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Show 24 MADELYN CANNON STEWART SILVER Stewart, presumably in payment for legal services. After the motion for a new trial was overruled, an appeal to the Utah Supreme Court denied, and a request for clemency refused, Mortensen, who firmly declared his innocence, was executed in November 1903.3 Two weeks before his execution the home was deeded to Barnard Stewart, who then moved his family into the home and remained there until 1919. Madelyn thus in this spent all of her growing up years (ages two to eighteen) sisters her and There home. handsome kept Madelyn large, their dolls and children's books, there they learned to play the piano, there they entertained their friends. There they learned to entertain. Madelyn and her brothers and sisters were active in Forest Dale Sunday School and Primary from the age of birth until they matured and married or went off to the university. The meetinghouse was across the road from the Angus and Sarah Cannon home. One of Barnard's sisters wrote and direct ed several Primary musicals, for which the children practiced hours. One production featured sprites and fairies, with many Madelyn as a white fairy and Ruth as a fullskirted tarleton sprite. The clothes were made by their mother. Barnard built a barn next to their Forest Dale home, where he housed their Jersey cow, his horse, and a small chicken house. The hay loft was the setting for plays in which Madelyn, her sister Ruth, and their friends performed. Madelyn was usu ally the tragedienne. The family made a big thing of birthdays, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. To the delight of the children an early visit to the every Christmas Eve Santa Claus paid were dolls Christmas Stewart home. Their usually made by Mama Nora and Aunt Annie. Because Nora was not physically strong, the family usually had a young live-in domestic. Sarah Eckersley helped them with the housework until her marriage, when she became Sarah Scott. She was always called" Aunt Sarah." Madelyn later learned that she was the Christmas Eve Santa Claus. After Sarah's leaving, when Madelyn was ten, Esther Akerbery, a young Swedish convert to the LDS Church, became the live-in domestic. She came speaking only Swedish. |
