Daughter of William Parry and Ellen Foulkes
Married John Parry, 2 April 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - John Parry, Joseph Hyrum Parry, Bernard Lewellyn Parry, Louisa Ellen Parry, Edwin Francis Parry, Henry Edward Parry
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 11, p. 9
Harriet Parry Parry was born in Hennlan, Denbighshire, North Wales, October 18, 1822. She came to Utah Oct. 10, 1853, and married John Parry the following year, Apr. 2, 1854.
He was a lover of flowers and trees, a gardener by nature. He planted a small orchard which produced fine fruit. From one tree, in one favorable season, he netted $120.00 from the sale of apples. Other fruit trees bore plums and peaches. They grew some small fruits, especially strawberries, also rhubarb or pie-plant. The berries were sold and brought very good prices, 50 and 60 cents a quart. There was no way of canning in those early days, so the fruit was dried. When sugar was obtainable, the peaches and plums were preserved. The excess was sold to S. B. Teasdell, a Salt Lake merchant and he shipped it to Montana.
Quoting from a letter of Henry, their son: "Mother was a very hardworking woman. When she was left a widow in 1868, she made a living for her children from the fruit and the garden. She always kept cows and made butter. "Ranch" butter sold for 10 and 15 cents a pound, but mother's was so good she got 40 cents for hers. The boys were working and they helped. After mother stopped drying fruit she began nursing, maternity cases mainly, and she was very much in demand. She was a born nurse. She had little extra money, but she always took care of the children and their education. We always had enough to eat. For breakfast generally we had corn meal mush and milk, sweetened with molasses, bread and butter and warmed over potatoes. We had meat, eggs and chickens. We bought beef and mutton but never pork. We had apples the year around. The cooking was done in the open fire place when I was small. Then mother paid $100.00 for a step-stove. She raised the money from her strawberry patch. She bought the stove in about 1870. We used apple wood for fuel. Mother never to my knowledge went in debt. She paid cash or went without. Mother' not only spun the wool for the cloth for our clothing, but washed and carded it, spun it, then took the woolen thread to the weaver to be made into "homespun" cloth. Making clothes for boys by hand was hard work and mother was very progressive and as soon as the machine came, she got one. We children would turn it while she would sew. She went to Utah County, in 1858, during the "move."
Mother, like a good many others, raised silk worms. In the slant of the roof we had shelves, and one shelf was for the silk worms. We had a Mulberry tree in our yard and kept them supplied with food. We got $2.00 a pound for the cocoons.
Florence L. Parry's granddaughter said: "I have heard my father tell how his mother cut out their first pants. Father never could tell the story without laughing 'till the tears ran down his face. The cloth for the pants was spread out smooth on the floor and then each boy, as his turn came, would lie down on the cloth and grandmother would cut the cloth around the boy's legs and up to his waist, and then sew it up by hand. Openings on the side. I think father laughed so heartily because he still carried the picture of himself in those first long pants. From father's notes I find this:—Mother and I spent the fall of several years gleaning wheat after the harvesters on farms bordering the city. We threshed the wheat at home (on a windy day) and took it to the local mill. Thus we got the flour for our winter's bread. Some harvesters left a 'fat field' for the gleaners, while some fields were not worth visiting. Some owners were kind to the gleaners while others discouraged or expelled them from the fields.
Harriet Parry Parry passed away in April, 1901 at the age of 79 years.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Joseph W. Young Company (1853), Age at departure: 30
Married John Parry, 2 April 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - John Parry, Joseph Hyrum Parry, Bernard Lewellyn Parry, Louisa Ellen Parry, Edwin Francis Parry, Henry Edward Parry
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 11, p. 9
Harriet Parry Parry was born in Hennlan, Denbighshire, North Wales, October 18, 1822. She came to Utah Oct. 10, 1853, and married John Parry the following year, Apr. 2, 1854.
He was a lover of flowers and trees, a gardener by nature. He planted a small orchard which produced fine fruit. From one tree, in one favorable season, he netted $120.00 from the sale of apples. Other fruit trees bore plums and peaches. They grew some small fruits, especially strawberries, also rhubarb or pie-plant. The berries were sold and brought very good prices, 50 and 60 cents a quart. There was no way of canning in those early days, so the fruit was dried. When sugar was obtainable, the peaches and plums were preserved. The excess was sold to S. B. Teasdell, a Salt Lake merchant and he shipped it to Montana.
