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Show Girl with a Heritage 9 brothers and their families spent each summer at the ranch, where they harvested hay, sheared sheep, hiked, rode horses, swam, and told stories around the campfire. In 1907 they incor porated as the Stewart Ranch. II Barnard Stewart and Leonora (usually called Nora) Cannon married in the Salt Lake Temple on September 13, 1899. Their first child, born March 1, 1901, was Madelyn Cannon Stewart. Of her ancestry, Madelyn Cannon Stewart (Silver) was always proud. At the time of her birth, her parents were staying in the home of Nora's parents, while Barnard established his were legal practice. Thus, Madelyn was born in the home of Angus and Sarah Cannon and spent many of her childhood years in their home-Grandpa Angus died when she was fourteen, Grandma Sarah when she was eleven. Grandpa Isaac Stewart had died in 1890, well before Madelyn's birth, but Grandma Elizabeth White Stewart did not die until 1917, when Madelyn was sixteen. In their growing-up years, Madelyn and her broth ers and sisters often spent time in the Draper home of Grandma Elizabeth, and she regularly came to visit the Barnard and Nora Stewart family. Madelyn regarded Grandpa Angus as aristocratic in manners and speech, meticulously well-dressed, and a dignified, patriar chal gentleman. He raised purebred stock, owned fine horses, and was an excellent horseman. Madelyn's principal complaint was that she didn't enjoy his mustachioed kisses. Grandma Sarah, she of the fine linens, beautiful china, silver spoons, and a treasure chest full of cherished mementoes, Madelyn thought to be intelligent, tender, and genteel. Having broken her hip in the 1890s, she walked with the aid of a crutch all the years Madelyn knew her. She encouraged Madelyn in her reading, even at a very early age. Although Grandpa Isaac Stewart had died in 1890, Grandma Elizabeth, the English convert who had come to Utah in a com pany traveling behind the Martin Handcart Company of 1856, lived in their large three-storied Stewart brick home in Draper. There she had not only raised ten of her eleven children, but |
