Tag: pioneer women
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Eliza Maria Partridge: Faith in Navigating Trials
“I thought my trials were very severe in the line and I am often led to wonder how it was that a person of my temperament could get along with it and not rebel, but I know it was the Lord who kept me from opposing his plans although in my heart I felt that
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Jane Manning James poem
A poem written by Lydia Clisbee Partridge, wife of Edward Partridge, the first bishop of the restored church. The poem is written about Jane Manning James, and how she followed a prompting to share what little she had with the Partridge family in the early days of the Pioneers relocating to the Salt Lake Valley.
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Female Figures at the Cross and Sepulchre
“In the life of Christ, [we can] see the devotion that was shown by a woman. She was the last to linger at the cross and was first at the Sepulchre.” -Helen Mar Whitney “The voices of one of the poor females of Utah,” Woman’s Exponent, March 15th 1883 page 157
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Alice Morrey Bailey’s Tribute to Pioneer Women
Pioneer Woman (1947) by Alice Morrey Bailey They say she wept when she first saw the land That swept unbroken into the salten sea, The unfenced sage, the single cedar tree- The shimmering heat strained taut the last frail strand Of her endurance. Wagon-choking sand Seemed bitter lot- too hard the stern decree Of wilderness-
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Exploring Pioneer Life through Helen Mar Whitney’s Eyes
“I will pack away all my little ribbons, collars and laces, etc., for we are going where we cannot purchase them. We are going out from the world to live beyond the Rocky Mountains where none others will wish to go. There will be neither rich nor poor among us, and we will have none
Written In Pink 