Quoting from a letter of Henry, their son: "Mother was a very hardworking woman. When she was left a widow in 1868, she made a living for her children from the fruit and the garden. She always kept cows and made butter. "Ranch" butter sold for 10 and 15 cents a pound, but mother's was so good she got 40 cents for hers. The boys were working and they helped. After mother stopped drying fruit she began nursing, maternity cases mainly, and she was very much in demand. She was a born nurse. She had little extra money, but she always took care of the children and their education. We always had enough to eat. For breakfast generally we had corn meal mush and milk, sweetened with molasses, bread and butter and warmed over potatoes. We had meat, eggs and chickens. We bought beef and mutton but never pork. We had apples the year around. The cooking was done in the open fire place when I was small. Then mother paid $100.00 for a step-stove. She raised the money from her strawberry patch. She bought the stove in about 1870. We used apple wood for fuel. Mother never to my knowledge went in debt. She paid cash or went without. Mother' not only spun the wool for the cloth for our clothing, but washed and carded it, spun it, then took the woolen thread to the weaver to be made into "homespun" cloth. Making clothes for boys by hand was hard work and mother was very progressive and as soon as the machine came, she got one. We children would turn it while she would sew. She went to Utah County, in 1858, during the "move."
Mother, like a good many others, raised silk worms. In the slant of the roof we had shelves, and one shelf was for the silk worms. We had a Mulberry tree in our yard and kept them supplied with food. We got $2.00 a pound for the cocoons.
Florence L. Parry's granddaughter said: "I have heard my father tell how his mother cut out their first pants. Father never could tell the story without laughing 'till the tears ran down his face. The cloth for the pants was spread out smooth on the floor and then each boy, as his turn came, would lie down on the cloth and grandmother would cut the cloth around the boy's legs and up to his waist, and then sew it up by hand. Openings on the side. I think father laughed so heartily because he still carried the picture of himself in those first long pants. From father's notes I find this:—Mother and I spent the fall of several years gleaning wheat after the harvesters on farms bordering the city. We threshed the wheat at home (on a windy day) and took it to the local mill. Thus we got the flour for our winter's bread. Some harvesters left a 'fat field' for the gleaners, while some fields were not worth visiting. Some owners were kind to the gleaners while others discouraged or expelled them from the fields.
Harriet Parry Parry passed away in April, 1901 at the age of 79 years.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Joseph W. Young Company (1853), Age at departure: 30
Daughter of William Parry and Ellen Foulkes
Married John Parry, 2 April 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - John Parry, Joseph Hyrum Parry, Bernard Lewellyn Parry, Louisa Ellen Parry, Edwin Francis Parry, Henry Edward Parry
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 11, p. 9
Harriet Parry Parry was born in Hennlan, Denbighshire, North Wales, October 18, 1822. She came to Utah Oct. 10, 1853, and married John Parry the following year, Apr. 2, 1854.
He was a lover of flowers and trees, a gardener by nature. He planted a small orchard which produced fine fruit. From one tree, in one favorable season, he netted $120.00 from the sale of apples. Other fruit trees bore plums and peaches. They grew some small fruits, especially strawberries, also rhubarb or pie-plant. The berries were sold and brought very good prices, 50 and 60 cents a quart. There was no way of canning in those early days, so the fruit was dried. When sugar was obtainable, the peaches and plums were preserved. The excess was sold to S. B. Teasdell, a Salt Lake merchant and he shipped it to Montana.
Quoting from a letter of Henry, their son: "Mother was a very hardworking woman. When she was left a widow in 1868, she made a living for her children from the fruit and the garden. She always kept cows and made butter. "Ranch" butter sold for 10 and 15 cents a pound, but mother's was so good she got 40 cents for hers. The boys were working and they helped. After mother stopped drying fruit she began nursing, maternity cases mainly, and she was very much in demand. She was a born nurse. She had little extra money, but she always took care of the children and their education. We always had enough to eat. For breakfast generally we had corn meal mush and milk, sweetened with molasses, bread and butter and warmed over potatoes. We had meat, eggs and chickens. We bought beef and mutton but never pork. We had apples the year around. The cooking was done in the open fire place when I was small. Then mother paid $100.00 for a step-stove. She raised the money from her strawberry patch. She bought the stove in about 1870. We used apple wood for fuel. Mother never to my knowledge went in debt. She paid cash or went without. Mother' not only spun the wool for the cloth for our clothing, but washed and carded it, spun it, then took the woolen thread to the weaver to be made into "homespun" cloth. Making clothes for boys by hand was hard work and mother was very progressive and as soon as the machine came, she got one. We children would turn it while she would sew. She went to Utah County, in 1858, during the "move."
