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> LIFE OF ELLEN PAIDGET GALLAGHER COTTAK AUG 12,1924 MATERIAL GATHERED BY MARGARAT ARBON AD ADA ‘TAYLOR AND REVAITION BY CHAROLOTIS SORNSON TAYLOR. (MRS FRED G. TAYLOR) VERY FEY OF OUR PIONEERS HAVE HAD 4 MORE EVENEFUL LIFZ THAN ELLEN BRIDGET GALLAGHER COMMA, STAONG IN CHARAOTER FROM A SMALL CHILD, SHE PASSED THROUGH DIASST POVERTY, SICK- NESS, LOMLINESS, DANGER AND SACRIFACE, ITH PAITH IN HERBELF AS YELL AS GREAT FAITE IN GC HER FATHER LOVED EIS PEASGNT WIFE EYOUGH TO LOSE BOTH FORTUNE AND TITLE FOR HBR, SHE HAS SELLSN DUFFY AND WAS EAPLOYSD AS A AID IN THE HOME OF THE GALLAGHERS, AND YHEN JANZS, THE SON GE HOME TO DUDLEN AND Sai? TIS BEAUTIFUL IAIGH OIL, HE FELL IN LOVE ‘07H HER A AFTER A TIME PERSUABED HER TO GONS2NT 10 A SSORET MARRIAGE, WHICH WSS AN IMPLUSIVE IRISH £ WOULD BE MOSE APT TO DO, HE LOVED HER SO KE COULD NOT IMAGINE RIS PARENTS RESISTING HER CHARMS FOR LONG, SUT IN THIS HE WAS MISTAKEN, POR WEEN THEY DISCOVERED THE MOT, AS THEY DID WKEN ELLEN WAS NOT ABLE TO CONTINUE AS A'MATD ON ACCOUNT OF HER HEALTH, THEY WISHED 33 10 DESERT HER, THIS HE FIRMLY REFUSED 10 DO AND WAS MADE A STRANGER 10 HIS PARENTS, THEY ‘VERY FINSLY TAKEN IN BY SCME OF HER MOTHERS PEOPLE, oO WERE WEALTHY, 0HO VOXE VEX KIND OF HEART, AND MADE THEM WELOCHE, THEY REMAINED THERE UNTEL A LYDPEC' DAUGHTER WAS BORN IN 1831, ELLEN PAIDGET, THE SYRINCT OF THIS STORY. AFTER A TIME THEY, aND A COMPANY @F OTHESS SE°RING HEW OPPORTUNTTIAS MADE THETA ANAT ¢ TO HAGLAND, WHERE THPAE WERE DETTRR AOVUNTAGE! IN NAFTNG A LIVING, DURING AN EPIDHLIC OF CHOLERA HER PATHER CONTRACTED THE DISTASE AND LEFT HIS YOUNG “TPE AND 4 CHILDREN, iGO HAi BEOK BORN IN THE MEANTIME, BRIDGET, JAMES, TICMAS AND HANWA OR AUN, ALONE IN THE YORLD WITH NO ONS 10 KALP KER, ‘LIPS WAS VERY HARD FOR HEB AND SHE REYARAISD HOPING TO BETTER HER CONDITION AND FIND OOSPALUSHEP, PUT LOVE FOR KER DEAD AND BURIED WITH HER YOUNG HUSBAND, THIS SZOCND HUSBAN WAS A TAILOR, THOMAS JENKINS, WHO YAS BY NATURE SELFISH AND DISAGREZAPLE, AS SOC AS THE LITTLE OWES COULD WIND A BOBBIN THEY ERE FOAOED FROM HOME BY THE STEPFATHER, ELLEN ZAR ‘A PENNY 2 DAY DOING IS FOR 2 YEARS, AND AFTER 7 YEARS HER SPIRIT REBELLED AT THIS CAVE MuvS YAK AND SHE BEFT HOME AND ACTED AS NURSE MAID IM PAIVATE HOMES, BUT SHE FINALLY WAVE BAOK TO THE FACTORY AGAIN VHERE LINEN WAS MADE, AND HERE HER BROTHER JIM FOUND HER, SRE HAD NOT DETSRENBD TO KEEP HIDOGN FROM HER STEPRATHRR, SHE HAD NOT SEEN HER PEOPLE FOR FOR YEARS, BUT ONLY LIVING A SHORT DISTANOS APART, wHEN THIS BROTAER AND SISTZA SAY EXGH OTHER, THEY RAN INTO EACH OTHERS ARMS AND CRYING POR JOY, RE TRIED TO PERSUADE WER Tt RSTURK HONS, BUT GHE NEVER WENT AGAINE, SHE MET HER MOTHER SHGRETLY. IN HER ZARLY TED, AWAITS SCHLLING CAME ON HER MUSE, THOJANAGER OP THE FACTORY WHERE SHE VORKED VAS VERY 12 TO HEA AND ARRANGED 70 S2ND HER TO THE MANOHSSTER HOSPITAL, WHERE SHE RBOEIVED SFLENDLD TREATMENT, WHEN SHB REOOVERED THERE WAS NO HOME 