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okay weird pull but you know how people say that taylor swift is so popular because her work is so bland. she’s uninterested in making any sort of statement or breaking any sort of mould, so her work is so palatable and widely relatable that it becomes so popular among so many people? (real quick psa im a tswift hater so i dont listen to her music, this is a recycled opinion from a more educated hater than me)

i am beginning to feel a similar way about bridgerton. its premise relies on the idea of a diverse regency england, but it becomes clearer and clearer to me every day that the show is meant for white people. all the bridgertons are white, so every love story will either be swirl or just a white relationship (shoutout to polin ig). not saying that poc dont enjoy the show (we obviously do) but there’s this vocal white audience that keeps harassing actors of colour whenever a decision is made that they dont like. or that strays from the books (which is soooo insane literally the moment they cast rege jean page your dumb cracker asses shouldve realised that the show wasnt gonna care about being book accurate ESPECIALLY since julia quinn basically said out loud that every character in her books would be racist.)

and the show Clearly isn’t interested in pushing any boundaries. look at fucking cressida cowper. given, i have no idea whether her character is going to return to the show, but the way they handled her was so muddled and fucked up that i wondered why they even bothered? they bring her in, humanise her, and then cart her off with this terrible fate. why? if anything, it made eloise and colin far less likeable (eloise, because it seemed like she didnt care about the fate of the only person who treated her with respect after she was “ruined”, and colin, because it made him seem shortsighted, naïve, self centred, and pitifully stupid). i complain because i think eloise is right. the women in this period were stifled. they were not able to study as extensively as their brothers, not able to travel by themselves, kept from sex education into their adulthood, and married off to random men (sometimes against their will, as it was for danbury, charlotte, almost cressida, and arguably daphne). you set such a sexual show in a deeply unsexy time. there’s romance in cressida escaping, being cunning and able to run. it also would��ve made the show more DRAMATIC. it straight up doesnt make sense for cressida to learn whistledown’s identity and not go immediately to the queen. why not have her escape, and let the bridgertons deal with the consequences? i don’t know. they seemed to take the stupid way out.

and then there’s the lower classes, who we rarely see outside of the women bridgerton men fuck with no/low commitment, paperboys, and printers. i’ve said before how i think it’s hideous that the lives of these women aren’t explored outside of their role as sex objects. season one at least explored the tension between anthony and sienna, who he loved but couldn’t commit to (im very glad she got out of there. im glad she respected herself enough to cut ties w him). also in season one, we see how the servants of the bridgerton house played a role in saving daphne from marrying that gross dude, but it feels like that role has vanished from subsequent seasons. maybe they know that seeing how none of the lords and ladies and other rich pricks of mayfair can’t fend for themselves is a turn off for the modern person (remember when anthony and daphne couldn’t use a stove in s1? i got the ick bad). but by ignoring this massive demographic, the show proves its disinterest in exploring the pitfalls and prejudices of the society it is set in.

its a show where women who want to escape their circumstances are villainised for their attempts and where the lives of the poor are either ignored or used to threaten the privileged. you occasionally have a sienna or a theo, but through knowing them, we are never left with the sense that society should change. they may try that next season. i know benedict is supposed to fall in love with A Poor.

i want the show to be good. i want the show to be interesting. i want all the fans who think that it can’t be good unless it’s explicitly relatable to straight white women to get over themselves (or at least go back to tswift and tsitp). i want to watch the show and not feel as though all the female characters are trapped. i want to LIKE ELOISE. some things i dislike about the show are impossible to change, but i guess i just have to hope it can be better. actually start pushing against the constraints of the genre, why not? you’re already one of the most popular shows on TV, you can risk making good television.

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Cowper Stove, Duisburg, Germany

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AAAH THE ONE SHOT WITH THE STOVE WAS EVERYTHING! ✨✨Could I also request something? I did feel the duel scene was a bit underwhelming, I did want some more drama tbh (and I love Anthony as well). What about a one shot Anthony x reader, where the reader accompanies Daphne and lots of more drama? Perhaps reader gets hurt, Anthony in panic, angsty and stuff..feel free to adjust

I HOPE THIS ONE IS GOOD TOO!! I took a few creative liberties with this, adjusting the events on the show to fit the request and what not. 

I’m coming off of a little bit of a migraine hangover and tbh I’m not sure how I feel about this right now on top of getting back into the swing of school. This is the first day since Friday that looking at my computer for more than twenty minutes doesn’t hurt my head so sorry it took longer than expected. 

As always if you’re not happy with this, or if you want to request anything else feel free to slide into my inbox! These requests are SUPER fun.

