William (Billy) Eugene Davis
#1631, b. 20 February 1930
William (Billy) Eugene Davis|b. 20 Feb 1930|p87.htm#i1631|Dovie Marie Cobble||p71.htm#i1630||||||||||||||||
William was born on 20 February 1930. He is the son of Dovie Marie Cobble. He married Mary Alice Williams in 1949.
Andrew (Andy) Day
#3109
He married Gayden Scott at Jackson,, Hinds county,, Mississippi, on 20 June 1987. .....the wedding took place in Jackson with the reception at The Schrock House in Schrock, Mississippi.....
Children of Andrew (Andy) Day and Gayden Scott
- Jourdan Leigh Day b. 26 Jun 1990
- Justin Scott Day b. 26 Jun 1990
- Lauren Nichole Day b. 28 Jun 1995
Elizabeth Day
#2532
Elizabeth Day||p87.htm#i2532|Pierce Brooks Day||p87.htm#i2533|Laura Mims||p211.htm#i2534|||||||||||||
Elizabeth Day is the daughter of Pierce Brooks Day and Laura Mims. She married James Oscar (Jr) Butler on 30 July 1949.
Jourdan Leigh Day
#4748, b. 26 June 1990
Jourdan Leigh Day|b. 26 Jun 1990|p87.htm#i4748|Andrew (Andy) Day||p87.htm#i3109|Gayden Scott||p267.htm#i3108|||||||William H. Scott||p267.htm#i3106|Sylvia C. Shrock|b. 21 Aug 1935|p275.htm#i3105|
Jourdan was born on 26 June 1990. She is the daughter of Andrew (Andy) Day and Gayden Scott.
....Jourdan is a twin to Justin Scott Day....
....Jourdan is a twin to Justin Scott Day....
Justin Scott Day
#4749, b. 26 June 1990
Justin Scott Day|b. 26 Jun 1990|p87.htm#i4749|Andrew (Andy) Day||p87.htm#i3109|Gayden Scott||p267.htm#i3108|||||||William H. Scott||p267.htm#i3106|Sylvia C. Shrock|b. 21 Aug 1935|p275.htm#i3105|
Justin was born on 26 June 1990. He is the son of Andrew (Andy) Day and Gayden Scott.
...Justin is a twin to Jourday Leigh Day...
...Justin is a twin to Jourday Leigh Day...
Lauren Nichole Day
#4750, b. 28 June 1995
Lauren Nichole Day|b. 28 Jun 1995|p87.htm#i4750|Andrew (Andy) Day||p87.htm#i3109|Gayden Scott||p267.htm#i3108|||||||William H. Scott||p267.htm#i3106|Sylvia C. Shrock|b. 21 Aug 1935|p275.htm#i3105|
Lauren was born on 28 June 1995. She is the daughter of Andrew (Andy) Day and Gayden Scott.
Annette Daybell
#6572, b. 21 February 1957
Annette Daybell|b. 21 Feb 1957|p87.htm#i6572|Clyde William Daybell|b. 13 Jul 1926|p87.htm#i6568|Ruby Ann Eckman|b. 13 Nov 1928|p111.htm#i6567|||||||Roy W. Eckman|b. 19 May 1898|p111.htm#i6547|Gladys T. Dayton|b. 11 Oct 1901|p89.htm#i6546|
Annette Daybell was born on 21 February 1957 at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah. She is the daughter of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman.
Clyde William Daybell
#6568, b. 13 July 1926
Clyde William Daybell was born on 13 July 1926 at Magna, Utah. He married Ruby Ann Eckman, daughter of Roy Waldemar Eckman and Gladys Treganna Dayton, on 19 July 1948.
Children of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman
- Ernest Brent Daybell b. 7 Jun 1949
- Randall Clyde Daybell b. 19 Aug 1950
- Dennis Roy Daybell b. 22 Aug 1953
- Annette Daybell b. 21 Feb 1957
- Shauna Jean Daybell b. 4 May 1958
Dennis Roy Daybell
#6571, b. 22 August 1953
Dennis Roy Daybell|b. 22 Aug 1953|p87.htm#i6571|Clyde William Daybell|b. 13 Jul 1926|p87.htm#i6568|Ruby Ann Eckman|b. 13 Nov 1928|p111.htm#i6567|||||||Roy W. Eckman|b. 19 May 1898|p111.htm#i6547|Gladys T. Dayton|b. 11 Oct 1901|p89.htm#i6546|
Dennis Roy Daybell was born on 22 August 1953 at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah. He is the son of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman.