70 REQURN'7O, SHE WAS INVITED YO THe FINE HOME OF THE MANAGER, BUT ELLEN, WAS VERY IND2PONDENT AND VERY KINDLY REFUSED AND APPLIED FOR A POSITION ST THE HOSPITAL TO PAY FOR HER TREATMENT HERS, PROVIDENCE MUST HAVE GUID: HER 902 SHE WAS PLACED IN THE MATEWITY ROOM, CARRYING THE SABTSS BACK AND FORTH PROM THE MOTHERS 70 THE ROCH WHERE THEY SLEPT, SEZ WAS SOON ADVANCED, SHE STAYED HERB, JORKING 70: 2 YEARS, WHERE SHE LAARWED A GRESt decd cbout bebles and delivered mony woren, AND IN HER 1 TRIS PROVED A GREAT BLEGDING, BBOAUSE LATER IN LIFE SHE DELIVERED MUNDREDS CF BABIES AD EVER 2OST A MOTHER, BEFORE ENTERING THE HOSPITAL, SHE MET MILIAN COTTAM, IK LANCHSHIRE, EVGLAND, BU? Tin Lost TRAOK OF ZACH OMGR FOR A MILE, BUT MIEN HS FOUND BRR AGAIN HS PERSUADED HE2 70 L8/ THE HOSPITAL AND MARAY HDL, SHE ¥AS 24 AND HER HUSBAND OSYEARS OF AGE. SHE WAS A DEVOUT CiTHOMMC, AND ME WAS A LAPTER-DAY SAINT, AFTER A SHORT TIME SHE BOCAME CONVERTED 10 HER HUSEAND!’S FAITH, AND THEY LONGED 20 CONE 10 UTAH, THEY SEEMED UNABLE 1O GET MEANS EHOUG: TO COME TOGATHER, AND THE YEAS PAS. 2D, THEY HAD A LARGS POMILY, MANY OF THE GHTLOREN Ov AT BIRTH. THEY FINALLY DECIDED THAT THE HUSB'ND YOULD GO FIRST AND SEND FOR HER AND THE CHINDREN LANER, THERE VE2E ONLY 3 OP THE $5 CHILDREN LIVING AND $0 HE AARANOED id7it HIS PARENTS TO CARS FOR THE OLDER BOYS AND SHE OULD FOLLOW LATS ‘17H THE YOUNGEST, AND THEY WOULD SEND OR THE CHILDREN AND THE GAANDPARSNTS, (WILLIAM'S PAAGNTS) SHE CONSHITED BUT i KO INTENTION OF LEAVING ALY C? THE CHILDRER, WILLIMM, TRE HUSBAND CAME AND “WORKED IK OHS Eit@8 (HIS TRADE) AT PEMISYLYANIA, 43.50: AS HER HUSB'ND LEPR, BATDGST WORKED AT MIDWIFERY, AND SOON STOOEED A SHALL STORE, ‘:LKING TAILES "Os HER GOODS WHOLESALE AND PAOK THE{ BACK. IN THIS WAY SHS EARNED ENOUGH TO TAK THE CHILDREN TO AVERICA, ANOTHER CHILD WAS BORN 7 MONTHS APTER HER HUSBAND LEFT, aND THI WAS CEPT SHORET PROM HIM AS A SURPRISE FOR HIM, WHEN THE CKILD VAS 9 DAYS OLD SHE o7aa7 ACROSS THE COBAIN. DURING ALL THIS MIME, SRE YAS OPPOSED BITTERLY BY HEA MOTHER, ¥HO ss i 1 teh J A DEVOUT CATHOLIO, HER MOTHER FELT SH2 YOULD SU A PONT STEAD IN ROOFER UTNE, sh THEY DSOTORD PO Nove TEAS, BUT THEY ERT £0 PROPARE TO MOVE, "6 FOUND OUT HE HAD VATTZD Toc LONG 4vD HAD LOST AIS iGHTS, SCHE ONE OLS. BAD TALEN TT. We AAD SOLD RIS HOME 1. PORTERVINUE, PSFOAS HE KNEW TATS So THEA AWALIED NOTWING ELSE ne Bo BUT GO 70 OUMGA? VALLEY, THEY PAOKAO UT AND STATED AUTH 2 WEAd of evttie 2 OER, 2 HORSES AND 4 SAGOK, OF THIS WAQON TSE FAMILY YAS VERY PROUD, AS TT HAD A SPAIN SEA ARD WAS OiAMN BY 4 SPAN OF HOASES, THE JOUSHEY TOCK 8 OAYS AB THEY HAD TO TRAVEL VERY SLOVLY. Ih AN AUTOMOBILE NOY THE SAME OISTANCE IS T2ATSLED IN 5 TO 6 HOURS. ONE NIGHT (SEY GAMPRO IK CORINKE, UTAG Alb TRE MOTHER MOUL" LEP THE CHILDAEN GET ONLY 90 FAR AYAY PACM HER, POR FEA4 SHE WOULD LOSE THEI IN THE TALL WHGATORASS. THEY ARAIVED Go THEIR FEY HOME THE PIRS? OF MAY, THEIR NEW HOM? NZTTASR HAD FLOORS, DOORS OA WINDDYS AND THE