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The Romance and the Realities Margaret but Alice and Emily too played on the stage. Several children of Hiram took parts, early as children and later as adults, constituting a second generation of Clawsons on the stage. Ellen's Bradley, Dellie, Edith, Georgie, and Ivie all took to the stage, and Spencer married Nabbie Young, a child actress and daughter of Brigham Young. Margaret's Rudger and Alice's Willard and Leo also played. Brigham Young III, the son of Ellen's sister Catharine, played leading roles and married one of the leading actresses, Lottie Claridge. Ellen's daughter Edith Helen was an especial favorite. For twenty-five years she played leading roles, sang the leading parts for the Salt Lake Opera Company, and knew the greats who came to play the Salt Lake Theatre stage. At the family home the dramatic stars who caine to Utah to play or stopped to visit en route were entertained. The locations of Ellen's homes are not known exactly. References have already been made to some, including the anticipated move to the White House "on the hill" - Brigham Young's first large house, built before the Beehive House or the Lion House. Just where Hiram and Ellen lived after the Utah War is not known, but in 1862 Hiram purchased from Brigham Young the home built in 1860 by Loren/,o Snow, located on the southeast corner of Third East Street and Brig-ham Street (East South Temple), considered at a later time to be "the most pretentious dwelling in the city." William Hepworth Dixon, British traveler, stayed at the home in 1866 and described it in these words: Here, on the bench, in the highest part of the city, is Elder Hiram Clawson's garden; a lovely garden, red with delicious peaches, plums, and apples, on which through (he kindness of his youngest wife [Alice], we have been hospitably fed during our sojourn with the Saints; a large house stands in front, in which live his first and second wives with their nurseries of twenty children. But what is yon dainty white bower in the corner, with its little gate and its smother of roses and creepers? Thai is the house of the youngest wife, Alice, a daughter of Brigham Young. She has a 53 |
