Alfred blev gift med Ada Marion Hix den 28 apr. 1873 i Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, USA. Ada (datter af Thaddeus Constantine Hix og Charlotte Chase) blev født den 28 feb. 1855 i White Oak, El Dorado, California, USA; døde den 13 jun. 1895 i Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA; blev begravet den 16 jun. 1895 i Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWCZ-HZM
• Dåb: 9 jul. 1865

Notater:

Ada Hix Taylor
By Lella Marler Hogan

Ada Marion Taylor was born in the gold fields of California, at White Oak, in Eldorado County, February 26, 1855. She was the daughter of Thaddeus Constantine Hix and Charlotte Chase Hix. Her father was from Vermont and descended from a courageous stock. Her mother was of a fine old English family. Ada’s childhood days were spent in sunny California. Her father was a patient, indulgent man with his children and her mother gave them very superior care. She had three brothers, Ernest, Douglas and Rolla, and two sisters, Lillian and May. Lillian died in early childhood. The children delighted in the long summer days and rejoiced when autumn came and they could go “nutting” out in the big trees.

There were few schools at this early day in California, but these children received their first lessons from their scholarly mother, who was a student of the Pratt brothers of early Church days. Ada was not yet 10 years of age when she made the long trip from California to Utah in 1864. They came in wagons drawn by horse teams. They were five weary weeks on the road and Ada and her sister May had chills and fever all the way across. The wagon train consisted of the five wagons and there were only five able-bodied men in the group. This was at a time when Indians were often on the warpath and this little group had more than one Indian scared during the journey. Their father rode with them the first day out but it was necessary that he should remain in California to attend to matters of business before going to Utah to live, so on the second day he bade them goodbye and turned back. The children watched him as long as they could see him. The way seem very lonely after he turned back. They never saw him again.

When they reached Utah they went to live with their mother’s brother, Dudley Chase, and his family. Later they had their own little home. The long cold winters with drifting snow and meager belongings were a great hardship to the children. They longed for the time when their father would come. They felt that his coming would make everything happy again but their hope was pitifully shattered when a messenger brought the sad tidings of their father's death. Then began the hard struggle of helping their mother to make a living. She was diligent and frugal and from her they learned to turn the buffeting of fate to their advantage. Nothing was ever spoiled or wasted in their home. They made the most of everything. Their clothing was all completed with the finished artistic touch that made them always appear well-dressed even though the materials were inexpensive.

Ada and her sister, May, were devoted companions throughout their childhood days. All those who knew them said that they never had a quarrel at any time in their lives. At any rate, their loving devotion and loyalty to each other was beautiful to all who knew them. Ada was baptized in 1865 by Luman A. Shurtliff. She took part in the church organizations in the Harrisville Ward and attended school there. There were only three or four months of school during the year but they profited by their mother’s books and her scholarly teaching in the home as they were all anxious for knowledge.

On April 26, 1873, Ada was married to Alfred W. Taylor in the Endowment House at Salt Lake City. Her husband's people were glad to receive her into their family and always rejoiced in their happy associations with her. Shortly after their marriage, they went to Clifton, Idaho to live on the Taylor ranch. Alfred's father was president of a livestock company and himself owned many heads of fine stock. Alfred looked after his father's stock. He put up hay on the ranch for their feed. In the fall of 1878 they built their first home in Utah. This was a substantial brick house which is still a good home and is occupied by their son Alvin and his family (in the 1930s). In 1881 they lived for a while on what was known as the North Farm. There they built in adobe house. In 1884 they moved to Horse Island, a cattle ranch near American Falls, Idaho. They spent their winters there but had a summer home at Beaver Canyon which was the summer range for their cattle. In the year 1890 they purchased a home from Ada's mother and for a few years spent their winters and Harrisville, Utah, while the summers were spent in Sheridan, Idaho.

This moving about from summer homes to winter homes made a great deal of work and required much planning and good household engineering to keep the domestic wheels running smoothly, but Ada was always equal to the task at hand. She was a good household manager, a fine cook, a good seamstress and a most unusual wife and mother. She did her heavy work with such efficiency as to give her family the best of care and still had time to to provide for all the work hands and any stranger who might come within her home. She was a friend to everyone. She could put her home in order to prepare a wholesome meal in record time. She seemed to be always prepared for any emergency and through it all she kept her poise. She met life with a calm, cheerful spirit and had the happy faculty of seeing the humorous side of every situation. When the shadows began to darken the horizon she would, to express it in modern slang, “laugh it off” and be serenely ready for the next emergency. One of her Taylor relatives has said that no one ever crossed her doorstep who did not feel her warmth or welcome and remember the happy, congenial, spirit that pervaded her household. Any person who once made her acquaintance never forgot her.

