My mother used to say, "My girl is a bell."

Isabella

Actually my girl is Isabella.  My mother's name is Vesta Isabella Pettersson Curtis.  She was not the first Isabella.  I will discuss here some of her ancestors, and mine, who were also named Isabella.

I believe my mother was named after Vesta Isabella Dixon.  She died at 3 years of age.  Born August 3, 1898 in Coalville, Summit, Utah.  Died January 26, 1902 in Scofield, Carbon, Utah.  Buried January 29, 1902 in Coalville, Summit, Utah.

They were both named after Isabella Pilkington.  Isabella Pilkington was the mother of both Vesta Isabella Dixon and Vesta Isabella Pettersson Curtis.  Isabella Pilkington was born May 16, 1854 in Bolton, Lancashire, England.  She died November 26, 1931 and is buried at Scofield, Carbon,  Utah.

Isabella Pilkington also had a daughter named Miriam Isabella Dixon.  She is the mother of Vesta Isabella Dixon.  Miriam was born April 28, 1876 in Smithfield, Cache, Utah.  She died September 22, 1906 in Salt Lake City and was buried September 25, 1906 at Coalville, Summit, Utah.  This information contradicts the death certificate for Miriam.  The death certificate is wrong.  See below for information on newspaper articles which already have her buried before the date on the death certificate. 

Isabella Pilkington's father was William Pilkington, Sr.  He had a sister named Isabella Pilkington Frost.  She was born January 30, 1925  in Little Bolton, Lancashire, England.  She married Hugh Hilton April 9, 1852 in St. Louis, Missouri.  She died June 5, 1875 in Virgin City, Washington, Utah and is buried there.  She had a daughter named Isabella Jane Hilton born July 21, 1866 and died August 23, 1867 all in Virgin City, Washington, Utah and is buried there.

There is another Isabella.  Miriam Isabella Livsey was born July 22, 1907 in Scofield, Carbon, Utah, a daughter of William Livsey and Anna Elizabeth Eden.  William is the younger brother of my grandmother Ellen Lydia Livsey Pettersson.  Miriam died October 25, 1972 and apparently is buried in San Diego, California. 

Coalville Times, September 28, 1906, page 1.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coalville/id/29774/show/29659/rec/2

Salt Lake Herald, September 28, 1906, page 7.
http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/slherald2/id/36211/show/36363/rec/24

Avocado seeds are edible.

http://omtimes.com/2012/10/13-great-benefits-of-eating-avocado-seeds/

13 Great Benefits of Eating Avocado Seeds

The Benefits of Avocado Seeds

By Dr Paul Haider
Everyone knows about Avocados… but did you know that Avocado Seeds are full of great health benefits?
Avocado Seeds have more antioxidants than most fruits and veggies on the market and polyphenols like green tea, plus they are full of more soluble fiber than just about any other food. — Wow!
In fact Avocado Seed has 70% of the antioxidants found in the whole Avocado, and Avocado Seed Oil is also full of antioxidants, lowers cholesterol, and helps fight off disease. And studies show that Avocado Seed has more soluble fiber than oatmeal and just about any other food. Avocado Seed helps to prevent cardiovascular disease, lower cholesterol, and prevent strokes.
Avocado Seed are great for inflammation of the GI tract and diarrhea too! In fact in South America Avocado Seeds are used for dysentery and other GI tract problems. Avocado Seeds has lots of phenolic compounds that help to prevent gastric ulcers, and prevent bacterial and viral diseases.
Avocado Seed contains a flavonol that prevents tumor growth… in fact studies with rats with cancer given Avocado Seed powder looks promising.
Avocado Seeds boost your immune system and keep you from coming down with debilitating diseases. Keeping your immune system high, because antioxidants keep free radicals at bay… and slows the aging process. Avocado Seeds seems to have a good anti-inflammatory ability and thus helps with arthritis and other joint diseases.
Avocado Seed Oil has been shown in studies to increase collagen in your skin thus helping to keep your skin looking young and wrinkle free. Avocado Seed Oil will make your hair shinny and help get rid of dry dead skin.


