldiers of Johnston's army for the first nickle she had ever seen.
She also remembered the Indian troubles and used to tell of a day when the Indians came with their war paint and feathers and her mother called the children into the house while her father took his gun and joined the men. She remembered the Chief, a young giant almost, who had the scalps of three white men hanging on his belt. The men talked with the Indians for several hours and gave them blankets, beads, cloth and food. The Indians withdrew to the foot of Mt. Nebo and camped for three days while the people were in terror of their lives, and then the Indians left and went to Ephraim where they made a great deal of trouble.
The funeral services for Mrs. Mary Hoyt, who passed away Monday last, were held in the 2nd Ward Chapel Thursday afternoon at 2 p.m........The speakers all praised the nobility of character of deceased and the appreciation she had of the worthwhile things of life. Her knowledge and her advice in getting young people toward success.....At eleven years of age she learned to wash, dye, spin, and weave wool, and cloth for the family dresses and suits. After becoming proficient at this work at home she did if for others, taking her pay in wheat or other produce. It was at this age she began to pay her tithing, a principle she observed all her life.
Mrs. Hoyt went to school under Karl G. Maeser and was personally acquainted with him. She also studied under Prof. Paul of the University of Utah. She and her chum Lois Taylor, being the first two girls from Juab Co. to complete the normal course at the U of U.
She taught school for many years and helped many young people thru school and always encouraged them to take advantage of educational facilities.
She also raised her sister's two motherless children Lovern Sowby Nilsson and L.M. Sowby of Los Angeles.
She worked in the M.I.A. and the Relief Society for some time and practiced nursing for many years.
In 1919 she spent a year with her nephew Dean Harrison V. Hoyt in the East and saw many wonderful things. She gathered moss from beneath the tree in the Sacred Grove, where the Prophet knelt to pray and flowers from the Hill Cumorah. She also spent a year with L.M. Sowby on the west coast.
She came to Canada first in 1906, later coming to stay and has made her home in Raymond. Her mind was bright and keen until the very last and her death closed a very long and useful career.
Biography of Mary Elizabeth Hoyt (Raymond Recorder, March 12, 1937)
Mary Elizabeth Hoyt was born at Nephi City, Utah, Sept, 2nd, 1853, of sturdy pioneer blood. Her father, Timothy Sabin Hoyt was a member of the famous Mormon Battalion, having enlisted in A company July 16, 1846. He endured all the hardships and suffering of those noble men.
Her mother was Elizabeth Lamont Sperry who came across the plains as a girl and in the course of their journey both her father and mother were buried in lonely graves by the Old Mormon Trail.
Mrs. Hoyt had many thrilling recollections of the pioneer days in Utah. As a child of five she, accompanied by an older child, climbed the old stone fort wall and sold a watermelon to one of the soldiers of Johnston's army for the first nickle she had ever seen.
She also remembered the Indian troubles and used to tell of a day when the Indians came with their war paint and feathers and her mother called the children into the house while her father took his gun and joined the men. She remembered the Chief, a young giant almost, who had the scalps of three white men hanging on his belt. The men talked with the Indians for several hours and gave them blankets, beads, cloth and food. The Indians withdrew to the foot of Mt. Nebo and camped for three days while the people were in terror of their lives, and then the Indians left and went to Ephraim where they made a great deal of trouble.
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