After Daphne’s scandalous run in with Simon in the garden the night before, Anthony had taken it upon himself to challenge his long-time friend to a duel. The ball was supppsed to be your and Anthony’s grand debut as the newest couple of the season, however, you never got your dance with the Lord, and your dance card now laid empty and forgotten on the floor of the Bridgerton study.

Your dress also laid crumpled in a ball of fabric in the corner of the room. After hearing of your and Anthony’s intentions to begin properly courting, Violet had taken you to the seamstress to get one of your gown adjusted. Genevieve Delacroix had added stunning crystals to the delicate pale green fabric. Your had had been done perfectly by the Bridgerton family’s staff and you had even agreed to wearing a small amount of makeup. However, the night of your dreams abruptly ended when Anthony interrupted your conversation with Colin to inform you both he would be taking Daphne home for the evening as she was not feeling well.

The anger pouring off the eldest Bridgerton was like nothing you had ever seen before and you couldn’t help but wonder if she had rejected the Prince’s proposal, as you knew he had to intend to propose soon, and no night seemed better. However, as Anthony dragged his sister away you couldn’t catch his or Daphne’s eye, leaving your dreams of starting a whirlwind public relationship with Anthony crushed.

You now sat on the desk in the Bridgerton study, Colin pacing around the room in front of you, his boots rhythmically hitting the floor with every step he took. “What if he kills Simon?”

“Colin-”

“What if Simon kills him?”

“Colin I don’t think that-”

“Benedict surely doesn’t want to be bothered with the social scene, does that mean the responsibility to escort all of my sisters through their season falls on me?” The boy in front of you stopped pacing and pulled on the roots of his hair, letting out a long, frustrated sigh. “I’m supposed to be traveling soon! Anthony is supposed to be the mature one, he’s supposed to know how to run the family! Not me!”

“COLIN! STOP!” You finally cut the boy off, standing up and placing both of your hands firmly on his shoulders. “Nothing is going to happen to Simon or Anthony, no one saw Simon and Daphne in that garden other than your brother so there’s nothing to hide!” You dropped your hands from Colin’s shoulder. 

“But-” both you and Colin turned to face the door of the study, Daphne standing in the doorway, her tone sombre and her head bowed towards the ground. “What if someone did see?”

You stepped away from Colin to face the eldest Bridgerton daughter, your tone changing to one of concern. “What do you mean what if someone saw,” you felt panic starting to bubble up in your chest. “Did someone see you and Simon in the garden last night?” You thought Anthony had been overreacting when he pulled yourself and Colin into the study the night before after you had helped escort Lady Bridgerton home. But if Daphne was concerned someone saw her and Simon kiss, maybe he wasn’t overreacting.

Daphne opened her mouth, as if she wanted TJ speak, before closing it again. Silence fell across the three of you before you heard Daphne gasp. “Cressida Cowper,” Daphne blurted out. “When Anthony brought me inside she stopped me and and asked if I caught a chill in the garden.” You watched Daphne’s expression change to one of concern.

“Cressida Cowper,” Colin started running a frustrated hand over his face again, “saw you and Hastings in the garden last night and Anthony, nor Hastings, know?” He took in a long breath before leering the air out through his nose.

Daphne quickly shook her head. “Colin you need to tell me where they went,” Daphne demanded. You pulled your bottom lip between your teeth, not finding it proper to interrupt the conversation between the siblings.

“Daphne, Hasting has, he’s done you one of the greatest dishonors,” Colin quickly shook his head, giving his sister a clearly confused look. “I’m sure you want him to pay.”

“I don’t want him to pay with his life!” Daphne’s voice grew louder and you stepped towards the sibilants again, hoping you wouldn’t have to be the one to calm their tempers so no one else in the estate would be woken.

“Well, I’m sure both Anthony and the Duke will do as gentlemen should and shoot wide,” Colin supplemented with a shrug.

You stepped between the two siblings, “besides,” you supplemented, “everyone might just think that Cressida has a grudge against you. You did take the Prince’s attention off of her, even if you don’t want to admit it.” 

Daphne, however, seemed to refuse to take no for an answer. “Colin you need to tell me where they went.” She turned to her brother again, a desperate look on her face now, “you know Anthony’s pride won’t let him shoot wide.”

Colin puffed air into his cheek, letting it out slowly before speaking. “Fine, but we’re coming with you.” 

You had been lucky enough to be able to bring your own horse with you to London, and now, racing towards the site of the duel, you were glad you had. The Bridgerton’s horses clearly had not gotten used to speeding across the hills, as they lagged slightly behind you. Years of living out in the middle of the country had given you, and your horses, the ability to adapt to all different types of terrain. Be it flooded field, rolling hills or even shoulder high grasses, your horses were able to tackle it all.