Ernest Brent Daybell
#6569, b. 7 June 1949
Ernest Brent Daybell|b. 7 Jun 1949|p87.htm#i6569|Clyde William Daybell|b. 13 Jul 1926|p87.htm#i6568|Ruby Ann Eckman|b. 13 Nov 1928|p111.htm#i6567|||||||Roy W. Eckman|b. 19 May 1898|p111.htm#i6547|Gladys T. Dayton|b. 11 Oct 1901|p89.htm#i6546|
Ernest Brent Daybell was born on 7 June 1949 at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah. He is the son of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman.
Randall Clyde Daybell
#6570, b. 19 August 1950
Randall Clyde Daybell|b. 19 Aug 1950|p87.htm#i6570|Clyde William Daybell|b. 13 Jul 1926|p87.htm#i6568|Ruby Ann Eckman|b. 13 Nov 1928|p111.htm#i6567|||||||Roy W. Eckman|b. 19 May 1898|p111.htm#i6547|Gladys T. Dayton|b. 11 Oct 1901|p89.htm#i6546|
Randall Clyde Daybell was born on 19 August 1950 at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah. He is the son of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman.
Shauna Jean Daybell
#6573, b. 4 May 1958
Shauna Jean Daybell|b. 4 May 1958|p87.htm#i6573|Clyde William Daybell|b. 13 Jul 1926|p87.htm#i6568|Ruby Ann Eckman|b. 13 Nov 1928|p111.htm#i6567|||||||Roy W. Eckman|b. 19 May 1898|p111.htm#i6547|Gladys T. Dayton|b. 11 Oct 1901|p89.htm#i6546|
Shauna Jean Daybell was born on 4 May 1958 at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah. She is the daughter of Clyde William Daybell and Ruby Ann Eckman.
Abraham Dayton
#1056, b. 1715, d. 1780
Abraham Dayton|b. 1715\nd. 1780|p87.htm#i1056|Caleb Dayton|b. 4 Oct 1688\nd. 18 May 1758|p88.htm#i1059|Mary Foote|b. 1670|p121.htm#i1060|Abraham Dayton|b. 1656\nd. 1712|p87.htm#i1062|Mary Beardsley|b. 1658\nd. 1692|p20.htm#i1061|||||||
Abraham was born in 1715 at New Town, Fairfield county, Connecut. He was the son of Caleb Dayton and Mary Foote. He married Abiah Beardsley on 14 April 1743. Abraham died in 1780 at New Milford,, Connecut. His body was interred at New Milford,, Connecut, at Northville cemetery.
Children of Abraham Dayton and Abiah Beardsley
- Eunice Dayton b. c 1745
- Abraham Dayton b. c 1748
- Elizabeth Dayton b. c 1751, d. 20 Oct 1757
- Josiah Dayton b. c 1753
- Elizabeth Dayton b. c 1757
- Ruben Dayton b. c 1759
- Friend Dayton+ b. 1762
Abraham Dayton
#1062, b. 1656, d. 1712
Abraham Dayton|b. 1656\nd. 1712|p87.htm#i1062|Samuel Dayton|b. 7 Feb 1624\nd. 5 Jul 1690|p91.htm#i1063|Medlin (a Montauck indian) ( ? )|b. 1624\nd. 1666|p3.htm#i1064|Ralph Dayton|b. 1588\nd. 22 Sep 1658|p90.htm#i1065|Alice Goldhatch||p130.htm#i1066|||||||
Abraham was born in 1656 at South Hampton,, New York. He was the son of Samuel Dayton and Medlin (a Montauck indian) ( ? ). He married Mary Beardsley. Abraham died in 1712.
Child of Abraham Dayton and Mary Beardsley
- Caleb Dayton+ b. 4 Oct 1688, d. 18 May 1758
Abraham Dayton
#3595, b. circa 1748
Abraham Dayton|b. c 1748|p87.htm#i3595|Abraham Dayton|b. 1715\nd. 1780|p87.htm#i1056|Abiah Beardsley||p19.htm#i1057|Caleb Dayton|b. 4 Oct 1688\nd. 18 May 1758|p88.htm#i1059|Mary Foote|b. 1670|p121.htm#i1060|||||||
Abraham was born circa 1748 at New Milford,, Connecut. He was the son of Abraham Dayton and Abiah Beardsley.
