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    Elizabeth Jane Wilson Peck ~ part 2

  • Jennie was very popular with the young people and had many beaus.  She worked in the daytime sewing, and still had time for parties and dances at night.  Alpine was just a few miles away and many of their good times were had there.  Jennie and Mary Lee had been saving their money to go to the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple, which they did by riding the train to Salt Lake, brought their lunch and sat on the edge of the sidewalk near the old tithing office to eat it.  They stayed in Salt Lake overnight with friends.

    Jennie's sister, Mary Lee, married George Myers of Highland.  Jennie met good-looking Elisha Peck, and after a stormy off and on courtship, she decided that she loved him and wanted to be his bride.  He had built a small houose in Lehi and she collected rags and sewed and cut them, to be woven into a lovely rug for her kitchen of their new home.  They were married in Salt Lake Temple, 20 Mar 1895.

    The years were good to them.   They raised five wonderful children and both she and her husband were very active in the church and encouraged their family to do the same.  Her children were Elmina Jane who married Linel Larsen, Hazel Charlotte who married Bernell Bateman (who died) and then married Arnold Schlappy, Elisha Odell Peck and Emory Virgil Peck.   Her husband passed away two months before she did, at the age of 79, a week before his eightieth birthday, in November 1951.  Jennie died 30 January 1952 at the age of 76 years, and was buried at Lehi Cemetery.

    Some of the things that are being remembered were that Jennie and Elisha served on the Lehi Old Folks Committee for twenty years, she was active in the Ward Relief Society, serving on the quilting committee and in the burial department for many years, making clothing for the dead and helping to lay them out.  She maintained the home during the absence of her husband on his many missions, and active church life.  Her home was filled with love and kindness and was a place of refuge, not only to her own family but for many others whom she welcomed and mothered.  She helped raise many of her nieces and nephews after the death of their own mother.  She took care of her father for many years before his passing and her mother before her long illness took her, even though her own health was not of the best.  She suffered from Diabetes, a desease which was responsible for her own death.

    StevenGWilson49added this on 28 Feb 2008

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