Elizabeth Gallaunt

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GEN: See Historical Document. NOTE SOUR Br\?8derbund Family Archive #168, Ed. 1, Cemetery Records: Salt Lake City, Da NOTE te of Import: 29 Aug, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.168.1.1361.12\0=\0:SOUR Br\?8derbund Fami NOTE ly Archive #168, Ed. 1, Cemetery Records: Salt Lake City, Date of Import: 29 Aug NOTE , 1998, Internal Ref. #1.168.1.1361.12\0=\0:CAUS Old age/heart\0=\0:_FA1\0=\0:DATE 13 FEB 19 NOTE 53\0=\0:PLAC Burial date\0=\0:SOUR Br\?8derbund Family Archive #168, Ed. 1, Cemetery Recor NOTE ds: Salt Lake City, Date of Import: 29 Aug, 1998, Internal Ref. #1.168.1.1361.12 NOTE \0=\0:_FA2\0=\0:PLAC Plot: 79092 L-26-13-E-2\0=\0:SOUR Br\?8derbund Family Archive #168, Ed. NOTE 1, Cemetery Records: Salt Lake City, Date of Import: 29 Aug, 1998, Internal Ref. NOTE #1.168.1.1361.12\0=\0:ELIZABETH GALLAUNT PARENTS\0=\0:Elizabeth Gallaunt Parents was bo NOTE rn 24/April/1866 in St. Johns, New Brunswick, Canada. She was the youngest of NOTE five children, four girls and one boy, Maggie, Mary, Nellie and Joseph.\0=\0:Her sch NOTE ooling was in the Catholic Sisters School. When the children would talk they wo NOTE uld make them put out their hand and hit it with a ruler. Her sister Maggie tol NOTE d her when she saw the teacher coming to spit in her hand, so she did it and it NOTE splashed all over the teacher. After all these years, when she told me about it NOTE she always had a good laugh.\0=\0:Her father died when she was only 13 years of age, NOTE so she and her mother then moved to Boston, Massachusetts.\0=\0:Every Sunday mornin NOTE g they would have baked beans and Boston brown bread for breakfast. They would NOTE take the beans to a beanary and it would cost them 10\:2 to bake the beans, no ma NOTE tter how big the bean pot was.\0=\0:At the age of 15 years she went to work in a box NOTE factory where she continued to work until she was married.\0=\0:At the age of 14 ye NOTE ars she met George Noble Parents in school. When she was sweet sixteen, she took NOTE him to the Leap Year Party, hired a hack and called for him at his home. It co NOTE st her $5.00 for the occasion. It was a private church affair, 100 couples att NOTE ended, girls all dressed in white and the boys in dress suits, which was a very NOTE beautiful site.\0=\0:She continued courtship and was married 12/January/1885 by a Ca NOTE tholic priest in St. Leo's Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Her husband had to NOTE sign papers that she could raise her children in the Catholic faith, because he NOTE wasn't a Catholic.\0=\0:On December 1, 1885, a baby girl was born to her which thril NOTE led her very much and she named her Gertrude Sophia. In the fall of the next y NOTE ear she moved to O'Neill, Nebraska on a homestead, and lived there six years. NOTE While living there two children were born to her, Catherine Loretto and Edna. H NOTE er husband worked in Omaha while she and her mother lived on the homestead. Sh NOTE e didn't know much about raising vegetables. One morning she decided to weed the NOTE tomatoes, she pulled all the tomato plants up and left all the weeds.\0=\0:The weat NOTE her was so dry they weren't able to raise crops, so in October, 1892, they moved NOTE to Denver, Colorado, where she resided for about 14 years. Here Elizabeth Lill NOTE ian and Georgia Erma were born to her. After waiting for three more years a bab NOTE y boy was born to her, the first boy after five girls and he was more than welco NOTE med. Her mother was standing by the bed with a dish of water and dropped the w NOTE ash dish and spilled the water all over her, and said it's a boy, it's a boy. NOTE The oldest sister, Gertrude, said, now I'll have a brother to take me places.\0=\0:I NOTE n 1904 she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Her husband lost his business, and s NOTE he sold her furniture, etc., and arrived with her sewing machine, dishes, $35.00 NOTE and a few necessities of life.\0=\0:Her mother was still living with her, but on 14 NOTE /October/1911, at the age of 78 she passed away, after not feeling good for abou NOTE t three days.