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Show Joy to Gather My Share 23 Home of Madelyn's parents the corner of Lake Street on and Simpson Avenue, where she spent her child hood and teenage years. Ruth and Madelyn, Mrs. Green (nurse to Mrs. Stewart) holding baby Leonora, in 1911. Right is Esther Akerberg, who came from Sweden as a young woman, and worked for and lived with the Stewarts most of her life. The spirit of fraternal good will prevailed, and there was a mutual interest in the welfare of its inhabitants."? Madelyn remembers her Grandpa Angus as always in a black Prince Albert suit, white shirt, wing-tipped collar, and a tie. He had a well-kept white mustache and goatee. He enjoyed horse back riding, always dressed in the long-coated suit. Grandma Sarah was slender and fragile. When she was sixty she fell and broke her hip and walked with the help of a crutch. She was quiet and intelligent, with a self-possessed dignity. She was painted by the noted Utah artist John Hafen as she sat in her chair in the bay-window alcove of her upstairs bedroom. The painting belongs to Madelyn's children, but hangs in the home of Dr. Robert G. Snow, Madelyn's youngest sister Nora's hus band. An opportunity to acquire their own home came to Barnard and Nora in 1903, when Barnard was deeded a home on the northwest corner of Lake Street and Simpson Avenue, 825 East and 2228 South Lake, still in the Forest Dale section of the city. The family lived there from 1903 to 1919. The acquisition of this home has its own story. In December 1901 police charged Peter Mortensen, a contractor who owned the home, with the murder of James R. Hay, an agent of the Pacific Lumber Company to whom Mortensen was indebted. Mortensen employed Barnard and Charles Stewart to defend him. The following June the jury found Mortensen guilty. After the trial, in June 1902, Mortensen deeded his home to Charles |