STCCY WANDERED ALL OVER AT RAYDOM, BRIDGUT FAD GONE THROUGH S¢ MUCH HARDSHIP ALD WAS SO NEARY AKD OVEAMOPKED, SHE BEOMZ TLL THRES OF THE CHILDREN GOT LOST AND SHE SENT 5 OF THE OTHER CHILDREN 70 FIND THEM, SHE NORATED SO MUCH BEPORE THEY FINALLY COT BACt IAAT SHE ¥aS DELE-TOUS WHEN THEY FOLD HEN THEY VERE ALATGRT, WHET SHE WAS IMPROVING SHE DeTaiMIMeD RO TWIN} MORE OF HER BLGSSINGI AND LESS OF HER OW HARDSHIPS. AND SHE REOALLED THE SLESSTHGD SHE HAD REOEIVED “ITE HER HUSBAND, WHEN THEY RSGEIVED THEIR ENDOWMENTS, THE TAP 10 THE HADOWCENT HOUSE IN SALT LAKL FROM PORTERVILLE, UTAH. THE WEATHER W AS VERY COLD AND STORE SHE REDALLED, AG I7 WAS MARCH #ND THEY HA TRAVELED IN A MMMBER WAGON NETHCUT A SPRING SEAT THE Wagon BEING DRAWN BY OXEN, THE GANS VERY BAD aND FOR THO MILES SHE HAD WALKD THRU DEVILS ave TM WSER CANYON THROUGH DESP SHOF, SHE WAS VARY ANXIOUS TO GOAT THIS TIME AS SHE SAS GAPEONING SNOTHED BABY, VERT SOON. DANTAL M, WELLS PERFORMED THE C2AEMORY AND HE CALLED HER BICr AND GAVE HER A SECOND BLESSING, SAYING IT VAS A VERY RARE TRING TO Saz AN IRISH CATHOLIC. QONVERTAD 20 THE PAITS AKD KAVING BRA AKDOWNANTS, TIN OTRLS WERE BORN TO TREN ATER THEY QHAIVED HOME, MARY ARD WARTHA. UBT THINK OF ALL SXPERIENOE AND QUO & SARD TTP AND THE TO RAVE DVIPS, AD THIS TIME A VERY DEAR PATEND LOST HER BAST AND ASKSD BRIDGET 10 GIVE AER ONE OF Tih TOFMS, THIEFING ONE WOULD BE AUd, SHE COULD PROVIDE POR TN THESE HARD TIMES, BUT BRIOGUT ANGW THAT THE LORD YOULD PROVIDES TN THO WORE YEARS SHS QaVe WIRTH 10 A BABY GTAL, THE SNCY MAS 2 Pf. DESP AND TT WAS A YITTENLY COLD DAY, MERE WAS NO OWS NEAR 70 RSLP HAR AND ONLY aN OX THIM TO GC FOR ABLF, SHE FELD SHE DIDERT YANT TO BS LUST LONG MOUCR FOX ANYONE [0 CO OUT IN NES BITTER COLD Woes 10 FIND HELP. GO THE BABY WAS EORN ¥IH TRE HELE OP HBR HUSBAND. TREY SAID THEY FELT SO MUOH LIKE THEY IMAGINED ADA AND EVE PELT THAT THET NAMED THE LITTLE GIRL, NEVE? EVE LIVED UNTIL SHS WAS 3 YEARS CLD HAD A FAMILY OF 4 CKILDAEN AND WENT AS A PlgAESR JO BIG HORN Wourno, SHE FIRST SHITE MONE THERE, BRIDGET THOUGHT AS SHE LAY IN WER BED'HON THE LORD HAD HELPED THaM IN THETA THOUBLES, AND SHE PELT Tray IN THEIR NEW WORLD HB WOULD OPINTEE WAY 708 THE! OUT OF SVSRY OCBFICULTYAND GIVE HEA STAENOTH AND KNOYLEOGE TO HELP HER TESPAND ‘2xD OTHERS IK DISTAESS ALD SHE FELT THAT IK T IS Wa¥ MORLD HE MOULD CPHi TS WAY FOR THOM QawT FAITH HAD BEN SXOSAISED FOR HER BY THE PACILY AWD THE ELDERS, A DANISH NOZGHGOR OY Seine RAKE OF HANSEN NOULD COME AND ADIINSTAR TO HEY IN THE DANISH LANGUAGE, SHE ALUAYS PEL? THR SPIRIY OF THE LOAD WHEN EHO, HANSEN GAME, SHE BOGAN TO BE HER CHN SELF PULL CF OPE AGAIN, ALMATS LOCKING TOA OPORMAITIES 70 HELP OTHERS» WILLIAM APD RIS OLDEST GON GUT CZDAR POSTS AND RAULED THEM 60 NILES TO SELL THE! AO © puxoUOH (HIG STERPRIZE PROVIDAD FOR RIS PANILY, AS SOCK AS THEY WERE ABL® THEY STOCHED. eerARe IN SKOMVILLE, ‘DIEY HAB 2OOOLBS OF FLOU2 aD 3 BARIELS OF SY

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