Peter Carlos Cornia, Sr.

Peter Carlos Cornia was born at Bountiful, Davis County, Utah on August 16, 1859. He was the eldest son and second child of Peter and Ruth Clarissa Carter Cornia. When he was about four years old, his family was called by the church authorities to help settle Kamas, Summit County, Utah. They had been there about three years and received another call to go to the Muddy Mission at West Point, which was then thought to be in Utah. Again they established a home and helped in the building of the settlement, but when Nevada demanded taxes, the saints in the settlement had no money to meet them, and most of the people were sick from severe heat and poor water. They were released and told to go wherever they wanted to. They came back to Bountiful. From here they were sent to the new settlement of Woodruff, Utah to help build it up, and they arrived here July 26, 1871.

On the first of April 1880 Peter married Jannette Ines Stewart, daughter of John and Isabel Henry Stewart. They had one daughter, Jeannette Cornia, born September 19, 1882 in Woodruff. She married Dave Neilson and had one daughter, Jannett. They were divorced and she married Daniel Winter and had two daughters, Ruth and Marjorie.

On April 3, 1884, he married Lucy Helen Dickson. They had three children, Peter Carlos, born March 8, 1886, and he married Mary Ann Longhurst; Lucy Helen, born December 16, 1888, she married Mr. Wilford W. Bryson. They divorced and she married Daniel Ryan; Milton born April 3, 1892, he married Clara Marintha Longhurst. Lucy died on June 7, 1893.

On April 8, 1896, he married Sarah Hannah Reed, daughter of Wm. T. and Sarah Jones Reed in the Salt Lake Temple. This couple was active in church and civic affairs, giving a helping hand whenever it was needed. On the fourth of November 1897, Peter was called on a mission to the New England States and Virginia. While there he helped organize the first LDS Sunday School in Providence, Rhode Island. He was then called to be the superintendent on Sept. 25, 1898. He had held many positions before his mission call.

Peter and Sarah had four children, Edwin Reed, born February 16, 1897, married Ellen Berry June 27, 1835. They have one daughter Betty Ellen. Louis Doyle, born November 19 1900; Ruth, born January 23, 1906; and Reed, born July 7, 1908. He married Edna Longhurst June 23, 1937.

Peter passed away April 23, 1940. Both he and his wife Sarah were buried in the Woodruff Cemetery.

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Baptized by John Brinkohoff, Confirmed by George Leavitt, High Priest by Charles Kingston, born March 1900, Died 23 Apr 1940 from prostate cancer. NOTE: Peter was listed in the 1940 U.S. Census taken on April 25th in Woodruff, Rich, Utah. Listed in the census with him was his son Louis and daughter Ruth. They owned their home which was valued at $1,500. Peter was an 80-year old widow, Louis, 39, and Ruth, 34. Both Louis and Ruth were single. Peter had an 8th grade education, Louis had 2 years of high school and Ruth had one year of college. Louis was working as a farm hand at 60 hours per week in 1939.

PETER CARLOS CORNIA JR., As related by Ruth Cornia, his daughter July 1989

Father was a handsome man with curly hair and a strong build. He had three wives, none in polygamy. His first wife, Jeanette Stewart, died in childbirth leaving an infant daughter, Jeanette. His second wife Lucy Helen Dickson had three children Peter Carlos, Helen and Milton. This wife died at age 27 when Milton was 14 months old. He later married Sarah Reed. She too, preceded him in death. To them were born Edwin Reed, Lewis Doyle, Ruth and Reed. Sarah was a licensed midwife. She trained and practiced with Dr. Shipp, one of Utah's first women doctors. Sarah delivered hundreds of babies and attended to hundreds upon hundreds of injuries and sick people. She charged $5.00 for the delivery-of a baby. This included daily care for both the mother and baby for a week to ten days. In later years she raised the fee to $10.00. Most of this was never collected. No fee was charged for other illnesses. She had a horse and buggy that she drove every, place she went and this was often to Randolph. She never lost a mother in all her deliveries. Sarah died in July, 1939 and father in April of 1940. Father married all three wives in the month of April.

Father had a loud voice. His yelling, frightening as it was, was just "holler". He would yell at the children but I (Aunt Ruth) never remember him spanking one. Father was a man of a very short temper. He had a large team he drove but did not ride a horse that I can ever remember, recalls Aunt Ruth.

Aunt Ruth remembered in Grandpa's later years that his brother Dan came to visit and they did a lot of reminiscing. One story related was when they were living at the homestead at Eagle Springs and they were young boys they slept in the upstairs loft. Their sister, Aunt Clara (Clarissa) had a boy friend courting her. Grandma had sent the boys to the loft while the two young people were downstairs. The boys found a knot hole in the floor of the loft which they could peek through. One of them spit through the hole and made a direct target on the boy friends head. Both boys received a sound spanking. Uncle Dan married Aunt Samantha. They had twelve children. He buried eight of them before his death.

Father loved to spend time at the local store in his later years. He would set on the step, talk, argue, and tease. I can remember he would haul a sack of grain in a little red wagon to the store owned by Cook's. This he would trade for grocery goods. Many of his last years was spent sitting in a wooden rocking chair by the window, rocking and whittling.

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