You were glad your hair, still expertly tied up from the night before, had yet to be taken out as it kept the strands from flying into your face, distracting you from the task at hand. Still slightly ahead of both Colin and Daphne you were able to make out five figures standing in a plot of open land between two beautiful trees. Anthony and Simon were back to back in the clearing, both men clutching a handgun between their hands.

“You can go faster,” you urged your horse while he pushed himself to fly faster through the tall grass field, his breath coming out in heavy puffs. Anthony and Simon began to take slow, steady steps away from each other and you held your breath, knowing you were unable to push your horse to go any faster without him hurting himself. 

Both men paused briefly before turning to face each other. Anthony pointed his gun towards Simon, while the Duke aimed towards the sky. Now, within proper distance of the ongoing duel you started to slow your horse. “Anthony!” You swung both of your legs to one side of your horse, trying to keep your balance while you did so. “Anthony stop!” Your horse slowed to nearly a stop and you let yourself slide off your horse’s back, your feet not even hitting the ground before you were running towards the two men.

“What are you doing?” Benedict practically yelled while you ran in between Anthony and the Duke. “Anthony! Anthony stop!” Benedict called when he realized you had already made up your mind. However, his call for the eldest Bridgerton to hold his fire.

Before you knew what had hit you, in both a literal and figurative sense, you felt a searing pain cut across your cheek. The bang of the gun firing didn’t reach your ears until after you had hit the ground, your left hand clutched tightly over your right cheek. Anthony and Benedict calling your name didn’t register either, especially when you pulled your hand away from your cheek and noticed it had been covered in blood.

“(Y/N),” a warm, heavy hand was placed on your shoulder and another pulled your hand away from your cheek. “The doctor needs to make you’re you’re fine, (Y/N),” Anthony’s panicked eyes met your own. However, you couldn’t focus on them with the pain in your cheek and the blood still covering your hand.

An older man crouched down next to you, pulling a medical bag up next to him and opening it before he began expecting the wound on your cheek. “The bullet just grazed her,” the doctor spoke while he began cleaning the wound, “she’s lucky.”

“Thank the heavens,” Anthony breathed out while he pressed his forehead to your temple on your unharmed side, his warm breath fanning across your cheek. “I’m so sorry,” you could hear his voice break towards the end.

“She’s perfectly fine my lord, keep the wound clean and covered and it’ll heal in absolutely no time.” You winced when you felt the doctor wipe something across your cheek, the pain flaring up momentarily before subsiding again. “I’m sure you could tell Lady Bridgerton it was a riding accident and everything would be believed. “If that’s all, and you gentlemen don’t intend on trying the duel again,” the doctor looked between Anthony and the Duke, “I’ll be going.”

Hasting and Anthony both thanked the doctor before he departed, Daphne and Simon engaged in a seemingly heated conversation along with Colin and Benedict. “(Y/N).” Anthony started, both of your hands held in one of his large ones. “I don’t-”

“I can’t right now, Anthony,” you placed a hand across your covered cheek. “I just,” you let out a frustrated sigh, “I’m questioning if your mind and your heart and in two different places at the moment.” You felt tears begin to gather in the corners of your eyes.

“(Y/N), please,” Anthony seemed to be nearly begging, tears gathered in his own eyes while you stood up. Your hands felt from his grip and you cupped his cheek with one, running your thumb along his cheek bone.

You offered the man in front of you a sad smile before you removed your hand. “I’m going to ask one of your brothers to escort me home while you and the others decide the next steps between Daph and the Duke.” He opened his mouth to speak, but you didn’t allow him to. “Once you reconsider priorities we can revisit our arrangement, but I will not be second to any other reckless endeavors you wish to engage in if we do get married.”

With that you turned from the Viscount, still on his knees in the damp morning grass, tears in his eyes and a frown on his face.

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Sifting Through Austen’s Elusive Allusions

Excellent researchers have divined many, many references and allusions that Jane Austen makes in her novels and letters. In his various editions of her works, R. W. Chapman lists literary mentions along with real people and places. Deirdre Le Faye’s editions of Austen’s letters include actors, artists, writers, books, poems, medical professionals, and others. Jocelyn Harris, Janine Barchas, and Margaret Doody have written extensively about people, places and things on which Austen may have based situations or characters. Some of Jane’s references are clear, some artfully concealed.

Yet we should be cautious about the great number of literary or historical finds uncovered by modern scholarship, because we often don’t know how many of these Austen knew herself. When a modern researcher cites an historical person from a couple of hundred years Before Jane, the marginal query must always be, “Did JA know this?” Many, she likely did. But probably not all. Maybe not even most.

