Maralta Tabot

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LIFE STORY OF MARALTA DICKINSON TALBOT

First section by her

Written Oct.11,1961

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Maralta Born Dec.11,1903 Panguitch, Utah

I was a bald little thing, and not very pretty. Mother use to wash my head with Faso soap to try to make my hair grow, I guess it finally did, I have some hair. Excuse mistakes, I am really nervous today.

I remember Mother telling how she dressed me up and I had an umbrella and I would strut down to Grandma Hatch's. I loved Grandma and Grandpa very much. I spent a lot of time there. I would always go with them up Mammoth fishing and help them haul wood in the Fall.

I remember when we moved up on Dickinson. I was five years old. Violet cracked some apricot pits and I got a poison one, that was before we got moved, Dad was shingling the house and I was up there with him. Grandma Dickinson found me real sick, bless her heart. Dad took me home and called Dr. Clark. He got me well. I loved it up on the Hill, it was a beautiful and wonderful home with wonderful parents I had and the grand brother and sisters I had, and I had lots of lovely friends. Amy Merrill- Aza Neilson- Beth and Carlena Lynn- Thema Clark and Fern Gavin- Sylvia and Myra Haycock- Inez Lister and Nina and Wilma Dodds. We played with rag dolls, we made all the things we had to play with but we enjoyed it. We used to sleep together, make a little molasses candy or honey candy or eat dried fruit or an apple, we was happy and enjoyed it.

We use to herd the cows up on the hills above the fields, Dad had a little Jersey cow and I always milked her. One day Dad was out of town and I was trying to start the cows up the hill and she wouldn't go and it had been raining and the pig pen was nice and mucky. I went up to hit her with a rope and she took after me and threw me in the pig pen. I didn't stay long but I had to stay on top of it quite awhile before I dared get down.

Dad used to haul rocks off the field. He gave us kids an egg a hundred to load rocks. We would earn quite a few eggs in a half a day, then we would take the eggs to the store and buy a piece of Calico and have a new apron.

Us kids took turns sleeping with Grandma Dickinson and fixing her meals. We loved her very much. She told us lots of stories about the pioneers and their hardships. Grandma had fourteen children and Grandpa died real young. She had a hard time to make ends meet. Grandma had two rooms on the north side of the house on the hill.

I only went to the eighth grade, I had Brights Disease and didn't get to school that winter. I was married at sixteen- in the year 1920 by Than Henerie. It was the same year the new High School opened. I felt bad when Trilma and Laura and the other girls started and wished I had waited a while to marry but it was to late then but I was happy anyway. Grandpa Dickinson put some windows and wired the two back rooms of the old Talbot home for lights and we moved in on the eighth of December 1920. We had bare floors. We bought a new bed, had Grandma Talbots old springs and Mother and Dad gave me the mattress us kids had been sleeping on. Ed had a phonograph and we fixed up some of Grandma Talbots front room, no blinds, Mother gave me her kitchen cabinet when she moved in her new home, we thought we were rich. I had some nice covers and pillow cases and things I had in my hope chest, or it was a trunk I had bought at the Golden Rule in Ogden with money I had earned working for Jennie Church. Two-fifty a week was quite a lot of money to me.

Ed hauled wood in winter and farmed in summer. I lived on Grandpa Talbots farm and Bill Tebb's where I got Typhoid Fever out of the well. And on Wallace Houston's farm five years. We didn't have any lights, no washer, or fridge. I washed on the board, made cheese, raised a garden, chickens, and pigs and kids.

In 1922 Dee was born and then we really was happy, but Dee never was very healthy. When he was eight months old we took him to Salt Lake with Mastoid. When he was three years old we took him to Richfield for ruptured appendix. When he was three and a half he was operated on and had his appendix out at home.

At four years old he had Typhoid Fever and ruptured the incision and as soon as he was able Dr. Bigelow operated and took care of them. In October second he had telescope bowel and was operated on again and died the same night. Dee was such a sweet little guy and we all loved him so. He suffered so much in his short little life, God Bless his little soul.