Ada Ellen Dayton
#419, b. 4 July 1915
Ada Ellen Dayton|b. 4 Jul 1915|p87.htm#i419|Wilford Leo Dayton|b. 19 Feb 1875\nd. 6 Mar 1966|p91.htm#i978|Corintha Ellen Olmstead|b. 22 Sep 1882\nd. 22 Oct 1970|p222.htm#i979|Alma T. Dayton|b. 4 Dec 1846\nd. 4 Feb 1933|p88.htm#i980|Amanda E. Hudson|b. 7 Sep 1849\nd. 3 Sep 1925|p163.htm#i981|Daniel P. Olmstead|b. 10 Sep 1854\nd. 24 May 1924|p222.htm#i1017|Mary J. Cooper|b. 12 Jan 1860\nd. 22 Aug 1943|p76.htm#i1018|
Ada was born on 4 July 1915 at Iona,, Bonneville county,, Idaho. She is the daughter of Wilford Leo Dayton and Corintha Ellen Olmstead. She was baptized at Arco,, Butte county,, Idaho, on 4 August 1923. She married William Frank Davies at Salt Lake City,, Salt Lake county,, Utah, on 6 June 1936.
She was blessed on 15 July 1915. Ada was Blessed by her father Wilford Leo Dayton. Ada was confirmed at age 8 on 5 August 1923. Ada was confirmed by Ira Wayne Boyer, Sr.. Recollections by Mary Elizabeth Dayton written in 1971.
Ada started school in Darlington, Idaho, September 1922, in a little red 2 room school house by the side of the road. The 1st four grades were in one room and sessions ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Ada didn't "think much of school". The family moved to Arco in the spring of 1923, where her dad helped farm the Chamberlain ranch. Started 2nd grade, walked to school down the railroad tracks. Moved to Old Arco and the Ferris ranch in November and rode the school bus (an old covered wagon pulled by 2 horses) to school.In the winter sleigh runners were used instead of wheels on the bus. Moved to Arco in fall of 1925, lived at 1st just above the canal, then at the top of the hill, then to the little house below the canal, and then to the house near the church. Moved to Salt Lake City in the winter of 1930 (January or February) with Mother and Opal. Graduated from West High School in 193x. Worked at McDonald Candy Company. Ada was a little brown-eyed birdie. After having two blue-eyed daughters and three brown-eyed boys, Mother's little name-sake Ellen had Mother's pretty brown eyes. With her pretty brown eyes, curly brown hair, and peaches and cream complexion she was as pretty as a little robin and was called Birdie Ellen. I have faint recollections of Ada and Opal in Iona, with Dad singing to them, bouncing them on his knee or foot and singing, "Shoe go Bare" or "I love you to my heart, I love you to my liver, If I had you in my arms I'd throw you in the river." And he would toss them up in the air. I think of Ada and Opal as little butterflies in a church program in Darlington. Beatrice was home for the summer and taught them ballet dance and played for them to dance. Ada started school in Darlington and when she came home from school one night crying because of something the teacher had said or done, Beatrice told her not to cry, that she knew more than the teacher aanyway, and Ada went to school and told the teacher and I got blamed for it. We either walked to school or rode horses.