Also, we don’t know how many references and allusions are tactical rather than strategic. Many authors include passing topical references with no other goal than to place the events of a novel in a particular time and place. A writer in 1960s America might show anti-war footage playing on a television. A current writer might mention a controversial American president or British prime minister. But unless a common theme directly connects the background references with the main storyline, these references are likely tactical rather than strategic.

Here, “tactical” means the reference has no profound meaning beyond the text. “Strategic” means an effort by the writer to establish a more general social, political, or historical context. A reference to a Rumford stove in Northanger Abbey, for example, is tactical, playing a newly invented appliance off the heroine’s expectations of dank passages and cobwebbed rooms. The naval subplot in Persuasion, on the other hand, is strategic. It incorporates not only the overall historical context but also the moral and intellectual contrast between the military men who have earned their wealth versus the wealthy civilians who are squandering theirs.

For many other items, it is difficult to determine the precise source. Education and literature in Great Britain then involved a small, fairly closed set of people. Limited common sources included the Bible, Shakespeare, and authors from the classical tradition. A common set of teachers came from the same small number of colleges using those limited sources. Everyone who admitted to reading novels drew on the same small pool of books.

It is conventional wisdom, for instance, that Austen took the phrase “pride and prejudice” from Francis Burney’s book Cecilia, where the capitalized phrase appears three times at the end. However, the literary pairing of “pride and prejudice” occurs elsewhere, including the writings of Samuel Johnson and William Cowper, two of Austen’s other favorite writers.

Even First Impressions, the original name for this novel, may have come from a common vocabulary. First impressions, and not being fooled by them, was a literary trope. In Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, the heroine, Emily, and the secondary heroine, Lady Blanche, are warned not to rely on first impressions. This novel, shown above by the headline, is mentioned so often in Northanger Abbey that it is almost a character. The concept also arises in the works of Samuel Richardson. Austen may have borrowed from one of these specific authors. Or all the authors may have used a common literary vocabulary. Indeed, it was the recent publication of two other works with the title First Impressions that led Austen to change her title.

Another question is whether Austen knew the many layers of references that academics often point out. She apparently had free run of her father’s 500-book library, but we don’t know what it contained. As an adult, she had occasional access to the large libraries at her brother Edward’s estates at Chawton and Godmersham. How much she read of the classical material there, we don’t know.

Jane knew Shakespeare and the Bible well. She knew many poets, but would she have read a still earlier classical writer referenced by those poets? Did Austen know Shakespeare’s sources, which were often obscure Italian plays? We might be able to trace many connections back to the Renaissance or before, but she may have known only the immediate one before her.

Harris, Barchas, Doody, and others have given us multiple possible historical references to the name Wentworth in Persuasion. Austen might use the name to tie into this network of families and English history going back hundreds of years (strategic). Or she might use the name because of its fame in her day (tactical). The direct novelistic use is to contrast Sir Walter, who measures family names in terms of social status, with the Captain, who fills his commoner’s name with value through meritorious service. Sir Walter finally accepts Wentworth because of his wealth and reputation. He was “no longer nobody.” Yet the baronet can’t help but think the officer is still “assisted by his well-sounding name.”

Barring a letter or other source in which Austen states her purpose, we have no way of knowing whether Austen intended a broader meaning to “Wentworth” than its general fame. To some, the name in and of itself establishes the broad historical context. To others, it would take more than the three or so brief references to Wentworth, as a name, to show that Austen means to establish a meaningful beyond-the-book purpose.

Another consideration is that, cumulatively, commentators have found an enormous number of supposed references and allusions in Austen. Could a fiction writer, with all the work required in creating, writing, and revising a novel, have the time and energy to find and insert a myriad of outside references and allusions? Could a writer insert many references without bogging down the work?

Every writer who has tried her hand at historical fiction, for example, knows that too much history can overwhelm the novel’s story, leaving characters standing on the sideline to watch events pass by. Every external reference creates extra exposition that creates the danger of gumming up the plotline. It might also create a new emotional tone at odds with the characters’ situation or other complexities that must be resolved. We can’t underestimate the extra work for an author who already has her head full of practical book-writing issues—plot and character development—that need to be kept straight.

Finally, writers often plant things for no other reason than fun. In Northanger Abbey, John Thorpe takes Catherine Morland for a carriage ride early in the story. Barchas points out that he asks her about her relationship with her friends, named Allen, at just the point where their carriage would be driving past Prior Park, the home of Ralph Allen. This was the stone mogul who helped build Bath.

Austen does not explicitly call out the family home. Readers who know Bath’s geography and make the connection to the wealthy masonry clan get an extra chuckle. Readers unfamiliar with the geography, or with the wealthy Allen descendants, would not suffer from a lack of understanding.

