She was the youngest child of William Greenwood Russell and Elizabeth VickeryAnnie Eliza Russell McIntosh
Born 23 Oct 1867 in St. John, Tooele, Utah
Died 10 July 1938 in Barstow, San Bernadino, California
Buried in St. John, Tooele, Utah
A very beautiful woman. Dark complexioned with large dark eyes. Beautiful coal black hair that came well below her waist. She was somewhat small and well proportioned, walked well and always had a smile for everyone.
As a girl she was an excellent horse woman and rode horse back very much. My Father, Joseph Albert McIntosh, and she Annie Eliza Russell, did much of their courting on horse back. However after her children began arriving she never rode again although she always provided a pony for us children.
Mother was always active in the church and held many positions in the auxillaries.
As a child I remember her as the grandest person alive and I still think there could have been no one more wonderful.
She was very concerned about the development of her children. She taught us more than we learned at school.
Dad and Mother really loved each other and showed it by their affection for one another and for their children.
It was through Mother's insistence that the family moved to Provo, Utah in 1905 in order to allow better educational opportunities for the children.
Dad was away from home much of the time attending to his contract hauling business so it was Mother who did most of the training of the children. She was patient and loving but not without some stern corrections when necessary.
She had many unhappy incidents in her life such as the death of an infant daughter, Alta Grace, and much later the death of her oldest daughter, Emily, age 27, during the flu epidemic in 1918.
Her faith was supreme and I have felt that she was more certain of her religious beliefs than any person I have ever known. Her knowledge was absolute.
When three of her younger boys went to California to work, she also moved there to continue her care of them. It was on a return visit to Utah to meet us, who were there on a vacation from the East, that she was killed in an automobile accident near Barstow, California on July 10, 1938.
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Written by Donald H. McIntosh her son and contributed by Faye Florence McIntosh Jarvis her grand daughter who I thank very much.
(Another life sketh written by her daughter will follow shorty)
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