\0=\0:She had many happy years, but on December 31, 1918, during that t NOTE errible epidemic of flu, her daughter Catherine Loretto passed away with the flu NOTE , just as the New Year's bells were ringing. Catherine Loretto left behind a NOTE husband and three small children and causing much sorrow to all in the family. NOTE She raised Fred, the oldest boy, and Loretto's mother-in-law (Bertha Phillips) NOTE raised the other two children, Bertha and Louis.\0=\0:In June of 1919, she and her h NOTE usband went to Seattle, Washington, to visit her oldest daughter, Gertrude, now NOTE married to Samuel Walker. They had a very lovely visit, but on 23/August/1919, NOTE her husband passed away with a ruptured bladder. He suffered so terrible. She NOTE went in the bedroom and prayed for our Heavenly Father to take him and when she NOTE went back into the bedroom he had passed away. This was a trial for her to be NOTE ar as she had to ship his body back to Salt Lake City for burial.\0=\0:Now alone she NOTE decided to go to work, so in the fall of 1919 she started to work at the Hotel NOTE Utah Laundry, where she worked as a Floor Lady for 20 years. The hotel then we NOTE nt under new management and laid off all the help that were age 70 and over. Sh NOTE e cried because she still wanted to work.\0=\0:On 9/October/1922, her youngest son w NOTE as married and she asked him if he wouldn't live with her as she had an extra be NOTE droom. He lived with her one and a half years.\0=\0:On 11/November/1922 her younges NOTE t daughter was married, so when Charles moved she went and lived with Georgia.\0=\0: NOTE Her only son Charles had his jawbone removed with cancer. He had a miracle perf NOTE ormed on his face and the next morning his jaw was completely healed, by the pow NOTE er of the Priesthood of God. He lived one year and on the 22/December/1946 he p NOTE assed away. He had had cancer for 10 years before he passed away. This was a r NOTE eal trial for her.\0=\0:On 20/January/1932 her son Charles baptized her a member of NOTE the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day-Saints. She went Relief Society Teachi NOTE ng for many years, which she enjoyed very much, this was in Liberty Ward, Libert NOTE y Stake.\0=\0:After Georgia died she went to live with her daughter Edna. She had a NOTE bad heart at the last days of her life, and the doctor told her not to do any w NOTE ork. Her daughter Edna worked at the Hotel Utah Laundry. The ironing cord was NOTE broken and so Edna hid the basket of ironing in the garage and put a canvas ove NOTE r it. Her mother went to the store, bought a new iron cord and found the basket NOTE of ironing and had it all ironed when Edna arrived home from work.\0=\0:She was nev NOTE er idle, she made quilt tops for all the children and grandchildren and hot pad NOTE holders. She always gave her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren a NOTE Christmas present. She loved to give presents to every one. She was loved by NOTE every one. She was always happy and smiling, could laugh at anything, especia NOTE lly the funny papers.\0=\0:She was called "Maw" by all the employees where she worke NOTE d. On one of the company outings a Negro waiter passed by the table where she w NOTE as eating her picnic and said, "Hello Maw." Everyone turned around and looked a NOTE t her, and she really laughed, because they worked at the Hotel Utah where she d NOTE id.\0=\0:On 11/February/1953, she had a heart attack and was in the hospital one wee NOTE k and then passed away at the ripe of age of 87 or would have been 87 in April.\0= NOTE \0:On 17/September/1953, her daughter Elizabeth Lillian passed away with cancer, l NOTE eaving only one daughter, Edna Hardman, alive in the family.\0=\0:[Br\?8derbund Family NOTE Archive #168, Ed. 1, Cemetery Records: Salt Lake City, Date of Import: 29 Aug, NOTE 1998, Internal Ref. #1.168.1.1361.12]\0=\0:Individual: Parents, Elizabeth\0=\0:Birth dat NOTE e: 1867\0=\0:Birth place: Not Available\0=\0:Death date: 11 Feb, 1953\0=\0:Death place: Salt NOTE Lake City,Utah\0=\0:Burial date: 13 Feb, 1953\0=\0:Plot: 79092 L-26-13-E-2\0=\0:

Elizabeth married George Noble Parents, son of George Noble Parents and Sophia Josephine Walker, on 12 Jan 1885 in Boston, Mass. (George Noble Parents was born in 1865 in Boston, Mass. and died on an unknown date in Salt Lake City, Utah.)