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Show 6 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER President Taylor declared that being a lawyer was a dangerous calling. Lawyers had been a source of great wrongs and injus tices. After considerable discussion, however, the president relented and agreed to bless Moyle in his desired goal. This was precedent that later gave satisfaction to Madelyn's father, Barnard Stewart, a lawyer, as were two of his three brothers.' By Sarah Maria, a small slender woman scarcely weighing ninety pounds, Angus had six children: Maria, 1860, who died as a baby; George Mousley, 1861-1937; John Mousley, 1865-1917; Ann Mousley, 1869-1948; Henry Mousley, 1872-73, who also died as a child; and Leonora Mousley, 1874-1961. Until the 1890s, the family lived on the Cannon Farm, which was along the east bank of the Jordan River about three miles southwest of the Temple Block in Salt Lake City. Theirs and related families comprised the Cannon Ward of Salt Lake Stake. Although the children attended the Cannon Family School, Sarah, an educated woman, helped them with their reading, spelling, and writing. Sarah had a keen mind, a well developed sense of humor, and a strong spirituality. Because of the necessary frugality of women on the Utah frontier, Sarah used the materials in her trousseau-the linens, dresses, and lin gerie-to make clothes for her children. Sarah died in Salt Lake City in 1918, age eighty-four. The youngest of the six children of Sarah and Angus, born on a October 2, 1874, was Leonora. Considering that her parents were involved in nearly every the Cannon Farm on political, business, and ecclesiastical activity of the territory, one could be sure that Leonora would be provided a good educa tion, that she would enjoy the community's respect, and that she would marry well. In 1899 at age twenty-five, she married Barnard J. Stewart. The first child of Barnard and Leonora Stewart was Madelyn Cannon Stewart Silver. The Cannons and the Stewarts, both prominent pioneer Utah families, had known each other for many years. Isaac Mitton Stewart, born in New Jersey of Scotch-Irish descent, was the son of a Revolutionary War soldier. His father died when he was just a boy and the family moved to Illinois, where Isaac, a Quaker, became acquainted with the Latter-day Saints and |
