Picture Identification

left Mintia, right Mintia or Etta May

right Altheamer and his wife Rose Powell Wardle,
Left Junius and Ann Rommel Wardle

Thanks for the blog updates, Billy. I enjoy them very much!

Hey, I have some old photos and I think they are photos of the Wardle family. My grandmother was very particular about labeling her own photos with names and dates, but when she passed away we found an old box full of pictures that we think may have been given to Grandma when some other relative died. Because the pictures aren’t labeled, we know they didn’t start out in Grandma’s possession. She may have been given them after her eyesight had diminished to the point of not being able to see who the people in the photos were.

Two of the photos are of the same teenaged girl. One has “Junius” written on the back, and one has “Mintia” written on the back. Since these are two of Isaac Wardle’s children with Martha Egbert, I am guessing that the young girl in the photo is Etta May Wardle, the youngest sister in that branch of the family. This leads me to believe that many of the other photos in the box are of the Wardle family. Some are of babies and will probably never be identified, but some are of adults; weddings, graduations, etc. I’m attaching a couple of them. If you recognize any of the people in them could you let me know?

Patti Call

PS- Grandma is Crilla Aldura Myers Egbert, who is the daughter of Annie May Butterfield Myers, who is the daughter of Crilla Wardle Butterfield, who is one of Isaac Wardle’s daughter with Martha Egbert.

This pictures say Beckstead? on the back

This picture also says Beckstead?

 This picture has names, but I am not sure who they are?  The back says "Rose and her daughter."  It then adds Wineger?  It looks like "Rose and her daughter" is written by my grandmother, and "Wineger" by my father. This is corrected as Rose Powell Wardle and her daughter Fern Wardle White.

Poem: My Heart Breaks

This poem reflects the letters of my father and grandmother to each other during WWII when my father was in the Navy.  I wrote this when I wrote my Dad's Naval history.  It reflects my Dad entering the Navy, being known as Wilford, and preferring Jim in the Navy.  I guess everyone went by their first name in the military.

My Heart Breaks

My Heart Breaks

I go to defend my country,

My arms ache.

I'm not found under summer trees.

I feel empty.

I will be safe, protected,

Danger, avoid the sea.

By God directed.

I worry, cry and weep;

I wish you could be calm,

At night I do not sleep.

My patriarchal blessing's balm.

But what of the farm?

I have a job to do here.

Work without harm.

When my job is done; I'll be there.

Guard your soul.

I will walk upright

Mind your eternal goals.

My actions guided by light.

You leave me, my Wilford,

I return to you as Jim.

My son, my manly ward.

I've learned to swim.

Your Heart Will Burn: Act 2 Scene 9: At the Sweetwater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrJZFOrqW18

This scene portrays somewhat accurately the experience of the Martin Handcart Company at the Sweetwater, crossing before Martin's Cove.  The lines given to Brother Astle were actual lines spoken by another handcart company member, and as his wife offered to pull the handcart, the Valley Boys volunteered.  For a more historical please see the great history written by Chad Orton.
http://billywardlegen.blogspot.com/2010/09/bool-review-martin-handcart-company-at.html
You could also look at the section I wrote for Isaac's history which describes Isaac's likely experience this day.
http://billywardlegen.blogspot.com/2012/08/chapter-10c-t-sweetwater.html

Your Heart Will Burn: Act 2 Scene 10: Martin's Cove

https://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?video_id=UatDF_CLXVg&ns=1&feature=mhsn

The Chase Family: My Father's Oldest Sister

Audrey and Mom

Aunt Audrey's home

Ann, Audrey, Kenneth, his wife, Dale, Carolyn, Roger, Kenneth's son

Roger, my grandmother Wardle and Mom

Roger's family

We seemed to always be close to Audrey and her family.  Kenneth came to Othello to for my dad.  Roger came to Carbondale to spend some time with us.  One of my favorite Christmas gifts was a hand-me-down from the Chases Civil War set.  We would also often go camping together.

Audrey and Kenneth's wife

Kenneth

Ann

Roger, High School graduation

Aunt Audrey

Your Heart Will Burn: Act Two Scene Seven: Red Buttes

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIewLpTYe1g
This scene talks about the effects of the last crossing.  It presents Robert McBride singing "Oh Zion, When I think of Thee."  His sons record he sang this song the day before he passed away.  I discovered after we did the play that this song was set to the music of "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief."
The entire song goes like this, although there is no record if Robert sang the entire song.

O Zion, when I think of thee,
I long for pinions like the dove,
And mourn to think that I should be
So distant from the land I love.

A captive exile, far from home.
For Zion's sacred walls I sigh,
With ransomed kindred there to come,
And see Messiah eye to eye.

 

While here, I walk on hostile ground;
The few that I can call my friends
Are, like myself, in fetters bound,
And weariness our steps attends.

But yet we hope to see the day
When Zion's children shall return,
When all our grief shall flee away,
And we again no more shall mourn.

The thought that such a day will come,
Makes e'en the exile's portion sweet;
Though now we wander far from home,
In Zion soon we all shall meet.

Our family lore says that Betsy froze her feet at the last crossing, which lead to her death a short time later. The removal of flesh with a knife and without anesthesia would have been common.  Ephraim Hanks later documented performing many such surgeries.

Your Heart Will Burn, Act Two Sene Eight

This is a historical reenactment of the Martin Handcart Company.  In this scene the pioneers meet the advance party of rescuers sent from Salt Lake.  This relates the true story of Elizabeth Jackson being visited by her husband who had passed away more than a week before.  He reassured her that help would find them. 
The relationship between Thomas Bailey and Betsy is fictional as we do not have any of what family took in the girls after their father left the company. 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk3CHdqbBow