Ada, Wen, and I straddle of the old black mare, or Ada and I on Kernel and Wen on the old mare. One night as we were going home the horse floundered in the snow and fell and threw us into a big snow drift. And for a minute I couldn't find my little sister and I was so frightened. And all the time she was under me, buried deep in the snow, just laughing. Ada took mandolin lessons in Arco while Opal took violin lessons and I thumped the piano. Unfortunately we always had something else we wanted to do and never practiced enough to do any of us any good. Ada also took tap dancing and Opal would stand in the door and watch..Then they would come home and teach me. One time Beatrice came home and we taught her some steps and she went back to school and taught her class. How's that for getting your money's worth out of lessons? Ada, Winona Winger and Pearl Maynard became inseparable friends and had lots of fun together. We had an empty house next door which they called the haunted house and one time they almost scared themselves to death in it. And they would get love stories and read them with "pathos." How they could get carried away. Ada had a little brown dog named "Whoopee." One night someone gave him a drink of moonshine booze and Ada was about ready to kill a few people. Mother moved to Salt Lake in early 1930 and as soon as she got settled she sent for Ada & Opal. Wen taught me to play pinochle and on Saturdays and Sundays Ada and Opal would feed us so that we didn't have to stop our games. She came back to visit Leland and me several times and we had lots of fun together. I remember one time she stayed in town with Winnie and they walked out to the ranch--eight hot miles of dusty road. She was with us when we moved from one little house to a shack on our own land. After a few drinks of sake we made a quick job of moving. We relayed things from the car to the hourse and miraculously nothing was broken. I went to Salt Lake several times to visit and the house was always full of boys, and she was always off to a dance or a party. But "Hank" wouldn't give up and finally convinced Ada she should marry him. Ada was married in June and Opal in September, so Mother and I went to Blackfoot, picked up Grandmother Olmstead and moved to Los Angeles. By the next spring Grandmother was lonesome for her little home in Blackfoot so she went home and as soon as Mother heard that the girls expected their babies in the spring she was anxious to get back to be with her girls and new grandchildren. When the twins were born on July 15, 1937, Beatrice, Arta and I piled into my Ford coupe and headed to Salt Lake. Mother was staying with Ada and she and Arta slept on the little sleeping porch. Beatrice and I slept on the bed and Frank slept on the cot. I came in late one night and as I crawled over Mother she said, "Don't wake sister." So I tiptoed in, pulled off my dress and crawled into bed. But before doing so I very carefully pulled a pillow out from under Bea's head because she never slept with one and I knew she would have a stiff neck. The next morning I got up and asked where Bea was, Mother said that she had stayed all night with a friend. And I asked who I had slept with then, and Mother said she guess that was why Frank had got out of the house so fast that mornng. Ada's twins were identical, even to weight, but one of them was red and one yellow. Ada called them her little Indian and Chinaman. The nurses were so fond of them they would hold them and rock them to sleep and they never got over it. They were blue-eyed blonds. Sixteen months later another blue-eyed blond arived and they named her Diane. But by this time the twins were toilet trained and fed themselves. Diane was a big baby at birth, but stayed tiny. When Frankie was born she couldn't reach the door knob. What dolls those three were. What joy there was when Frank Jr. arrived on Christmas Eve 1940. And no one cared that he was also blond and blue-eyed. Then two and a half years later his little brother turned out to be a sister. Ada took one look at her and said, "It's a good thing you have brown eyes and hair. If you'd been a blue-eyed girl I'd have given you back." Ada, Mother and the twins came to California when the twins were six months old. They stayed with me about a month and I was late for work every day. I'd pick the babies up and then have to brush the lint off my clothes and then they would gurgle at me and I would go through it all again. Ada and Frank moved to California in 1940 and stayed with me until we bought our houses. We bought our houses for $2600, $50 down (if you had it), and $26 a month. Ada's home was at 3707 W. 116th Street, in Hawthorne, and she is still livving there. Just recently they had an offer of $25,000. When the children were little Ada always had time to play with them and enjoy them. She said she could do the work when the babies were grown up. As they started school she became involved in PTA, Girl Scouts, and Cub Scouts. For every party at school each child would volunteer Ada to make cakes, cookies, or whatever was needed. So it was always five of everything. One day she asked if none of the other children had mothers and the kids said, Yes, Mama, but their mothers don't want to do it. I became involved with everything, too. The children would say, "My mama will do and so will my Aunt Mary." And so we did. Ada could sew up a storm and many a time after the kids were put to bed on Saturday nights Ada would cut out dresses and have them sewn and ready for the girls to wear to Sunday School in the morning. When the kids were all married she would make mother-daughter dresses and father-son shirts for the whole family, then as the number of grandchildren grew she stopped making the mother-father outfits but every Christmas and Easter all the grandchildren had new "Grandma" outfits. She always had a houseful of young people. All the children brought their friends home to meet "Mama and Daddy." She and Frank were never too busy to have the young people around or to take them to a dance or party. So the children stayed close. Ada taught her family