Charles Batt (1861–1949) married Eliza Brazier in England before they accepted the restored gospel, joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and immigrated to America. Most of his history details their life after they came to Utah. This is the last of six installments (see Batt & Lee Ancestors, 22–23). Charles was the father of William B Batt (1888–1959) and the grandfather of Dorothy Batt Cleverly (1915–1982).
Eliza and Charles spent many happy days together remembering all the happiness, struggles, and heartaches they had shared. They watched all the children marry and start homes for themselves. They were both happy with all the grandchildren arriving. It was a life well spent.
On February 13, 1926, Eliza passed away. She died in her lovely new home that she loved so well at 527 East Fifth North, Logan, Utah. After she passed away, Charles was very lonely. All the children were in homes of their own, and he missed his own loving wife so much.
After three years had passed away, he married Rosalea Stephens Dee on June 13, 1929. She was a good companion for him. They had seven good years together before she died July 29, 1936. She was buried August 2, 1936, by the side of Eliza in the Logan cemetery.
Charles was alone again for nearly two years. At this time he decided to make one Emily Roseina Hart Woodward his wife. They were married July 2, 1938, and were together until her death a year and a half later on January 2, 1940. The Batt lot in the Logan cemetery is also the resting place for this third wife.
In his late years, Charles lost his eyesight and also his hearing. He moved to Salt Lake City to be with his youngest daughter, Myrtle, who gave him loving care until his death. He died in her home on September 17, 1949, exactly one week short of his 88th birthday. He was survived by his remaining children—William, Pearl, Ruby, Myrtle, Charles Gladstone, and Morley. Cecily had passed away in July 1939. He was also survived by 20 grandchildren and 35 great-grandchildren. Charles’s body was taken back to Logan, his home, and was buried in the Batt lot in the Logan cemetery.
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Monday, December 28, 2009
2 Quote of the week
"Testimony isn't something that you have today and you keep always. Testimony is either going to grow and grow to the brightness of certainty, or it is going to diminish to nothingness, depending upon what we do about it. I say, the testimony that we recapture day by day is the thing that saves us from the pitfalls of the adversary" (Harold B. Lee in Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee, 43).
3 This week in our family
Mon, Dec 28: Terry and LaWanda Packwood married 1990 [Gene]
Wed, Dec 30: Rex Sayer born 1952 [Jackie]
Thurs, Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Fri, Jan 1: New Year's Day
Mon, Jan 4: Next issue of newsletter
Wed, Dec 30: Rex Sayer born 1952 [Jackie]
Thurs, Dec 31: New Year's Eve
Fri, Jan 1: New Year's Day
Mon, Jan 4: Next issue of newsletter
4 Bits and tidbits
We are hoping you all had a delightful Christmas with your families, loved ones, and friends. All of our family did. Well, except for Chris and Camilla in Everett, who are not celebrating their Christmas until December 31, the day after Chris's parents arrive from Utah for a visit. They are able to pull that off because their three-year-old Sam doesn't know what day Christmas is supposed to be on.
And Kay and Karen on their blog, Called to Serve, show and tell their travel from Cuzco to Urubamba during the week just before Christmas week. There are a lot of pictures. Unbelievably, their mission to Peru will be ending in another six months.
And Kay and Karen on their blog, Called to Serve, show and tell their travel from Cuzco to Urubamba during the week just before Christmas week. There are a lot of pictures. Unbelievably, their mission to Peru will be ending in another six months.
5 Our family 50 years ago
Excerpts from the December 1959 and January 1960 diaries of Dorothy Batt Cleverly (1915–1982). The full text of her diary can be found online at Dorothy's Idaho Diaries and is updated daily, exactly 50 years to the day after it was originally written. The family at the time lived on a 40-acre farm in the Deer Flat area south of Nampa, Idaho.
Mon, Dec 28. Washed cloths all day. Ray milked this morning & I worked on my books & threw away old bills. We cooked a ham roast & had supper right after Ivard got home from work about 6: He had a flat tire & no spare. Louie wrote about Stellas wreck. I went back to work tonite.
Tues, Dec 29. I came home from work & went to bed. Kids got me up at 12:30 & I got ready & went to relief society officers & teachers & visiting teachers party. came home at 4: & Gail Lynda & Kids were here, they brought Gene home. Kay got ready & went over to Adrian & took Claudia to High School to Xmas formal.
