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My great-grandfather, Ellis Clark Ivory, wrote a short personal history prior to his death in 1971. Part of that history was typed from Clark's handwriting onto a typewriter. I assume this was my grandfather, Clark's son, who typed part of it. The rest is still in Clark's handwriting. I have been reading through this personal history and typing up the latter half that is not typed. I have a copy of a copy of the original handwritten version, so between the handrwriting being difficult to read and the copy quality not being the best, the handwritten stuff is kind of hard to read. Therefore I am going through and typing up the latter half. I am transcribing the history, so any spelling, grammar, or other mistakes I am typing as-is to preserve what Clark wrote. I will add any clarifications as needed in brackets.
Chapter six of his personal history is all about his and Erma's wedding and honeymoon. Clark began the chapter talking about how high school was over, so he "had to start looking at life just a little different."
My girl friend and I were getting pretty serious and even though we were just kids we loved each other and started talking about the future which caused me to start thinking about what I was really going to be. It was hard for me to stay out with the sheep but Ivory Bros. had formed a company and I thought that would be it, so I stayed with the sheep as much as I could.
Clark proceeds to talk about how his father, George Washington Ivory, was a licensed real estate salesman at the time and how Ivory Bros. purchased a ranch in Lonetree, Wyoming. Clark went to go work on the ranch during the summer and fall of that year. This would have been either 1924 or 1925 based on when Clark would have completed high school and when him and Erma got married, but Clark does not specify in the history.
I stayed out there until just before Christmas. At that time while I was preparing to go home. [A] little sixteen year old girl, her name was Mona Pape and she was a pretty little thing one day she said, why do you go home, I will be your girl. It was kind of tempting but the letters which I was getting from Moroni were getting pretty mushie so the temptation wasn’t to hard to react. [These letters were coming from Erma.] I could hardly wait for Rube to come out and get me. I remember it took us a full day to get to Lyman and another full day to get to Evanston, then the next day to Salt Lake. There was no oiled roads and it was just fighting mud all the time.
After the holidays were over I went back to Lone Tree but it just wasn’t the same and I became so homesick I could hardly stand it. In the first part of February Rube came out he could see what bad shape I was in and suggested that I go home for a while which sounded good to me, so we proceeded to find our way home. Maybe it wasn’t hardly fair to that little gal to just go down to Moroni and surprise her because when I got down there I found her to a party with another fellow. I didn’t like that at all because I thought that was what the ring was for and it made me feel quite bad so the first thing I thought of was to get married and not wait until June. I guess I was really afraid someone might steal her away from me. We became so excited about getting married we never even thought about the temple or anything else. The main thing was to just get married as fast as we could. It meant getting my parents consent because I was only twenty years old, so on Feb 23 – 1926 we were married.
We had to hurry real fast because my mother was to go back to Ftn Green on the little old Sanpete train and you know – it run once a day. We made it all right and then my Mothers in Law, my wife and myself was on our way to Garfield, a little town out by the Kennecott Smelter, we were to leave the mothers in law there and then go on in to Salt Lake for our honey moon. It was night when we got into Salt Lake and found the Wilson hotel, where my Father was staying most of the time, he was expecting us and was there to meet us. He seemed happy for our marriage, he seemed to love this little girl almost as much as I did. We arranged for a very nice room. We had a very nice dinner and then went to the Pantages Theater with my Dad and E. F. Johnson. We spent a couple of days just seeing Salt Lake City. We were very happy, my dad was realy a great guide, showed us a lot of things we did not know about. We went back out to Garfield where Cloyd and Lula were living to get Erma’s mother, then went on back to Moroni. Now I was a married man with a responsibility and a very lonely little wife, we were very very happly even though I only had fifty dollars in my pocket which my brother Rube had given me. After a few day of just being happly I went back to Lone Tree for the rest of the winter leaving my wife to live with her folks but I felt sure that she would be true to me now that we were married and she was. It was hard to stay at Lone Tree now that we were married but I felt the responsibility and just dreamed about spring and summer and when we could be together again.
The story of their lives continue past this point in Clark's history, but more of that will continue in another post.
Sources:
Figure 1: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Daynes Building, Daynes Jewelry Company,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1906); “Daynes Building, Daynes Jewelry Company,” Shipler Commercial Photographers, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed January 2017.
Figure 2: Unknown author, “White Star Automobiles,” advertisement, (unknown city, unknown state: unknown publisher, unknown year); digital image, “The White Star Automobile & The White Star Co.,” American Automobiles (http://www.american-automobiles.com/White-Star.html), accessed January 2017.
