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Show ,. I Aaron Jackson Page 7. "Tb.at canal now goes down Twenty-eighth street ) underground( to Twenty-second street and t hen----------. "I remember we subscribed to the paper when it was first organized in 1870. i~ichard Ballantyne was editor and t hen came Charles W. Penrose. It has been delivered to our house on the same lot for 64 years. "On Jan. 26, 1878 Eliza Rawson and I were married. She died March 17 1933 at the age of ?6. "In November 1890 I went to England on a mission for the Mormon church. I returned in 1892. "We have had nine chi ldren. Seven are still living they are; Mrs. Grace Barrows, Blackfoot, Idahop Mrs. Ethel H~wkes, Mrs. Mary Nelson, Samuel Francis Jackson, Mrs. Zina Klomp, Mrs. Myrtle Felt, all of Ogden and Joseph R. Jackson of Provo. I have 23 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. "My motheP died October l?, 1908. "I often t hink back on some of the Pi oneer day celebrations we had here years ago. "I r emember Brigham Young very well. He used to come to Ogden and stayed at the home of Bishop Erastus Bingham .of the First ward which at that time took i n all of the homes on the bench. .bishop Bingham used to live on the corner of Twenty-third street and Madison avenue. His wife was very , fine cook and she would hustle around and prepare an extra special meal of \ I fine dainty foods when President Young came to town. Th.en after she had worked hard preparing the repast when Brigham 81!l.1Jle to the table he would say, 'Now ~ Mrs. Bingham, don't bother to fix anything on my account, just give me a bowl ) of bread and milk and don't skim the milk and I will have a fi ne supper.'" I -0- |
