Pioneer Days

It has been a long held family tradition to celebrate the Saints reaching the great Salt Lake Valley on July 24th in Pine Arizona. We are VERY proud of our pioneer heritage. My Great Great Great Grandfather Edmond Ellsworth was married to Elizabeth Young, Brigham Young's eldest child. He asked Edmond to lead the first handcart company across the plains. On this journey he married our great great great Grandmother Mary Ann Bates in 1856. So through the years we have put on our Pioneer finest and marched down the main street of Pine in the parade.

My Father and his brothers and sisters

About 1958

1995

Set the date

It is now official Roman and Shaley Cox are going to married in the Timpanogus Temple 12:00 on October 9Th

Shakespear 2009another great summer of Shakespear Plays...I'd like to suggest
that we do this as a family some time....I think you'd all love it....
if you live shakespear that is. They also do an assortment of other
fun plays.

Thursday, July 16, 2009
Happy Birthday Baby Sister






Happy 50 Julie! Ah the memories... Poor girl had to follow behind my reputation of not being very friendly in High School.(not true I was just shy). But you should really thank me because it just made you more out going. And besides you had the use of my fabulous wardrobe. Remeber when we were the "pixies" and left little love notes and treats for Mom and Dad. You had this special little cookie you made, you took the middle out of cheap white bread rolled it into a ball popped it in your mouth and when it was nice and wet rolled it in brown sugar. Yum Yum.
Posted by Sidney at 9:53 PM 0 comments

Julie's 50th Birthday (2 days early)!Marj was about to leave for home so we decided to
celebrate at a spontaneous get together.
Happy Birthday Julie.

Family History

The first day home visiting with Dad he fairly quickly drifted to the topic of his longevity. He wondered why he was still here, what was it he still needed to do here on earth?

When I asked him what his best guess was he said he felt like he had learned so much the last few years. It seemed he was acknowledging that the last few years weren't a waste in any way but wondered what more there was for him to accomplish still. The only thing he could think of was that he needed to finish his life history. It really weighed on him that he couldn't leave it in such disarray. He felt very pressed to complete it.

So that's what we worked on the entire week.

We certainly didn't finish it but we made some headway in sorting and thinning materials so that it wasn't overwhelming to Dad or anyone able to lend a hand to help. I thought that if there was a central clearing house for the project people could discuss what has been done, what still needs to be done and coordinate the effort so that it gets done, and not in duplicate (or 11 i cate)

I'm not sure this will be this blog site will be the best venue or whether we can up and down load files to this site. I'll find out shortly.

Its late and I'm falling asleep typing. I'll try and summarize the where we got to soon.

Love,

John Ray
youngest of 11