Wed, Dec 30. It started to snow at 6:45 A.M & there was an in or more when we came out to go home. I read paper & went to bed & Ivard took Gene in to basketball practice. They came home at noon & woke me up they made so much noise. Ivard took Gene, Ray, & Dean in to church at 4:30 to settle up their titheing. They were all full tithe payers.
Thurs, Dec 31. sent Jerry letter & money got letter from Stella. I came home & Ivard was in bed. I went to bed until 9:30 then we got up & went & got Ivards check & pd. bills & got Int. drawn up on all our savings accounts. Ivards day off & at 2:30 he got called out brakeing to Nyssa. At 7:30 I fixed Kids hambergers & cocoa & stuff for New Years Eve & we ate at 8:30 & I went to bed until time to go to work. Kay - Gene - Dean- Dale & Jackie watched T.V.
Fri, Jan 1. I came home from work at 8:30 & Ivard was home in bed & I went to bed with him. Ivard got up & played games with Kids & watched Rose bowl game. I got up at 3: & cooked a pot roast & veg. & we ate at 5:30.
Sat, Jan 2. I came home from work & Kay said to hurry & iorn his cloths he was leaving at 10: I iorned his 15 shirts & helped him pack but it was noon before Bob, Fran & Claudia came & got him. Ivard cut all the Kids hair & at 10: he took Gene in to play basket ball. Ray cleaned house & they took down Xmas tree.
Sun, Jan 3. I came home & Ivard was in bed. I got ready & Ivard & Kids & I went to priesthood sunday school & fast meeting. We got home about 1:30 & Ivard & I went to bed until time to go to work. When I woke up at 7: Gene had done chores & him & Ray had gone in to Stake house with Max to a special Fireside. President McKay talked to them by direct wire from Salt Lake for 1/2 hr.
Mon, Dec 28. Washed cloths all day. Ray milked this morning & I worked on my books & threw away old bills. We cooked a ham roast & had supper right after Ivard got home from work about 6: He had a flat tire & no spare. Louie wrote about Stellas wreck. I went back to work tonite.
Tues, Dec 29. I came home from work & went to bed. Kids got me up at 12:30 & I got ready & went to relief society officers & teachers & visiting teachers party. came home at 4: & Gail Lynda & Kids were here, they brought Gene home. Kay got ready & went over to Adrian & took Claudia to High School to Xmas formal.
Wed, Dec 30. It started to snow at 6:45 A.M & there was an in or more when we came out to go home. I read paper & went to bed & Ivard took Gene in to basketball practice. They came home at noon & woke me up they made so much noise. Ivard took Gene, Ray, & Dean in to church at 4:30 to settle up their titheing. They were all full tithe payers.
Thurs, Dec 31. sent Jerry letter & money got letter from Stella. I came home & Ivard was in bed. I went to bed until 9:30 then we got up & went & got Ivards check & pd. bills & got Int. drawn up on all our savings accounts. Ivards day off & at 2:30 he got called out brakeing to Nyssa. At 7:30 I fixed Kids hambergers & cocoa & stuff for New Years Eve & we ate at 8:30 & I went to bed until time to go to work. Kay - Gene - Dean- Dale & Jackie watched T.V.
Fri, Jan 1. I came home from work at 8:30 & Ivard was home in bed & I went to bed with him. Ivard got up & played games with Kids & watched Rose bowl game. I got up at 3: & cooked a pot roast & veg. & we ate at 5:30.
Sat, Jan 2. I came home from work & Kay said to hurry & iorn his cloths he was leaving at 10: I iorned his 15 shirts & helped him pack but it was noon before Bob, Fran & Claudia came & got him. Ivard cut all the Kids hair & at 10: he took Gene in to play basket ball. Ray cleaned house & they took down Xmas tree.
Sun, Jan 3. I came home & Ivard was in bed. I got ready & Ivard & Kids & I went to priesthood sunday school & fast meeting. We got home about 1:30 & Ivard & I went to bed until time to go to work. When I woke up at 7: Gene had done chores & him & Ray had gone in to Stake house with Max to a special Fireside. President McKay talked to them by direct wire from Salt Lake for 1/2 hr.
6 What in the world
A milestone for the Ensign
The Ensign is the official Church magazine for adult members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The January issue begins the 40th year of publication and has been significantly redesigned and reorganized. You will be interested in checking it out (see, for example, "Your Guide to Using the Ensign," in Ensign, Jan. 2010, 10-13).
