Ralph Briggs Douglass and Jane Stone Douglass

History of Ralph Briggs Douglass

Ralph Briggs Douglass was born December 28, 1824 at Dowham, Lancaster, England, the son of George and Ellen Briggs Douglass. His father and mother and family joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during the first visit of Heber C. Kimball in the year 1838. Ralph was baptized in the LDS Church in the spring of 1840 (May 23) by Steven Langstrain at Cletheroe, England. The family migrated to America and arrived in Nauvoo on April 7, 1842.

Ralph was personally acquainted with the Prophet Joseph Smith. He also shared in the persecution of the sints while in Nauvoo and went through many hardships with them. Ralph married Hennrietta Wheeler in the spring of 1846. At a pioneer celebration in Nauvoo Henrietta was chosen to receive a blue silk scarf for having the blackest hair and eyes, when someone brought in an Indian girl and she carried away the prize.

Ralph and Henrietta were blessed with two chilren in this marriage. When a call was made for volunteers, he enlisted in the Mormon Ballalion Company "D". There were ninety men in this company. Ralph left Nauvoo with the first company for the west, leaving his wife almost destitute with no shelter other than a tent to protect her from the weather.

Ralph marched with the regiment but was taken ill with scurvy and sent back to Pueblo where he nearly died. He remained there during the winter of 1846. On Monday, April 5, 1847, Ralph left winter quarters on a trip to the Rocky Mountains. This was the first group of pioneers to travel west. They traveled 111 days and endured many hardships along the way with the saints and their families. Ralph Arrived in Salt Lake City in the year 1847 with the pioneers. While in the valley he helped make and lay adobe for the Old Fort Wall in Salt Lake City.

In the fall of the same year (August 26, 1847) in the company of President Brigham Young they went back to Missouri in search of his loved ones and Ralph found them at St. Joseph, Missouri. He spent the winter there then went to St. Louis in the spring of 1848. He stayed in St. Louis for two years making preparations for another western journey.

With another company of immigrants he left for Utah in the spring of 1850 and arrived safely in the fall at Salt Lake City, although they suffered untold hardships along the way. Ralph was appointed Captain of Company "D" in the year 1850. He crossed the plains several times to assist companies from the Missouri River.

Ralph was called again as one of the Mormon Battalion to make a trip through Old Mexico going around through California and returning to Salt Lake City. He then continued his journey to the east and brought his family back to Utah. The family settled in Ogden, Utah. Ralph helped build the first adobe home here.

Colonel A.P. Rockwood suggested that a log house 18x18 feet would cost $40 and one of adobe would be half as much. So Captain Brown set his men to work building both on August 1st. In the valley they put up a stockade of adobe houses. Samuel Gould and James Dunn were lime burners and Sylvester H. Earl, Joel T. Terrill, Ralph Douglass and Joseph Hancock were brick makers. The work carried on according to church history.

Ralph was polygamist and on February 6, 1856, he married Jane Stone in Ogden, Utah. They were blessed with 13 children: William, Samuel, George, Emma, Hannah, Lucy, Maude, Joseph, Ester, Josephine, Richard, Robert and Nancy. When the "Raid" was made in 1887 against polygamists he was true to his faith, and was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the penitentiary by Judge Powers.

Ralph was ordained in the 54th Quorum of Seventies on June 14, 1857, and was ordained president of that Quorum on March 12, 1861, by Walter Thompson. He was also a member of the High Priest Quorum.

Ralph owned a whole block of property in the vicinity of Lincoln Ave. between 26th & 27th streets in Ogden. He gave his children lots and built homes on them for them. He also owned property on the corner of Grant on 26th Street. He had the first butcher shop in Ogden.

Ralph and his brother, Richard, belonged to the Ogden City brass band in 1864 and gave concerts in many different localities to raise money for instruments and uniforms.

Ralph was very faithful in his callings and set many an example to his fellowmen. He was a Republican in politics and was a butcher, brick maker and brick layer by trade.

Jane Stone his second wife died on May 4, 1889 in Downey, Idaho and is buried in the Marsh Center Cemetery.

Ralph died May 3, 1900 in Ogden, Utah, and is buried in the Ogden City Cemetery.

