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Show 14 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER lived in a tent. They then moved an old two-room country store ranch, on a location near the river-a "bottoms" area surrounded by tall pines, aspens, and cottonwood trees. There onto the was kitchen and a living room-bedroom area. Around two sides of the house was a wide, roofless wooden porch, which provid ed sleeping space for visiting friends and relatives. Barnard arranged with Hyrum Jensen of Salt Lake's Forest Dale, to build a more comfortable and spacious log house in 1911, when Madelyn was ten. The small two-room house sat behind the and became their wood house and garage. The family spent June, July, and August of most years at the ranch observing or participating in the haying, sheep shearing, hiking, riding horses, and camping out. Barnard once boasted new one that the only reason he kept up his legal practice was to support the ranch. Barnard's influence on his daughter was strong, but that of her mother, if not equally intense in the early years, lasted twice long-until her own death, two days before that of Madelyn. Leonora Mousley Cannon Stewart was born October 2, 1874, in Salt Lake City." When she was young, Leonora took singing lessons from the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir conductor Evan Stephens, and on one occasion she was chosen to perform in a special program given in the Salt Lake Theater and Assembly Hall on Temple Square. In her dainty white dress as and blue sash she had to stand on a chair so the audience could see her sing. She attended Latter-day Saints University, studied typing and stenography, and then went to work for her brother George in his real-estate office. When George became cashier of Zions Savings Bank & Trust Company, Nora was his personal stenographer. She was also employed for a period by her first cousin, Abraham H. Cannon, a young apostle, when he edited the Deseret News. She attended the University of Utah in the 1890s, did particularly well in English, and became literary edi tor of the school paper, the Utah Chronicle. About this time, she became engaged to Barnard Stewart. When he went to ask Angus Cannon for the hand of Leonora, the president asked if he had been on a mission, explaining that he expected each of his daughters to marry a returned missionary. Barnard, who had |