All a reader needs to know is that Thorpe thinks the Morlands are connected to a very wealthy family, when in fact their friends named Allen are only modestly well-to-do. Thorpe’s misunderstanding drives the book’s plot. Very likely, all Austen wanted with the Prior Park allusion was to give a wink to the bright elves reading her book.

Thus the author may mean one thing, while later analysts might find something beyond what the writer ever intended. In Mansfield Park, for instance, Henry Crawford reads Henry VIII aloud. A broad interpretation might connect the attitude of the rogue Henry Crawford with the attitude of the rogue Henry VIII: Women and wives are interchangeable, expendable, to be taken at whim and tossed away at whim. Or perhaps the name Henry is nothing more than a tip of the hat to Jane’s favorite brother, Henry.

Austen may well have intended multiple levels of interpretation. But note that she has Henry Crawford himself say that Shakespeare is “part of an Englishman’s constitution … one is intimate with him by instinct.” Edmund Bertram agrees: “We all talk Shakespeare, use his similes, and describe with his descriptions.”

Others may feel that Austen deliberately weaves in as many references as she can. One must imagine her writing with a variety of concordances stacked to the ceiling. But she indirectly tells us of a different approach. One is “intimate” with Shakespeare by “instinct.” She knew the Bard and other writers in depth, and the references come out organically. Much more than by design, this fine writer pulls what she needs from history by “instinct.”

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Emily Ann Jeffery

The Biography of Emily Ann Jeffery Burgess

Written by Marilee Burgess Cook

Emily Ann Jeffery was born in St. George, Utah, on June 25, 1866. Her father, Thomas Alfred Jeffery, joined the LDS Church at age 23 and five years later, married Mary Ann Hibbett.  Mary could not have children, so they adopted Sarah Ann Jeffery and took her across the ocean and then across the plains to Utah in 1860.

Elizabeth Ann Cowper, a “Scottish lassie of esteemed acquaintance and friendship”1 made her way to Utah in 1861. “Then upon receiving an offer to spend the winter with Thomas Alfred, and his wife, Mary Ann, she went to Spanish Fork.  (She had known Thomas and Mary Ann while Thomas served a mission in Scotland.)”2  On February 22, 1862 she became Thomas’ second (polygamist) wife.  Later that year the family moved to St. George at the request of Brigham Young.  Thus, Emily Ann Jeffery was born in St. George, Utah.  She was the third child and oldest daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth’s eight children.  Emily Ann’s oldest brother, James, had passed away as an infant.  The rest of her siblings, Walter, Caroline (Carrie), Thomas, Edgar, Irvin and Zona, were all born in Utah and lived for many years.  

“Emily started school late in the Fall of 1872 at the Third Ward School in St. George.”3 Emily Ann was 10 at the time of her baptism and confirmation in October 1876.  Six days after her baptism, Emily Ann’s youngest sibling, Zona, was born. Seemingly, to make up for her late baptismal date, she was endowed in the St. George temple at the ripe old age of 12.  EmilyAnn was very religious and and she enjoyed attending the temple, often with Mary Ann Jeffery, her father’s first wife.4

Emily Ann’s daughter Aggie later wrote about Emily Ann’s relationship with Mary Ann.  “Her father had two wives.  The second wife was my grandmother (Elizabeth Cowper Burgess). The first wife (Mary Ann Hibbett) lived in St. George.  She didn’t have any children.  Grandma lived on a ranch between St. George and Pine Valley.  My mother stayed in St. George winters with the first wife to attend school.  The children loved the first wife the same as their own mother.”5

“Her parents moved to the Black Ridges on Santa Clara Creek in 1869-1870.  Emily Ann continued to attend school in St. George until after the death of Mother Mary Ann in 1878.”6  In 1883, Thomas Jeffery moved his  family, including Emily Ann, to Pine Valley. “After moving to Pine Valley, she worked for Rhoda Ann Burgess at her Grass Valley Ranch where she became acquainted with George E. Burgess.”7  George E. soon became interested in tall, dark-complexioned Emily Ann.  Their acquaintance blossomed into romance, and on December 3, 1885, Emily Ann was sealed to George Edward Burgess in the St. George temple.  

“On Friday, December 4th they arrived back in Pine Valley about 1 P.M.  After congratulations, along with relatives they attended a lovely wedding supper at the Thomas A. Jeffery home, then on to the dance.

Emily Ann and George E. stayed with his parents until they could get a home of their own ready.  She artistically made window curtains, they obtained a stove, some cupboards, furniture and moved in on December 21st, sharing their first Christmas together in their new home.