Company "D" Mormon Battalion

Privates: James Douglass and Ralph Douglass

This company with A,B,C, and part of E were mustered into service at Council Bluff, Iowa, July 16, 1846 and marched 8 miles to purchase blankets and other necessary articles for the campaign. The same was deducted from their first government draft. On the 20th of July the men of each Company subscribed liberally of their wages to be sent back for the support of their families and to aid in gathering the poor from Nauvoo.

Received $42, August 5th as clothing money for the year. Most of this was sent back for support of families of soldiers (heat registered 130 degrees in sun - 101 degrees in shade). August 14th and 15th, Coimpany D and E left Fort Leavenworth for Santa Fe over taking other companies at Stone Coal Creek - crossing Kansas or Kaw River which at the ferry was about 300 yards in width.

October 15, 1846, Lt. Col. Cooke sent Capt. James Brown to take command of men reported by the Assist. Surgeon as incapable from sickness and disability of undertaking the present march to California to winter at Santa Fe. Ralph Douglass was on this list.

1,400 miles travel during 104 days under painful circumstances with safe arrival on shore of Pacific Ocean January 30, 1847.

Discharged from service July 15, 1847 at LosAngeles. Main part of Battalion arrived in Salt Lake City October 16, 1847. Some found their families here while others went back east to find theirs, others reenlisted in Army and stayed in California 6 months. Lorenzo F. Harmon and Oliver Harmon were among these.

Taken from: "Book of the Mormon Battalion".

George Douglass and Ellen Briggs are parents of Ralph Briggs Douglass (above)

George was born 22 Aug 1802 at Downham, Lancashire, England; married 1 Sep 1832 at Downham, Lancashire, England; died 12 Jul 1842 at Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois.

Ellen was born 17 Nov. 1806 at Downham, Lancashire, England; died 25 Feb 1888 at Virgin City, Washington, Utah

Brief History of Jane Stone Douglass

Jane Stone Douglass was the second wife of Ralph Briggs Douglass. She was born October 25, 1836, at Greenacres near Oldham, Lancashire, England. She was the daughter of Samuel and Hannah Stone.
They came to America when Jane was a small child. Soon after landing in the United States, they began to migrate westward with the pioneers. Jane's father died near Nauvoo with yellow fever. This left Jane, her mother and two brothers to come to Utah. They endured many hadships crossing the plains.

A widow with three small children, Jane's mother (Hannah Stone) married John Bardsley. He did not take a very good liking to Jane and this made it hard for her (Jane) no home and no one to care for her as her mother and husband moved to California.

Jane worked at what she could find to do, most of the time housework. She made her own livelyhood until she was 20 years of age. At this time she married Ralph Briggs Douglass in the endowment house in Salt Lake City, Utah. They made their home in Ogden, Utah, where he became the first butcher. Here thirteen children were born. Three died under the age of 2, one died at the age of 12 and nine grew to man and womanhood married and reared families.

Jane Stone Douglass had 40 grandchildren at the time this was written April 2, 1941.

She died in Downey, Idaho, May 4, 1889, at the age of 52 years, 6 months and 9 days. She was buried in the Marsh Center Cemetery, North West of Downey.

As of February 28, 1948, there were only two of the family living - Elizabeth Maud D. Rider and Ester Ella D. Bryant.

Written by Eliza Barnes Wilding a grandaughter.

Hannah Bradley mother of Jane Stone (above)

Born 16 May 1816 at Oldham, Lancashire, England

Married Abt 1836 at Oldham, Lancashire, England to Samuel Stone

Died 22 July 1902 at Sandy Gulch, California

William Jeffries Barnes and Frances Fitzjohn Chapman

Life of William Jeffries Barnes

William Jeffries Barnes one of the early settlers of Kaysville, Utah, born at Sandy, Bedfordshire, England 20 Aug 1820 was the son of William and Elizabeth Jeffries Barnes. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints February 1841. He left for America 19 Mar 1853 on the ship Falcon. They were seven weeks and two days on the ocean. Coming with him were his parents, one brother John R. Barnes and two sister, Sarah B. Layton and Ann B. Smith and his wife Frances Fitzjohn Chapman, four sons and two daughters. They landed in New Orleans and immigrated to Utah in 1853 with the Appleton Harmon's Company. The family took turns in walking to lighten the load for the teams.

