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Women's History Month

March is such a great time. One of the things I have found in my many "Pinteresting" moments was a blog that had a bunch of writing prompts on female ancestors during the Month of March which is Women's History Month. Woohoo!

So I am already behind, always, but I will answer a few of the prompts since I find them interesting.

For March 1st, the prompt was do you have a favorite female ancestor? I have always had a hard time narrowing down my favorite of anything. I can't ever decide on a favorite song, or hymn or artist or author. I love so many things! It is obviously impossible for me to pick my favorite female ancestor but I will restrain myself and choose just a few to reminisce about.

First of all one of my favorites is Mary Humphries/Humphris/Humphreys. I have already blogged about her but she has always been an inspiration to me after knowing that her family traveled in the Willie Handcart Company. Mary came from England, settled in Pleasant View, UT, and then raised a family while surviving the polygamy era.

Another ancestor of mine who is very intriguing is Dorothy Maycock. She is a huge mystery to the family. We know who her parents are. We know that she had some children out of wedlock. We are fairly certain of who the father was but cannot be too certain. She is one who I wish we had more information on.

I have recently learned a lot about Mariah Jaynes Taysom, another ancestor who came from Wales. She married the missionary who brought her the gospel. She was then disowned from her family after she joined the LDS church. They traveled to Nauvoo, then to St. Louis, and then finally to Salt Lake. From Salt Lake her family was asked to settle the Fillmore area. They endured hardships with the Native Americans in the area and eventually moved to Rockland, ID. It was there that her husband Charles passed away and then Mariah went to live with one of her daughters in Montana, until her own death.

A newly found heroine has definitely been Mary Davies from Wales. She and Mr. Daniel Daniels first heard the gospel after the death of their two very young daughters. She embraced the gospel immediately and was soon afterwords baptized. Daniel followed her actions eventually and then became a leader among the Welsh immigrants. They came to Salt Lake with Captain Dan Jones in the first group of Welsh saints that immigrated. Eventually they settled in Malad, ID where Daniel was the first Branch President over the Malad Ward.

This is just a smattering of some of the women whom I have desperately tried to find information on over this last year. I am so excited that with the "inter web" and many other sources have helped me in my search for these women, and of course with the search of many others. More to come tomorrow.

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