at an early age, They learned to cook sew, and keep house. Even Frankie liked to cook and liked to make oatmeal mush for his baby sister. When the older girls were in high school Ada went to work and the girls were responsible for the house. They had to do the meal planning, buying, cooking, and house work, and they each took their turns doing it. And they vied with each other on cutting costs and putting out good meals. I lived at the end of the block from Ada and we had lots of fun together. She didn't drive in those days and everytime I took the car out I would see if Ada wanted to go. And she usually did. We'd pick up the kids and go shopping, or picknicking, or to the beach or visiting. We'd be riding along and see a road we had never been on and we would turn down it to see where it went The kids would say, "Let's get lost, Aunt Mary, Let's go that way." It must have been in the ummer of 1943, that we decided to go to Salt Lake for the Fourth of July. I was working and since the Fourth came on a Thurdsay I had Friday off. So Ada and I packed up and left. There was a hole in the gas tank and if it were over half full it started leaking. But that didn't faze us. The tires were also poor and gas was still rationed. I was supposed to have got off early, but every one else disappeared and it was dark before I got out home and picked up the kids. Ada had packed a lunch and off we started. We couldn't travel over 50 miles an hour, and with the detours we couldn't make that most of the time..We took a short cut out of town and got lost and sun up found us at Baker--hot as hades. I had pulled off the road there and caught a few minutes sleep alongside the road. The children were restlessly sleeping..Poor Ada was trying to stay awake because I had to. By the time we got to Las Vegas the kids were all asleep except Frankie who woke up and had to wet. We knew if we stopped they would all wake up. There were lots of empty bottles along the side of the road so I pulled off the road and Ada opened the door and snagged a bottle as we came up to it. So Frankie used the bottle and no one woke up. We arrived in Salt Lake about dark and there was no one home at Mother's. So we laid down on the cool lawn until they came home about midnight. We rested up on Friday and started back about noon Saturday. At dusk when I turned the car lights on we found that the generator was not working.. We managed to get into Cedar City before the garage closed and fix the generator but we had to buy a new one after all his work. So we drove all night and finally got home about noon on Sunday. When I went to work on Monday no one could believe what we had done. Then there was the time we started out again in the old Ford for Fresno. By this time the car used as much oil as it did gas. As we pulled out of Los Angeles I noticed that the brakes wern't working so I stopped at the garage where Cal worked to have him fix them.He said that he didn't think it was safe for us to go, so he did some more work and finally said, " The Lord takes care of fools and children, and there are three fools and five children so go on." We were taking Mother up to see Beatrice. We arrived there about midnight--we'd left after I got off work Friday. Sunday we gathered eight or ten dozen eggs, made lunch and Cool Ade and started back. It was hot as hades and we had the windows open so everyone got windblown and all the kids were covered from one end to the other with red Cool Ade. We started up the grapevine and the car conked out. We managed to limp back to Bakersfield and park the car. Then we went to the Grayhound bus station. What a motley mess we were, Two rumpled dirty adults, five dirty windblown children, eggs, suitcases, bed rolls. Ada and I took a good look at ourselves and sat down in the middle of the station and laughed our heads off. We had a neighbor who gave the kids a bunch of hats to play with. There were really some fancy ones. So one night when our husbands went off drinking by themselves Ada and I got all dolled up in the hats and went out on the town. What a captive audience we had. The men flocked around us and said, "Boy a hat sure does something for a woman." Ada and I laughed about it for years. We used to have neighborhood parties and would get the table talking and have more fun with it. We also got an ouija board that we had fun with. One day we were sitting on the lawn and asked the board what was going on in the neighborhood and it said, "Mary is sick." We asked it what was the matter and it said, "Stupidity." Then it said the same thing about Ada. When we first moved into the neighborhood everyone shared with everyone else. We were all new and we cherished each blade of grass. We'd pooled our money and bought a posthole digger and a shovel, and I think someone fell over a roller on the way home one night so brought it along with them so we could roll our lawns when we planted them. Every day we would go up and down the street counting the blades of grass on each lawn. Everyone on the street had children except me, but there were always as many kids at my house as anybodys. If you gave one child something you had to have enought for all the children because they shared and shared alike. During the war years every time we would go out in the car we would have to pick up all the "soldier boys' on the road because the chidren insisted. I'm not sure the "soldier boys" always appreciated having a lap full of kids but the kids enjoyed it. We had so many happy times together, and did so many zany things. It would have been a lonesome life for me if it hadn't been for Ada and the kids. And there was the time Ada and I stopped at the corner pub for a beer and happened to sit down by her drunken neighbor who was asleep on the bar. Suddenly he woke up took one look at me and started to swing because he thought I was his blond wife. And for the life of me I can't remember how the red lanterns came to be in the garage one morning. How blessed I am and how I thank the Lord for my brothers and sisters and my parents. And how grateful I am that we will be a family in eternity.
