Grandma Terry.

(story from Deloa Glines Thurston)

Mary Elizabeth Baker Terry, (Grandma Peter's Mother), lived in Lund, just five miles from Preston, and was the second wife in a polygamous family. Her husband, William Alanson Terry, spent very little time with the family. He lived in Alpine, Utah with his other family. Although Grandma Terry never complained or spoke against him, Mom never knew her Grandfather very well, but dearly loved her Grandmother, as did all of the children.

Sometimes she would go to stay with her for a few days, to help her in the house and garden. She liked going to her house. Mom loved all the pretty things she had, and sometimes Grandma Terry would let her play with them if she was very careful. Mother always commented on how nice she kept her house.

The garden was wonderful and seemed like it never had weeds in it. The "sweet" delicious peas Grandma grew in her garden where Mom's favorite. According to her, they were the sweetest peas in the "whole wide world". When they picked them, Grandma would let her eat her fill. She would eat the peas, then chew on the pods to get all the sweet juice.

Going to Grandma's house was more like a vacation than work, and she loved being there. They spent lots of time talking and sewing, and doing other things together. She always spoke of her Grandmother as sweet and gentle, and loving. One of her favorite things to do, as a child, was to go stay with Grandma Terry to help her. However, Mom thought it was more that Grandma Terry would let the children take turns to come and stay alone with her for a week or so as a special time for them.

She had lots of colorful scraps of material from which she cut quilt blocks and pieced them together into quilt tops. She gave Mom a quilt top pieced in squares, and years later when Mom was married and expecting her first baby (me), she pieced a "Lone Star" quilt top for me. I still have it. Mother had many wonderful memories of the family going to her "Pretty House" for special occasions. Later when Mom was in Logan, attending teachers' college at the Utah State apricultural College, Grandma Terry wrote her a letter of encouragement. *** type in her letter.

When Grandma Terry was three years old, she came from England and crossed the plains with her parents, George age forty-one, Mary Ann Randall Baker, age forty-one, and her sister Eliza who was six years old. They came with the Daniel Robinson Hancart Company in 1860. It was the Ninth Company to cross the plains. They walked the entire way. ***Add roster.

Once, toward the end of a long day, but some time before they would stop for the night, this little three-year-old girl was hot, and tired, and crying, and she didn't want to walk any farther. Her father picked her up and put her on his shoulders and carried her, as he pulled the cart. It felt so good riding on his shoulders. Her little legs were so tired from walking on the uneven prairie, and it was so wonderful to ride high on her father's shoulders. She could see everything from her perch.

Years later, after she was grown, and married, as she would reflect on that time, she realized the love her father must have had for her, to pick her up and put her on his sshoulders when he was so terribly tired himself.

Mom said whenever Grandma Terry would tell this story, she would cry. Mom would cry when ever she told us this story too, and now I'm in tears as I write it down.

　

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