http://www.wisegeek.com/can-i-eat-avocado-pits.htm

Before you eat avocado pits, you may want to dry them. This can be accomplished by setting them on a dry, sunny windowsill. It will usually take several days for a pit to dry completely.
Avocado are stone fruits. This means that they have very hard seeds, or pits, similar to stones. Avocado pits must first be broken up or ground up into a powder before they can be eaten.
Tossing an avocado pit into a blender could ruin the machine. Instead, you may find that smashing it with a hammer makes it easier to grind it up. You can also cut the pit up before you grind it up.
To smash avocado pits before you grind them, put them in a heavy-duty plastic bag and smash them with a mallet or hammer. Putting a heavy towel over the bag will help prevent the bag from tearing. The avocado pit pieces can then be ground up in a heavy-duty blender or food processor. This should result in a fine powder.


http://www.onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/why-you-should-eat-that-avocado-seed-and-how-to-make-it-tasty/

Simply take the seed from the avocado like normal and then knife it into quarters. This is much easier than it would seem. After that, the bits of seed can be thrown into a food processor, grinder or powerful blender to make powder. (Be sure the machine is up to the task). The resulting powder will be bitter and full of tannins, so it’s best use with other strong flavors, say in a green smoothie or juice, that’ll mask it a bit. About a half a seed is enough for one solid serving, and the other half can be saved for next time.

Butte Nugget.

Butte County, California. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q8e9Mid3Dk


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAAoPl5wvys

War of Drugs vs Natural Nutrition.

Drugs and processed foods are killing us.  The best food is that grown locally.

We should embrace micro nutrients, calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, vitamin K, grass fed meat and local produce.

We should avoid, smoking, stress, food that's been shipped, factory produced meat, prescription drugs, and pollution.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/healthscience/2015/August/Micronutrient-Crisis-Starving-America-into-Obesity/

https://www.caltonnutrition.com/blog/

http://www.amazon.com/Naked-Calories-Caltons-Micronutrient-Sufficiency/dp/0989452905

Serendipitous story of finding the book Golden Years of the Jefferson Ward

I call this serendipity. I'm the ward historian in my LDS Church ward. Someone brought a history of another ward from 1924 to 1974 I guess as an idea on doing a ward history. Anyway I thought I would just look it over but they wanted me to take it home. So being the pushover than I am that's what I did. I was looking though it and found the wife of my uncle. In fact it even has his name in it after they married. It mentioned my aunt several time and other member of her family. It even has this picture. When this happens, and it happens to me occasionally, I call it serendipity. Could be good luck. Divine intervention. Whatever you call it it brings positive things in your life. Aunt Lois did not even know that this book existed. It is downloadable at FamilySearch.org The Golden Years of Jefferson Ward.

https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE4110656&from=fhd

Nicholas Peter Pettersson still example at 90 years of age.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=Aul-kAQHnToC&dat=19711112&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Newspaper article in the Deseret News Church New on November 13, 1971.  Still leads the music in Priesthood meeting at the age of 90.

Mormonism has powerfully impacted art in Utah, speakers say.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865630530/Mormonism-has-powerfully-impacted-art-in-Utah-speakers-say.html?pg=all

This article was originally published apparently Thursday June 11th on the Deseret News website.  It was republished in the following edition of the Church News. 

Philo Dibble is one of my 3rd great-grandfathers.  He is one of three mentioned as having influenced art early in Utah.  Philo had an art show he traveled Utah with and lectured or invited others who were involved in the early history of the LDS Church to help give lectures.  He charged about a fee of twenty-five cents to view his art. 

Philo was not the artist but he was the one who displayed the art and often gave the lecture.  He commissioned artists to do paintings of scenes in early LDS Church History. 

The traveling art show was only one facet of Philo's life.  He owned property in Nauvoo, Illinois where the current LDS Visitor Center is located.  He or his wife has real estate and did some buying and selling. 

Philo was wounded in the Battle of Crooked River in 1833 in Missouri.  He was told by a doctor that he had never seen anyone live with that bad of wound.  He was not expected to live the night.  He was given a Melchizedek Priesthood blessing and immediated coughed up blood, cloth and such.  The next morning he was up and about the countryside. 

When Philo's first wife died Joseph Smith suggested a widow Smith as a candidate for marriage.  Joseph performed the ceremony and Joseph's wife Emma Smith provided the wedding party.

Philo was also present when the 76th section of the Doctrine and Covenants was given.  He came in after it had started but he did catch a good part of it.  He didn't, of course, see the visions but he did give an eyewitness account of Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon as they saw the visions.

One time Joseph even asked Philo for advice.

Another time Joseph told Philo to move from where he currently lived or in two weeks he would be dead.  Philo moved.  

Philo also wrote a hymn which is still in the hymnals of the LDS Church.