There was something about her wholesome, beautiful, nature that made everyone love her who knew her, and her acquaintances were numbered by hundreds. She was so genuine, so magnanimous, that wherever she went, a welcome always awaited her. Even the Indians who camped near her summer home came year after year to pay her homage and to ask little favors at her hands. She used to buy furs from them and make the children and gloves.

There was no sham or pretense or veneer about her character. She was frank and outspoken and honest and true. She was loyal and generous. She gave to her friends not only of her substance but gave of her time in service and of her whole-souled self. Her life was sweet and clean and wholesome. Her cheerful sociability made the world happier wherever her course of life led her.

More than once when she was leaving the ranch house and was asked if she did not lock the doors she would tell her friends that some cold or hungry traveler might need to come in. She could not lock a door against any person who needed food or shelter. When there was a rap on the door her cheery voice would call out “Come in.” Once in the night when she and her sister were alone at the Clifton Ranch she heard a rap on the door and as usual “Come in” and in walked the big drunken Indian. She got up from her bed and provided him with food and although he didn't want to leave the house she managed to get them out before he realized he was going.

Ada was the mother of 11 children, six girls and five boys. Her eldest girl and her youngest boy and died before they were one year of age. Another boy passed away at the age of two. The names of the children were Ada May, Alfred Green, Elmer Douglas, Elma Charlotte, Alvin Ernest, Clara Ethel, Harold Walker, Almeda Marian, Effie June, Lelia Idell, and Warren Wayne.

Ada passed away on June 13, 1895, shortly after the birth of her 11th child. It was a great loss to her husband and children to have this lovely mother pass on at such an early age. She was just a little past 40 years of age when she died. Her life and been so full and her influence had been so far-reaching for good that it could only be measured by her splendid deeds and not by days or years.

One of her Taylor relatives said of her recently, “She had so many beautiful qualities and treated everyone so well that it was impossible not to love her. None could excel her. She was one in 10,000.”

Her hallowed memory has been a constant inspiration to her children through the years. Her fine, virtuous womanhood in her service to her family and humanity will long stand as a monument to her memory.

Pleasant blev gift med Clarissa Clara Lake den 2 feb. 1847 i Pottawattamie, Iowa, USA. Clarissa blev født den 17 dec. 1828 i Ernestown, Ontario, Ontario, Canada; døde den 15 jun. 1900 i Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: K2SG-4D6
• Bopæl: 1867, Salmon Falls, El Dorado, California, USA
• Dåb: 20 jun. 1922

Notater:

Traveled to Cal. in the Dixon Lee Co. from Newark 1849. Left St. Joseph, MO. 4/27/1849.
1855 ran for Recorder on Dem ticket.
1857 representative at Co. convention.

Thaddeus blev gift med Charlotte Chase den 15 okt. 1850 i White Oak, El Dorado, California, USA. Charlotte (datter af Ezra Chase og Tirzah Wells) blev født den 11 maj 1825 i Bristol, Addison, Vermont, USA; døde den 15 dec. 1904 i Lewisville, Jefferson, Idaho, USA; blev begravet den 18 dec. 1904 i Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: L8QB-F1X
• Bopæl: ml. 1839 og 1846, Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, USA
• Indvandring: 24 sep. 1848, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1860, White Oak, El Dorado, California, USA
• Bopæl: 1870, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1880, Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA

William blev gift med Elizabeth Patrick den 18 mar. 1811 i Bowling Green, Warren, Kentucky, USA. Elizabeth blev født den 9 dec. 1793 i Mecklenburg, Virginia, USA; døde den 25 okt. 1880 i Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: KWVS-MP1
• Navn: Ezra Chase Sr
• Dåb: 1839
• Indvandring: 24 sep. 1848, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1870, Utah, USA

Ezra + Tirzah Wells. Tirzah blev født den 29 jul. 1796 i Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA; døde den 4 apr. 1867 i Harrisville, Weber, Utah, USA; blev begravet i Ogden City Cemetery, Plot: A-5-23-2W, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA. [Gruppeskema] [Familietavle]

Andre Begivenheder og Egenskaber:

• FSID: LTLY-X61
• Navn: Tirzah Wells Chase
• Indvandring: 24 sep. 1848, Utah, USA
• Bopæl: 1860, Ogden, Weber, Utah, USA