Comments on: The Dramatic Tale of Mary Ann Broomhead Wheelock Rattenberry http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/11/30/the-dramatic-tale-of-mary-ann-broomhead-wheelock-rattenberry/ Where our past is never very long ago Thu, 23 May 2013 03:37:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Julia http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/11/30/the-dramatic-tale-of-mary-ann-broomhead-wheelock-rattenberry/comment-page-1/#comment-313826 Julia Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:24:04 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=20473#comment-313826 They were really the “rough and rowdy days” of Utah settlement, for the women as well as the men. I always chuckle a little when people talk about polygamy being better than today’s society with all the divorce and splitting of families. Life itself was so tumultuous, that it seems as many people divorced or changed partners then as now. We just keep better records of it now.

]]> By: Amy T http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/11/30/the-dramatic-tale-of-mary-ann-broomhead-wheelock-rattenberry/comment-page-1/#comment-312597 Amy T Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:46:46 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=20473#comment-312597 A Wheelock descendant noted last night that there seems to be a picture of Mary on Ancestry, but it’s not available to the public. It shows up in miniature in a Google Images search for “Mary Ann Broomhead,” and it looks like in her older years she was a statuesque woman, which would match the size noted in her son’s entry in the Motion Picture Studio Directory, as seen above.

Then two separate people pointed out to me yesterday that Mary made a sampler, embroidered with her hair, that is currently on display at the Church History Museum. (Picture.) It says:

Sacred
To the Memory,
of
Joseph and Hyrum
Smith.
Who fell, as Martyrs,
for the
Gospel, of Jesus Christ.
June 27th 1844.
Aged 38, and 44 years.

Zion’s noblest sons are weeping,
See her daughters bathed in tears,
Where the prophets now are sleeping,
Nature’s sleep–the sleep of years.
When the earth shall be restored,
They will come with Christ the Lord.

Mary Ann
Broomhead’s
Work, 1844,
Aged 13 years.

]]> By: Mark B. http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2012/11/30/the-dramatic-tale-of-mary-ann-broomhead-wheelock-rattenberry/comment-page-1/#comment-312535 Mark B. Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:53:31 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=20473#comment-312535 I see that none other than Stan Laurel was the star of The Weak-end Party. Given Rattenbury’s dimensions–5’11″ and 295!!–it seems that with a little bit of luck he might have become Laurel’s co-star, displacing Oliver Hardy. (He certainly would have rivaled Hardy in displacement!)
And then we could spend our late nights laughing at “Laurel and Rattenbury” comedies. It doesn’t quite roll off the tongue the same way, though, does it?

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