Mother, like a good many others, raised silk worms. In the slant of the roof we had shelves, and one shelf was for the silk worms. We had a Mulberry tree in our yard and kept them supplied with food. We got $2.00 a pound for the cocoons.
Florence L. Parry's granddaughter said: "I have heard my father tell how his mother cut out their first pants. Father never could tell the story without laughing 'till the tears ran down his face. The cloth for the pants was spread out smooth on the floor and then each boy, as his turn came, would lie down on the cloth and grandmother would cut the cloth around the boy's legs and up to his waist, and then sew it up by hand. Openings on the side. I think father laughed so heartily because he still carried the picture of himself in those first long pants. From father's notes I find this:—Mother and I spent the fall of several years gleaning wheat after the harvesters on farms bordering the city. We threshed the wheat at home (on a windy day) and took it to the local mill. Thus we got the flour for our winter's bread. Some harvesters left a 'fat field' for the gleaners, while some fields were not worth visiting. Some owners were kind to the gleaners while others discouraged or expelled them from the fields.
Harriet Parry Parry passed away in April, 1901 at the age of 79 years.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Joseph W. Young Company (1853), Age at departure: 30
Married John Parry, 2 April 1854, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Children - John Parry, Joseph Hyrum Parry, Bernard Lewellyn Parry, Louisa Ellen Parry, Edwin Francis Parry, Henry Edward Parry
Heart Throbs of the West, Vol. 11, p. 9
Harriet Parry Parry was born in Hennlan, Denbighshire, North Wales, October 18, 1822. She came to Utah Oct. 10, 1853, and married John Parry the following year, Apr. 2, 1854.
He was a lover of flowers and trees, a gardener by nature. He planted a small orchard which produced fine fruit. From one tree, in one favorable season, he netted $120.00 from the sale of apples. Other fruit trees bore plums and peaches. They grew some small fruits, especially strawberries, also rhubarb or pie-plant. The berries were sold and brought very good prices, 50 and 60 cents a quart. There was no way of canning in those early days, so the fruit was dried. When sugar was obtainable, the peaches and plums were preserved. The excess was sold to S. B. Teasdell, a Salt Lake merchant and he shipped it to Montana.
Quoting from a letter of Henry, their son: "Mother was a very hardworking woman. When she was left a widow in 1868, she made a living for her children from the fruit and the garden. She always kept cows and made butter. "Ranch" butter sold for 10 and 15 cents a pound, but mother's was so good she got 40 cents for hers. The boys were working and they helped. After mother stopped drying fruit she began nursing, maternity cases mainly, and she was very much in demand. She was a born nurse. She had little extra money, but she always took care of the children and their education. We always had enough to eat. For breakfast generally we had corn meal mush and milk, sweetened with molasses, bread and butter and warmed over potatoes. We had meat, eggs and chickens. We bought beef and mutton but never pork. We had apples the year around. The cooking was done in the open fire place when I was small. Then mother paid $100.00 for a step-stove. She raised the money from her strawberry patch. She bought the stove in about 1870. We used apple wood for fuel. Mother never to my knowledge went in debt. She paid cash or went without. Mother' not only spun the wool for the cloth for our clothing, but washed and carded it, spun it, then took the woolen thread to the weaver to be made into "homespun" cloth. Making clothes for boys by hand was hard work and mother was very progressive and as soon as the machine came, she got one. We children would turn it while she would sew. She went to Utah County, in 1858, during the "move."
Mother, like a good many others, raised silk worms. In the slant of the roof we had shelves, and one shelf was for the silk worms. We had a Mulberry tree in our yard and kept them supplied with food. We got $2.00 a pound for the cocoons.
Florence L. Parry's granddaughter said: "I have heard my father tell how his mother cut out their first pants. Father never could tell the story without laughing 'till the tears ran down his face. The cloth for the pants was spread out smooth on the floor and then each boy, as his turn came, would lie down on the cloth and grandmother would cut the cloth around the boy's legs and up to his waist, and then sew it up by hand. Openings on the side. I think father laughed so heartily because he still carried the picture of himself in those first long pants. From father's notes I find this:—Mother and I spent the fall of several years gleaning wheat after the harvesters on farms bordering the city. We threshed the wheat at home (on a windy day) and took it to the local mill. Thus we got the flour for our winter's bread. Some harvesters left a 'fat field' for the gleaners, while some fields were not worth visiting. Some owners were kind to the gleaners while others discouraged or expelled them from the fields.
Harriet Parry Parry passed away in April, 1901 at the age of 79 years.
Mormon Pioneer Overland Travel, Joseph W. Young Company (1853), Age at departure: 30
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