A TrIp To UtAh, PaRt Deux! (OfF To FaIrViEw)

Okay, so we were in Manti.

We spent the night at Kathy's and Dave's cabin in Mount Pleasant.

(Can you say, "fun"?!)

Mount Pleasant is just a hop and a skip from

Fairview, Utah....

which is where my maternal grandmother and

grandfather are from.

We ventured up to the pioneer cemetary there,

and found my great grandparents' gravesites...

Henry Weeks Sanderson

(who lived just around the block from Joseph Smith in Nauvoo and
joined the Mormon Batallion when he was 16), and


his wife,
Rebecca Ann Sanders.

Walking just over a row, we also found the grave of
Walter Cox

Craig's great grandfather.
(Hey, our great grandparents must have known each other!
'Wonder what they thought when Craig and I got married. Celebrate!)

We drove up the hill to the "newer" cemetary and
found the gravestones of Eli A. Day and Eliza Staker Day
(two more of my great grandparents).

Great Gpa Eli, born in 1856 taught school.

Great Gma Eliza was quite the woman.
She actually drowned when she was 2.
Here's the story.
(Click on the link.)

Next stop...

the Fairview Museum--

where Chels played

"Valley of the Sanpete"
(which must have been some sort of city song.)

This museum is just too cool

(and definitely where the elite people hang out.)

The museum houses many of the plaster works of

Avard Fairbanks.

"Who's Avard Fairbanks?" you say?

Why, he's the LDS sculptor who did the Lincoln statue

which is pictured on the Illinois state quarter.

He was a U of U professor who sculpted many well-known people

like
George Osmond
(father of Donny and Marie),

but...

we like his LDS sculptures the best like

Joseph Smith,

Peter, James, and John restoring the

Melchizedek Priesthood,

and John the Baptist ordaining Joseph and Oliver to the Aaronic Priesthood.

Outside of the museum, they had a lot of old farmwork implements.

(Something Craig always enjoys.)

Part of the museum was housed in an old school building built somewhere around 1900.
Inside, we found a glass case filled with things that Craig's great aunt sewed.

There was a model of a way neat swing that Craig's great grandpa had made.

Chels found a Cinderella castle model.

N8 found...pianos. What else?

There were pictures of our relatives.

(Great gpa Henry was a founding father of the town and a mayor.)

Orville Sutherland Cox (Craig's great, great gpa had a cool beard.)

Hmm, Craig just might want to grow one of those.

('Looks like great, great gma didn't really approve of it, though.)

Now, back to the old school building that the museum is housed in.

(This is toooooo amazing.)

Look above....

and now look here.

(That's my grandmother and her class.)

My grandma taught at this school.

She also attended this school as a girl.

Her father (great gpa Eli) also taught here.

And because, I never knew my grandma,

and I loved teaching school,

this place is just plain special to me!

 

Okay, time to move on to another UT destination.

N8, give Cedar City a call.

(We're heading there next!)