Evans, Emma Beck (Coleman) (1840--1913) Short Note by G. H. Crosby Jr.

(Emma Beck Evans Coleman , the great grandmother of the contributor, Richard N. Heywood)

Emma B. Evans Coleman

As My Memory Recalls, Stories of the Colonizing of the Little Colorado River Country (Particularly Apache County), by George H. Crosby, Jr.   Repository:  MRFHC.

Extract:

Emma B. Evans Coleman, who came from Lehi, Utah, and helped to build up three southern Utah settlements, was the first president of the stake Primaries.  The stake never had a better one and Apache County never had a more interesting and witty woman than she.  I was with her in Pima the last night she was at a social function at the McFate golden wedding.  She was the life of the party.  I preached her funeral sermon ten days later…

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The members of the Presidency of the Second Quorum of Elders comprised of William W. Eagar, Andrew P. Christofferson and Joseph B. (sic.) Heywood, are among our surviving members … The second counselor, a son of J. L. Heywood, Salt Lake’s first postmaster, was later an outstanding bishop of Alpine, and after moving here, your stake clerk and members of his family stand out in the life of both the St. Joseph and Snowflake Stakes, especially in Dr. Neal Heywood of Snowflake, once my brother member of the High Council in the St. Joseph stake.