George E. continued to help his father out on the Grass Valley Ranch raising grain, lucern, corn, cattle and horses.  Also he did a lot of logging in the nearby mountains.  Sometimes Emily Ann would ride horseback up to see him  at the sawmill and they would have lunch together. Summer months one could see her riding a horse over the hills and through the grass from Pine Valley to the Burgess's ranch.”8

Emily Ann and George made their home in Pine Valley, Utah.  Two years later in December of 1887, their first baby, Lillie, was born.  “Shortly after George and Emily’s first child was born, George was called to serve a mission to the Southern States, leaving Emily, a mother of six weeks, alone for 26 months with very little to live on. Her faith grew in those months and she always actively served in the Church.”9

“Emily Ann continued to be busy in her Pine Valley home, tending Baby Lillie, helping Rhoda Burgess with sewing, quilting, and cooking for their farm hands.  She attended to her church callings, and assisted those in need.  A little 13 month old baby boy, Mina, was dying.  Emily Ann went to his home after his death and she bathed and clothed the infant.  Then along with Ella B., they made his burial clothes.  Both these women spent the night by the little body.  While in Pine Valley she served as 2nd Counselor in the Primary.”10

Emily Ann’s parents moved from Pine Valley to Loa, Wayne, Utah on June 19, 1889.  “Her sister Carrie had married around the time that George E. left for his mission.  Carrie remained in Pine Valley and she and Emily became very close.

In the fall of 1889, she and Lillie traveled to Loa to stay with them during the winter.  It was while there that she received a letter telling her that George E. was coming home.  He arrived in Salt Lake on 22 March 1890.”11

After George’s mission, he and Emily Ann continued to live in Pine Valley, Utah.  Four more children were born there; two boys – Edward W and Herbert Alfred – and two girls –Dora and Aggie.   Her father died in 1898 and Aggie remembered Emily Ann’s sadness upon receiving the news.  “I can remember the day Mother and Aunt Carrie (her sister) received word of the death of their father in Loa, Utah.  It was so far away they didn’t get the letter until after the funeral was over. They stood out in our yard by the well, crying.”12

In Nov 1899, George and Emily Ann moved up to Lund, Nevada with several of George’s siblings and parents. Three more boys were born in Nevada – Orion J, Rulon L, and Malin H.  The two youngest boys died as infants and were buried in the Lund Cemetery.

“Though her path at times seemed dark and dreary and her health shattered, Emily Ann's faith let her catch a glimmer of light through the darkness.  Through her many prayers she received strength and from the spirit, a calm peaceful feeling that touched her soul and brought a knowledge that these precious treasures were secure and safe with Heavenly Father and that someday she would hold them close to her again and with her husband experience the joy of raising them.”13

Emily Ann was a hard worker and very ambitious.  Living in Lund was like being a pioneer all over again. Her daughter Aggie wrote, “Emily Ann was a real helpmate. She took good care of her family. There was the cooking and sewing of all the family clothing.”14

“Mother knit the stockings for the family out of fine black wool yarn.  Most of her evenings were spent knitting by the light of kerosene lamps. The laundry soap was made by boiling waste fat from beef and pork in tubs, with lye water.”15  

Emily Ann passed on her homemaking skills to her daughters.  Granddaughter Ula declared, “She was an excellent cook and was noted for her delicious pumpkin pies made from molasses.  This recipe has been passed down to her grandchildren today.”16

Despite health issues, Emily served faithfully in the Church while living in Lund.  Aggie wrote, “Mother didn’t have very good health for years, but she took the job of Relief Society Counselor for two years, and then she was put in as President.  She served in this office for six years.”17

“She helped take care of the sick in the town. In case of a death the burial clothing was made by the Relief Society women. Heber C. Smith helped make the coffins and the ladies would cover them with white outing-flannel (inside and out), trimming them with white lace.”18

In September 1908, shortly after Malin’s death, Emily and George took their family back to Utah, minus Lillie who had married Heber Arthur Smith(Arthur) a year earlier and had settled in Lund.  George and Emily chose to reside in Alpine, Utah.

“Although poor in health, Emily Ann continued to serve in any capacity that was required of her. While living in Alpine she was a visiting teacher for 14 years, taught Primary and Sunday School classes, and was a counselor in the Alpine Ward Primary. On 31 October 1922, when the Mountainville Camp DUP was organized, she was a charter member, being elected as the camp’s first Registrar.

In September of 1917, she lost her granddaughter, 15 month old Laura Emily, Herbert’s daughter. Then in November 1918, both her son, Herbert, and his wife, Della, died within 14 hours of each other of the Spanish Influenza, leaving little eleven month old Myron.  Emily Ann and George E. raised this grandson and loved him dearly.

