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Show 5 I was obliged to stand there because he and my grandmother marched in and my father and mother marched in behind them and I was very much impressed with the grandeur of the occasion--at this parade going by."14 It was in Mexico that Eyring's parents met even though both had been born and had lived in St. George, Utah, earlier. His father Edward Christian Eyring (l868-l957) and his mother Caroline Cottam Romney (l874-l954) began courting each other in the early 1890's. Their attrac- tion to each other was immediate but their marriage was delayed because Caroline's father had heard it reported that Ed Eyring, as he was called, was smoking with some other boys in Casa Grandes. He forbade his daughter to associate with any man who had such a vile habit. It took two long years of secret courting before Miles P. Romney gave his consent. They made a special trip to Salt Lake City to be married in the Salt Lake Temple on October ll, l893. Mormonism was paramount in both the Eyring and Romney families so it is not surprising that Edward Eyring responded positively to a mission call in 1897. father. He was sent to Germany, the homeland of his He left in October l897, leaving his pregnant wife Caroline behind with a three year old daughter Camilla. feelings when he returned in early l900: my wife better. He later wrote of his "When I arrived home I found She was just recovering from a very severe sickness. Camilla was then a big girl of five years and Mary, whom I had never seen, was two years old. I had not known that Mary had been born deaf. I think I never felt so badly in all my life over anything. Neverthe- less I felt to priase the Lord that all was as well as it was."15 Edward Eyring worked in his father's store for a short time after his return but things seemed too slow_for him there so he ventured into |
