Comments on: Alvin C. York, Hero of World War I, Meets the Mormons

By: landyn m. smith

landyn m. smith — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:53:05 +0000

alvin c. york is im my blood and he is my great grandmothers cousins husband and i am honard to be in his family.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:04:43 +0000

Thanks for this added bit, Bodell. One of the best things about blogging is making connections like this that could be made in no other way.

By: Bodell Barton Esplin

Bodell Barton Esplin — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 16:54:01 +0000

My father Evan H. Barton wrote the following about the visit to York: “One day while we were there it was quite rainy and so we got in the car and drove out into the country, down in wolf river valley. Well I don’t know if you remember the picture Sargent York or not, but we made a trip to see him and Presented him with a book of Mormon. He was looking over his nice herd of white face cattle. He had heard of the book of M. and wanted one, in fact there is a Latter day Saint from Florida who is working with him and has been telling him some about the church.”

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 06:35:54 +0000

Yes, thanks Justin. I can stop looking now. I did not think of Mabel, but she could represent the Young family and the Church well. Mabel was not the youngest, there were two other daughters born after her, but she was the last to die. She died in September 1950. The youngest child of Brigham Young, Fannie Young Clayton (yes, earlier I mistakenly spelled it with a “y”), died just a few months before Mabel. Many people joke that Brigham’s last child of 57 children was named Fannie.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:54:00 +0000

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:49:58 +0000

I believe, Ardis, that your phrase should have been “wronger-than-right-wing.” : )

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:33:47 +0000

Hurrah for Justin!

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:24:50 +0000

The June 1940 Improvement Era reported:

DAUGHTER OF BRIGHAM YOUNG HEARD ON NATIONAL BROADCAST

BY SPECIAL invitation, Mabel Young Sanborn, 77, one of three surviving daughters of Brigham Young, was heard March 5, on Gabriel Heatter’s “We the People” program, CBS feature weekly originating in New York City. Mrs. Sanborn, who made the trip from Salt Lake by plane, gave a personal account of life in her father’s family. Her story, for its intimate detail and sympathetic delivery, was very well received by listeners throughout the country. Guests in the studio at the time of the broadcast were Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve and President Frank Evans of the Eastern States Mission.

I can’t say whether Alvin York was on the same program.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:44:51 +0000

I’m curious about that, too, Jeff, and did some preliminary hunting. (That’s hard to do with a phrase like “We the People,” especially when that is apparently the name of a current righter-than-right-wing radio program.) What I’ve found so far, if anyone wants to take up the search, is that it was a program of the late 1930s, out of New York, hosted by a man named Gabriel Heatter, whose tagline for this upbeat show was evidently “Ahh, there’s good news tonight!”

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:53:50 +0000

Of course, I want to know what Fanny Young Clayton was doing on a program with him. It seems more likely that it was Brigham Young’s grandaughter Emma Lucy Gates Bowen.