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HISTORICAL NOTES. Mary Alice, born J a ny. 20, 1868. Joseph James, born December 11, 1869. Josephine, born November 1, 1871. Aveline, born January I, 1874. George Alma, born March 27, 1876. Grace Mabel, born August 27, 1878 . Eugene Walter, born Au gust 10, 1881. Elizabeth Mills Whitaker is also the grandmother of 56 children and 19 great grand children, and is today in a remarkable degree of health. She maintains her own home in Centerville, and visits among her children and grand children as she desires. She has always been a great reader, a hard worker, a woman of excellent judgment and has the love and good will of all her posterity and the wide circle of loving friends. She experienced the hardships, trials, sufferings, privations of the saints in Nauvoo and crossing the plains also here in the valleys and has been an angel of mercy for many years ministerin g to the sick and the afflicted and blessed the homes of many suffering and sorrowing. She is modest and retiring, a woman of few words, a gleat thinker, a hard worker and one who takes delight in blessing and comforting those in need. Stevenson was born in the quaint little Isle of Jersey in the British Channel, a British possession peopled by descendants of English and French, who speak the two languages in common. Mrs. Wilcox is married to Dr. Charles F. Wilcox, whose mother, Maria Richards Wilcox, was a sister of Franklin D. and a niece of Dr. Willard Richards. Dr. and Mrs. Wilcox have a family of six children, three of whom have traveled extensively in Europe and America The four eldest, Frederick, Ramona, Stevenson and Clairehave, are doing college work in the University of Utah and have been id~ntified with favorite students organizations. Raymond, the youngest son, attends the Salt Lake High School and Mary, .the youngest child, is a charter member of the Junior Sons and Daughters of the Revolution and attends the public schools. Mrs. Wilcox is esteemed by her friends for her winning personality and her social qualifications. Dr. and Mrs. Wilcox are travelers and home makers of the highest type: their home has a decidedly bookish air and they are patrons of the best art, music, and literature of the community in which they reside. Elizabeth Stevenson Wilcox:-Mrs . Wilcox was chosen with Mrs. Horne, and Mrs. Sears to follow Mrs. Hyde, Mrs. Dougall and Mrs. Sarah R. Smith. These three women like the initials presiding officers, were united and devoted in their work. Mrs . Wilcow's training and experience made her fitted fo r the holding of the office. From her early youth she has been identified with educational affairs. As a graduate of the University of Utah, as teacher, as officer in the Youn g Ladies Mutual Improvement Association, Sunday school, primary or kindergarten associations she has exerted an influence toward social and spiritual development. For a long time she has been identified with club work, and for a number of years has been a member of the Relief Society General Board. As a delegate from the Relief Society, she attended the triennial session of the National Council of Women held at the AlaskaYukon- Pacific exposition, and gave the report of her society which was well received. Mrs. Wilcox is a daughter of the late Edward Stev('nson, a traveler and writer, and Elizabeth J. Du Fresne Stevenson, who for many years before her death was identified with the General Relief Society Board. Edward Stevenson was born in Gibraltar, but raised in America. He as a young man, became a Utah Pioneer as a member of Charles C. Rich's artillery company of 1847. Mrs . Marcia W. Wilcox :-The birthplace of Mrs. Marcia W. Wilcox was in the beautiful Berkshire Hills of New England. She was born June 17, 1827, in Richmond, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and resided there until the age of sixteen. She is the daughter of Phirrehas and Wealthy Dewey Richards, and sister of Franklin D. Richards, one of the Apostles of the Mormon Church. H er father was a cousin of the late President Young. In 1843 she moved wi th her parents to Nauvoo, Illinois , having embraced the faith of the Latter-day Saints who had located in that vicinity. She received a good common school education and was considered capable of teaching a district school at the age of fifteen . On December 10, 1844, she was married to Walter E. Wilcox, whose birthplace was near Boston, Mass. She then went to St. Louis and remained there until she emigrated with the majority of the Saints to Utah, endurin g the hardships of a three months' journey across the plains with an ox team, arriving in Salt Lake City September, 1852, where she has lived until the present time, having passed through the trials attendant on the settling of a new and barren country. Mrs . Wilcox is the mother of nine children, six sons and three daughters. Two of her sons are prominent physicians, having graduated from the best medical college in New York City. She has been an efficient worker in the Relief Society in various capacities si organization in Utah. Has held the office of ing secretary of the Salt Lake Stake for a years, and in 1889 was appointed president ( teenth Ward branch of the Relief Society, she fills very creditably, exercising good exec\ She has also officiated in the Salt Lake Ten was first dedicated. Mrs. Wilcox is of a family of strong re dencies. Her father's brother, Dr. Williar, was one of the principal leaders of the Morn He was a man of exceptional attainments and and was with Joseph and Hyrum Smith at . their martyrdom in Carthage, Illinois, and w one who escaped unharmed. She is a strong believer in woman suffrag' cised the franchise for seventeen years, until of Utah were deprived of that privilege. president and director of the Woman's Co-ope cantile Institution in Salt Lake City. Also is of a ladies' literary club called Reaper. She lent and charitable in her nature, is devo. family, and has spent her whole life in usef in doin g good to others. Sarah Jones Dunford :-A daughter of Da and Maria Offer J ones , was born May 11, 1825 bridge, Wiltshire, England. She was married Dunford (who died at Salt Lake City, Februar) April 8, 1844, at Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Engla this uni on nine children were born, Lydia Dun: of Salt Lake City, and Mary M. Dunford Richa den, Utah, are the only children living at tl time (July 17, 1916). She moved from h er home in England to Missouri, a nd thence to Salt Lake City, where an active life, laborin g in the Relief Society of 1 teenth Ward, twenty-one years a s a ward teache he~ death, October 22, 1889. Elizabeth A. Marks 'S mith:-The daughter Rowe and Hannah Stevens Marks, was born 1844, at Carline, Mammothshire, England. She ried to Thomas G. M. Smith in Salt Lake City, 24, 1876. Mrs. Smith is the mother of two bright and i children: Burt, an electrician, and Jessie G. i2 an artist of considerable ability.