William was a farmer and stock raiser. He took a part in building the Old Fort Wall in making water ditches, canals, building meeting houses and was an active member of the LDS Church. He took an active part in the Morrisite War and was in the move south in 1858 when Johnston's Army came to Utah. In 1870 he filled a mission to the Muddy, returning to Kaysville when the mission was broken up.

His first wife, Frances Fitzjohn Chapman whom he married in England, was mother of 11 chilren. Later he married Mary Simmons, then Sarah Sugden. He was the father of 25 children.

In physical appearance, he was a large man, light complexion and a sunny disposition. In character very honest and generous to a fault. I found in the ward records he was one of the largest donors to building of schools and meeting houses and giving food and help to immigrants. He was very genial. In asking people who knew him, they all told of his honesty and that everyone who knew him liked him. He had a host of friends. He had a large posterity.

He was killed in an accident November 14, 1893 and was buried in the Kaysville-Layton Cemetary. He was 75 years old.

Written by Beatrice Barnes Cheney (May 5, 1938)

Frances Fitzjohn Chapman

Born: 5 Sep 1818 at Potton, Bedfordshire, England

Parents: Samuel Chapman and Martha Fitzjohn

Christened: 25 May 1820 at Everton, Bedfordshire, England

Died: 5 Sep 1876 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Children:

William Chapman 29 Mar 1841 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng; died 19 Apr 1841

Ann 13 Jul 1842 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng

William 31 Jan 1844 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng

Martha 7 Apr 1846 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng; died 1 Sep 1846

Charles 4 Mar 1848 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng

Lorenzo 19 Aug 1850 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng

John James 12 Sep 1852 at Sandy, Bedford, Eng

Sarah E. 29 Aug 1854 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Lucy 5 Sep 1856 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Mary Adelia 9 Dec 1858 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

Thomas Moroni 6 Jan 1861 at Kaysville, Davis, Utah

John James Barnes and Hannah Eliza Douglass

Life History of John James Barnes

John James Barnes was born 12 Sep 1852 in Bedford, England to William Jefferies Barnes born 20 Aug 1820 and Frances Fitsjohn Chapman born 5 Sep 1818.

John came from England with his parents June 1853. He was nine months old. They first settled in Kaysville, Utah.

John was baptized 1 May 1864 by Jesse Dredge and confirmed by Christopher Layton. John herded sheep when he was a barefooted boy. He couldn't read or write, other than his name.

John married Hannah Eliza Douglass 12 Mar 1884. They were married by Peter I. Waddle at his home in Arimo, Bannock, Idaho. John came from Kaysville, Utah to Marsh Valley, Idaho when he was a young man. He always had his wife sign the checks. He would sign his name if he got in a pinch but very seldom.

His description is as follows: Height 5 ft 8 in, weight 140-143, eyes blue, hair brown but went gray when very young and was real white when he was 50. He had fairly good health until he was about 65.

He was especially interested in farming and planted his crops by the signs of the moon.

John was the father of eight children (4 girls and 4 boys) which all grew to man and womanhood. One daughter died less than a year after she was married with typhoid fever.

He owned shares in one of the threshers that they used in those days which was run by 6 or 8 teams of horses going around in a circle. It seemed as though it took 10 to 12 men to do the threshing, hauling grain to the thresher and pitching grain into the machine. He had a sheep dip on his farm which they ran the sheep through, it was a vat they dipped for scab. John and some of the boys would go every fall after the work was done to the canyon early in the morning and cut wood for burning in the stove. It would mostly be quaken asp sometimes they would get a little magahony to burn in the dining room stove.

I can remember father best when he had his white beard and mustache. One day he went to clean the chimney to the dining room stove and he put some paper or rag with coal oil on it in the chimney hole and it blazed out and burned his whiskers and after that he had them all shaved off and never wore whiskers anymore.

Father was a likeable man, everyone that knew him would call him Uncle. They could always see him in a crowd on account of his white hair. When any one would have a new baby in the family he liked to sit and rock and sing to it. He was a very good friend to the Indians. He traded with the Indians and always had good buckskin gloves. They used to come and camp on his place over night.