Joy came to this family when their son Edward “W” accepted a call and served a mission in the Northwestern States under Melvin J. Ballard in 1912.  Later their youngest son, Orion, received his call to the Western States Mission in 1924.

Emily's health had been very bad but she refused any medical attention until Orion was on his way for his mission.  He had only been in the mission field 2 weeks, when Emily Ann consented to go to the American Fork Hospital for an operation and passed away there on 21 May 1924.”19  She passed away from stomach cancer at the young age of 57.20

A funeral was held in the Alpine chapel, directly before her burial in the Alpine City Cemetery on May 24, 1924.  At her funeral, speaker Mae H. Marsh, made the following comment: "We can say of Sister Burgess that in the Master's vineyard all her days were spent, for she was true as a daughter, wife, mother, friend and saint.  In the circle of her presence there was not depression only warmth and love and cheer.  To her family and friends she left a rich heritage.  Her life will point out the way for them and she will surely rise again, perfected and triumphant, to continue, intensified and unhindered the virtues for which on earth she was known and loved".21

  EndNotes

1Family Tree Website. Family Tree Thomas Alfred Jeffery:Memories: Documents. https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=KWNT-SKS§ion=memories.

2 Rondo N. Jeffery, Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, Thomas Alfred and Elizabeth Cowper Jeffery Family History, Ula Burgess Hemingway, call number 929.273 j36 (Roy, Utah: Thomas Alfred Jeffery Book Committee, 1995), EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

3Ibid

4Ibid

5Back of Family Group Sheet, written by Aggie Gubler, original whereabouts unknown. NOTE:  Information included in parenthesis in this quote was added by author, Marilee Burgess Cook.

6 Rondo N. Jeffery, Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

7Ibid

8 Rondo N. Jeffery, Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, Thomas Alfred and Elizabeth Cowper Jeffery Family History, call number 929.273 j36 (Roy, Utah: Thomas Alfred Jeffery Book Committee, 1995), EMILY  ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS FAMILY  INTRODUCTION, pp. 177-180

9 Back of Family Group Sheet, written by Aggie Gubler, original whereabouts unknown.

10 Rondo N. Jeffery Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

11Ibid

12Delbert E. and Barbara B. Roach, The Heritage of Faith in Courage: William and Violate Burgess and Their Family George Edward and Emily Ann Burgess (Family Heritage Publishers, Copyright 2006), By Aggie B. Gubler; Source Lois Shepherd Beck, pp 475-476.

13 Rondo N. Jeffery, Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS FAMILY  INTRODUCTION

14White River Valley Historical Committee, Aggie B Gubler and Emily G Beck, White River Valley, Nevada – then AND Now 1898-1980: Chapter 97 -- George Edward and Emily Ann Burgess (Provo, Utah: Melayne Printing, maybe 1980), ; digital page, White River Valley Historical Committee, White River Valley, Nevada (http://whiterivervalley.org/index.php/white-river-valley-then-and-now-1898-1980/chapters-80-to-99/102-chapter-97-george-edward-and-emily-ann-burgess : Viewed 20 February 2014.

15Delbert E. and Barbara B. Roach, The Heritage of Faith

16 Rondo N. Jeffery Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

17 Delbert E. and Barbara B. Roach, The Heritage of Faith

18White River Valley Historical Society

19 Rondo N. Jeffery Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

20Emily Ann Burgess, death certificate 231 (21 May 1924), State Board of Health, Utah.

21Rondo N. Jeffery Janet Franson Jeffery, Pearl Jeffery, EMILY ANN (JEFFERY) BURGESS, pp. 181-184.

Other Contributing Sources

1. Drew, Lee. "Find A Grave." Database. Emily Ann Jeffery Burgess. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19307865 : 2014.

2. "The Biography of George Edward Burgess," 13 April 2014, Marilee Burgess Cook, Louisville, Colorado.

3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Family Tree," database, Emily Ann Jeffery Family Tree (https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=KWCF-PR9§ion=ordinances : Viewed 21 February 2014), Temple Ordinances; The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

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Sharon Steel Corp.

Sharon, Penna - The still standing Cowper stoves that held the super heated hot blast, or wind as it was called, for the long demolished blast furnaces at the former Sharon Steel works in Farrell, PA. This mill is now owned by NLMK, a Russian outfit. They still operate finishing mills here, but there's no need for a blast fce. when your basic steel is shipped in as slabs from mother Russia.

This photo was taken in 2008, the furnaces fell in 1995. See below for a heart breaking article from the Sharon Herald.

At 6 p.m. Friday, “Judy” died.

Cause of death: Nobody wanted to pay to keep her alive.

Standing nearly 110 feet tall and dressed in blackened steel, she was hardly the most attractive gal in town. Yet, when she belched out smoke, she was beloved.

