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Jasper Alfonzo Rawlins and Cora May Burbank family histoires.

Life Sketch by Lindsay Marcus Rawlins

(With help from brothers, Aerial, Horace, and Reed; sister Mae; and sister-in-law, Velma, my brother Owen's wife.)

My mother was Cora May Burbank Rawlins. My father was Jasper Alfonzo Rawlins, although he always went by the name of Alf.

From "Glimpses" - Compiled by Lyle Rawlins

Held Sunday, February 14, 1937 in the Lewiston, Utah, First Ward

Selection by Choir: "Resting From Care and Sorrow."

Prayer by Brother James Taggart-

Life Sketch by Mae Rawlins Jorgensen

Cora May Burbank Rawlins was born 1 July 1879 in Brigham City, Utah. She was the fifth child of Daniel Mark Burbank Jr. and Mary Jane Lindsay. She was one of 21 children born to a polygamist family. The two wives were sisters. Mother knew the privations and hardships of pioneer living.

Life Sketch by Mae Rawlins Jorgensen (Daughter)

Jasper Alfonzo Rawlins was born 1 February 1872 in Richmond, Utah to Harvey M. and Margaret Elzirah Frost Rawlins. He was the eleventh of twelve children. His father was homesteading in Lewiston and moved back to Richmond for the winter. When they returned to Lewiston in the Spring of 1872 they established a permanent home there. The first house was of two rooms made of upright boards.

Life Sketch by Ethel Rawlins

Jasper Alfonzo Rawlins was born February 1, 1872 In Richmond, Cache County, Utah, to Harvey M. Rawlins and Margaret E. Frost He was the eleventh of twelve children. His father homesteaded at Lewiston, Utah, known at that time as "Poverty Flat" because of late frosts in the spring which froze the grain. His father farmed his homestead in 1871 and moved back to Richmond for the winter. This was when Jasper Alfonzo was born. The next year the family moved to their new home in Lewiston.

Arvilla, Horace, Dorothy and Aerial (50th Wedding?)

Legend of Group Photograph - Bruce and Bonnie's visit to Lindsay's in early 1955.

Group Photograph - Bruce and Bonnie's visit to Lindsay's in early 1955.

Alf, Cora, George and Fairbanks at Picnic