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Robert Patefield Redford

Joining the Mormon church If the early history of Utah is ever completely written, it will reveal many instances of undaunted determination, perseverance, and self sacrifice in this country where each man or woman must carve out their own fortunes and be judged, not by what their ancestors have done,...

Lettice Eckersall Redford, The rest of the story

HISTORY OF LETTICE ECKERSALL REDFORD by MARY R. STODDARD, G.D. and ALTA C. BRENCHLEY, G.G.D. Sometime later she met and married Robert Patefield Redford, another mysteriously converted Saint on April 12th, 1841. Unto this union were born five boys and one girl. They managed a green grocery, going about the...

St.-Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands

Another adventure my brother and I (Charles Rowe) would like to hear Father tell. The ship he was sailing in had long been becalmed, no wind came to fill the sail and the ship just drifted. They were running short of food and their water had all gone. Father had...

Alfred’s Onions

Knows His Onions My great grandfather Alfred Salway had a successful greenhouse in Cardston, Alberta. Here is a newspaper article from the Lethbridge Herald Thursday, November 23, 1944. It is ironic that I do not like onions so it must not be genetic.