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Title: Latter-day Saint biographical encyclopedia : a compilation of biographical sketches of prominent men and women in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Year: 1901 (1900s) Authors: Jenson, Andrew, 1850-1941 Subjects: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons Publisher: Salt Lake City : The Andrew Jenson History Co. Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Text Appearing Before Image: burden of her hus-bands widowed mother and childrenhas been his responsibility, she hasmade them welcome in the home, andgladly shared her husbands incomewith them. As Bishop Pierce is theoldest of his mothers children. SisterPierce has stood nobly by her husbandin giving his brothers and sisters theadvantages of good schooling and senttwo of them on missions. Even tothis day, when all her husbandsbrothers and sisters, except one, aremarried and have families of theirown, they happily gather at the homeof Bishop and Sister Pierce eachThanksgiving Day, and have for years,to enjoy themselves in a big familydinner together. PO.MEROY, Talma Emerson, a Patriarch, and an ordinance workerin the Arizona Temple, at Mesa, and BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA 53 a prominent Elder in the Mesa Ward,Maricopa Stake, Maricopa Co., Ariz.,was born May 6, 1863, in Salt LakeCity, Utah, the son of Francis MartinPomeroy and Sarah Matilda Colburn.His father was one of the originalpioneers with Brigham Young coming

Text Appearing After Image: to Utah in 1847, and his mother, withher parents, arrived in the ValleySept. 24, 1848. When but one yearof age his parents moved to Paris,Bear Lake Co., Idaho, where they re-sided until Sept. 14, 1877, when thefamily migrated to Arizona, locatingat Mesa. He drove his mothers teammost of the entire distance, and other-wise did his full share in that memor-able journey. . Bro. Pomeroy was bap-tized in 1871 by Thomas Sleight inParis. In the building of the MesaCanal, though only 15 years of age,he received credit for a mans fullwage, because he earned it by doinga mans part. Through all the hard-ships usually endured in settling anew country, building canals, roads,homes, clearing, fencing and farmingthe land, and in freighting, workingin the harvest fields, etc., he also dida mans full part, aiding materially insupplying the necessaries of life forthe family. Brother Pomeroy was the first sec-retary of the Y. M. M. I. A. of theMaricopa Stake, being set apart Jan.20, 1883, which position

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