She was blessed on 15 July 1915. Ada was Blessed by her father Wilford Leo Dayton. Ada was confirmed at age 8 on 5 August 1923. Ada was confirmed by Ira Wayne Boyer, Sr.. Recollections by Mary Elizabeth Dayton written in 1971.
Ada started school in Darlington, Idaho, September 1922, in a little red 2 room school house by the side of the road. The 1st four grades were in one room and sessions ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Ada didn't "think much of school". The family moved to Arco in the spring of 1923, where her dad helped farm the Chamberlain ranch. Started 2nd grade, walked to school down the railroad tracks. Moved to Old Arco and the Ferris ranch in November and rode the school bus (an old covered wagon pulled by 2 horses) to school.In the winter sleigh runners were used instead of wheels on the bus. Moved to Arco in fall of 1925, lived at 1st just above the canal, then at the top of the hill, then to the little house below the canal, and then to the house near the church. Moved to Salt Lake City in the winter of 1930 (January or February) with Mother and Opal. Graduated from West High School in 193x. Worked at McDonald Candy Company. Ada was a little brown-eyed birdie. After having two blue-eyed daughters and three brown-eyed boys, Mother's little name-sake Ellen had Mother's pretty brown eyes. With her pretty brown eyes, curly brown hair, and peaches and cream complexion she was as pretty as a little robin and was called Birdie Ellen. I have faint recollections of Ada and Opal in Iona, with Dad singing to them, bouncing them on his knee or foot and singing, "Shoe go Bare" or "I love you to my heart, I love you to my liver, If I had you in my arms I'd throw you in the river." And he would toss them up in the air. I think of Ada and Opal as little butterflies in a church program in Darlington. Beatrice was home for the summer and taught them ballet dance and played for them to dance. Ada started school in Darlington and when she came home from school one night crying because of something the teacher had said or done, Beatrice told her not to cry, that she knew more than the teacher aanyway, and Ada went to school and told the teacher and I got blamed for it. We either walked to school or rode horses.
Ada, Wen, and I straddle of the old black mare, or Ada and I on Kernel and Wen on the old mare. One night as we were going home the horse floundered in the snow and fell and threw us into a big snow drift. And for a minute I couldn't find my little sister and I was so frightened. And all the time she was under me, buried deep in the snow, just laughing. Ada took mandolin lessons in Arco while Opal took violin lessons and I thumped the piano. Unfortunately we always had something else we wanted to do and never practiced enough to do any of us any good. Ada also took tap dancing and Opal would stand in the door and watch..Then they would come home and teach me. One time Beatrice came home and we taught her some steps and she went back to school and taught her class. How's that for getting your money's worth out of lessons? Ada, Winona Winger and Pearl Maynard became inseparable friends and had lots of fun together. We had an empty house next door which they called the haunted house and one time they almost scared themselves to death in it. And they would get love stories and read them with "pathos." How they could get carried away. Ada had a little brown dog named "Whoopee." One night someone gave him a drink of moonshine booze and Ada was about ready to kill a few people. Mother moved to Salt Lake in early 1930 and as soon as she got settled she sent for Ada & Opal. Wen taught me to play pinochle and on Saturdays and Sundays Ada and Opal would feed us so that we didn't have to stop our games. She came back to visit Leland and me several times and we had lots of fun together. I remember one time she stayed in town with Winnie and they walked out to the ranch--eight hot miles of dusty road. She was with us when we moved from one little house to a shack on our own land. After a few drinks of sake we made a quick job of moving. We relayed things from the car to the hourse and miraculously nothing was broken. I went to Salt Lake several times to visit and the house was always full of boys, and she was always off to a dance or a party. But "Hank" wouldn't give up and finally convinced Ada she should marry him. Ada was married in June and Opal in September, so Mother and I went to Blackfoot, picked up Grandmother Olmstead and moved to Los Angeles. By the next spring Grandmother was lonesome for her little home in Blackfoot so she went home and as soon as Mother heard that the girls expected their babies in the spring she was anxious to get back to be with her girls and new grandchildren. When the twins were born on July 15, 1937, Beatrice, Arta and I piled into my Ford coupe and headed to Salt Lake. Mother was staying with Ada and she and Arta slept on the little sleeping porch. Beatrice and I slept on the bed and Frank slept on the cot. I came in late