A Brief History of Ann Elizabeth Bowler Pulsipher

MOTHER PASSES AWAY
By John Lewis Pulsipher

Arriving home late in September after our visit in Salt Lake City, I learned Mother had been taken to the hospital in Las Vegas. I went to see what the nature of her illness and found her to be critical with what seemed to be complications of a number of old ailments, brought on or aggravated by advanced age.

When I reached her bedside, I held her hand and looked into her face, I could feel that my angel mother must leave us, which she did peacefully October 3, 1956. She, as a girl of 13 years of age had left a world of refinement, relatives and dear ones, all except immediate family, and travelled halfway around the earth, over ocean and a continent, to come to the western frontier to bring me into the world.

Yes, the first thirteen years of her life was a dream which she remembered and often related to us children as we gathered at her knee when the day’s toil and cares were over and the night darkness closed in around our little cabin. I used the term “dream” purposely because never again in her natural life did she experience anything to compare with the beautiful surroundings, home and culture which she had so freely enjoyed in Nottinghamshire, England, the place of her birth.

It seems to have been a cruel fate that would make such demands of one so young and tender, or why was her birth and station so far above the road which she was required to walk in order to fulfill the destiny to which she had no doubt subscribed. The answer can come only through an understanding of the true plan of Life and Salvation. We must go back to the plains of Mamra thousands of years ago and hear the covenants and blessings given to Father Abraham concerning his posterity and renewed again upon the heads of Jacob, Joseph and Ephriam, all pertaining ot the work, scattering and gathering of covenant Israel.

So it was natural that she being of that lineage would hear the call and come up out of the world to the top of Mount Zion and take her place in the front ranks in establishing the Kingdom of Heaven here on earth for the last time. She was an intellectual with many talents, especially music and a sweet voice, and a love for the beautiful and finer things of the earth, though her course in life among the pioneers deprived her of many such things.

The road was hard and the trials were many, but never did she shrink from any sacrifice, no matter how great, when duty called or conscience dictated or the welfare of her family was at stake. Time after time I saw her willingly, though with tears in her eyes, leave the home she had worked so hard to help Father build and move to a new place which had more promise for her loved ones. And now I marvel at her fortitude and strength and what she accomplished with that frail body in her allotted years on earth.

As her spirit took flight to a finer and more glorious home and the bosom of a loving husband and her two sons, Earnest and little Jimmie, we said God bless her memory and may we who were left behind honor her name. Most of her living posterity gathered around the grave as we gently layed her earthly remains at rest beside Father and placed at their heads a double marker of granite inscribed:

                  Ann Elizabeth B. Pulsipher                            John David Pulsipher
                  Born February 17, 1867                                  Born December 28, 1861
                  Died October 3, 1956                                      Died August 6, 1944
                  Age was 89 yrs. 7 mo. 16 days                        Age was 82 yrs. 7 mo. 8 days 

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