Bertha was born April sixteenth 1924. She was three and a half years old when Dee died. I don't know what we would have done without her. She was a lot of company and kept us busy. We were living in Santaquin at the time of Dee's death. Everyone was so nice to us. Arthur Hatch brought the little boy home to bury him, we was grateful to him. Uncle Milt and Aunt Trilma let us take their Ford to come down in. What would we have done without them, bless them. We picked up a few pinenuts before going back to Santaquin. We moved in Ada and Vivan Olson's house in November I believe it was. Ray was born there May third 1929.We moved back to Panquitch when Ray was six weeks old. We were so happy and thankful for you Ray. I don't know what we would have done without Mother and Dad all this time. We love them very much.

We had a little new furniture we bought while Dad worked at the mine. We started fixing up the old place and have been ever since. We tore off the old front part about two or three years after we moved in. The biggest thing we ever done was to go to the Temple while we lived in Santaquin On the twenty-sixth of June 1928. We were sealed by George F. Richards. We also got Ray while we lived there. Two great events in our lives. I should say blessings, for they sure were.

Ruth was born July fourth 1938 at Panguitch. Dr. Miles was the Doctor. We have loved and cherished her.

I have worked in the church and gone to it all my life. I know it is the true church and believe every principal. I have been a Relief Society visiting teacher for thirty years or more. I served as second counselor to Jean Excell and Sevy after she was married. With Velta Miller in Primary and I was secretary to Sylvia Judd. I taught the Blue Bird class a long time and some of the other classes. I worked about twenty years in Primary. I also worked as Work Director in Relief Society and on the Food Committee's several times in Panguitch and second counselor to Geneva Holliday in Santaquin. Mary Ann Nelson was first counselor. I also taught Primary in Santaquin. I was asked to be second counselor to Hilda Cidister but didn't accept. We were just getting ready to move up to Sandy, Dad had a job in the tunnel.,p> OCTOBER 3 1971 (Mom never finished writing her life story so I will attempt to bring it up to date.) Bertha Lindstrom

I don't know why Mom never finished but I do know how she came to start. Ray asked her several times to write the story of her life for him, so, when she had hemorrhaging from the rectum and she felt sure she had cancer of the rectum like her Dad. (He had a Colostomy and lived nearly twenty years after that.) She went to the doctor and he told her to stay off her feet, so it was while she lay there fearing the worst that she started to write her life story. We were all very thankful it was just a ruptured vein.

Mom and Dad moved to Sandy, then a month later they moved to Riverton. Hap was one of the bosses at the tunnel and Dad and Cy worked on his shift. Mom really enjoyed Dot and Ett and they were good company for her. Ray was in Korea now, fighting in the Korean Conflict, Mom nearly worried herself sick.

When it was about time for Ray to come home Mom and Dad bought a 1950 Chev. We were all thankful when Ray was back home again. He and Verona was married shortly before he left, on June 15, 1951 in Manti Temple. Vickie was born the next month July 19, 1951 and Mom, Dad and Ruth was living to the side of us when Carl Dee was born. When Ruth got out of school the last of May they moved back to Panquitch, that was in 1955. I think they all three enjoyed living up here very much, but especially Mom because all her family was living here and it was good to be here with all of us.

Ruth met Rile Dutton and they were married July 19, 1955. Dad always had work but Mom always liked to make a little money of her own to spend as she wanted and she spent most of it on improvements to their home, such as new windows, curtains, carpeting, etc. and she was always cleaning and improving things inside and out. She had such jobs as cooking in a cafe, Cook in the hospital, and worked at several of the motels. She really wasn't able to work so hard, and she kept busy with her church activities and was always having some kind of meetings at her home, like Literary or D.U.P. or quilting. Her home was always clean and attractive, she was proud of it and so was Dad. Our friends were always welcome and treated with respect, they always liked to come there.

Mom was always thoughtful of others, especially the older people or anyone in need. She had an Open House for Aunt Mattie on her 80th Birthday and also for Pearl LeFever on hers, and she gave a birthday party for Kathy LeFever because she had never had one. She was raised in an orphanage, she loved Mom and was very good to her. Mom had a lot of people stay in their home from time to time. There was Launa Purcell, later Carol Jean, Lilas stayed when she was courting Leon. Byron Holman's came there one time when he left home and Mom and Dad fed him a few days and talked him into going back and gave him money to go. Ellen Nielsen from Tropic stayed and worked in a cafe. She had Achsa and Eva at times when they were very sick and needed a place to stay. Then there was the time when Blanch Worthen was staying there waiting the birth of a stillborn baby, it was before Panguitch had a hospital. She died, leaving five children.

