Comments on: Latter-day Saint Images, 1916 (2)

By: Cameron

Cameron — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:58:08 +0000

@17-Wow! that is an amazing story! the church prior to 1914 would have been very small, in fact I think in those days they met in a member’s home that still stands today and then membership grew and a branch was started in 1914. Do you have a picture of your G-Grandfather’s grave? I can easily get you one

By: Left Field

Left Field — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 01:44:07 +0000

#16: Based on their children’s birthplaces, by great-grandparents immigrated to Winnipeg from England sometime between 1888 and 1894. My grandmother was born there in 1900. Her father died in 1904, leaving a wife and four children with one more on the way. Soon after, my great-grandmother moved her family back to England to be with relatives. While there, she met the Elders and joined the church. But she didn’t like it in England, and moved back to Winnipeg after perhaps a couple of years. They lived just a few years back in Canada, and then moved to Salt Lake, apparently around 1908. So they lived as Mormons in Winnipeg from about 1906 to 1908. It seems likely that some of the people in the photograph knew my grandmother’s family. I remember visiting my great-grandfather’s grave when I went to Winnipeg as a small child.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:36:58 +0000

@14-was your grandmother a member of the Church? Winnipeg at that time was dubbed the “Chicago of the North” or as we say here and now Chicago was the “Winnipeg of the South”! lots and lots of immigration then. Prior to 1916 there were a few members here and there until a branch was organized in 1914

By: kevinf

kevinf — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 05:14:15 +0000

Thanks for the picture, Ardis. I shared it with my brother, and we both think that it is not my grandmother, but still it was fun to check it out. Provenance, and all that. Bennington was where my grandfather on my mother’s side was raised, but my grandmother lived in Montpelier until they married in 1917. Not likely that she would have been associated with Bennington before that. But if you ever run across a picture of the Bennington ward baseball team from that time, we might find my grandfather.

By: Left Field

Left Field — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:21:20 +0000

My grandmother was born in Winnipeg in 1900, but her family would have moved away a few years before this.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:24:45 +0000

In your mailbox, kevinf.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:17:30 +0000

Yeah, I will jump on that bandwagon myself. Send me the Bennington picture. It may, but probably isn’t, my grandmother, who would have been 18 at the time, in the back row with the dark hair and the necklace or scarf, second from the right. If I could blow up the picture a bit, it might help.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:16:05 +0000

Check your mailbox, Cameron. As always, I’m glad to share these pictures with readers who have ties to those places and people. It’s our family photo album!

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:03:26 +0000

Ardis-is there a way to get that Winnipeg picture? As you know Winnipeg is getting a Temple here and it would be the coolest thing like ever to have a copy of that picture, I know it wouldn’t be the original but something else? Thanks so much!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:54:58 +0000

Check your mailbox, Alison.

lindberg, you gave me a pleasant chill at the idea of thinking who and how many people may have been standing in the same spot at this or any other attraction over the years. I’m sure that thought will come back to me the next time I’m posing for a snapshot near some monument.