Figure 3: Unknown author, “1911 White Star Touring Car & Roadster,” photograph, (unknown city, unknown state: unknown publisher, unknown year); digital image, “The White Star Automobile & The White Star Co.,” American Automobiles (http://www.american-automobiles.com/White-Star.html), accessed January 2017.
Figure 4: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Wilson Hotel P.1,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1906); “Wilson Hotel P.1,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 5: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Wilson Hotel Sign,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1908); “Wilson Hotel Sign,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 6: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Wilson Hotel P.6,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1935); “Wilson Hotel P.6,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 7: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Wilson Hotel P.5,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1935); “Wilson Hotel P.5,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 8: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Wilson Hotel P.7,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1945); “Wilson Hotel P.7,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 9: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Pantages Theatre P.14,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1920); “Pantages Theatre P.14,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 10: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Kearns Building, Pantages Theatre,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1920); “Kearns Building, Pantages Theatre,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
Figure 11: Shipler Commercial Photographers, photographer, “Pantages Theatre Entrance,” photograph, (no city, no state: Shipler Commercial Photographers, 1920); “Pantages Theatre Entrance,” Classified Photographs, Utah Departments of Heritage & Arts, J. Willard Marriot Library, University of Utah (https://collections.lib.utah.edu), accessed December 2016.
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I have slowly (over the past several years) been going through some old photos I obtained from my grandfather - and by some I mean hundreds of old photos dating from probably 1870s to 1960s. Many of the photos are family members, but some of them are friends of my great-grandmother, Mary Erma Nielsen. As I have been going through these photos and scanning, naming, uploading to my online tree and my website just for my Ivory side of the family (Generation Ivory) I have come across a lot of people in these photos that I have no clue who they are. I have asked several family members if they can identify them. I created several pages of unknown photos on the Generation Ivory website. Although we have been able to identify some of the photos, there are still many that remain a mystery. One person in particular that appears in several of the unknown photos has me really curious. Of all the photos I have gone through, she is in four photos. Of these four photos, the only other person in them that I can identify is the first photo on the left. The woman standing to the right of this unknown woman is my 2nd great-grandmother, Mary Ann Swensen.  This unknown woman was obviously a really close friend or family but no one seems to know who she is. When I see photos like these, where no one can identify who is in the photo, it makes me sad because if no one now can identify the photos, it is very unlikely anyone in the future will be able to identify them. Do you have ancestors from Sanpete County, Utah? If so, go check out the Generation Ivory website to see if you can help identify any of the unknown photos I have posted there. There are many photos I am convinced are not relatives, but possibly friends of my great-grandparents. If I have any photos of your ancestors I am more than happy to provide digital copies or the originals.
The other day when I was doing some research and making sure my family tree was updated with all of the documents pertaining to some of my Ivory family members. As I was reviewing my research journal and tree I decided that I would try again to find Mathew Ivory and his children in the 1870 census. Mathew's wife, Mary Elizabeth, died in January of 1870. Family "story" has been that she got sick and left her home in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah, and went to go stay with her parents in Moroni, Sanpete County, Utah. I have always been told that she died in Moroni while staying at her parent's house. The other night I found the 1870 Mortality Schedule where Mary was recorded. Although I had always been told she died in Moroni, I actually found her in the Mortality Schedule in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah.  1870 U.S. Federal Census (Mortality Schedule), Beaver County, Utah Territory, Page 1, Family 115 on Schedule 1 (actually 107), Mary E. Ivory, .jpeg image (Online: Ancestry.com, 2013) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, D.C.], subscription database, (http://www.ancestry.com), accessed December 2013. After I found Mary in the 1870 Mortality Schedule, I decided I would search again for Mathew and his children in the 1870 census. Since I couldn't find them searching the index on both Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org I figured I would manually search the census page-by-page. I eventually found Mathew and his children, living in Beaver, Beaver County, Utah. It is understandable why they could not be found on either website's census databases using the index. Both of the images are horrible quality and you can barely read the names.  1870 U.S. Federal Census (Population Schedule), Beaver, Beaver County, Utah Territory, Page 13 (11 stamped), Dwelling 107, Family 97, Matthew Ivory household, .jpeg image (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2013) [Digital scan of original records in the National Archives, Washington, D.C.], subscription database, (http://www.familysearch.org), accessed December 2013. Mathew and his children were recorded at Dwelling 107, Family 97. Below is an abstract of the family on the census:
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