When Ruth was expecting Dwayne, Mom went up to be with her and help. He had a very rare bone disease in one side of his face and Mom had been gone three weeks and was still needed and Carl, Jim, and I went to Panguitch to do what we could for Dad. He had a very bad hemorrhage under his right arm after we got there and we took him to the Hospital and they got it stopped but he had lost a lot of blood and they kept him overnight. We brought him home with us and took him to Dr. Steele. He got Dad an appointment with Dr. Cowan. This was in May 1964. Dr. Cowan said it was cancer of the lymph glands.

This was very hard for Mom to take right at this time and it was a big test to all of us. It was hard on Mom being with him in his pain day and night even though he kept his sense of humor and B S'd with every one that came. She had a nerve collapse in her face and this gave her great pain and she had a lot of therapy on it, but it did get all.right.

On June 17, 1962 Mom and Ruth Tebbs went on a tour with thirty-six others from Paragonah, Cedar City and Parowan, destination "Worlds Fair"in Seattle Washington. She got up with one of those bad sick headaches she has been plagued with all her life and it would have been much easier for her to have stayed home than go but she was determined to see the Worlds Fair. It was a very bad day for her but the next day was better and she was able to enjoy things more. She saw California for the first time. They went to San Francisco, saw the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, Big Ships out on the Ocean. Toured China Town and at the Fishermans Grotto. Traveled on beautiful hi-ways bordered by Giant Redwoods. On to Portland, Oregon. Saw Mt. Rainier covered with snow, crossed the Columbia River, then on to Tacoma, Washington. They could see the Space Needle in the distance. Mom went up in the Space Needle and ate lunch. She said she really enjoyed the Fair but would have done more things had she not been looking after Ruth Tebbs. They went to Oregon next, drove along the Columbia River. Then to Boise, Idaho., Salt Lake City and home. She was really happy she had gone.

On April 15, 1963 Mom and Dad went with Aunt Trim and Uncle Milt to bring Joe home from his L.D.S. mission. Joe was in Vadalia, George. When they got there they went to Sunday School with Joe and met some of the people he knew and really enjoyed it. They went on to Florida then back through more of Georgia. She mentioned going through Talbot County.

They went through Tennessee, Kentucky, crossed the Ohio River. Evansville, Indiana. Illinois, crossed the Missouri River, she said"I never thought I would cross it" It makes me feel blue thinking about Dear ole Grandma Hatch". She was born on a boat on the Missouri, River. They saw President Trumans home. Went through the Truman Library. Saw President Eisenhower's Home and Museum in Abelene, Kansas. She mentioned Adam ondi-ahman on Tower Hill in Missouri where the Lord cast Adam and Eve out of the "Garden of Eden",and the place where Adam Built the alter and offered up a sacrifice. On to Colorado and Utah-"The Best State On Earth", she wrote. She said they traveled through 15 states 5,850 miles. Got home on April 30th. Dad must have enjoyed this trip as much as Mom. They talked about it so much and Dad even wanted to take another trip and how we wished we could have taken them. Before this he never thought he could go anywhere, he had to work. I am thankful Aunt Trim and Uncle Milt gave them this wonderful opportunity to have this trip together before Dad got to bad to go.

On Feb. 1, 1968 her beloved husband passed away. Mom was very brave about living alone and kept very busy. She has many dear friends and they rallied around her and she kept on the go, when she was home she had plenty to do. She went to the Temple as often as she could. She always paid her tithing first and said many times how much the Lord had blessed her, she had a lot of faith.

On Dec. 24, 1969, Mom went to the Panguitch Hospital were severe pain. It was a gallbladder attack. She had another one on the 30th. On Jan. 2ed. Ruth and Rile went down, the Dr. thought Mom had a heart attack, she was in terrible pain and bleeding from the kidneys. January 6th Frank Orton took Mom to L.D.S. Hospital in Salt Lake. Ruth requested she be sent and have Dr. Crockett, he accepted her and how fortunate for Mom. They made many tests and soon took care of the trouble. She had repair work on her bladder and her gallbladder removed. It was acute, badly diseased. She went to Aunt Etts to recuperate. She got infection in her bladder, then bad bleeding from her hemmoroids so she had to go back and have them out, this was Feb. 6th. It was a long painful recovery and finally she went home March 8th. We took her and Aunt Ett down.

