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Show Chapter 1 GROWING AND LEARNING In the personal record of Ellis Reynolds Shipp we have a remarkable view of an exceptional human being. Within the context of her environment, which was in itself unique, and among her acquaintances who would have been regarded as people of outstanding achievement in any age, Ellis paid her dues. Yet-both in her autobiography where she looks back upon her experience, and in her diary which details life's immediacies-her story details the pilgrimage of a sensitive, vulnerable, believable human being. It is this believability, more than the considerable service rendered in a long and distinguished lifetime, which makes Ellis Reynolds Shipp so fascinating. Her account begins with her mother and father: William Fletcher Reynolds of Indiana, at 19 1/2 years, married Anna Hawley of Canada, then 16 1/2 years of age. Eleven months later, on January 20, 1847 in Davis County, Iowa, they had a daughter whom they named Ellis in honor of her maternal grandmother who bore the same unusual first name. "When I was quite young," Ellis recalled, "my parents heard the gospel and soon after were baptized." This led to emigration to Utah not long thereafter. Her maternal grandfather, William Hawley, was captain of the company in which the Reynolds family arrived in Utah in 1852, both families settling soon afterwards in Pleasant |