Ten Things to Remember about Orpha

Orpha Elzetta Nicoll was born 149 years ago today. Here are ten things to remember about her:

  1. her parents helped settled American Fork, Utah, where she was born
  2. she was the seventh out of twelve children
  3. she moved to Arizona with her family in 1879 at the age of twelve
  4. she was married on her birthday (today is her 131st wedding anniversary!)
  5. she bore and raised fourteen children, who were all married before her death
  6. she was an excellent housekeeper and cook
  7. she loved music, especially Enrico Caruso
  8. she did all of the sewing for her children
  9. she was hospitable and a good neighbor to all
10. she was very fastidious and careful about her person

Click on the link with her name on the upper right of this page to learn more about Orpha.

A Family Quiz

Do you know which sibling is the answer to each question below?
(You can find the answers in their biographies that we posted from March 31-April 13, 2014.)

  1. Who established the A.V. Greer Memorial Library and ran the U.S. Post Office in Greer?
  2. Who was quite ahead of her time in owning a health food store and bakery in Los Angeles in the 1940's?
  3. Who wanted to have as many children as their parents did?
  4. Who had beautiful, curly red hair?
  5. Who worked as a maintenance welder on the Boulder Dam?
  6. Who served in the 143rd Infantry Regiment 36th Division of the U.S. Army during World War I and was on the front lines in France?
  7. Who ran a general store, cafe, gas station, and the U.S. Post Office in Red Hill, New Mexico?
  8. Who owned the St. John's water-powered electrical plant?
  9. Who worked as a plumber?
10. Who served an LDS mission to Australia with her husband?
11. Who could ride "like nobody's business" and became an excellent shot with a gun?
12. Who played the mandolin?
13. Who died as a result of being shot following an altercation with a neighbor?
14. Who spent much of his life employed by Apache County in the road maintenance department?
15. Who served in the U.S. Armed Forces in World War II?
16. Who ran a cafe at Peach Springs and later operated the Phantom Ranch in the bottom of the Grand Canyon?
17. Who was confined to a wheelchair later in life because of crippling arthritis?
18. Who was a school teacher in Concho and other Apache County schools for a number of years?
19. Who attended business school and modeled hosiery in San Francisco?
20. Who was a painter and house decorator by trade?