(Note: A special thought from William Tolman’s daughter, Loretta Tolman Thuesen, “One thing I remember about dad is when he said the family prayer, I was afraid to open my eyes because I was sure the Savior would be standing there. I never could figure out why I...
(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...
(Fanny Burgess gives a short history of her life). I was born January 27, 1829, in a small town called Battle, County of Sussex, of England. My Parents, Joseph Burgess and Martha Jarrett, were working people in a farming district. They were followers of John Wesley...
(A Tribute to Fanny Burgess Gorringe on her 65th Birthday written by Minnie Elizabeth Tolman Pickett We meet today to share our love and honor to our worthy sister, Fanny Gorringe, on this sixty-fifth anniversary of her birthday. Our loved president was born in...
(An account by Aaron Alexander Tolman, son of Cyrus Tolman and Alice Bracken, as related to Sarah Alexander Tolman, his niece in 1931.) I, Aaron Alexander Tolman, was herding sheep in the mountains of southern Idaho south of Kimberly and west of Oakley near Harrington...
(Judson Isaac Tolman relates experiences from his missionary service) It was October of 1894 that I received a call from the Church to fill a mission in the Southern States; we had two small children at that time and were expecting our third. I was to leave in April...
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...
(An account of two sisters, Hattie Naomi Tolman (pictured above) and Lydia Vilate Tolman (pictured below) as told by Glen Parley Tolman, Vilate’s third child. Jaren Tolman was their father. They lived in Bountiful and then married brothers and both moved to...
(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...
(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...