one night and as I crawled over Mother she said, "Don't wake sister." So I tiptoed in, pulled off my dress and crawled into bed. But before doing so I very carefully pulled a pillow out from under Bea's head because she never slept with one and I knew she would have a stiff neck. The next morning I got up and asked where Bea was, Mother said that she had stayed all night with a friend. And I asked who I had slept with then, and Mother said she guess that was why Frank had got out of the house so fast that mornng. Ada's twins were identical, even to weight, but one of them was red and one yellow. Ada called them her little Indian and Chinaman. The nurses were so fond of them they would hold them and rock them to sleep and they never got over it. They were blue-eyed blonds. Sixteen months later another blue-eyed blond arived and they named her Diane. But by this time the twins were toilet trained and fed themselves. Diane was a big baby at birth, but stayed tiny. When Frankie was born she couldn't reach the door knob. What dolls those three were. What joy there was when Frank Jr. arrived on Christmas Eve 1940. And no one cared that he was also blond and blue-eyed. Then two and a half years later his little brother turned out to be a sister. Ada took one look at her and said, "It's a good thing you have brown eyes and hair. If you'd been a blue-eyed girl I'd have given you back." Ada, Mother and the twins came to California when the twins were six months old. They stayed with me about a month and I was late for work every day. I'd pick the babies up and then have to brush the lint off my clothes and then they would gurgle at me and I would go through it all again. Ada and Frank moved to California in 1940 and stayed with me until we bought our houses. We bought our houses for $2600, $50 down (if you had it), and $26 a month. Ada's home was at 3707 W. 116th Street, in Hawthorne, and she is still livving there. Just recently they had an offer of $25,000. When the children were little Ada always had time to play with them and enjoy them. She said she could do the work when the babies were grown up. As they started school she became involved in PTA, Girl Scouts, and Cub Scouts. For every party at school each child would volunteer Ada to make cakes, cookies, or whatever was needed. So it was always five of everything. One day she asked if none of the other children had mothers and the kids said, Yes, Mama, but their mothers don't want to do it. I became involved with everything, too. The children would say, "My mama will do and so will my Aunt Mary." And so we did. Ada could sew up a storm and many a time after the kids were put to bed on Saturday nights Ada would cut out dresses and have them sewn and ready for the girls to wear to Sunday School in the morning. When the kids were all married she would make mother-daughter dresses and father-son shirts for the whole family, then as the number of grandchildren grew she stopped making the mother-father outfits but every Christmas and Easter all the grandchildren had new "Grandma" outfits. She always had a houseful of young people. All the children brought their friends home to meet "Mama and Daddy." She and Frank were never too busy to have the young people around or to take them to a dance or party. So the children stayed close. Ada taught her family at an early age, They learned to cook sew, and keep house. Even Frankie liked to cook and liked to make oatmeal mush for his baby sister. When the older girls were in high school Ada went to work and the girls were responsible for the house. They had to do the meal planning, buying, cooking, and house work, and they each took their turns doing it. And they vied with each other on cutting costs and putting out good meals. I lived at the end of the block from Ada and we had lots of fun together. She didn't drive in those days and everytime I took the car out I would see if Ada wanted to go. And she usually did. We'd pick up the kids and go shopping, or picknicking, or to the beach or visiting. We'd be riding along and see a road we had never been on and we would turn down it to see where it went The kids would say, "Let's get lost, Aunt Mary, Let's go that way." It must have been in the ummer of 1943, that we decided to go to Salt Lake for the Fourth of July. I was working and since the Fourth came on a Thurdsay I had Friday off. So Ada and I packed up and left. There was a hole in the gas tank and if it were over half full it started leaking. But that didn't faze us. The tires were also poor and gas was still rationed. I was supposed to have got off early, but every one else disappeared and it was dark before I got out home and picked up the kids. Ada had packed a lunch and off we started. We couldn't travel over 50 miles an hour, and with the detours we couldn't make that most of the time..We took a short cut out of town and got lost and sun up found us at Baker--hot as hades. I had pulled off the road there and caught a few minutes sleep alongside the road. The children were restlessly