A Legacy of Faith and Tender Mercies

A Legacy of Faith and Tender Mercies

Picture: Joshua Alvin and Mary Jane Gorringe Tolman and Family in 1901. (Top Row: Cyrus Oakley, Owen Joshua, Mary Alice, William Alvin, Lydia Ann, Joseph Osborn, Parley Lambert; Middle Row: Daniel Henry, Joshua Alvin, Louisa Hancock, Fannie Burgess, Rulon Burl, Mary...

Joshua Alvin Tolman and Mary Jane Gorringe Home

1901 family photo in Oakley or Marion, Idaho. (Standing L to R: Cyrus Oakley, Owen Joshua, Mary Alice, William Alvin, Lydia Ann, Joseph Osborn, Parley Lambert; Sitting L to R: Daniel Henry, Joshua Alvin, Louisa Hancock, Fannie Burgess, Rulon Burl, Mary Jane, Front:...
First Days in Oakley: A Stove Explodes

First Days in Oakley: A Stove Explodes

(From short history of Alice Bracken written by her daughter Minnie Elizabeth Tolman Pickett. She describes her family’s arrival to the Oakley Valley.) I well remember the day we drove down into the Oakley valley. The weather was hot and dry, the dust five or...
God will be our Physician

God will be our Physician

(Miraculous story about William Alvin Tolman, pictured above. Contributed by the Thomas Tolman Family Organization with quotations from Mary Jane Gorringe and Minnie Elizabeth Tolman Pickett.) They were married the 12th day of December, 1878, in Salt Lake City, Utah,...
Joshua Alvin Tolman’s Faith

Joshua Alvin Tolman’s Faith

(From a short history of Joshua Alvin Tolman written by his daughter Louisa Hancock Tolman) Joshua Alvin and his brothers filed on some land at Marion, Idaho. Father built a one-room cabin and returned to Salt Lake that fall for his wife and two children, William and...
My Grandma Mary Jane

My Grandma Mary Jane

(Written by Hattie Tolman Stinger about the only grandparent she remembers, Grandma Mary Jane) Grandma Mary Jane Gorringe (Tolman), my father’s mother was the only grandparent that I remember. We lived about 1 1/2 miles from her. Grandma had a parlor that was...
A Tribute to Joshua Alvin Tolman and Mary Jane Gorringe

A Tribute to Joshua Alvin Tolman and Mary Jane Gorringe

1901 family photo in Oakley or Marion, Idaho. (Standing L to R: Cyrus Oakley, Owen Joshua, Mary Alice, William Alvin, Lydia Ann, Joseph Osborn, Parley Lambert; Sitting L to R: Daniel Henry, Joshua Alvin, Louisa Hancock, Fannie Burgess, Rulon Burl, Mary Jane, Front:...

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