The Miracle of the Peaches

The Miracle of the Peaches

(Picture: Margaret Eliza Utley and Maggie Belle Tolman) The following story is told by Maggie Belle Tolman Porter, daughter of Cyrus Tolman and Margaret Eliza Utley Tolman. I had miraculous answers to my childish prayers; through those answers my faith grew into...
William Odell Tolman’s Call to the Mission Field and 24 Miracles

William Odell Tolman’s Call to the Mission Field and 24 Miracles

(Excerpts from “William Odell Tolman: Patriarch, Genealogist, Teacher,” compiled by Loraine Tolman Pace, First Edition, 2009, pages 19-24). I would like to record here a little detail about my call to go on a mission. It was unusual for a boy in our little ward to go...
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...
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,...
No Purse or Scrip

No Purse or Scrip

(Hattie Stinger Tolman shares her memory of her father’s return from the mission field. William Alvin Tolman is pictured third from the left on the second row). “I remember two experiences pa told us about when he was on his mission. About the time he was...

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