She got a new great grandson on March 29th and on May 7th she came up to see him. It was Chris. On June 5th she came again to see her oldest grandson, Jim, when he arrived home from Korea, on 8th 1970. We had the whole family here for a welcome home. We were happy she was able to be here. July 12th 1970 was a very black day, Mom had her first C.V.A. Took her to L.D.S. Hospital and they put her in intensive care where she remained until Aug. 26th. She had a second C.V.A. July 25th and nearly died. Dr. Erickson did a second Angieogram Aug. 8th and operated Aug. 15th. He explained that she had an aneurysm, a vein that had only one lining instead of the usual two or three and it wore thin and finally ruptured. It was in the area of her memory, it was a condition she was born with. He was surprised she had lived 66 years before it ruptured. He said when he operated he clamped off the vein and cut out the bad part and took a blood clot off the optic nerve. She was in critical condition, she was in a coma about 5 weeks and was not very good for weeks after that. She was released Sept. 14th, Ruth was able to get her into the Golden Manor Rest Home where she worked, but Mom had been neglected and was dehydrated and in very poor condition and developed pneumonia and was taken to the Valley West Hospital next door. Dr. Nelson told us she wouldn't live through the night. We called Ray to come, he drew the curtains and proceeded to give her a blessing. In it he prayed that she would have her hearts desire, that if she wanted to live that she might get well or if she wanted to go with her dear departed loved ones that she be allowed to do so in peace and not suffer. Within an hour we could see her improving and she continued to improve and get well. Our Heavenly Father has truly blessed her many times and she has always been worthy of those blessings.

Today- May 8, 1972 she is in a Rest Home in Nephi, doing much better everyday. She walks around with a walker really good.

March 15th 1990- Mom passed away the 11th of May 1989. She spent most of the last 19 years in Nursing Homes. I'll go back to 1972 and bring her life story to a close.

I brought Mom home to live with us, that Christmas was really sad, I felt so bad for her. Her memory was back in the 40's, she thought Dad was working for the forest service. She said Dad will be coming home from the big timber and will bring Ruth a sack of candy. She was so sad when he never came. Living with us and talking to her, telling her how things were, helped to bring her back but she was never the same. She lacked the sparkle she use to have. While she was here we quilted a quilt for Rays girl Linda and she gradually got better. She became diabetic and I had all I could do and more, then she had pneumonia. After fourteen months I was on the verge of a nervous breakdown and my doctor told my husband to take my mother to another member of the family. Verona wasn't willing and Ruth was divorced and working so Ruth and I took Mom to a nursing home in Orem. A short time later she met and married Melvin Forbush. They were happy. They had their hopes and dreams. He died a year and a half later, then she was really depressed. I brought her home for awhile, then had to take her back. She embroidered many pillowcases and dresser scarfs, did some painting of ceramics and crocheted on kitchen towels. She always attended meeting and Relief Society and any programs they had. She always paid her tithing. The last nursing home she was in was new and had beautiful chandeliers. She had a room to herself for a few months and she really enjoyed that. She had her own chest of drawers and chair and T.V.. Ruth put her to bed many nights and took her treats, she was an angel to Mom.

Mom was real sick many times and had many problems but she endured to the end. They tried to keep her busy by having her tie baby quilts and she and I quilted a big quilt that she had embroidered some blocks and gave it to Darlene. She dreamed of going home all the time. She is home now with Dad and Dee. We really miss her but she has earned her rest. She was a wonderful Mother.

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Maralta DICKINSON

   * BIRTH: 11 Dec 1903, Panguitch, Garfield, Utah

* DEATH: 11 May 1989, Provo, Utah, Utah
Father: Isaac Hyrum DICKINSON

Mother: Bertha HATCH

Family 1: James Edwin TALBOT

   * MARRIAGE: 8 Aug 1920, Panguitch, Garfield, Utah 

1. Edwin Dee TALBOT
2. +Bertha TALBOT
3. +James Ray TALBOT
4. +Ruth TALBOT
Family 2: Melvin Alonzo FORBUSH

   * MARRIAGE: 17 Nov 1973, Orem