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Show 276 shows her as bright and alert and a woman of character. There is to be an open house at her residence, 516 Wilmington Avenue. The write-up says she is a life-long resident of Salt Lake county and the widow of "Milton Bard Shipp, who died in 1927." (Wrong on both counts: he's Milford, not Milton, and he died in 1918, not 1927.) If we can trust the rest of it, we may conclude, happily, that Mary finally did have her family-six sons and daughters-of whom only one son, Edward, survives; and she makes her home with him. There are nine grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Her career in obstetrics is alluded to as well. What is her present frame of mind? "...still interested in current affairs, Mrs. Shipp continually comments on Salt Lake City as a 'wonderful sight to behold,' especially compared with the city in the 1860s." And Ellis As the medical ranks in Utah began to fill, with their accompanying flood of services, Eliza R. Snow urged Ellis to broaden her sphere of activity to include outlying areas in Utah and neighboring states. During the years her sons were acquiring their schooling, Ellis did not feel free to leave Salt Lake City; but after they had established their families, Ellis did go to quite a number of places, her skills blessing many who would otherwise have been without such attention. She took with her on some of these trips any daughters who were still at home and not yet into their university studies. It may be well to mention here that Bard became a physician, |