#3 Beryl Burt Sanborn. Part 2.

Once when Beryl was able to get away from the fields and garden,

she did go swimming. 

A photographer snapped this picture, and it appeared on the front side of a Post Card

Typed on the face of the card is, Aunt* Beryl is on picture

also Bessie Love, wife of Earl Love.

The penned in * star identifies Beryl. My guess is she’s 14-16 years old.

Is this happy group of women at Saltair or Blackrock Beach?

James Burt in front of his home at 407 East 39th South

Salt Lake City, Utah

Continued from Part 1

Beryl wrote that after she and Pete were married in 1929 they lived near the fairgrounds.  Pete’s parents, George Benjamin and Amy Lavena Haywood Sanborn, lived at 928 West South Temple, near the fairgrounds. In the 1929 Salt Lake City Directory Albt [Pete] Sanborn is listed as a chfr [chauffer] boarding at 138 South 10^th West.

Currently the Utah State Fairgrounds address is 155 North 1000 West, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116.

A year later Pete and Beryl moved to Euclid Avenue. Their two oldest children were born while they lived there; Albert James “Jim” on May 25, 1930 [he died December 22, 1993] and Amy Marlene on November 22, 1931 [she died July 12, 2009].

By 1937 Pete and Beryl were living at 1044 Euclid Avenue in Salt Lake City, and Pete continued working for the gas company. In early city directors he was listed as a meterman, a repairman, or a helper. He was employed by Mountain Fuel company for 42 years.

Beryl’s mother, Amelia, became ill during the late 1930’s and following her death on March 13, 1939, Pete and Beryl moved to 4^th East and 39^th South to take care of Beryl’s father, James. They lived with him a year, then decided to build their own home.

                 

James Burt had carefully acquired his home and farmland years earlier. Beryl’s oldest sister, Margaret, wrote that while James and Amelia Burt lived in his mother’s home on I street and 5^th Avenue in Salt Lake City, “James kept a cow and a horse which he used to hitch to the wagon and go to work. Irene and Margaret delivered milk to several of the neighbors, and when their deliveries were finished, they played on the foothills and gathered sego lilies” … James “preferred to raise the family on a farm rather than in the city so he began a search for suitable property. He located ten acres of land in Mill Creek, on 39^th South and 3rd and 4^th East. He didn’t move his family down until he had a lovely two story red brick home built, had planted an orchard, lawn and shade trees.”

Margaret said, “he had everything ready for them when they came to the place.” They moved their between 1900 and 1903. In 1922 one of the younger boys threw a sparkler on the roof of this home and burned it down. All of the family pictures and records were destroyed at this time. The house was re-built as a one story home.”

James Burt gave portions of his land to each of his children. Beryl and Pete built their home on land at 3873 South 4^th East. The field at the back of their home always housed a big beautiful garden; first James' and then Pete and Beryl's.

The house Pete and Beryl Sanborn built 

at  3873 South 4th East, Salt Lake City, Utah

(To be continued.)
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Part 4
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#3 Beryl Burt Sanborn. Happy Birthday!

#3 Beryl Burt

b. March 13, 1906, Salt Lake City, Utah

p. #6 James Burt, #7 Amelia Catherine Jorgensen 

m. October 19, 1929, #2 Albert Joseph “Pete” Sanborn

d. December 22, 1986, Salt Lake City, Utah

b. December 27, 1986, Elysian Burial Gardens, Salt Lake County, Utah

No one seems to know why James and Amelia Burt picked the name Beryl for their sixth child. Beryl is a precious pale green gem that is mentioned in both the Old and New Testament. It was the first stone of the fourth row of the high priest’s breastplate (Ex. 28:20), and the eighth stone in the foundation of the wall of the heavenly Jerusalem (Rev. 21:20).