Sharon Steel Corp.'s No 2 blast furnace, nicknamed Judy, met its fate with explosives and crashed to the earth with a “kathump.” The No.3 furnace, which stood next to No. 2, was felled at the same time. An old No. 1 furnace housed at the mill was dismantled about 70 years ago.

Accompanied by a flash of yellow light, the explosion could be heard for miles around the Farrell steel mill.

Steel from both furnaces will be picked apart and sold for scarp.

The Schoonover Co. paid $1.65 million for the right to scrap parts of the Farrell mill. The Ecorse, Mich., company began its estimated 10-month project in December. Sharon Steel owns land on the section of the mill Schoonover is scrapping.

Ray Schoonover, owner of the company, estimated that both furnaces combined will yield 15, 000 tons of steel.

One hundred pounds of plastic explosive was needed to blow up the furnaces, said Doug Loizeaux, vice president of Controlled Demolition Inc. Schoonover hired the Phoenix. Md., company to demolish both furnaces.

An hour before pushing the button that set off the explosive, Loizaaux briefly explained that each furnace was supported by eight cast steel legs. Schoonover tore out two legs in each furnace before Friday. CDI thought the legs were made of cast iron, which is more brittle and easier to explode than cast steel.

“We had to use twice as much explosive than we thought, ” Loizeaux said.

Success or failure in a demolition project is immediately known.

“It's fun,” he said of his work. “You get to meet a lot of people. ”

Judy received much attention during the 1960's when the aging No. 1 furnace needed to be replaced. At the time, Sharon Steel said it needed No. 2 repaired to survive.

When the repaired No. 2 furnace was dedicated in 1968, it was named after then-Farrell resident Judy Nath. She and her husband, Charles, had owned a consulting firm that helped secure a $5.2 million federal Urban Development Action Grant for the project. Nath, who died in 1987, had been city manager and redevelopment director in Farrell.

His widow has since remarried and now lives in Pullman, Wash.

A blast furnace produces molten iron ore that is used to make steel. When operating, the No. 2 furnace could produce about 60,000 tons of iron ore a month. Sharon Steel idled the furnace when it closed the mill in November 1992. Later that month, Sharon Steel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company is now selling all its assets to pay its creditors.

Caparo Inc., which bought much of the mill from Sharon Steel in December, didn't want the blast furnaces. Instead, Caparo will use the two electric furnaces at the mill to produce steel.

Immediately after the blast and the crash of the furnaces, an excited Schoonover employee could be heard congratulating Loizeaux over two-way radio.

“Great job. You're the best in the world,” the worker said.

Loizeaux tried to calm him down.

“Don't tell me what a great job I did, just give me my paycheck,” Loizeaux joked.

THOUGHTS ON ‘JUDY’

Here are some thoughts on the demise of “Judy” from those who were involved with Sharon Steel Corp:

Judith Breedlove,for whom the No. 2 furnace was named. She and her husband, the late Charles Nath, operated a consulting firm that helped secure federal funding for the No. 2 furnace that resulted in the furnace being repaired for reuse in 1988. She's now a teacher in Pullman, Wash. What I'll remember the most about the furnace is the hours we spent on the phone with Sharon Steel officials about what was needed to get the funding. We tried to take the middle-or-the-road approach to make everyone happy and get the project approved. ”

Henry Evans,former vice chairman at Sharon Steel who worked at the mill since 1933. He now is a consultant with Caparo Steel Co., which bought much of the Farrell mill. “If they would have gotten a continuous caster, Sharon Steel would still be there with the blast furnace producing steel. If there was a caster in there now, that place would be booming.”

Phillip A. Smalley,former senior vice president of human resources at Sharon Steel, He now is a managed health care and employment relations consultant. “I don't look at it with a sense of saddness. It signals the plant has changed from an integrated mill to a mini-mill, and that's long overdue. The man who uses yesterday's methods in today's work won't be in busninss tomorrow. ”

Eugene C. Pacsi, mayor of Farrell, “ I think when Caparo (Steel) came in, we knew at the time they weren't going to use the blast furnace. Time goes by, and there's a different way to run a steel mill. In a way, I'm glad we'll still have a steel mill … but there are a lot of memories there though. ”

Howard Clark, former president of United Steelworkers Local 1197, which represented 2,200 production and maintenance workers at Sharon Steel. Clark is now retired. “It's a sad day, and it's a sad situation - but that's the way it is. I know one thing, it's sure a shame that all those people who worked there all those years lost their retirement health care benefits. ”

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Cowper stoves at the abandoned Thyssen steelworks in Duisburg-Meiderich (Germany). http://flic.kr/p/VumwwF