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Show CHARACTER almost brutally SKETCH candid. OF EZRA “Tell CHASE the and truth TIRZAH and shame WELLS the CHASE devil", was one of his axioms. And although honesty was wrought in his very being and he believed in meeting life squarely and openly, regardless of custom and conventionalities, still he was religiously just. He believed ag he said, “in giving the devil his due". He was painstaking and exact in matters of moment and frugal and saving, never permitting anything to be wasted in his home. He impressed upon his children the old adage that “willful waste makes woeful want". Although he was serious and practical in his life's work, still he was humorous and enjoyed hearing or telling a good story. He was somewhat poetical, too. He composed many short poetical selections, showing real talent and expressing his staunch epent hours working at faith and lofty ideals. mechanical contrivances In by his later which he years hoped he to discover some means of perpetual motion. He was prophetic, too, and had a wonderfully bright outlook for the future. He had the spirit of discernment and often spoke of the good and beautiful things that would be established in the world, after he had passed away. He was a ruling spirit and a natural leader, and although he has been dead for over forty years his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren still revere his memory honorable remembrance of and him. christen their children in loving and The following children were born to Ezra Chase and Tirzah Wells Chase: Ezra (died in infancy), Eliza, Nancy, Charlotte, Diana, Wells, Henry, Dudley, Newton, and Juliet. These children married and raised families in the west, residing principally in Utah, Idaho, and California. This history was written —_— —— about o— oe ee 1915 eee ee — ae mee cae Tirzah Wells (Chase), the daughter of Elisha Wells and Tirzah eeverance, and the wife of Ezra Chase, was born at Greenfield, Massachusetts, July 29, 1796, being the eighth child in a family of thirteen children. She lived with her parents in Massachusetts until the year 1818 when she was married to Ezra Chase. che was then twenty-two years of age. She was a quiet, gentle woman of culture and refinement, unaccustomed to hardships and privations, having been raised a Quaker by devout parents. But having chosen her life mate she did not quaver in meeting the lessons of life that confronted her, but went bravely forward at his side and met life squarely with him. Leaving her home on the eastern continent to passage from they made shores the land ocean to temporary of the United States, of the setting sun ocean consumed over homes in various she on the thirty cities as traveled across the western shores. This years of her life, as they wended their Way westward, and during these years she bore her ten children and reared nine of them to maturity. Without complaint she crossed the baked desert and traversed the lonely wilderness along with other pioneers, and when she was finally located in Utah she did her portion in the delicate arts of housewifery. She shed a quiet subdued atmosphere about her, and by her gentle manners and quiet dignified demeanor she ~Z2- |