Lucile Phillips (granddaughter) was named after a song he used to sing to her when she was a baby. The song was "Come Away With Me Lucile". She was his first grandaughter. Father had a partial stroke around 1919 or 1920. He couldn't get around too good or speak too plain and he finally decided to go to the Temple and be sealed to his wife and have his family sealed. While sick he asked for the Elders to come and administer to him which they did. Father said the Elders were the ones that saved his life.

He lived a couple of years after this, then he had another stroke and finally obtained gangrene in one limb and suffered intensely. He died the 3 Feb 1923 in Downey, Idaho. Funeral services were held in the Downey LDS Church. He was buried in the Cambridge Cemetery.

Written by Daughter - Winefred Barnes Barfuss

Children: Frances Jane born 19 Jun 1885, died 10 Mar 1920; Cora Isabel born 23 Dec 1887, died 16 Sep 1910; Eliza Ann born 21 Aug 1890, died 25 Jan 1957; John Ray born 12 May 1892, died 19 Apr 1963; Charles Ralph born 10 Sep 1894, died 2 Jan 1979; Lester Lorenzo born 20 Oct 1896, died 6 Mar 1973; Winefred born 19 jun 1898, died 17 Jul 1975; Myron William born 16 Jan 1905, died 10 Dec 1970. All were born at Downey, Bannock Idaho.

Additional information from daughter Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding: John James Barnes was ordained an Elder 26 Dec 1920 and went to the Logan Temple with his family 4 May 1921. The sealing was done by William Noble.

When the Barnes family came from England they left Liverpool on the Ship Falcon 23 Mar 1853 and sailed to New Orleans, Louisiana.

Life History of Hannah Eliza Douglass

Hannah Eliza Douglass was born 1 Jul 1865 at Ogden, Weber, Utah to Ralph Briggs Douglass born 28 Dec 1823 and Jane Stone born 25 Oct 1836. They lived in Ogden then moved to Marsh Valley, Bannock, Idaho. There being no school there, Hannah went to Ogden to school returning in the spring to help her mother.

She with her parents were among the pioneers to Marsh Valley, Idaho. She was a very good seamstress and did most of the sewing for the family even making pants for her father.

Hannah Eliza met John James Barnes. He was 13 years her senior. They eloped and were married the 12 Mar 1884. When Hannah and John returned from Arimo in the wagon this nice March night it had rained all day. Some of the folks decided to have some fun. They took the bedding and hid it and stuffed the stove pipes full of paper and rags so then they made a fire they would get smoked out. This was done while they serenaded them with tin cans outside and an old fiddle. Later on John and Hannah moved to another place about a mile east where they spent the rest of their life on this farm, farming and milking cows.

To this union eight children were born - (listed above)

Hannah Eliza Douglass was baptized 7 May 1864. Hannah and John's marriage was solemnized in the Logan Temple, Logan, Utah 4 May 1921. Her second daughter Cora Isabel contracted typhoid. She was critically ill at her parents home and passed away 16 sep 1910. Cora had been married less than a year. Her eldest daughter gave birth to a son and a few days later blood poison set in and she passed away the 10 mar 1920. Hannah took the grandson and cared for him until he was school age even though her husband John was paralyzed from a stroke in 1919. She took excellent care of both of them.

Hannah was always ready and willing to help anybody that had sickness or anything else she could do. If there was a death, they always called on her to do the sewing and making of the burial clothes or temple clothes. She was a great hand for making partchwork quilts. She knitted sox, mittens for the children when they were small and did crocheting. After her husband passed away she sold the home and moved to Tremonton, Utah where one of the daughters and two sons lived. She bought a small home in town and lived there until the 3 Oct 1938 where she passed away quietly in her sleep during the night. She was buried in the Cambridge Cemetery, northeast of Downey, Bannock, Idaho.

She took her first airplane ride after she was 70 years old.

She made her own butter and raised chickens and took eggs and butter to town and bought her groceries. Once she had a chicken set in a tree and hatched little chicks. She had bees, it was interesting to the grandchildren to see her tend the bees and extract the honey.