The first issue of the Ensign was published in January 1970, replacing the Improvement Era and the Relief Society Magazine. The New Era magazine for youth and the Friend magazine for children were also first published 40 years ago in January 1970.
2010 Church curriculum
A newly redesigned version of the Gospel Principles manual has been published for study during the Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society classes on the second and third Sunday of each month during 2010 and 2011. It replaces the Teachings of Presidents of the Church series that we have been using since 1998. (See the article by Elder Russell M. Nelson, entitled "The New Gospel Principles Manual," in Ensign, Jan. 2010, 29-31, for more information.)
The Gospel Doctrine classes in Sunday School will be studying the Old Testament (as well as the books of Moses and Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price) during 2010 as a part of the four-year rotation through the scriptures (the Old Testament in 2010, the New Testament in 2011, the Book of Mormon in 2012, and the Doctrine and Covenants and Church history again in 2013).
Bowl games
This past week was a good one for teams from the Mountain West conference. BYU (ranked 14th) beat Oregon State (ranked 18th) 44-20 in the Las Vegas Bowl on Tuesday, December 22. And Utah (ranked 23rd) beat Cal 37-27 in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego on Wednesday, December 23.
TCU (ranked 4th) will meet Boise State (ranked 6th) in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday, January 4.
The Ensign is the official Church magazine for adult members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The January issue begins the 40th year of publication and has been significantly redesigned and reorganized. You will be interested in checking it out (see, for example, "Your Guide to Using the Ensign," in Ensign, Jan. 2010, 10-13).
The first issue of the Ensign was published in January 1970, replacing the Improvement Era and the Relief Society Magazine. The New Era magazine for youth and the Friend magazine for children were also first published 40 years ago in January 1970.
2010 Church curriculum
A newly redesigned version of the Gospel Principles manual has been published for study during the Melchizedek Priesthood and Relief Society classes on the second and third Sunday of each month during 2010 and 2011. It replaces the Teachings of Presidents of the Church series that we have been using since 1998. (See the article by Elder Russell M. Nelson, entitled "The New Gospel Principles Manual," in Ensign, Jan. 2010, 29-31, for more information.)
The Gospel Doctrine classes in Sunday School will be studying the Old Testament (as well as the books of Moses and Abraham in the Pearl of Great Price) during 2010 as a part of the four-year rotation through the scriptures (the Old Testament in 2010, the New Testament in 2011, the Book of Mormon in 2012, and the Doctrine and Covenants and Church history again in 2013).
Bowl games
This past week was a good one for teams from the Mountain West conference. BYU (ranked 14th) beat Oregon State (ranked 18th) 44-20 in the Las Vegas Bowl on Tuesday, December 22. And Utah (ranked 23rd) beat Cal 37-27 in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego on Wednesday, December 23.
TCU (ranked 4th) will meet Boise State (ranked 6th) in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday, January 4.
7 A final word
Another new year is soon upon us. As I was preparing this issue of the newsletter (a task I've been at for some 36 years since the first issue back in September 1973), I had to go down into my basement storage room and search through the box full of my mother's diaries to find the one for 1960 and to put the one for 1959 away.
I actually remember 1960. How did it happen that it was 50 years ago? I must be getting old.
Milestones such as the changing of years or birthdays or anniversaries are times to reflect and ponder and evaluate the course of our lives and to determine whether we're on course and headed in the direction we want to be going. This marvelous test we're in, this classroom called life, will some day end. None of us knows when our particular final is scheduled. None of us, I suspect, ever accomplishes all we would like to accomplish, ever learns all we would like to learn, or ever serves all we would like to serve. But the key, at the time of our departure from this life, is to be on the right path and headed in the right direction. And then we will have passed the necessary tests and our rest will be glorious.
I actually remember 1960. How did it happen that it was 50 years ago? I must be getting old.
Milestones such as the changing of years or birthdays or anniversaries are times to reflect and ponder and evaluate the course of our lives and to determine whether we're on course and headed in the direction we want to be going. This marvelous test we're in, this classroom called life, will some day end. None of us knows when our particular final is scheduled. None of us, I suspect, ever accomplishes all we would like to accomplish, ever learns all we would like to learn, or ever serves all we would like to serve. But the key, at the time of our departure from this life, is to be on the right path and headed in the right direction. And then we will have passed the necessary tests and our rest will be glorious.
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