sleeping..Poor Ada was trying to stay awake because I had to. By the time we got to Las Vegas the kids were all asleep except Frankie who woke up and had to wet. We knew if we stopped they would all wake up. There were lots of empty bottles along the side of the road so I pulled off the road and Ada opened the door and snagged a bottle as we came up to it. So Frankie used the bottle and no one woke up. We arrived in Salt Lake about dark and there was no one home at Mother's. So we laid down on the cool lawn until they came home about midnight. We rested up on Friday and started back about noon Saturday. At dusk when I turned the car lights on we found that the generator was not working.. We managed to get into Cedar City before the garage closed and fix the generator but we had to buy a new one after all his work. So we drove all night and finally got home about noon on Sunday. When I went to work on Monday no one could believe what we had done. Then there was the time we started out again in the old Ford for Fresno. By this time the car used as much oil as it did gas. As we pulled out of Los Angeles I noticed that the brakes wern't working so I stopped at the garage where Cal worked to have him fix them.He said that he didn't think it was safe for us to go, so he did some more work and finally said, " The Lord takes care of fools and children, and there are three fools and five children so go on." We were taking Mother up to see Beatrice. We arrived there about midnight--we'd left after I got off work Friday. Sunday we gathered eight or ten dozen eggs, made lunch and Cool Ade and started back. It was hot as hades and we had the windows open so everyone got windblown and all the kids were covered from one end to the other with red Cool Ade. We started up the grapevine and the car conked out. We managed to limp back to Bakersfield and park the car. Then we went to the Grayhound bus station. What a motley mess we were, Two rumpled dirty adults, five dirty windblown children, eggs, suitcases, bed rolls. Ada and I took a good look at ourselves and sat down in the middle of the station and laughed our heads off. We had a neighbor who gave the kids a bunch of hats to play with. There were really some fancy ones. So one night when our husbands went off drinking by themselves Ada and I got all dolled up in the hats and went out on the town. What a captive audience we had. The men flocked around us and said, "Boy a hat sure does something for a woman." Ada and I laughed about it for years. We used to have neighborhood parties and would get the table talking and have more fun with it. We also got an ouija board that we had fun with. One day we were sitting on the lawn and asked the board what was going on in the neighborhood and it said, "Mary is sick." We asked it what was the matter and it said, "Stupidity." Then it said the same thing about Ada. When we first moved into the neighborhood everyone shared with everyone else. We were all new and we cherished each blade of grass. We'd pooled our money and bought a posthole digger and a shovel, and I think someone fell over a roller on the way home one night so brought it along with them so we could roll our lawns when we planted them. Every day we would go up and down the street counting the blades of grass on each lawn. Everyone on the street had children except me, but there were always as many kids at my house as anybodys. If you gave one child something you had to have enought for all the children because they shared and shared alike. During the war years every time we would go out in the car we would have to pick up all the "soldier boys' on the road because the chidren insisted. I'm not sure the "soldier boys" always appreciated having a lap full of kids but the kids enjoyed it. We had so many happy times together, and did so many zany things. It would have been a lonesome life for me if it hadn't been for Ada and the kids. And there was the time Ada and I stopped at the corner pub for a beer and happened to sit down by her drunken neighbor who was asleep on the bar. Suddenly he woke up took one look at me and started to swing because he thought I was his blond wife. And for the life of me I can't remember how the red lanterns came to be in the garage one morning. How blessed I am and how I thank the Lord for my brothers and sisters and my parents. And how grateful I am that we will be a family in eternity.
Children of Ada Ellen Dayton and William Frank Davies
- Nella Rae Davies+ b. 15 Jul 1937
- Nelda Jane Davies+ b. 15 Jul 1937, d. 7 Nov 1981
- Diane Davies+ b. 1 Dec 1938
- William Frank (Jr), Davies+ b. 24 Dec 1940
- Ellen Davies+ b. 2 May 1943, d. Jan 2005
Alice Dayton
#3601, b. 22 May 1620, d. February 1708
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Alice was born on 22 May 1620 at St Mary's, Ashford, Kent, England. She was the daughter of Ralph Dayton and Alice Goldhatch. She married Thomas Baker on 20 June 1643. Alice died in February 1708 at age 87.
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