PB Thomas Spackman

This is a copy of Thomas Spackman's PB. He is the husband of Sarah Ann Criddle Spackman. The story my Mother told me is that Thomas' Father (also called Thomas) left his wife and daughter in a mental institution in London, England and took his sons to New York. The family story says that Thomas left for the Gold Rush in California and stopped in Salt Lake for supplies and never continued his journey because he met and married Sarah Ann. I am starting to doubt the story since Sarah Ann didn't make it to Utah until after 1862 and the California Gold Rush was in 1849 when Thomas was 10 years old.

Anyway, the PB took place in 1909 two years before he died and in Stirling. I was surprised at this because I did not think Thomas went to Alberta. Some of his children (including William Henry my 2nd Great Grandfather) took their families and went to farm in Southern Alberta with Charles Ora Card, but I did not think Thomas ever went even though he is not listed in the 1900 US Census.

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PB Heaps

I received my Heaps Great Grandparents PB's a while ago, but didn't have time to upload them until today since it is General Conference weekend. I got 2 PB's for Grandma Heaps, but I can't find the other one, so I am only posting one. However, both of them were almost exactly the same in wording, even though they were from two different Patriarchs and her Mother was the scribe for both. One was done while she was a teenager and the other after she was married (pictured). Grandma Clara Minerva Riddle Heaps was born in England in 8 September 1889 while her Father was a missionary for the LDS Church and her Mother accompanied him. Her parents were the first generation born in Utah, but her Riddle and Berry Grandparents were born in England and the Eastern US. Grandma Heaps died in 1984, so I do remember her. She was a little old lady who would forget my name.

L-R Grandma Riding, me, Grandma Heaps, my Dad, my brother,

circa early 80's

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The unique thing in this blessing compared to my other ancestors is that it says she will be a missionary. "...your calling to preach the gospel to your relatives and friends and all that will listen to your words whether at home or abroad and your time will be required of you for some years to labor among the children of Zion preaching the gospel to them and setting a good example before them..." The interesting thing is that she never served a full-time mission like I did to South Africa.

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Joseph Henry Heaps was born 27 May 1886 in Escalante, Utah and he died in 1968. Clara was his second wife. His first wife, Alice Gates, died in 1908 giving birth to their third child (the baby died a couple months later) and Grandpa Heaps married Grandma in 1910. Grandpa received his PB in 1900, four years before his first marriage. I don't know much about him, but I do remember from going to family reunions in the 1980's a feeling that he still had an influence over family relationships and decisions even though he had been gone for a while.

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Fog

It was foggy the other morning. I thought it was pretty. This is our view from the Living Room. The city is almost done making the Arboretum pretty, so that is why you see the fence.

Pilot Study Research

Before you can actually perform research you have to do a pilot study. It's usually to make sure all the equipment works the way you want it too. About a month ago I did my pilot study for my Viennese Waltz (VW) project and here are some pictures of what I did.

I am video taping ballroom dancers to find out the velocity of the VW while dancing to see if it is a potential cause of this neck injury I am studying. BTW, we have officially decided to name it Hyperextension Neck Injury (HNI). If you look in the bottom right corner you can see some dancers.

The less fuzzy version. This is in the Black Box Theatre in the new Performance Hub building on campus. My office is two floors up. It's a tall building.

You can see Dave came to bring me food and help me out. He really wanted to push all the shiny buttons on the control panel.

I plan on doing this data collecting in June and July.

I just remembered...

...to put batteries in the camera and found this picture of some Christmas presents I got from my Mom. Have you seen 17 Miracles? It's a movie about the Martin and Willie Handcart Companies. I had ancestors that lived through it. Warning: You will cry, A LOT!