(1) Zij is getrouwd met Don Carlos Perry.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 7 april 1913 te Vernal, Utah, Territory of Utahah, zij was toen 20 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
(2) Zij is getrouwd met Phillip Van.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 26 november 1929, zij was toen 37 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Grace Delathine Moyes, born 24th of November 1892, was the secondchild of Mary Rozella Thomas and John Jonathan Moyes. They lived inVernal until she was married on the 7th of April to my father, Don CarlosPerry.
For eleven years they lived together and moved from one place to theother. In February 1925 he left her on a ranch in Cederview, Utah justafter the death of their second son, my brother Alonzo and disappeared.In October of that same year, their youngest daughter, Emma, was born.
For three years she struggled to make a living for her fivechildren. They were heartsick years for her. Sometime during these years,she got a divorce from my father and in 1928 she married Phillip Van Jr.,who made her life a worse shambles than it already was.
We lived in Idaho, Salt Lake, Cederview and finall Lapoint. He soldthe ranch in Cederview and squandered the money. In Lapoint, they livedthe first year with his parents. Later he built a small two room cabin onthe river where the remaining years were spent. He was cruel to her andto her children. My oldest sister was already married. Mother watchedthree of us leave home because we could not stand it any longer. Only myyoungest sister was left. But mother was afraid of him, so afraid thatshe bore three children for him and for twelve years put up with poverty,awful indignities and abuse.
Finally her horror of living with him was worse than her fear of himand in 1938 she left him. That year she lived in a room in Roosevelt withmy two sisters and her two children by my stepfather (one of them haddied) - all in constant fear of him.
In spite of that they were happier than they had been for a longtime. She had part of her children with her. The rest of us could go tosee her at last without being afraid of what might happen because of ourvisit. That Christmas she said was the first time in twelve years thatshe was able to buy gifts for her children.
Her health is gone now and her spirit is broken, but life is as muchto her now as it is possible for any life to be after fifteen years of aliving hell. They are living in a fairly nice place and have a lot with agarden and chickens and a pig. They can see people and have friends. Theyare free from a bondage, a slavery that lasted too long for her ever toforget. Perhaps the years ahead will be good to her. We hope they will begood enough to erase some of the terror of the past.
Rupert Edwin Perry
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Phillip Van |
Date of Import: Aug 11, 1998