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HYRUM LIPTROT RIGBY

A record of Hyrum Liptrot Rigby written by
himself
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My parents was John Rigby and Grace Liptrot
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My father was born in Hindley, Lancashire, England
and my mother in Bedford, Lancashire, England
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I was the fifth son of seven children, six boys and one girl
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Robinson
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My schooling started the same fall in the West School House,
better known as the Blue School House
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My school days were happy ones and I made many new friends
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An outstanding time for me was May
Day Celebration
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Martha Hardy was President of the
Primary when I first went
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Spaulding and William S
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Clrinda C
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In the Spring of 1886, March 30 my mother died
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This left our home very lonesome
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At the age of 14 Bishop Gilbert Belnap called a number of boys
to come and cut wood for kindling for the meeting house
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One evening

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a few days later I was ordained a Deacon by Charles Parker at his
home and was a member of the Quorum of Deacons with Orson Sowles
as our President
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I continued to go to the public school each year and about
1890 a Central School was opened up in the adobe meeting house or
Relief Society Hall with James R
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I attended
this school for two years and in the year of 1895 was called by
Bishop William W
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I spent six months in taking this training
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In the summer of 1896 I built my home
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John W
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On November the 18th 1896, I married Cathrine Lowe from
Franklin, Idaho in the Logan Temple
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Merrill and we made our home in Hooper
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In the summer of 1899 I received a letter calling me on a mission
and in the fall of that year received my appointment to England, and
on November 10th 1899, I went to Salt Lake City to church
head quarters and was ordained a seventy and set apart for my mission
by Apostle Abraham Owen Woodruff and started for England on November
11th 1899, leaving my wife and two small children, a girl and a
boy, at home
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There was 16 Elders in our company
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Frisby from Arizona
as our conference Pres
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Facer, from Idaho as
our conference president
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I went back to farming for a living and it was only a few months
until I was again in the Sunday School teaching in the second
intermediate department
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Thomas W
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Hooper as first Assistant
Supt
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This continued until May
2nd 1920 when Bishop James R
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Hooper as Supt and John
H
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Widdison as assistants
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M
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We went to the temple twice every month
once with boys and once with girls
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I labored in this capacity until May
27, 1923, when the ward was reorganized
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Read was chosen
Bishop with Robert E
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On July 15 of the same year I was ordained a High
Priest and set apart as second counselor to Bishop Read, in the Ogden
Tabernacle at Weber Stake Conference by Apostle Joseph F
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This
position I held until May 19, 1925, when the ward was again
reorganized
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Roberts Chairman, and was set
apart by Brigham H
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I held this position until April 13th 1927
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In 1934 I was transferred
into the High Priest class as instructor and I labored there until
Jan 3, 1937
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I am the father of six children, one boy and five girls
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12 August, 1901
LATTER-DAY SAINTS' MILLENNIAL STAR
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RIGBY of the Liverpool
Conference writes from Horwich under date of the
12th inst
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Elder Joseph
Eckersley of the Liverpool office baptized three of
them—his mother, sister and her husband—while
for the others the ordinance was performed by
Elder Oscar T
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Sister Eckersley is an invalid,
but on being baptized she was able to walk without
assistance—something she bad not done for upwards
of a twelvemonth
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Facer, and Elders
Eckersley, White and Richard P
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The
brethren laboring in that district feel much
encouraged, and believe the prospects for further
accessions to the fold quite favorable
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Rigby, in the
S a l t L a k e Temple Annex, November 10th, 1899, by Apostle Abraham Owen
Woodruff
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Rigby: In the authority of the Priesthood and
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Jesus
C h r i s t of Latter-day Saints, and confer upon you all the keys and
authority pertaining to this high and holy calling
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W e s e a l a n d c on fer upon you ev ery gift ands b lessing neces sa ry to
qualify you f or the faithful discharge of your duty, and every blessing
necessary to cause
and
your heart to rejoice on account of the wo rk off the Lord, and because of
your
being called to the ministry
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We bless you that you -shall seek diligently to acquire a

perfect testimony of the Gospel-and of its principles, that you shall become fully qualified and he able in your humble way' to successfully present
p

ia principles of the Gospel and to defend them
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all of the Scriptures revealed
of the Lord
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We bless you that you shall be able to make friends and
to adapt yourself to your surroundings and not feel that you are out of
place, or that the Lord has made a mistake in calling you, for He has
made no mistake
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We bless you that you shall be able
to present the principles of the Gospel in plainness
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We admonish
you to preach the first principles of the Gospel, that people may not take
offense at
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We bless you that you
make friends
at the fireside and obtain access to the homes of the people
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We bless you to this end,dedicate you to the Lord,reseal upon you you former
blessings,and say go in peace and return in safety, by sea and by land,heing
preserved,and that the inspiration of the Lore
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This we do
in the authority of the Priesthood and in the name of Jesus Christ
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-Leo Hunsaker, Reporter,

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By Jewel Rigby Widdison
In the summer of 1899 Hyrum L
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On Nov
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11, 1899
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Recta, their
little girl was 2 years old and LaVern their baby boy was 4 months of'
age
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2, 1899 taking 21 days, 13 of
which were on the Atlantic Ocean on the Steam Ship Rhyland
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He was released on Dec
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Sailed for home on the steam ship,
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11, 1902
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James Houghton to the gospel
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Houghton carved a souvenir for him to keep as a reminder
or' memento
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" He had carved
it with his pocket knife out of a thin flat 12" long piece of wood
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It has been a special keepsake for our family all these many years
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of' 1902
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2J, night that he arrived-by
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So anxious to get home to his family he turned up
his coat collar pulled down his hat and started out walking at 9:00 p
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in the snowstorm for Hooper, a distance of ten miles
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On his cold lonely dark walk from Ogden he was passed by only one horse
and buggy
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As he arrived at his home around three a
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in the morning he was
about frozen
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When a big knock came on the front door I guess it really frightened
my mother, but as you might guess not for long
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Many is the time her baby buggy sat in the

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snow with the children in it while she milked and did
her chores
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Her brother-in-law
Alma Rigby helped her a lot
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Rigby died on Nov
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As
he was being viewed in our home before his buriel, Mr
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Upon seeing the Home Sweet Home plague, pointed
out to us that it was he who had made it
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Rigby
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*Note* As the mission call came in the mail they could see that
it was from Box B
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Hyrum L
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D
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Church, leaving mother and
me and my little 9 month old brother Hyrum LaVerne
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Mother worked very hard
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She had quite a time
sometimes to get money to keep father
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Mother used to go there and work
earning some money on the side
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I shall never forget the
night he got home
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Instead of waiting until morning, he was so anxious to see us, he
decided to walk home
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I was just a little girl but I can remember how lonesome
mother was that night
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I remember she cried herself to sleep
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Mother raised up with a start and said, Who's there
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Let me in
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It sure was a happy meeting
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We were afraid of him
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(That was a neighbor's husband) It took us a day or
two to get used to him
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She got a
set of dishes and a picture of a dancing girl in a lovely pink
frame
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He had to walk from place to place, Was
led by inspiration
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Taught the gospel to the people,
Bore his testimony
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She worked hard to earn the living
And support her husband
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Labored hard the whole day through
Just to earn a dollar
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They're never too busy to help you,
And you'll always find them there
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With a word to lighten your burden,
And lift you back to the top
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We hope shell find new blessings
With every coming year
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The fountain of eternal youth
Bubbles in his soul
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His wisdom is supreme;
We think our Grandpa Rigsby
Is strickly "on the beam
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November 18, 1946



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