She crocheted many rugs. She gave a lot of crocheting to her children and grandchildren. She had the most beautiful black hair, long braids of it. She could sit on the ends of it. She had alot of headache so she had it cut when she was in her sixties. Her hair was just tinted with a few grey hairs when she passed away at the age of 73.

Written by her daughter - Winefred Barnes Barfuss

Additional information from daughter Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding.

Dec 1916 her height 5 ft 5 1/2 in; weight 173 and chest 40. Eyes blue and hair black. Health fair. Hannah was interested in Relief Society, was a visiting teacher and a member until she died. Hannah married William Clegg 1 Apr 1926 but later divorced.

Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding #2

[Two days were spent trying to sort through many records and get them organized because I was getting frustrated going back many times trying to find histories in many, many books!! Mission accomplished! Low and behold I ran onto a history Eliza Ann Barnes wrote of herself in the middle of a Barnes History. It's a very delightful addition to the other information already posted on her. Enjoy!!]

Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding born 21 August 1890 at Downey, Bannock Co., Idaho (Woodland Ward) went to school in District 12 of Bannock So. from the first through the eighth grade which was as much schooling as I got. I went to tend babies for people when I was seven years old and as I got old enough to help with the work I helped the same people at heading and threshing time. At first sometimes they would give me 25 cents a week and sometimes 50 cents and when I got to be a little more help I got $1.00 and so on until I got $4.00 a week before I got married. I also worked in the telephone office at Downey - it wasn't like the telephone offices now. It was just a little witch board not more than 18 inches square. And I worked in the store of Wm A. Hyde & Co. which was a store that had all the goods needed in a community - from groceries to horse shoes, and all the clerks worked in all departments. We would sell groceries, bacon, butter etc. then dress goods - silks etc. or hardware or anything called for and there wasn't even a place to wash our hands from the time we left home until we got back. But we enjoyed the work and the company of the good people we worked with. Some of them were Geo. T. Hyde, John S. Hyde, Swen J. Johnson and Fred Bowers and the wives of these men would come in and we all enjoyed the work very much. Then I worked at the hotel in Downey several times when they needed extra help. The hotel was owned and operated by Mr. & Mrs. Wm Lawrenson. I liked that work but didn't do any work I liked so well as the store. My first boy friend was when I was 15 years old, he was an Englishman with black hair and my mother liked black hair so he was alright but he went away and I quit writing to him and she didn't like that. But I got a date to go to a dance with another fellow and mother said I couldn't go he was no good and I hated to fool him when he came so I asked her why he was not good she said "well his father owed your father eleven dollars and never paid it and he is dead now he never will get it. I didn't like that and she got disgusted with me and said go and stay I don't care if you never come back. So I went but I told him not to come back because mother didn't want me to go with home, so he said "well I'll come up to Downey to the next dance and if you can you come too and we will meet there." So that is what we did then he went away and we wrote to each other and he took me home from a dance once when he happened to be there and I got my last letter from him the day I got my diamond ring from the man I married. He also married a good girl and has a family and so have I.


I married Joseph A. Wilding on October 19, 1909 at Pocatello, Idaho and went to the Salt Lake Temple November 10, 1909. We went to Salt Lake to live that winter but was only there two months and that was enough town life for me so we came back and stayed with my folks part of the time and with Joe's brother Heber part of the time and in April we moved into our own house on his homestead. We only had the house partly built, we had part of the floor down, it was a two room house but we didn't have any lining or petition in it and no doors nor windows and I had material to make my first baby clothes so I tacked some on the windows and we hung a wagon cover up to the door and lived that way until we could get it finished. We lived there nine years but it was not a good dry farm and we had no water for it so we moved to Rexburg on the 11 November 1918. We lived there until spring then bought a place at Archer and lived there one year, then sold that and went back to Rexburg. We moved from there to Milo Idaho on March 7, 1921. We bought the place by the Milo Church known as the Bybee place and we found out we couldn't make out on it so we rented it for a while then we moved on to Parley J. Davis' place and rented there for a few years and did pretty good there then Mr. Davis got a new renter and we bought the Al White place and are still living here and trying to keep up our payments. We have had 10 children. (listed in Joseph Abraham Wilding history)

[The pictures above were taken of Joseph Abraham and Eliza Ann in 1909 the year they got married. Joseph age 33 and Eliza Ann age 19.]

Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding - 1890-1957

Eliza Ann Barnes was born 21 August 1890 at Downey, Woodland Ward, Bannock, Idaho. December of 1916 she described herself with blue eyes, brown hair, height 5 ft. 3 inches, weight 120 lbs., chest 38. Vocation housework.

A written history of her was not left but found where she wrote: "Was operated on for tumor and had the appendix removed 19 Feb 1929 at the LDS Hospital and had left breast amputated 1 Aug 1938 with Dr. H. Ray Hatch for both operations. I had my right breast amputated 7 June 1951 at the LDS Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho by same doctor.

She did leave a listing called:

Personal Record of Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding

Name in full - Eliza Ann Barnes Wilding

Father's name: John James Barnes; Mother's name: Hannah Eliza Douglass

Born: 21 August 1890 at Downey, Woodland Ward, Bannock County, Idaho

Blessed 30 January 1992 by John Gooch

Baptized - 5 May 1899 by Bishop Henry H. Wakley at Downey, Woodland Ward, Bannock County, Idaho. Confirmed - 5 May 1899 by William W. Woodland

Married - 19 Oct 1909 to Joseph Abraham Wilding by Stake Pres. William A. Hyde at Pocatello, Pocatello Stake, Bannock, Idaho

Patriarchal Blessing - 10 November 1909 by John Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah

Endowed and Sealed - 10 January 1910 in Salt Lake Temple

All these positions she held in the Milo Ward: Counselor in Primary; President of Primary; Relief Society Visiting Teacher; Relief Society secretary; 1st counselor in Relief Society; Relief Society President twice Feb 1930-Oct 1932 and Oct 1937-1940; R.S. work and business class leader; secretary of the Genealogical Society.

Moved to Idaho Falls in July of 1943 and resided there until time of death.

Her children are listed in her husband, Joseph Abraham's history and a family group picture is in her son Harold Joseph's history. Her patriarchal blessing follows.

Salt Lake City, Utah - November 10, 1909

A blessing given by John Smith, Patriarch, upon the head of Eliza Wilding, daughter of John James and Hannah Eliza Barnes, born in Downey, Bannock County, Idaho, August 21, 1890.

Sister Eliza Wilding: As thou hast desired it, I place my hands upon thy head, and as the spirit shall direct, pronounce and seal a blessing upon thee. Thou art numbered among the daughters of Zion who were chosen at their birth to labor in the vineyard of Our Father. It has been thy lot to labor in the interest of improvement among thine associates. It has been thy privilege to have a care among the younger of thy sex. It is thy duty to sit in council among the older. It is thy duty to teach and to exhort. Therefore, I say unto thee, strive to inform thy mind, through the study of books, by listening to council, and thou shalt learn much by observation. Thou shalt reflect often upon the past, and thereby gain knowledge through experience. Although as it were in thy youth, thou hast learned somewhat of the ways of the people and thereby enabled to council wisely among thine associates. Thou are of Ephraim and an heir to the blessings, gifts and privileges of the new and everlasting covenant. Thy name is written in the Lambs Book of Life, thy children shall grow up around thee, be a comfort unto thee and bear thy name in honorable remembrance. Thou shalt have joy in thy daily associations, and as you gain experience thy faith shall increase and as you advance in years, thou shalt study the laws of nature and be healthy and strong in body and mind, wise in council among thy sex and in thy habitation. Thou shalt give unto the needy, comfort the hearts of the fatherless and cheer up the bowed down, and for thy kindness thou shalt be remembered in after years.

Remember to look always upon the bright side, to be cheerful in thy deportment. Cheerfulness will often turn aside anger, restore peace and gain friends and influence among the people. Therefore, look forward to the future with pleasure. This blessing I seal upon thee in the name of Jesus Christ and I seal thee up unto eternal life to come forth in the morning of the first resurrection with many of thy kindred and friends, even so. Amen.

Eliza passed away at age 66 on 25 Jan 1957. She was survived by three daughters and five sons. Her husband and two sons preceded her in death. At her passing she had 26 grandchildren and three great grandchildren.