Comments on: Eminent Women: Christiane von Goethe and Roseinia Sylvester Jarvis: Part 2

By: Anne (UK)

Anne (UK) — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:53:52 +0000

fascinating account, thank you.

By: Amy T

Amy T — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 12:12:02 +0000

Thanks, all, for your kind comments on these posts. Learning about the lives of all these women is an endlessly fascinating project, and the inter-connectedness that ComC mentions is one of the very interesting parts of history.

By: Maurine Ward

Maurine Ward — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:29:49 +0000

Wonderful reading.

By: Chocolate on my Cranium

Chocolate on my Cranium — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:45:19 +0000

I love reading biographies – short or long! It was also fun to realize a small connection as my great-great-grandfather’s brother, John H. Gibbs, was also killed with William Berry at the Cane Creek Massacre.

By: Amy T

Amy T — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:38:29 +0000

Thanks, J. The gift of healing was very important to the Jarvis family, and they have many stories about that which I could not include here. (The post was already much too long!)

Rose Jarvis is the only one of the Eminent Women to whom I have a family connection, since I am descended from one of George Frederick’s sisters. Unlike some of the other Eminent Women posts, this was a case of having too much information, rather than too little.

Mark B., I forgot you also had a connection to this family. Eleanor Jarvis Seegmiller went by the name “Ella” — she was the daughter who accompanied Rose to court in Beaver.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:22 +0000

Pintura, Utah! Who’d have imagined such a place? I’ve driven past it dozens of times and never even noticed it–but a quick glance at Google Maps shows that it would be easy to miss. (But Street View shows that the exit sign indeed reads “Pintura.”)

Those folks in St. George loved to pass their names along. Eleanor Jarvis had a daughter Eleanor who herself had a daughter Eleanor who is my personal connection to this story–she was widowed very young, and in her early 50s married my widowed grandfather.

I suppose that means I’m just four degrees of separation from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe–but none of the poetry made it this far.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:00:00 +0000

I’ve said this before, but you are doing the Lord’s work. Very interesting write-up…and a temple healing!