Beryl Burt grew up on her family’s farm and declared early that she would never marry a farmer. The nine children born to James and Amelia Catherine Jorgensen Burt worked their farm. They were Margaret, Irene, Stannie, Gilmour, Melvin, Beryl, Agnes, Ervin, and Herman. Their home was at Thirty-ninth South and Fourth East in Salt Lake City, Utah, with ten acres of farmland adjoining it. They raised sugar beets, a vegetable garden and hay. Beryl weeded and thinned the sugar beets, and when the hay was ready she road on the wagon and leveled the hay bed as the hay was thrown in. She got to ride the horse while a fork-lift pitched the hay into the barn.

During summer’s heat their friends would come to the fence in the field where they were working and want Beryl and her sister to go swimming with them. Beryl would tell her older brother, Mel, who was the boss, she was thirsty and wanted to leave. His retort was always, “let’s see you spit.” She would, and he’d say, “you’re not thirsty, keep working!”

Beryl told me that she and her sisters scrubbed their huge kitchen floor on their hands and knees, and she helped her mother with the wash. On wash day it was Beryl’s job to turn the washer for twenty-five minutes for each load, which was carefully timed on a clock. Mischievous Beryl turned the clock forward when her mother wasn’t watching.

The children attended the Millcreek Ward and Lincoln School. Beryl went to Lincoln through the 8^th grade, and completed four years of high school at Granite High.  She took a six month course at Henagers Business College, after which she worked as a stenographer at National Biscuit. It was there she met Leah Sanborn. Leah introduced Beryl to her husband’s younger brother, Pete Sanborn. They courted for a year before marrying on October 19, 1929.

Beryl’s father, James, was a plasterer. Beryl’s husband, Pete, worked for the gas company. Both men liked large fruitful gardens.

(To be continued…)

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From a personal interview with Beryl in about 1980, a family history she contributed to in 1978, her 1986 autobiography, and family records.

Amelia Catherine Jorgensen Burt

After discovering Amelia Catherine Jorgensen Burt’s funeral book posted here, a descendant asked if I had a picture or history of Amelia. I don’t have a history. But I’m happy to share this lovely family portrait of the James and Amelia Burt family. My sister-in-law, Marlene Sanborn Silotti, gave it to me years ago. Taken in 1925, each family member is identified. Click on the picture to enlarge.

My mother-in-law [Beryl Burt Sanborn], “Aunt Beryl,” on the left, was about sixteen years old when the picture was taken.

The descendant looking for a picture, and a history of Amelia, is a 2nd great-granddaughter through Amelia’s oldest daughter, Margaret Gilmour Burt [center back row], “who married Charles Luther Carlisle and had my grandmother, Lois Carlisle.”

I’d welcome any history or pictures from this family.

#7 Amelia Catherine Jorgensen Burt, on the Sanborn line.

This beautiful little book fell into my home. Literally! I wasn’t home when the giver came by with it a month ago, so he propped it up against my front door. When the door was opened, plop, it toppled in. What an exciting windfall!

It is from Grandmother Burt’s funeral services in 1939. And someone (probably daughter Beryl Burt Sanborn) actually filled in many of the pages.

The following is my favorite page.

Other pages list more information.

Services: Milcreek Ward House, 1:0’clock, 16 Mar., 1939
Officiating: Mill Creek Ward Bishopric; A.M. Cornwall, Bishop, L[l]oyd Park, [ blank] Burbidge
Sermon Notes: Richard R. Towler, E. M. Rynearson, A. M. Cornwall
Music: Abide With Me, In the Garden, My Heavenly Home, and Face to Face.
Bearers: David Hilton, Cottonwood; Therman A. Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah; Vinton Smith, Centerville, Utah; Roy Turner, 7th East & 39 South; Jack Hartshorn, Salt Lake City, Utah; McKeith Burt, North Salt Lake.
Final Resting Place: Elysian Gardens, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah.
Laid to Rest: Amelia Catherine Jorgensen Burt, 3:30 p.m., 16 March, 1939

There are pages filled for each of the following: Relatives Attending, Friends who called, Tributes from Friends, Automobile Donors, and Societies Member of: Relief Society was the one society listed.