Sharing our Links to the Past
by Wally and Frances Gray
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Ella Gladys Barker (Mrs. Hugh Cheney Anderson) (1905-1995)
The Theodore Turley Family Book, pp. 523-525
I was born Feb. 3, 1905 in Fairview, Utah. I married Hugh Cheney Anderson on Sept. 2, 1925 in the Manti Temple. To this union was born five children.
I spent most of my childhood on the Barker farm north of Fairview where my mother, Ella, lived as a child�part of the time moving to Fairview in the winter time. Those were happy times. My mother would read to us and my father would sing. Every night was "family night."
I started teaching Sunday School when I was 17 years old, and have taught in the organization most of my life. I graduated from high school, intending to go to college, but my mother had a very serious heart attack. The second time we almost lost her, so for the next three and one-half years I cared for my six brothers and my father and mother. I felt this was more of a blessing than a burden because besides being very fond of my brothers I felt I was better prepared for marriage than the average girl.
When Hugh Anderson and I were married we moved to Provo, Utah where he finished his schooling at BYU. Our children were all gifted musically, so we spent many wonderful times around the piano singing. My husband taught school and we have a small farm which is large enough to keep our four boys busy. Three of them have served in the armed forces, and one has served on a mission. All of our children are and have been active in the Church.
My greatest joy besides our family was working in the Manti Temple with my husband as ordinance workers for four years until my husband passed away Nov. 26, 1971. I am still working there. My hobbies are flowers and art-work painting. We have 21 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren.
Children of Ella Gladys Barker and Hugh Cheney Anderson:
Robert Hugh Anderson
Ella Florine Anderson Nielson
Orrin Dale Anderson
John Carroll Anderson,
Terry Gene Anderson
[Death date from IGI]
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