This weekend we distributed many ancestral heirlooms to various descendants--treasures dispersing through the generations and across the country. A few captured here to remember:
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| Elizabeth Fox's hymnal |
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| Nita's wedding ring: two diamonds for time & eternity |
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| the full-size pioneer quilt of Elizabeth Fox and Annie Hatch |
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Elizabeth Fox's pioneer plate that came from England,
crossed the plains, and has passed down through the matriarchal line for six generations |
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| Elizabeth's hymnal |
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| Annie Hatch's button box |
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| pioneer buttons |
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| pioneer rug beater |
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| Blanche Woodland's Christmas plates |
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| the Annie dress in action |
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| Annie Hatch's pioneer dress (Nita Welch loved to wear this for DUP events) |
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| on her great-granddaughter |
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| four generations of Welch women |
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| showing off the back of the dress |
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| the interior button placket |
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| picture brought back from Daniel Woodland's mission to Japan, 1905 |
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collar box brought back from Daniel Woodland's mission to Japan, 1905
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| Mary Sorensen's coffee mug (there's a pioneer story about that) |
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| close up of Mary's mug |
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| from the Welches' New Zealand mission ship crossing in 1917 |
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| Eulalia Welch's bowl |
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| heirloom dolls |
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| clothes, boots, hats, gloves from the trunk |
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| John Shaw Welch, 1907: heirloom scriptures |
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| Nita presiding with her collection |
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| the result of Blanche Woodland's dressmaking school skills |
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| Blanche's wedding dress and pink dress on her great-granddaughters |
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| Welch dishes |
So grateful for this rich pioneer heritage and the legacies passed down through the stories, artifacts, and people who loved them.
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